Well, there’s three of us in this house of five who have/had something this week. 19 year old son complained of feeling at bit off for three days before cheerfully saying whatever it was, it had gone. 17 year old daughter who is 70 days into pertussis recovery and still having random coughing fits got another phlegmy cough and two days off school, having also had temperature, nausea and dizziness. I woke up yesterday feeling really dizzy /vertigo – almost toppling over; never had anything like it. A bit better today but not good. No cough or temperature but have read that vertigo can be an early symptom. Got daughter and me LFT’d but both negative. Although purchased today, the LFTs have an October 24 expiry. So I suspect false negative. Do latest strains still show up on older tests?

I’ve got a small commencal furious frame in the garage that I’ve been meaning to sell. It’s a 2018 in Matt green. I think I have the shock too but that’ll need a service. I’m willing to sell for £100 plus postage, with the shock as-is, as I’m not going to be doing anything else with it. Then you can have the fun/faff of building it up!

I’m usually a sucker for future proofing and up selling!

In that case: Ubiquiti UniFi

Anywhere near the midlands? I have a pair of nice alloy wheels you can have for £25. Sat on the shelf for the last 10 years. Planet X model b

I’m on UniFi protect. Expensive to set up but good. Storage is on a local box, not in cloud.

here’s a thought : if you’re an Apple household with an iCloud+ (ie including more than the basic iCloud storage allowance), they have a fairly good cloud camera storage option called HomeKit secure video. You can either buy HomeKit Secure Video compatible cameras, or like I’ve done with my UniFi system, use Homebridge running on a raspberry pi (or other computer you’re willing to have running 24/7)  to sync into the Apple secure video cloud..

I know it’s all done now, but as someone else mentioned on the first page, you can extend the fibre “passively” and run that (much thinner) cable to wherever you want to have the ONT. One advantage of this is you don’t need power near the original location where they bring the fibre into the house. I’ve moved my ONT to a cabinet where I have a UPS, router, switch etc. You need a fibre “coupler” and a length of fibre preterminated to the length you need (or longer, you can coil the slack).

All the way until today, walking back into a hotel lobby.

I thought I would be safe in Kazakhstan. But no..

Before you go legal, here’s my 2c: What outcome are you looking for, as you’ve acknowledged you’re leaving one way or another?

So, the question is money isn’t it? (What good is “proving a point” here?)

If so, how much would it take? Make a counter offer, “without prejudice” and offer to go quietly.

I’ve got an xs 26” giant anthem with SIDs that I built up (on a second hand frame) when my lad was that age. Just got it back from my nephew now he’s outgrown it too. 

Happy to pass on to a forum member for £150. Will need to collect from near Burton on Trent.

I also have a Moda road bike for that age range I’ll sell for £75 (or £200 for both).

Time has come to sell my 2019 Rolex Milgauss Z-Blue as I’ve never really worn it much (excellent condition, all papers, box etc ) and could better use the money elsewhere. Any interest to folks on here? Seems like I’ve missed the peak of the market so looks like around £9k (but will consider offers with evidence of it being worth less)

I’ve been listening to his eponymous solo album (the one with somewhere down the crazy river) quite a bit recently. That and Peter Gabriel’s So are two of the best mid-80s rock albums for me. Never really listened to The Band so will go and have a listen..

<p>Well, I enjoyed the live play through but the highlight of the night for me was the encore of Pyongyang. Barbaric and The Narcissist the only two real standout tracks on the new album for me. </p>

Liking the two tracks so far released. Got a ticket to their Hammersmith gig on Tuesday too. Long time fan, thought the Magic Whip was good as their last “comeback”. This will be my first time seeing them live, had tickets to Wembley but sold them to see Lana del Rey with my daughter instead. As good as that was (and that was intense!) I thought I’d missed out so extremely happy to have got a ticket. Anyone else going to be there?

The books really were very good IIRC.

I can kill a thread dead by just replying to it.

I like the Lowtide West Coast Hop Lock 0.5% IPA. Thanks for the 15% off! I’ve used the saving on trying some of their other options..

I’ve got an unused 1l bottle for £20 delivered if anyone wants it.

I’ve also replaced the small shimano sprockets on an ebike using individual parts from Ali express

If you’re each (antisocially!) streaming HD content that’s ~15Mbps each so 60Mbps.

So even 100 is overkill. The only reason to go higher imo would be if you anticipate doing mega downloads.

Are the prices advertised on chrono24, watchfinder etc realistic? If so, which would people recommend?

I have a 3 year old Rolex milgauss z-blue. I liked it well enough at the time but have only worn it <20 times as it’s too ostentatious for me. I think it was about £6k new but it looks like I could ask £12-14k for it now and that money would be better spent elsewhere…

I’ve been watching the WBAC price for my 3.5 year old car. Peak was £23k now down to £18k; 4 months older now and mileage up by 4k miles (now 35k) so that will have had an effect of course. But that seems to tally with what others are saying – that buy prices have peaked. However at the same time I’m trying to buy a first car for my soon-to-be-17 son and there’s very little out there. 20 months ago we bought eldest a 3.5 year old Clio for £5.5k. Same age car now would be closer to £8k and there’s not much within 50 miles (I’m looking to buy trade for some level of buyer protection). Same £5.5k budget buys 10-11 year old cars, which is madness!

