Comments for Order of the Bath

Comment on Leaf Cutter Bee by Frank Pinnell

Frank Pinnell — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:21:34 +0000

We opened our garden sunshade yesterday and a little green funnel of leaves fell out. When I picked it up it started to disintegrate, so I poked it back under the sunshade, and after a few minutes a bee arrived and began repairing it with little semi-circular bits of leaf. We had heard of leaf-cutter bees, and assumed this was one. It took it about ten minutes to complete the nest with a little trapdoor. We carefully folded and covered the sunshade, and now we have an unusable sunshade!

Frank&Eve

Comment on British Dictionary for Firefox by Iain McIntyre

Iain McIntyre — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:12:40 +0000

Interesting all this: unlike others, I had no problem at all with the one provided by Mozilla. See my comment there [izziwizziletsgetbizzi]. I assume DB has the same version of Vista on those systems and not Vista64 on one and 32 on the other, or Home Premium on one and Basic on other, or perhaps sp1 on one but not on the other, etc etc…? If DB has *identical* OS’s on both his systems and uses Firefox as his browser, I will be forced to conclude that something else is awry. Possibly a firewall or antivirus program. He could actually help Mozilla by comparing and contrasting his systems…

Comment on Renault Laguna - maintenance warning by Nick

Nick — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:46:42 +0000

Many thanks for that - only just realised that I have a trip computer - wondered where that had been hiding - no more flashing spanner for me.
Cheers

Comment on Renault Laguna Radio Controls by Didpot

Didpot — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:02:10 +0000

car battery went flat recently and have since then lost use of radio. Have keyed in code and radio is not accepting it. Have tried the factory reset and it’s still not working. HELP!

Comment on British Dictionary for Firefox by DB

DB — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:36:48 +0000

Thanks. Spent quite a bit of time trying to install the dictionary for ‘Firefox’ on one of our computers after successfully installing it from ‘Firefox Add Ons’ on another which worked first time. Both are running the same OS (Vista)

I am most grateful to you for taking the time to supply this fix.

Comment on Repairing a Renault Laguna Card Key by Performance Car Parts

Performance Car Parts — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:11:31 +0000

sometimes it’s just a battery issue, or just old wiring.

Comment on Residents Parking Zone by Michael J McCormick

Michael J McCormick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:41:08 +0000

There is no situation the government cannot make worse!

Comment on AGP muddle by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:03:42 +0000

Hello Rick,

Congratulations for an excellent, interesting and…yes, pretty-looking blog! Bright, uncluttered and rather lovely.

I’ve landed here following a frustrating Google search on AGP graphics cards, and am hoping you might take pity on me and share some of your knowledge! Long story short: I have an old Advent T9 PC, which for 4 years has worked perfectly. I “think” the old graphics card has given up now, and I’m looking for a cheap-ish replacement that will do the same job. My system specs are given on this page: http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/t9.htm

I have looked at the useful pages you’ve linked to (more than once!), but I’m still somewhat unsure about compatibility with my PC and power supply, etc.

I have been looking at a NVidia Geforce FX5500 card, and have almost convinced myself that it will work. But, there’s still a nagging doubt - can you help? I would be so grateful if so, Rick, but would be in no way offended if not.

Yours pleadingly!

Comment on Leaf Cutter Bee by Dusty

Dusty — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:44:11 +0000

these little treasures come every year and somhow make their homes in the hard compost in my cactus plants. I should miss them if they emigrated somewhere else

Comment on Leaf Cutter Bee by yvonne

yvonne — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:25:53 +0000

Thanks for all the information here! I was wondering what had been eating our leaves until I saw that some of the bamboo in our insect house (hanging on the front of the shed by the wisteria!) had fresh green leaves sticking out the end. Did a search and came up with this blog…

I shall leave the bees to get on with it.

Jackie, we have wasps nesting in our garden and, as long as we leave them alone, they don’t do us any harm. They eat aphids and other nasties :¬D