Thank you. Both out now to reveal the threads.

I had an odd job offer experience recently. Interview went well, salary offer good and we shook on the deal. Email that evening the formal offer was over £2k less than the interview offer! They were surprised and couldn’t understand why I turned them down.

Our HR team did some training with us not so long ago and told us that verbal offers are legally binding and could land us in an employment tribunal. Maybe not the best way to start employment with a company though!

So many out there to choose from, very much personal taste. I went with a Boker – https://uk.knivesandtools.eu/en/pt/-boker-plus-tech-tool-city-1-01bo801.htm?gclid=CjwKEAjws-LKBRDCk9v6_cnBgjISJAADkzXetfCdPlmhjUsfzVfWJPyZ7yf9OgrcEtIx_LzvlwCN4BoC9bHw_wcB

Age of sexual consent is only 13 in Japan according to a quick Google search, the lowest of any developed country. With that considered I can see why this would be more readily accepted in popular culture in Japan. Didn’t watch the show btw.

The wall is made of aerated blocks, unfortunately I don’t know the type of render used or exactly what’s behind the wall.

I believe there was a pond where the lower decking is now and I think there may have been some sort of water feature feeding into it from where the upper deck now is.

The base for the upper deck had some sort of material covering it, but I’m guessing it’s just mud behind the wall.

Quite a bit of talk about overzealous H&S professionals here. Where I work we have a very sensible and very qualified HSE manager, talking to him he has a very sensible and proportionate approach to managing the risks we have.

Unfortunately, despite the fact we employ someone who really knows his stuff, our board of directors and CEO have self appointed themselves as experts without any qualifications whatsoever. And as they are the people steering the business, our H&S direction does not (in my opinion) encourage an improved culture.

We currently strive for zero harm through disciplinary procedures and incredibly frequent audits.

Nice to see a few people asking the right questions! How many falls down stairs caused by holding a hand rail? None would be my guess, how could holding a hand rail cause you to fall? Holding a hand rail is a control measure introduced to limit the consequences of a slip or fall down stairs.

My personal opinion for my work place is that rules for handrail holding is over the top. But then the building I work in is only 3 years old and has lovely wide, evenly spaced stairs that are visually easy to judge. This is due to building regulations that ensure this is the case.

Not all buildings are the same though and some stairs will be safer than others by design, so it’s entirely plausible that another buildings will have less safe stairs that a competent person has identified and needing additional control measures through their own incident? monitoring. And that’s before you look at individuals who may have poor eyesight, coordination, disabilities, etc…

Those complaining about HSE statistics – they come from actual accidents reported by workplaces in England and Wales.

So all of those 600 falls down stairs will have been work related and will therefore exclude the (presumably many more) falls down stairs outside of work.

That said, 600 seemed high to me so I took a quick look:

For non-domestic stairs, it is estimated that each year in the UK, there are over 100,000 injuries
(DTI, 1999 cited in Roys & Wright, 2003) and around 100 fatalities (Office of National
Statistics, 1996/7/8 cited in Roys & Wright, 2003).
During 2001/2002 there were 500 RIDDOR reported accidents involving low falls (below two
metres) from stairs. For this time period, this made stairs the second most significant agent in
low falls behind ladders. The majority of these falls result in over 3 day injuries although a
significant portion involves major injuries.

Thanks all, purchased a lovely (imo) Mazda 6 yesterday. 2007 petrol with only 66,000 miles on the clock. Previous MOT history indicates it’s been well looked after and the bodywork is tidy. Thanks for the advice, here’s hoping it’s reliable!

38 seconds. Toshiba Satellite, Windows 7, Intel i5 1.6GHz, 6gb ram, SSD.

Mazda 6 and Mondeo both look like a good shout. Even the hatchback boots look large. Will have to view some.

Another vote for a moon shield. Best rear light I’ve used and I tried Lezyne, Exposure and Cateye on my commute.

Only slight gripe was you have to be careful with the usb cover.

No opinion on them, but Diahatsu Terios is another option.

That said, saw a white Suzuki on here once with the right wheels and it looked ace!

Persprirex works for me. Been using it for years now, hope it does not kill me, but just waiting for child number 2 so it has not killed my soldiers.

Got a Bosch Rotak 43 Li, very happy with it.

Light, easily up to the job of my lawn and quiet. Makes good stripes too.

I’d rather see any cyclist on the pavement if they’re not confident mixing it with traffic.

Way too many hot headed motorists on the road and the nearly 20 year old road traffic act is out of touch with the modern world.

I went the second hand route and ended up with a 2007 Toyota Aygo. Car choice came down to insurance cost.

