I bet they'd be really pi$$ed if every amateur photographer within 5 miles of the Echo Arena turned up at the same time, and took photo's of their hallowed ground, and their so called security force.

Idiots, the lot of them. Can't get a proper job, so stop others doing theirs.

I'm too far South to see any aurora.

My 1.6 ltr diesel Citroen C4 does around 62-65 mpg, 4.5ltrs/100km to be exact, and that's in 47,500kms of varied driving, mostly urban.

On a recent trip to UK, driving from Totana - Spain, via Calais/Dover to High Wycombe and Cornwall and back + about 6 weeks of urban use, a total of about 5000 miles, it did 62.5 mpg for the whole trip.

My driving style of trying to keep at or below the speed limit, and trying to avoid using the brakes where possible, helps. Using your brakes (yes I know it's necessary sometimes) causes more fuel wastage than anything else. Just think ahead, and decelerate rather than brake, modern cars use no fuel at all on the overrun, the longer the overrun, the more fuel you don't use. Simples.

I haven't seen any Wonga adverts on here.

Whilst an APR of 2869% sounds horrendous, they do explain very well why the number is so huge. Admittedly, it is to convince Joe Public that the number isn't really huge and they should go ahead and borrow the money anyway.

I'm not recommending them either as I feel anybody who has to use these kind of loan options needs serious help other than simply borrowing money.

Borrowing money to fix a shortage of cash only succeeds in generating a bigger shortage of cash. Simple as, really.

As John has said, the adverts you see are often based on an individuals web searching history, but you can opt-out of their intelligence gathering antics if you wish.

If you haven't been searching for a loan, perhaps somebody else who uses your computer and login, has.

As for unwanted adverts, Adblocker works for me. I just wish there was something similar for TV.

Welcome to the forum. We thrive on questions, fire away . . .

Lovely. I have the same lenses, but I don't have a bag for my 43mm Ltd. So if anybody has a spare one kicking around . . . .

Good job, well done. I removed the locking pin from mine, I don't think I had a choice actually as I think it was only held in place by the body of the tube.

My favourite Leonard Cohen song is Suzanne. Very haunting . . .

I can claim only two. The adapter in this thread, and the mod of scraping paint from Jessops extension tubes in the contact area to facilitate their working with Pentax DSLR's.

One other is the drilling out of the hot shoe of a hot shoe adapter to allow modern 4/5 pin flashguns to work with the 3 pin shoe. I think Mattmatic and I were working on this at about the same time, but I can't remember who's idea it was originally. Matt did document the procedure though, so I'm happy for him to take the glory.

I'm sure there must be plenty of others.

MODERATORS: Perhaps they could be 'collected' and copied to a sub-section of their own?

I used Araldite for mine. If you lightly roughen the surfaces to be joined, it sticks like the proverbial to a blanket and is more than strong enough to take the weight.

I think I used Araldite Rapid, but the normal, long setting time variant, is even stronger once set.

The idea is that they are NOT exactly parallel to the focussing plane, horizontally anyway. The batteries are at different distances from the lens, the left one being closest.

It's a commonly used 'rough guide', but accurate? It is not.

I wouldn't trust my lenses if the camera was adjusted according to results taken like this.