Tap o Noth, The Buck and Clashindarroch Wind Farm.

Sad to hear about the  Mountain Cafe.  Kirsten did the catering for our  wedding in Aviemore in  2007. Go back there every year for our anniversary,  it won’t be the same…

Can’t get it on my Kindle Fire HD with Silk either. Reports privacy issue.

Not working on my Kindle fire HD either. It’s reporting a privacy issue.

Here’s one I made earlier…

Still needs a bit of work. I need to extend the drawbar so the bikes are clear of the tow car.

Managed to get 8 Scottish ones for £24 posted. A couple more came up as unavailable.

Looks like it’s availalbe on aliexpress for just over £60

This’ll be the latest version.

Quoted text is twice the size of the normal text. Text size in Reply box is tiny.
Clicking latest post link takes you the top of the second to last page.

Firefox 63.0.3 on Opensuse Linux

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Aberdeenshire, pensioner’s rate £4.50. No.3 all over + eyebrows and ears, 10 minutes.

Done

They are employing a Swiss company to carry out the trail research…

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/badenoch-and-strathspey-mountain-bike-development-consultation-session-tickets-96626068171

Thanks Pierre, all sorted with whyter.

Spotify 32 (family 5)

Apple 10

Google 2

We are trying to do our best to recycle plastic but this is not helped by manufacturers. For example, fruit juice bottles, the bottle is PET(recyclable), shrunk-on plastic film(not recyclable, needs to be cut off), lid(a different plastic which will contaminate the PET). I can bet that a minority of people will bother to separate these.

Manufacturers won’t change unless forced to by legislation, they are driven by least cost.  I now firmly believe that the only way we are going to see a change is for governments to act and ban plastic packaging. It will very probably mean increased cost which either manufacturers will have to absorb or consumers accept.

We have a ground source heat pump for the main house and an air source for the flat. The house was totally refurbished with complete internal insulation, double glazing and new concrete floors with underfloor heating. The flat is a new timber framed building. We are in a rural location so no gas supply, would have to use oil or LPG.

Heat pumps work at lower temperatures than oil or gas boilers so are not really suited to a radiator system. You can use radiators but they would need to be increased in size to compensate. They work most effectively with underfloor heating as this uses lower temperatures than radiators

Costwise, it’s difficult to say as I don’t have anything to compare. It’s a 3 bedroom stone-built cottage in an exposed location in rural Aberdeenshire with a self-contained single bed flat attached. Everything is electric – heating, lighting, cooking, leisure use, so bills are quite high but I think it is probably cheaper than having to use oil or LPG.

Our modem often drops the WiFi and I have to reboot to get it back. Thinking a mesh could replace the WiFi as well as giving better coverage. Looking at a Tenda 2box system. Would this work?

Same here. Can’t really think of much I need, usually if i need something I just buy it. Bigger problem is what to get my wife. She has horses but generally buys whatever she needs when she needs it. I’d rather not get anything than something I don’t need.

We have a Bosch and have a problem with it. This may not actually be a problem with this make only but may be more general. It has a problem drying sheets and duvets – they end up wound into a tight ball sometimes with other items inside. The outside is dry but the inside still damp. Very difficult to untangle, has to be taken out and spread across the room to separate everything while trying to keep clean items off the floor.

Bit disappointed by changes to the plot line from the book. Nobody in the first book goes through a window to another world, it’s not Mrs Coulter who reveals to Lyra about Asriel. Good production and I’ll carry on watching but don’t see why it needs to be changed.

We have a Nordic ski centre near us, Huntly Aberdeenshire. There are trails in nearby Clashindarroch Forest which hold the snow once it comes. I tried it once for days try-out, couldn’t get it, I’m not a skier. YMMV. Very popular round here.

Could one of these be used to push hot air out of a doorway into another room? Kitchen gets too hot and would be useful to spread the heat to another room.

I don’t have anger issues; I just need everyone to stop p***ing me off.

+1 for Corrour

https://www.blog.scotroutes.com/2017/03/moray-way-no-way.html

Thanks also to @rossburton for info on OpenDNS. I already use their servers but will look at Family Shield.

Sorted, thanks to @andytherocketeer. I’d forgotten about the Firestick still plugged into the TV and not used since we got a smart TV.

I’m sure I did that but maybe not. I’ve managed to post now.

