Change it to “Love Dick”

Sounds like you have a rubbish quiz master

I don’t know where they got twigs from but you can get cheese with a bark rind. Which then has packaging outside of that.

Winslade

Packaging – the materials in which objects are wrapped before being sold (from here)

The wax rind on Edam is put on before the aging process, most edam is then wrapped in plastic packaging before being sold.

After slating the state of the market locally (NE England) we accepted an offer on our house of only £1k under asking. Managed to also negotiate a healthy discount on the house we are looking to buy as they had not reduced it since putting it on the market in early October.

Now on to the interminable wait for solicitors to do their thing.

correct answer of yellow

BS

Edam is traditionally sold in flat-ended spheres with a pale yellow interior and a coat, or rind, of red paraffin wax.

From here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edam_cheese

Though I feel we need a blessed cheesemaker to confirm this either way

Red innit

Cheese Moments – Scampi Fries long lost partner in crime.

How do you use a spade bit with an impact driver? There’s no chuck?

A lot of spade bits come with a hex shank.

How does the asking price compare to what you paid when you bought it?

It’s much higher, but we bought from family for cheap and then spent the last 9 years having everything done. Rewired, walls skimmed, new boiler & radiators, new roof, new bathroom, new floors, new windows & doors. So it’s not as easy as comparing sold price then with the market now.

The house opposite was similar, paid £75k and completed a week after us, spent 7 years completely renovating it, sold for £155k in 2021. I would expect that to be around £135-140k now.

Crap in the North East – we cunningly put our house on the market 7 days before interest rates were put up in October. We’ve had plenty of viewings and we did have an offer but that was withdrawn when their lender denied their mortgage application. We reduced it by a bit less than 10% after the second rate rise. Pretty much every other property has also been reduced and anything new coming to market is at a much lower price than it would have been 6 months ago.

There’s houses that have been on the market for longer than ours that have been reduced and still aren’t selling. The days of property being advertised and sold the same/next day are a distant memory.

@StuF we have an opening for a product owner position. I’ll DM you the link.

this^ – you need Lexia to get into the brains on a PSA vehicle not just any old OBD2 reader. For most people there’s little point going to whole hog for a single time use. Especially when someone that knows exactly what they are doing can have it done quicker and not break anything else in the process.

@tabletop2 – it’s something I had wanted to do with our old one but never got round to it. I wish I’d had it for trips abroad where you sit at 130kph for hours on end.

This is all what I have read about getting it fitted. You need the control stalk which sits on the opposite side from the stereo controls in the same position. The wiring should be there for it so it’s just a case of fitting it and plugging it in. You then need to get someone, probably a Citroen dealer, to enable it using their electronic wizardry, I believe they charge around £150 to do that.

Energy companies should absolutely be nationalised with all the profits invested into public infrastructure

This, it works a treat for the Saudi’s

they’re doing something well.

Profiting on the back of massively inflated energy prices, that’s what they’re doing well.

To put their $28bn profit in context, that’s more than the GDP of Iceland.

I’ve got one of the last of the Gen2 27.5″ Rockets – it’s better than I am. I imagine the 29er is much the same but rolls fasterer.

Steel FS bikes are thin on the ground. Pipedream Full Moxie, BTR Pinner, Production Privee Shan No5. I think you’d be lucky to find a second-hand one of any of those to be honest.

We have a few days up in Edinburgh at half term, that’s only because my parents have booked a static caravan at Mortonhall for a week so they have space.

We don’t usually decide on anything until just before we go. Last year we booked Gran Canaria a week before we went, and before 2020 we would get in the car and drive to the tunnel with no idea of where to go. I don’t know that we’ll be doing anything at all this year as prices have gone up everywhere and interest rates have not helped with many different things.

@pisco that sounds absolutely vile

Today I had a pasty from Gregg’s

What he said. Usually modulation ratios are around 1:6 to 1:10 – so a 24kw boiler with a 1:10 ratio could modulate down to 2.4kw.

20 years ago at uni the height of my culinary prowess was a supernoodle sandwich.

These days I tend to either stick with a few things I’ve managed to get pretty much perfected. Staples like Bolognese, chili, curry (I have one or two go to recipes). If you can cook a good spag bol you’re halfway there. Make sure it simmers for a couple of hours though, anyone that cooks a bolognese sauce in 30mins can’t be trusted.

Other than that I pick thing off website or telly that I think look achievable. I quite enjoy the process (mainly because I can be in the kitchen and ignore everyone else), but I also enjoy the end result and the reactions the family have when stuffing their faces.

Five Ten Freeriders

I’ll add another vote for these. Got a pair intending on using them for riding but they just ended up being worn for day to day use because they were so comfy.

They’ll always give you a crap offer to begin with. Go on Autotrader and find similar cars (age, spec, mileage, colour etc) and go back to them saying you want £XXX amount of monies as that is market value for the vehicle.

@dirkpitt74 they can be folded up against the back of the middle row but they still take up a bit of space. If you just need an extra but if room you can just fold the backs down but it’s not a flat surface.

I went from a Berlingo to a Dacia Jogger but it has a boot lip and the floor isn’t entirely flat. Also, the middle row of seats isn’t removable.

