I’m now old enough for another jab. I’ll be taking it, despite (as far as I know) never having had covid..

And now I’ve got Covid, which is annoying both because I’ve broken my otherwise clean record, and now I can’t have the jab. Assuming I recover, does having had it confer as much protection as the jab?

Describing things as “cheeky”

What about footpaths? Is it ok to call them cheeky trails?

Around here they are reducing the prices on many of the new builds, suggesting that perhaps they’ve saturated the market. So it would definitely be worth making an offer.

express transport option enabled

This is optional. If it isn’t enabled, you have to unlock the phone before tapping in. At least, that’s the case for Android.

A child’s Day Travelcard is £7.90 and you can buy them in advance or from the station at Euston.

So labour get a free pass because the alternative is much worse?

Of course not. But talking as if Starmer is the anti-Christ and his party are the legions of hell really isn’t helping. Politics, like economics, is just one big confidence trick, and undermining that confidence is a very dangerous thing to do. By all means indulge in some constructive debate, but this relentless slagging off is not that.

You can argue that Starmer isn’t great and some of your argument might even be compelling in places. Try and tell me Jenrick or Kemi are better than him though, then no sorry, you’re wrong. They aren’t in the same league as Starmer. Convince yourselves otherwise at your peril.

— Nick Tyrone (@NicholasTyrone) September 24, 2024

This is the reality. This is the choice you have to make.

B.

Why are you trying to run non-tubeless tyres tubeless? Asking for trouble.

After nearly 5 years of successful dodging, I’ve just tested positive for the first time <sad face emoji>. Really quite unpleasant.

I’ll eat what there’s most of so that they all run out at about the same time.

This. Particularly with a fry up, the aim is to have a final forkful which has a bit of everything.

Really liking Gilmour’s new one, ‘Luck and Strange’. John Martyn always a good shout, also Khruangbin. Most of Little Feat’s output, both pre and post Lowell George.

Oh, sorry. I thought someone must have picked up the stock from chiggle. It’s a shame, I’ve got them on two bikes and they’ve been great.

https://www.cheapbikeparts.co.uk/en/111638/Brand-X-Mushroom-Lock-On-Handlebar-Grips

Brand-X Mushroom – super comfy and only £7.99

People who say colourway when they mean colour.

Easy one

for the oldies

Easy one

That would be https://cyclinguk.org

I’ve never had an issue with the o-ring mounts. Just use the smaller o-rings and make sure they’re really tight – oh, and make sure that you are using the rubber spacer under the mount. That said, I now use out-front mounts on most of my bikes and just take the risk of crash damage.

We went for a cycling trip one February. I’ll never forget the chain gang back from Arta in torrential rain at 8°, it was type 2 fun of the highest order. The following day’s descent of Sa Calobra where the rivulets of water from the previous day’s rain had frozen was also pretty special, but I did clock the fastest descent that day on Strava.

None of the above put us off going back in October, which was certainly better weather. Not many people about, which was nice. Very chilled.

Retropower

Harry’s Garage and Harry’s Farm

Number 27

Iain Tyrrell

Jay Emm

Sadly the rider will get away with a token punishment

14 months is not exactly token.

Sergiu Stanciu, 18, from Sandfields Road, Port Talbot, admitted to dangerous driving and was sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders institution.

I know it’s unfashionable around here to like anything produced by BrewDog but I’m enjoying this

Black Heart, on the other hand, is watery, undrinkable rubbish.

 i just couldn’t get on with a bike i couldn’t do no handies with, sounds weird, but on long rides it’s nice to just stretch whilst on boring flat bits, the lefty was just not designed to be well balanced in that way.

This is simply not true. It’s no harder to ride no handed with a lefty than with a conventional fork. It might look like you can’t, but unless something is bent or broken there’s no problem at all.

The nicest work laptop I ever had was an HP Spectre. When I retired and it was my own money I bought an Envy, which has also been great.

I’ve had a response to my complaint. They’ve changed the headline . Is it an improvement? I’m not sure.

I’ve got a Scalpel HT with a Lefty. It’s a fantastic bike. There are no downside to the handling from the Lefty, but the maintenance is pricey.

Heading towards Kineton from Moreton Morrell. Bandit country. Be careful out there.

I own a fancy endurance road bike, a titanium gravel bike, a very fancy XC hardtail, a 29er trail bike, and a fully rigid 26″ singlespeed. My favourite is whichever one I’m riding at the time. Bikes are great.

@MSP

bad for them to make such an obvious mistake

They do it so often it’s hard not to conclude that it’s editorial policy. I’ve raised a complaint too.

The fact that he was charged with motoring offences suggests that the police, at least, were well aware that it was not an e-bike. Time for another complaint to the BBC.

and I will keep on reminding folk when they say there is no appetite for rejoin

Possibly you should reflect on how well the patented TJ ‘Batter them into submission’ approach has worked for you in the past.

We are all well aware of what the polls have been saying for a while now. There are very good reasons for thinking that those polls would not translate into a landslide victory in a referendum, particularly since any future vote would be likely to be more professionally run, requiring at least a majority of those entitled to vote, and maybe also a greater than 50% vote share. That is how things work in many countries that use referendums more frequently.

The vast majority want to rejoin. 70% of labour voters, 80% of the scots electorate, significant majority UK wide

I’m sure you’ve told us that before at some point ?

I got three hundred quid VAT back on the skis I bought in Austra in February…

Which you then smuggled back into the UK?

I can’t remember if this has been covered before in this thread

?FIFTY BREXIT BENEFITS – MEGATHREAD?

I have collated 50 tangible Brexit benefits, fully evidenced and demonstrably true.

Some may not like that they exist – but that doesn't change the fact that they do.

?Scroll down to see them in this megathread ?#BrexitBenefits2024 pic.twitter.com/GjmoLSz9EN

— Gully Foyle #UKTrade (@TerraOrBust) May 21, 2024

He says that they are ‘fully evidenced and demonstrably true’ which is probably correct in that these things have happened and he has provided references. Many of them are debatably ‘benefits’ – the ability to create more plastic pollution without penalty for instance would not be considered beneficial by a majority of the UK public, I think. He also appears to be saying that the removal of trade barriers is a benefit when those barriers only appeared because we lost the protection of the EU agreements. There is also no attempt to weigh the value of the ‘benefits’ against the cost of the disbenefits. So on first glance it doesn’t look very persuasive.

[edit] I see a previous list by the same author was discussed on page 20 [/edit]

We had a great couple of weeks in Prats de Mollo. Very chilled.

Some background:

?1/11 I'd like to indicate to @nationaltrust members considering how to vote in the upcoming AGM just how relentlessly Restore Trust and the campaigning network to which it belongs has been assaulting historical literacy and Betraying Trust over the last decade.

Of course… https://t.co/0FjNOeDfHt

— Alan Lester (@aljhlester) September 4, 2024

Here is the list of people and organisation that Restore Trust are backing:

Philip Gibbs, Lawrence Goldman, Tiffany Jenkins, Colin Kerr, Bijan Omrani and Patrick Streeter in the Council elections and for the Georgian Group, the Victorian Society, the Gardens Trust and Historic Houses as appointing bodies

The Gardens Trust and Historic Houses are actually on the recommended list from the NT, the rest are not.

As @ratherbeintobago suggests, ‘Quick Vote’ seems to be the way to go.

Managing for Happiness by Jürgen Appelo has some nice ideas

That would be ace with a motor

Wash your mouth out