If you want to spend money on a product then there’s these ^^ Called Stayhold. Comes in various sizes. Velcro to the boot floor and even comes with a handy wine bottle holder if you’re feeling brave.

I thought I’d seen something like this before and a minute on amazon found them.

Not crocs

Not socks

Not popping to the bin

Thinsulate or heat holder socks with oversized cheap croc-offs for when you want to nip out to the bin/grab something from the car.

Happy to help. Thank me later. ?

Thought this was going to be about replica-replica shirts from China. £80 for a kids T-shirt that they grow out of or wait a few weeks for delivery of a £13 equivalent (including the shorts for kids sizes) that you really can’t tell the difference. Official football shirts are a rip off. I read an article about the Sport Direct vs Newcastle shirts kerfuffle and it mentioned in there that Sports Direct buy the replica shirts direct from Nike for about £12 and then sell them at £80+.

And I have no idea how macruisekeen is pronounced.

Just Marcus Ericsson in my head. I like to imagine there’s an ex-F1 driver on the forum.

The josephjoseph sink caddy is the cheapest I’ve seen it in the 2 years it’s been sat in my wishlist.

Other than that there’s nothing screaming out to me as a bargain. Most things in my wishlist are the same price as usual but with a “prime deals”  red logo next to them.

£100 excess on the windscreen bit of the insurance sorted mine out. Replaced and 12yr old windscreen and the difference was amazing! It was actually an accidental break though. Some long bits of wood that I was taking to the tip. Loaded up the night before and they settled during the night in a way that pushed the front of them up and cracked the screen from the inside.

Nice to see something relatively understated and lowish budget compared to some of the monstrosities they noramlly start a new series with. Yeah the guy was a bit of a tool with plenty of loopholes to exploit, rules to break etc (normal Grand Designs candidate) but the end result is actually quite fitting with what was originally there.

However, that only works if you know what was there before. For the thousands of tourists who will pass it they will see a glass cube stuck on the end of a terrace of Edwardian houses and wonder who approved that.

Apparently I’m not to be trusted deciding the temperature of the room I’m going to work in all day.

The ultimate real office simulation experience there.

you’ll have to add line rental onto it which will probably be North of £20/month extra.

Prices you see on comparison sites now include line rental. So generally around £25-30 all in per month. I think it was a regulation change a few years ago to show the total price.

Put your details into https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome and it will show what exactly is available from your exchange and if FTTP is coming soon.

FTTP is not available.

The exchange is not in a current fibre priority programme

oh joy. Good job that the 35mbps works OK for now. But I fear as the world gets more data hungry then it will become limiting. My long game is that 5G will become a viable option but currently when my phone connects to 5G here the download speeds are lower than they are on 4G.

We’ve got download speeds around 36mbps. 3 children all streaming + sometimes streaming in the lounge too. Son does online gaming on consoles. I do Teams calls (normally no video, but screen sharing most of the time). 99% of the time all that can be going on at the same time with no problems. the other 1% of the time there might be the slightest bit of hesitation but nothing really noticable. The only one who gets frustrated sometimes is son when he has a 7gb game update to download and it takes a couple of hours to do.

We have the joys of KCOM for our fibre (East Yorkshire). I have the little connector box in the path at the end of our drive. Friends round the corner use them, so I rang them to sign up – “oh there’s a fault on the line on your street from when it was installed a few years ago. It’s on the list of things to fix but it’s a long list covering the whole of the county so it could take them a couple of years to get round to it.” Great.

This is very timely as I was wondering the same. Getting low on my tesco ones as they wear out and Facebook ads have made the Step Ones very tempting.

Just signed up to the email list and got £8 off first order so going to try a pair for £11 and see how it goes. This could get expensive if they’re good.

If you can wait a couple of months then they normally have one day near black friday where it is 50% off an annual sub

Cheers, will bear that in mind if we don’t get rid of them this time round. Annoyingly the dryer part of out washer-drier has recently decided it doesn’t want to work any more so would also involve sitting in a petrol station car park.

But you surely shouldn’t get the notification if the dog owner and their phone is with you?

I think poly is right, it’s more likely to be set up to father in laws phone but he wasn’t with us so it will have lost that connection

I just got one of the same notifications “unidentified air tag traveling with you”. Mild panic followed by the realisation that I picked up my mother in law and her dog earlier tonight and I think the dog has an air tag on her collar.

There must have been an Android update recently that brought air tags in to play. I know I had a few emails and notifications about a similar thing starting with Android devices in the last couple of weeks

I have the same Decathlon trousers Ro5ey suggests.

Me too. However, with being thick of leg and big of arse, I don’t find them the best fit. Too tight on the thighs so when going up Lakeland paths I found that they were constantly being pulled down on my bum and spent every few steps hitching them back up. This was with the built in belt as tight as I could take it.

The water resistance is also very ambitious with its description.

I think I would have relocated the newly found “treasure” to the front lawn of their forwarding address.

