Most Easterly Pandas said:

Let us know if he's successful out of interest

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Email recieved this morning...

Denied
His need for water can be satisfied from a kitchen tap (which is what he does atm but they dont know that ).

Looks like Im gonna have to wash my car at work

Tom

We came off water restrictions about 6 months ago, after being on them for roughly 5 years. We got by thanks to a few methods. Put a bucket under the shower head in the morning while you wait for it to heat up, chuck that on the garden. We also have a bore pump, no restrictions on that so we just let the bugger run 23/7
Also, if you can re-route your washing machine outlet so that it runs outside, or into a bucket, thats a fair bit of water you can use on your garden.

no one has written to me saying i cant use hosepipe yet

dave said:

no one has written to me saying i cant use hosepipe yet

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You popped your postcode into the Anglian water website?

sludgeguts said:

Years ago I remember a bloke on the markets demonstrating a small handbrush with a hose attached, it had a non return valve & meant you could wash your car from a bucket. I've never revisited that idea but might be worth looking at.

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Amazing what you stumble across...

you must not use a brush to clean a car!

I love that it's a Seicento he's washing too

Eklipze3k said:

I love that it's a Seicento he's scratching too

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dave said:

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Anglian Water have posted about the ban in our local rag telling people what they can't use. Covers all the PE post codes in our region.

I can remember using one of those brushes to wash my dads old car, worked exceedingly well.

Wasn't bothered about the effect of brushes on it, it was a very smooth one though.

sludgeguts said:

Amazing what you stumble across...
Washmatik - YouTube

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Saw that at gadget show live today.

Had to walk away though. *shudders* (brushes)

Dom

tbh, brushes on cars don't bother me. I've lived through the anally retentive stage of lovingly tending my paintwork on a regular basis. Agonising over the tramlines some little darling put along my roof (and it was metallic, back in the day when it took forever to fix), not to mention the many scratches and dings you acquire in car parks (why is it that even when you park a mile away from the entrance in THE most deserted part of the car park, some twot ALWAYS has to park tight up to your door or in such a way that the only way you are ever going to get in is by climbing through the boot?).
I've had muppets prang me & ding me. AFAIC, a car is a tin box on 4 wheels (literally in the case of the doblo!) designed to get me from A to B as cheaply as possible.
Yes, it's nice if the car looks good but these days it's nigh on impossible. I count at least a dozen scratches (3" - 4" long) that have been done by person or persons unknown & I no longer lose sleep over it.
When those magic scratch pens actually work, I might just be tempted to sort the scratches but at the moment I just CBA

Further to my above post, #2 son invested in one of those magic pens - reckoned it was worth splashing out £2 & lost nothing if it didn't work.
Amazingly, it sort of worked.
My silver car - forget it.
OH's white car - sort of - it makes them less obvious
His black car - hmmm, sort of, only just.
His GF's Red car - amazing, it was exactly like the ads they show. It really did a good job, although if you inspect it, you can still see the scratch, but for the money it's a quick tidy up.
#1 son's blue car - again, a tidy job. wouldn't stand close inspection but gives a good impression to the passing eye.

i just shut the gates and break out the karcher problem solved

dombooth said:

Saw that at gadget show live today.

Had to walk away though. *shudders* (brushes)

Dom

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YOU WERE AT GADGET SHOW LIVE :O
So was I haha What day did you go on?
Sorry for the topic change

Tom

ysidfa said:

YOU WERE AT GADGET SHOW LIVE :O
So was I haha What day did you go on?
Sorry for the topic change

Tom

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Haha it was on the Sunday mate.

You?

Dom

dombooth said:

Haha it was on the Sunday mate.

You?

Dom

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Same!! haha, did you get into the Mega theatre? If so, what time showing?
I was in the early one (10:45) I think and In the race at the end, Pollyana placed her mighty fine booty about 15cm from my face :slayer:
Got a video to prove it

Was a brill day! So much stuff I cant afford!

Tom

ysidfa said:

Same!! haha, did you get into the Mega theatre? If so, what time showing?
I was in the early one (10:45) I think and In the race at the end, Pollyana placed her mighty fine booty about 15cm from my face :slayer:
Got a video to prove it

Was a brill day! So much stuff I cant afford!

Tom

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About 1 I think, cant remember haha.

Oooh, wouldnt mind that.

Some of the stuff there must cost a fortune!! :O

Dom

dombooth said:

About 1 I think, cant remember haha.

Oooh, wouldnt mind that.

Some of the stuff there must cost a fortune!! :O

Dom

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Did you see the Alpine 500?
I spent ages trying to work out what model it was because it had the full abarth body kit but fiat badges and twin air interior :/
Got some pics ill put in my gallery next time I have a chance

Tom