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Stanley Heavy Duty Staple 14MM (1000) 0-TRA709T
• Stanley Brad staples for use with the manual and electric nailer and staplers (SB05858 & SB05007)• 14mm.
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WBA 100 Granit Wall Anchor Carded
The Sold Secure Gold rated WBA100 is both simple, very strong and a very permanent 4 bolt fixing to the ground or floor. The corrosion resistant 16mm thick hardened steel shackle has unbelievably high levels of sawing and bolt cropping resistance. It’s wider design is suitable for all Abus shackle, chain and Steel-O-Flex locks. The WBA100 can also be laid flat when not in use.

How To D.I.Y. - Vol. 5 - Home Security
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Pro Tools 7 LE Essential Training (PC/Mac)

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Floriade 1992, the world’s biggest flower and plant exhibition, is bound to add even greater renown to Holland’s reputation as the country of flowers. The magnificent display of colour throughout the park and the various attractions guarantee a unique horticultural show. To make it as clear as possible, this show has been divided into seven theme areas, which bring into focus all aspects of and everything related to horticulture in a surprising manner. This video will provide you nearly one hour of viewing pleasure of this wonderful world garden
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TS Tools (Train Sim Add On)

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Collins Complete DIY Manual
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Customer Review: Good for xperienced DIY ers
This book is an excellent reference tool for people with a modicum of common sense and a bit of experience. It has enough depth and breadth to cover the majority of things but if you are looking for something that will tell you how to build a block of flats from scratch using only lolly sticks then you will be dissappointed. It kind of gives you the confidence to do what you knew you wanted to do but didn’t know the detail (like using 10mm cable for a shower installation) I’m a miserable wotsit and I bought another copy for my son Buy it. If you save one tradesman coming in to do a job then it’ll have paid for itself.
Customer Review: Useless - the Readers Digest one is much better
This book is fairly useless, for several reasons: 1. It’s impossible to find what you’re looking for, and the index is hopeless. The only way I managed to find anything was by flicking randomly until I found what I was looking for. 2. Sometimes it is hopelessly patronising, but then most of the time it assumes you know much more than you would as an amateur DIYer. For example, we wanted to know how to put in a loft door, and it said ’shore up the size of the hatch to fit the door you’ve bought’. How do you do that? If it was covered elsewhere in the book, it was hopeless trying to find it. This is just one example from six months of frustration with this book. 3. It is rubbish at telling you exactly what you need to ask for when you go to hardware stores. Often B&Q had no idea what the thing was the book said I needed. (OK B&Q are also a bit rubbish) We’ve just bought our first flat, and are fairly competent at DIY, but having lived with this book for six months, we ended up buying the Readers Digest one, which is infinitely better. We’re not even going to bother keeping the Collins for a second opinion, it’s that rubbish.

The Big Book of Outdoor DIY: Over 75 Step-by-step Projects
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Customer Review: Excellent DIY book for your outdoor room
This book provides excellent coverage of DIY for the garden. How to build sheds, climbing frames, pergola’s; how to construct garden paths, lay paving, put in a fountain and more. It gives loads of original ideas with clear instructions. Well worth adding to your library.

Yeah, I Made it Myself: DIY Fashion for the Not Very Domestic Goddess
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Customer Review: Fantastic
I bought this book having read all the reviews. I have sewn in the past using patterns but haven’t done anything in about 8 years due to having 3 small children who couldn’t help going through my sewing box every time I got it out! Now with the youngest at preschool I thought I would give it a go again. I love how chatty this book is and having read it from cover to cover I bought myself a lovely piece of linen with applique flowers on it and made the ‘My Favourite A-Line Skirt’ (page 111) in about 2-3 hours and it looks fantastic. I had developed a bit of a zip phobia when I was sewing before, but followed the instructions and even that looks great. I drew the pattern onto a piece of brown paper (making it a bit longer in the process) so I could keep it and I will definately be making more skirts. The only thing I would have liked in the book was a pattern for trousers, but I may have a go at that myself!
Customer Review: Dull and uninspiring
I couldn’t warm to this book for a number of reasons. Mainly because there is no real information contained within the book. There is a lot of writing and narrative by the author, but there just doesn’t seem to be any real substance. I was looking for a more technical book but this is very basic and the ideas just don’t appeal to me. Also, the lack of photographs is a real shame, maybe if there had been a visual representation of what the author was explaining then I would have found this book more useful. I was hoping for something fresh and creative but this seemed a little ‘dumbed down’ and is probably best suited to a young audience.

