• 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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    A tad of mirth

    The forum really needs a groan reaction. As much as I appreciate a good (or a bad) pun, crying with laughter just doesn't work.
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    Steam bending

    The comment on Instagram says it's Larch, 130x110.
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    Bed - Finished and sleepable inable!

    My wife and are are both the same way - even our breakfast tea is decaf. About the only time I'll have any 'normal' coffee is if I've got more than two to three hours of driving to do.
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    Can't get at woodhaven from PC

    It's shared hosting with several websites on the same IP address. Without any further information than what's in that link, the most likely answer is that someone else using the same host has an out of date WordPress install which has been compromised, and the attacker is using it to repeat the...
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    My oldest power tool

    It's still done in some parts of the world. My parents in law have several fluorescent tube lights which are powered by a pair of twisted wires going into a bayonet cap plug that sits in the original light fitting. I try to avoid looking at them because they give me the heebie jeebies every time.
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    Flies

    I distinctly remember at one point in my childhood thinking that one of those fly curtains, either red and white or blue and white, in the front door was the butcher's equivalent of a rotating barber's pole. Every butcher I knew of had them, and I'd never seen them anywhere else. Nowadays of...
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    Delivery company phrase translator

    None of them will, because their contract isn't with you. Your contract is with the seller, so it's their responsibility to make sure the item you're buying is delivered to you. They contract the delivery company to do that on their behalf, so if the item doesn't turn up (or gets thrown in the...
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    Regular readers will recall me saying no more renovations. Well.........

    I think it's exactly that - 14AWG is 1.63mm diameter, and 2.5mm² cross-sectional area.
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    Delayed emails

    Since you ask... There's obviously still a bunch of simplification in here, but hopefully I've got the general ideas across. The Simple Mail Transport Protocol, or SMTP, was standardised in around 1980 and based on several previous implementations of a similar idea throughout the 1970s. This...
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    Delayed emails

    The short, pithy answer is that email is like that sometimes. The slightly less short answer is that the protocol that delivers email from one server to another is ancient, and was designed for a time when internet connections, even for major sites with their own email servers, weren't always...
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    British Airways website anomaly

    I've not tried it myself, and my second hand info is at least five years old, but it used to be the case that you'd call up 355 days before the outbound and book it, then call again 355 days before the return, tell them that you want to add a return journey that wasn't on sale when you made the...
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    They look the same because it's the same principle that drives them both. The pencil in a Spirograph, and the cutter here, turn in lots of small circles while simultaneously also moving in a single large circle, at a fixed ratio to each other. The difference is just that you need rather more...
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    Rising damp

    Along with, as far as I can tell, the entire damp proofing industry in this country, starting with the idea that a two-prong moisture meter designed for timber can give a meaningful reading in plaster and going from there.
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    royal mail woes

    The key word there is 'intentionally' - incompetence, either individual or organisational, is explicitly not included in the offence.
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    Apprenticeships

    There are quite a few rules that combine together to prevent it. I'm sure I'm missing a few, but when Right To Buy was introduced, it came with rules about what the councils are allowed to do with the money they get from it. They're not allowed to re-invest the sale proceeds in new council...
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    Garden Table

    To my mind, a cylindrical turned pedestal goes with curved, rounded feet with optional carved details, but that's also something I wouldn't expect to see outdoors. For a garden table, I'd expect the aesthetic to be more solid than slender and graceful, and the octagon works much better.
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    Battery 'hand' truck ?

    Makita also do them on the LXT platform, but with only a 300kg load rating for the (absurdly expensive) twin battery 36V version, or 180kg for the (slightly more attainable, still expensive) 18V.
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    Fish recipes

    Fish in mustard is a classic Bengali thing, in many different forms, but the thing you have to bear in mind is that they have very different types of fish than we do. Rui is one of the most common every day fishes over there and has a stronger flavour than any of our white fish, but the classic...
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    Index Map Search at the Land Registry

    If it did become an issue, you have an idea what your solution would be. Work out the cost to do that, plus a bit for inconvenience. Ask the seller to buy an indemnity policy to cover the risk of the neighbour trying to enforce their registered title, which would transfer to you and any...
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    Index Map Search at the Land Registry

    Just visually the pink garage rectangle seems to be a different shape - slightly squarer - than the cut-out on the left-hand plan. Could it be that when the other property's title was registered they just applied a standard "garage sized" rectangle which doesn't quite match the reality on the...
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