Recent content by Lazy Sod

How old is the Stiga?

It's unusual for us to have house martins back before the swallows.

Which railway is that Kev?

Mrs LS has seen swallows locally last week, but just now, she heard a pair of house martins going in and out of one of the artificial boxes on the front of our house. She was alerted by their lovely twittering. They always seem so exited when they first get back.

My previous router started to misbehave so I rang up EE and was surprised to find myself speaking to a very helpful girl in Plymouth. She had a replacement router sent straight away.

I want to try it, I just want to ensure that I'll do no harm to the router.

My EE router is powered by a plug in charger that has an output of 15v at 1.2 amps. If we have a power cut in the daytime that we know will last some time, I will fire up my generator. However, it occurred to me that just for short periods, I might be able to run the router from a battery that...

I remember, back in 1973, the saying was: Plant a tree in '73 and plant some more in '74.

I've seen pictures, probably from the US or AUS, where a tractor without a front axle was hitched to the back of another one and the controls linked up. The driver was on the front tractor, obviously.

Thank you, B'o'B.

When I used to have things delivered on pallets, they were left behind. Some had blue paint on them, but I'd never heard of Chep until reading about them on TFF in recent years. We used a lot of pallets ourselves and I seem to remember selling some. Unless you've got some sort of contract...

Can somebody repost the original up the right way please. I can't turn my desktop on it's side, nor twist my head to read it.

I had a blob marker in the seventies. It didn't have an air compressor, but used the tractor exhaust for the pressure. From memory, there was a sprung loaded restrictor that fitted onto the top of the exhaust pipe, with a three quarter inch pipe coming from it for a hose to pressurise the foam...

DVLA site says that the last road tax ran out in 1995.

For some reason our swallows, which nest in one of our stables, always arrive late. Perhaps their winter haunt is further south in Africa.