Nice gaff.  I thought Bristol was meant to be expensive. Demolishing the kitchen would be mental – also not sure the mortgage company would be very happy as you’d be basically devaluing the property.  Kitchen>>>>Garden.

Lindy

Cannabis

What are you basing this on?

The A10 chip in the iPad is an absolute beast and will still be usefully useable 5 years from now.  The iPad will also have OS updates for a few years anyway. The iPad mini 2 released in November 2013 is a supported device on the forthcoming iOS12

The Fire HD8 by comparison still runs software based on Android Lollipop (released in 2014) and a CPU released in 2013.

If productivity and possible note taking etc are factored in I don’t think those Amazon tablets, (well the HD8 because that’s what I’ve used) would even be a Vauxhall Zafira in that comparison, more like a Honda C90, economical but you couldn’t get a chest of draws in one.

Mrs has the HD8  they are not “great”, although tbf Amazon were great when I returned it when the charging port died.

But y’know, whatever, I’m not fussed what Ms thepodge gets for university just think that bang for buck at £319 the IPad 2018 is an absolute steal (as is £50 for the Fire) and will, gods of consumer electronics willing, still be a useful device in 5 years time.  The HD8 will most likely be landfill/responsibly recycled.

I have an 18 month old one and it’s been updated twice now

And that’s your lot.

For the uses asked for if it does that now it will still do the same things in 2-3 years time.

Yes, slowly and jankily, but it will do the same stuff. And if it lasts that long my first Samsung S2 lasted 6 days, my second 5 months.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not an Apple fanboi but other than price there are zero arguments for buying an Android tablet over the iPad especially in the education sphere.

Because they do the same stuff?

Pretty much, just got my first apple product – bought a 6s to replace my S7Edge when it died last week.  Not really that much difference – hey it’s a little (amazing) computer, you press stuff and stuff happens.

However the Tab A won’t ever receive a software update ever again, has a weak outdated CPU and will in all likelihood be a paperweight before Ms thepodge leaves university.  The iPad will still have the latest iOS and still be supported by Apple, the A10 chip will still be competitive.  Even Google have given up on Android tablets.

Apple iPad 2018 is good/great value at £319 imo.  You can even use it to take notes using the Apple pencil (obvs at additional expense).  As a once was Apple-phobe I don’t really know why anyone would buy an Android tablet currently.

The main issue is that it gets really cold in winter and really hot in the summer, being in the roof, so it is not quite as good as sleeping in a “normal” bedroom.

I must admit I was worried about this when we had our roof “done” a couple of years ago, having been in various other loft conversions over the years.  However sufficient insulation makes this moot, it’s the warmest room in the winter thanks to convection and the coolest in the summer thanks to a lovely front to back breeze from the dormer windows – massive tilt and turn jobs and a couple of Velux on the roof side.  We have a large storage space in the eaves on the roof side and the temperature difference is staggering. It’s by far the nicest and most comfortable bedroom. Insulation eh.

Unsure of cost of mine because it was part of a total house refurb but I think somewhere in the region of £45k, handily the excellent builder is a personal friend and he worked for an hourly rate we did all the project management and got professional architectural planners and structural engineers to do their stuff.

My advice would be don’t half arse it.

Could look into l-theanine and CBD

he interviews and comes across so well

* I like the fact that

* He speaks in bullet points

* with a weird melange of

* an accent

Smiles

Walks off

Fun fact, Delica is a compound abbreviation of “Delicate Carry”

Both of my daughters hate coriander because it “tastes of soap”, whereas neither me or the missus have this and we both love coriander.  Genetics is (are?) funny.

I think basically the nozzles in these are smaller, so you get a finer spray

Yeah, it was one of these, rubbish, but then again the plumbing was a bit rubbish too.

We had one fitted a while back after plumbers visit following leak – do plumbers get paid to fit them? Anyway it was bobbins and we replaced it within days.  Logic would dictate that restricting the water flow leads to less powerful (worse?) showers especially with the crappy gravity fed system we had back then.Get a regular shower head.

The perfect day for it. (Waves at fellow ents)

Although no chance of seeing it darn sarf (?)

Pioneer N30

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I clicked, ready to scoff.  Then read “Elastic Titanium” and the titanium/tech freak in me went “ooh”

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective

… has just been cancelled.

Yes but not because of the show but because the show runner Max Landis has been #MeToo-ed

While not the “best” TV show evah I thought it is one of the funnest I’ve watched in ages and has far more of a wacked out comic book feel to it than a lot of actual comic book adaptations.

Lost In Space re-boot was advertised on terrestrial last night

I highly recommend Loudermilk on Amazon Prime too.

Try and be clear what these might be. One reason might be that it’s more difficult to clean crowded teeth leaving them more likely to get decay or gum disease.

