aerials all depend on where you live and where the local transmitter is.  This predicts what you need: http://213.123.190.40/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?

used fixmycoffeemachine (if that is the one in bristol).  All good, easy, etc.  Just not cheap!  TBH I would tempted to watch a bunch of youtube videos and order a bunch of spares.

Don’t put mat/pipes under cupboards/bin!

I went on a shop ride once, to look after my son.  He of course wanted to do the A group.  I rolled my eyes and checked with the owner (about me, not son!) and he said I would be fine.

Cue 1hr later when I was seriously wondering what happens your heart decides enough is enough!  Average speed of the ride (from memory) was 27mph – much much higher than anything I had ever done (or since).  But at least my heart survived!

Laka are excellent with claims

Admiral multi-car, which accepts vans.  t5.1 170bhp with non-engine mods costs me about £300 per year

Laka are really good and excellent for paying out.

Used flexi a few times (included in ski holiday).  As everybody has said not worth it.

Tried ignoring the people who direct you to the terminal if you are too early – don’t do that – they put you in the naughty queue and you watch everybody else getting on :-)

Have about 4 Di2 bikes in the household.  Statistically batteries seem to last about 5 years. Di2 is GREAT until it isn’t.  Then you generally need other di2 bits to work out what has gone wrong.  (One issue that cropped up a Saturday afternoon before a bigish race needed the shop level di2 programmer to recover the item).

I have 1 AXS (1×12) bike, equally good shifting.  Hoods are pretty chunky though.

I had random tripping.  After a bit of isolating it turned out to be a bad socket with built in USB port.

For feet/lower legs – Spatz.

I am 5’8 and got a small.  Fits fine.  But does mean frame bags are almost a no go.  Have gone for a longer stem (and new bars – more flare).

I have the ADV9.4 for a year and I can’t think of anything to fault it.  I have put a carbon seatpost which made a surprising difference.  Got some 32mm road tyres on it and also had 45mm offroad tyres on it.

Actually, I take it back – the paint is pretty crappy (managed to drop an allen key on the downtube from say 10cm and it chipped the paint).

I have an SMAX with the rhino liner with the floor padded.

All works really well and seems tough.  Must have had it a year now.

The sticky adhesive for the veclro has failed, but that is probably my fault.  If bothered then make it nice and hot.

I would buy again in an instant.

When my son passed a 1.4 Golf was cheaper to insure than a polo.  Most smaller cars seemed to be more expensive than the medium sized ones.

spatz are the rolls royce option and will keep you warm for hours.

My son has had 2 break on him and has never had any luck in getting replacements.  Would be good for it to be extended to the UK!

no idea if it is suitable but – marmalade?

We have a franke 3 lever tap, about 10 yrs old now.  Looks as good as new.  But when it drips you need to replace a cartridge at something like £20 (or maybe it is £50).  Might have gone through a cold one and a hot one in that time.  I would buy another.

Bought a Grohe tap for the bathroom, was cheaper and it feels it.  Note that it a different sized connector, which I did not anticipate (only obviously stocked by screwfix – but I am plumbing ignorant).  Only a few months old.  Would not rush to buy another (at that price point – would consider a higher end Grohe one maybe).

Have the old one, had one replaced under warranty and the next one died outside of warranty.  Gone through a few batteries as well.

I refuse to buy the same again because they don’t last long enough, great when they work though.

Also, not sure whether it matches what you have – but the halfords rebranded ones are the old thule – so they MAY fit.

Company buys bike, becomes pool bike. No scheme required. B2W exists to tweak PAYE, there is no need in this case.

I have had Worx for a few years. 3rd one has just broken. It had a 2yr warranty, which it is outside of – when inside they were good about fixing/replacing. Not tried to get it sorted since.

Key thing is to get the patio attachment which makes it so much quicker and cleaner to do

Have a similar sized garden. Used to have a husqvarna petrol mower – worked well for about 20 years. But it eventually died.
Now have a greenworks battery mower with 2 batteries and it works pretty well and is so much quieter. Would never buy a petrol mower again.

I have a 14 plate 2.0 bi tdi auto – I can easily get the average to 28mpg if I try. Sometimes it will go up to 37ish. Once over 40 (in about 5yrs of ownership).

My son reviewed these and really liked them https://road.cc/content/review/oladance-open-ear-headphones-299057 definitely a different sound (much more bass) compared with https://road.cc/content/review/haylou-purfree-bc01-bone-conduction-earphones-298007

I would do something like: Devizes, Rowde, Melksham, Broughton Common, South Wraxxal, Bathford, Batheaston, Bath

Years ago I had some custom footbeds made in the UK for skiing.  It helped, but not much.

