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Hello,
If an individual is registered for VAT, say as a self employed photographer, designer, accountant or whatever and they decide to also work in another area of business, say as a gardener or taxi driver do they have to account for VAT on the takings of the second profession?
I guess not, they simply have to account for the earnings the take out of the VAT registered business along with the earnings from the second profession in income tax terms.
Any thoughts?
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As long as they are separate trades, no. Howver, if any of the trades are similar eg: taxidriver also doing wedding cars, only ONE vat thershold applies and vat should be applied to both businesses
eg: Say a photographer turns over £50kpa. Doesn't have to register.
Say he then starts a video business as well. If that were to turn over say, £20Kpa he would be over the annual threshold and he would have to account for vat on both. But if his second business was, say, window cleaning, there is no problem and both business can continue unregistered.
Hope that helps.
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Hope that helps.
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Thanks, yes that is basically waht I thought however how is the similarity or difference in the trades measured, it is surely subjective?
Regards.
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I agree with Alastair's comments about only one VAT threshold applies if HMRC claims that the trades are similar or connected. If one business is already registered as a sole trader you are registered as an individual and you need to be very careful about any other trading. On the registered persons VAT Returns a telephone number is given to contact for advice, I suggest it's called and they are given the details and guidence requested. The calls are recorded and a record kept, you will be given a call reference, so you will know where you stand and some evidence to refer to if the situation is queried in the future.
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There is nothing illegal about a 15 year old doing a part-time job in a pub/restaurant as long as she is not working behind the bar serving drinks. You should, however, inform her school that she is doing the job - there is a leaflet outlining the rules and regulations which she has probably been given by Connexions as part of her PEC at school.
My daughter worked as a washer-up in a restaurant at that age and was delighted to move on to waitressing when she was 17.
My son worked for New Forest District Council from the age of 14 serving the food for childrens parties at the local recreation centre. Sadly for him, parents seldom gave him a tip.
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sorry but disagree
you have to get the schools permission
and working at night in a pub is definately not allowed
she is 15 if you read the post
chance that parent and employer could be locked up
you have to keep very good records of young people and all hours worked
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This is the best advice that we found when looking into this recently.
tinyurl.com/24mpqd {Link to www.adviceguide.org.uk shortened - DD}
The local authorities all have different by-laws so you need to check with them.
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Thanks for this hxj. I've bookmarked it.
She's actually 14, not 15, sorry for misleading you in previous posts. But this makes no difference to the legal situation.
I had been advised that she is allowed to work in this capacity. , Subject to local bylaws that document tells me that she is. She does not work behind the bar and we have stictly limited her work to eavenngs that are NOT followed by a school day. That is to say Friday and Saturday eavenings during term time and any day of the week in the school holidays.
Having read through the informative replies to this question, I think the best way forward is to.
1) Ensure the establishment is registered, as per the requirement in the document that hxj linked to
2) Suggest to her that the tips that are given to her are physically retained by her where possible. If the LL is going to play his game then she'll just have to play hers. To challenge him outright would simply lose her her job. If she gets unstuck then she has a good legal position to defend herself against any slander that could follow.
Thanks
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In IHAQ 180, arnold2 enquired about a good website to find cheap French rail tickets.
I've found the SNCF's own site, www.voyage-sncf.fr as good as any. There's also an option to view the content in English. When searching for routes, its helpful to have a good map of France (I use the Michelin road atlas) as it distinguishes between similar-sounding station names based on the number of the department in which the town is located.
The SNCF site is also excellent for booking flights and car hire - on several occasions its found me more direct routes and lower fares than any other search engine I've tried.
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Friend calls round; during conversation I learned that her husband had his digger nicked, in the process of which three gates were broken, horses and sheep were allowed to roam in to the road, one of the sheep got hit by a car (early curtains for the animal and woe for another party now with bent motor), and a barn door was forced open. All this was in the dark of night, the damage and theft being discovered at breakfast time the next day. Said digger was however fitted with a Tracker and quickly traced to a field in another part of the county.
