The link first and foremost cautions against public use because the gloves are a scare resource which should be reserved for the health services. In passing it is noted that glove use by the public may increase the risk of transmission based on an assumption about missed opportunities for hygiene. That latter hypothesis is total speculation and pulled out of nowhere apparently. In academia, the use of ‘may’ indicates the least secure kind of knowledge.

It isn’t a question of understanding some inferred meaning but statements of facts. If you can link the quote regarding the increased risk of transmission it would be welcome. I can see how you have jumped to that conclusion but it’s not actually what it says.

Because member of general public takes off gloves incorrectly, assumes that their hands are ‘clean’ and then promplty goes around touching stuff with infected hands. simples

You are missing another premise there, perhaps something like non-trained people will wear gloves in lieu of appropriate hand washing? If that is true you may be correct but otoh it could be a prejudiced and unfounded assertion.

That link does not claim what you said about gloves ‘increasing the risk of spread’ in (or should that be on?) untrained hands.

The argument is not about whether medically trained people can use gloves ‘better’ but whether Joe average is putting himself and/or others more at risk by wearing gloves.

That’s because, if not trained, the public using gloves is more likely to increase rather than increase spread.

How does that work then?

The science on their use by us untrained idiots is still wobbly,

Some of that seems to be based on the medical profession asserting their right alone to ‘do medicine’. I saw one doctor telling people on Facebook not to wear gloves unless they are ‘medically trained’ for example.

Social media makes everyone an armchair epidemiologist and expert in statistics :D

Well, my everyday bike, which saw use on the (often muddy) TPT most days, went through a cassette in about one year.

I suspect that as the teeth wear normally they become more at risk of breakage due to the steel thinning and the loads becoming more concentrated.

Two cars blocking her drive and her fiancee’s car is blocked in further down the street too.

I really don’t understand what kind of asshole does that.

Massively busy on the TPT near me this afternoon. Like a bank holiday. Dreadful.

**** game hunting. Same as fox hunting. It’s a dinosaur practice.

It’s my understanding you can gain private rights of access across private land through prescription. Having a gate from your property onto the other would add to the evidence base should it go to court.

Have you regularly used it for access or anything? Do you have a gate to it from your property? If you have then get that formalised asap with planning. If they built on it they will have to leave you with that access.

Other stay is fine. It’s apparently a braze not a weld anyway.

It’s the same latently-unhinged types who get in bitter and nasty feuds with neighbours over a few inches of grass that they can’t let go of. Some people walk around with loads of anger all bottled up looking for an outlet.

If the brazing is internal what am I looking at? The chrome has cracked only?

Good to know that the common sense of the people can be trusted:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/lockdown-farce-dovestone-reservoir-beauty-18252404

Yeah it’s a very stiff frame. :D

Regarding official warranties, I have no idea what it came with, but all goods have an implied statutory warranty. I don’t think 18 months is a reasonable lifetime for a steel frame.

I believe it’s either welded or brazed internally but not 100% sure.

What should I do? Contact the seller? It was CRC.

What do you think?

Duraposts with 183 cm cheap lap fence panels? Go cheap and don’t even bother with gravel boards (which would need to be composite anyway or timber with the duraposts)?

If I go with gravel boards it makes the overall height ~2 m and I would need the next size durapost (2700 mm IIRC instead of 2400 mm). Makes cost about 50% more.

Digging out the 20 post holes will wreck you way before the carrying of the concrete posts breaks your back.

Its serious manual graft

I’m hoping I can lever them out with a long timber and a fulcrum.

A couple are embedded in a concrete deck though so may have to hire some sort of concrete breaker.

How do you fasten a timber wall plate to the Durapost posts? I will need to put a couple of gates in.

All portland cement concretes suffers from carbonation but it’s also true that it precedes faster when the concrete is more porous. Another way to look at it is insufficient coverage over the rebar which is protected so long as it sits within fresh cement. Concrete also suffers frost attack too which can lead to cracking and spalling.

