Diceman

Forgot to say...Beachampton, Calverton (upper, lower and middle wealds!), Nash, Whaddon, Horwood (great and little) Thorrnton, Thornborough, all round the corner from Stony and you can't go wrong with any of these. And Winslow of course, similar to Stony as a large village/small town and very nice. Buckingham is worth a look too, a little bit cheaper I would say but nothing wrong with it.

Stony is a lovely little town but 250k won't buy much there these days unfortunately. I've just bought a 3 bed cottage in a village about 3 miles away, I had to make an asking price offer straight after the viewing on the first day it was on the market and even then it was touch & go. I was the 8th viewing and there were another 15 viewings booked for the following day. For my own reasons I wanted to buy in this village only and it took me 3 years for the right one to turn up, so I was very keen to get it! 2 bed with no parking and tiny garden went for about 190k here last year so you might be lucky but you have to be quick and if you love it, make an offer on the spot! Good luck with your search, assume you have set up alerts on all the right move / zoopla etc sites?

Hi all, thanks for the advice, actually found the solution today on the Irish Calor Gas site, much more information on there than the UK site! It was indeed the low pressure valve and an easy reset by pulling on the toggle once you know where to find it! Now it's running I find out the boiler is shot, heating is ok but hot water won't run so I suspect a heat exchanger. Will get a boiler man out tomorrow to give me the bad news £££ ☹ Calor wanted 42p / litre but I haggled them down to 32p and £100 credit on the account - was quite pleased with that till I saw Dougall's 27p! Who did you get that deal from?

Just bought a house with lpg central heating and hob. When I took possession the bulk tanks were empty. Had a delivery today and followed the instructions they shoved thro the door, turning on the vapour control valves on the tanks and the emergency shutoff outside, but I can't relight the boiler or hob and can't smell or hear any gas coming through the hob burners. Am I missing something? Can't find any additional valves inside the house and even if there were I don't think anyone has been in the house since the tanks ran dry to turn them off (central heating was left on by the absent owner to keep a bit of heat in the house) any lpg experts got any ideas before I take a day off work to find a gasman? Thanks in advance D

This short video is worth watching if you want to know the way to make money out of farming. Some robust language though.

Well gosh, thanks for the link. I'm convinced. I'm going to throw away 25 years experience in the food industry and direct detailed knowledge of the formulation and processing of literally hundreds of household name food products and get all my information from the web from now on. Especially foreign sites that reveal killer facts like the secret ingredient in milk that they don't want you to know about is, um, milk. None of it matters anyway because the world is going to end in 2012. I read it on the web.

And for those of you wondering why British farmers don't modernise and become competitive, remember Nocton Dairies whose plans for a mega farm with 7000 cattle were blocked by the environment agency on dubious grounds and attacked by the animal rights lobby who spread false and malicious rumours about poor welfare standards. The supermarkets bowed to consumer pressure and said they would never buy from such a farm. Except they do now, but from farms in other parts of the world, equally subsidised by your euro taxes, where the Daily Mail hadn't noticed what's going on. Hypocrites. When the last British dairy farmer goes out of business (along with all their suppliers) let's see how long it takes for milk prices on our little green island to double. And cheese. And cream. And butter. And..and...and...

This is not how normal milk is made at all. I think you might be misunderstanding the process they use on micro filtered milk like Cravendale. It is separated to remove the cream then the rest is pushed through very fine filters to remove spoilage organisms as an alternative to HTST pasteurisation. Then they mix the cream back in. Expensive and uncommon but supposed to taste better.

Just to correct one often repeated myth - although the technology is available and has been patented, not one of the GM seeds on the market anywhere in the world is sterile or has a 'terminator' gene that prevents it from being re-sown the next year. Monsanto for one have publicly and widely stated that they will never commercialise such a product.

I wanted to hate him but somehow I can't. It is a horrible job and he seems to have found a way to make it bearable - 2nd in the Sunday times Best Employer rankings. I don't like what they do, but you can't complain about 700 jobs for young people in that area. And there is always TPS.

Just have a look for yourself and see what you see. Interestingly another poster seems to have spotted the trend as well.

I've always been taught (by ex police instructors) that if you could pull over and sit in the left hand lane for more than 20 seconds before needing to pull out again, then you should do. I have done nearly 500 motorway miles in the last 2 days and did a little survey, as I always do, on the physical appearance of the middle lane hoggers I came across. I only count the ones i could happily undertake and stay in my lane for at least 30 seconds before i need to move out again. There is always a common theme. Well over three quarters fit into one category. It is nothing to do with gender. Try it yourselves.

I'm not a good legal brain but I do know the first thing you should do is officially dispute the bill as said above, that should put a halt to any legal proceedings whilst it gets sorted out. Now I've typed that with such certainty I'm hoping I'm right...please someone correct me if not!

As my old father in law, a master engineer and mechanic, used to say.."I'm not charging you for the 10 minutes it took me to fix it, I'm charging you for the 30 years it took me to learn how to fix it in 10 minutes" My BIL now runs the business and often gets grief from customers for charging £30 or or £40 to plug in his diagnostic machine and clear a few faults or run a diagnosis in a few minutes. He has spent about £10K on the machine, software and licences but people expect him to give away the benefits for free. If you don't want to pay him, do you have a skill he could use in return?

When I was a student I had a summer job repossessing cars for a firm like that! They always kept the spare keys so it was usually a midnight swoop. It only lasted a few weeks and then the boss and his sidekick both got hospitalised by persons unknown with baseball bats and I decided shelf stacking was a safer option...