Plod were then dispatched to investigate, but reported back that the field is inhabited by a group of travellers; they won't be pursuing the matter because of fear for the safety of their officers. Tracker company reminds Plod of their responsibilties. Plod goes back mob handed with 27 officers, some armed, plus four baliffs. Digger retrieved, sans expensive buckets, as they had already been removed and disposed of. Bucket replacement, damage repair, and baliff costs came to the thick end of seven grand.
Will the travellers be prosecuted?
Err, non.
Apparently it's "not in the public interest" to do so.
So just what is in the public interest?
Letting a community that chooses to invent it's own rules to come and go as it pleases?
Do me a bleedin' favour.
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Is it in the public interest for the CPS to bring the case to court?
It has never been the rule in this country that every criminal offence must automatically be prosecuted. For this reason, in each case, the Crown Prosecutor must consider the public interest in going on with a prosecution and balance factors for and against prosecution carefully and fairly before coming to a decision.
A prosecution will usually take place unless the public interest factors against prosecution clearly outweigh those in favour of prosecution.
The public interest factors that can affect the decision to prosecute will vary from case to case. Broadly speaking, the more serious the alleged offence, the more likely it will be that a prosecution will be needed in the public interest. On the other hand a prosecution is less likely to be needed if, for example, a court would be likely to fix a minimal or token penalty or the loss or harm connected with the offence was minor and the result of a single incident.
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The above taken from the CPS website. It would have been a CPS decision not to prosecute, totally gutting the Reporting Officer no doubt, given the amount of work that would have gone into put in by the Police.
Your friend can complain about this to the CPS, it seems very odd given the type of the offence. I'd be interested to find out more.
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What's in the public interest?
see some examples here
tinyurl.com/2ydwxs
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The 'travelling community' seem to be beyond the law. How do you tax and insure a vehicle without an address? It's about time the government/police/cps whoever finally grasped the nettle and sorted out those who need sorting.
Alas, it won't happen.
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Dalglish having read some of the link you posted I am now going to have a very large glass of the finest malt I can find in my cabinet to try and lower my anger level,
even at £40 or £50 a bottle it is cheaper than a therapist .
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I would be keen to share this with a national newspaper. That might galvanise the CPS into action, and recover the digger
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....That might galvanise the CPS into action, and recover the digger
hugo - digger was recovered - as sjb states:
"....Digger retrieved, sans expensive buckets, as they had already been removed and disposed of...... "
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SjB,
Your friend needs to write into the Chief Prosecutor for the area (details here:-
www.cps.gov.uk/local/index.html ) and seek an explanation, I am honestly at a loss to explain. An option thereafter would be to raise this through the Local BCU Commander (Usually Chief Super in the Provinces) and ask for a review from the Police side and thereafter with the CPS.
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It is likely that the police can gather insufficient evidence to present to the CPS
Think about it. Property found in middle of travelers camp of about 100 people. How many witnesses? None. Which one of the 50 vans was it associated with? None. How may people wishing to give evidence. None.
Absolutley no evidence.
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No TVM it wouldn't have passed the threshold test with CPS for charging, it would have resulted in a different resu;lt being passed to the victim - there's more to this....I would conclude.
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Thanks, PU; noted and will pass on.
TVM; regrettably, likely to have bearing, but whatever happened to "handling stolen goods"?
On relating this digger story to my father, he told me another; a fellow resident of his village had their (hired) digger nicked a few months ago. About a week later, Mr Villager was asked if he was interested in a cheap digger; "A mate's got one which he doesn't need any more". When viewed - you've guessed it - one and the same! You've also guessed it again; Plod can't get enough evidence to prove "matey" nicked it, so also once again "it's not in the public interest to (try and) proceed".
Once again, what ever happened to "handling stolen goods"?
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"Plod can't get enough evidence to prove "matey" nicked it, so also once again "it's not in the public interest to (try and) proceed"
More liekly to be a CPS kick into touch...
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In the case of your "travellors" camp, the question is which pair of filthy mits was handling it. You cant nick all 200 men women children and dogs.
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In the case of your "travellors" camp the question is which pair of filthy mits was handling it. You cant nick all 200 men women children and dogs. ------------------------------ TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
No, but it was on flatbed truck that I presume had an owner.
