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  1. There isn't a huge choice in Lochgilphead! I just get whatever is in stock at the local deli.
  2. Forget getting a kit. Home brewed beer from a kit is never great in my experience. Instead, try making alcoholic ginger beer. It's really simple to make, and really cheap. Here's a link to the recipe I use http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A634664
  3. Matthews is good, but Seewoo is the best Chinese supermarket I know of http://www.seewoo.com/glasgow
  4. Pest Control in Argyll is done by the Streetscene team which (I think) is part of Roads - it's definitely not part of EH. I would be charged nearly £70 if I called them out http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/planning-and-environment/pest-control-service
  5. Pest Control services aren't always provided by Environmental Health. It's often another department's responsibility. It's also highly unlikely that whatever Department it is at your own local council will do it for free. I would suggest going to your Local Council's website & searching for "Pest Control". That should link to a pricelist which will include wasp bikes. They will want paid up front though, and you won't get much of a refund if it turns out not to be wasps
  6. Seriously, it's a nice trip to Easdale. Drive over the "Bridge over the Atlantic" onto Seil, stopping for a plate of soup & a pint at the Tigh an Truish pub on the other side before walking over the bridge. Drive down to Ellenabeich, signal for the ferry to come & pick you up. While you are waiting, go and look at the tartan tat & strange religious paintings at C John Taylor's "Highland Arts". You won't buy anything, but you'll get a free bit of shortbread and leave thinking "who buys that stuff" When you get to Easdale, turn right, and walk anticlockwise round the perimeter of the island (there's an obvious path starting in the village). See the quarries then climb the hill in the centre of the island. The view is great from the viewpoint if the weather is clear. Then hit the pub or the museum when you get back to the village (assuming the pub is open) After you get the ferry back, you can visit the brewery in Ellenabeich, before heading back to Oban
  7. Serious point - the distillery is actually quite good. The sea-life centre isn't.
  8. You could take the ferry to Easdale. They have a very good museum relating to the quarries & island life & things.
  9. I'm sure that the sign used to be on this junction on Broughty Ferry Road. It doesn't seem to be there now though according to Google Maps https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=dundee&hl=en&ll=56.468323,-2.921104&spn=0.000001,0.000955&hnear=Dundee,+Dundee+City,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=56.468323,-2.921104&panoid=-Li2HOy4dDU31uhol9cjJw&cbp=12,154.7,,0,0
  10. Parallel with East Dock Street/Broughty Ferry Road on the dock side of the railway line. Not sure where it started, but Wilson's Dog Meal factory is (or was?) at the Broughty Ferry end edit - rogue apostrophe
  11. No. The Lorne is a pub in Ardrishaig. Your idea would just cause confusion.
  12. Ah, vandetta. What a great motor. Can you buy them from Uncle Arnie?
  13. I believe that the traditional advice is to turn the heater up full and open the windows. Alternatively, you could remove the wheel and drive very carefully on the 3 remaining tyres. Corners might prove problematic though,
  14. So you can show off your freshly altered suit trousers?
  15. The blind one usually runs the side nearest to the main stand whilst the one that doesn't fully understand the offside rule has to run the line nearest to the home terracing. Once they have proved their incompetency, they get moved to the middle of the park.
  16. It did include Scotland rugby internationals at the time that the ban was introduced. The SRU specifically asked for Murrayfield to be included. It took them quite some time to realise what a stupid idea it was. They lost alcohol sales when all the other 5/6 nations teams were making money by charging extortionate prices for drink inside the ground. It took them a number of years after this to get permission to commence sales inside the ground. From memory, the first match was against the Barbarians in 2003ish
  17. Apply for a Halifax Clarity Credit Card. See details here http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-travel-money I have one that I only use for money when I'm abroad, but you have to be able to afford to pay it off in full as soon as you get the statement. Personally, I pay whatever balance is owing within a couple of days of getting back, then only have to pay pennies of interest on the cash advances when the statement comes in. Last trip abroad, I spent around £800 on the card, got a great conversion rate on my Euros and was charged 94p in interest charges.
  18. Nah. I can only answer questions about recycling facilities in the Glebe Park area. Sorry. However, I don't think its really necessary to fly your hard disk out of the country - surely the contents are not that extreme.............
  19. The coup (pronounced cowp) - the local council recycling centre/dump. Don't you call it that in Brechin? They will make you sort it with the other dead electrical equipment rather than throwing it in with the other general household waste, but you won't get a penny for it
  20. Is your real name Paul Gadd? Seriously, it's not hard to open up a PC, remove the hard disk & smash it up, then take the whole lot to the coup.
  21. I wouldn't agree that 0-0's in rugby are incredibly rare. At lower levels (i.e. a Midlands Second XV league match), it is quite possible for two pretty evenly matched teams, who both have poor place kickers, to be playing a match in freezing conditions in a howling gale on Montrose links. The game ends up with the forwards playing a series of scrums, rucks and mauls in midfield, while the poor backs try to avoid hypothermia. I'm not suggesting that 0-0 is particularly common, but I must have played in three or four scoreless games, and another 5 or 6 that were decided by one unconverted try to nil
  22. Get yourself into A&E for an x-ray. that will confirm what's wrong, and if it is the ligaments, they will strap it up properly. Unfortunately, you will have weakened your ankle, which makes it easier to do again (and again, and again) By the end of my football/rugby playing days, I was playing with so much strapping on my ankles, that I could barely twist my foot at all
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