• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Sorry to hear. I did mine playing badminton a few years ago. How long were you in A&E for? 10 hours for me, obviously wasn't considered critical. I failed the calf squeeze test, so equinus cast applied. Went to see a specialist (privately), after two weeks into a VACOped boot for about 10...
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    What type of joints should I use for this fish tank stand?

    Hi Dan, very much an amateur myself, and would likely be like you and want to over-engineer a design, particularly if water is involved. I wouldn't want to discourage you, but I would also take onboard with some confidence a number of the suggestions that have been made. Looking at the design...
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    laptop memory

    Just looked at mine. If you 'Show more categories' it will display 'System & reserved' which is what Windows was referring to. I only have 3 categories of any real size but they add up to total minus free. I don't know how it works but the fact that you have Storage Sense enabled, and still run...
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    Saying goodbye to some mature trees = sad but necessary.

    This is ideal for that sort of job - https://amtreesurgeons.com/grapple-saw-truck/ - I've seen it in action, remarkable machine
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    Zen Router

    The potential issue with a non-ISP router from my limited research is support for Digital Voice, if that's important to you, at least that's the case with Vodafone, who we're with. Apparently it can be done but requires a friendly CSR sharing internal information it seems. For us though the...
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    Looking for advice on window sill / brickwork finish

    Thanks Jonathan, something like this - Soudal Genius Gun Window & Door Foam? Yes, the mortar would just be a packer to bring the sill up to the right height, with the current assortment of supports it droops, but also to seal the brickwork against wildlife, particularly wasps. However if I was...
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    Looking for advice on window sill / brickwork finish

    I appreciate that I'm mostly read-only on here, and it's not woodworking but hoped to call upon your collective wisdom. I'm looking for some advice on weather proofing exposed brickwork under a window sill. The photos hopefully illustrate the construction. It seems it's a custom cill, separate...
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    British Airways website anomaly

    Roger, as spd describes. Another option, if you have enough Avios is to book the inbound online at 7am and call to merge the bookings, but there is the risk that all reward inventory will have gone, taken by the early/late birds on popular routes. As spd says, flyertalk is a great resource...
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    British Airways website anomaly

    Roger, have you done this trip before as a reward flight? They go extremely quickly, even with the additional inventory. Often requires the phone up at 1am (12am GMT) trick at 355 days to secure seats.
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    Where/How best to sell HiFi separates?

    AVForums has a broad readership and well established Trading section. I have sold, and bought from there, but not that recently but see no reason why things would have changed. They do have some relatively strict, but entirely sensible rules about trading (sole platform, photos, price etc)
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    Japanese carpentry exhibition

    Went on Sunday, it's quite small but packs in quite a lot of detail, particularly the various types of joints. Pleased that I went. ETA: the exhibit is downstairs, but to the left of the entrance on the ground floor is a small enclosed area that has examples of the various wood types that are...
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    Affinity Water - meter now activated conundrum

    If not already I would also check that your bill is for your meter - should have the meter number on it. We had our neighbours until the first bill, which like yours, was unexpectedly high and I went and checked.
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    Box (Buxus) moth - trap now

    Spotted the first few caterpillars today, I'll be spraying at the weekend.
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    End of support for Windows 10

    I have used Win 11 at work for some while, and it is sufficiently like Win 10 apart from a few foibles to probably not cause much problem. The issue of legacy software and hardware is significant, but there are compatibility checkers. Reasons why I didn't upgrade the home laptop were primarily...
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    Bois de Steve

    Are you considering tree guards? I'd recommend unless you know you don't get deer or rabbits.
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    Tumble dryer

    Both our Bosch washer and dryer bought in 2012, still going strong. Dryer is condenser type, would have preferred vented but would have been an eyesore on the front of the house. It has had to be fixed by me twice where fluff builds up on the water level sensor, a case of taking the side panel...
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    Essential kitchen tools - 2024

    The Universal Tool as we call it. Gets used for all sorts of jobs, mostly prodding and poking unsurprisingly, other than its intended use.
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    There's a moose loose aboot this hoose

    Bit late perhaps but I've had good results with these baited with a few grains of Sorexa D poison.
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    Vegetarian / vegan cookbook recommendations?

    We like Josh Katz a lot. Got to meet and chat to him at the Carmel Fitzrovia soft launch recently. Lovely guy. My other half is a very keen and very good cook and must have 1000+ recipe books, and Ottolenghi was one of our favourites, still is, but she rates Katz more. Ottolenghi recipes just...
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    Vegetarian / vegan cookbook recommendations?

    We like a lot of dishes from these two https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berber-Vegetables-grilling-roasting-slow-cooking/dp/085783987X...
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