(go on, tell me "unless that was nicked too" or "assuming the truck was legally registered!)
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Though if the travellers had driven the digger past a Gatso at 34 mph ......................................
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Cheddar,
You'd get blamed for that as well !
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(go on, tell me "unless that was nicked too" or "assuming the truck was legally registered!)
How do you register a flatbed to a "no fixed abode"
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(go on tell me "unless that was nicked too" or "assuming the truck was legally registered!) How do you register a flatbed to a "no fixed abode"
That was my point!
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A friend had a £2,500 horse trailer stolen. It had the owner's postcode painted in very large letters on the roof.
They "found" it in travellers' encampment, and told Plod. Plod told them to claim for it on insurance, and said they would not take on the travellers.
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Got my statement through from the university this morning and it shows a £65 charge on the account under "Other". I have no idea what this might be, and they don't know either. It could possibly be a penalty charge of some description but I don't know what for (they slap these £65 charges on if you're late confirming module choices etc but I don't think I was).
Can these charges be tackled in the same way as overdraft charges have been with the banks? For example, asking them to provide evidence that six hours of their time has been required to deal with the problem - even though I had no contact with them at all, so haven't the foggiest what they charged me for.
A nice bit of extortion - they send the bill a month before you graduate, with a note saying you will not be allowed to do so unless the account is cleared!!
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£65 charge on the account under "Other". I have no idea what this might be, and they don't know either.
Utterly unaceptable that although its not itemised, they can not provide an explanation of this charge. *Write* to them demanding this item is itemised and your account is audited, or you will take action to recover this charge from the university.
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We usually find that it relates to one of the following:-
Missing libary book,
Missing tool from Toolstores
Car park fine for illegal parking
Not having paid for materials from one of the Departments.
Borrowed a gizmo from a Dept. and not returned.
Recently a student lost a Nikon D200 + lens and was most miffed to discover that he would have to buy a new one. He thought they grew on trees. In the end Daddy's insurance coughed up.
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There's one student who's time at university wasn't wasted then. He now knows that Nikons don't grow on trees and he got some financial education too. That probably pushed a score up a table somewhere. :-)
JH
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Stupid, I know, that they can't explain, but be careful. I knew someone whose degree certificate was withheld because he owed money to his university. In his case it was a bill for an act of vandalism.
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On the bottom of my electricity bill it says something along the lines that if everyone unplugged their phone charger when not charging their phone the electricity saved would power x number of homes.
So excuse the numbskull question, but that presumably means that leaving any charger plugged in is consuming electricity. Is that the same for any appliance that is plugged in but not in use? And what if you are charging something and the charge is complete, is that still using the same amount of electricity?
For what it's worth I don't tend to leave chargers plugged in but that's because I assume it's potentially dangerous. I'm not sure how, come to think of it, so there's another question for you!
Thanks in advance for any enlightenment. I promise not to feel patronised if you reply in words of one syllable so I can understand!
Rebecca
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old style charges had a coil of wire in a coil of wire then it was smoothed and tuned into dc current,it is therefore consuming power irrespective of use.
Tellies work on the same idea that is why they can come on instantly.
These things can and do catch fire im not a globally warmed interested person ,but, i dont like fires so all my appliances are turned off completely when not used and i still do " the bedtime routine" EVERY NIGHT
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There are others that may be able to answer your question better than me.
However, I suspect it's all to do with the fact that the charger or power supply is a step down transformer.
The reason why it continues to consume electricity I think is thus:
The transformer is an inductance device and has at least two coils. A primary and a secondary. Inductance works as follows. Alternating Current passing though one coil will energise another coil nearby. In a transformer this rule is used to step down voltages by adhearing to a ratio of number of windings in one coil compared to that of the other. For example, in simple terms a 240v to 12v transformer will contain 20 primary windings to every secondary winding.
The primary will be connected to the mains at 240V and will always form a complete circuit when switched on so that it can induce the secondary coil. Unless the power is isolated from the transformer the primary circuit will continue to consume electricity trying to induce the secondary coil, even though this secindary coil may be unplugged from the mobile phone etc that it is to charge, or the appliance that uses it is swiched off.
