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On 14/02/2023 at 20:28, omegod said:

£7.50 round my way will get you a full size fish, chips peas and curry 

You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it.  £15 I think. 

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5 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester.

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It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor.  Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.  For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car.  Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected.  The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually).

I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on.  Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.

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Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying.  There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting.  Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with.

We see a lot of this with furniture restoration, usually inject the holes with woodworm killer and then brush over the surface. 

As you say, dark holes usually indicate old activity but the “sawdust” is actually the faeces of the beetle and indicates recent action.

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43 minutes ago, New POD said:

You need to not go to.the place next to Freshfield Station. Awards. And Given that it's on the same Road that Most of the Liverpool and Everton players live on, it's not like the locals can't afford it.  £15 I think. 

If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty 

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4 hours ago, omegod said:

If you want top quality I'd suggest Byrnes on Stuart Road in Walton, never had better and cooked to order for about £10 for the full monty 

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

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7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself.

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2 hours ago, artdjones said:

I can see why they're doing it, but the point of fish and chips is to be fast food. If you have to hang around for 20 minutes while they get your order ready you might as well go straight home and make something yourself.

I disagree. Nothing worse than the fish dried up and luke warm. 
Another trend is the price of a portion of chips alone seems to have gone up proportionally even more than a fish supper. Presumably , so they don’t just end up selling chips on their own.

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On 2/17/2023 at 1:46 PM, vulgalour said:

I am unhappy to report I have found a wood muncher in the Lanchester.

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It seems localised to this plywood panel which is part of the intermediary boot floor.  Easy solution is to throw this away and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.  For now, it's isolated away from any other wood and especially the car.  Fortunately, the wooden frame in this area is on the other side of steel cladding so I'm hoping it's just this one panel that's been so badly affected.  The little bits of sawdust and haloes around some of the holes indicates activity, the darker cleaner holes are dormant (usually).

I could only find one other spot, also in plywood, which was a single hole that appears dormant on the plywood backing board for the rear seat that was next to the panel above that had been munched on.  Again, the easy solution there is to simply remove the panel (and the seat, and the trim, and whatever else might need it) and make a new one which is probably what I'll do.

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Not what I wanted to find today when I was doing final tidying.  There's nothing I can do about it more than I have right now, this could be a job for the weekend weather permitting.  Funnily enough had the car been 'finished' I wouldn't have seen this at all because it would have been under trims so in a way I'm glad I found it now when it's easier to deal with.

Further to this, I have spent the entire day removing plywood and painting on several coats of 'woodworm' killer.  It very much ended up Project Creep.

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On the plus side, anywhere that there's the black stain finish (which I could only sand off so far, it being a stain) on the plywood the beetles haven't munched, it's only the bare unfinished ply that they'd gone for.  Not sure what the black finish is but it has soaked down into the ply and does seem to have resistant properties.  The frame I can see is similarly black finished and appears free of any holes so I think we're good, I think they'd only gone for the bare ply.  When the treatment has cured we'll be painting everything before it goes back in the car.  10am to 5pm on this job and even had to get the angle grinder out at one point to defeat some fixings.  It's content, I suppose there's that, just not what I wanted to be doing with my Saturday.

 

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41 minutes ago, cobblers said:

People who give children surnames as first names. 

"RILEY! JACKSON! BAILEY! DAWSON! GET BACK OVER HERE!!!!" 

On the radio this morning I heard about someone mentioning they had a child called "Corbyn" 

FFS.

Poor sod. That's almost as horrific as 'Jayden'. 

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2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

'Alfie' is shorthand for 'my kid is a little shit'.

See also Archie and Tyler.

Anyway, today's grump is some blind bat smashing my driver's side mirror while my Focus was parked outside my gf's place - I found the plastic mirror cover from another car next to it and it appears to be from a Honda Jizz from the part number.  No note or anything left of course, probably the bozo didn't even notice they'd done it.

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On 2/18/2023 at 12:37 AM, Metal Guru said:

Cooked to order seems to becoming fairly standard these days, rather than cook 50 pcs of fish and leave it to dry out under the heat lamps for 2hrs. Guess they can’t afford to throw any away at the end of the night at today’s prices.

this seems to be a thing in scottish and irish chippys

my fish and chip story is we were in esher for the vw show 15 years ago and went for chips (cos northern) and while it wasnt cheap - they seemed not to know what basic items were when asked

'chips and gravy' no what is that

'chips and curry' no the indian in up the road (!)

then had to explain what it was :D - was ok tho - also poshest counter staff ever :D

if id asked for pies or fishcakes they might have exploded :D (see scottish chippys about meat and potato pies :D )

 

 

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44 minutes ago, hairnet said:

my fish and chip story is we were in esher for the vw show 15 years ago and went for chips (cos northern) and while it wasnt cheap - they seemed not to know what basic items were when asked

Did you have your Hairnet-English dictionary/phrase book with you? 😁

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4 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Grandson has two friends named Tyler, one a girl and the other a boy.

