Now we’re talking.

Hmmm, take your point IHN. We’ve got a Lancashire and a Cheddar for the ‘traditional territorial British’ cheeses, though. Not sure the shop had a Cheshire in…

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Ha! I know what you mean. To be perfectly honest, Cheshire was always my least favourite of the ‘territorial’ British cheeses, but then again I probably only had terrible cheap supermarket ones as a kid. Always hated a Cheshire cheese sarnie where half the filling had hit the deck before you got it to your gob.

Anyone care to recommend me a good one to try?

Apparently not run by Mark any more. Never been up to it but it may be worth a mooch at some point to check!

Okay MCPH:
one aged – Vintage Cheddar – check
one hard – Did you mean Manchego? They had a British Manchego-style, but I skipped that for the Berwick Edge, Gouda-style
one brie – The Rollright is more a Reblochon style, could go a trad Brie or Camembert as an additional squidgy one.
one blue – Blue Monday – check.
one goats / soft – Fivemiletown is the trad soft goats log, plus Ribblesdale Smoked Goats as a second and another ‘flavour’

Cracker suggestions are good. Water Biscuits are a good shout, we’ve got pickled walnut for the acidity, if I’d had a Manchego we’d also have Membrillo paste to go with it. Might try and find a tomato chutney as well.

Hmmm, take your point IHN. We’ve got a Lancashire and a Cheddar for the ‘traditional British’ cheeses, though. Not sure the shop had a Cheshire in…

Tomaso – Nope, no French. Not by design, just the way it’s gone – if there’d been a mind-blowingly good Brie I’d have ‘ad it, but nope.

Thecaptain – been to The Courtyard a couple of times, and usually have to be restrained. It’s on my drive back to my parents place.

Bigh – Think I’ve had the Drunken Burt, good stuff.

CFH – I’ll have to give the Tunworth a try, heard of it but never found it around here

The missus was mildly miffed that we’ve only got one blue, but I’m not a fan of them, unfortunately. I’ll try them, but the mould taste and sharpness isn’t something I enjoy.

Rusty – had Kit Calvert a whole bunch of times, used to work in Dent and ride over to Hawes to the creamery.
Slowoldman – can’t recall having that, but I’ll look it out.

When I went in I thought I’d end up with lots of foreign stuff, and have managed to keep the whole thing UK. The nearest to ‘foreign’ is the Fivemiletown from Northern Ireland…

Waitrose and Booths are both pretty good if there’s one of them near you Mikey.

Mine are from a little specialist cheese shop in Leeds – George & Joseph in Chapel Allerton.

It can read them on a voice command, you can’t return one

One of the Skodas I test drove earlier this year could. Visual display of your texts and the option to reply using the touch screen.

FlyingMonkeyCorps – that might be just what I’m after – thank you!

You’re worried that someone might hack into your light bulb and make it flash?

No, I’m worried that
a) someone might use a hacked bulb as an access point into the other stuff that’s connected to my network – like my NAS server, and
b) that someone might use a hacked lightbulb as part of a botnet – as per the recent attacks on Amazon, Twitter, PayPal etc, as happened a few weeks ago[/url].

Hammy – Rented house. Can’t add trunking in, can’t lift carpets to put stuff underneath, large-ish bedroom with sockets at the two back corners behind the wardrobes, bed central on front wall. No better layout for furniture, but lousy for electrics.

Scotroutes – See the ‘hacking’ article above. I want as few insecure/unknown security level access points to my network as possible. Also, bedroom is on the wrong side of the house for the sunrise and her ladyship gets up before sunrise anyway, so ‘leave the curtains open’ is a useless suggestion.

Perhaps not high tech enough for you, but we just have a bedside light on a timer. Works admirably

It’s not that I want high tech, Scruff! Unfortunately, timer would be on/off, and the aim is for that gradual fade-up/sunrise effect that helps wake you up more naturally. If there was a non-techy solution (other than just, say, waking up naturally anyway) I’d go for it.

I use my Philips Hue … Also really nice that it can switch on a couple of lights with a low warm white when coming home after dusk.

Good experience, but as I say, has to be connected to the router for that, and I don’t want it connected to the router!

How about just buying a new sunshine alarm clock?

Sorry, that was an aside in the original post – “there’s also the problem of not having a good place to plug it in any more as well” Fairly old and badly laid-out house with very few plug points in the bedroom. The lamp was great in our old place where connecting up a bedside lamp was easy, in the new place it’s practically impossible.

Have a look at the philips hue stuff (may not comply with 5).

Doesn’t comply with 3) either, unfortunately – connected to router via their ‘bridge’. And, as footflaps points out, has already been cracked and used in a bunch of DDoS attacks.

