I was advised the following, cold water immersion 15minutes at a time. Think it helps, don’t know if it’s standard though. Gently massaging  the tendon, plucking it lightly too. Gentle calf stretching. Keep it warm, even wear a sock at night?

My most recent Achilles tendinitis seems to have been quite light and the above helped, avoiding running for 4-6 weeks, gradually getting back into it.

Had a more serious episode ten years ago with the clicky tendon , and took way longer to deal with,  but I wasn’t very patient though so probably aggrevated it by not looking after it.

Find a good sports physio. It’s a bloomin’ nuisance injury.

Gent. Great town!
Eat at ‘t Oud Clooster
Drink at Het Spijker

Some Beers:
Tripel Karmeliet
Tongerlo Prior
Kaiser Karel
Orval (‘t Oud Clooster above offered young and older bottles😋)

This lovely bar in Bruges,
‘t Brugs Beertje Link…

Edit… popular it seems 👏

Down half a stone.
Chasing my son around, not sitting on buses and trains for 3 hours a day, not eating a second breakfast when I get to work, not needing much lunch, doing more garden work.
It’ll go the other way when get travelling to work again.
While some of this time at home is a blessing, it’s still a rubbish time. Hopefully will keep some of the positives when life starts running “normally” again.

Hope the track pump lasts just some light use.

Bags seem good too for a tenner!

Met office.

yr.no is very good too.

I second HughStew’s statement.
His mate is a hugely talented and intelligent musician, performing career second to none and can back it up with deep musical knowledge.

A Cambridge music education rules nothing out in my opinion. If you want a performing career you can achieve it from there and you will also have a MUCH deeper and amazingly useful knowledge of music that many performing musicians won’t have.

Conservatoire study is great if you have the artistic burn to perform and play 100%, it is academically useful but not deep like a strong uni music degree, especially Oxford or Cambridge.

Just my take on it, after many years professional performing and Conservatoire teaching.

If your piano hasn’t been kept at A=440hz it might struggle to get up there or stay there. The trumpet will have been designed to play in tune at A=440. If the piano isnt far from 440 then maybe not a problem but if its too far out then things could sound funny, even if the trumpet can tune to the piano’s A or Bflat.

If its not a high quality piano but you like it, prob best to tune it to where it’s happy and accept that it sounds a bit funny if people try to play along with it…depending how far out it is.

Then save up for an electric one !

I was also scanning twitter and noticed a recommendation for 13mins to the moon which was also advertised at the end of the show, covers the efforts to land a man on the moon from what I hear, has anyone else listened to it?

Yep it’s great 🚀

Use a hair dryer. Pretty even finish if you don’t add too much with the wax block, or it will go blotchy, you can always add more

You’ll remember some of it. Just not all.

Hearing it done does help.

But trying it yourself slowly, writing it down helps (anyway that you can see the spacing between hands) and building up speed, also works. Might not be perfect for a while until you’ve done it loads, slow and other speeds, and start to see how the hands interact/coincide.

Slow is good for learning, always!

Interesting programme about sleep on Radio 4, “Don’t tell me the score” episode 12.

I haven’t tried the discussed method specifically, it uses 90 minute blocks of sleep/rest, but can say I’ve noticed some some similarities when I’ve had very early starts for example. So there might be something in it!

Have a listen, I’m not going to explain very well. Or it might just send you to sleep anyway…

Bow bar…location and beer
Teuchters…nice.
Guildford arms…classic
Kay’s bar…cute
Thomson’s
Blue blazer…variable these days.
Hanging bat.
Cloisters
Oxford bar…brill.
Cambridge bar
Dagda…quiet hideaway pub.

Panda and sons…is fun.
All good depending what you like.

Star bar…hidden away…something different.

Good soap is worth every penny for me. A £10 tub from, for example, Taylor’s of Bond Street lasts me a year! Been using them for several years.  I shave average 6 days a week and enjoy it.  That’s pretty good value at less than £1/month. I don’t need a lot of soap per shave. Though I am going to try Arko too, seems dead convenient especially travelling.

3-4 shaves per blade is also darn good at less than 15p a blade. So I don’t see the point in trying to eek out more shaves than that. Though I’ve found some do last a bit longer, Lord and Astra for example. But this will likely be different for everyone. It’s personal choice. When I started DE shaving the first couple of weeks were poor, but once got the hang of it using no pressure and let the blade work it got much easier and quicker. I have two vintage Gillette razors, a Rocket HD and a 40’s open comb (shaves much closer).   Two passes is a decent comfy and close shave, not baby bottom smooth, but very good and feels way better and cleaner than ye olde Mach 3 which would last a week and was pretty disappointing at end of the week. DE shaving is all good, minimal plastic for starters!

