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Wait till I get the password updated....

Cheers. I have already bought the Roku for that reason, since it will be used by an 80 year old. I have however found that the enter-your-email bit is clunky, having used my long email address as the account name on the website ?. Ferdinand

Sorry forgot to ask. Is that the 4K or the Express version? Cheers F

Thanks.

A simple question, I hope .. can I watch the normal BBC1 etc TV channels live via a Roku stick or box? The information does not seem to be very consistent as to whether that can be done or not. I plan to get one to experiment, as I am about to move off Virgin, and the satellite or wired options do not seem attractive. Cheers Ferdinand

At this point I can do Thu or Fri, but by Saturday I need to have a scaffold tower moved from somewhere else and in place or ready to build for the chap who will be doing my render repairs this W/e. So, maybe ?. Ferdinand

So what Is happening?

I would expect the standards to be around the CE Marking scheme and therefore probably harmonised across Europe, though perhaps with a couple of wrinkles. F

He should have left "white" off the plan, or added "illustrative" in a reference to the plan, somewhere. I can't see any easy way to be free with a single bound from what we have here - sorry. As @Oz07, I would not expect them to enforce - though they might refuse to rubber stamp something. F

964mm becomes even more difficult to handle - 2 man job? And may also need changes to hinges. Amongst my French windows, the 900mm one is more temperamental than the extra size would lead me to expect.

I have been trying to get rid of the name on mine since 2013, and it keeps reappearing out of databases like a bad penny... So get it right. It is like calling a dog "Kartoffel mit Spiegelei". Something you can live to regret ?. My previous house, which only had a name not a number, always crashed the local Wickes' computer without fail. No idea why. It had been called that since at least 1670. F

One thought - will you need Planning Permission, or a variation? Here's a place that do Occupation-based weathervanes, including hundreds of professions: https://www.weathervanes.co.uk/category/weathervanes/occupations/ Cost is £150-£500. Heating engineer: Bricklayer Shaun the Sheep (I think they have photoshop ?) Ferdinand

On a different note, could you consider a locally made one designed for *you*, rather than a generic cockerel ? Should not be horribly expensive compared to a house. I would love to have the chance to do one of those eventually somewhere, but at present I just have inherited gryphons. Personally I would be tempted by something like a bicyclist or a local artisan, or even Duncan Campbell on his lake. But make it worthy of the work and time you have spent building the house; you deserve that fillip. Ferdinand

Marvellous idea. Here is one way of doing it. Here is another one using a cupola: To me the first one does not look Cumbria-proof. Ferdinand

An extra layer of some sort of tilebacker board 10mm thick at both ends? Could you glue it on with a strong waterproof adhesive eg https://www.diy.com/departments/evo-stik-serious-stuff-solvent-free-grab-adhesive-0-29l/212376_BQ.prd Ferdinand

I do no think I would play it that way. I would ask them for a definition, or perhaps even proof that their definition is valid, or maybe just proceed with "light" plant. It is not for you to play Blind Mans Buff; it is for them to set legal conditions. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are ‘necessary, 'relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects’. (https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Planning_condition) If it is not all of these, then it fails and is unenforceable. If you have given us all the relevant information, it sounds as though "heavy plant" means 'something that will not fit comfortably down the narrow access roads, but will cause a significant disruption because it is in the tourist season'. That sentence would be the pertinent defining language for heavy plant, unless it is defined elsewhere and referenced. If there is no disruption, then you may well be OK. If you can meet that condition another way, eg by having a 'light plant' size digger, or taking it in before breakfast, but not working until your allowed hours, then you *should* also be OK. What would their basis be for enforcement unless there had been disruption of the narrow roads? However, it is a matter of judgement ? . Ferdinand

Phone up and tell them about it, and where the path is, to be off the record, or use the comment form anonymously, or email in to be on the record. F

Bet that lot came from Thanet. Quite some badgers who can nearly tip over a mini-tractor.

Analogue are Coax Cables as used with analogue TV signals. Ie at most recent pre-2007. F

I have been clearing out the garage this w/e, including my spare electric, telecomms and computer cables. Does anyone have a good rule of thumb? Things that have gone or not gone: About a dozen multi 4 or 6 way short extensions leads ... keep if not ancient. 12v lighting transformer and kit dad used above his drawing board decades ago .. keep. Centronics printer cables .. all gone except one. Mice .. everything pre-USB gone. Analogue TV aerial cable .. all gone. RS232 / 423 cable .. keep one. 5 pin DIN audio cable ... gone. 41612 Euro Cables ... can't decide; they cost a fortune back when. etc. Does anyone have a system that works? Ditto mobile phones? (Just found what I think is a car-charging lead for a Nokia communicator. Gone.) Ferdinand

What is the cost of a badger proof cage for an ASHP? Less than the difference? F

I would like to go, and Thursday would fit. Ferdinand

That is ... sharp.

It is actually a compliment to the well-preserved appearance of the protagonist ?.