• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. Steve Maskery

    Probably Bye for now...

    Well Hello! Guess who's back online? And a week earlier than expected., too. I can feel the shakes subsiding, even as I type. Interesting discussion above, especially re Bezos. I don't like him either, but, TBH, I don't know how I could survive without Amazon. For anything more than the basic...
  2. Steve Maskery

    Roof Collapse

    Good luck, Peter, with both projects. We had a barn roof repaired over the winter. It's not pretty, but it is now sound and dry (and was a quarter of the price of our other quote). Old rooves are a PITA. S
  3. Steve Maskery

    Mower spares pricing

    Nothing to do with mowers (or, for that matter, the Chinese), but there is a similar "is it really worth it?" issue here in France. We, like millions of other rural homes in France, so not have mains sewerage. The EU told France to sort it out years ago, but the deadline came and went because...
  4. Steve Maskery

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Ooh you have no idea how much it hurts me to say this, but... There is a school of thought which says that American spelling is actually more authentic. It went over on the Mayflower and stayed like that, but continued to develop over here into the English we recognise today. You have no idea...
  5. Steve Maskery

    Lost! Now found.

    There is more rejoicing in the workshop for the one ruler that was found than for the 99 that were never lost. Or something like that. S
  6. Steve Maskery

    What Is Your Self Afflicted Annoyance

    That's a good tip, Adrian, thank you. I do have a vac machine, if only I knew where it is while I'm fitting this everlasting kitchen... S PS I do know where the blue tape and the bag rolls are, so that's a start...
  7. Steve Maskery

    What Is Your Self Afflicted Annoyance

    Mine is rootling through the freezer to find something to eat when I can't be aced to cook, only to find a ziplock bag of some mush that cannot be identified until I defrost it (and possibly not even then). If only I could learn to label things. S
  8. Steve Maskery

    Banking Apps

    When we moved to France, we opened an account with Britline, a Credit Agricole bank in Normandy staffed by native English speakers. Good service, acceptable waiting times, but all phone-based. As there was a Credit Agricole bank in our local town, we transferred our account. Credit Agricole...
  9. Steve Maskery

    Right angle drill attachment

    That does look good, impact makes a lot of difference. S
  10. Steve Maskery

    Right angle drill attachment

    I have a noname one. It's OK as far as it goes, but it is difficult to apply any amount of pressure sideways. But it has got me out of a hole now and again. S
  11. Steve Maskery

    Probably Bye for now...

    we're all thinking of you and if the block you walked down is perfectly square 😃 Ha! There isn't ANYTHING within a hundred kilometres of here that is square, straight, horizontal or vertical! Actually, I'm quite pleased with how I'm coping. I can't use my PC, but upstairs in my office and...
  12. Steve Maskery

    Probably Bye for now...

    Thank you, but I'm not keen on funding Elon Musk. When he eventually destroys the world , or Mars, or wherever, I really don't want to feel as if I am just tiny bit culpable. Daft, I know. S
  13. Steve Maskery

    Probably Bye for now...

    The Internet went down this afternoon. It happens regularly. About 20 houses are affected apparently, so that must mean another village too, as there are only 9 of us here. All but one of us is dead. My neighbour Eric rang Orange, who assured him that they were doing everything possible to fix...
  14. Steve Maskery

    Lost! Now found.

    I regularly have to turn my ruler round in the stock to get the layout I want. S
  15. Steve Maskery

    Do NOT buy NoMorePly

    When I did my last workshop, all the ceiling was done with Fire Resistant Plaster Board, and quite bit of the walls too, as the supplier had run out of ordinary stuff, so they sent me more of the Pink. S
  16. Steve Maskery

    Lost! Now found.

    Yesterday I spent the best part of 3 hours searching for a reel of LED lighting. I knew I had it, it just wasn't where I expected to find it (in the kitchen, with the aluminium track in which it sits). I searched my workshop, the barn, the little barn. Nowhere. I gave up in the end and went up...
  17. Steve Maskery

    Coronated

    I like to think of myself as a bit of a pedant. I shout at at the wireless when someone says Less when they mean Fewer, but here I realise I am but a mere amateur in the field. I have been well and truly Out- Pedanted (Pedantified, Pedantificated?). (y)
  18. Steve Maskery

    Tack remover

    I can see that being superb for staples, but how does it remove tacks with a head? S
  19. Steve Maskery

    Tack remover

    I have (or, at least had, not sure I could lay my hands on them right now) a set of three, from a small one that that up to one a couple of feet long. 10/6d from Lidaldi, IIRC. The longest is supposed to be a pallet dismantler, but it bends and the pallet stays intact... S
  20. Steve Maskery

    Tack remover

    Wow! Something that is cheaper in France than in the UK! S
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