Does anyone else think they will build this thing just in time for Hyperloop to be perfected and it will be blown out of the water?

Wait till you ride it offroad – rolls so much better. I went 26 to 29, felt like a barge to start with but I wouldn’t go back now.

I get the feeling from his recent videos that he isn’t too fussed, just wants to be in leading pack as the pass into Southern Ocean. Apparently his boat is pretty optimised for the down wind conditions of the Southern Ocean.

We have one, very pleased with it. Coming home to a warm house when you have been on away for weekend etc is bliss.
Being able to easily set it ‘away’ when you go out for day is very useful too. We use the learning setup which seems to work fine.

Anecdotally driving to work (i cant work from home i’m a hospital Doc) seems about as busy as usual, During the first lockdown it was dead. Loads of people seem to be using the carparks too. I strongly suspect that this ‘lockdown’ will continue to knacker the economy without making very much difference to the virus transmission due to poor compliance. People are fed up, rightly or wrongly.

@gnusmas That was my feeling, it’s not entirely clear though.

Genuine question. If we walk to the beach (which we can from our house) are we allowed to go for a swim at the moment? I have an 8yr old desperate to try out his new wetsuit! I don’t think it contravenes rule 1.

Such a waste. 16m could transform the infrastructure on that mountain, rather than throwing more good after bad on that train.

Excellent work! Would you share the details of the lathe please?

Id second that!

Tally Ho is awesome. Acorn to Arabella also very good, but its a bit too American, all a bit nice to each other for me!!

It looks a bit clunky to me, the battery solution in particular looks poor.

suppose I’m trying to say that the “nice” areas are few and far between, and are surrounded by struggling , grim towns and villages. The outdoors aspects are vast and easily accesible, but the pay off will be mixing with, and forcing your children to mix with, people who might distrust and judge you purely on your English accent.

I’ve lived in Swansea for 10 years. Sure it has its problems as does Llanelli which your alluding to, but overall what your saying is total rubbish.

https://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Hair_loss – anyone who mentions detoxing comes across as a total charlatan. The body does not need detoxing unless you dont have working Kidneys or Liver!!

Whenever I go into a Wickes it seems like a business thats struggling. The shop looks a mess, its poorly stocked. It has a feel that its about to go out of business.

Whats a pre pack?

I’m not a businessman in anyway but i just dont get how this all works. JD sports owned them 0 but they havent gone broke, but Go has and now they have bought them back? Is this just a business way of screwing your suppliers?

I think this would be a good look.

JSP force 8 is what the cool kids are wearing this seaseon.

I’m not sure how aggressively they’re expanding but they’ve certainly increased their number over the last few years. This from their website:

Happy to stand corrected!

It compares poorly to decathlon.

I’m not sure thats entirely fair. There is alot of overlap but they are not quite the same market – Decathlon does pretty much all sports with a good outdoor section and a few tents and lots of own brand stuff but it doesn’t have the range of camping equipment that Go Outdoors does.

I think the business model makes sense – in a recession you go camping because its cheap, when your doing well people take extra holidays camping. I think the underlying question is whether any retailer like this can compete in the days of Amazon, CRC, Wiggle etc.

Re Decathalon – I don’t think the UK is market that they are that interested in expanding aggressively into – which is a shame because they sell alot of very good stuff for the price they charge.

Will be a shame if they close. I used to work for them in their Sheffield shop many years ago when they only had one shop and were looking at starting to expand. Im sure the business model has changed lots but it always used to be 100% markup on everything even the deal stock – a high percentage of their budget was always kept back to allow them to have spare cash to be able to always buy whatever deal stock the manufacturers had spare. The discount card was always a very open ploy to get your address to allow aggressive direct marketing – and in return 10% off rrp on all products. They always used to buy their premises rather than rent as well, but I’m sure thats changed.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they are sold off if they previous owners who left the business dont get back involved.

Went into Gooutdoors, they have been open for ages, not sure how. The shops are so big it didn’t feel in any way a risk of catching anything, at least not compared to working in a hospital.

If you have paid by credit card you should be safe, plus debit cards can initiate a chargeback.
Just had to do it to currys pc world for non delivery of an £800 laptop plus then not being contactable and having non existent customer service in sorting a refund out.

We have space in ICU at the moment, we don’t mind a good trauma from doing fun activities. Gnar away I say.

Im sure they will open up for people to ride up relatively soon, but unfortunately that wont touch the sides as above – less people paying less money overall, less in the shop, less in the cafe its all linked. You need uplift or it just becomes another trail centre that can support maybe a visitors centre but thats it.

They should not build a funicular.

I don’t think any of these ideas would be cheap but for a successful business that doesn’t seem to have an obvious way out, it seems a bit go big or go home?

Chairlift wouldn’t be able to run in lots of the winter winds I seem to remember reading.

I think this is only based on ancient chairlifts – BPW isn’t in that an extreme spot weather wise. Modern chairlifts are much more wind resistant.

I would have thought that 6 million plus was the level of investment that a bigish business like BPW could consider.

Glenshee in Scotland have put a couple in recently – I struggle to believe thats the kind of money that they are splashing on them and the weather thing is doable with perspex covers I would have thought.

I guess by the time they have built a chairlift hopefully we would have a vaccine so maybe wouldnt really help much.

I’m not even sure that an uplift service could run at 1m spacings profitably.

Agree big fleet of ebikes would be good but cant help feeling that a chairlift ticks all the boxes at the moment.

Or get a laptop plus a dock and have best of both worlds. Simples.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52940335

What ever you do, dont use Currys PC world. I’ve just ordered a Surface Pro laptop from them, they took the money and sent me a fit bit and a google home – worth about £100 vs the £800 the laptop should have been.
You cant get through on the phone at the moment – when I eventually did I organised a return – wasn’t interested in waitiing ten days for a replacement (because it was ordered next day and I needed a laptop for homeschooling) and now two weeks later no refund. Apparently I’m not alone – looks like will have to persue them via the credit card people. Avoid them like the plague.

No way would I want my pockets full of stuff when I go into the Red zone. Dont take a pen, bleep gets washed on coming out, phone which is needed for reference stuff (BNF, antiobiotic formularies etc) goes into waterproof pouch which is wiped down on leaving red zone. If your employer not providing scrubs for ‘full ppe’ thats a bit wrong.

ive got a xiaomi mi 9. Ive only got good things to say about it. If you put the Lawnchair launcher on it you largely remove the annoying software

Got to be better the Currys/PCworld at the moment. Avoid them like the plague. Send wrong goods and are totally uncontactable over the phone at the moment.