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It often comes down to placing unrealistic demands on ourselves, it’s okay to be mediocre at most things you do including your job, your hobbies and being a parent if you are one.

I have had to learn to accept being just okay at most things if not all the things I place importance on, and that’s good enough really.

Damp/ condensation caused by either/combination of cold air on the other side of the chimney breast and the presence of salts in the brickwork from the products of combustion from when it had a fire in it.

Is the chimney still used, if not is it ventilated top and bottom?

Thanks all, seems like a hairdryer is a worthwhile addition to the process.

No.

The mileage wouldn’t bother me, my current car has 128k on it, but at 20 years old things just expire. Rust, perishing rubber components,  breaking down of wiring insulation, lack of availability of spare parts etc.

Maybe if it was less than 2 grand and came with a years full MOT but even then…

I too have a chesty kind of virus, no Covid tests to hand though. I refuse to let it derail my progress.

Yeah I can see that now too.

Also not sure if it’s just me but the photos on that web link are terrible quality, not great when your target market is watch geeks who will be looking closely at every little detail they can see.

That Erebus looks like a Chinese Pelagos with a GMT hand. Not keen!

Surely it’s because they have a vested interest in continuing to sell you replacement ‘consumables’.

I too have gone back to wet lubes after trying all sorts of other types. For 100km rides in wet dirty terrain nothing else stays on the chain long enough.

Id rather have a so-called ‘grinding paste’ of soft mud than dry metal on dry metal, and I need to wash the bikes down every few rides anyway at this time of year.

Liquid DPM would be the right product for that, it does need applied carefully following the manufacturer’s guidance though.

It doesn’t help that their houses are made of sticks and on fault low lying flat ground.

It reminds me of Katrina all those years ago, the richest nation on earth somehow completely incompetent at dealing with natural disaster mitigation and relief.

Huge areas of the residential areas flooded during Katrina are still today the way they were the day after it hit.

That pricing is beyond ridiculous, lets be honest.

Definitely just get it replaced on insurance – all you need is for a rock to fall off a pickup in front and crack the screen and pay the excess.

Thanks guys, I’m not quite ready to buy just yet though, I have a little more cash to save first so it’ll be mid next year I think.

It wont be getting babied, but equally no interest in a rubber strap as I’ve no interest wearing it in the water. That’s what the Garmin is for!

Nice. I think I’d buy with the bracelet but probably spend most of the time wearing it with a leather band which seems to compliment it well considering it’s a dive style watch.

@w00dster thanks for the thoughts. I’ve had my eye on a Black Bay 58 for a few years now, albeit off and on. The fact there are so many variations also intimidates me!

I’m paralysed by indecision on a luxury watch. I know I’m the kind of person that will lust after something specific for years then the instant I have it I’ll debate whether I really wanted it or if something else would have been a better fit.

I would probably be better off buying second hand so I could sell if I wanted to change without taking much of a hit, but it doesn’t feel as special for a first luxury watch.

Fingers crossed for a quick recovery!

I wasn’t a fan, found them too soft for summer use and not really much more useful in the winter (good quality summer tyres with decent tread remaining have never made me come up short under braking or steering).

Maybe I just drive like an old person.

Yes but I haven’t done anything about it. Stopped running as that was a major source of inflammation, and it seems to only appear once or twice a month now.

They’re not going to want it back at the end, they’d just have a used bike they’d struggle to sell or do anything with worth their time.

Cormorant, according to an AI reverse search.

That’s quite impressive to be honest. There can’t be much in there to burn, perhaps it was also covered in or full of engine oil from another issue?

I’ll give it a go again! I think I put basically what I lost last time back on since…

This is pretty normal for any government at any point in its cycle, the tories got it for most of the 14 years they were in power and Blair and Brown’s governments before that were in media crisis after crisis for dodgy looking stuff the whole time they were in power.

There’s nothing special about this and probably impossible to avoid as a government no matter how strait laced you are because there’ll always be something you misstep on or misjudge.

I paid £10.5k in 2022 for our 2015 Passat estate which had 106,000mi on it but was top spec. I think it was overpriced but had little choice at the time as my car had been written off in an accident and it was the height of price inflation.

I’ve put 20,000 more miles on it since and it’s been alright with no major dramas, just a few annoyances which I’ve had fixed. That being said I can’t say I’m particular fond of it in general for a few reasons like the seating position being all sorts of wrong for me, and the stupid 19 inch alloys which you feel every pebble on the road through.

Are there any convincing electric estates yet that are old enough to buy used?

Are you sure Morrisons is the reason, have you perhaps got some marker on your Barclays account that is stopping any new transactions and it just so happens that Morrisons was the first things you tried to purchase with the card since?

Have you used the account at any other places and had it work?

I still want to know why its 30 degrees out…

Skyactive is fine in petrol, it’s the diesel one that is best avoided.

Sorry but how is it 30 degrees off centre? Did you hit a wall?

Asda George to be honest. For 12 pounds they are decent quality and most men these days won’t spot the difference between a 50 pound shirt and a 12 quid shirt with how casual outfitting is these days.

Almost all of the settings remember the users choice so you’ll only have to set up most of what you want to achieve once then be done with the faffy part. There are some really good YouTube videos out there on this, spend some time on a Sunday evening following along with a few until you get it looking how you want then you’ll probably find after that you’re actually pretty comfortable with user interface as a bonus.

Probably an SRPE

No

It’s really hard to look up planned works as well.

Why would machines be scaling up even with regular descaling, that sounds not fit for purpose.

I read the full 50 odd page executive summary. So a weak and difficult to understand set of building regulations which failed to capture risks identified as long as 30 years earlier, overseen by fractured regulators who were split across multiple bodies, partially sold into the private sector and seemingly both incompetent, under resourced and in bed with product manufacturers, mixed with ill equipped and under resourced building control bodies who were also partially public and partially privately owned, and a bunch of contractors, designers and clients who didn’t know or understand their role fully, were working to the lowest price possible and passed the buck between each other, then sprinkled with manufacturers who knowingly misled and lied about their products and sold them here because they knew our regulation was weak.

It’s a wonder it doesn’t go wrong far more often frankly.

I mean I know that’s how it is and has been for a long time because I work in the industry, but seeing it written in no uncertain terms is pretty damning. Sadly I don’t think things will change much as long as the industry works on the lowest bidder at every junction and incredibly tight margins and high risk/low investment for too many parts of the supply chain. You can regulate and oversee as much as you like but sadly some companies will still throw their innovation at working around this instead of genuinely improving things.

Did you check in for the flight?