This differs to a 240v 60w table lamp that is plugged straight into the mains. When you switch it off you open the circuit and prevent current flowing through it altogether.
This leads me onto the answer for your second question. Chargers can pose a danger due to their tendancy to get hot. Cheaper units are often not designed to operate for several hours when it may only take a couple of hours to charge a battery or item. This poses electricution (resulting from failed overheated insulation), fire and burn hazards.
HTH
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Mobile phone and other "small" transformers don't work on the two-coils principle any more - it's all switched IC now but that doesn't make them any more efficient. I use my laptop transformer to keep my feet warm.
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presumably means that leaving any charger plugged in is consuming electricity.
for a variety of detailed answers, google the words " electricity consumed by battery chargers on standby " - but without quotes .
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Thank you all very much!
Rebecca
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For the second time in recent months there is a £1 discrepancy in my online bank statement. It's been there for two days ~ I check my account daily.
The first time it happened I took the matter up with my bank and (after several phone calls) I was given the explanation that it was a "test transaction" and that the £1 would go back into my account in about a week ~ which it did. (Unfortunately I didn't pursue the matter sufficiently to find out who had requested/received the money.)
Has anyone else had this happen, and where did the money go?
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L'escargot, I've got an all in, one account, so I neither receive or pay interest, any funds not spent, means I pay less on the mortgage - i also do ,ost of my banking online, and on many occasions ther is a discrepency of £1, first time I asked SWMBO, what the hell she'd spent just £1 on her card for, when she couldn't explian it, the next day it had reverted -so don't worry about it.
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It may be innocent, but watch your statements like a hawk.
Friends of ours noticed a couple of small transactions for £1 and £2, next thing £600 had gone due to their card being cloned.
Scam operators carry out small transactions to test dodgy cards.
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Forgot to add the only test transaction like this we have been subject to is when we set up a paypal account. We were fully aware that it would happen.
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Scam operators carry out small transactions to test dodgy cards.
Yep. Daughter had a £15 test transaction made this week in the far east but the CC security was on to it immediately. A phone call to her to confirm where she is and the card is being replaced.
I always tell the CC where, when and for how long I will be out of the country.
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What I don't understand is that the £1 doesn't show as a withdrawal (nor as a deposit when it returns), merely as a discrepancy in the total. I expect my bank's accounting methods to be beyond question. It irked me to have to spend money phoning my bank the first time it happened but I think I'm going to have to query it again this time. I just hope I don't get an operative with an undecipherable accent from a call centre in India or similar.
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If this is really done by the bank "legitimately" just consider what they could do with a pound from several million customers.
ISTR there was a scam years ago which involved bent staff misappropriating a penny from numerous accounts - perhaps this is a demostration of inflation for you... the pound in your pocket.. etc Mr Wilson... 1967!
I think I'm getting old.
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I've found out from my bank that the debit was made at 9:12 am on Monday but has not yet been cleared. This why there's no entry for it in the debit column of my online ststement. By tomorrow morning it will have been cleared and my bank will be able to tell me which devious person has got it. I can then dispute the transaction and my bank will give me a refund, and they will then attempt to recover the money from whoever has got it.
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A few years ago I set up an account with a telecoms company, so that I could dial through their network to get cheaper overseas calls. I gave my CC details for the account payment. The telecoms co. did a test debit of 10p, and the CC co called me to validate the debit, as the telecoms co did it from their Scandinavian head office.
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It may be innocent but watch your statements like a hawk. Friends of ours noticed a couple of small transactions for £1 and £2 next thing £600 had gone due to their card being cloned. Scam operators carry out small transactions to test dodgy cards.
Same here, a myysterious transaction for a quid, and then 1500 quid on a laptop, the bank said these £1 transactions set their alarm bells ringing.
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the bank said these £1 transactions set their alarm bells ringing.
But not mine apparently. And it's a well-known large bank.
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But not mine apparently. And it's a well-known large bank
l'escargot: so what is/was the outcome?
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l'escargot: so what is/was the outcome?
This morning the £1 is back.
