bonchance – something xxxgel? = AeroGel

Amazing U Value for thickness but stupidly expensive from what I remember, I looked at it but decided against it when I saw the price. Difficult to get hold of it too by the looks of it, I think it was developed for Space flight.

You export in a WMF format which is vector based so shouldn’t loose any quality at all. Then if you need jpeg you can open the WPF in many other apps which can do the jpeg conversion and hopefully maintain your quality.

What about some fairly firm gel\elastomer filling to allow movement but limit it and provide support?

I can’t cycle for the moment on Dr’s orders, I seriously can’t wait to even start commuting, even in this weather.

I’ve just begrudgingly had to buy a second family car and I’m fed up of the traffic already (2 months now), the traffic getting out of town is mental! The first 3-4 miles of my 7mile commute takes twice as long as on my bike most days if I leave anywhere near 5, thankfully I’m on reduced hours at the moment.

You’ll never hear me whine about the cold wind of rain. MTFU 😉

On the other end of the scale my son (2 YO) seems to be turning into a carnivore! he picks the meat out of every meal and then we struggle to get him to eat anything else 😥

When I was renovating my house a couple of years ago we had half a dozen or so offer to take stuff for free. A few just tried wandering round the back garden uninvited (completely ignoring the front door and door bell) luckily either myself or one of the guys I had working there spotted them before the found the stockpile round the back. One of the builders said it wasn’t uncommon for scrap to go missing over night if sites were unoccupied.

For all the scrap we collected from a 3 bed semi I got just over £1000.
Mix of copper (pipe and wire), lead, brass, aluminium and steel. It was well worth splitting the clean and dirty copper (cutting soldered joints etc) added 30% to the price, I didn’t bother stripping the wire though, I tried it but simply took too long to do by hand to be worth it.

So yes you can make good money from it, and yes some but certainly not all are a bit dodgy! (as there are in any walk of life, from politicians and bankers to scrap metal men) no idea if any of the ones that asked at my place were dodgy or not. I did stay on site and did however see a couple of slow evening drive bys by the same vans, they didn’t stop when they saw me though……

There have been a number of manhole covers which have gone missing around the local town just recently which has been in the local press.

A woman who works in our staff canteen drives a nice new Range Rover with a scrap metal business sign in the rear window, I assume her husbands, so money is definitely there to be made.

Not got a specific car yet, but there are a couple I’ve been looking at on autotrader some trade some private

Great cheers, I googled earlier and for VED it said without a reminder you had to go to a post office, if I can do that on line too 24/7 then that’ll be great

Well done everyone, keep up the great work. I’m far from local but have ridden in the area a few times and, I’ve done the questionnaire and have been following.

Fingers crossed you can get them to back track and get it back to what it was. Not sure if anyone else has suggested it but perhaps the offer of a working part to help clean up their mess to help save them some money would help. Although I’m hundreds of miles away I’d be tempted to lend a hand if I could make it.

If you like what you’ve got ask them to refurbish it.

I’m on the same chair I’ve had here for years and had it recovered and serviced a few years ago, should save them a few quid and a happy employee win win

Cheers Ton, but my condition’s not perhaps a serious as it sounds. Prognosis is very good, I caught it early because I’m fit and noticed things that many wouldn’t have as soon, and it’s a chronic condition so I’m expecting a long, and once it’s under control pretty normal life, I hope. Just with regular monitoring to check it doesn’t progress to a more advanced stage, fingers cross it doesn’t ever, the Drugs I’m on do that in the majority of cases.

A number of studies are happening to test if once in a full remission if people can come off the drugs to avoid the long term toxic affects.

I’ve a similar long term dilemma with my Leukaemia.
The drug I’m on has long term toxicity issues (Heart, Bone problems amongst others)

For the moment I need to stick with them as it’s early days and need to get healthy and into remission first, but then the question’s there for me too.

I’m not agonising over it now as it’s a good few years away for me, but it’s there niggling away in the back of my mind.

Fingers crossed some other options or a cure comes out of stem cell research or something before the decision has to be made.

IMHO you need to talk to the Dr’s and your family about the risks of each and likely outcomes and just go with your gut. Do you have some kind of “key worker” or support person\contact from the Hospital. I’ve got a specific Nurse to contact who’s a specialist in my condition for help\support. We’ve met but I’ve not used her yet but I will.

