Wow that's great! Everyone on here is most helpful you will find. Join the club too for access to the good and very useful half of the site!

Met a chap the other day I hadn't seen in years and it reminded me of a puzzling and amusing story. His brother Steve was a friend of mine, great lad, a Machine Tool Fitter who played Rugby with me, was possibly overfond of a pint and seriously unreliable, prone to no shows etc. I was running a Body...

Another century. My 400th post, though admittedly most are drivel. That said, I want to use the milestone to praise the forum, and commend it to members who don't post a great deal, and non members to encourage them to join. I very much enjoy this community and think others would too! Have a lovely ...

Stopped in a Shopping Centre by a Copper. Name? He says to the first, a likely lad, who looks up at the shops and says 'John Lewis'. Second - Name? Taking the lead from his mate, 'Harvey Nichols'. Third, a bit dimmer than his mates, thinks about it for a minute, 'Halifax Building Society'......

Update - found some £1.50 ones again, phew.....

We all know and love our Pound Shops for a multitude of reasons. Mine is the abundance of cheap (and dubious quality) tools and consumables. If you view them as disposable and use for one off jobs where the volume of use of a decent one doesn't justify the expense, then that's great and a really cos...

As well as the A40, did a small job today on herself's car, stopping the exhaust heatshield rattling it's head off. Mrs E took me for a reward, which went down rather nicely in the lovely sunshine!

I was using my airline blow gun Thursday when it suddenly spat out its long nozzle, lock ring and a spring. Sans receipt, but knowing it was fairly new, I trot off to the ever helpful Machine Mart in Altrincham. He has a look on the computer and says to me 'Happy Birthday!'. I say its not my birthda...

Don't tell Willow and Lily!!

My Dog is so stupid. He will chase anything. Yesterday, he tried to catch Fog. He mist........