Ta. Just wondered if it would go white/oxidise and start to damage the alu. No worries with what it looks like, hidden anyway.

Testing pic…it works!

IMG_20190108_103338_Bokeh by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr

Also do the UK Three Mobile SIM ‘Go Roam’ thing is the USA. My daughter is out there, get the impression that US SIMs are more expensive than UK ones?

http://www.three.co.uk/support/roaming/united-states#payg

OK – got the FCM540 outer too, long overdue new transmission for the hardtail :) Wonder how long the Octalink BBs will still be around?

Excellent, thanks. Ordered granny and middle. Can usually get a few more miles out of the outer.

Very interested what’s going to happen to older/historic places in the uk, both with heating and also EV charging (another thread I know). Our place is solid flag floors, sarson stone and chalk, and reliant on oil/open fires for heat. But I know this is going to have to change over the next 10-15 years.

If there’s a Homebase shutting near you, ours has the Husqvarna/Gardena ones half price.

…My first choice was one of the Q acoustics ones, but the lack of connection options and needing numerous remotes put me off…

The Q Acoustics do have a remote, but same as the Samsung (my parents have that one), the QA integrates very well if you use HDMI CEC. Switches on when the TV is turned on, no source switching needed, the TV remote controls the QA volume. Auto-switches to aptX Bluetooth too, and then you control the volume from your phone. Foolproof.

…that’s one that my BiL recommended too – so will have a look at it when I’m down in Richer Sounds…

Check out the M3 also if they have it, that’s a soundbar, also gets decent reviews.

Really rate our Q Acoustics M2. It’s a base instead of a bar (i.e. goes under the TV) but we have it on a shelf in our TV unit.

https://www.richersounds.com/q-acoustics-m2-blk.html

Something here using the household profiles?

https://www.the-ambient.com/how-to/how-to-alexa-spotify-501

Had this WhatsApp earlier today…

‘all looking good at the moment, got Mojave front page up and managed to get on top of passwords, so just YouTube to sort out now……maybe turned it off like mail. Are you free?’

…been busy all afternoon. Someone’s turned off YouTube?

See loads of this. Reduces risk of supermarket car park dinks I guess, but could end up with a nice scrape down the nearside if people aren’t paying attention :)

Van in the wrong legally, all three contributed. But cyclist had almost 10 seconds from this point with a van braking and indicating left, moto alongside him easing off??

Poor old JLR! Mate has a 130,000 mile+ Range Rover, no big issues. I have the same, mine’s been fine too. We both use local specialists rather than main dealers, guess new ones/main dealers not so good? Just to balance it up a bit, thinking about all my old work cars…

Vauxhall was awful, loads of issues, kept dumping its power steering fluid from new, left me stranded loads. Audi had electrical gremlins from new, dealer couldn’t sort, first BMW faultless, second BMW in and out with failed electrics, air vent dropped into the dash, wipers failed, Skoda was OK but dealer I used pretty poor, and finally a Mitsubishi was the worst of the lot. Complete electrical failure, needed new loom and then was back to the dealers every month until I jacked in the job and was very pleased to hand it back :)

Am going through my iTunes library and deleting the ones with the cloud and a line through it.

Making playlists of songs beginning A etc and doing it that way.

It is officially a pain in the arse.

If it helps, there is an option in iTunes to show duplicate songs (File/Library/Show Duplicate Items) that can speed up tidying an iTunes library.

You can’t play Apple Music on Google.

Depends what you are doing. You can upload a music library (including albums/songs purchased from Apple) to Google for free and use their app to play it on Android. You can even leave the Google sync thing running on the Mac so any new purchases are sync’d automatically. But no, you can’t use an Apple Music subscription with Google Music. For this use Apple Music for Android.

Alternatively transfer the music files manually (think this is what you are doing) and use your preferred music app on the phone. All works.

Sounds like your iTunes library has issues – do you have decent backups of your Mac/iTunes library before you try anything else?

Depends on if you are happy to stream, but syncing your whole library (up to 20,000 songs) to Google Music is one way to do it. No need to transfer it to the phone then, either stream or download albums on your phone and play from Google Music instead. From memory you can’t download your whole library in one go, which is a pain.

https://play.google.com/music/

‘3 bar’ menu on the left, Upload music, Download  the music manager on your Mac and let it run.

I get the same, poor circulation I guess, second half of a ride last week was painful, cold/numb feet and takes ages for them to get back to normal. Might check with the GP if there’s anything behind it next week, but looking at boots for this winter.

I’d listen to what the GP says. For me, I’d got to a position where I wasn’t exercising/biking because I felt so crap combined with no free time ‘cos of work. Vicious circle, and GP advised me against launching into lots of exercise. Use the pills to get the BP down combined with healthier lifestyle, and you then feel up to exercising. I was dead against the pills, but on a very low dose and no issues with them.

Now enjoying the MTB again. Bought a new bike yesterday – first in 10 years :)

All that you said, drop caffeine, drink water, eat well, exercise and drop any excess weight if you can. I was feeling generally low, aching, nausea, headaches, couldn’t sleep, living on coffee to keep me going at work, lots of stress there too.

After doing the full 50-year medical checks, blood pressure suspected, as on occasions (but not always) was high. Put me on a 24 hour monitor and it was spiking to 187/106. At night too, which is weird.

Also there’s family history – all my blood relatives have had heart probs, strokes etc. so for me GP said get on Ramipril as a preventative measure. No side effects.

6 months later lost a stone, BP average currently 128/75 and much of the symptoms are now gone.

