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Bearing in mind Warwick's post above, surely we have reached the stage to ask the very straightforward question: In what way is this dog's dinner of a "deal" better than remaining as a full EU member?

Yes, if they say 2013 they will definitely have to be changed, even if the tread is good, as evansmr1 explains. I had a new set this year, after five years with the old ones, and the garage said I should have changed them earlier -- even though the car passed the "MoT" without the tester s...

I'm not particularly knowledgeable, Granny M, but could they be the leech commonly known as a skate sucker?

Hmmm. Just wondering if "Barry" is actually a reincarnation of a previous poster on here, who used to entertain us with his/her Brexit rants before. If he/she had signed up using a new email address I suppose Carol would not know for sure? The splenetic utterance in his/her final post seem...

I thought I read somewhere that Theresa May had already, unilaterally, guaranteed the rights of EU citizens living in the UK. If that is so, why hasn't that been reciprocated by Barnier and his team? Or are they just playing hard ball?

chrissy, you could get up to 20 litres of oil off your five trees if they are well loaded. Try to get a friendly neighbour to harvest them when he/she does their own trees if you can, and your oil would be part of that batch -- but it would still be some of yours!

Thanks, Philb.

I believe Honda and Toyota are both facing class actions over the use of soy in the coating of electric cables, which is said to attract mice (and possibly martens?) Coincidentally I spent this morning cleaning all manner of stuff off the engine block and around the plugs of our Hyundai, after it sm...

Does anybody know how much it costs to obtain a "Certificate of Static Competence" on a property in order to add earthquake cover to a domestic insurance policy? (on a pre-1960s stone house that hasn't had such a certificate issued before.) And is any qualified building engineer able to is...

Oh dear, I wasn't going to comment on this thread, but I can't resist, after watching the clip of Lord Lisvane, aka Sir Robert Rogers, a former principal clerk of the House of Commons and a man of immense knowledge and good sense. I met him once, in a previous life, and I always thought he would mak...

It surprises me that motorbikes don't need the intermediate emissions test, as some of them are the worst offenders, judging by the plumes of blue smoke trailing along behind them -- although I'm sure you are not one of them Warwick

Do that moggieman, it really is very easy now to set up regular payments for the utilities at your bank. It wasn't always this simple.. I remember the days not so long ago when we had to queue at the counters of DEH, the water company, etc, to get the "stamps," but that has all changed in ...

Lovely jubbly, moggieman, thanks for that. Bagged a bargain already.

Ah, you mean the " curly-wurlies " aka " stink worms " that seem to just emerge from the walls? They smell revolting if crushed and the birds and cats won't touch them, so I guess they are pretty toxic. Brushing them into a dustpan and dropping them into the scrub down the road d...

They must all be down our end of the island then filippos. I've just read on the internet that a fine spray of ordinary soapy water is a good roach killer. Who knew?