My Antler carry on case has done lots and lots of travel and is bearing up well. I crave Rimowa, but the price is eye watering. So my suggestion is go to your nearest outlet mall and pick up whatever Samsonite/Antler or another good brand have on promotion.

Hope he isn’t a Hammond Organ donor. I quite like the cocky twerp.

Noted that Rudd avoided Strong and Stable phrase. She is doing well despite a rubbish hand being dealt. Corbyn is on form and will come out of this really well…who would have guessed!

Do it!
The schools are fantastic (my wife went to one!) and through your parents you already know the lifestyle (good and bad).

Best thing I have is an app called “manything” running on an old iPhone 4s. I had one sat in a drawer and because I have an outdoor 13A socket I bought a waterproof case (of the type that is designed for handlebar mounting). So now for 70p per month I have cloud based recording and 24/7 monitoring from an old iPhone. I have had this running for 4 months now and it is flawless.

Kurust (or similar name) turns the rust into a hard black permanent stable compound. It’s a milky liquid, work it into the rust with a 1/4″ paint brush. Fab stuff!

Wow, guess I am alone in liking the Humph! I have listened to him on Today R4 for 20 years and his style compliments the more “conciliatory” interviewers well. They do need another interviewer on the morning though that can go for the hard question. Eddie Mair is brilliant generally but occasionally can labour a tiny irrelevant point just to score a small win over the interviewee.

In true STW style. I reccomend these, because I bought them. :-)

The few things I have had from Wera and Bondhus in the past have not impressed me for quality. Facom are universally good, Draper professional stuff is good, and Bahco I like too!

Halfords do OK sets. My best screwdrivers are a set of Draper engineer ones (about £20 on Amazon), but I have lots!
Mainly I use “bits” for actual screws, either with a wee Makita impact driver, a bigger impact driver or on the end of a handle or ratchet.
Aldi and Lidl do fairly good bit sets (with holder) for about £8.

Aldi and Lidl posh stuff is certified and good quality. Lindt is lovely too and the card sleeves are made from pine trees from Scandanavia and are very sustainably manufactured (low carbon footprint). They have to use non-recycled fibres as chocolate is very susceptible to taint (Google Robinson test), but the board manufacture is powered by renewable sources in the main, so provided you recycle the sleeves then be comforted that you are not destroying the planet, merely providing raw material for making Amazon corrugated boxes, newspapers and loo roll!!!

Both working, and largely separate accounts, but more so that we can control and track our own spending rather than trust.
I pay all household bills and 95% of food shopping. Wife does holidays, petfood and extra curricular stuff for the urchins. If we eat out I tend to pay, but I earn more. Since the bills and holidays are covered, then the rest of our respective incomes is for each of us to do as we will. Works for us, but we have a modest mortgage and so don’t need to count every penny with precision.

She will do the debates. David Dimbleby summed it up well yesterday on R4 that it would be interesting and inconceivable that there would not be representation from the leader of our country to debate in a democratic discussion if all the other candidates were up for it.

You know, this is why this forum is so good. It really comes through on the stuff that matters and delivers support/banter/networking that is broadly right for the situation. Grum, never met you, but would echo the “one of the good posters” sentiments.
I think many of us have peered into the chasm of mental despair. Thankfully never gone over that edge myself, but like many 40 something blokes I have seen the edge of that edge and can genuinely see that it is a real thing and that it is a distortion of how you should see the world. We live in an amazing planet and if you can do just a few nice things then don’t feel the burden of needing to do all the nice things. Best of luck from sunny Leeds.

It’s about the only kind of plotting that JC should be allowed to do.

Still on 3×9 here.

I was going to say Bolle, but it looks like 10 other people beat me to it! :-)

So many good songs. The earlier anthology has a clear place in the canon of greats, but some of the late 80’s early 90’s stuff from Innuendo really has so much weight now. Who want’s to live forever is a powerful song. Other than the obvious Bohemian choice, my vote has to go to “Another one bites the dust”. This was very nearly played at my fathers funeral in 1991, but I opted for the Hamlet inspired Air on G string as a less controversial compromise.

I had the local NHS dentist in Rothwell (on Butcher Lane…the clue should be in the address). They operate on such tight timescales that the materials and time they take to do a job just isn’t the same as private. For the last four years I have used a private local dentist and the difference is stark. The quality of the work done and the finish has been so much better, but more importantly repairs that had failed after less than a year with the NHS dentist have held up for 3 years and counting with the private dentist. It’s not cheap, but you only have one set of teeth.

My son is doing a degree in Maths and could probably explain this better, but on one of the open day we visited (Liverpool) the professor explained encryption, so here is my cack handed dad explanation. Imagine you get a number, a REALLY big number…say 300 digits long. Then you get another “random” number, also say 300 digit long. Multiply them together and you have an even bigger number.
Now if you have this even bigger number by itself, trying to work backwards to which two 300 digit numbers can make it is MASSIVE computer power requirement. So modern encryption relies on the sender having one of the 300 digit numbers, and the receiver having the other 300 digit number and the message carrying the even longer number.
Anyone intercepting the message will be able to take this bigger number needed to decode the message, but unless they have either of the 300 digit numbers OR lots and lots of computer power then they can’t decrypt.

