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In Romania carp is a popular dish, except they swap the R and A round. I still regret not bringing back a tin of crap.

After recent events I wonder if they're thinking of a name change? http://www.thepoloniumrestaurant.co.uk/ And seriously, I wonder if the sushi restaurant in London will ever open again?

For those of us who get paid in US Dollars it's a continuing paycut.

No. it's also on all items that go over £100 in the UK. I like to see if an item is being bid on fairly before bidding and that's not possible now. There's going to be a huge rise in people bidding up their own items from another account and now it's going to be near impossible to detect that. Ebay always relied on it's users to monitor and police dodgy goings on, that's not going to happen any more....

For me it takes away all the social aspects of eBay. I've met a few collectors with the same interests as me that have become genuine friends. Now you can't contact anyone unless you have a transaction with them. It will also have the effect of making it impossible for people who have suffered fraud to contact each other to report it to the police. The one time I was defrauded I got together with the other victims to make a collective report to the police - £50,000 fraud catches their attention much better than the £200 I was defrauded of as an individual.

eBay now have a policy in the UK for items over £100 where you can't see the bidders names anymore. It looks like this - http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=250050325738 They say it's to prevent fraud, but to me it looks like they've given free hand to fake bidders. The whole system relies on transparency and trust and they just took an important part of that away. Hopefully sales will drop and eBay will cancel the policy! There's an interesting article about it here with links to the outraged eBay users forums - http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m11/i03/s01

Found it - George Wostenholm and Son Ltd., Washington Works, 97 Wellington Street Still can't find a decent photo of it, only this old engraving. I remember it had Wostenholm IXL in big white letters on the building. http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s09882

Where is it, I fancy taking a look

There's also a lovingly restored white Deco detached house at the junction of Springfield Road and Button Hill. There was/is a also a row of 30's Deco semis on Carterknowle Road opposite the school, now completely bastardised by double glazing.

Was it Wolstenholmes? Does that ring any bells?

The old Yorkshire Bank building at Hunters Bar. The Adelphi Theatre in Attercliffe Two fine exmples. Maybe the Adelphi is more Nouveau than Deco?

What was the name of the large Victorian factory that was demolished at the bottom of Devonshire Green, late 70's? I remember it was a great old building and there was a bit of an outcry at the time. A photo link would be interesting if anyone has one.

There's a variety of walks listed in each area to take in the architecture, but oddly the section n the Manor doesn't have a walk. I wonder why? Would you stand out at all wandering round that area with your architectural guide perhaps?

As far as I know Hiatts of Birmingham still make police handcuffs. Many urm 'recreational users' boycott that firm since they supply torture equipment to China. Try eBay?

I found a great book about Sheffield in the local library, so good I'll be buying my own copy. Pevsners Architectural Guides: Sheffield - Ruth Harman and John Minnis At only £9.99 in the shops it's a bargain and you'll find it cheaper online. It covers every imaginable building in the centre and most suburbs from ancient to modern and has many hidden gems you never knew about. I never realised that Broom Hall (in Brommhall obviously) dates from 1498 with extensions built in 1612. There's a few odd omissions like Ecclesall and Beauchief Abbey aren't in, yet Wincobank is, but it's all part of the quirkiness of the book where the Arena gets slagged and Centertainment gets praised...

There's already an organised opposition to the violent pornography proposal for anyone who is interested - http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/

As in the natural unpasteurised unhomogenised stuff.

It's small, about 2" long bent over into a U shape. I'll try heating it/cooling it as Artisan suggests - worth trying as a replacement would mean a lot of farting around to get one made

Thieving fluffy-tailed ********!

This is the spring from an old primitive trigger mechanism from a device (scarificator) made around 1800. I don't think it's a replacement, just lost it.s springiness so i'm trying to restore it to working condition.

I think the title says it all - how to make a strip of steel springy? I beleive it involves heating and quencing it in water, but just how?

Up to the age of 7 I lived in Liverpool and had never heard of Mischief Night. Then we moved to Hull and Mischief Night was a big thing, but held on the night before Halloween. Strings were tied to door knockers, gates taken off hinges, etc.... Of course Halloween was just getting dressed up and carrying a turnip hollowed out for a lamp followed by a party with lots of apple based games. No expensive pumpkins or orange and black merchandising and certainly no trick or treating. This was in the mid 1960s. This year the media seems to have got it's knickers in a twist about Mischief Night - has it always been a Sheffield tradition and was it 4th November or 30th October?

Chelsea park bonfire, when does it staart and what day. I saw it here yesterday, but since then threads got merged into a megthread it's too hard to follow and I can't find the info.

How about using acryslic then? Do you reckon it's scrape off with a wall scraper? Or even emulsion? Hmm....

Thanks for the reply, I'll ask them