Tiny Rebel, Dutty is great.

and the small screen helps prolong battery life

This is wrong

Ok. I haven’t used a 7+.

Battery in the SE is good though, better than previous iPhone I’ve used.

SE is an Excellent wee phone.

Small size is great for carrying and constant use. If you don’t need a larger screen, it’s ideal and the small screen helps prolong battery life.

Get the biggest memory and it’ll last for ages. It’s a solid phone that runs really well.

Works well abroad. Seen it in action in norway (urban and rural areas) and used it there for years. Take your bottles back and do your shopping  – if you can carry the heavy shopping home you can carry the EMPTY bottles to the shop, easy

Let’s do it.

What is people’s problem here?

Apple Music is good. On a 6 month free trial, after previously paying for Tidal. Really liked the playlists on Tidal, miss the selections they put together, but the apple ones aren’t too bad. Suppose Spotify is good in this way too if you like trying new (or old) stuff you would have thought of otherwise.

Tidal sounds great which I enjoyed a lot on decent headphones

Each has its quirks I reckon regarding searching for stuff. And sound quality may factor into your choice

CDs – depends if that is what you’re into using. I don’t have a CD  player to hand now. Streaming is convenient for me, since cd shops are few and far between now and have poor selections of what I would browse. Smart phone makes listening on the go easy, can download in advance

I’ll buy second hand CDs only now, if it’s something not available any other way.

All depends what methods you’re into using tho. “Ownership” of the product is changing.

Artist earnings from streaming plays is an issue though, and I don’t like that “problem”, but the industry is just having to change to deal with the convenience and cheapness of streaming. I don’t have an answer to that problem….

Looks amazing fun and a beautiful place.

Never too cold. Only too hot!

It’s amazing, they know how to present this stuff. A fantastic day out.

Knocked out by Saturn V rocket and space shuttle, incredible machines.

If they (EE) want to offer you a loyalty discount they may match or better a deal offered by another network (not a re-seller though). Then you keep your number no hassle. And your contract is direct with EE, not the reseller.

But I doubt it will be as good a deal as those cash back ones.

Yup it was my fault.

I notice that one beside mine wasn’t touched, it had a D lock…. or about 20 other bikes not much further away weren’t attempted either, because they were attached to better railings.

Was amazed how brazen an attempt it was though. Surrounded by the public on all sides, many sitting having lunch and coffee, not rushing away in a hurry to get somewhere.

Anyone else witnessed an attempted bike theft in Edinburgh?
Just wondered how common this is.

Osprey, “talon” ? I think?

Comfy.

Break it up and bake it. Gives some crispy bits, very nice!

http://catalog.bergans.eu/clothing/anorak1/nordmarka-anorak-117858-p0001691934

Agree about the 100% Brisker gloves. Very nice and comfy.
But in 0-1c in the shade, with a breeze – too chilly!

I used 100% Brisker gloves for the first time this morning. Chilly around 0-1c. I like the gloves.

They’re good when going up hill, I generated plenty heat, but as soon as it gets windy going fast in the shade especially, then I was getting cold fingers.

Am going to look for something with more wind protection. e.g. Endura Strike anyone??

This isn’t the classiest way to do it, but it works every morning when eggs aren’t super fresh and want to avoid hassle of messy poached eggs.

Boil water in pan.
Take pan off heat.
Crack eggs gently into water.
Put the pan back on hob, low heat till done. No aggressive boiling to break the whites.

Fresh eggs always work best, especially if you are going to use the stylish swirly water technique.

The Ground Effect stuff looks brilliant, totally ideal, but not available in uk or eu?
Price goes up adding on postage and vat from NZ. …..They look good though!! Hmmm

Thanks will have a look!

Boil water in pan. Take the pan off the heat, turn heat to minimum.
Break eggs into water while pan is off the hot hob. Put the pan back on on minimum heat hob. Put bread in toaster….
Eggs ready once the toaster pops up !

Fresher eggs work a bit better. The white breaks up less I find.

Momentum Atlas
http://www.momentumwatch.com/pages/products/list-of-products/atlas.php

Very happy with mine, fulfilled my requirement for that look at a good price and well made.
Available on Amazon.

Agree, it was a great event. Evening session really exciting. Well impressed with the HOY FUTURE STARS racers too, all racing hard!
I’ll go again.

You mean to reserve an item you need phone at 10am on 27th, or might miss the opportunity? Including any of the bikes…?
Well they have finite numbers (sometimes 1) of each item…

Yeah fair enough, no way tell how many available as far as I can see. There is a bike I fancy, is it worth going to the shop at 10 or phoning?

You need to phone online and reserve them 10am tomorrow.

To put all the random stuff on the website would be a huge task.

You mean to reserve an item you need phone at 10am on 27th, or might miss the opportunity? Including any of the bikes…?

What size Zero did you get for your height?