Good Luck Ton

Doesn’t sound like cml

Given his age and the fact it sounds like its acute, my guess would be ALL

Best of luck to him

Beesey, there are several Newforce Groups to ride with btw. There’s a thursday ride from the Queen Inn and a fixed new forest one and a roaming NF\Winchester one and a few other’s too + weekend rides. There’s something for most people there in one group or another. I’ve ridden with them on and off for a long time now, can’t wait to start getting back out with them asap once some health issues are sorted.

A lot of the groups cross over and mix, I ride with one of three when I can, just depends what suits

my local tyre fitters would pop the tyre off the bead, clean it up and stick a new proper valve in for £15. I can’t see you’re going to save much doing it diy, especially not if you might have to have it done again anyway as MTG said

Btw if it turns out to be cml, I’m more than happy to chat about what I know, I’m a few months in now and have a pretty good handle on things. Life’s getting close to normal already

As already said you need to find out which type. Outcomes and treatment vary a lot!

I’ve got CML (chronic myeloid leukaemia) myself, fairly early on but treatment is fairly mild and prognosis is very good, not all leukaemia’s are as as bad as most people’s initial reactions.

Macmillan website is a good source of info once you know the type too.

DIY I swapped one at our last place ( baxi boiler) we’d had it serviced and the engineer said it had limited life and would cost £150 ish at the time.

As long as you’re not touching the gas side I’d go for it, it’s simple as you say a few screws and plug the new one in job done

I’m not an expert, don’t come after me if you screw it up 😆

Me too, signed!

Yes the NHS could be more efficient in many ways no doubt.

But! Does anybody (who’s not going to personally profit from it) believe that there are enough efficiency improvements to be had that all the problems can be righted and also enable a significant profit for shareholders too?

And can anybody please explain to me why it’s seemly impossible for a Tory (and others) to believe a public body can improve and become in anyway efficient/cost effective? It seem to be endless said that:
Public = poor quality, inefficient and poor value for money
and
Private = Perfect efficiency and great service for all users of the service

I think we could all give example of where those “Rules” appear to be broken.

chvck that article is interesting, talk of 31 days from diagnosis to starting treatment.

From the point I had my diagnosis I had started my treatment in hours! that initial treatment lasted a few weeks, with regular monitoring and then immediately started on my long term treatment path within two weeks, still on weekly or biweekly checks and tests and appointments at the moment.

No the NHS isn’t perfect by any means but it’s pretty damned good, and in my personal experience, just fantastic!

The mail is a hateful, hateful! rag, nothing good to say about anything!

+ what binners said

The NHS has been brilliant with me and my condition (Leukaemia), great treatment and fast too, no hanging around at all, tests and biopsy’s done there and then and fast results and onto chemo there and then. Nice caring and helpful Dr’s, nurses and staff throughout.

I really can’t fault them, in again tomorrow to see my consultant.

I went for the Yepp mini ahead and liked it. I puts the little one up and forward a bit more than a wee ride, so a bit less odd knees out cycling which I preferred.

Just needs a chain, pedals and grips and it’s ready to roll

and shortening those hoses obviously 😉
sorry this is still STW 🙂

When I spoke to my gas man over the road about a new boiler which we’ll be doing within the next year, he said Vaillant were his no.1 choice, most reliable and best to work with\fit. Worchester were his no.2 nearly as good but in general everything was just a bit more compact which he said made them more fiddly to work with and also a touch more fragile\less reliable.

If the boilers not that old I’d probably fix it though, mine’s a huge cast iron floor thing with pilot light which looks like it could have come from the ark! it has to go asap

Caxton fx works for me

policies like that always state something along the lines of, the other car not being owned by you

boxelder – Member
Joe Moses in Bananas photo up there finished 3rd!
Swap to road bike at bottom of the lane I’m guessing?

Imagine what he’d have done if his bike hadn’t broken and he did it with his eye’s open too 😉 Impressive!

Glad your ok OP and still have all your teeth

doglover – Member
Are there any plans to improve the cycle ‘path’ from Ashurst to Lyndhurst ? If this widened a bit & tarmaced then it would encourage more riders to use it, particularly if on road bikes.

Yes I believe there are plans for it. They were already budgeted for elsewhere but were also included in the NFNPA £2m spend I assume they plan to free that already allocated money to be spend on something other than cycling.

