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It's four different situations, isn't it?

Buy goods in person abroad, and you must pay 2.5% duty if the total is over £390. (Looks like there's additional duty, and VAT to boot, if the total is over £630.)

Buy online for a total less than £135, and the seller must collect VAT (and presumably remit to HMRC). Not clear whether this is dutiable as well as taxable.

Buy online for a total greater than £135, and you are liable to pay duty and VAT, which the carrier will collect and remit to HMRC.

Receive a gift valued at £39 or more, and you are liable to pay duty and VAT, which the carrier will collect and remit to HMRC.

Last time I donated, they wanted 14 days clear of any covid contact

does anyone have Anova they want to get rid?

Too happy with ours to want to get rid, but mildly annoyed that it doesn't play nicely with wifi passwords that have spaces in them.

Anyone have a good recomendation for off-the-shelf Christmas Pud? I got one from Fortnums a couple of years back, and was great. But sold out now :(

Sainsburys 18 month matured is decent enough if you're still looking.

But those are the right sort of immigrant - here short term, to do shitty jobs no right thinking Brit would consider. Migrant labour, gastarbeitern, rather than immigrants I suppose.

Because why would we want the brightest, the best, the ones with the drive to come over here and build lives for themselves, to contribute to our society and our community and our economy, and thereby to threaten our red, white and blue way of life?

The law says if you're doing gas work for money, you have to be registered (ie on the Gas Safe register), but if you're doing it for yourself or as a favour you have to be 'competent.'

Competence is carefully undefined, though it's a fairly safe bet that is something goes bang then someone official will ask questions.

I'd change a cooker on a bayonet fitting for myself without too much hesitation (though I'd be wanting to sort out a manometer, even though the fitting is designed to self seal): I'd think a couple of times before doing a hob or anything more involved.

They're decent for light loads in shear, but I'd be inclined to go for a hollow wall fixing like https://www.screwfix.com/p/easyfix-hollo­w-wall-anchors-m5-x-52mm-100-pack/5643p

Different sizes exist (eg for double layer plasterboard, or 9.5mm vs 12mm), they're easier to use with the setting tool, and you can swap in any screw of the right thread (M5 here) to get a more appropriate head.

You could use a batten, or just fix the rail directly - whatever works best for space or for looks.

I guess the batten might let you use more fixings and spread the load more: if you're going to have a significant cantilevered load I'd try to ensure you're fixing into studs or into the wall behind.

Those photos - at least the ones currently visible - only show four bolts too, and the description doesn't mention bolts at all.

ETA - fair point about mentioning things that are missing, but I'd probably be more inclined to expect bolts, especially the one for the hidden mount, to come with the cranks not the rings.

(I'm just being argumentative.)

Are those the chainrings pictured above, with five holes but only four bolts very clear in the photo?

I can see your point, having put it in a Ww2 context.

Given the strapline about France surrendering to Germany because old habits die hard, is it possible to put it in any other than a WWII context?

50% off, but off what amount?

Rigida/Ryde Flyer rims, no-name hubs, stainless spokes, NOS (bought for a project that didn't happen)?

£45 sounds about right picked up in SE7, or I could probably post.

Ambulances are exempt. Might have to do a few blue light jobs on the weekend to keep it legit.

Paint it black and do some jobs for a funeral director.

(Yes, those black or grey panel vans with Private Ambulance in tiny letters are doing a run to or from the morgue ...)

Twin rear axel?

That was the Hollander newspaper wagons.

Years ago I came across an ad for one that had been converted (well, partially I think) into a campervan - I want to say I half-contemplated following it up, but realistically it was about a sixteenth ...

I've always fancied a D'ambulance ... That ad is a bit light on spec though - obviously not a hydraulic gearbox, probably a 21 or a 23, probably not injection - but even apart from the mechanics, some more interior pictures would be good

I'm not sure she meant it like that, but rather that some people would have to dip into and out of the zone for a short distance when driving through Catford

I'd just assumed she was taking the lazy shot of who the fuck would ever pay to go to Catford?

All our fittings are crosswater, not really through choice, just 'brass, not shit' narrows the search field quite a lot. I did a lot of internet searching to know roughly what I was after, but in the end had a two-hour one-on-one appt with Guy at HE Olby (lewisham) to do some problem solving and see a few things in action. Bought basically everything but the bath through them in the end, a bit pricier than buying here and there on the internet but it sort of paid for itself when some things needed swapping/replacing.

I'll second HE Olby - very easy to deal with when there were a string of fuckups with our porcelain (first two bog pans arrived damaged, first sink had cosmetic problems, replacement was the wrong variant of the model we wanted), including giving us replacement taps because that was a better result than swapping the basin again.

In terms of brassware, Hudson Reed stuff is reassuringly solid, and not a silly price when you factor in the 10 year guarantee, which they're happy to stand behind. Obviously we'd have preferred the thermostatic mixer body not to crack, but they replaced the (£300ish) part on the basis of one phone call and emailed proof of purchase.

All our fittings are crosswater, not really through choice, just 'brass, not shit' narrows the search field quite a lot. I did a lot of internet searching to know roughly what I was after, but in the end had a two-hour one-on-one appt with Guy at HE Olby (lewisham) to do some problem solving and see a few things in action. Bought basically everything but the bath through them in the end, a bit pricier than buying here and there on the internet but it sort of paid for itself when some things needed swapping/replacing.

A few beds listed at the moment, but not the Terramo

https://www.ercol.com/en-gb/other-ercol/­ercol-factory-outlet/

We're pretty happy with the Ercol sofas we got a couple of years ago - model exclusive to John Lewis, but bought from the Ercol factory shop for a bit over half price.

They upload new stock regularly - often more than once a day when we were looking - but it took a few months for what we wanted to appear, so that's not the best route if you need a new bed in a defined time.

Drone? Cherry picker?

Anyway, 3 stories. Surely that's only about 9 or 10 metres - I'm surprised that isn't in ladder reach.

Caol Ila sounds good to me for a long term plan ...

The '09 Inchgowers in the Whisky Broker list might be interesting for a more immediate dram.

Tentative 27 depending on costs etc

Make that 28 ...

1 cornelius_blackfoot
2 Aroogah
3 hippy
4 Chalfie
5 DethBeard
6 KatBalou'sPhone
7 jupiz
8 n3il
9 J0nathan
10 Bezzin
11 EB
12 EstelleGetty
13 Gewürzt
14 owl
15 cheekysnaker
16 lookitsluke
17 Landslide
18 Jamwam
19 Inbred
20 jdp
21 velosaurus
22 Cazakstan
23 LukeG
24 Skülly
25 bitterbuffalo
26 Tango130
27 rhb
28 jsabine

(Doin' lists wrong since nineteen-canteen ...)

I was pondering using something like this https://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/produ­cts/m4x59-interset-cavity-fixing-rawl-p-­no-r-sm-04059 but have some concerns that the anti-rotation spikes will crack the tiles when done up tightly? Any thoughts or other bright ideas.

When I had to do the same thing years ago, I just bent the spikes flat using pliers - they went back into the cutouts they are formed from, leaving a (mostly) flat disk to bear against the tile.

Use a setting tool with them - doing them up with a screwdriver mostly works, but there's always one that wants to rotate, and it's a lot more satisfying squeezing them tight than it is spinning madly ...

did you have to use a cement mixer or manage to mix by hand?

Mixed by hand - repointing in (small) stages so I was only ever using a bucketful at a time.