It can get confusing.

A lad I used to work with once went out with a girl called Tyler Turner, I found this absolutely hilarious for some reason.

Then he said they split up because she cheated on him with a lad called Tyler Tailor.

Tyler Tailor's best mate was a lad called Tyler Turner. 

even now, nearly ten years later it confuses me

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21 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Further to this, I have spent the entire day removing plywood and painting on several coats of 'woodworm' killer.  It very much ended up Project Creep.

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On the plus side, anywhere that there's the black stain finish (which I could only sand off so far, it being a stain) on the plywood the beetles haven't munched, it's only the bare unfinished ply that they'd gone for.  Not sure what the black finish is but it has soaked down into the ply and does seem to have resistant properties.  The frame I can see is similarly black finished and appears free of any holes so I think we're good, I think they'd only gone for the bare ply.  When the treatment has cured we'll be painting everything before it goes back in the car.  10am to 5pm on this job and even had to get the angle grinder out at one point to defeat some fixings.  It's content, I suppose there's that, just not what I wanted to be doing with my Saturday.

 

One more update on this job.  The floor boards were removed today and there's no sign of woodworm in them at all so that's a huge relief.  We're going to replace one of the boards which is delaminating badly, water has clearly got into it in the past and it's past repairing.  Fortunately, it's just flat ply cut to shape with some holes drilled in so that's an easy task to sort out.  I did try to get the indicators wired up today and was thwarted by the tool I bought specifically for doing old fashioned bullet connectors being absolutely useless and working like an ordinary crimp tool.  I'd like to use bullet connectors throughout, but I've no idea what tool to buy to do them properly now and that's going to put the brakes on progress until I do.

Trying very hard to keep motivated with the Lanchester especially since I am making progress, but not having a workshop to do it in is taking its toll on me at the moment.  Or maybe it's just that I'm exhausted because of The Everything.

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Focus has decided it no longer wants to accept CDs, so I'm now driving around sans tunes.. I can't be fucked installing some aftermarket head unit, nor purchasing the removal keys to have a gander at why it's just spitting them straight out again. So it's now a case of listening to the rear brake that has started making that irritating noise for the umpteenth time... Or Heart FM, neither of which greatly appeal

And to top it off, it started running a bit lumpy sitting in traffic, so I'm obviously fully expecting the EML to illuminate in due course in order to subsequently relieve me of £50 for a coil pack. 

#fun :(

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2 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Focus has decided it no longer wants to accept CDs, so I'm now driving around sans tunes.. I can't be fucked installing some aftermarket head unit, nor purchasing the removal keys to have a gander at why it's just spitting them straight out again. So it's now a case of listening to the rear brake that has started making that irritating noise for the umpteenth time... Or Heart FM, neither of which greatly appeal

And to top it off, it started running a bit lumpy sitting in traffic, so I'm obviously fully expecting the EML to illuminate in due course in order to subsequently relieve me of £50 for a coil pack. 

#fun :(

What about one of those FM transmitter doowhacky things that you plug into the fag lighter?

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Just now, AnnoyingPentium said:

What about one of those FM transmitter doowhacky things that you plug into the fag lighter?

I suppose so, but that would mean I have to purchase and download the albums to my phone.. being an obstinate git, I already own it on CD so don't want to pay twice, I can't be fucked navigating some dodgy website to download YouTube links that will invade my computer with aids or porn ... And it would mean prove that my CD collection is obsolete and a waste of space if I can't even play them in the car any more

Have I already said that I'm an obstinate git that doesn't do himself any good when it comes to solving problems? 😅

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21 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I suppose so, but that would mean I have to purchase and download the albums to my phone.. being an obstinate git, I already own it on CD so don't want to pay twice, I can't be fucked navigating some dodgy website to download YouTube links that will invade my computer with aids or porn ... And it would mean prove that my CD collection is obsolete and a waste of space if I can't even play them in the car any more

Have I already said that I'm an obstinate git that doesn't do himself any good when it comes to solving problems? 😅

If you get Audials MusicTube on your computer you can d/l tracks and albums from Youtube. If you already own the CDs, shouldn't be an issue.

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7 hours ago, cobblers said:

People who give children surnames as first names. 

"RILEY! JACKSON! BAILEY! DAWSON! GET BACK OVER HERE!!!!" 

On the radio this morning I heard about someone mentioning they had a child called "Corbyn" 

FFS.

I visited Kosovo a couple of years ago. Many men in their early 20's had been given the first name "Tonibler".

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