What exactly is the overseas element? Ie where was the work done/ where were the goods delivered to, where is the contractor based etc. Also, if you have standard terms look for a clause dealimg with applicable law and jurisdiction (most boilerplate has one).

You need a proper commercial lawyer who will be alert to the private international law aspects. (I used to teach this stuff to would be solicitors. The module was optional…)

I heard somewhere, possible on a Zoe podcast, that there was a diff between home made smoothies and readymade ones because of the much greater extent to which readymade ones had been smoothened. So you need to lok at what type of smoothie is being tested when looking at results for smoothie consumption.

My morning smoothie contains beetroot, carrot, parsnip, chard etc. as well as fruit. There is no way I would be munching my way through the raw root veg (well, possibly the carrot).

“Yup, the top right quadrant is incorrect. Nice catch.”

Might be dliberate, to have the lines swinging both ways?

All the references to altered Union flags are false comparisons. The distinctive feature of the Union flag is the design, not the colour. The St George’s cross is a simple design (albeit different from many other cross flags in that it is vertical/horizontal, single block colour and normally arranged centrally). But there are still others out there with only colour to distinguish them. I like the design, but didn’t see a St George’s cross in it.

ETA see Kernow and St David. Can’t link as buttons have gone awol.

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I am fairly sure it is this one, from 2021

I listened to a Science of Sport podcast where a sports nutrition scientist said that it was really difficult to get enough food into a young athlete in the OP jnrs position. With particular reference to footbsllers as it happens. Youngsters need even more food than grownups cos they are still growing.

So I conclude the OP is right to be concerned.

As suggested above, high calorie healthy ingredient smoothies is one approach.

I had psa tests every 6 months for a few years and was not advised about cycling etc. But this was without a prostate gland, it may be more complex if you still got one.

Re reading the q, it isn’t about where you live. It is about your reasons for wanting to live somewhere (which may or may not be where you actually live).

So whilst we are happy in an almost trendy Cardiff suburb, personally I quite fancy the mid Wales hippy belt. Good riding, more nature, nice seaside and more Cymraeg for the Mrs.

7 cheap-cheap t-shirts and a pair of jeans costs more than this

Every year? Surely that is 5 years min of T shirtage.

Also, when road and gravelly type riding I am mostly going on to myself about something (I don’t like listening to music while I ride). I think this is often to try to make sense of stuff I don’t understand properly, like the money supply or what low speed rebound is for. When I worked it was sorting out how to explain difficult (well simple tbh) stuff to students. Trail riding I don’t really have time for that as I have to concentrate on the trail. So both types of riding are good.

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I don’t think all my thoughts are verbalised. But some definitely are. Sometimes this takes the form of explaining an issue to someone (who isn’t there). This afternoon walking round Roath Park lake I was explaining why I preferred moorhens to coots. I could have just bored the Mrs by actually saying this to her, but it was an internal explanation. I think.

How on Earth does one “create inference”? Inference is wholly down to the reader, surely.

Well I would disagree. Inference is what someone understands to be meant from what they read taken in context. It is not solely down to the reader, though it may be coloured by the reader’s own experience and state of knowlege (which are part of the context I guess). The original text and the framing and occasion is highly relevant.

Of course part of that context then becomes the reader’s various prejudices and hang-ups and indeed the reader’s understanding of the writer’s various prejudices and hang-ups. If you are genuinely intent on understanding what the writer is saying, you will of course try to understand where the maker of the statement is coming from whilst doing your best to discount your own prejudices and special knowledge. This approach to interpreting things is rarely found in public discourse, which tends to be all about trying to come up with a plausible interpretation of something that will further your own argument without regard to the message that the person making the statement was actually trying to get across.

Anyway, you create inference by saying something that you know will be interpreted in the intended way, at least by people with particular prejudices and hang-ups, and/or people who (think they) understand what your’s are. I have always understood this to be what people mean by the “dog whistle”. Making your point in this way introduces an element of deniability which is useful in the case of statements likely to attract criticism or legal problems (although generally the law is not as stupid in this regard as people often think it is).

Just returned from a holiday in Cuba (two taxis, two trains and two flights there and back). Everything was on time and just worked.

How is your hopping?

Regarding the composition of marmalade:
The jam and similar products regulations

Carrots are fruit.

Hang on, is prejudice based on race not always racism? I just got a bit confused.

Out of intrtest, would moving to full fibre/ voip imply moving to ipv6?

According to my ISP, if we went full fibre we would need a voip phone but could keep our number. As our internet is OK for us with half fibre, I decided to keep it as it is for a couple of years. Having a landline seems like a useful fall back situation, though we don’t use it so much.

Didn’t get to see the Wales game as we are on holiday. However my daughter and her fiance did as they were in the choir that sang the anthems. A perk of winning the National Eisteddfod. #prouddad #CorLundain

I think lockdown made me more cautios and anxious about travelling, largely because we wemt on a couple of trips when it was possible to do so and got hit by post covid travel chaos, last minute changes to covid health certification reqirements etc. I now expect the worst.

Also more recently on medication which reduces my oomph and increases anxiety.

Oo er I’m on holiday in Cuba. Just paid my respects at Fidel’s grave, going to visit his birthplace tomorrow.

Hasta la victoria siempre.

