It’s a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a picture book and some stickers.  I have though. And if it be had. One worn another one of those silly key rings like the one I lost over a decade ago I’d have spent silly amounts more.

I find that  although I put my lenses in both eyes using my right hand I have to use my left hand to take my left lens out…

I had to wait 2 weeks for my ‘in stock’ Lease car from Leaseplan, something about the cooling off period.

Not got them on any of our cars. Took the awful Landrover ones off the Freelander when we bought it. Seen them swell and round off too many times.
I did however ponder putting them on the Defender after I spent over a grand on a set of 5 tyres but decided against it as I’m sure that’s a fairly niche theft.

Toothpaste tube must be squeezed and scraped to get the last little dregs out and then out back rather than opening the new tube that’s in the cupboard.
Recycling bin in the kitchen filled by 2 or 3 empty boxes and the like because they are out in whole rather than either being flattened or larger items filled with smaller ones.

Had my K2 for over 15 years and it only finally died last month, with the pressure surging and a funny smell. ?

I bought another one.

Just make sure you always drain it by pulling the trigger once it’s off and disconnected from water, and get water flowing through it before turning the power on. Saves the pump and seals from dieing.

I’m not sure that’s entirely true, I happily used a Shimano XTR 12 speed cassette with AXS.
Ot may be different for road stuff but I expect you’ll be able to use an mtn rear mech and it will work fine.

My Lowland Rescue issue jacket is a Keela one. It’s bulky, hot and whilst waterproof is t that breathable so I tend to only use it in the depths of winter or when its absolutely hoofing it down.

“Havant , my constituency, voted to retain the conservative Mr Alan Mak .”

Same constituency as me, I am heartened that Labour gained so much of the vote share and overtook the Lib Dem’s as second place, for the first time in years. For once I felt able to vote with my heart rather than tactically, although the result didn’t change it was much closer than I ever thought it could have been.

Also depends what you do for a living.
I suffer from migraine, luckily in the last few years it’s been 4/5 a year rather than the more frequent ones I had as a mid 29 year old. But hey are ful on, hours and hours of awfulness. The next day is usually a write off too as I’m fatigued and still quite light sensitive.
Given that I work in rope access, I can’t really go to site when I feel like that, have tried once or twice but after getting stuck at 80m too weak to perform the necessary aid climbing manoeuvres to get inside, I think I’ll leave those of you who think it’s cool to ‘tough it out’ to sit behind your desk with a nice sweet drink and the blinds half drawn…

Just done the wife’s Freelander 2.  Current provider wanted an extra £100, up from £285.
Quick check on the comparison sites and got same level of cover but included RAC cover for £320.
We do live in a sleepy, low crime part of town and she’s never claimed or had points in 30 years of driving.

You can buy a small bottle of UV dye that you chuck in the coolant header tank, drive it around for a few days then have a look (in the dark) with a uv torch. That’s how I found a very small leak at a hose joint on my Freelander.

Used to ride that footpath back in the mid ‘90s when I was at uni in Wrexham.
The Chester-Bala fault runs through that valley iirc, spent a very cold and wet day walking around with a shovel and a small bottle of acid to test the rock type. 

Had them on and off for the last 20 years.
I tend to get them in batches, maybe 6 months without and then I’ll get several over a few weeks. Aura, reducing my vision to just periphery, then a feeling of dissociation followed by numbness on my left side then a headache that feels like an SDS breaker in my head for hours. Then the next day or so I feel wiped out.
If I can get some codeine and paracetamol down my neck in the first 25-20 min, along with a dose of caffeine (which I don’t normally have) it accelerates the progression through the symptoms which saves me a few hours of misery.
I’m rarely sick luckily.
Triggers for me seem to be low, flickering light (like the sort you get through trees or hedges in low angle sun conditions. Also the period after a stressful time, so just after a work deadline, or a day off when I’ve been really busy.

Singletrack, Practical Classics and Land Rover Monthly (or Owner, can’t remember which one is still going this far into a night!😂)

Whilst all of my book reading is via Kindle and most stuff is available online I do enjoy sitting with a brew and a paper magazine.

Silky Pocketboy.

I would definitely give Milky Way a few months to dry up!
We drove up it on Sat (it’s a Byway) and it was ok near the top but the steeper bit in the middle was the usual thick gloopy chalky stuff. Our 110 was squirming all over the place on mud tyres.

I have had some awful rides around there/towards Kingley Vale in the mud. It’s somehow sticky enough to collect everywhere but with no grip at all.
One ride involved removing wheels every few 100 metres to scrape the crud out as I made my way slowly to the nearest road.
I save it for drier times nowadays …

Milky Way is a rough drive, let alone ride! Very wet and boggy at the moment…

I assume they have changed the tank for the one with the vented cap? That caused issues which we experienced on ours, pressurising the tank and affecting the pump seals. Citroen contributed to the cost of replacement after a moan from me. Not sure what age they changed the cap so may be nothing to do with that…

K J Parker (A pseudonym for Tom Holt, or the other way round) writes some fantastic characters. Either the Engineer trilogy or the Fencer trilogy have to have the least Mary Sue types.

Berlingo is the answer unfortunately, or it certainly was a couple of years ago when we had a similar dilemma. Its flat as well, which we found makes almost as much difference as the height.

