Kardean and the like – you’ll need the bathroom rated versions as the “normal” kitchen stuff isn’t rated for puddles of water.

We put lino down. It’s warmer to touch and softer than the LVT downstairs, which is great as we spend a fair amount of time kneeling on the floor with kids in the bath. Also don’t have to worry about water seeping between the tiles plus it was mega cheap, even for decent stuff.

We’ve got an ebac and it’s great. There’s a boost or drying mode that goes in to hyperdrive for 8 hours then returns to the previous setting after that. It’ll do a moderate load overnight, heavier stuff 24 hours and about 5-10 litres in that time? It has a decent fan, can be plumbed in, what’s not to like. Also I believe they’re British made, if that matters.

Ventilation? Well maybe. Either you need to get the moisture form clothes in to the air, requiring heat. You then need to remove humid air from your house and replace it, with cold air. Which then needs heating and so on and on and on. I’ve assumed it’s more efficient to have a little refrigeration cycle going to to remove the moisture from the air. I mean, the heat spent is just going to warm the air, which makes your drying quicker. Win-win. Got to be more efficient than throwing warm and slightly damp air outside and drawing cold air in.

Trackpumps are wildly inaccurate at MTB pressures

My Revolution (Edinburgh Bike Coop) track pump is absolutely cock on at MTB pressures :-) At last compared against my Topeak gauge, and consistency is what matters eh :-)

Very grippy

Will suck the enjoyment out of longer rides but it’s good resistance training. 😜

What trousers for driving over yourself

My friend doesn’t get the reference, Could you explain it for him? Did Adrian Chiles drive over himself or something?

I qualify for a visa as a spouse. My wife has a job offer as a doctor.

Same situation as me. In fact, I know Stevious from my time over there. Small world, full of expat doctors 🤣

You can go, without a job and without a plan and sort it out when you’re there. If your spouse is an anaesthetist then you’ll be ok for money on a single salary and you can sort yourself out with a nice second hand Subaru Legacy, find a place to live within riding distance of the bike park and eventually get a job.

With your visa you can work as anything so don’t feel beholden to rush in to it.

/edit – and lucky, lucky, bastard. Sort your affairs out well enough that you don’t have to come home any particular time and can extend your stay or never come back, should you feel that way.

Who knows? Does anybody know? What’s the worst that could happen? How on earth did we end up here? Isn’t this game fun!

In seriousness there’s always the chance that your stuff will get lost in a pile on the side of a quay in Hull or transferred to a facility for customs processing there and being held up or lost.

So if you’re keen, get them ordered ASAP.

Late night Bonk

Try asking the wife but she’ll probably tell you to sort it out yourself…

However, over ordering because of shortages makes shortages worse- just like loo roll and pasta in lock down 1, and we were strongly advised by the powers that be to not do this.

i.e. OP – We understand what you’re doing but please don’t, it makes it worse for everyone.

… classroom of thirty three, with most not wearing masks…

I think your employer also should help improve this although with schools you might not get very far.

Your money, your risk. Maybe there’ll be tariffs or a fee each time is crosses the borders. Who the f*** knows? 😝

Maybe it’s worth getting out of this race to the bottom re prices and pay for UK supply? What’s the difference anyway?

A good rule of thumb is to always use either lube/antisieze or loctite. At home I’ll normally use whatever grease I have on the go. Coppaslip if I think bimetallic corrosion is really an issue. At work I’m using a lot of stainless fasteners so I’m using Goop.

For salty stuff then I’d prioritise antisieze over threadlock and use a Nord-Lock washer to prevent loosening from vibration. I used this combo on some pannier racks over many years with good success.

In your situation, loctite 248 is probably ideal.

Leave the metal bulkhead on and stash and emergency can opener in case you get stuck in the back, HTH.

Re. the door swap you’d certainly hope would work – they look similar shape and economics suggests that they would keep components identical unless there is a need for them to be different. The inside opening handle should be entirely covered by what’s going on inside the door – wouldn’t expect a problem there. Would central locking still work on a different door mechanism?

Can you afford to go with a decent supplier with renewable electricity generation? Or is cheapest the be all and end all?

SP41 outers, decent stainless inners. Cheap inners feel rough and don’t pull as smoothly. Coated (galvanised, polymer, PTFE, etc.) inners always wear out and then rust long before the stainless has given up or the lining of the outer has worn through.

it’s worse than nothing

Absolutely this. It encourages the “get off the road” attitude because there is a cycle lane. The car driver won’t notice the lamp post bang in the middle of it and won’t care to listen to your pleading that the cycle land is a hazzard. It will one validate their feelings that cyclists are entitled and don’t care for the rules.

We can only hope that the lamp post is going to be moved, but don’t hold your breath.

(we use an aeropress at home) having tried many, we settled on Lavazza.

If you have external style hinges screwed on, replace some or all of them with coach bolts that can’t be undone from outside. If you do have some small windows add frosting so you can get light without being able to see in. Poss add security bars (inside).

Do you want to make it look like you have sometging to protect?

I have a friend Dave, who has done things similar. I think the best way to contact him is through facebook, if you use it.

https://www.facebook.com/HumbleWoodDesigns/

There’s a repair place in Gosforth – salters road crossroads, opposite the gp

They hemmed my wedding trous, will let them have a try with this. Cheers.

