If you are putting a reinforcing mesh in and your concrete isn’t too wet you should be okay. But I have found that ceramic tiles can float to the surface as they are less dense, ruining any nice smooth finish you’ve spent ages perfecting.

After making this error myself, I now paint a piece of liner paper and tape it to the wall. I know this doesn’t help OP but is worth bearing in mind for the future. In the meantime try using a razor blade scraper to take off any high spots and sand a large area around the sample to try and blend in the edges like spraying a damaged car panel.

Great entertainment from Danny. But I can’t help but wonder if that manual over the bridge slowed him down a little. Still, it was bloody brilliant heart in mouth stuff. Wife says we can, nay must go next year.

Gorgeous here in Fort Bill. Don’t know how long for though. I think it might be a little damp come race day.

Can’t believe nobody has said it;
There’s only one way to settle this… Fiiiiight!
IGMC

And yeah, ply.

Well I assumed it was newly created. I wasn’t pushing on because I still had more than a hundred miles to go. And I don’t know how these things work :oops:

I got a KOM on the wiggle tour of the Peak on Sunday, I was 1st of three. It was a newly created segment which was nearly identical to another on which I am 503rd. Imagine my disappointment. Still got a crown for a while though, so I say knock yourself out.

Not sure, a lot of it was new to me.
“seemed a fit crowd”, probably not me then :oops:
We had bright pink numbers on if that helps.

@pondo, were you early enough to be victim of the missing sign which meant we ended up at the top of Bradwell and having to bike back up on one of the steepest hills in the area to get back on course?

As pondo, MrNice and the onlywayisup (oh and Martin Johnson the mahoosive rugby player), I too did the tour of the peak. I didn’t think I had done enough training. I was correct. Didn’t mind Winnat’s but was short on sugar on Holme Moss and the headwind from Glossop was a barsteward.

Agree. I know what I want to watch or listen to and when it was on. What was wrong with the old day by day list?
Arrrggghh indeed.

Chainsaw chain is going backwards!

Do you have some chain degreaser? Has worked on clothes and carpet for me.

WTF do they do on their cheapest valet?

Cherie.
Nice gaff.

*cancels booking at Bistro Sat night* Well I might have done if I’d thought to book. The waitresses looked easy on the eye last time I looked in. Now wondering where I’ll be eating throughout the weekend.

Without a Paddle. Shindler’s List is funnier!

Out at 7.30 (the old 6.30) on the roadie for 40 miles, prepared and cooked roast beef dinner for remaining parents. Tired and slightly drunk now, and about to veg out in front of the TV now they’ve gone home.

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These wooden signs/ornaments/wall stencils for the home that tell you what to do

We were given some of these for Christmas and aren’t my sort of thing at all. Didn’t take long to realise an anagram of LOVE is VELO. Swiftly rearranged.

How much to post them?

. Just mark them as LiIon batteries or compressed gas and the post office will bin them.

If in doubt that is. A shut gate may cause a bit of an inconvenience, whereas an open one can lead to a whole heap of trouble.

You shut it!

Just had our bill. £190 for the year, not on a meter. The benefits of a low rateable value property!

You will repeatedly bang your knee on the curved bit of plastic that goes from the steering column to the door when you get in. Other than that it’s a generally benign experience.

I’ve been clearing up fallen trees in Mansfield. Never occurred to me Pines would have been hit. Bugger!
With a name like that ^^^ I thought you would have had a bit more control of the weather.

How tough are chainsaw trousers eg can they really stop the blade cutting through or are just sacrificial and delay it a bit as in if you really wanted to cut your own leg off, you could just cut through them?

Never having tried to cut through them at work, I can’t guarantee their efficacy. Having said that, many a time has a piece of bailer-twine or an old pair of tights (used to tie trees to support stakes) stopped the saw instantly – though I wouldn’t recommend either of these as your first line of protection. So I think it’s safe to assume chainsaw trousers would do their job.

Depends on why you want to remove them, if they’re in a lawn, not too big (six inch or so) and you want to grass over them and, a small hired one will probably suffice. However, if you want to remove completely anything substantial then a larger piece of kit might be needed. Our work one is a v-twin, drinks petrol and blunts teeth for fun.

I think the dishonest ones will stay away from this one!
Who was it by the way? :wink:

First was Sherwood Pines, last will hopefully be Marin, Penmachno, Coed y Brenin or Degla, fallen trees and Expresspocalypse permitting.

Whilst trimming trees away from some power lines in a woman’s garden for the local electric company, she delights in telling us her son does this “for a living!”.

Surely pulling a cable is pulling a cable, your hand modulates the force.

Try slackening the cable and unhooking it from its stop, then squeeze it manually to see if it returns. If it doesn’t it’s not the cable. There are a couple of online tutorials (Park do one I think) that will guide you through the process. My Ultegra brakes seized the same way and its a bit of a faff with little grub screws and what not, so best to take them apart on a sheet of some kind. They just need a good clean at the pivots probably.

As with any wondering what the long term forecast is; prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

“I thought you were tree fellers, why are there only two of you?”
I’ve become quite adept at a dead pan “No, sorry it’s just me and him”, pretending I hadn’t noticed their original quip.

Looks like a kit car, but probably not as well built.

Now we’re getting a bit more light-hearted about it, can I vent my spleen about the BBC coverage on Thursday night. Mrs Brown’s boys was faded out with no warning to listen to Zuma’s slightly cryptic announcement, followed by the newsreader insisting it was a shock. A shock?, for whom? Followed by the ten o’clock news 10 minutes later repeating what had just been said. I agree it was big news, but a banner along the bottom directing viewers to the BBC news channel would satisfy those who need the news yesterday. We then had what seemed to be pre-rehearsed or recorded tributes which could have waited a day, and stupid vox-pops from people who’s opinion no one cares about. Meanwhile large areas of the country had been battered by storms and were at imminent risk of being flooded by the largest tidal surge in dozens of years. Do we need to be force-fed tributes when nearer to home lives had been or were in danger of being lost. I didn’t want to shout at the TV when hearing about the death of Mandela, but banal and repetitive reporting just diluted what should have been a sombre but proud news item. I hope it’s not just me!

As the speeds are generally slower, especially in woodsy riding there is less wind chill. Three quarter undershorts are enough in most weathers with baggies on top. Baggy shorts are not necessarily a vanity thing, you are more likely to hit the ground which would render most lycra useless. Baggies shrug off most slips and slides.

Agree with the above comments but, that elongated central refuge/divider is an awful piece of road design. Knowing you’re going to have to wait just makes cars rush to overtake.

Hired bikes in Austria this summer and heeded the advice of “use both levers at once” . Not ideal but workable, especially on a 10 mile descent :P