It is an awful path and it needs work, but very much doubt it’ll be brought up to a sufficient standard, the surface is awful but the main problem is the width, in places it’s about 40cm no where near wide enough for 2 way.

If I’m out for a pootle with the family I’ll use it but if I’m out on the road bike I wouldn’t dream of it.

Stayed in the YHA in Keswick next to the river once which was pretty good, reasonably priced and has a kitchen lounge etc

Didn’t stay long it was only an over night stop off in the way home from the ‘puffer.

or the very least ban towing caravans / vans down there.

+1

A few weeks back we were out that way for a walk around Blackwater with some friends and a large articulated car transporter came down there, way to fast! He should never have been going down that road at all, and certainly not at the speed he was. There were large chunks of tree down on our drive home, which were not there when we came out.

Just as a point of order – they’re not actually planning to widen it, they intend to:

. Upgrade road edges on both sides (without road widening), creating a consistent, high quality surface for cyclists to access this key scenic route through the heart of the National Park.

Yes and No! If you read between the lines they are perhaps planning on widening it, I’ll explain.

There are sections which have concrete hatchings to allow passing and to protect the verges from collapsing many suspect these will be covered in tarmac to so in effect widening by stealth! I wouldn’t be surprised if bits without the hatchings get widened to under a “restoring it to it’s original width” banner, because the edges have crumbled (which they have) but maybe stretching that to create a uniform width along the roads length.

IMHO all this will do is speed up the traffic and make it an even more attractive option for a rat run. The road will still not be a very wide road by any means and again IMHO no safer (if not worse) for cyclists.

😥

As and when I sell a car privately I always get the buyer to sign a little receipt “sold and seen etc”. With this in mind I might think about adding an extra line, something along the lines of

“I [the buyer signed] have the relevant license, insurance and taxes (VED) etc in place to drive [the vehicle] legally on public roads and the seller has no responsibility with regards it beyond [Date, Time, Mileage]”

An accident could happen literally minutes later, I’d have sorted the insurance out, but perhaps that evening or in the next few days not necessarily that minute!

I’d be surprised if it this actually happened though

Call Me Dave – “We’ll be the Greenest government ever”, oh no actually lets “Cut the green crap” now shall we

cheers, it’s a life long thing no permanent cure but very effective drugs to keep it in remission permanently hopefully, but sound like the affects will be pretty minimal once we’re there

Thanks again everyone, yep a new challenge for sure. I was just saying to the wife this’ll be the thing to kick me up the arse and get me really fit again. Been a slack ish couple of years really with the little one and a house renovation but still managed, amongst other bits and pieces, the RatRace coast to coast last year and a 3 Peaks Yacht Race this year all be it very slowly! We think it was just starting\lingering then, I hadn’t trained enough as I’d been ill on the run up to it and it took ages to shake the bug but I really struggled far more than I expected. I felt so guilty for my running partner as I held him up so much, but we finished which was the main thing.

I can’t imagine how you guys get through it with your kids, bdg, muppet4 and anybody else. I really don’t think I’d be coping so well if it was him. You guys have my utmost respect for keeping positive and your well wishes as well as everybody else’s really do mean a lot. Hope your kids kick their conditions too and lead a full and happy life.

In the grand scheme of things it sound like I’ve got it easy and should be absolutely fine.

I’ve always donated whole blood and for several years I went almost every month and donated platelets too and have always raised cash with my events for hospices and cancer charities having been affect by it with family. I had to call the blood people the other day to get them to take me off their list but I know for sure I’ll be back doing events again and doing my best to raise a much cash as I can for those important causes.

A “remission Bivvy” sounds good, cheers Allan

If we’ve caught it as early as we hope and I respond well to treatment then it might not even be all that far away, fingers crossed.

cheers guys some good info there, yeah I’m in no major hurry to get back to sport but just trying to understand how limiting if at all it might be in the long term.

Still got some things I’d like to tick off, not bucket lists style or anything. Just some events and personal goals\trips\rides which I’ve thought about over the years. Geoff Thomas’ storey seems really positive

Main focus for the moment is to get it under control and into remission and my family.

cheers nemesis that sounds great, might be reading that soon

cheers OldBloke, that’s promising news, yeah getting tired too atm but my blood make up is screwed up atm. Thick from abnormal white cells and depressed red\haemoglobin and platelets so bruising far to easily too