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Lots of people at work used to get these delivered, I think they're about 3 quid each? seems like quite a lot really for what you get. I think the novelty has worn off for most people now. For £3 you could buy a crap load of seeds and dried fruit

I used to be terrible at getting to sleep, the 'rules' i've come up with over the years... Get up early - most important. No booze before bed. Go to bed early, stay there. No TV/computer before bed. Don't resort to going on the computer or getting up if you cant sleep. Read Some people say listen to music, I find if I do that then I just stay up listening to it. No looking at clocks, even if you think its 6am and you're still awake. Live with the boredom of just lying there, accept it, don't get annoyed. Get rid of all noise (ear plugs are flippin amazing if you can get used to them), turn off humming stereos etc. Block out all light, turn off TVs with standby lights etc. edit: my gf says she tries to remember obscure stuff, like the names of her old teachers, might work

Awesome, thanks. I'll take a look

I'll be in London this weekend, can anyone advise me where the best fireworks will be? Bearing in mind I am from Wales and therefore am not used to things like roads and traffic lights, it would be good if wherever it was was easily locatable from a tube station. Also, I'm planning on driving up on saturday.. where is a good place to park my car overnight? I guess I want to park somewhere on the outskirts and jump on a train/tube which will take me to where all the stuff is... any help greatly appreciated!

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There have been a few occasions where I've removed everyones warns and reset everyone back to zero. The quick way to reduce your warning is to send £1.50 per warn to paypal@trials[dash]forum.co.uk stating your username. Alternatively leave them there as a reminder not to be a dick (which, lets face it, is the main reason people get warned) and don't worry about it

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Either gently tap around the edges with a screwdriver until it pops out, or if you're feeling handy: make a washer that is exactly the size of the internal diameter of the headtube, grind 2 flats on opposite edges (to allow it to pass through the cup), drop it down into the headtube so it sits ontop of the cup and whack it with a long thing and a hammer. (Well it makes sense to me, anyway!)

alright.. chill. I did reply, see up the thread a bit. If you want to make a new thread for riders to put their locations in, go for it I'll happily replace the TF logo with a welsh flag, some leeks and a picture of Tom Jones, don't push me!

We could install something like this: http://ipb.silvesterwebdesigns.com/membermap/ My only concerns are that it doesnt seem like a good idea to basically list your address on a public website (as well as the members who will claim to live in antartica or somewhere).

haha, cheers. thats what I'm trying to avoid. Quite a few times I've 'had enough', but when I start up again it becomes apparent that there's actually very little left to do - suprising how quick the last bits are (wallpaper, painting). I'm also making a conscious effort not to start more than 1 thing at a time (didn't help when mum came over and started ripping wallpaper off the walls downstairs!) Yeah man, would be very interested to see them Ha, not going to lie (is that a welshism?), it is. Getting home after work at 6, working til 9ish, doesn't give you much time to get stuff done. Managed to fit a door handle last night, but it still doesn't work properly.

Just a FYI: our toilet used to block quite regularly (it wasn't my fault... it was the toilet, honest), the only thing I had to stab at it was a length of outer brake cable. I poked it in and around the u-bend, at which point I guess due to the hole running down the inside of the cable, the air pressure was equalised/released and the whole lot got sucked down like magic.

Living here. Doing a bit of rearranging as different parts of the house are done. Soon I'll be moving the living room into our current bedroom, and moving the current bedroom into the smaller bedroom, that'll leave downstairs clear to sort out. I think I've done everything in a fairly sensible order, at no point was the bathroom without a door, for example. I'm constantly cleaning too (even when I know its going to be a mess again in a few hours time) - using an outdoor brush on carpet works surprisingly well. Just makes it a bit more liveable