Got into the habit now of taking my BP daily to keep an eye on it. If you do end up managing BP a Omron monitor is a good investment. I just email my readings in now to the nurse at the surgery.

Uponthedowns, it is up to the OP what he calls it. If it makes the whole process easier to manage, why are we to judge the term he uses?! Ultimately he has made an incredibly hard decision and feels upset by the whole thing.

Agreed. Just ignore the comment.

Read this last night before dozing off, dog on my feet. Def no guilt needed, you did what was right. Always had family dogs, but was away somehow (hols, away at uni) when the end came so never faced this. Now life is settled and we are in our forever home, have a fantastic dog, the bond is so strong. Caught myself thinking she’s prob a quarter through her life already the other day, really stopped me in my tracks. Comes with the deal. When the time is right sounds like you have a great home for another rescue. Take care.

I used these people in Australia. Quality seems great.

http://www.thesunglassfix.com.au

Couple next door spend many evenings sat in the garden smoking it, bit weird as we’re all out the back too doing normal stuff, can’t really pass the time of day ‘cos they’re out of it. Yeah, the smell is sickly sweet, wouldn’t want it in the house so sympathise.

I’m not a big fan, two siblings are into it and the family/kids suffer. Yep, we got all the ‘just chill’ lectures.

Our Cocker is fantastic, brilliant dog, do anything for you, but don’t think I’d take her on the trails. She does seem to be prone to sprains and cuts from brambles etc. as she is so focussed on being with you and will run through/over anything Def let him mature and bone structure develop first, then decide. Daughter has a Weimaraner, that thing is more suited to train running I reckon.

As I said, haven’t ridden for years, suddenly motivated to go out and explore the new area we’ve moved to. Put on some new tyres, bike just worked.

Forks (06 Revs) starting to show their age, will service those. Everything else fine.

If I wanted some current tech new forks what’s available that’s straight steerer, 26″, mid travel? Struggling to find much…

…the slipping dropouts… I solved mine with anti-shake washers…

Trying to remember how I ended up drilling mine, think I had a moan and an Orange tech suggested a newer dropout design with the third mounting point. Stops it rotating.

Was very simple to do, check 3 times drill once 😀

…the dropout slipping issue…

Forgot about that, used to happen on the disk side, solved with a later dropout, extra hole drilled in the frame and a bolt

07 P7 is still my only bike. Not ridden for many years, got the bug again now. I’d say if you don’t already have a hardtail, do it. Are you going to use new parts or spares/second-hand?

£35 per week for 4 meals for 2 from Gousto works great for us. Gives me more time to spend with family and biking, plus has helped kick-start healthy eating. Lost over 12 pounds since April. Think we’ll stay on it.

Got a nice load of recipes I can dip into. Used one for a meal with mates a few weekends back, just bought the ingredients, doubled the amounts.

They do need to address the amount of packaging.

Sat in one now. If you’re sold on an SUV and free electric at work within its range I’d be tempted.

Only way I can get a largish 4WD from the company now. Tough, well screwed together, quick enough (electric linear  power delivery off the line is quite fun). Not too wide which I like (but people sat in the middle in the rear prob don’t). Dog/bike happy in the back. Mitsubishi’s S-AWC been impressive through the winter. Later ones have tweaked suspension and a bit more grunt I think.

OS map won’t show land ownership? Sounds about right though, as Duke of Norfolk owns lots around Arundel Castle.

So bloke was prob technically correct if you weren’t on the cycle trail (which is on the OS map.) However all down to what the owner tolerates in the forest.

IMG_20170709_202557 by James Fisher[/url],

Yesterday evening up on the Downs with the dog…

Over here visiting family at the moment. Came through Washington Dulles, two iPhones, Android, laptop no issues at all. Would have even made it through the Passport Express machines (don’t need to speak to border protection) if I’d had a few more months left on my passport.

What risk are you looking to cover? It will be in the policy details.

My dad had a recent example of only realising when he needed it how the car insurance worked on a rental. His fault, did not give way when he should, hit another car who then hit a wall (everyone OK, phew!)

His rental insurance was the bog standard policy from Enterprise he just accepted at the desk – 3rd party cover only.
He had to cover full cost of replacing a brand-new Astra.
Luckily he had his own policy (prob similar to what you’re looking at) in place that covered up to £6k in costs, so he ended up having to pay the difference.

When I read the rental insurance in detail – it actually stated the policy was void if you were not driving with due care and attention – not sure how this works. If this is proven is your insurance invalid?

Anyway, he ended up paying about £4k in the end I think. Settled up direct with the owner of the wall, third-party was dealt with by insurance.

Was so tempted. Saw the actual 5GT that I had in 1990 for sale earlier this year, over 8 grand. Pretty sure it was about £12k new…

$_86 by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr

IMG_20160818_141942 by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr

IMG_20160808_151937 by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr

IMG_20160806_113604 by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr

Magpie?

See here…

Yep, I’m having problems with mine talking to my Yeti. Although originally it did work, which is frustrating.

Does seem flakey (but the OP2 was too when running Oxygen). Mine connected initially no probs, but last night wouldn’t connect and had to go into the menus on the car and connect manually. Stayed connected after that. Saying that, iPhone is no better – that randomly drops the connection. Got a Skoda too, so prob the same BT stuff you have.

Does this help? Generally the camera seems competent rather than outstanding. Our dining room is dark, took a quick pic, auto, no flash or HDR etc. with iPhone 6 and the OnePlus 3. Both IMO did a good job. EXIF is interesting. OP3 f/2.0 ISO 640 1/17th, iPhone f/2.2 ISO 320 1/33th.

iPhone by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr

OnePlus by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr