• 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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    French holiday house

    There is normally a double tax agreement with most countries. There is one with France, unless it has been rescinded post you know what. Covers CGT too. Dunno how it works with IHT (or their equivalent, which I believe is quite gruesome). I’m only a humble investment analyst (valuer if you...
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    French holiday house

    That’s not quite how the Scottish system works in practice. But that is irrelevant to your original question. This is only anecdotal, and I am subject to correction, but based on my junior staff whom I have sent over to France on secondment, and my parents’ neighbours, who live there for half...
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    Another chore for today, get the hay in storage.

    Shifting hay bales is damned hard work. My grandfather managed to give himself a pretty serious hernia in his youth on the farm doing just that. Troubled him all his life. Partly due to medical science at that time and partly due to a stubborn dislike of doctors. Still, it had an upside –...
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    How do you light you fire?

    Umm, did you have CO monitors? I’ll have to ask my partner, but low levels of CO can cause lethargy. High levels, of course, cause death. We have CO monitors in all the rooms in which we have fires. Never heard a peep out of any of them. But then again, my properties are so old that they are...
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    Zip mini-plane

    Ha, I thought I had one of that type. Found it at the weekend. Part of an enormous stack of stuff I got from my partner’s father when he died. I’m cleaning them up as and when I get the time. As you can see this one hasn’t had any attention. It uses razor blade type cutters, and these can be...
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    OMG it's back.

    Hmm, it has been incredibly clement up here in the frozen north. These are from last weekend, but it still looks much the same. The leaves are turning, but normally we would have expected them to have mostly dropped. There were two very cold nights (well below zero), but just now it’s averaging...
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    How do you light you fire?

    This is the reference to the top down version of firing I was thinking about earlier. As I said this is from a Scandinavian based book. There are some qualifications. It should be readable if you zoom in. But, of course, what works will always be dependent on the set up. I don’t use the same...
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    How do you light you fire?

    I must admit that I do it in what I would regard as the conventional way. The most combustible stuff at the bottom, then kindling then logs. Incidentally lavatory roll inners stuffed with wood shaving are very good for the lower layer (and are essentially free). And birch bark works well too...
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    Random age related thought's

    Sorry Ian, I didn’t mean in any way to mock the vicissitudes of old age. I trust I will get there in due course. Which according to my medical consultant is unlikely. Some sort of life style thing, apparently. There is a limerick made up by a mate of Kingsley Amis, based on Shakespeare’s seven...
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    Random age related thought's

    Wondering. Why do elderly people worry about it? Just a natural process. Sorry, I'm GenX, can’t help you yet. Be with you soon though. And I'm a skilled whinger.
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    80th birthday cake ideas?

    One of these? Although no doubt better done. That was made from apples from our own trees. Planted about a hundred years ago. Some archaic variety. A russet of some sort. Slightly cinnamon flavour, curiously. Erm, your seasonality thing. How does that work? Everything is seasonal...
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    80th birthday cake ideas?

    Does the no fruit rule only apply to dried fruit? If so how about something like a fraisier? I have made this a few times when something special seemed to be called for. And apologies for the quality of the picture, but it’s the best one I could find on my ‘phone just now. Or you could go...
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    NOW NEED TO STACK FIREWOOD

    What would equate to four steres delivered on Friday and stacked. Balin says in a deleted scene from the Hobbit: ‘my goat riding days are over’. I’m starting to think that about stacking logs. That should see us through the winter, although we don’t live there all the time. Mostly birch, some...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Nae, this is a cake. Swedish prinsesstårta. And, yes, that is mainly cream. Even looking at it will make your arteries clog up.
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    Well done to this man …

    Lure them into a very real sense of security? But try IND vs NZ. Well did you evah ?
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    On the generosity of strangers...

    Average 27.48?
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    Inverters appearing in domestic appliances

    Pah. The freezers my partner has in the lab are at -50C to -80C. And have to be maintained as such. Something the Estates department don’t seem to realise when they say they are going to turn off the ‘leccy for a week end. Morons. I run my fridges at 4C and freezers at -24C. Valued a couple...
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    Doggone it!

    You are not wrong. But I only bought it for a laugh. My partner was appalled. And, incidentally is not allowed to use it. But it does honestly work. But then so does a knife… As an aside I think I have three mandolins. But you only cut yourself on them once. Bloody hurts.
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    Doggone it!

    Marrow can make a perfectly good Indian pickle. And it’s ok in some curries. But can be very watery. At boarding school it was always stuffed with mince and baked. Hmmm. We have just done the final addition of sugar to our cassis. That’s us supplied for another year. Other than that every...
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    Well done to this man …

    Stokes, Potts replace Woakes, Atkinson in England XI. I did see some people have reservations on how much bowling Stokes might do.
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