Eventually, after three phone calls to my bank and by putting two and two together, I have come up with the following explanation. In some cases of "cardholder not present" transactions (for example on t'internet) if the goods are not available for immediate dispatch the seller may make a small test withdrawal just to confirm that the account details you have given to them are valid. The amount is deducted from your online balance but doesn't appear as an item in your online statement because it hasn't been "cleared" ~ in fact it never becomes cleared and it automatically returns to your balance after about ten days. Apparently credit/debit card transactions take place in two phases. Firstly the payee asks your bank to reserve them the money, at which time it's deducted from your online balance. At some later time, normally when the goods are dispatched or have been received by you, the payee will request the money to be transferred to their account ~ this is the "clearing" phase in which the money actually leaves your account. In the case of a test transaction the payee never requests the small sum to be transferred to their account ~ they go through the two-phase procedure for the full amount.
I just wish banks would freely publicise this procedure information rather than making people drag it out of them. As I said above I still had to do some putting of two and two together to fully understand the system. If my explanation is not totally correct I would pleased to be told about it.
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I have finally received a written explanation from my bank .........
"We understand that this circumstance arises when using an automated petrol station, or hotel, or where customers have swiped or presented their
connect card without an attendant present. When the card is used, in this way, the petrol station or hotel needs to authorise the use of the
card. To do this it earmarks £1. The £1 never leaves your account it is only earmarked. The earmark lasts for approximately 5 days and then
cancelled. During this time the cleared balance will reflect the earmark and appear to be £1 down. This will not show, on your paper statement,
as it never leaves the account."
I don't understand why they said "We understand that", but there you are.
This is their explanation of the stages that a debit/credit transaction goes through.
"Please be advised that debit card withdrawals/payments will debit your Current Balance immediately. This is the first stage in processing your
transaction. The next stage is for the transaction to be presented to your account holding branch. The company that you made the payment to, or
the owners of the cash machine the funds were withdrawn from, will formally present their record of the transaction and request the payment. At
this point the transaction is downloaded and then shown on your statement. The time it takes to download the transaction may vary. For example
it will take longer to process overseas transactions. It will also take longer to process if the payment was entered manually."
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SWMBO, has suggested that over the Bank Holiday, I should be working on the patio, ie steam cleaning - now I can borrow a machine from my dad, but last time it took ages, and didn'tstay clean for very long- any suggestions please to ensuring a good job
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Dependant on surface Powerwash and an annual clear sealant.
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Just get a barrel of bleach (if you go to a pool retailer it's called Sodium Hypochlorite, comes in 20l drums IIRC). Use a brush to scrub it thoroughly into the stone, leave for 30 minutes, then powerwash off. Cleans up the green mold and it'll stay clean all year.
Obviously usual safety precautions with corrosive chemicals apply.
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The diverters I have seen are only suitable for plastic rain pipes. There must be millions of cast iron pipes, like mine. Does anyone know where to find a diverter for them please?
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Rain diverters.
Halfway down this page:
www.doctorenergy.co.uk/acatalog/WATER_SAVING.html
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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2 seconds on Google:
www.saint-gobain-pipelines.co.uk/soildrain/diverte...m
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Many thanks for the above two leads.
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Ai all,
I wounder if any experts could help me. Right then I have bought a LCD 32" TV w/digital built in, SONY HDD/DVD Recorder. I want to able to connect them to record freeview channels and watch another freeview channel at same time. Is that possible and how would I wire it up? I ahve no scart cables yet but I can get them tomorrow.
Any help appreciated
TIA
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Is that possible
only if your recorder has a seperate freeview tuner
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No freeviw tiuner in DVD
I have a an old STB would that work?
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What allow me to i.e,
record freeview channel 12
and watch freeview channel 18
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to watch one channel and record another you need two tuners. I assume your recorder has two scart sockets. ONe scart (call it A) connected to TV, one socket (call it B) connected to set top box.
BOth TV and STB need to be connected to the aerial.
So you can watch channel 12 on your TV and your STB can be tuned to channel 18 and recording through scart B.
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Anyone know how much the tolls on the A6 in France are ?