Well that one worked.

Since moving to Scotland 10 years ago nearest cinema is 40 miles away. Any visit has to include as many other purposes as possible. Also since starting fostering has to include kids. So now generally it’s just my wife who goes with the kids, I’m not prepared to pay for me to watch a kids film. Time we add in the cost of transport, snacks, a meal, shopping, etc the total bill is way over £100, so it doesn’t happen often. I don’t really have any idea now of films I might want to see as I’ve stopped checking.

@zzjabzz Function key + F9 = disable touchpad. Great, thanks.

@fooman tried this but it is just re-enabled next time you start.

Just realised I don’t mean touch screen, should be touchpad.

Also found a work-around by taping a piece of plastic over the touchpad so it isn’t accessible.

On Thursday our foster placement of 13mths came to an end and she moved to other carers. Our family placement worker had finally encouraged my wife to end it before she did for our well-being. The girl was the most relentlessly negative, agressive, abusive, rude little s**t I have come across and she has now gone.

So we have been out and about with the two other placements we have, twins 12 boy &girl, Saturday at Bike Glenlivet rode the blue route, today RSPB Troup Head to watch the gannets. To see these kids so obviously happy in the open air, no phones or wifi, has reminded me of some of why we do this.

I’m not grumpy, other people just need to stop p***ing me off.

Don’t think you’ll find trail centre riding within an hour of Aberdeen. Nearest probably Fochabers (Moray Monster trails) or Glenlivet. Fochabers no on-site coffee, and I think the Glenlivet cafe closed.

My wife recently bought me a breadmaker, and it has a recipe for sourdough. You can make a starter in it using two plastic pots, uses yogurt and rye flour and takes 24 hours. Then use one and put one in the fridge. Recipe takes 5 hours per loaf, second loaf just needs the starter taking out of the fridge. The whole process takes very little time , just minutes to mix the ingredients then just leave to work.

I am experimenting with various flours – white, wholemeal, spelt and rye. Some mixes don’t rise so well but the bread still tastes great and is not totally flat.

Bit of a cheat really I guess but much better than supermarket bread.

Totally agree about population and the need to control growth. Present world population is around 7.5bn, estimates of sustainable population seem to vary from c1.7bn to 11bn depending on the level of standard of living. The question is how to educate people to limit their families.

When we moved to Scotland in 2004 we decided to try to be more ecologically aware. We bought a croft cottage which we renovated completely. The building was completely gutted inside, fully insulated, then had underfloor heating and a ground source heat system installed. When we extended it the new annex had an air source heat pump. We had a barn built across the road for our horses and when we got electricity to it we also added PV panels.

We try to limit our use of cars but as we live 10 miles from the nearest shops this can be difficult. We are also foster carers which can involve a lot of travel in local trips. We would like to use the train more to visit family in the South but this can also be difficult as we need transport at the other end. We have decided to stop flying, which we don’t do very often but it’s a gesture. Public transport locally is not great, we only have 3 buses a day each way and 1 on Saturdays.

We have reduced our meat consumption, partly due to my wife changing her diet to avoid wheat and dairy. This is helped by the 2 girls we have on placement who will only eat processed food products which I refuse to eat. We recycle everything we can although I’m not convinced that the council deal with it as well as they suggest – I think plastic recycling particularly may be more ineffective  than people would like to think. We don’t grow our own vegetables mainly due to lack of time.

One area which I think we could do more is in packaging. We use bags for shopping at the supermarket but I am appalled by the amount of packaging of foodstuff. I think food producers must do more to limit product packaging. We buy a lot of prepared foods, largely because of the foster placements we have whose diets have been taught badly and they refuse to eat home-cooked meals. We end up feeding burgers, chicken nuggets and pizzas because it’s all they’ll eat.

We’re not really sure now what else we can usefully do. I feel a little bit that it’s not going to be the efforts of individual people and families that is going to sort out this problem when governments and multi-national companies just seem to pay lip-service to making changes.

Interesting idea, I hadn’t considered. I travel to Kent 2, or 3 times a year to see my Dad in a nursing home and it would be handy to have my bike to get some rides in as well. I have a bike bag used for flights, how would this be viewed by the railways as an item of luggage rather than a bike to be transported when there are restrictions on the number (or any) bikes on trains?