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Oh I'm sorry. I promise that Volkswagen's estate cars have got a lot better since this piece of 1930's dead-end engineered and 1950s-styled piece of shit.

Making scrambled eggs too.
And cooking rice in the microwave rice cooker

I have never not used full power

The huge shock was just how bad the electrics were

That bad eh?

I didn't know such things existed. This is a revelation and like Dammit I must know more.

Two thoughts. Firstly, it looks like that cement plinth is breaching your slate damp proof course. It's not easy to tell from pictures. If it is, hack it all off.
Secondly, painting the wall will exacerbate any condensation issues, as the moisture cannot escape through the bricks. Also if you repointed in cement instead of lime then it cannot escape through the pointing either.

I have that one too, and it is excellent. Once you remove the anti-kickback device.
I have built so many shelves and cabinets with it.

You can buy Makita track fairly cheaply, which is completely compatible - even has the tilt groove. The only problem is sometimes it's not straight, but thankfully Screwfix has a great returns/exchange policy.
I've seen 2.4m Festool track cheap sometimes, and it's also compatible, but doesn't have the groove for locking in a tilted saw.

I remembered to do this when I left the UK. Yay!

Stevie Wonder?
Ray Charles?

The room, rather than the art. Imagine having a hangover in there.

Ah, I know exactly where this is.
Sadly, I'm 466 miles away, and I've already been for a ride today.

Yes. You'll have cork tiles.

If they were informed that your alloy repairs would be charged to them until such time as there is no hole it might get fixed.

Or you could arrange to fix it and get reimbursed. I did that once when I lived in Bethnal Green.

I’ve seen plenty on the ground floors of 40 grand French houses, if that helps

I would say they are liable, but only if informed about it and given the chance to repair it. So inform them, and ask them to get it fixed.

Here we go...

Terrazzo, on the other hand, is awesome.

For the cork haters

Yeah, you’re not convincing me.

My father had an early Peugeot 405 SRi as a company car. His employer had a buy British policy, and of course the 405 was made in Ryton, Coventry. It was white, with a red pinstripe in the mouldings, and a rear spoiler. It had tweed seats, and keep fit back windows. But it was a very good looking thing, and the handling was supposed to be excellent.

The engine was the 1.9 injected 8 valve engine shared with the Citroen BX 19 GTi. Dad had one of those as his private car at the same time, and it was faster, lighter, very well equipped and superbly comfortable - all round a much nicer car. It also kept running at traffic lights, whereas the 405 spent much of its early life stalling the engine - an apparently common fault with them at the time.

Yes. use bags and fit the filter.

I use the cheapest smallest Titan wet & dry from Screwfix. It’s great (for not only dust extraction but also for hoovering, unblocking drains, etc)

In my new house I’ve bought the biggest version, which comes with a power take off.

As a side note - why the fuck are all window UPVC handles so fucking ugly.

Because if they weren't they wouldn't match the fucking ugly UPVC windows.

When the alternator failed in my Porsche I just stuck the battery on a charger and it was fine to drive to Essex to get a new one fitted.
Just make sure not to stall it. Or get one of those portable jump starters and take it with you.

SCP/Matthew Hilton Balzac in Utah Russet leather

If I was looking to buy and saw that floor I’d just be thinking about how much of a pain in the arse it would be to remove.

To me it just looks cheap, and I don’t get why it’s made a comeback. What next? PVC stick on tiles full of asbestos? Sticky backed plastic?

All this cork tile madness. Sorry people but they are ugly horrible cheap shit from the 1970s - the flooring equivalent of woodchip wallpaper- and you should stop before it’s too late. I have lost count of how many houses I’ve pulled cork tiles out of over the decades. Get something nice or don’t do the job.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

In our boiler room for the pipes going into the boiler they paint the central heating pipes blue and red, and the dearer ones white. So useful for working out what did what!

Weirdly our decorator loves F&B. Only the modern emulsion though.

I reckon a lot of decorators got stung by the estate emulsion and eggshell, which is a total ballache.

Oddly we had the opposite experience. Hague blue estate emulsion has always gone on well (over Leyland Trade undercoat) and all the wood in that room is the eggshell, which also goes on great.

Hague Blue, incidentally, is one of the colours test won’t match well. You need the real F&B.

But the blue green modern emulsion was a nightmare. On every brushstroke more was dragged off than went on. Maybe it would work if you spray. We chose to fuck it off, write off the £70 it cost and buy some Crown, which gave us no problems at all