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Go to here and plot your journey and it will work out the cost of tolls
tinyurl.com/4fgc8
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If you put your route into www.viamichelin.com it will come up with a routeplan/map and give you details of the toll charges payable as you go down the route. This will have the benefit of being 100% up to date and it also gives the known positions of fixed speed cameras. These are usually very large (3ftx3ftx3ft) grey boxes set very low, usually in the centre reservation, and using 2 cameras back to back within the box to photograph traffic going in both directions SFAIK.
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By the way, even though UK credit cards don't work in automated petrol stations, they do work in the Carte Bleue credit card lanes for tolls, and the queues are usually shorter!
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great - like the cost calculator on the michelin site !
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Yes the Michelin site is useful, it also mentions wow many miles of your planned route are on "pleasant roads".
It works out the best route including motorways, does anyone have a suggestion for working out a route through France using mostly pleasant roads, for a slower paced more scenic journey? We'd like to take in the countryside and views/villages er-route.
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I may be wrong but I think michelin gives the option to choose a route avoding toll or non-toll motorways ie the sort of meandering relaxed drive you are looking for
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Take a look at a map and use routes nationales or lesser roads through the empty looking bits.
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When you get to France you can pick up "Bison Futé" maps (from service stations I think) which give routes to avoid congestion at peak times. They usually follow more picturesque routes via N and D routes - despite the D tag, these are often surprisingly good quality.
There is a website, but it is not much use for route planning, but it is good for pointing out areas where congestion could occur.
The Bison Futé routes are also usually well signed (yellow and green signs think.)
www.bison-fute.equipement.gouv.fr/diri/Accueil.do
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Looking at the electoral map of France, it was quite noticeable that there was distinct east-west split - with most of the east voting for one presidential candidate, and most of the west preferring the other. A little research indicated that pretty well all of the lovely little villages in Provence that I drive through on holiday voted heavily for the winning candidate, while pretty well all of the lovely little villages on the Dordogne that I drive through on holiday had supported the other candidate.
This intrigued me.
I realise that politics are forbidden on this site, and if the moderators feel that this question breaks that rule, then please accept my apologies and delete it. But if anyone can explain this mystery to me (without getting political), I'd be most grateful.
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We have a large courtyard cum parking area that is surrounded by the side of our house, the side of our neighbour's house, four sections of garden wall, and the doors of two double garages. In other words, with the exception of the latter, brick, brick, brick and more brick. Oh, I forgot the surface; acres of boring tarmac. I've tried to break up the visual impact with a tree, multiple shrubs, and by encouraging some of the plants in our back garden to spill over the top of the wall. I will also shortly install stainless steel post lights, but the fact still remains; brick, brick, brick, and more brick. Oh, and that tarmac. Given the newness of the house and the effort that has otherwise gone in to keeping it and others in keeping with the village surroundings, the developer needs shooting for his penny pinching.
Suggestions, please, for how to break up the visual impact of bricks and tarmac?
To start the ball rolling, our neighbour has agreed to substantially reduce the height of their wall and then run trellis along the top.
This leaves "our" walls and the side of our house; an exploratory check adjacent to the house reveals plenty of hardcore and the foundations of an old dairy wall under the tarmac, so digging it up is not high up my list of wishes. This will restrict further plants, including vines if deemed suitable, to being pot-based; large pot if required, but pot-based none the less. I did think of making a lip along the front of the garage and covering the tarmac with Cotswold stone chippings, but given the mess they cause at my parent's house, the visual payback would have to be really good. All faces affected are shade or partial shade; no full sun.
Ta muchly.
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Stone cladding. With the odd stone painted blue
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On a more serious note.
Chose a theme. Somone I know chose mediteranean. Small rockery along the base of the walls with planted alpines. some very effective use of tiles (blues and whites) fixed to the walls, several eucalyptus trees in large pots. (the trees need to be pruned twice yearly to keep them small)
All very effective. The trick it seems was the way its broken up the hard lines
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Oh and really effective use of lichens and mosses. Painted yoghurt onto various parts apparently and the lichens grew on that.
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Painted yoghurt onto various parts apparently and the lichens grew on that.
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I think it has to be plain "live" yoghurt, not your average strawberry-flavoured variety.