Dr. Tool Eye Training (Mac/CD)
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Salival (CD + NTSC Video)
The elaborately packaged Salival is a reminder of how creative and powerful the hard rock group Tool can be. One disc of this deluxe two-disc set serves up 74 minutes (eight songs) of live material and outtakes; the other offers a VHS compilation of Tool’s four grotesquely artistic videos plus the bonus clip, “Hush”, from their 1992 “Opiate” EP. Although there’s little that’s new here, it’s put together with as much intensity and attention to detail as the quartet’s other releases. The musical high point is the driving but delicate take on “Pushit”. It’s also entertaining to hear singer Maynard James Keenan in a Neil Young kind of mood on “Lame”. –Janiss Garza

Customer Review: quick, but it before its too late…
Having shelled out on this on import i was always going to be biased towards this album, but im ecstatic so say that it didn’t disappoint me in the slightest. As usual Maynards gorgeous vocals add to the powerful music. Every song it a treat, with the possible exception of “LAMC” (but that the point of the song!). clearly yht best thing on the CD is “No Quarter” and the amazing version of “Pushit”. The videos are so artfully and amazingly well done they stand up to repeated viewings, with the standout “Stinkfist” being the most obvious. As this band have progressed they have gone to strength to strength, with this closing one chapter of Tool’s career, it was the perfect prelude to the majest that was “Lateralus”. You have to buy it. Now!!

Customer Review: A stopgap, but still the best thing in ages.
I’ll admit it. I’m an absolute Tool *fantatic*. I first heard them in New Zealand (where you can actually - shock, horror - hear them on the radio!), and saw them live out there in 1997. In my book Aenima is a good contender for best album of the 90s, and Undertow and Opiate are impressive too. As for Salival? Well, you KNOW you’re being suckered into buying a load of stuff you’ve heard before, but I really didn’t care. The live version of Pushit is fantastic, and it’s nice to hear You Lied in a decently recorded form at last (bootlegs having been available for years). The clear high-point in my book is No Quarter though - somehow they managed to sound enough like Led Zeppelin for the song to sound authentic, while still maintaining their own identity. Well done! Admittedly, Salival isn’t an album I’m going to be playing front-to-back for the next five years (like I have with Aenima), but it’s a great album to dip into. And the video content is always good, if you don’t mind the fact that they’re a little “inspired” by the Brothers Quay. The one thing that bugs me about this album, really, is the fact that the release delay is absolutely typical of the UK. What is it with this county? If people aren’t out there buying disturbingly bad CDs like Hear’Say or Robbie Williams then they’re being “alternative” and buying Limp Bizkit! The more transparent the marketing ploy, the more desperate people in the UK seem to be to buy something?!? I’m confused. Ah well. Buy this CD, and take some small consolation that you can still get music like this over here. It won’t last.

(And a note for any drummers who might happen to read this: Just get the album. Danny Carey is one of the most underrated players in rock today)

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Compact digital multitester
DIGITAL MULTITESTERMiniature and pocket sized. Supplied complete with test leads and battery.

Wonderwall Mini GooN - Touma DIY Grey B - Designer Vinyl Figure
Wonderwall Mini GooN - Touma DIY Grey B

Wonderwall and Touma shrink and strip the GooN figure to create a series of blank DIY Mini GooNs for artists to customise

:: Blank DIY vinyl figure
:: Toy stands at 3″ tall
:: Box has been opened and resealed to identify toy

Weatherproof DIY Plastic B&W Camera - English Language/UK PSU

Rolson Tools 60739 2 piece LED Bicycle Light Set
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Pro Tools: Behind the Controls [2005]

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Customer Review: great
dont criticise this item. its only half the package because to provide it all to you is breaking the law. Anyone with a bit of common sense can find what they need and if you brick your psp, memory stick or not this helps. People on ebay are charging ?30 plus for such items! I started trying to mod a battery and since it nearly resulted in me severing an artery with a knife when opening it I decided to play safe. If you cant manage with this then you shouldnt be putting CFW on as it will only end in tears!
Customer Review: does exactly as advertised
This tool does exactly as advertised, it won’t mod your PSP for you, but with a little internet research, a bit of patience, and following the instructions EXACTLY, you can CFW your PSP in 10-15 minutes. i had no issues whatsoever. giving this anything less than top marks is stupid.
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Customer Review: A brilliant book that should be common sense
Every chapter of the book teaches you new things. You can pick up the book and read a few pages and feel slightly enlightened. The book does an excellent job at teaching one how to look at conversations as a vehicle for getting things settles and solved, without hurting anyone, or not getting the full message across. Highly recommended!
Customer Review: When the stakes are high
This book was a most enjoyable read but left me with a touch of ambivalence. As a handbook for communicating more effectively, it’s helpful but perhaps a bit simplistic. “Crucial conversations” are defined as those in which opinions vary, the stakes are high, and emotions run strong. The book targets situations in business and personal life, and is extremely readable with its many illustrative dialogues from both sectors. An extensive vocabulary is introduced and I’ve had some of the terms floating like a ghostly subtext under my own conversations: Sucker’s Choice; Safety; Salute and Stay Mute; Silence or Violence; Freeze Your Lover; Pool of Shared Meaning. It’s all useful even if reductionist. The techniques offered for effective negotiation are generally quite obvious, yet they bear repeating and codifying. They are, however, techniques, and as such they probably won’t give earth-shaking results without an understanding of what’s making people tick. Conversation and negotiation are so much more than technique. CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS is an ideal offering for the best-seller market and would be a great springboard for leadership development workshops. My two picks for the best advice in this book: (1) Stay focused on what you really want. (2) If you give this book to a partner or business associate, don’t take a yellow highlighter to the parts you think they need before you give it; better to work on your own side of the crucial conversations. Linda Bulger, 2008
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Schism [DVD AUDIO]
Customer Review: Lustmord…
Two groundbreaking bands merge to create this excellent DVD. Amazing video, even more amazing remix by legendary Lustmord. 5+