I then had a boot fit in Whistler – he took a look at my custom footbeds and laughed.  He then proceeded to flatten the beds quite a bit (he also then cut my boots about).  Went from having to undo the boots on EACH chairlift, to just doing them up at 9 and undoing at 5!!

I too along with other “fitters” had inserted wedges, etc to bodge rather than solve issues.

So I would suggest getting a fit somewhere where they really know what they are doing and have enough people through the door to prove it.

(I know skiing and boarding are different, but the principles above hold true for both)

Going back to the question of mesh versus basic wifi extenders.

We have rubbish incoming speed so I can’t be bothered to spend lots on a mesh. We therefore have a few extenders at key points around house/garden – they are all on the same SSID.

Most phones switch reasonably quickly and work fine (switches after a number of seconds – so not good if you wanted to wander around on a video conference, but fine for youtube, etc).

Windows laptop does not so much and seems to latch on to the old wifi channel, this caught me out. I had to disable wifi in windows, re-enable and it switched to the new stronger signal. Only takes a few seconds, but like I say – caught me out.

My kids spent a lot of time racing on bike they were going to grow into. Sounds like he is not too far off now.
The only question that springs to mind is – is your plan to put clip on aero bars on? Will they be too far forward?

There is a change coming for British cycling (so not triathlons) where they have removed the need for junior gears – which simplifies what you want to do.

I use one 28″ 4k Lenovo, I have previously used up to 3 monitors, but this is a good balance and was only about £200 (probably £250 now). Compared with a ~£500 Dell 4k there was nothing in it picture wise.
I prefer a non-widescreen because I don’t work on documents, 4k gives a good vertical resolution and plays nicely with Teams when sharing desktops (others who have the ultrawide cause problems with their screen being squished to display on non-widescreen).

I would not run chkdsk as a first (although it should only affect the corrupted files). There is an option (if I remember correctly) to just report issues and NOT fix them – I would do that.

Easiest option is to run a live linux USB drive and see if that is more effective at accessing the files.

BTW IMO an electronics engineer should be capable of understanding all of this(!) (having worked with them for about 30 years).

Best to find somebody local to you that can help, but some suggestions:

The drive is the thing that is most likely to be dead/dying. But you could take it out of the external mechanism and plug in internally. Highly unlikely to help, but easy.

Linux / MACs (MACs are basically linux) seem to handle bad files /sectors better than Windows. Try it one of those machines (I was able to rescue the majority of my wife’s USB stick like that – apart from about 10 files). If that is not possible you could try writing to a USB stick a live CD linux distribution (eg ubuntu) and try running that and reading the disc.

Obviously there are professional organisations that will do it for you for quite a bit of cash.

The problem with mine last night was the cold of the grips was transferred through the very thin underside of the glove. Problem went away after about 1hr (not sure if my circulation improved or the grips warmed up). Temp was about -1.

Couple of thoughts:

my van is a t5 LWB had it for about 6 years. It had a new engine at about 20k miles (warranty), common t5 problem.
Been ok since. Mine is diesel euro 5, so it is slowly getting banned (or costly) in the different ULEZ type zones. You might want to consider whether euro 6 or petrol might solve some of those issues.
Also consider how it is registered – a shuttle might be excempt.

I have driven a Ford a few times, I think it drove better than a t5 (just to counter the – people always recommend their own van! ;) )

Friend had a quite new ford and its engine munched itself with a fixing cost of about £7k (he just sold it as was).

I guess that shows that they all have issues.

In a t5 LWB I could fit about 5 road bikes and by sticking a shelf across the bottom that allowed luggage to go in there too.

A rear rack would allow you to carry more, but obviously comes with security issues (and also generally you dont want to have race bikes on the outside going to an event).

The more serious racers (as has already been suggested) use the motorhomes – much better for multi-day events. But are slow and relatively in-efficient.

If getting a t5 consider headlights – because the standard halogen ones are supposed to be awful (and you might be doing more night driving??)

Not attempting to answer your Excel question.
But you could try AceMoney Lite (lite is freeware) – which supports the open finance formats which the bank tend to use.
Then either use the data in there or use that as an intermediate step.

I have one these that might have been used less than 10 times https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008B01SYI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1.
Dog didn’t want to be in it!
Happy to sell it :-)

Fancy a red mx5 1.8 with some of the rust issues sorted? Owned by me for the last 7 years with no mechanical issues in that time! For a fraction of your budget ;-)

congestion? from IOT? surely that is almost impossible.

From what I have read/heard putting them on different networks makes it difficult for things like your phone to find them.