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Demonic69 - mine is the VIGO 12 ltr 91303 and the scratter is the Hobby fruit crusher 91102 - been used twice, chap I bought it from paid nearly £400 - I paid £70 so I'm happy. I really would keep an eye out for a second hand one.

You can get a rough cider really easily - simply bottle the juice with a Camden Tablet per gallon then pop a cotton wool ball in the neck of the bottle - Apples have yeast on their skins that will ferment the juice.

Sooooo - long story short. Local Woodland is dotted with Apple Trees and I have noticed the huge amount of Apples recently that are just rotting on the floor. Casually browsing Faceache sales page I happen upon a press and Scratter, used once, for a bargain price locally so a quick jaunt in the jolopy and she's mine. Pressed my first batch today and the family all gathered round for a tasting, we waited an hour to allow the juice to cool then all took a sip......OMG - it is so nice that it is difficult to stop halfway through a glass. Got a bit over a litre for 10 minutes of collecting the fruit so I'm back out tommorow for an olympic gathering session. Anyone else doing this?

fatchap....nail....head. IMHO.

If your parcel does get nicked, sorry, go missing - you try claiming, it's an absolute nightmare and some insurance only covers the actual cost of postage, not the goods. The PO has had it's day and should be allowed to die a natural and inevitable death. All through Covid I had one parcel after another delayed for so long that it would often have been quicker to walk to the senders address and collect it myself - PO response was always to blame Covid yet couriers such as DPD could deliver items across the country next day - as for value - I posted 34kg of bit's and pieces to my son in the Netherlands, PO quite was just over £100 for a 4-5 day service.....DPD was £34 for 48 hour delivery.

As a first machine the Garret ACE250 takes a lot of beating - you can pick them up for around £100 on facebook then fit a bluetooth transmitter for under a tenner and headphones around £25 - gives you a machine more than capable of finding stuff down to 6-7 inches depending on soil conditions. If you decide against the hobby you will lose very little on selling the machine. I have witnessed these little units constantly out performing far more expensive machines many times - the simplicity of use is a huge bonus in the field.

IMHO Yumove is rip off - you can buy the main ingredients for pennies - don't let the blurb fool you - there is no such thing as "dog" glucosamine, it's the same as human glucosamine and green lipped mussel powder is under £10 for a couple of months supply.

I give my Spaniels Glucosamine (500mg) and Cod Liver Oil (500mg) every day - you can buy them from Tesco.

My Ducati gets an advisory every year for a loud exhaust - never been failed for it though or pulled over by the plod.

Think it would need to be a simple squirrel as well AVB - there is so much wild food available at the moment that they will need a 3 course a la carte menu with a nutty chaser, romantic candles and table service to tempt them down in any numbers. However building a feeder now will let them get used to it and once the cold weather starts to bite their little bushy backsides and wild food dries up they will come with confidence - then you can hit them hard.

Absolutely superb guns - can be stiff cos they take a couple of lifetimes to run in - the TULA factory have built some decent guns in the past including an exhibition version of this one for sale - £75 is not a sale, it's legalised theft!! Without starting an argument, pretty sure you will find that TULA were a separate company from Baikal - at least they were when I contacted them around 10 years ago.

How stupid am I - it's a V40 - number plate btw is not unusual.

PM Me your address Mr humperdingle and I will get them in the post - whatever the postage comes to I would ask that you donate to the next charity you happen upon.

OK - so about 5 months ago I bought an ancient Volvo V70 estate, just for carrying the dogs around - I tend to buy anything suitable with 12 months ticket then scrap it once it fails it's MOT. This Volvo is a heap, the paint has faded and the interior is disgusting but here's my problem.... Why do people keep asking me how much I want for it? Honestly - 3 different strangers in the last 2 months - anyone know something about these that I don't?

Waiting for a confirmation from humperdingle - please let me know if you still want the bits now you can see exactly what's up for grabs.

Here you go....

Happy to post at cost - will put up pic to make sure you want the stuff - it's a real blast from the past.

37 Eley fourlong cartridges no7 shot, Lee powder measure kit (15 plastic scoops with load date) in original box and a Lee Loader 12G (single cartridge loader, still in original box with instructions) - both LEE items are ancient!! Free to anyone who wants them - collection preferred.

Mine had to be chained to a solid wall in an outbuilding and was inspected before the licence was issued.

That's great to hear that an RFD knows his responsibility and is honest enough to follow the law - the Turkish guns do take a lot of beating BTW.

Not sure which camp I'm in here? When I was 13, my father (ex RAF PT Instructor) beat me for taking his torch whilst playing "kiss chase" - the impact damaged my Pancreas and I became type 1 diabetic within weeks. As the years have gone by, I have lost the sight in one eye, am experiencing heart failure, suffer with extreme fatigue along with numerous operations (including transplant surgery) and hundreds of Hospital visits along with over 70k injections - my driving licence is restricted to 1 year and I cannot get life Insurance - I'm guessing that I truly deserve to die so that the young ingrates can p**s it up the wall and get on with their, largely, selfish lives?

Lee5159 - do you have some weird kind of co2 fetish for the obscure and unobtainable? These guns that you have mentioned so far are pretty much useless for anything other than as a talking point - c'mon, come clean now.

Talking to a chap with one the other day - bought his back in 1995 - he says it's his second and he sells them on when they hit 200k miles - his current one has 180k and has only ever required a replacement hose apart from normal service items.

Not my place to suggest if he should be trusted or not, but happy that he has sorted himself out and is over such a traumatic episode - good luck to him whatever happens.

Quick shufti on the bay reveals that Gamo/ BSA are, indeed, compatible - guessing that Diego knocks them all up at the same time.