Number Six

Hi I need a big box of these at fairly short notice. I can get them off eBay for about £18 delivered. Obviously I'll pay a bit more to get them today or tomorrow, but ideally I'd like to get somewhere near that price, and off a local independent if I can. Staples is selling the exact same product for £43 which seems a ridiculous premium for convenience - so anyone in Sheffield with a box of 1000 120 x 60mm strung tags, send me a PM with a price please! (I would settle for 100 or so to tide me over until the eBay ones arrive if you don't have that many) Cheers

I think the dash being always lit is part of it, whoever said that. In my previous cars, you could leave the side lights on when you stopped the engine by pressing a little button next to the key which allowed you to turn the key backwards before removing it - that left the side lights on. I never used it, but it means that if you stop the car normally, the lights go off regardless of what the switch says. For November to about March I just left the lights on. My current car doesn't do that - when you stop it and take the key out the lights stay on until you turn the switch. So I have to turn them off each time I stop the car. I will admit to not turning them on as early as I would like sometimes as I've forgotten. If the dash didn't light up without them that wouldn't happen. I don't get the people who don't drive with lights in low sun either, particularly on Sheffield's hills. A dark car with a low sun behind it, coming down a hill so the car is effectively against a dark background, is almost invisible.

I guess that means that if the vehicle was type approved after Feb 2011 it mus have DRLs. If your actual car is newer than that, but the model was type approved before Feb 2011, it may or may not have them. I believe you can turn them off with the correct diagnostic computer.

At the risk of being vilified, if the office job requires you to communicate in writing, I'd stick with the valeting.

I've had winter tyres for the past four winters, always on front wheel drive cars. I was a total convert after getting a hire car in Norway fitted with them - I didn't realise it had them on, or that the roads were that slippy, until I got out of it and fell over. You should get four, because as others have said, if you only have them on the front you are one heavy breaking moment from a pirouette. If you must only have two, they should be on the back, which won't help you get going if you have front wheel drive, but it will mean you can stop safely. Stopping is much more important than getting going, after all. I got 4 new tyres this year for less than £200 (Maragoni Meteo HP) so it need not cost so much. In the meantime, my summer tyres are not geting worn out - driving with summer tyres in cold temperatures makes them wear faster, don't forget. Incidentally I've never got stuck with my front wheel drive cars in winters. I had to dig a path to get going when we had the really deep snow (2010) because the car was otherwise just pushing it into a big wall of snow - and last winter I had to reverse of my road - which is a steep hill - because the tyres were a quite worn, hence the new ones this year. The problem is other drivers in summer tyres blocking the roads ....

I note that Brian May is against badgers being culled, and yet paid someone to cull the deer on his land - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9701188/Animal-rights-campaigner-Brian-May-allowed-deer-to-be-culled-on-his-estate.html "Save Me" said the deer. "Don't stop me now" replied May. "and another one's gone, another one's gone - another one bites the dust"

Costco are supposed to be very good. I used them a few years back (actually for leaflets - it was cheaper to have them printed as photos!) and they were very helpful, and the quality was good.

I was thinking of a modern version of this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Country-Diary-Edwardian-Lady/dp/1846660157

The photos would definitely be of interest to someone - perhaps someone at the university? It sounds like you might have enough there for a book! There is a market for the lenses off old cameras, definitely. You will be able to sell the bodies, but the lenses will be easier. If there is any Pentax fit (either a screw thread or K mount ) then let me know I love all this stuff (wildlife and cameras) so if you want to PM me, ask away - or do it on here, whatever

There was indeed - Ibex design.

Thanks for your replies - I got a new key supplied and coded from Volks-Tek in Dronfield. It's now much easier to get in and out of the car

And they're worth tens of millions of pounds to you?

I'd bother to argue with you if you showed any hint of understanding.

Did you see John Lewis have warned the government that schemes such as the one Amazon operate will eventually force tax-paying companies out of business? Do you fancy chipping in the missing billions? Or paying a few quid more for a book?

Same book is available here http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/bryan+peterson/understanding+exposure/7677810/ from a company that pays tax. Ideally though get it from a local independent if you still have one

Never mind the breadth, feel the quality ...

I can't decide if that is the very faintest praise for this forum, or very harsh criticism of the Leeds one!

Digitial is perfect for teaching yourself because you can see immediately what effect your changes have. Much better than having to wait until you could afford to process the film like I had to! A good book on what the controls do will help, then just go out and take pictures

Approx 30-40 in the tree near Carphone Warehouse on Ecclesall Road at about 10am today.

I think she has been under enormous stress, and probably has had a breakdown. I struggle with the idea that she has not been given the sentence she would otherwise have got simply because the stress of being caught breaking the law was too much foer her. But then perhaps she will show the same powers of recovery as Ernest Saunders - the only man ever to recover from having alzheimers disease - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Saunders#Sentence_and_appeal

Five quid? Wasteful in the extreme. Mine was a pound!

Replace 'soccer player' with 'footballist' for a UK audience.

Not yet but I don't get chance to look much. Something spooked the waxwings yesterday though - they all cleared off en-masse at one point. Couldn't worrk out what though.

We just fed the kid the stew as it was. Nobody likes things blended up so every mouthful tastes the same. Just cut up any big bits.

They were leafleting near Carterknowle. There were Bretheren in my class at school in the 80s. They kept themselves separate, and it always seemed a bit sad. I remember they had hand-knitted jumpers - nothing odd about that, a lot of us did in those days. If your jumper was hand-made you didn't need the school badge on, but theirs had the initials of the school badly stitched on in wool, like their parents wanted them to be different. Nice of them, I thought.