We moved in late 2020. The house was being sold as part of a divorce and the guy seemed reluctant to move. Eventually got him out onlyto find he’d completely missed emptying the loft. Amongst the family photo albums and his prison officer training records was a bag full of VHS porn. Given that we don’t have a VHS player it was useless to me. So, I agreed to take it all round to his new place that he now lived in with his 19yr old son which was only 5 mins away. Rather that than waiting for him to not turn up several times. He said he was going to be in but he wasn’t so I just left it all by his back door. I really hope the son came home first and there were some awkward conversations that followed.

Potentially there to react everytime the traffic lights fail and cause more chaos. That’s what we had on a road near us recently. All through the day too even on Sundays when no one else was around. Just a person slouched in the front of a van looking very bored each time we passed.

Yep, got them here now too! Transferred from their cousins when they were up over the bank holiday.

2 girls with long hair so an absolute joy to try and sort them out and wash bedding. Quarantine all the soft toys in to sealed bin bags for a week because the youngest arranged them all on her bed and slept with them the night before we discovered the little bastards had arrived (nits, not cousins).

We keep a bottle of this in the house – https://groceries.asda.com/product/headlice-treatment/asda-head-lice-spray-6-months/1000151615726 – a fraction of the price of the branded ones and works so much better. Apply on an evening and leave in overnight to kill any live lice then comb out the corpses and wash hair the next morning (and wash bedding AGAIN). The re-treat 7 days later to kill any that have hatched from missed eggs before they reach egg laying maturity.

Same thoughts as above – expensive to run. Would be better off with an electric equivalent. The ones with the water vapour to create a realistic flame effect are quite impressive these days.

So watching on ITV4 at the moment. Lots of coverage on boring tree lined roads, about to head across a nice picturesque bridge and through the market town of Yarm which would make some lovely TV pictures and they cut to adverts. Come back and they’re out the other side and back on dull country lanes.

Is this an intentional snub to Yarm? Have they not contributed financially so the race organisers have told ITV to not show it as they pass through? Seems a bit odd otherwise at this stage of the race when there wasn’t much else happening.

After a few years of trial and error I’ve settled on… Thick slipper socks like heat holders paired with some too-big Aldi Croc-offs. The socks do the job of preventing cold when sat at desk WFHing and the crocs can quickly be slipped on for trips to bin etc.

I tried fur-lined crocs but they were too sweaty to have on all the time. As are most slippers in my case and then they just get smelly.

EDIT: To clarify, I’m 38 and a long way off my pension. At home is a place for being comfortable. Out in public is for giving the slightest of shits of what you look like.

Asda or Aldi depending on where we’ve done the big shop.

I just looked at the price of Heinz – £5 for a 6 pack (83p/tin). Adsa are £1.61 for 4 pack (40p/tin) or Aldi 41p/tin.

I’ll be honest, I’ve never had Branstons so no idea where they sit on the value scale – looks to be about 70p/tin.

Given that I’m happy with the own brand we’ll stick with it. Don’t want the children thinking we do branded foods now otherwise expectations will rise.

Every crash he had is money out of the cost capped budget to replace parts. That’s money taken away from potential upgrades and development. There’s also the time aspect of the people who have to make the replacement parts. They could be working on making upgrade parts. Given that they just brought a big update to the last race I’m guessing they don’t have a huge amount of spare upgraded parts sat around for when he smashes it in to a wall in Monza.

It’s also right to bring a rookie from their own development programme in. Even if he doesn’t score any points as long as he keeps it on the track then he’s doing a better job. Giving a seat to Lawson or Schumacher is just giving your potential future rivals chance to practice and improve themselves at your expense.

Having been a massive Oasis fan when I was younger I’ve had a few text this morning from friends and family asking if I’ll be trying to get tickets. My general response is:

“I’m tempted, but then also think it will be a disappointment. Some things are probably best left in the past as good memories of a different time. And ticket prices – when we last saw them in 2005 it was £35 for a ticket. Probably £150+ now.”

I was too young to be see them live in the eary/mid 90’s. I think the first time I saw them was about 2001/2002 when Liam was getting his teeth knocked out in Germany. Also, I just don’t think I can be arsed with all the effort and cost (travel, hotels, etc..) to stand in a stadium full of dickheads throwing pints of piss just to destroy those earlier memories.

Verstappen wasn’t pressing on the ‘go’ pedal quite as hard as he could’ve done

I did wonder this from a different perspective – no point unnecessarily straining the engine and other components more than you need to. If you’ve got 2nd safe and realistically know that you’ve no chance of catching Norris. But then again, I don’t think Verstappen is mentally able to not go for the win and he would have stayed closer if he could have just incase of a error or problem for Norris.

Oh man I wish I was such a perfect parent with such perfect little darlings that are too scared to have and show emotions and feelings of their own for fear of upsetting the perfect parenting.