Chatting to someone from one of the helmet companies (MET, I think it was) at the Cycle Show about the whole replacement interval thing, and his comment was that the front of the helmet is what usually rots first, the polystyrene deteriorating. His tip was that, along with the time interval, to give the bit behind the brow pads a press with your thumbs, if it indents easily or feels soft and foamy rather than crisp and rigid, it’s on its way out.

Thanks ElShalimo. It’s Patterdale and Arnison Crag, end of Ullswater.

Not me, but someone I coached kayaking. Running the Crake in the South Lakes, headed down the last rapid to the get-out to set up safety for our Uni club. First couple get down alright, then hear a shot of ‘swimmer!’ from upstream. Lad comes past, curled up in a ball, weeping quietly and making no attempt to get to the bank, so I wade in and haul him out, drag him onto the side and check on him. He doesn’t un-curl, just lies there, foetal, crying.

He’d swum quite early on in the rapid, and done most of the right things – on his back, feet first. Unfortunately, he’d neglected to keep his feet together, and as the water picked up speed down the slope, he’d met a rock crotch-first. By the evening the bruise had come out and spread from the back of his knees to the small of his back, via a very abused and swollen scrotum. He unhappily accepted the nickname ‘Santa’ after that one.

I first aided at a karate tournament where a 13 year old lad got kicked in the nuts hard enough that things forcibly retracted. Brought a little tear to the eye did that one, and booked him a little trip to see someone with more qualifications than me to have them pulled back down.

Paramedic responder arrived first, told him the lads conscious level kept going, eyes rolling back in his head etc, the guy’s first response was “they don’t keep rolling up pink and hairy do they?”

…love the bomb?

Yeah, Shutter speed to 0.3 or 2, ISO to maybe 400. Judging by that I’m assuming it’s a fixed aperture, so see what happens on a few test shots and tweak from there.

Depends on the phone camera hardware and the camera app.

If you’ve got a combination that gives you decent manual exposure control, then you might be able to get some good shots. The problem is that the automatic systems on a phone camera tend to ram up the ISO and turn up the flash to keep exposures relatively short, which means you get noisy, badly lit, short exposures. For a clean light trail shot you need low-to-medium ISO, wide aperture and long exposure, and ideally a very steady place to stand a camera. If you can control the first bits on the phone and find the latter, you might be on to a winner.

There’s a good chance it’s one of the Ad servers it’s waiting for.

I’ve got a set of the Hunt 4Season Gravel wheels arriving today, having gone through the same thought process as you. Bit of a lead time on them, but if they’re anything like my Hunt road wheels, they’ll be superb.

How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you (at The Oatmeal)

As far as I’m aware, there aren’t any poisonous snakes in the UK.

There’s one venomous one, but I’m not sure you’d die if you ate an adder…

I’ve got the 1.6TDi Octavia Estate and test drove a Leon ST when I was looking. The ST seemed a lot less spacious than the Octavia, don’t know whether that’s actual volume or just layout, but in the back seat it felt more cramped and the boot didn’t seem as large. Could just be my impression, but going up from a Fabia both seemed bigger, but the Octavia felt a step above the Leon.

My daily run is 15mins to work and 15 back of an evening, not had any DPF problems as I tend to then do a longer run at least one night a week and much more at weekends.

That’s this evening sorted then, thanks for the heads-up!

Ahem…

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/196158

I like my X-Pro 1, however I’m inclined to trade it in for an X-T10. Smaller, lighter, faster autofocus. I mainly use the diddy pancake primes (27mm and 18mm) as they’re pretty cheap and tiny. Background defocus used to be an electronic add-on in the NEXs, so an older one might be an option. I always thought it read a bit gimmicky (essentially a filter instead of a true optical property) but YMMV.

A mix of the Tapioca starch, malt syrup, grape juice and emulsifier, probably.

Emailed you Zippykona

Do they have to be new? Got a cheapy S/H set I don’t need.

Blitz some dates or raisins and add in – binds and adds a bit of moisture.

Edit: Mm, Karen Gillan though…

With you on that but didn’t want to be the first one to say it.
I’m assuming they deliberately designed her waistcoat thingy for, ahem, ‘maximum impact’…

I reckon it’ll be OK, The Rock is pretty media savvy and wouldn’t back an obvious turkey…

Ahem…

I’ve got a pair of the FlyPedals but not tried them yet as I haven’t got a second set of cleats!

Alpkit have their Jekyll double-sided SPD/flat pedal that might be worth a look?
Love Mud Jekyll

Tube, patches, CO2, levers, multitool, split link in saddle pack (haters gon’ hate…); mini pump in back left pocket; phone, card and fiver in Aloksak in back middle pocket; gel and bar in back right pocket; water in bottle on bike.