Have you and the team from Old Company thought about starting up your own business? :-)

Seems like there’s work to be had and money to be made…

Have you considered joining the Foreign Legion?

If you have any electrical sockets around then a night light? Low power, leave it on?

Bargain for someone. Worth pointing out that these size pretty small – I’m a 7.5 or 8 (EU 42) in most things. I had to go up to 8.5 on these and it’s still a nice (but snug) fit.

Sounds not too silly. We had the Sharpes fella come and give us a quote (2.5m width) because, I thought they’d actually help us design it, instead, it was “here’s the options, pick your rails and shelves and drawers” then £6000 including the discount…

Off to IKEA I went and did a beautiful job of it if I may say so myself. bit of bodgery, 3 sliding doors and nearly-fitted wardrobes have we (for about £1100).

I would have thought that a bunch just moved in during the building works, not that you necessarily have a highway to Slugtown that needs destroying.

Done any night time prowling, when they might be on the move and you might spot them? Just have a quick scan with a torch when you use the wee room in the night?

Else leave beer traps, like you would in the garden, salt or slug pellets?

Helmet friendly adhesive – not sure but now you mention it some adhesives won’t be good for expanded polystyrene. The stuff I’ve used seems to be fine – it’s not come off and the polystyrene isn’t disintegrating.

Doesn’t look like the Brittannia’s port and stbd foils lift, like we see the Emirates doing? Is it a generation behind?

And what’s Ratcliffe doing calling it “Brittannia” after moving residency to. Monaco? He’s got some nerve.

Some rotors are 1.7 or 1.8mm, most are 2.0, IIRC. Worth getting some calipers to check your existing pads or looking up the spec?

If stuff is dusty and will blow away it goes in a bag! Simple! This includes but is not limited to – vacuum cleaner collections, sawdust, plaster dust, BBQ ash, and dandruff!

People will nick your bin when theirs breaks, the lid breaks off, the caddy owa away or get cracked… Especially in our old house, which had one of those service/access roads leading to the back gardens of two adjacent streets. There would be a dozen bins out there permanently, out of the several hundred houses backing on to it.

Cleaning bins yeah a little OTT but if you have to store something on your property (front garden, drive, wherever) and you have to shift it around, you want it to be reasonably clean and not stink out your house when you open the windows? So yeah try to keep the maggots out…

There’s a house round the corner that seems to be the dumping ground of the entitled doggy owners. Dog poo not just in their bin but around it, underneath it, probably smeared on it…. Doesn’t surprise me that you can get wound up by it and take that attitude with you when you’ve moved.

I know that itch, but having settled on the same pairing as you (except I run MaxxGrip on the front) they boss around in pretty much all conditions, except a proper xc slog. Maybe give that a whirl if you need to change something.

My little ones pads blew away on a windy day, walking home from nursery. Replaced them with some single sided adhesive (closed cell, PU) foam. Works great. I might be able to send you some if you know how much (length) you need. It’s about 5mm thick, 10mm wide IIRC.

intheborders – you’ll be needing a second set of batteries for that,, or a fast charger. Or some sheep?

I get what the specs say out of mine, easily. Mix of Eco and Turbo modes (mostly turbo, to make short work of the new turf and try to pick up leaves & petals), around the trampoline and awkward bits. About 150m2 from the 2x small capacity (2Wh?) batteries.

I’ve never got on with the rain head nonsense. I don’t want to feel like I’m being waterboarded. Or are they for people who like to stand outside of the spray and watch hot water flowing down the plug hole?

Can someone please explain? 🤷‍♂️

I’ve got a Worx one and it’s OK. Wouldn’t rave about it, but was cheap (£200 incl. 2x batteries, charger and strimmer).

Cuts, picks up most of the grass, some of the leaves.

Whack, check, whack, check, whack, check.

You can also get those little spirit level tools designed specifically for this, which will help if you can get onw in time.

Big big rims are nasty, banded wide ones look silly IMO. Too many issues of poor ride and wheels scuffing the trim and arches to be worth it.

I got rid of the non load rated ones my van came with, liked the look of stock steel rims but now -got some standard 16″ T6 alloys on so I’ve got a recent amount of rubber & air between the rim and the road.

If you have a van converter near you then you can pick up 4 near new wheels and tyres for less than a couple of tyres – they’ll take them off and put silly big alloys on the overpriced campers

I’ve got some dhb ones that are too skinny for me – never used. Nice mid level ones too. Happy to send them your way in case they’re worth a punt?

To reaffirm some from above, our go-to recipe books are

Meera Sodha’s Fresh India and East. My favourite from East is the Okonomiyaki, which I even managed to get the three-year-old to eat.

Also we cook a lot from the Green Roasting Tin. It’s not all Vegan. Depending on your girls’ stance, they may be open to the odd bit of cheese, maybe not. FWIW we cook with meat maybe once a week, veggie or vegan the rest. We;ve massively reduced the amount of meat we cook but not removed it entirely. Dairy has been harder to remove but we’ve swapped about least half of our milk consumption for Oat milk.

Deliciously Ella has been pushed to the back of the shelf by these two. We also love Made in India (also Meera Sodha) but that’s not Vegan. Buy it for yourself and cook the Railway Curry. Amazeballs.

If you edit the ban-worthy content before anyone sees it, do you still get banned?

Now we know the answer.