I think was the reason daughter #1 was eligible

Both of my daughters have had their braces off in the last month.  Eldest had a proper messed up grid, had braces for 3.5 years, the before and after shots are staggering, worthy of the gallery they have up at the orthodontist.  Youngest daughter had them on for just over a year, her case was much less serious than my eldest but somehow made the NHS cut as well.  Thanks NHS saved me a fortune.

Get your Dentist to refer you to your local Orthodontist to see if your eldest qualifies.  The difference in care was small but you have to wait for an available slot – we didn’t wait at all for the youngest and only a short time for the eldest (despite orthodontist projecting an 8 months to one year wait).  The only other difference seems to be greater flexibility with appointments in school time, ie, if you’re NHS you have to have appointments in school time while the private patients could have pre or post school appointments.
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Diesel with no NOx emissions? It may be possible, and coming soon

Way over £200 but I bought a Country Innovation Rover Ventile Jacket 3 seasons ago and it is almost my favourite ever purchase.  Waterproof, really, really windproof and bombproof.  Disadvantages heavy compared to plastic jackets but then again none of the rustling, crinkling either.

*American* but if you’ve got Amazon Prime I thought Loudermilk was excellent.

Flea Bag on the beeb

Love Sick on C4 now on Netflix – I’ve only seen the first season but there are 3

Very, very happy with my RHA 750 Wireless.  Wear them a lot, hours every day, comfortable, sound great.

Downsides, no app yet(?) but that’s being picky, there are only 7 volume levels – too few so the gaps are too large and the voice, bings and bongs are annoying and seem to be of an absurdly low bit rate.

Edit:  I wouldn’t run in them though

Office 365 it’s £60pa for single user with Office Home and 1TB of cloud storage or £80pa for 5 users and 5TB of storage.  Good deal imo.

Most schools get free Office don’t they?  They do in Herts.

Recently purchased some Circulon Premier Professional frying pans, seem good quality but probably too early to tell on longevity

Anyone fancy some tickets to Alestorm for Piratefest tonight at the Forum Kentish Town?

I’ve shanked my knee so can’t make it, free if anyone can pick em up from East Herts (Ware/Hertford) today

Bump just incase anyone missed it

Anyone fancy some tickets to Alestorm for Piratefest tonight at the Forum Kentish Town?

I’ve shanked my knee so can’t make it, free if anyone can pick em up from East Herts (Ware/Hertford) today

Why are we so bothered though, why are we more bothered by mass shootings in the USA (murder rate 4.88/100,000 people, 15696 murders) compared to the narco and other deaths in Mexico (16.35/100,000, 20762 murders).

Thought it looked awful on my laptop, fonts were all blurry and messed up, checked my display settings and bumped up the font size to the recommended 200% (my screen is 2560×1440) from 175% and all is right  with the world again.  Looks nice, I like the font not sure if the blue-ish colour adds anything.  However now I have too large native fonts on my speadsheets et al.

Wrt old batteries, Renault are going to recycle them into home PowerWall style battery packs

Renault claims that the added usage on top of the batteries’ life inside an electric vehicle can more than double their entire life cycle; after eight to ten years of use in EVs, the batteries can be used for around a further ten years in a Powervault.

BMW ‘confident’ it can win solid state battery race

BMW’s Ian Robertson says that firms are searching for next-generation battery and electric systems that can provide a competitive advantage

Car makers are in a race against time to develop next-generation battery and electrical systems that can deliver a competitive advantage, according to BMW’s outgoing head of marketing Ian Robertson.

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Have an S7 Edge since launch,  Dropped quite a few times but was fine thanks to Spigen Tough Armor (?) case, however it didn’t survive a face down drop on a bobbly concrete driveway.  First phone I’ve broken. Screen is “lightly” shattered – cracks all over but still perfectly useable.  I don’t think any phone would have survived that fall without a front cover of some sort

See what you mean about the neck band on those Bose.  When I bought the MA 750’s I was ready to send them back if I didn’t get on with the neckband but the RHA bands are totally flexible (some sort of rubberised plastic thing) , and not hard plastic, not ANC though

I’m assuming you mean bass instead of sauce, you really need to choose the right size buds to get a good fit in your ear canals, and then the bass is actually alarmingly good, almost scary on some tunes at decent volume. If you’ve not got a good snug fit then like most ear buds there’ll be no bass. It took me a lot of fiddling with different ear bud sizes to get the right set up, but I do have very small lugs.

Nah, meant weak sauce, sounded “soft” and a tad “slow” to me, mainly listen to rock and metal and found the presentation  of the Shures lifeless.  Went through the whole Comply catalogue to try and capture the “amazing” sound  that everyone raves about, in the end I think they just weren’t for me, even replaced the cable £45(!) when it died such was my desire to really like them but when one of the buds died I just binned them off. Plus in 6 months of ownership I had one cable and one bud die on me.

The RHA’s are much, much better imo.