Cheapest cars I could find to insure were Kia Picanto, Aygo, Citroen C1 – all around the £1500 mark once she passed. I did see a cheap Skoda Fabia which looked ideal, but would have been £3400 to insure!!! So get quotes first!

On the other hand ‘free insurance’ deals with lease cars can be equally cost effective just because insurance is so damn expensive!

Well thank you to all those who suggested sugru, particularly mechanicaldope who got in there first.

It’s done the job of blocking the hole perfectly so far and the washers work as they should. Just need to see if it lasts long term.

Unfortunately the MOT won’t be passed just yet though as I’ve now got a non functioning wing mirror indicator! It’s been hit by something by the looks of it and the LEDs that are not broken are now dim and only work intermittently. Second hand unit ordered as about £500 from Subaru lol.

Will try sugru first and disconnect and remove if that doesn’t work.

Legend, thanks for the tip – at what point did you disconnect? I imagine there’s some lengthy pipework back there somewhere!

The part for £30 odd quid doesn’t include the cap for the water jet unfortunately. I know because I bought one hoping it would solve the problem.

All I need to do is plug it somehow, but it needs to be a strong plug! Is sugru waterproof and will it adhere to ABS plastic? I’m assuming that’s what the water jet is made of.

I hope you mean a bulb and not a single clove

Yep, sorry! I wasn’t as taken with it as I thought I would be though. Usually devour whole cloves when roasted with vegetables for around 40 mins, even if they are pretty burnt!

Did the bulb for 40 mins at 180 with olive oil rubbed into the top of the cut open cloves. Was covered in foil, but the taste wasn’t anywhere near as nice as I was anticipating!

Scan them into a .PDF?

If they are causing you problems I’d contact the club. Reputation is important to the teams and I’d expect them to have the best chance of getting through to the guys.

Cheapest I found through many, many online quotes was the Kia Picanto, next cheapest was the Toyota Aygo.

Has it got an SD card slot? I bought a high capacity and fast SD card for my laptop to increase the capacity and it works really well. No faff as it’s always plugged in.

Word of warning on the Honda Accord. Check the electronic tailgate very carefully, ours became unsellable when it stopped working – couldn’t even open it manually from the outside. Honda wanted over £1100 to fix it.

Mine went missing for two weeks. Only came back after we got desperate and abducted another local cat that looked vaguely similar and shut it in our house.

Mazda 5? Toyota Verso?

Surly Straggler.

Yeah, tried 3 factory resets of the cone and can’t even remember how many times I’ve tried to connect using the up volume button and centre button (cone always appears to do what it should and centre button starts to flash blue). Tried switching phone on and off too, but still no joy!

Maybe the Bluetooth on my phone is up the creak? As I say wife’s phone connects fine as does my daughter’s iphone, but the two iPod Bluetooth dongles don’t connect either! Grumpy and frustrated!

Had mine for a week now and left with mixed feelings.

I think the sound is good for its size and the battery life is great. Used in the garden and the lounge it sounds great.

Connectivity is when I’ve had issues. First time out it connected great via Bluetooth to my Motorola Moto G v3, but never again. Only way now is via Spotify, but only if I stump up and go premium – tested via the 7 day free trial.

Also cannot get it to connect using Bluetooth dongles attached to my iPod, but they both work perfectly with a cheap £10 Bluetooth speaker we have.

Wife’s Moto G has connected a few times without fault, but wondering how long that will last.

See the link in my post above.

Bake the pads in the oven.

http://forums.mtbr.com/brake-time/xt-xtr-brakes-get-squeal-power-loss-after-sitting-idle-6-8-weeks-902792.html

Love my Gillette Sensor Excel. Tried many others and always go back to it.

I wanted something similar last year, went with a Diahatsu Sirion and spent considerably less than £4k. Cracking little car, but no toys just the basics.

It’s all about looks. Skinny tyres look plain silly on mtbs.

Go two inch, it won’t be long before road bikes see the light and go fat too.

Are you sure you have that pressure limit? You probably don’t if you’re running with tubes.

Anyway, if you want low pleasure you’ll want large volume. Schwalbe Kojak in 2.0 x 26. Very light, very fast and look good on a MTB.

I took fruit in last week for my birthday. Turns out everyone had had it with donuts, cakes and cookies.

All gone by lunchtime. Favourite was pineapple, closely followed by melon and coconut.

Haven’t had to deal with analogue for many years now,so not sure on it auto switching to driving. Check in the yard before you leave.

My only advice for today – if you’re not sure if you’ve got room, get out and look! Hope you have a great day driving it!