I think the only new option left is the Ford Tourneo Connect if you want something the same. That or a late model Berlingo with the 1.2 petrol or 1.6 diesel engine.

Drill all the way through and use round head coach bolts? With the nut on the inside of course!

This, it’s exactly what I did with the t-hinges when I built the shed.

@urflying @stox – sorry for the delay only just seen the mentions

urflying – yep it is quite narrow. We only have one child seat in the back and fitting another two people on that row of seats is a bit of a squash. It’s noticeably narrower than the Berlingo it replaced but then that’s based on a van whereas the Jogger is based mainly on the Sandero.

Overall it’s been very good. It’s at 3300 miles now, most of which was done before the start of this year. On the motorway it’ll sit there all day long and return around 47mpg. It’s comfortable on long drives as well, I’ve done a few long drives (5hrs+) and it’s been great. It’s also very easy to drive, it has fairly light steering and gearchange, good ride, and not too noisy. Round town the fuel consumption drops quite a bit, the first 2 gears are very short so you have to quickly get through them into third. Another thing to note is that considering it only has 1.0 litre 110bhp engine it’s not sluggish, I think that’s down to a lump of torque it has around 2-3k rpm.

We’ve had 6 people in it quite a few times, the rearmost seats have quite a bit of space considering the size of the car. The trade-off being that when they are up you have next to no boot space. Take those two seats out though and boot is huge. I haven’t yet had the need to see how bikes fit in.

Bad points – Legroom in the middle row isn’t the best if the front seats are far back enough for anyone over 6ft. The blind spot warning seems to have a mind of it’s own when it’s raining. The carpets feel a bit cheap, I know it’s a cheap car but the rest of it is so well put together that the carpets just seem a step below everything else. Only two cupholders in the centre console, one of which is bit of a sod to get at as the armrest sits over the top of it.

Given the choice to be in the market for a new car again I’d buy the same car even though it is now £2k more than when I got it. I’d also seriously consider the hybrid but that’s mainly because I could have an auto.

I would have thought anything over 100mph would be an instaban along with a hefty fine.

We went to the local independent flooring place and got them to do it, iirc the brand was Lifestyle flooring. I can’t recall the exact price per sqm but it wasn’t stupidly expensive. We went for a cheaper range as we have the house on the market so didn’t want to spend a fortune (obviously the Tories have caused the selling process to be a tad more drawn out though!).

Camptown Races – I blame Mel Brooks

Depends on how you’re buying it as well – HP? PCP? Personal Loan? Some manufacturers have decent deals on PCP on new cars but you’ll have a wait for it to turn up unless they have stock in the country already.

I moved from a diesel Berlingo that did 45mpg to a petrol Dacia Jogger that does 45mpg – immediately fuel costs have dropped by 15% (ish) because of the price of diesel at the moment. Don’t discount small modern turbo petrol engines, yes you need to work them a bit more round town but if you’re doing a lot of motorway miles it evens out.

As above Netflix and Disney+ work fine on Fire Kids tablets. Also, the SD card point is a good one. It’s not that they don’t have a lot of storage built in it’s just the stupid way it creates a duplicate of everything when you create the kids profile.

I’ve just had a packet of these.

I’ve done something similar to the Bosh beans before but with a bit less faff because I used baked beans.

I’m getting angry just reading the quotes on the BBC live feed

I have the same setup as you. I’ve been looking at doing the same thing and I think it would take a 34″ ultrawide monitor to get the same sort of screen area. I’d love to be able to get one of the bigass 49″ ones but they are at least 3 times the price of a 34″.

Fish Finger Sandwich with loads of butter on extra thick white bread. All of it purchased from a supermarket, we’ll have none of this artisan nonsense in Sunderland.

Fish Fingers can be substituted for Fishless Fingers for vegans if you’re into that sort of thing.

Misread thread title as “Driving courses in Egypt.”

Disappointed, but I have an adventure tourism business idea.

Me too – show me where I sign up.

Breaking Bad – I started watching it about 4 years after the last episode had aired.

For god sake before you naturally throw the instructions away find out how to turn off the *finished* alarm

Please please tell me how to do this, it drives me insane. Once would be fine but the bloody thing just beeps and beeps endlessly.

But yeah I’ll add a vote for Bosch. Ours is now 11 years old and the only thing replaced has been a door seal and that’s just because it got a bit manky rather than failing. All of our other white goods are Bosch (dishwasher, tumble dryer, fridge/freezer). The only thing that has ever broken on any of them was something on the fridge which was causing everything to freeze, turned out to be something to do with a polystyrene thingy in the back which was fixed under warranty.

We have a health plan which I have never used, mainly because I haven’t had need to but also because I can’t remember my login credentials and it seems resetting them doesn’t work.

Aside from healthcare we also have something through Vivup which is salary sacrifice but for anything you can buy from John Lewis or Currys. There’s a load of other things in there as well like discounts on gift cards, car hire, holidays etc.

We have that glass one further up the thread. It’s about 4yrs old now so approaching what I expect is the end of it’s life. We live in a hard water area and found that the min level for a single cup made scale appear a lot quicker.