Just seen your post. Son is at York doing MMath (first year). Loves it and loves the Uni. He also did three sciences, plus maths plus further maths. York offer interviews. If you get offered one take it. My son got offered a much lower conditional offer after going there for interview (ABB).

There are far more people with criminal psychology degrees than there are jobs in this field. A similar glut of forensic scientist grads hit the market a few years ago as everyone wanted to be silent witness/CSI. Most of the folk I see with psychology degrees either end up in human resources or social workers or general business roles. Maths, chemistry and biology are the same A-levels my daughter is starting this year (currently mid GCSE revision!), and as subjects they offer a massive choice of study options at Uni.
Get out to see some Uni open days. My own daughter was interested in psychology until she visited the faculty and realised what was involved. Now she wants to do medicine.

If you like Islay smoky whisky, then try a blended one called “Big Pete”. Had a bottle of this from a recent whisky festival. If you like Islay then you will love it.

Anyone with two 18-200 lenses to sell is a trader. So definitely jog on. The 18-200 is a good lens (I have one), but no pro would have this, and no amateur would have more than one to sell.

I once got very drunk on Finish vodka while trying to outdrink a group of Polish gents. It was a singing competition and the only way I could get them to sing was by me downing two shots per song. Five songs later and they had shed the normal Polish reserve. Still our combined Welsh/English rendition of my, my, my Delilah won the night. The Polish guys won the morning though!

Faster moving rider on any bike? Move aside slow coach.

Have a look on Eurocarparts. I can’t believe it will be too expensive.

Depending on the size you need, have a look at the BMW i3. I bought one last September and it is amazing. 60-90 mile electric range, and a petrol generator for back up on longer trips.
Free road tax, sensible insurance and great to drive.

Just picked up on this. Not much more to add than one other person with their fingers crossed for you.

Costco pepper grinder with pepper in. About £3. When empty, throw away and buy another. They do a matching salt grinder that lasts an equally unfeasible long life too!

There’s a lovely Italian café/restaurant right by the river. Best pizza I have had in the UK and the coffee is good too. Can’t recall the name, but next time we are in Hebden Bridge then it’s a definite place to visit. [EDIT] It’s called Marco’s café.

For most bolts and impact wrench is not needed. I am a big fan of Makita LXT range. I have their brushless impact driver, and it’s great for wheel bolts, but you still need to break/snug up using a breaker bar. Not great for use in confined places. Makita have a new brushless beast (DTW1002z or somesuch) which has a half inch drive and would stop the earth spinning if you could fasten it to the north pole. I also have a teeny 7.2v Makita impact driver for general flatpack furniture etc where the wrench is too much. So in true STW style, you need to buy three bits of kit! The one for moving big bolts is too much for smaller stuff and confined spaces, and the lesser drivers won’t shift things like wheel bolts or crank pulleys.

DR and Quinch and the futureshocks were fab. Though I wasn’t a big fan of the story at the time, I think the Buttonman would make an excellent TV series or film. I was also an avid reader of Crisis, which in the 1980’s/early 90’s appeared left wing and crazy to me, but in hind sight looked somewhat prophetic!

survivor has my suggestion. Posted on here last year, but has the best bits of a pip wrench and Bahco. Used it lots!

Happy to offer driveway (no spare bed sadly). LS26, but 4 mins walk from train to central Leeds. Free cup of tea in the morning and half decent café 20 metres away.

I find one with two wheels is always best when it comes to bikes for Dalby. But our of your selection then a single cross bike on red would be entertaining!

Just renwewed with sky. Line rental, unlimited fibre (FTTC) and the basic originals TV pack. £28.50 all in. That’s cheaper than most companies charge for phone and broadband. SKY are OK to haggle with, but you do need to haggle.

Black sockets sound nice, but shiny silver ones are easy to find when you leave them on the floor after a job. The Halfords cabinets are lovely and regularly on offer. I have three of them (pro, industrial and a bog standard one) and they are all good storage space.

Discs and pads are a fairly easy job for a semi competent home mechanic. 7mm allen key, £50 for a wind back tool and a few sockets and spanners will be all most of you will need (other than a jack!). I normally replace disks with pads, not strictly necessary, but when pads last 30-50k then I don’t mind doing the discs too. Pagid or ATE are very good (OEM) quality pads and discs.

Son of refrigeration engineer here, so next best thing for OP!
As Wrecker says it’s not the coolant that you need to let settle it’s the oil in the motor/compressor. The oil is free in the compressor (like an oil bath/sump). Laying the fridge on its side can allow this oil to find it’s way into the actual pipes where the coolant should flow. If you don’t let it settle then turning the fridge on pumps round oil rather than coolant. I am not sure of the actual mode of failure, but it’s possible that oil/coolant could permanently emulsify, things like the dryer unit will be oil contaminated and perhaps pressure builds up as the compressor is trying to compress none compressible oil rather than coolant. So yeah, in summary give it 12-24 hours to be on the safe side.