Well, I’m certainly thinking of timber posts now, maybe soak the ends in extra preservative over night. It would mean timber gravel boards too.

I think I could handle a few concrete posts on my own but I need to do 20. Also a PITA to get them from the front of my house to the back cos access is via an alley down the middle of the terrace.

Maybe something like this?

That’s an interesting question. Noise from a building site is a potential liability under the tort of nuisance. What basis is there in common law for a noise to be reasonable just because there is a threat of economic recession which needs staving off? Answers anyone? :D Can builders make more noise now if it helps them avoid bankruptcy??!!

Most of that $500bn figure for 2008 was in guarantees/indemnities. The actual amount spent on share purchase was just over £100bn I believe. Someone feel free to correct.

Maybe nobody planted it?

Carrera?? :D

I had a cheap Carrera MTB in the early 90’s as kid. Was heavy as ****, probably the frame was made of welded drain pipe. Drive train was some non-branded crap with the chrome so thin it would develop rust spots on the chainrings and cranks.

Over the years have owned frames/bikes from:

Raleigh < shit kids bike and a ‘racer’ in early 90’s. Also repainted ‘ATB’ in about 1989 with non-index thumb shifters that was stolen, then a second hand Raleigh Mirage early 90’s with SIS shifters which was a brilliant bike at the time and I rode it until 2001 when it basically fell apart after Uni.
BMX < late 80’s
Carerra < utter crap MTB about 1991. Criminally bad. Someone stole it. Jokes on them.
Giant < carbon road bike mid 00’s.
Specialised < mid 00’s XC full sus I forget the name.
Time < carbon frame. Majestic bike, wish I didn’t sell it.
On One < steel single speed. Ok but cheaply made.
Cannondale < XC hardtail bike with a lefty around 2008. Wish I kept it. Love the lefty.
Nicholai full sus frame > Beautiful frame, again wich I kept it but for 26″ and QR, so dated now.
Willier Trestina steel gravel bike < 2018 great bike.
Orange < 29er hardtail 2018.

That tree felling is shocking. Cyclist could easily have been killed.

It’s a very narrow garden only about 3.5 m and the trees have already displaced the fence. Also they block a lot of light :D

I’m chopping a couple of trees down in my ‘small’ garden so I can put up a 1.8m fence. Unfortunately, they straddle the boundary with the adjacent property so need to go for the fence. I do feel somewhat bad about removing them but they are nothing special just 30 ft ash trees.

I suppose the answer depends on your personal circumstances especially how financially robust you are. People on here talking about how the mortgagor will always be bailed out a) prove the point about the 2008 bail-outs creating a moral hazard b) may be complacent about what could be a deep depression coming. In terms of the mechanics of buying, a chain may be more vulnerable to collapse in these times, so that’s a risk worth considering.

Not to mention, there’s not a feeling people are spending any less, Online Retailers, Supermarkets etc are seeing huge rises in sales.

Householder spending dropped 40% in April according to the FT.

That graph is kind of misleading as you suggest since it has no counterfactuals.

The loss of light isn’t clear but they could argue they had a right under prescription and the tree has grown to the point where it interferes with that right. With no TPO this would be easier to argue. Roots and branches could be a liability under tortious nuisance. When the tree was planted is irrelevant as you adopted the liability when you took posession.

Consider what you want to do with the stump. They can be more work to remove than a tree.

I’d be cautious about putting in substantial pad foundations. What you put in now you may want to take out in a few years. This isn’t an extension, more like a garden shed in terms of mass and loads. Many Victorian houses are still standing with brick footings only and like a wooden deck can handle a little movement. Hammering it your posts until refusal would prob be enough.

Around where I live in Cheshire the local farmers will shoot the dogs.

Oil is a shitty business, it never recovered from the last slump that started in 2014. I’ve no idea why anyone would want to stay in it.