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Think the seller should be called "Our souls"... As in bunch of... 😄

The deadliest footballer in the box of my generation.

I think he should have called himself "Norfolk an Idea".

That was the whole point. Lack of shopkeeper freedom due entirely to EU rules. Obviously customers can ask for what they like. Many of our drivers came from Poland whose driver crisis is worse than ours. The effect of Brexit is marginal at most. This would have happened even if we'd never left. The average age of a driver is 55, and many have used the pandemic as a reason to retire completely. I know for a fact how fed up to the teeth they were - not only with lousy working conditions, but also the fact they were held personally legally liable for any illegal migrants - not the firm they were employed by, but them personally. Border Force have issued fines of up to £20k even when the stowaways have been declared. An ex lorry driver in the local news round here asked, how many times were they supposed to check the vehicle, five, ten, twenty, a hundred times - and then risk violence from the migrants. He's now asking why Border Force aren't being fined for escorting them in - the irony is sick making for the drivers. Working conditions, wages, plus park up clean and rest facilities have got to be massively improved before new drivers are attracted in. It'd also help if regular toilet stops could be incorporated as many drivers develop renal problems in later life due to not being able to stop for hours to take a pee. No wonder these guys are leaving in droves. ETA: the last straw for many was that prolonged hold up just before Christmas last year when they were forced to hang around in their vans for days waiting for covid tests. The only people who brought them some warm food were the local Sikh Gurdwara, and the local mosque. Nobody else bothered. That's how much they mattered.

My dyslexia has reached a new owl.....

All details lifted from the Baldwin's site...

what a hoot ......

I have these articles and could send scans if required.

I have about 30-40 bunches of Muscat d'Alexandria grapes sweetening up nicely. I can't eat all of them.......so is there a winemaking member who would like to make some Château Milton Keynes 2021?

Ha! Not five minutes ago I was thinking 'coin shaves owls' or some such... Great minds etc...

Did you catch the seller's name? coinshavesouls ... I think that should read "coin shaves souls"

Not enough CO2 to run hospital machines or make fizzy drinks....that's the trouble with this bloody planet- CO2 levels are dropping and there's nothing we can do.......

Here's another laughable item... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284457713181?hash=item423b003e1d:g:QoUAAOSwZrthRxe- Wrong on so many levels. (It's a farthing and as for "proof" and "about as struck"...) And yet, with all the (wrong) extra blurb, details, rarity allegations etc below, it could mislead. Would anyone willing to spend £1500 on this washer just go ahead and do it without any knowledge or checking things out?? I'd hope not, but just up above someone spent £100+ on a threepence worth about 50p. A fool and his money and all that!

I am certainly a home wine maker, but I am a long way from Milton Keynes (North Devon), so I am not sure it is worth the cost of getting them down here. I suspect anyway that they would not make great wine - as a general rule, grapes that are good to eat make uninteresting wine. They tend to lack the tannin and acidity that produces a palatable wine as they have been bred to be sweet and light. Grape jelly might be an alternative?

I use both systems interchangeably, often on the same equipment. An intelligent example: from the late 60's onwards, Rupert Neve and Co. made the modules that sit in their studio recording consoles 45mm wide. The consoles channel sections, or 'buckets' that hold the modules, commonly in sets of 8 or 12, were multiples of 1.8" wide. In the horizontal aluminium extrusions that make up these buckets, lie threaded strips so the modules can be held in with thumbscrews. The tapped holes in this strip are spaced .2" apart, even on 'later 'metric' consoles, and can therefore hold the 45mm modules 1.8" apart. The result of this is two-fold: The modules, when in the console, have a gap between them of .7mm, since 1.8" is 45.7mm, and therefore never jam, or are a sloppy fit. The second benefit is that the console frame metalworker only has to work to two significant figures, everything being multiples of 1.8", and the module metalworker only needs to work to 45mm..... A very elegant use of two systems at once. If I'm making a big piece of gear, I'll join it with M4, M5 M6 bolts etc, but if the work requires a very tight tolerance, I will cut the aluminium using millimetres, but tap the threads BA. This is FAR better than using metric in aluminium, for many reasons. A _much_ better thread for soft thin materials - stolen from Swiss watchmakers 100+ years ago. ( BA is actually a 'metric' thread- they all have a relationship to each other, and the clearance size of one is the tapping size of the next, in the even or odd number sequence. The even numbers were used widely, the odd numbers rarely, which is why the GPO made all their equipment use the odd sizes, so employees wouldn't steal the nuts and bolts...! ) If you have a small telescope or camera, the thread in the bottom is 1/4 20tpi BSW (Whitworth), NOT metric, and the thread ( often in the plastic bottom of a camera) therefore doesn't wear quickly, like it would with metric. If you are interested in mechanics, both systems should be used. If you have no interest whatsoever in nuts and bolts or measuring things, the metric makes sense. The Americans take Imperial a bit too far- if you buy firewood, you have no idea how much a 'Cord' is, and to sound impressive, they insist of using 'thousand of pounds' when describing the weight of a truck, or the thrust of a jet engine, when 'tons' would make more sense, and is easier to envisage.... Just my 2¢ (1.5 pence)