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I seem to remember that in my old cottage in Weymouth, the backing board was Tuffnol. Now there is a product from the past.

Horses have less tolerence to electric shock than people I believe. Was why those racehorses died when there was a faulty buried cable in a paddock. Think it was at Newbury. No idea what cattle can put up with, but Eddison electrocuted an elephant and the video is online.

My Aunt had bowel cancer, they removed the cancer, but she lost control of her back bowel for several years and needed more operations. I could not look at the screen much, took my glasses off. It is hard to put them back on when fists are clenched.

My WiFi router is my phone, can charge it in the car. Another good reason to ditch a landline.

Yeah right. I was a ( naughty word Internet criminal ) until I got caught

That happens once I am over 60. This was the full monty, large black snake, nothing like the endoscope I got for a few quid of eBay. They can 'hook' the end as well, and they do at the very end (physically and procedurally).

Well it happened, nothing to worry about apparently. A bit of advice, don't try 5 hours of physical work after, it aches a bit

Honda make a 2kW generator that can be linked to another one. I think others make them too. 1 or 2 of them and some battery storage may be the way to go. Or just get some jump leans on the Plug In Hydrids, seems a shame to have a decent battery system AND a petrol engine that cannot be utilised in a power cut.

That just depends on correct sizing really.

No reason why the microinverters cannot be installed away from the modules. Just more DC cabling. They can then be put somewhere cold and with the option of fan assisted cooling. My experience of inverters that cut in at a lower voltage is that they lose out at the higher end. As inverters are generally undersized in the UK this may, or may not, cause a long term reliability issue.

I had a copy of Windows 98 Professional. I will get my coat also

Is there anyone that has changed from gas to an induction hob and felt they are worse off?

Neither do the emoticons

Just like the term 'engineer'

Hello and welcome Mrs. H Does the use of the word 'expected' mean compulsory? ( Compulsory Insurance Act 1969 ) I was under the impression that there were only two rules about compulsory insurance, one is for motor vehicles on the public highway and the other is public liability i.e. for offices, shops, factories etc. Was over 35 years ago I was told this and things change, so I may be way out.

Better get one for the summer when we have 'youngsters' in.

You do have a unique problem, but a very simple set of instructions printed out would sort that. Just pick one that is simple, temp and power control, or just power control. You will spend less time telling them how to work the hob than you will cleaning an old one.

When I went looking at new providers last year, I found there is little difference between limited and unlimited download limits, when it came to price. Most networks are just repackaged BT/Openreach aren't they?

Going to put my 'Chefs' hat on now and be really blunt. A decent induction hod is so much better than any other method of cooking. They are more controllable, easy to clean, and at work, the lack of excess heat produced in the kitchen is a real bonus. The new pots and pans do not have to be expensive, my set at home cost about 20 quid and work fine (if you are worried about sticking/burning, learn how to cook). Lidl are selling a pretty good non-stick frying pan at the moment, makes frying eggs easy. Think it was about £15. One advantage with induction pans is that they do not need to be heavy, makes a difference when you have to juggle them all night. If you are going to spend £10,000, £20,000 or even £30,000 on your kitchen (in your new self build that may cost you £150,000 or £300,00), then £50 on a new set of pans is lost in the noise. As for features, the one I like the most is the temperature setting. Set something to say 140°C, and that makes frying easy, or at 80°C to let something simmer. I notice that this is not available on some models. The next best feature is the power setting, but takes a bit of getting used to (a gas hob is fixed temperature with variable flame size, an old electrical hob is variable temperature with fixed size, an induction is generally fixed power with pulsing to control mean power). Personally I dislike noisy timers at home (though at work we can't get ones that are noisy enough), so make sure you can vary the volume of these if they are fitted. I also dislike knobs and buttons, so some method of touch sensitive control is good. These do seem like a bit of Voodoo and take a while to trust them, but makes cleaning easy. And if you do have to quickly remove a flaming pan, you can just slide it sideways off the heat, nothing to get in the way. If you fit anything other than an induction hob these days, you are quite mad.

Isn't the LD50 and the long term exposure to a carcinogen measured differently though. I can't remember, fell asleep when I had to sit though a couple of presentation on it.

They have let me get away with for 7 months The tethering has caused me problems when connecting up a Raspberry Pi, but a bit of digging and it seems that most mobile phones use the same IP address (192.168.42.1), seems to have just about got that sorted, but time will tell.

I heard a story back in the 1980's when I was doing some tooling for Ford (the rear screen surround of the P100 pickup) that the plasticiser used in the dashboards was leaching out. This caused that sticky film on the windscreens. The guy telling me about it was a bit of a worrier and then said 'it is carcinogenic you know'. Not sure if that was true.

4G down here. If there is not a suitable transmitter, no matter what you buy, it ain't going to work! GiffGaff use the O2 network.

Yes, I had a quick Google and seems that using 'purge' and 'autoremove' should do it. NOOBS = New Inexperienced Person HDMI = High Definition Multimedia Interface VGA = Video Graphics Array ESP = Event Stream Processing ? LAMP = Linux Operating System, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PHP language. SSH = Secure Shell

GiffGaff. Called Always On. Though just checked and it is £20/month, not sure if my memory has failed or the price has gone up. The one limitation is that after 6GB is downloaded in any month, you get throttled to 3G during thee day. So just do large downloading between Midnight and 8AM. 3G only has about 3 years left to run then the licences need renewing, 5G is out now anyway. I saw that Vodaphone had a 24GB package, but that is £32. If anyone wants to take up the GiffGaff offer, can I recommend you, then I get some freebies