age UK are a good starting point.
Wristband and lanyard mounted alarms are available from the local authority – the charges aren’t high

NatWest set one up for my late father’s exec account with no problems.

Hounds, my error. When you wrote you were going up the POrtway I understood you were gaining height, not cycling upstream. The Portway is unpleasant.
If you’re on a MTB it’s possible to go from Avonmouth/Shire uphill on the Severn Way (footpath). Lawrence Weston House, Blaise estate, Trym valley, Stoke Bishop, Hollybush Lane, across the Downs & the bridge.

Apart from using Bridge Valley Rd, the only way that I can think of to get from the Portway up to the Downs or the suspension bridge level is via the Goat Gulley, which has wire fencing up to about 2m height and bike-proof kissing gates. If you can lift your bike that high, it will work. There are several routes down from the Leigh Woods area to the cycle path between Pill & Bristol

If both phones use Whatsapp, then the calls using the app will be free

Join the camping club and use their certificated sites. No more than 5 units – usually on a farm with a look and a tap – what else do you need?

Be aware that certificated sites often don’t have loos, just a disposal site. Good for self-contained vans and caravans, though

In the past we have parked in National Trust & Forestry Commn sites, and in a previous van used to poo in the woods. We carried a spade and buried everything well off paths. Now we have a bigger van with onboard bog. It holds a few days of solids, best to wee wild. FOlding trenching shovels are what you need. Or doggie bags.

Yes. I’m a member of a swimming club which owns a disused quarry in Bristol. I try to go 2-4 times a week but only swim a sedate 3-500m a time. The green setting and social chat are a goood part of the appeal.

Hangers, the naval weapons. Short so they are better for fighting in restricted areas. I have one somewhere, late C19 made in Dublin with some damascening. No idea of it’s worth anything.

Elf’n’Safety?
When I was at school many years ago we were sent out to clean up any litter that had been dropped at playtime as group punichment. No litter = no extra work.
Fifty years later and the school at which I have helped insists that it’s too dangerous for kids to pick litter, so they drop it in volume without regard for consequences. Littering is a habit

Look on New Popular Edition maps, & transpose to a current version. V useful for old railway locations

Why does he want to sell? So that he can buy another more suitable home? If so then why stop him? Or is he paying rent to your mother too?
If he moves out, leaving the house empty what would he & your mum do?
You need to help them both sort out the reasons for selling or not selling & suggest a path that’s fair to both.

Yes, back to the climbing centre. I miss the fear, and have put on enough weight to notice so I’ll take the risk so long as the precautions seem to work.

“Comfort” pans are bad for your bowels, you sit too high. Get a low rise one if possible for a cleaner crappage. To assist arse cleaning I hightly recommend fitting a hand bidet/ Muslim shower to blast your bottom buttons away. They’re only about £20 plus fittings, well worth it especially if you have kids / women in the household.

I’ve sold 2 bikes recently, both advertised on gumtree so that only locals would likely respond.
From a purchasers point of view, meeting at a random location spells out a dodgy deal: why are you afraid to meet where you live?

I asked for photo proof of ID before a test ride, and held their car keys for the person arriving by car. Payment either by cash or bank transfer works. With xfer you can see the money in your account almost immediately.

It seems that her arrest involved a lot of cops and noise. Why, do you think?
If she was going to destroy anything incriminating it’s have been done months ago.
So- big production for the media? Or so that no one cop could be bribed into being trigger-happy?

Saturday, in the greengrocer.
I tried to pay by card but their device just said “waiting” for a few minutes then gave up. So I paid cash.
On Sunday my account was debited – it appears the card transaction had passed anyway. £4.82 down the drain (or into their account)

Gobuchul,

They wouldn’t of needed

…
Please, please stop using ” wouldn’t of ” etc.
“Wouldn’t have needed” is correct. It’s difficult to appreciate an argument when the message is mangled by bad grammar.

restricting the flow to taps and cistern helped get rid of our water hammer. The mains pressure varies depending on time of day/ year, so it comes & goes.

I’ve seen DIY hammock slings using 2×4 timbers that work fine, so long as there’s top or bottom bracing to stop the suppports bending inwards. 3×3 sounds ok to me

Yes ONS have run sampling

Thanks, TiRED & kimbers.
I had assumed that even asymptomatic infection led to showing sero+ve, and hoped the level of background infection was higher

Could the number of asymptomatic infections be way higher than previously thought?

