Whitey Grandad

There were certainly some bizarre decisions yesterday. I was calling for a penalty when Jaidi scored so I was thinking what a great decision it was from him to let play continue for a couple of seconds in case we scored. Silly me. And what the heck was that assault on the back Harding in stoppage time? I'm not talking about the two-handed push but the off-the ground aerial chalenge.

How many games do we win and how many draws?

I was watching it live and a couple of channels disappeared so I watched our goals on terrestrial. BBC1 came back after a few minutes.

Yes, that's almost 10 days.

Quite right. Good Luck master B. Never, ever give up trying.

Age has a lot to do with it. You're never too old to learn That's one of the reasons I come here.

I take your point. So providing that the original equipment was installed safely and correctly then replacing with another hob is ok, always provided that the new unit does not take significantly more power than the previous?

Is a hob not a 'cooker'?

Well spotted! There's always someone that misses it, and misses the bus as well.

That's just the first part. The second goes on to define this sort of work as notifiable.

To illustrate the type of problem that can occur, a few years ago an unfortunate woman was electrocuted when she emptied her dishwasher. As she bent down she steadied herself with her left hand by holding on to a metal kitchen-tool rack and her right hand touched the earthed inside of the dishwasher. The tool rack was live because one of the mounting screws had gone through a live cable which had previously been fitted diagonally across the wall, against the regulations. These regulations are there for a reason, and it's not just to keep people in paid employment.

I saw something recently about an imminent deal for the Far-Eastern TV rights to the Premiership, something over a billion £ was it? If that happens then the football world will be turned upside down. It'll be like sharks in a feeding frenzy.

Kitchens, gardens, bathrooms. Too many people have been killed by faulty installations. The IEE (now IET) is my professional institution, I'm a Chartered Engineer, but even I would get it professionally installed and checked. It's not worth the risk. This is your life, and your family's.

That usually works.

I saw what you did there.

Just pretend that you were planning a surprise... and hope that she doesn't read this forum.

I have always said, on the whole you shouldn't generalise.

I was talking about this to a welshman the last time that I was in the area and he said that if you opened the pits now you'd never get anybody to work down them. 'The youngsters just don't wanna know' he said (in a welsh accent). Do you think that Health and Safety would let us ever open them again?

I'll never forgive that Swindon player who crocked him pre-season.

I don't normally post without checking anything out (including climate change ), and I did say that all sources of power have their problems, but nobody pretends that wind power is the answer to our energy problems and can never provide more than a fraction of our requirements. Nuclear fission power, with alll its horrible drawbacks, is the only possible solution for the next 50 years or so until possibly fusion reactors become viable. Having said that, we do sit on 400 years of coal deposits, and if only we can develop effective carbon sequestration then perhaps we could use those.

I read recently that part of Storrie's remuneration (40% ?) was a bonus related to the profit on player sales. Now that they can't sell any more players he is prepared to take a cut (40% ?).

Wind power is only viable with the enormous subsidies that distort the energy market. All methods of power generation have their problems but wind power is never going to be anything but a small part of the solution, and at a hideous cost to our environment.

No need for the abuse. The govenment has dithered for over 10 years and everybody knows it.

Aren't they usually finished by then, or thereabouts? Good question though.

If that's true then it distorts the whole 'fair competition' business. Couldn't club A, having played Pompey twice and won, lend them some of their best players so that club A's rivals would have less chance of picking up points?