craigowl

Thanks. I first had them in about 1963! Too many of the big ones - red eared and yellow-bellied - often get sold for £20 from pet shops when they are the size of a 50p piece., then get dumped or become unwanted. A friend regularly visits a park in London where a colony can be seen basking on overhanging branches. The musks do not grow large really. Here are photos I took today at my pond - the three large yellow-bellied sliders are adopted. One from Cumbria and two from Renfrewshire.

If anyone would like something unusual for an indoor tank, I have two Musk Turtles for sale. So charming, cute, amusing, hardy and dont grow large . Read about them on net. I got them for my pond but you never see 'em! Most people keep them in a tank indoors, but I've been there done that years ago and tanks are banned indoors by you know who! I have had them up for sale on a reptile forum I sometimes visit. Will let them go to CF member or friend for £50 for the two. You would have to collect. They do not need a full tank of water to travel in as they breathe air.

They only come round every few months. Check Aldi website for Thursdays and Sundays. Lidl on Thursdays and Mondays.

IMO Lidl and Aldi sell the best value extinguishers. No ripoff prices and probably reasonably good quality from the German-backed businesses. So reasonably priced you can afford to replace them with new ones after a few years. Forget the tacky bling - buy an extinguisher now. I have done so for 40 years. Never needed it so far, but $h!t happens.

Cannot recall how, but it must be easy 'cos I did it a few years ago.

So it costs our money to set it up? Small price to pay for the legacy of inspiration and motivation that will be left by people who get up, commit themselves entirely to a mission and act positively instead of bleating all the time and doing nothing of note. It is called thinking in the long-term for the betterment of the UK. Did enjoy the BBC's satirical comedy on the setting up of the games, though.

Pssht! - Act your age, Kev!

67 years old and 2nd owner of a Storm since 2002. Selling this year, probably.

In the early 1960s, when I was a teenager, a pal of mine used to shoot girls in the bum with his air pistol. I was never with him at those times, but he certainly had such a gun and leant it to me. Later in school he became dux in chemistry with the highest ever mark (98% or something equally impossible). After college, his job career was with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools. He rose to became deputy inspector of schools for Scotland. You never really know how people will turn out.

Yes - fed to the sharks with that one, I would say. Garage owner did give me a calendar though next time I saw him!

Just for extra info - I had my pump replaced after failure of original in December 2009. Part No was as in 1st post. £170 incl VAT! Diagnostic and labour £141!! Total £311. I hope the possible sale of C goes through.

Ha! ha! - back down to earth with a bang, as it were!

I had 15 solar panels installed on roof in November. Some sunny days (remember them?) they have generated up to 24 kilowatt hours. (Accumulated total 1400 kw hours/£644? till today) We have had cheques from the electricity supply company to a sum of several hundred pounds already for the feed-in tariff (about 46p per kilowatt hour). Also, if you are at home during the hours of generation (ie retired, etc.) you can run stuff like washing machines, computers, battery chargers, etc for nothing from the power generated at the time. If you do not use it, it goes back down the grid, but you still get a few p per kwhr. This June (the wettest in our town since 1966) we have registered 328 kwhrs. I know the initial cost was as dear as a new car, but I love the fact that we get money back due to the simple fact that daylight on that common element silicon gives us electricity. Every month the technology of photovoltaic panels improves, so we can look forward to more efficient solar power generation. Of course things are not all positive in this $hitty world mismanaged by the human race, but thankfully, most scientists like to focus on what can be done to improve things. ---------- Post added at 11:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 AM ----------

Illiteracy poots me orf.

Aw, man - what are you on? That looks like a new hit to me! ("wink")

Not needing them from MOT or ride viewpoint, but would like to replace original rear (oil-filled?) shock absorbers. Prefer Boge, Sachs other similar type - nowt hard, anyway. Any advice, please, guys?

I enjoy listening to how words are used by these fine, expensively educated people (ha! ha! well.. some of 'em!). Liking Mr Jay. I have appeared as an expert ("ffs - he must be joking!") in court off and on for the past 20 years and it is difficult not to feel you are inadequately equipped when you face some of these advocates/barristers under cross examination. I just remind myself that the man who collects the pigswill becomes an expert compared to them. One thing I have noticed about lawyers, etc. is that, whilst they may know nothing about something initially, they very quickly assimilate anything new they learn.

Your neighbours, possibly decent folks, may be totally embarassed to learn what the girlfriend is doing. Diplomatically let them know what is happening - that may be the end of it, with a bit of luck.

A lot to be said for eavesdropping while drinking in a Renfrewshire pub - Always knew that, of course! Wullie, lawyers pursuing personal injury claims regularly acquire data from the council under the FOI act. These include Gritting teams handwritten log/time sheets. Never used to see that - now I see them regularly. Good luck!

Ha! Ha! - Like you Wullie, I guess, part-time faffer aboot at loadsa things!

Respect the weather and high ground at all times and don't disbelieve your instruments. Thousands have failed to and paid the ultimate price - even instructors. Knew one or two. It's a huge step up from driving a fast car. (Craigowl - ex-aviation forecaster.)

"Today - I will mainly be building an air-raid shelter." Best of luck with your ambition, anyway, CSund!

and another. That crop gets everywhere and we are going to see more of it as the price of its oil is getting higher, I heard. Bad for "hay fever" for some IIRC. Stunning against blue sky and green grass, though.

Up at West Lothian Golf Course above the Forth with bonkers wide angle lens ( 14mm by Samyang of Korea.) Looking NW to Southern Highlands in clear, cold air.

Passed MOT today 17/5/12. Tester knows Paul Di Resta, who comes from village 7 miles away.