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... affected are shade or partial shade; no full sun
try "winter jasmine" www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_...l
note- even though they say sun or partial shade, it grows ok in shade too.
...A popular and reliable shrub, introduced from China in 1844, and widely grown as a wall shrub. It can be allowed to scramble freely over a low wall or up a bank, or trained up a vertical framework. Unlike many other jasmines, winter jasmine does not twine, so will need tying-in if grown vertically. The stems are bright green and give an evergreen impression, even in winter when the tiny bright yellow blooms appear, weatherproof in all but the coldest snaps...
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Ta muchly, both; some good ideas and catalysts for other ideas. Now also to ask Green Fingers Dad if Winter Jasmine (I recognise it and like it but now know what it's called ;-) will like growing in pots.
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Proper roses in pots?
www.robertmattockroses.com/compost.htm
Clematis in pots and the give them something to climb on ? Montana will cover anything.
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Wisteria will grow in pots and can be trained. Grow clematis through it, as you can with the roses. Figs also like to be root bound, so often grown in pots sunk in the ground, so shouldn't be a problem just in the pot! Painting brickwork a light colour would help to brighten area and reflect sun. You can also grow dwarf apples, pears etc in large pots and train them in espalier (sp?) across the wall. A friend with a similar problem has also put a border step of decking around under the wall which also helps with pots draining.
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Wisteria??
www.gardening.co.uk/news/article/mps/UAN/40/v/2/sp...e.
And for those really shady corners some decorative ivy? judging from bits of my garden, ivy will grow anywhere and quickly, but, be warned, if you don't like it it is a real thingummijig to get rid of.
I like the clematis suggestion - loads of varieties for all situations
www.britishclematis.org.uk/
www.gardenaction.co.uk/plantfinder/clematis_1.asp
Some cotoneasters grow well in pots against walls with colourful berries, as with evergreen pyracantha
www.dooyoo.co.uk/plants/pyracantha/1003352/
I suppose you could replace the tarmac (or some of it) with different coloured tarmac or some areas of slabs/bricks to "break it up?
Paint some of walls/garage doors different (restrained?!) colours?
Other plants?
www.angliangardener.co.uk/green_up_your_fingers/po...m
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Sorry Deepwith - looks like I copied half your ideas - but it's just my slow brain and even slower typing!!
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The only true soution I would recommend is a blood red 1961 Jauguar E Type, nothing else would come close to resoving it, I can as my architect to write to you on headed note paper to comfirm.
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Wow! I'm honoured. Plenty of food for thought, so thank you all very much. It will take some time to happen as I will be travelling a lot in the next two months, but I intend to report back.
(I'd love the E-Type, PU, though feel SWMBO would insist on replacing her 306 with the Zafira she'd like, instead! That I'm the sole breadwinner is irrelevant)
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That I'm the sole breadwinner is irrelevant)
Oh! It's not just this household then.
MD
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Anyone bought a Revo Pico DAB radio? whats it like, performance, sound etc.
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people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
What a gynormous thing! nearly 109,000 HP, 5,608,312 ft?lbs of torque. As a matter of interest how on earth do they get these things started? Loads and loads of compressed air would be my guess but I would like to know!
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i wonder how much juice the glow plugs drain off the nation grid to warm the monster up?
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i wonder how much juice the glow plugs drain off the nation grid to warm the monster up?
I think you'll find that industrial/marine diesel engines don't have glow plugs. They're only necessary when the engine is started by a puny electrical starter motor, as in motor vehicles.
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See this (sorry about the long link)
tinyurl.com/2vgvft {Link to a pdf document (4.36MB in size) on www.wartsila.com shortened - DD}
The answer seems to be compressed air having skimmed through the article.
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SC - thanks for that very interesting link! As you correctly observed - lots of compressed air! As an aside I note that the fuel system is 'common rail' - don't let's ask what the pump replacement costs are on an engine that size! DD thanks for shortening the link.
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"As a matter of interest how on earth do they get these things started? !"
A 'bump' start perhaps?
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As an aside I note that the fuel system is 'common rail'
Common rail in cars is a new technology - it's been used in large diesel engines for many years.
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