Thanks Twinw4ll. That makes sense.

Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Hats off to you @Ling

Very happy with my Fenix 5+

Assume the 6 is better still!

Deals are available too.

Similar to the OP looking at gold.
But much more inclined to obtain physical gold, tangible that I know where it is rather than in someone else’s virtual vault. Am I missing something?

@twinw4ll All of the shonky 1970s signet rings…do you melt it down or just hold as-is? Bags of (valuable) shonk?

A Ridley Noah Fast Di2
A stunning bike, love it.

This very one perhaps? as I bought the last one from Merlin at the discounted price:

https://www.merlincycles.com/ridley-noah-fast-ultegra-di2-road-bike-2019-122759.html

AFAIK Octopus appear to be okay, as in legit.

I’ve worked in the industry for >30yrs but on the Industrial & Commercial side rather than Resi-supply.

I think there’s approaching 20 pop-up new resi suppliers gone bust in the last 2yrs (vs one in the previous 20yrs) … Ofgem had fairly lax rules as to who could get a new supply licence so there’s some utter muppets out there taking your money (and crashing the market with ridiculous unsustainable pricing).

Turns out an unsustainably cheap energy supplier going bust is a win!

…the thing is it’s most definitely not. As when these suppliers go under they’ve taken cash off you for green taxes, funding Renewables running in to tens of millions.
Their outstanding “Renewables Obligation” debts are then mutualised around the remaining suppliers and added to your bills.
Credible suppliers will pay, but more will go under…domino effect…it’s all Ofgem’s naive creation.

@Daffy

You should only buy or invest in appreciating assets. lease or rent depreciating assets – Warren Buffet’s rule.
And yet the Muppet keeps buying Airline stocks when they’re high and selling when they’re low.

To be fair to him, Warren Buffet has done alright for himself. He doesn’t quite deserve a “muppet” tag!

Thanks. Conscious that it could be a wrist-watch technical glitch rather than real.

I haven’t felt anything peculiar, no dizziness or any symptoms as such.
So my question hasn’t been triggered by a “feeling unwell should I see a Dr” context, more a “this looks weird, is it real, what next?”

Scenarios: Noted a few occasions around lunch time when it’s been low and also after a drive, arriving at a destination and my HR is 42-45 for a few mins and then back to normal at ~60bpm…as if my body has gone “that’ll do, you’re here”

Will keep an eye on it

Me too. Unreadable’cause of pop-ups

I’ll let you know when it’s on the drive.

They’re ~£90k when new, so yes, first owners have to suck up colossal depreciation in the first few years ok ownership.

#bangernomics ?

I’m looking at £32k-£35k for a four year old car with 35000miles on the clock.

Definitely can not afford the new equivalent.

That’s fine Johndoh.
That was the point of my question, will help me try to avoid appearing like a dick (and also risk losing out on the preferred car).
Looks like I need to be prepared to pay more or less the full ticket price.

Thanks

Decent R-spec Jaaaag for that kind of money.

…XKR, XFR, XJR

Fantastic machines

Thats helpful thanks 40mpg

Have researched Steve H, four dealers have same car, similar age, similar mileage (but there’s a range) and priced £32500 to £34995
The pair that I really like are at £34995, one is younger, the other is 12mths older but has fewer miles.
My bargaining chip is that I’m prepared to walk out and pick one of the other three.

Liking that Bowman!

I have a CAAD12, Cannondale Advanced Aluminium Design, they’re pretty damned good.

Saw they were testing Smart front door locks for the house on Gadget Show last week. What’s the worst that can happen?

Nice one @doverbike

Similarly 220-53 for me would be 167

My coach (yes I know, sorry) regularly has me stretching up in to the 170-180 + range on certain efforts.