Cheers To be honest I only looked at one house (this one) in person, I'd been keeping an eye on globrix for houses which had south facing gardens, under a certain price and in a certain area. This was the only one that met those criteria. When I first phoned up about it, it'd been sold, but a few months later it popped back onto globrix and it turned out that sale fell through, so I jumped in straight away. As for deciding what to do with it, I'm just making it up as I go along really. When I viewed the house I had passing thoughts of 'oh, this is just a partition wall so I could potentially stick a door there and knock this wall down..', another example is the suspended ceiling downstairs; I only discovered it had a suspended ceiling after I'd moved in (I was wondering why the curtains seem to dissapear into the ceiling), so that's given me the idea to restore it to its original ceiling height. tl;dr version, I didn't really have much thought about what to do before buying the place, and there's not really much 'working out' to do, its just a case of getting on with it

building control sounds like a hassle. I hope I dont have to get them round for anything I'm planning... Tonight I put in a frosted perspex sheet above my new bathroom door, and knocked the seperate toilet and bathroom into one big room - really satisfying

Odd, pasting that link into chrome for me takes me to the right place. I'll email skimlinks support a link to this thread and see if they have anything to say Thats correct behaviour, unless you're not ending up in the right place.

We're trialling skimlinks at the moment (have been for a couple of weeks) - is that link in the topic you posted just taking you to the CRC homepage? Or simply not working? Got any weird adblock thingies or greasemonkey scripts running?

Nor me, it was pretty satisfying cutting it all back. 20 odd trips to the tip wasn't so fun. I'll be leaving the garden now until next year I think, probably going to patio that area of mud and just generally tidy it up. Yep, I've bought a truck load of 'space blanket' insulation. Reduced from £11 for a narrow roll, to £3, to £1. Bought a huge £21's worth which should be enough to do my loft twice over. Not looking forward to that job though. Central heating for £7000? Ouch! That's more than I plan on spending overall. Mine already had double glazing luckily, guessing the previous owner got it on some sort of old persons scheme. That house does sound like a lot of work though, well avoided I think..

Hahaha. I'm keeping my secrets to myself, otherwise I'd have none left.

my advice would be to make sure either a) your mate can sign off any electrical work or b ) you 'liase' with an electrician before you start work to make sure they'd be prepared to inspect your work and sign it off for you once its done. I had a bit of a brown pants moment with my electrics, luckily they're all signed off now. If it was the difference of 10k for a house that doesn't need work then I'd go down that route if i were you! I was pretty lucky with mine and got it for about £30k - £35k less than other houses on the street so theres room to make a profit. Thanks will do.

haha, yep its been pretty cheap so far. damn, something somewhere must not like me posting these pictures. Just walked into the kitchen to get something out of the fridge and noticed the floor was making a weird sound. A weird, squelchy sound. Looked behind the washing machine and both hoses were leaking. And JUST now (like, 2 seconds ago) something just fell off the radiator which has been there all day and banged on the floor....

I've had people in for the electrics, central heating, plastering and carpet fitting - all on my list of things I'm not even going to attempt. Everything else I've done myself. When I was younger I worked doing fencing/decking and general handyman/odd jobs for 2 years which helped a lot, makes you realise there's not much you can't do yourself. Yep, the whole thing was hidden, there was a shed in there somewhere full of old tools. My girlfriend likes the walls too

Some of you may know I bought my first house about 10 weeks ago. Its been a busy 10 weeks.. thought I'd post some pics up. Had it rewired and central heating installed since I moved in. Garden before: now: Front bedroom when I moved in, lovely polystrene ceiling tiles and built in wardrobes during rewiring re-skimmed finished new door and radiator (central heating installed) bathroom walk in shower removing the old airing cupboard to make room for combi boiler walk in shower gone new boiler and bath Bathroom (today) - about to put up a parition wall so I can make the seperate bathroom and toilet into one big single room the best of some very boring pics... next up is fitting a door to the new partition wall and removing the doors/wall separating the toilet and bathroom.

pashley, monkey please keep your hilarious conversations on msn or PM (posts deleted).

There is a new version of the BuySell app being made at the moment, preview here: http://dev.millne.com/classifieds/ As you can see, the index page is now a list of all the latest classifieds. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next version. There should be notification options in your control panel. Hopefully fixed in the next version, will wait until then before looking at it.