I may have missed this, but has there been a random sample of the population tested (similar selection procedure to electoral polling), to find the background infection level?
If not, why not?

Look for a scrap moped engine, there should be plenty around.
I got a dead Honda C50 lump for my son, who promptly ignored it for a year until we left it on the garden wall for a scrap merchant to take

Perhaps there’s a knight on the tiles?

could it be that he was up there doing dodgy deals with GSK based in Barnard Castle

Unlikely. GSK has its HQ in W.London, its UK R&D centre in Stevenage. Its purely manufacturing in BC, and not the main centre. Ti RED would know better than me.

Velux roof on the extension, if that’s where the windows are. Otherwise open the folders so the heat dissipates

Full of DFLs, like Frome is.
According to my in-laws

I like Gumtree because it’s local, people can see the bike before buying (or not), and it saves having to send the goods. It’s also free to use.
I’ve just sold 2 bikes, both within a couple of days of placing the ad and with not too many “how low will you go?” idiots.

One buyer paid cash, one used bank transfer over the phone which took about as long as counting notes would have done. Very easy.

Much less than I used to be.
I’ve been travelling abroad for 50 years and getting on with Europeans for that time.
Britons’ ignorance of history and other cultures , combined with our recent descent into jingoism has made me almost ashamed.

Having Boris as a national leader means we are taken as a joke, rather than respected as we used to be, until recently

Thank you all, especially HB47.
I might well DM you in a few days, ta for the suggestion.

Shares may be down, but there’s no guarantee they’ll go up anytime soon, so selling asap is the best option for all concerned.
The prob is handling the actual certificates… electronic sales are easier.

I need to sell them soon because of the primary beneficiaries in the will – his grandchildren mainly. I can’t distribute the estate until it’s all in pounds.

OK, Omar the OP.
What were they actually doing that upset you so much?
Or are you too busy curtain-twitching to let us know?

Are they spitting on every gatepost they see? Are they frotting each rambler they meet?
If not, wind yer neck in.

I’ll clarify that. It’s a loss for the British. If we had invested in improved manufacture then we could make goods as cheaply and as well as Korea / Germany. As it is, we are payiing foreign workers’ wages instead of our own. The tech you describe isn’t necessarily far eastern, it just happens to be where the investment was made. We used to have a sizeable tech industry of our own but it withered.

what would be the benefit of investing heavily in washing machine manufacture now? It’d cost a fortune and we’d always be lagging behind Germany and Korea

But we used to have a decent white goods industry, Korea didn’t. We didn’t invest in improvements in product and process, they did. So now we have to import, and that’s a loss for everyone.

Yes, the finance industry pays for our pensions but they would pay a damn sight more if we had a strong manufacturing industry. I remember an argument with two non-engineering STW members about 10 years ago, who could not see that offshoring making stuff is bad for the country even if profitable for the companies doing it.

cf: What happened to the UK’s oil money compared with how Norway spent its income.

We’re more innovative, but they simply do things better and execute things in a more effective and efficient way.

If you look at the number of patents filed with the EPA and elsewhere, you’ll see that Germany is more innovative than we are.

The UK is not realistic about its place in the world, and lives on a myth of superiority. The Germans know what they are, and know more about their past as an alliance of many small states.

We have been much more finance based than manufacturing from the 70s, with a resultant skewing of the economy. There is a disconnect between what is good for the country and what is good for companies based here, so outsourcing and lack of investment has eroded our ability to compete. The Mittelstand type of company is less powerful here,so we are less resilient. Within industry, the unions / workforce and management seem to collaborate there but compete here. The Red Robbo days of British Leyland were pathetic, small groups of workers able to sabotage a whole industry, followed by management buy-outs sucking the remnants dry.

Genedrive & Cytiva are fairly confident that their collaboration in providinga diagnostic test will be validated by the end of this month.

http://www.genedriveplc.com/press-releases/gdr_cytiva_partnership_rns_(20.04.20).pdf

I should be in a cottage in Kettlewell this week, enjoying hte weather & walking with Mrs Moses. Instead, I won’t. We may have another attempt in September.
First world problems.

“Queen played Sun City for wads of cash and were pariahs for it.

Then they do a set at Live Aid and suddenly they are national treasures again”

Always remembering that Freddie was a Zoroastrian from Zanzibar thus not “white” as we understand it now, and especially 30 years ago