Customer Review: Fantastic!!!
TOOL videos are just unbelievable. They look so beautiful the attention to detail is mind blowing!
If you’re a TOOL fan you’ll know that already.
The only time I saw the Schism video before was at a TOOL gig a few years back.
This DVD is well worth the money, the remix is fantastic. It’s not a cut and paste, with bits thrown in job like most “remixes” this is completely different. It’s long!!
I’ve yet to check out the commentary but I doubt it’s “boring”.

If you liked Salival you’ll love this.

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DIY 3.5-inch White Baby Angel Bear Qee
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Customer Review: Poor
I borrowed this book from my local library, and I am so glad I did'nt spend the money on buying it. The book has plenty of nice ideas and photos, but for me it does'nt go in to enough “How to” detail.
Customer Review: Lots of Nice Ideas
This book was a bit of a disapointment, I knew what I wanted to end up with in terms of decking for my garden, but didn’t really know where to start. I thought that this book, being a ‘Step-by-Step guide’ would tell me exactly what I needed to do, but really it’s more of an idea’s book. The book has lots of really nice things you could do in with decking, but for someone who hasn’t built decking before there is nowhere near enough information about how to go about actually doing it. This would make a nice gift for someone wondering what to do with their garden.
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Parabola [DVD AUDIO]
Customer Review: Tool - the most inventive band in rock music
Their videos are mind blowing and for a low price such as this you simply can’t go wrong.

Customer Review: Awesome
Like many i was not expecting a dvd with content spilling out everywhere you look .. this dvd is rather simple .. one video , one directors audio track and one remix track .. if your a tool fan there is no other way to say this but GET IT! .. i paid just over [...] and that my friend was worth it alone just for the cover .. by buying this its like owning a little bit of tool’s art .. get the other dvd (schism) and i promise they will look so amazing in your collection .

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Papering Walls and Ceilings (DIY Essentials)
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Collins First-time DIY
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Customer Review: Easy peasy
This is a great book for someone who wants to do some of the jobs in their home and don’t want to have to pay some tradesman silly money for an hours work. This book, and the author, gives you confidence to tackle anything in the book, the steps are easy to follow. I found it a great help.

DIY Techniques for Language Learners
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Pink Tool Kit
Mini Pink Tool Kit The Mini Pink Tool Kit is a perky, pretty and practical tool kit which enables you to fix all those wonky, odd, dodgy bits and bobs around the house! The Mini Pink Tool Kit is grown up Barbie-chic! Odd jobs become a doddle! This one will certainly stand out amongst the sawdust on the shed-shelf! Do you have a question about this product? Email us now About the Mini Pink Tool Kit The Mini Pink Tool Kit is a practical, yet stylish set of a various selection of handy house-hold tools including: 1 x Mini Ratchet 1 x Mini Stanley Knife 1 x Mini Tape Measure 1 x Screwdriver Adaptor 2 x Mini Screwdrivers 4 x Mini Sockets 1 x Spirit Level 4 x Screwdriver Ends The Mini Pink Tool Kit is not a toy. Please do not allow young children to use the Mini Pink Tool Kit Leave it to the girls, guys. The Mini Pink Tool Kit is a simple, yet sleek Power-Tool that will guarantee you a safe, sturdy finish whatever you decide to Jimll fix! How many times have you moaned at your other half to fix that creaking door in the bedroom (we said DOOR!) or put a new window in the kitchen? Lost count? Us too. Well, ladies, you have two choices: 1) force him into it by purchasing the latest copy of Nuts or 2) have a giggle and get it done yourself with the Mini Pink Tool Kit! The Mini Pink Tool Kit comes complete with 14 mini tool bits perfect and petite! The Mini Pink Tool Kit comes with everything you need, so therell be no need to nip down the local B&Q to stock up on bits! So pick one up today and show him youre no fool with your new knowledge of mans tools! Whats in the Mini Pink Tool Kit The Mini Pink Tool Kit is a practical, yet stylish set of a various selection of handy house-hold tools including: 1 x Mini Ratchet 1 x Mini Stanley Knife 1 x Mini Tape Measure 1 x Screwdriver Adaptor 2 x Mini Screwdrivers 4 x Mini Sockets 1 x Spirit Level 4 x Screwdriver Ends

