• 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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    Mr Davidson’s Grandfather’s Plane

    I'd assumed that the two large holes in the upper body were for missing fence rails.
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    Imgur Blocking UK Users

    Whatever faults the OSA has - and I'm no fan of it - it's not the cause of the Imgur block. The ICO announced its intent to fine the parent company for long-standing breaches of data protection law regarding how it handles children's accounts. Blocking UK users doesn't change their liability...
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    "I've got a good idea, let's put it in the bin..."

    With a distance sale, the goods, and the risk, belong to the seller until they are delivered to the named recipient or their named representative. The seller owes you a tin of varnish or a refund, and the rest of it is between them and DHL.
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    More cruciverbalism

    I particularly enjoy that if you chose Star Trek as the better franchise, then 71 down is a famous line from Star Wars. I wonder how many people second-guessed themselves on that one.
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    A tale of two airports

    It's not just size, it's the type of flights and the prevailing passenger demographics. For most of the UK's smaller regional airports, the majority of their flights are cheap package holiday charters. On average, those flights attract a very different type of passenger than the global hub...
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    Things have moved on in the last 8 years and KISS

    With the capabilities and failings of the 'smart' things currently available, I have to agree... except for lighting and, oddly, the automatic cat litter box. Light bulbs that can change between daytime cool white and night time warm white make a huge (positive) difference, and having a...
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    The luxury of sufficient funds

    The garage is his temporary "small" shop while his previous (absurdly large by UK standards) workshop is being further enlarged. He's slumming it for a while in a space only twice the size of what most of us have.
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    Comfortable dining chair considerations

    Steve's already described LBV, but to stretch this comparison further, then tawny port is surely the equivalent of XO brandy. Tawny port starts out as the same stuff, but gets aged for longer than ruby or LBV, and in wooden barrels instead of steel. It loses some of the bright red colour, but...
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    SCAM!!

    For future reference, this part is the confirmation that it's not actually Lidl: The domain name is the first thing to check when following any link that didn't come from that company's own legitimate website, and especially if it was from any of the social media sites that don't vet their...
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    Why us a handbasin so called?

    It's quite common in Indian bathrooms to have a tap below the shower, at about hip height, for exactly the purpose of washing your feet. You have the temperature controls and mixer setup in the middle, then one pipe goes up to the shower head and one down to the foot-washing tap, with a separate...
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    It's that time of the year again

    My top three would be ceps, chanterelles and morels, but I'm not sure I could put those three in a particular order (other than alphabetically).
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    It's that time of the year again

    Chanterelles. They're up there with the best of all the mushroom species, at least in my book.
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    Spot for a cabin, delayed for 5 years, maybe this year.

    Looks like they're cast to take either a 4x4 or 6x6 post standing on end, or a 2-inch or 4-inch timber spanning horizontally. If they're being used for posts, then the orientation of the horizontal section doesn't matter much.
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    Pork Pie Raiser?

    Conveniently enough, my pair that I've not used in many years came out of a moving box a day or two ago. They're 72mm diameter, approximately 90mm high to the top of the straight section, and I think - though it was a while ago - the 2lb of meat that I made would do two of them if made up quite...
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    Building your own kitchen cabinets?

    The LeMans setup and lazy susan solve different problems. The pie cut lazy susan works when you've got an L-shaped corner cabinet with right-angled doors; the LeMans is for when you've got a double-width cabinet with a door on one side of the front, and have to reach through the door and to the...
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    Require and plunge router with removable springs

    Another Triton owner here - I decided the TRA001 was a bit overkill for my needs at 2400W, so I have the MOF001 which is 1400W but otherwise pretty much the same. There's also the smaller JOF001 at 1010W and the same design for easy table mounting. Removing or replacing the spring is about as...
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    Affinity Water - meter now activated conundrum

    If there's no meter, then they generally work on assumed usage based on the type of property - I think they just count bedrooms, but there might be more to it. Either way, if they can't measure your usage then you're billed for something approximating what an average property of that type...
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    It’s bite the bullet time on a replacement cordless drill.

    My personal favourite drill for anything that doesn't involve masonry or excessively large holes is this little thing, which I picked up when Toolstation had the full kit with all the different chucks on clearance a few years back. I quite often keep a driver bit in the hex chuck and a drill bit...
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    Release agent

    That, and make it very slightly tapered. The last thing you want is for it to start sliding out and then the back corner to catch and rip a chunk out.
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    HDL LDL

    That's one I haven't tried, but for my money the single biggest improvement to beans on toast is marmite in between.
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