If the icon has disappeared from the system tray it might be a mechanical switch as jam-bo suggests. It might also be a key combo to enable/disable. Do any of the keys have a Wi-Fi/transmitter icon in a different colour? If so the fn key plus that key might reenable. If not you’ll have to look in device manager to see if windows still thinks there’s a wifi module fitted

Former state grammar school pupil here. Great, free education for me in the 80s. I was very academic and not sporty at all and it suited me well as the only sports on offer were cricket and rugby and I avoided both. My 3 kids are different to me and not all would have passed the 11 plus nor do we have any local grammar schools where I now live. They each went to a village state primary school until year 4 then private prep and private secondary. One now at Uni, one in lower sixth form and one just started GCSEs so I’m nearly at the end of it… I’d say they haven’t had as rigorous education as I got for free but they have had more opportunities, are more rounded, know a lot of people with connections that might help them down the line and – whilst I don’t have a double-blind test with identical twins to prove it – have achieved academically better than I think they would have at the local secondary.

Hi, you can claim the 45p/mile up to the first 10,000 miles in your tax return. It’s a lower rate after. Google should give us an answer.

You have to offset that against the 15p/mile you actually get.

You then get tax relief on the difference.

So say it’s 10,000 miles in the year, your net claim is 10,000x£(.45-.15)=£3,000.

What you actually get for that is your marginal tax rate so if you’re a 40% tax payer you get £1,200 back.

Note this is done on an annual basis with your tax return, not month by month.

Well, I can now join the gang. Double (Pfizer) jabbed and think I caught it from a friend’s 8 year old son in Sheffield who tested positive a few days after I saw them but, had just started coughing the evening we met. 20% of the kids in my daughter’s year at school (Year 10) in Derby have it, as do 10 of their teachers. It’s running rife. So far for me just a head cold after first testing positive on Friday morning (LFT, *very* faint hint of a line, confirmed with a PCR on Friday afternoon) but I can feel a bit of chest discomfort starting. I had full-blown pneumonia once so really hoping to avoid that..

That’s a DSL-AC88U then (not RT-).

If you’ve reset it you’ll need to set it up with PPPoE for infinity.

I had a quick google for you and couldn’t find instructions for that exact model but this might help

http://www.paul-lee.co.uk/how-to/asus-dsl-ac68u-configuration-settings-for-bt-infinity/

Is it this router? https://www.asus.com/uk/Networking-IoT-Servers/WiFi-Routers/ASUS-WiFi-Routers/RT-AC88U/techspec/

Because there’s no mention that it has a modem. Did you have a separate “openreach” modem?

TL;DR – if you want to use that router with your current service, I think you’re going to need to buy a separate broadband modem. Then you connect the router to that and set up a PPPoE connection on the router using the normal BT Infinity settings.

[Looking at the specs for that router, it doesn’t have ADSL/VDSL built in. It’s designed to work with a broadband service that provides a native ethernet port. Sounds like you’ve got a VDSL service (if Infinity). So, you need a broadband modem. There are a few on the market. If you use the BTHH5 in front of the router you’ll get “double NAT” (both boxes will act like a gateway), which may not be a problem but it’s not ideal.]

I’ve got a load of time atac pedals to clear. Dm me if interested.

Thought I’d resurrect this post. Anyone from the forum out here this week?

We’ll, we made it to Morzine. Probably a bit late in the season to help anyone else but for the unvaccinated kids (12-18) I used the form I linked above but left the three final tick boxes blank. No problems getting here. No checking of pass in shops (including supermarket) but bars want to see the COVID app. All good. Anyone else out here this week apart from me and elvino?

Has anyone done the forms for travelling to France with unvaccinated kids between 12-18 years old? Travelling on the Eurotunnel on Friday night for a last minute trip to Morzine…

I’m double jabbed and have the evidence (and the French covid app), so I don’t think I need anything else.

For the kids, they don’t have to quarantine as they’re travelling with me but they do need to have a negative PCR test less than 24 hours old (these are booked for tomorrow morning with a 3 hour turn-around). I believe *they* also need to complete a declaration of honour of not having been in contact with anyone with COVID for 14 days..

This *seems* to be the relevant form, BUT it seems to be geared around unvaccinated people who would have to isolate and have a test on arrival. Do I just get each child to complete this but NOT tick any of the final 3 boxes..?
https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/content/download/128926/1028128/file/04-08-2021-engagement-sur-l-honneur-orange-version-anglaise.docx

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Had one imported from China. See my old eBay add for my experience with it (not a stealth advert as it’s sold)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Huawei-5G-CPE-Win-H312-371-5G-4G-exterior-modem-router-/164985451187?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

They also have an excellent return policy should you have it for a few weeks and decide to get a bigger one..

@OP – if this is a probate property and you’re married and your husband/wife is in a lower income tax band than you, think about putting the house in her/his name. If you’re the sole beneficiary of the house in the will a simple deed of variation may suffice (IANAL). The rental income will then be lower tax..

You don’t need to be an accountant. I’ve done mine for the last 22 years. I use http://www.taxcalc.com software but that’s because I’m lazy and can import last year’s data. Other cheaper solutions are available. The most important thing is having the data. Entering it is the easy part.

with premium bonds – beware for short-term savings, your bonds don’t actually become eligible until a full calendar month after you deposit the cash (*). So if you might be buying a house quickly you won’t even have a *chance* of winning anything.

(*) I haven’t doubled checked the T&Cs but that used to be the case.

Out of curiosity, how hard do you grip when riding? I’ve never worn through a pair of grips but my son will literally wear through to the lock on “hard plastic sleeve” in 2-3 months (DMR death grips have been the latest to go this way). He also get massive calluses (aged 15) even when wearing gloves. He says it’s from BMX racing days but he just won’t loosen his grip.

I’m in north staffs not too far from Derby and about to take delivery of 1l of shimano oil for exactly the job you’re doing (moving from XT 2 pot to 4 pot). I’ll bleed the other shimano sets in the family while I’m at it. That should leave me at least 0.5l if you’d like to collect some ;)