This could be a very long answer so will try to contain myself.

Generally, I agree with the initial sentiments. An image is not what is front of you, it is what you make of it. It is how you control and use the light and how you see the subject and what you include and exclude from the frame.

There are of course a plethora of photographic styles and some are based on PP (post processing).

If we just think about standard digital images, then all photos are processed. This is usually by a camera to a set of default settings. This was the same with film choice previous to this.

Post processing to me is just taking control of the processing. Sure, it’s not easy, sure it takes skill to do well, sure it’s easy to do badly but if you want a photograph to really be yours then you have to do it. This is just the same as if you were a film tog back in the day.

…the same goes for filters. If you use ND or ND grad filters for landscape images then they all have a colour cast to a greater of lesser extent so PP is actually a more pure way of processing the shots.

…okay kept that fairly brief but that’s my 2c.

How many kids?

We have 3. It changes everything… but not as much as 4.

We have to avoid the bump on the floor in between the two rear seats, it’s right pain.

If you want one without an engine but nice leather seats… you know where to come 🙂

The car was fine. They drink oil though and I hadn’t topped it up for 2 – 3 months then it died on the way to work one morning (yes without a warning light).

I looked around for spares as did a couple of garages but the only places we could find either wanted nearly 2K for the engine or were not places I was prepared to give cash to.

Companies house on-line was useful because one place said they had the part but when you googled them the directors had a string of similar businesses either in liquidation or closed down and decent list of previous client complaints about wrong parts and huge amounts of difficulty in sorting out their situations.

hence… “good luck” 🙂

I had a similar experience recently with my Subaru Legacy worth a similar amount but it stopped short of blowing up.

I looked around for a replacement engine but couldn’t find one from a trustworthy source so it going up for spares / repair today 🙁

Good luck!

gumtree
motors.co.uk

rac site.

I use a NAS drive (which has local duplication covered) and I mean to back up each year to a USB drive and store it off site e.g. at parents house in case the place burns down etc.

This app gives you loads of car info too (including MOT & TAX):

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/digital-garage/id1038222093?mt=8

Thanks all. Tons of good info.

Ade

Thanks all.

This thread had some good feedback on them too:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/any-reason-not-to-get-an-atera-strada-over-a-thule-euroway

I use the ones by these guys:

you’ll need your own music.

The ones by GCN used to be okay until they added adverts mid-routine and sometimes in the middle of a sprint.

Thanks… did either of you guys compare the Witter to the Strada?

50% of us purlease!

lol

Thanks… not too near Derby (a long way away 🙂 )

Has anyone used the Witter version?

If bike manufacturers made watches you can bet they would! They’d have at least 3 time standards.

Most people would frown upon digital watches

1/2 of us would try and build our own in rejection of the whole charade.

A select few would wear grandfather clocks on their wrists because they are better in the snow.

Every watch club would have at least 1 member who still wore a sun dial on his wrist.

Thanks morecashthandash – it is easy to get the bikes on and off? One of the problems with the exodus is the straps for the wheels. It’s really fiddly. I like the idea of being to able to chuck it in the boot.

Cougar – Do you recommend any of them?

Buying from a dealer offers some consumer protection. Check the money advice website.

However, “reasonable condition” for a car of this mileage could be something that dealers will fall back on if there are issues.

Paying with a credit card also offers some protection.

Trello has just been bought by Atlassian so is only going to get better.

😯 😯 😯 Wow, optimistic much??

(Not a Jira fan)

Not Revs.. older model 🙂

Personally I prefer Trello style stuff. Leankit is my preference.

If you want more traditional tools maybe check out the omnigraffle suite.

Would definitely suggest trying them out. The whyte looks nice but will the wheels feel big?

Check out the forks. Lots on kids bikes are useless & heavy.

My kids are just growing out of their Hoy Bonaly 24s which were great. We added an RST Fork for Alps / BPW stuff (from bike-discount) and disc brakes would have been good but there wasn’t much about a few years ago.

West Sussex Duncancallum

Thanks guys. That all makes sense. Good to know I’m not the only muppet out there.

If anyone has a line on cheaper engines – lemme know! 🙂

In answer to the last check of oil… a few months max.

Yeah really. No oil light – until after the event. Accelerating up to dual carriageway speed then unpleasant noises and engine cuts out. After letting it cool and topping up with oil it starts but makes a horrible clattering noise.

Apparently some cars just have an oil pressure light not a level light… so the garage told me earlier. My fault though, I’d figured this previously and read that these cars are quite heavy on oil.

Can’t remember exactly what it was something has rotated where it shouldn’t have and its now knackered.

Thanks guys.

lol

Thanks guys… yeah that’s what I’m thinking too. General condition is pretty decent.

I paid just under 4K about a year ago and this was not above market price but it was above the ‘book’ trade value but I think it was more an issue with the book than the value. I have put some miles on it maybe 20K but it still feels like it’s worth fixing.

Good tip. Ta. Will take a look. Don’t mind paying a bit more just to get it done quickly but if I can get a line on an engine then that would be helpful

They are not awesome. Compared to fresh coffee the best I can say is that they are inoffensive but I’m a coffee elitist.

There are worse things,

War Horse? (or another Michael Morpurgo?)

Lord of the Rings?

feel free to add your vote to the 7000 other votes… just don’t expect much progress. 🙂

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Explicit-button/idc-p/1407697#M84990

Balls….not an Apple user and don’t really intend to start.
Don’t understand why Spotify don’t want to implement it…

me too. seems crazy to ignore:

a) professional market where inappropriate lyrics are unacceptable
b) the next generation of customers

We did get a nutri-thingy style kitchen appliance this Christmas though and so far they have been awesome. you can mix in proteins, carbs and greens as well as fruit – very tasty too but I wouldn’t swap the whole diet for one.

Spotify is great but we are leaving unfortunately as the kids are now getting in to music and we need a family product.

Apple music at least try to filter out explicit songs so the kids can browse and discover artists and check out curated playlists like “UK Rap” and I can see that 80% of the songs are blocked for them.

Spotify let everything through and just show the word “explicit” next to it but refuse to add any filtering (despite the 6000 comments on their forum requesting it).

The irony is that is that I probably wouldn’t have noticed if they hadn’t launched a product called “Family” and then not allowed children to register so more: “Flat share” than “Family”… which seems a bit short-sighted IMHO.

If this is not on your horizon though then Spotify is great. I download tracks to my phone and stream to the car or listen remotely as well as through Sonos at home. Apple music allow this too.

does steak juice count?

nothing bad to say about Jedi but I had one session with the Pro Ride guides who were good too. Top riders.

A

I use gmail for business. I like it but I’m a fairly light user.

It was pretty easy to set up and has required no maintenance since.

Pros –
gmail and all the apps (mobile etc)
Access from anywhere
Docs & Sheets is 2nd to none for collaborative content

Cons –
email signatures not as good yet (AFAIK unless you use the old version of gmail)
some invites do funny things when received on gmail

for me – I’m happy.

Dire. <5 mins.

Congrats njee – good work mate. Maybe Southern Rail will be fixed by the time you new baby is old enough to work. 🙂

Thanks for the playlist move tips. The ones I used had <30% success.

Will try those.

Have you actually tried them yet 🙁