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Every state pensioner is used to a 4-week cycle; that's how the State pension is reckoned. SO once a year you get two payments in a...

Actually I had more worry leaving - after following the nicely marked channel from Woodbridge, I lost it and crossed the Horse Sand...

I have been up the Deben to Woodbridge, and didn't find the entrance too difficult.

All a bit squishy for my tastes!

Sounds like the kind of place only a geologist would find! Your first field lessons are the use of a geological hammer and how to find a...

Raw water cooled engines also have thermostats. At least, my Volvo 2003 does.

I think there are two issues here. First, there's the practical matter of taking sights and reducing them. That needs practice with a...

If you can get a copy, "Navigation with Alice" by Frank Debenham (Yes, he of Antarctic fame on Scott's expedition) is an amusing guide...

After a long period when both my cars - an EV and a conventional ICE - were unused, BOTH had similar symptoms to the above, in both...

Radars draw a significant amount of current. And sometimes that can be choppy as a very large amount of power is drawn for a short...

A friend's son learnt his trade there. He's gutted (his words, not mine) by this news. And he worked for Spirit, and now for a yard in...

When I attended a seminar on copyright given by corporate lawyers they showed a little "truth table" with columns for various actors...

China is decarbonising at the same rate as the UK and India is on target to be net zero 10 years after us. The UK Blue Carbon Reports...

Exactly. The left hand internal spiral bites into the nut or screw head and allows you to use a 3/8 ratchet for leverage. I have had...

I first got onto them some years ago, when I needed to remove the badly damage anode holder on a Volvo 2003. It's nominally a 1/2"...