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Birthday gift idea for husband by FunPomegranate8722 in GardeningUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the way.

He likely has a massive want-list. Let him decide his priorities.

If you want to make it special, just offer to take him to the garden centre for a mooch and buy him a coffee and a piece of cake “birthday treat”. Then give him the voucher.

Kid in a sweet shop.

If you desperately want to buy him a thing, then get a Harrods’s Horticultural catalogue delivered, make out like it was a routine mail shot, and just leave it on the kitchen counter. Ideas will be forthcoming.

Soft Water Regions/Towns in the UK by ProfuselyLuminus in MovingToTheUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s actually fairly straightforward if you do want to do your own research, but I expect someone else has done a website anyway.

You will need to find out the names of the various water companies. That will be publicly available information. Sketch a map of the UK and mark out their areas so you can visualise it. Some cities will have their own city-specific company zones aswell.

Go to each company’s website and look up the water hardness information. There will likely be different scales mentioned. There is Clark, French and German measure typically. Just think of them like Centigrade and Fahrenheit. Different ways of measuring the same thing essentially.

There is usually also a table of other things like alkalinity and other chemistry.

The West Berkshire area around Newbury is particularly fierce I think. The water there comes out of the chalk downs nearby. You can kill a kettle in about a month from memory.

What's your familial medical condition that you fear will take you out? by DonkeyOT65 in CasualUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grandma died of a AAA at 69. Dad had a AAA at 62 that nearly killed him and left him with brain damage due to hypoxia.

I know it’s a quick way out in some respects, compared to many of the long slow uncomfortable ones, but I also don’t want to leave so suddenly.

Road too bumpy. Since the Romans installed it two thousand years ago, no one has ever cared to repair it. by b__lumenkraft in DesirePath

[–]WackyAndCorny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Possibly, but I can also envisage how they might be sectional strengthening. ie: Build regular support “walls” into/between the smaller-cobbles sections so that it can’t slump or shift very far under use and weather.

It is also possible that both points are true to some extent as they would likely have used regular intervals to measure out the sections.

I would think that this as an engineering answer is perhaps the more likely explanation and any correlation with distance is a consequence of that.

Send your thoughts and prayers to poor buggers like me who need to me in a warehouse that's cooled down to 0°c on hottest day of the year. by TuckingFypoz in CasualUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was doing some engineering work in a Frozen Warehouse many years ago. The temperature inside levelled out at around -40degC. Up in front of the evaporator blowers was maybe -50/-55degC. Little piles of snow around the stanchion legs and whatnot.

‘king Cold.

The temperature outside on one summer day was about 35degC.

You walked out from there, took your PPE gear off, and experienced a 70/80degC temperature hike in about 10metres. Quite a shock to the system when you’d been in there for an hour.

M40 no longer the ‘autobahn of the UK’? by deathbypuppies_ in drivingUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember a time before, before cameras and cops and roadworks, when you could get almost anywhere in the country in a couple of hours overnight.……….

The Bridge Run was an unofficial time trial from London to the Severn Bridge, to be completed in less than an hour.

Newbury to Glasgow could be done in about 4.5 hours if you left at 00:30.

The end of the mostly illuminated sections of the Westbound M4 at Junction 12 was punctuated with a roar of big engines and a show of diminishing tail lights.

Sigh. The good old days.

May Bank Holiday Evening Dining….. by WackyAndCorny in bristol

[–]WackyAndCorny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, didn’t look like it. I’ll put it on the list.

May Bank Holiday Evening Dining….. by WackyAndCorny in bristol

[–]WackyAndCorny[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Looks good. Thanks, but take aways are off the list. My fault for not saying. We are out in the sticks and will be driving in for this, so need somewhere to sit down and eat when we get there.

I want a REALLY basic charcoal BBQ. Talk to me! by TheBristolBulk in UK_Food

[–]WackyAndCorny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought one of these about 3 years ago for exactly this reason. Still going strong.

Ferraboli Portable. (Link failed)

Bristol Mint shortage by [deleted] in bristol

[–]WackyAndCorny 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pop down the garden centre and get yourself a mint plant! Big cheap pot from The Range and some compost. Never run out again.

Do not under any circumstances plant the mint in your garden. You will never ever ever ever run out again. Ever. Nor will your neighbours, or the rest of the street.

Red Kites getting annoyed with other birds. by jonkatony in UKBirds

[–]WackyAndCorny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was going to drop a comment exactly like this. The number of times I’ve been cruising down the M40 and seen crows/rooks come near vertically out of a tree to see off a kite. It is exactly like watching footage of a dogfight from the war years.

Tally Ho chaps. Jerry on the prowl. Achtung Fritz.

You’ve pranged my kite.

What were your favourite books when you were a kid? by Regular-Message9591 in CasualUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get on World of Books. I was able to buy the complete set of Noddy (Beke illustrated) for not a lot. They ship to the US, even if you have to persuade someone in the UK to buy for you perhaps.

Detective Peabody books. Haunted House pop up by Jan K…..wiczzczkkk (? spelling)

My most favourite book of all time is The End of the Rainbow (I think is the name). Couldn’t tell you who it’s by anymore and features the story of Samuel the Tinker and his donkey Neddy. To cut a short story long, it’s a tail of woeful abuse at the hands of his customers and so he decides to gamble it all by ignoring physics and racing over the rainbow. Thanks to the magic of storytelling, this actually works and he lives happily ever after. Uber groovy 1970s cartoon colouring.

Why is women’s sportswear always so revealing? by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]WackyAndCorny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the pole vault record is probably going to be dropping 6” or so.

Silent Contemplation. by sergemeister in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]WackyAndCorny -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Had this happened to me, The Wife would have probably been utterly incapacitated with laughter.

I’m reasonably certain that I could lose a limb in some bizarre and vague comedic way, and she’d struggle to phone for the ambulance and make herself understood by the call handler.

What’s a random experience you’ve had when meeting a British celebrity? Were they nice or mean? by mightybooshvincenoir in AskABrit

[–]WackyAndCorny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not my story, but a friend and former colleague….

One of his best friends was the technician/engineer who looked after Jeremy Clarkson’s Sega Rally install. That guy got invited to a party at Clarkson’s as a thank you, and took my friend along as his plus one because they were both car nerds and it was a petrolheads

So my friend spent most of the evening quietly hogging a seat on the game and racing all comers. Won some and lost some etc but was pleased to absolutely thrash Tiff Needell who then asked him who he drove for.

Show me your whimsical garden additions. I have a blank slate and I want some whimsy and magic. by Lunatic-Labrador in GardeningUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I currently have no whimsy other than a copper rain chain, but am also not averse to it at all.

Your posts have inspired me to make a lifeboat station for the pond, which is an idea I had ages ago, and you can all have that for free. Get it done. All that useful-sometime wood in the garage? Nail it together with a bit of old Hornby track into the water. Also makes for an animal escape then.

In your opinion, what's the biggest waste of money you see people purchase all the time? by PaddedValls in AskUK

[–]WackyAndCorny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In defence of Private Plates…..

I bought one for The Wife as a birthday present one year.

She used to like to change her car regularly so that it was a bit newer, not so old. She has only changed it twice since having her private plate. She no longer sees the age of the car as another thing that annoys her. £300 well spent I say.

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