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Hiya mate Not sure I get all of that (55meg is not a lot at all), but have you tried re-installing the screen drivers? Should be able to get that off the net How old is the laptop, what did you do just before it started playing up, ...... Neels

With Magman on this - we always take our own food and drink. My daughter (7 years old) thinks the butterflies are the best

Hi Chester zoo is quite an experience, and will easily occupy a full day (in our experience). Have a look at http://www.chesterzoo.org Cheers Neels

I used Zyban tablets 5 years ago, and haven't smoked since. At the time I had to go to a bit of effort to break the link between cigarette and situation, e.g. having a pint and wanting a cigarette. Didn't give up drinking, just drank other things..... I found a great motivator was the fact that the money spent on cigarettes could now be spent on other things. In my instance it paid for a saltwater fly fishing setup Best of luck, and hang in there Neels

Hi I have a 2003 Freelander Diesel TD4 3 year NCD, additional driver with 3 year NCD too with Churchill via a comparison site, no claims, no convictions, living in a quiet area in North Wales. Middling excess 390 Pounds Per Annum (I might have been able to get that down a bit but was pushed for time) As Spence says - So many variables affect it Best advice, as given, is to shop around Cheers Neels

Excellent post - Haven't seen it before. Would be my first action before buying "stuff" That said, a 2002 machine can probably do with all the help it can get - in those years it was running IE5? perhaps. The richness of the web would challenge most of that capability now Cheers Neels

Hi Vole You can probably/potentially up the memory and hard disk on that machine (not sure what model you have), but that might cost you the same as getting a new one ;-) If you post the model no I might be able to get you a price on parts (if possible), but i have no idea what someone would charge you to fit it Assuming from your comments that it is a Windows machine go Start>>Run then type in "dxdiag">>OK. It will ask you if you want to do digitally signed things, to which you can go no or yes. It should bring up a dialog box that tells you the make and model, which will give us something to work with I might nt be online for the next 5 days or so, but I will check back as soon as I can Cheers Neels

Hello Mate Is it still available?

Babby - marry her. All of that touchy feely stuff will change almost instantly. Of course changing to what I can't say (you take your chances) Neels

You can also use paint.net Click here Might be overkill for what you want to do

The ever patient google tells me that white spirits can be used a solvent for many wood preservatives, but on its own it would probably only have anti-fungus properties Neels

Thanks Andy The 2 gallon barrels appealed to me from a usage point of view, but I see your point about the cost Your comment - "If you are bottling, rather than adding 1/2 teaspoon to each 1 pint bottle, its often easier to disolve the whole amount of required sugar in some beer and make it up to the 400ml mark. Then, using one of those little medicine syringes (properly sterilised of course) that you always have lying around if you've got kids (or sometimes animals) take 10ml of the solution and inject it into each bottle before topping up with the beer or cider. " You sir, are a genius Absolutely priceless advice - I've tried brewtabs, spoons and allsorts of measures and it still remains a mission Neels

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Saw this earlier today - Babby won't comment, he's busy digging in..... I gather from the article you need to behead them to destroy them - based on feedback from others I guess the 17 HMR is appropriate

Thanks FC Any idea what sizes they come in? Cheers Neels

Andy What dispensers do you use for the 2 Gallon tasters? I'm looking for similarly sized barrels/bottels/anything as bottling is becoming a pain, and I don't want to get all 5 gallons in one barrel, e.g. for taking a few pints to a party Cheers Neels

I thought this comment in the article was priceless "The gunman was said to be the nephew of a police officer. The other three, all aged 21, were also thought to have criminal histories. " Context is everything I know, but this was to good to ignore Neels

Hi I went too - I was amazed that a 90 year old stuffed salmon went for 300 pounds, and 13 collectible cartridge cases for 90. I am going thrugh mu cupboards to see what I can sell As you say, very long - but did get myself a nice gun Cheers Neels

Crocodile - generally cuts from the tail is used. Lightly dusted with flour, then fried. Very good Puffadder (snake) - hardly worth the effort for the protein you get, but if you are hungry ..... Dried shark Probably the strangest ever was Army corned beef hash

Hi mate Indicative price? Where are you? P.S. Probably best posted under "Wanted" but I am sure a Mod will oblige

If you wouldn't mind "watching" a few items for me (I'll pm you a list), and when it arrives on your doorstep I'll come and fetch it....

Well done Good call KW

Hi KW Seems like a good tool - just running it against an old and empty image disk - I am keen to see what it recovers Holly - From a process perspective though it is probably best to make an image of the offending disk first - that means that you then only work on a copy of the disk, not the real one. In that way you prevent damage to your primary "evidence". That said, I am probably being overly pedantic Best of luck Neels Oh, just finished the scan with ZAR- recovered 2 out of 3 images, so not too bad at all

Hi Mate Was the pics on a removable disk, like an SD card, etc. or have you already transferred it to a PC? Have you taken other pics, using the same disc since? Don't, if you want to stand a reasonable chance of recovering it...... I use tools like FTKImager, WinHex etc, but these have a forensic purpose so might be too big a hammer for the nail you want to drive, though they are able to recover a lot. I've seen people mention other tools on here, but for the life of me can't find the postings, and I remember at the time that I had not heard of these tools so couldn't make a value call. Neels

My sincerest apologies Though maybe after today's game you'd want to be scottish...... Cheers Neels