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Jamesey1981

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  1. Another thought that occurs to me as well is that if you own a WRC team you probably don't want a British driver in an RHD car and a Finnish one in an LHD car as that's just extra problems, parts etc, so the British drivers just give in and get used to LHD rather than risk limiting their options when it comes to teams.
  2. The FIA (that make the rules for WRC) are French, so they specified left hand drive in the specs for homologating a WRC car, so most of the stages leading up to that stay as left hand drive even if the rules don't technically apply to them (pretty sure the rules apply at most of the properly competitive levels though) so the drivers are not at a big disadvantage if they move up to WRC, had a mate that used to do amateur rallying where you had a choice of LHD or RHD and most of them drove on the wrong side too. With some of the older rallies the co driver used to have to jump out to grab their timing card and if they had been in an RHD car then they would have been on the wrong side too, like trying to pay at a toll booth in France when you don't have a passenger! Edit: Just checked the rules, and it does say that inversion of the driving side is possible, but the car would need to be homologated again, so they probably don't do it to save money and hassle.
  3. Related to education, there used to be a cube shaped tank on the promenade in Brighton. Had a sign on it that said "This is one cubic metre of water, try and move it" Was put there by the RNLI to try and make people understand the need to treat the water with respect.
  4. You can only use a Virgin modem on Virgin, but you can switch the superhub router to modem only mode in the settings and then connect the WAN port on another router to the first Ethernet port on the superhub, it's the router part of them that generally works badly so should solve your issues if your BT one can work from a connection to a separate modem rather than just with its internal one. Info here: http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=29475&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable You'll need to do a search to see how to set up the business hub as I've never used those, but it's not usually that tricky.
  5. There's also been a few cases where strong sunshine has caused the pressure in them to increase and the "poles" have failed, at least with rigid or fibreglass poles you can chuck a few spare sections in the bag just in case, I think the air pole ones need a specialist repair if they have any more than a pin hole.
  6. Didn't know that, could always go in for the free advice and then buy it online then.
  7. Or head into richer sounds, the staff in there are actually helpful and try and make sure you leave with the best product for you rather than the most expensive, if they're on commission you wouldn't know it.
  8. Good stuff, glad it fits, now don't send it off to be galvanised....
  9. In this case it was the other way round, former MP became a suicide bomber!https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/36902702?client=safari
  10. Yeah I'll take plenty of photos, the state of what's there currently is pretty poor and you couldn't argue that it's serviceable, probably 30 or 40 years old, wafer thin and wobbly with more holes than a doily and loads of old bodges, its sheltered from the prevailing wind by the houses otherwise it would have collapsed long ago, a medium kick would flatten it and to be honest a kebab guff within about ten feet of it would likely be terminal.
  11. Possibly, although I did tell his tenants that I don't want any money for the fence, and even if I was after money then he could just say no, I'm only trying to get in touch with them as I'm trying to be nice, if he wants a new gate he can pay for it though. He's sounding like a bit of an oddball actually having spoken to the tenants, I'm quite glad it's rented out!
  12. That's what I was thinking, I'm trying to be neighbourly but there's only so much you can do before it starts getting a little ridiculous. Thanks for that.
  13. Ok, little advice from those of a legal mindset please. I live in a semi detached house and the house next to me is a Licensed HMO, there's an alleyway in between the two properties with a short boundary fence, attached to that are two gates, one for each garden. The fence belongs to my property, and it's had it, as have the two gates although the one on my side still closes, the one on the other side doesn't. I want to put up a new fence comparable to the one that's there, not planning on something like they have around a festival. I've spoken to the tenants there, they called their landlord who told them not to give out his number and refused to take my number to call me, so I've done a search on the land registry and found out their name, as well as got hold of the HMO license from the council which gives the landlord's address and the name of the managing agent. On speaking to the managing agent they're saying they don't manage the property, checked with the council and they don't have a problem with the incorrect details on the license. Would I be correct in thinking that as long as I send a letter to the landlord's address telling them that I'm putting up a new fence (which I will pay for) and giving them an option for a new gate (which I will want money for) then I have covered myself against any legal issues in the future even if they don't bother to get back to me? I'm sure they could probably still take me to court over the gate if they wanted to, but just want to know if that would constitute sufficient due diligence. I think that's pretty much all I can do to get in touch with them short of turning up on their doorstep, their number is ex directory so that doesn't help either. I'm replacing like for like at my expense apart from the gate, but their gate doesn't close, is hanging off and is (barely) attached to my fence post, so they won't be losing anything, and I will take photos to prove that in future if I need to, I'll even happily screw the knackered gate onto the new fence post, but it's still not going to work as a gate. Really don't understand why they're being so difficult, but I suppose that's the way it goes sometimes.
  14. That looks like it'll fit, the same seller does have one cheaper with a different facia though, won't matter since you'll be taking it off and still has the 90 day warranty. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282094416536
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