Our kids are mostly well behaved, kind and considerate. But they can also be complete arseholes who don’t like it when the answer is no and seem to know just the right way to wind us up.

The thing with being on holiday is that for most of it you are all stuck together day and night, in a little bubble, in each others pockets, away from routine and home comforts and things that normally might not bother you can all build up. There’s noone to vent to because the people you are with are the people you are pissed off by. So you come to your friendly internet forum to seek reassurance that you are not alone, only to be told that you are in fact a shit parent.

I noticed another one this morning. The most of the summer our clothes pegs just live on the line rather than putting them all back in to the hanging bag thing to then get them back out the next day. When I bring the dry washing in I make sure the pegs are clipped back on loose so they can be slid along. Given that there’s more chance of winning the lottery than they next load requiring exactly the same peg spacing, this makes perfect sense. She, on the other hand, rams them back on to the line so that they are locked in position which is a right pain for the next person (normally me) to hang stuff out as once you get more than one peg out of sync you have to start unclipping multiples without dropping them, or the clean washing, all over the grass.

We took ours to Disneyland when they were 7,5 & 2. I was knackered from the drive down from Yorkshire and a crap sleep in some run down hotel nearby the night before. They were fully wound up with excitement and over stimulated and acting like ungrateful little brats whilst I wondered where all the magic and happiness was. But then I saw the greatest thing ever – another dad losing his shit with his kids. The confirmation that it wasn’t just me was a huge weight off my shoulders. Somehow that triggered me in to chilling out and letting kids be kids and from then on the rest of the stay seemed so much easier.

8 years later and we’ve recently been camping. Normally I am up at least an hour before everyone else (they all sleep in whilst camping) and that is my time to walk the dog and then sit and chill with a morning coffee and watch the world go by with the dog chilling at my feet. For some reason this time they all decided to get up at the same time on 3 out of 4 mornings just to mess with me and not allow me to relax. I swear they do it on purpose.

Was there a mountain bike game for the PS2 ?

No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking – although that may have been PS1

Strongly recommend Mashed: Fully Loaded as a multiplayer game. Like the evil twin of Micro Machines.

One side up on the kerb if you have a quiet street that you can lay under without getting run over.

Star washers are a quick way to fit something relatively light (like an undertray) to a threaded or shouldered stud on a production line. Likely to be a standard threaded stud behind so a big repair washer and nyloc nut would hold it safely without having to remove the existing one.

Agree about innov8. I bought some Roclite 345GTX a few months ago. First walk over boggy ground and both toe boxes were leaking. I sent them back to Sportshoes.com who offered a replacement pair but I asked for a refund instead. I was disappointed because they were very comfortable and did a full days walk around the Langdale Pikes with no issues (except leaking).

I’ve ended up with some Scarpas instead which are still a little tight around the front but I’ve laced them up in a way so that they don’t tighten over the toes and have had no issues with them since.

Toilet Roll. I seem to have married a phsycopath who has no preference over which way it hangs and will consistently hang it the wrong way without a thought to others. I’ve even trained our children the correct way and they will now turn it round if it is found to be wrong.

The boot release switch on our Mazda5 stopped working 3 days before a camping trip last weekend. Typical poor timing as always. Replacements look to be hard to come by and ship from Europe so going to take ages. So I took it apart to have a look if there was an obvious problem. Inner boot panels came off nice and easily without breaking any clips. Whole tailgate handle was then easy enough to get off. Disconnected the switch and it looks a little bit corroded inside. So, sprayed both sides with some contact cleaner and plug/unplugged a few times to scratch anything off. And it magically came back to life!

All done and fixed within an hour and no money having to be spent. That’s my kind of repair. Worked fine all week so all is good.

The Kampa Dometic one that came with out tent has been solid so far. Also includes a varity of different ends to fit on it so guessing it would also do the paddleboards if required. I’ve not tried it though. Max 15psi

https://www.attwoolls.co.uk/kampa-dometic-downdraught-hand-pump

How much did you pay for the Halfords bit?

I was looking at this yesterday. Their website wasn’t the best at explaining things, but from what I could gather:

– £35 diagnostics – this was to check for leaks and see if the compressor works or not. It does not include any regass.

– £65 for a re-gas (old gas, pre-2017 cars) but this does not include any diagnostics.

So it would be £100 for diagnostics and re-gas. I think the newer gas was something like £130 on it’s own.

I ended up booking in to a local garage for just a re-gas that I can walk home from and leave it with them.

EDIT: I should really refresh the page before I reply

If solar is not going to be good enough then why not keep it simple with USB powered lights and a power bank that you take back in to the house occasionally to charge up? Could have a waterproof box to keep it and the USB connection in.

Beech Croft Farm was nice when we stayed there about 5 years ago. Play area for the kids and good clean facilities. Close to the Monsal Trail, 5 mins drive down to Buxton.

  Does an s21 have ir?   I’ll have to try an app and see.

Next week – what phone to replace an S21 that got knocked off the arm of the sofa?