Knobs and levers in cars are indeed great. However, when they get a bit old and start to wear out they can be a bit frustrating, as I’m experiencing in my 1986 Land Rover. But then again that may say more about Land Rover than knobs in general…

Ate at Luchianos Italian place when we were in Buxton last November and it was a superb meal.

The key with that service is to tell it you are the seller, which allows you to transfer online. If you tell it you are the buyer it doesn’t let you. Also, it’s not 24hr (obvs, as it’s a Gov web service!) 

11/11. Easy one that!

Normally with so much butter it leaks through the bottom.
Also food is soaked in beaten egg before grilling to make crumpet French toast. Dash of Worcestershire and some grated cheese melted on top too.

Wife is working so it’s going to be fish fingers, chips and beans for me since I wanted something that was completely different to a Christmas dinner.
We are off to her parents later today and I understand we are having slow cooked short rib.

I’ve had a Vaporesso XROS Mini for over a year now (last cigarette September 2022!) and it’s been great.
Unit itself cost around £20.
Has a replaceable/disposable tank/mouthpiece which cost  circa £10 for 4, they usually last 2-3 weeks.
It’s about the same size and shape as a highlighter pen and has no button, just works on inhalation. I found it was a good substitute for the feeling of drawing on a cigarette.
Have been working my way down the nicotine strength with it, having started in 12mg and now on 3mg with the aim to be off it completely by the summer next year.

The D4 is certainly more ‘Land Rover’ feeling in that it’s boxier, chunkier lookkng and the interior space at the rear is more square.
A mate who carries lots of kit for work swapped from a D4 to a D5 last year and says he regrets it.
The main thing with second hand Land Rovers is that you have absolutely no idea whether you will get a good one or one that will bankrupt you. There’s no way of telling and even a fully historied, perfect looking car can be a can of worms.
The saying is something like “A £10k Land Rover isn’t a £10k car, it’s a down payment on a £20k one…”

We had a trailer tent before we had caravans.
They seem to go for around £300-600 second hand all the time, so you can get in to them pretty cheaply.
Good if you don’t have space for a caravan as footprint is smaller and some even have things you can use to store them on their side!
Smaller and lighter so towing with a smaller car is possible. Lower too so not as affected by wind. We had a rack on top of ours for bikes.
Plenty of space and usually 2 beds, which are off the ground.
But the bottom line for us was the fact that you tow, like with a caravan but you then have to put a tent up. So it’s kinda the worst of both worlds.

Our last 3 vans (inc current one) have been Bailey. First 2 second hand and this one new ex-display last year.
previous Swift was nice enough but Bailey seem to be better quality fixtures and fittings.
The ‘Dreamsleep’ sofa cushions of the last van though were truly awful, soft, saggy and uncomfortable. Luckily previous owners had got some replacements made.
We now have a Unicorn Cordoba, twin axle, fixed single beds. Got sick of making up beds every night & we are both quite tall so most of the fixed double beds felt really cramped.
Some of the newer 8’ wore vans do have bigger beds though.
With an older dog (we lost our Springer x Lab at Christmas at the age of 14) more space is a bonus too.
Adria stuff does look nice, Coachman seems popular as well although they can be a bit ‘blingy’ looking the definitely aren’t white!

3 different cars and a caravan re-insured over last few months. All went up a bit, but not significantly.

<p>Had an R53 Cooper S. Was an absolute blast, could even squeeze my gravel bike in with both wheels out, back seats flat & passenger seat all way forwards. Did require fairly constant fettling though and it’s such a compact package most service jobs require a lot of dismantling to get to the bit you want. Mine ate it’s gearbox amongst other things…</p>

Jimny is tiny. You’ll never get a bike in there without pretty much dismantling it let alone sleep in it. At 6’2” I can almost reach the rear window from the front seats!
Ours has no rear seats but it’s still a very small space.

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@mattbee is that the Spinnaker in Pompy?
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Yep. Spend half my life hanging off it! 😝

<p>Any idiot could do my job, just need a high tolerance of muscle pain and crap weather. </p>

Just down the hill from Micks is the Golden Lion in Southwick. Excellent food there and they always have some nice beers on tap too.

I’ll have a measure tomorrow when I’m home.

Have converted 3 bikes now, two for my wife and one for myself.
Best/easiest was a Go Outdoors 29er (Point 9 or something iirc) with an ‘old school’ type alu frame with relatively narrow gauge tubing.
Also converted an On One Big Dog and a Titus Fireline.
I’ve found that 9/10 speed works better than 12 and indeed with the assistance is all the gearing you need. Since the Tongsheng delivers power best at lower cadences you don’t need massive dinner plate rear sprockets in our experience. Seems to help with the chain line not affecting shifting as well.
All 3 of ours have Leckie branded cranks which reduce the Q factor issues as well as looking like 90s CNC bling! Have also fitted N/W chainrings to a couple although the standard ring seems to be fine too.
Both the steel and alu frames had extra riv nuts fitted to hold the batteries a bit more securely, the Ti Titus has a smaller battery anyways so just used the bottle cage bolts and a couple of straps round it.
Cables under the bottom bracket needed some careful fiddling at install time, and like TJ I’ve found the anti rotation bracket a bit difficult to fit so have used a variety of home made substitutes.
I actually prefer the way mine rides to my Orbea Uurun!