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Opiate
Customer Review: Where it all began
Its hard to believe the band that composed Lateralus wrote this isnt it?!

This is mostly an intelligent old skool metal album, but with a unique Tool twist. The live recordings are amazing quality.

This is an angry, angst ridden EP, and well worth the money, even if its only 6 songs. It is an awesome foundation for things to come.

And it contains songs that rank among Tools very best: Cold and Ugly, Hush

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Duracell Ultra M3 Batteries, the most powerful Duracell batteries, specially designed to maximise performance in high-tech appliances. The M3 guarantees more energy, efficiency and power. AAA. Supplied by www.BatteryPlanet.co.uk
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Customer Review: The DIY Guide to Public Relations: For Charities, Voluntary
I bought this book after a disastrous marketing campaign - spent lots of money with little gain. I now have the confidence to write my own press releases and what’s more - I actually gets results. Moi says you can DIY - IT and YOU CAN. I keep it on my shelf and consult it regularly.
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Faringdon Collection Barbecue Apron and Tool Set

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Garden People: Valerie Finnis and the Golden Age of Gardening
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Practical Classics on Land Rover Series 1 Restoration: The Complete DIY Series 1 Land Rover Restoration Guide (Practical Classics)
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How To D.I.Y. - Vol. 7 - Tiling
Customer Review: Tiling
I would strongly advise you to spend your money on a good DIY manual before wasting it on buying this tape. It takes you through one basic step of obvious measuring up before starting the job and then a boring amount of time watching somebody tiling. This could hardly be called instructional. There are many stages to go through before tiling and the one illustrated is very,very elimentary. The two tapes I have reveiwed and the others in this series are at the sad end of the DIY aids. Bootsale for these.

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STANLEY FATMAX TECHNICIAN BAG 18IN

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Customer Review: Mediterranean Garden Plants
Lorraine Cavanagh's glossy photographs of individual plants on each double page spread, along with its habits and cultivation needs, is a delight for anyone looking for suitable plants for a Mediterranean garden. In the back is a section of cross reference, with lists according to one's requirements - such as sun or shade, climbers, trees etc. I would recommend this book to anyone either starting from scratch, or needing help in choosing a plant for a particular site.
Customer Review: I've been waiting ages for a book like this!
Christmas has come early for me! It's got all the information you could need for 350 plants including details on habit, cultivation, pruning, propagation and a colour photo for each. Also has English, Latin and Spanish names for the plants. A good friendly and expert writing style - very highly recommended.
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Customer Review: Good for xperienced DIY ers
This book is an excellent reference tool for people with a modicum of common sense and a bit of experience. It has enough depth and breadth to cover the majority of things but if you are looking for something that will tell you how to build a block of flats from scratch using only lolly sticks then you will be dissappointed. It kind of gives you the confidence to do what you knew you wanted to do but didn’t know the detail (like using 10mm cable for a shower installation) I’m a miserable wotsit and I bought another copy for my son Buy it. If you save one tradesman coming in to do a job then it’ll have paid for itself.
Customer Review: Useless - the Readers Digest one is much better
This book is fairly useless, for several reasons: 1. It’s impossible to find what you’re looking for, and the index is hopeless. The only way I managed to find anything was by flicking randomly until I found what I was looking for. 2. Sometimes it is hopelessly patronising, but then most of the time it assumes you know much more than you would as an amateur DIYer. For example, we wanted to know how to put in a loft door, and it said ’shore up the size of the hatch to fit the door you’ve bought’. How do you do that? If it was covered elsewhere in the book, it was hopeless trying to find it. This is just one example from six months of frustration with this book. 3. It is rubbish at telling you exactly what you need to ask for when you go to hardware stores. Often B&Q had no idea what the thing was the book said I needed. (OK B&Q are also a bit rubbish) We’ve just bought our first flat, and are fairly competent at DIY, but having lived with this book for six months, we ended up buying the Readers Digest one, which is infinitely better. We’re not even going to bother keeping the Collins for a second opinion, it’s that rubbish.
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