So I have had a dive in to the garage, my
26” XC wheels are as follows:

1. Stans ZTR Alpine LEFTY (Front)

2. Bontrager RXL (Race Extra Light) on RXL Hub (Front)
3. Bontrager RL Race Lite (Rear)
4. Stans ZTR Crest on OnOne hub (Front)

5. Stans ZTR Alpine on XTR hub (rear)
6. Stans ZTR Alpine on XT hub (front)

Happy to consider offers on 1-4 but need to keep a pair (5 & 6)

I’m still on 26” on both of my XC bikes
and have a bunch of light XC race spec spare wheels dangling from hooks on my garage roof.
Wasn’t planning on selling but I’m not exactly racing any more so could be open to (sensible) offers…

Happy to provide a list and specs if of interest?

So 14.1 did appear to get performance back to normal (but I’ve had a couple of “hangs” so will reserve judgement for now.

It does appear to have accelerated battery draining though – crazy quick battery use on my Xs, just in the last 24hrs. Will have to recharge and monitor.

NS&I rates have just cliff-edged to 0.01% (from November)

https://www.nsandi.com/income-bonds

So, as you’ve got the car, I’m going to say a couple of £5k Gold ingots.

Yup. It’s been a total pita Vortex.
Hopefully .1 will be better.
Mine was hanging constantly.

Well that was a chore.
Strange thing that. All of the bugs that 14.0.1 fixed were the performance issues introduced by 14.0.0

Ba$#@rd$

Well said @konagirl

Yeah, thanks all. It’s been a little temperamental today. Let’s see how it goes over the next couple of days.

Thanks Jambo, I’ve just hard rebooted and it appears quicker now.

…just as an update.
I’d been logging battery discharge rate since the beginning of the month in order to provide Garmin boffs with some information (or the basis of a complaint).
For the first two weeks the battery was losing 45% every 24hrs : quicker if I had used as an activity tracker.
Then since 12th September it’s losing ~10% every 24hrs so more or less back to normal.
I have not changed my use or any of the apps on the watch, just weird.
I assume Garmin have had issues and then resolved – any clues out there?

Just turned 53, and 32 yrs of pension contributions in the electricity supply industry.
My employer is restructuring and thousands of jobs are about to go in our business.
I have put my hand up to go (very early in the process, six months or so ago as was worried that they would declare that I am “mapped” and in) and have said they need to back-fill my role and keep someone in the organisation who would be more anxious about being made redundant in to the current covid job market.

Appreciate I’m lucky to have the option…can’t imagine them keeping me. It makes zero sense to me to keep working (as well as redundancy lump, my pension kicks-in in full, ie a lump sum and annual allowance). So much more free time beckons.

Only advice I can offer is start pension contributions as early as you possibly can. I am so so grateful to the lady in HR who ‘bullied’ me in to a pension contribution when I was 21, couldn’t really afford them at the time but jeez to have time with my missus and the kids is a priceless option. Just within touching distance, not, quite there yet.

My daughter heads back to her second year halls this weekend (med student dispensation that they keep them on site for year-2).

>£6k for digs but they are quite new and presentable.

Their tutorials are planned to be face to face. They also have ‘problem based learning’ which is in a small cohort and practicals are in the labs (cutting up cadavers). Stuff you can’t do online.
Full lockdown will mean they’re sent home again of course.

I struggle with the concept of being away from home unnecessarily for purely online lectures…it may suit some students but I would think plenty would prefer the support of family / home life?

My bike has aero (non round) section handlebars Gray.

+1 for ViewRanger here too.

I have tons of both 1:50,000 and in certain areas 1:25,000 maps on my iPhone.
Use it pretty regularly, super easy, very reliable.

I use ActiFace as all stats in one place.
Colours etc are customisable too.

More ideas here:

https://www.wareable.com/garmin/best-garmin-watch-faces-to-download-7227

Good link to Mark Steel, and if you ever get an opportunity to see him live, go, get tickets. He’s brilliant and shockingly not at all suitable for Radio-4 broadcast !!

Apologies for slight hijack*

Thanks.
Currently updating garmin software and will see if that helps at all.

Back up again for me

Thanks for confirming you two. Brill

Routine Maintenance again so appears to be down (may just be me of course).
Have they been hacked again or just overwhelmed by GB Bank Holiday activities?