Can you buy these in B and Q - ones that are adjustable?
http://www.towerman.co.uk/images/pip...clips_open.jpg

The pipe is not very close to the wall and I doubt they make clips for every
distance...?

How should I measure the distance?

Is it the closest side of the pipe to the wall (the size of the gap) or the
distance of the side furthest from the wall?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "mo" saying
something like:

How should I measure the distance?

Is it the closest side of the pipe to the wall (the size of the gap) or the
distance of the side furthest from the wall?

Specify the gap and tell them that's what you mean.
--

Dave