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      I might suggest that your competence level is fine, after all you successfully installed said wind vane, looks pretty sturdy and rather importantly appears to be straight. It would have functioned fine. It's your eye for detail that loses you marks. But seeing as you also own two rather impressive cars, I suspect you aren't going to miss those marks overly much. Without wishing to deprecate Nick in any way, men admit mistakes whereas fools pretend they didn't happen (usually causing a large workload surge for everyone else). Brings to mind a certain numpty of a 3/E I had the displeasure of sailing with a couple of years back, who thought that pressing the centre indicator on a 440V 3-phase contactor was how you test the overload trip on a very large motor.............
    • John I
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    • Hamish
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      My cat jumps on the windowsill to look outside, to see if it's raining.  THEN, it will sit looking through the cat flap until it stops.    Huh, dogs! 

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