On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:49:00 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Jules Richardson wrote:
Plus, it helps when it's that cold for long stretches of time; the body
gets used to it somewhat. The downside is that people do start going a
bit loopy toward the end of the season as cabin fever sets in ;-)


Even to the point of double-posting?

I've never got to the bottom of that one. It's either entirely on Eternal-
September's side (I never saw it happen when I used to use
news.individual.net), or it's an interaction between E-S and my news
client (E-S incorrectly reports a post as having failed and so my client
automatically re-posts, say). I've heard of it happening to other people
using E-S, too.

I suspect the only way to get to the bottom of it is to tweak the source
for my news client so that it logs all NNTP traffic - but even if I can
find out what's going on, it doesn't necessarily mean I'll be able to fix
it...

cheers

Jules

On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:33:32 +0000, ferretygubbins wrote:

"David P" wrote in message
o.uk...
On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:37:11 +0000, Fred wrote:

On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:12:22 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:



our shovel has a steel edge to the plastic - no problem with chipping.

It cost c£20 a couple of years ago from an agricultural merchants. I'm
sure a web search would turn one up.

David

Currently one of these is £9.95 at Axminster:
http://www.axminster.co.uk/burgon-an...h-ice-scraper-
prod868167/

Somewhat flimsier than the one I have and with a much smaller 'blade' to
it. Similar principal though.

David