Patchell is absolute class and an all round good guy from what I’ve seen of him. Glad he’s having well earned success in NZ.

Agreed. He was at school with my kids and co-starred(?) with my daughter in the chapel nativity play. Patch firing on all cylinders would be a shoe in to the Welsh side atm.

I haveine on a Linux home server* running ReadyMedia (formerly miniDLNA). Many clients, including Wiim pucks, music apps on your smartphone and both our smart TVs will stream from it. Bluetooth to your speakers and you are good to go.

* Any old windows mac or linux computer can be used for this

So i now have a hardwired mesh with three nodes.

Same here, worth the faff of putting in ethernet. TP-link Decos.

I have a rather nice Aquascrotum wool and silk dinner jacket.

Just realised the last person to wear it was Mike Hall :'(

Yup, one of the sounds of my youth. One of those things that made me think “wow, music can do that?!” (in comparison with the pop stuff I was listening to). A few other things did the same for different reasons, Alex Harvey Band’s version of Next (a version of the Jacques Brel song “Au Suivant”) springs to mind as having a similar impact.

Depending on your prescription, you may be able to get a sense of what it’ll be like by trying multifocal contact lenses first.

I tried multifocal contact lenses and didn’t get on with them, hence (in part) my decision to stick with single vision implants and use glasses where necessary.

@ElShalimo, I am surprised they will only match your current eyesight, specially if you are definitely going to get the other eye done in the future, you ought to be able to choose your focal length. In the interim you would need a pair of squinty glasses made up if good binocular vision is important to you. But you will probably favour the new eye anyway as it will see better.

ETA cheap readers would work as a stop-gap, but not if you currently need glasses to read distance things not near things and they replicate that with your new eye.

Get it done, poor vision creeps up on you, you will be amazed, the colours are better as well.

You can get a choice of lenses – here in Wales the NHS only does single focus, but you can choose to set that at infinity or nearer (this will affect the prescription of glasses you need afteerwards and when you need to wear them). Privately you can get varifocals and all sorts. I had my first one done five or so years ago on the NHS and went for good distance focus. In the event that eye (left) focusses just short of infinity, but is fine. I got my second one done privately because of a long covid related waiting list, obviously went for the same and this time the focus was bang on. I just put up with it in the interim with no specs (my natural focus point was a few tens of metres behind me so my right eye was pretty useless apart from reading with reading glasses).

I now have varifocals with a tiny prescription for the top half of the left lens, plain on the top part of the right, and my vision is better than it has been for decades. I can drive without glasses, but with the varifocals I can decipher the car dashboard, which is nice. For cycling I use bifocal safety glasses so I can read the Garmin, fiddle with repairs, read cafe menus etc.

So, ask about lens options and if you want something fancy consider going private. You need to think about when and where you would want to be wearing glasses, when not.

The operation is weird but not unpleasant. Don’t be a pussy.

Spend some quality time with my cat

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348256871

It is a draft amending SI and it talks of “article” and “weapon”.

Damn I said I wasn’t going to look into it. You need to plug that amendment into the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (including any other amendments), to find out the full effect.

LOL! Typical lawyer playing with definition. LOL! I am imagining a court case where everyone is trying to argue the definition of a particular term and then referencing the origin of the word. LOL! Then prolong the session to get paid more LOL!

The whole point is you do not just reference the origin of the word, you try to find out what parliament intended by looking at what it said. Words can end up with unusual meanings as a result of this process. (As an aside, the law’s approach to meaning is that it always depends on ontext, so there is no one meaning of a word that the law must cleave to in all situations). So what might count as a weapon in parts of Asia is of little help to a court trying to interpret UK legislation.

What is a court supposed to do when faced with a new statutory provision to apply to a particular set of facts? Laws need interpreting, it is unavoidable. And it is preferable that it is done in accordance with established principles, that is one aspect of what is meant be “the rule of law”.

And it is not playing, peoples’ livelihoods and liberty may be at stake.

What leaps out to me (retired lawyer) from that definition of a machete is the use of the word “weapon”. It is either redundant or was put there to add meaning over eg “bladed thing” or “knife”.

A court will assume it is there to add meaning. The way to find out what that meaning is, is to look up the surrounding documents and any debates, committee discussions in Hansard. Which I can’t be arsed to do, but I would guess the legislative intention was not to outlaw established work implements like billhooks and breadknives, and that would be apparent from the legislative history. That will be taken into account when the definition has to be interpreted.

Of course, as we all know on STW a motor vehicle is a weapon, so check your motor for sharp and pointy bits.

The full title or just a key word?

I was about to say that!

Those long padded coats look well cosy, but they don’t seem to do them for men. I am less convinced of the practicality of a dryrobe as a coat. Didn’t see any about last winter round here.

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Looks like an open and shut case. I’m glad it doesn’t hinge on Boeing’s evidence alone. That company sure does have its knockers.

Well played sir!

I read somewhere, probably in a recemt New Scientist, that low bmi does not correlate with longevity in older peeps. It was surmised that oldies need some energy reserves to cope better with the shit that happens to them through illness and accident, which can result in periods of low food uptake.

As far as I can make out, a good way of winding up both sides of this unfortunately polarised issue is to say “it depends on the context in which the question is being asked”. So I won’t say that.