7 seater GTX in silver, I have 3 kids and often a mother in law… didn’t seem to be that many options. A guy from the VW main office called me to check my interest and said that my local dealer would call me soon. He seemed to think it’d be a couple of months.

I have just started the purchasing process for my first ever new car (46 and only ever bought used). A VW buzz GTX. I’ll let you all know how it goes!

I had a Lenz Sport Milkmoney, from the early days of 29ers that had a pivot around the BB. Initially I ran it as a single speed, but one summer I had an 8 speed Alfine wheel built for it too. It was a bloody brilliant bike for ragging around Epping Forrest. Only sold it because it was a bit small and the adjustable dropouts kept slipping.

I did the Alan Moore writing one. It wasn’t great in terms of learning about writing, but it was fun to watch him talking about writing. The MasterClass ones I did with Neil Gaiman and Margret Atwood, were much better.

I’m looking for a bike change now that I’ve got a 45 minute canal ride to get to Epping Forest, was thinking a discounted Scott Spark, but this might be it…

If they made a Jacob & Co Astronomia Revolution pocket watch… well I’d look at it at and think it was a very nice thing.

Thanks for the interest. I had the pocket watches serviced at Steven Hale by Bond street tube station. Not cheap, but they are quite valuable both sentimentally and monetarily. They are both gold repeaters

the golden coloured half hunter is a minute repeater by Audemars London, it has lovely blued hands and an inscribed back plate.

the silver coloured one doesn’t have a makers mark that I can see. it is a quarter repeater and has my grandfather’s initials on the front (as he signed them) and his name in Chinese on the back (he lived in China from the 20s to the 50s).

I have just got two of my grandfather’s pocket watches back from being repaired. Sorry about the not great photos, but they are very lovely things and now holding time perfectly. 

Can anyone work out what kind of headset the Lector takes? Trying to work out if I can get a slackerizer in there.

Thanks for the PSA. I think the lector might be a great future bike. I’ve got a 40 minute along the canal ride to get to Epping Forrest and i was thinking an xc bike might be perfect (perhaps with a riser bar and a slacker head set).

although the geometry on their website must be wrong… I know it’s an XL, but a 718 top tube and 547 reach can’t be right?

My brother runs this https://www.wildhomestay.com about 2 hours by train from Shanghai. He’s a very committed cyclist and there’s some amazing trails / road routes around there and has bikes to rent.

Is it my imagination or has that got quite a modern seat tube angle?

“Chickens eat frogs?”

Thats why they’re the national bird of France.

All this brings to mind the question:

Are forks called forks because they fork, or are things that fork called forks because they look like forks?

two years ago I rediscovered a purple tie dye t-shirt I made when I was 12. Apparently 2022 was very big for tie dye and purple, but no one gave a shit, probably because I’m 45.

Why couldn’t Mickey Mouse take his helicopter to Glasgow?

disnae land.

I’ve spent 25 years working my way up the (very) greasy pole of independent film production and I would second what TINAS says above. It is really tough out there because the basic production tools have become so available and that has devalued certain skills. In my darker moments I feel that people have also lost interest in certain subtler, but no less critical skills like storytelling, but maybe it is the selective process of hindsight that means only the good stuff is remembered.

As to starting in your 40s… I’ve just finished shooting a low budget film in Brighton and there we’re new comers of all ages across a large number of departments and if you’ve got a committed can do attitude, you get spotted pretty quickly regardless of your “identity”.

Jank is shonky, surely?

Not famous, but I introduced two of my ex’s to one another and now they have teamed up to restart the very high brow sexy magazine The Erotic Review. I told them that the only thing they weren’t allowed to review was ex-boyfriends.

What day of the week? Borough Market for street food kind of stuff, can be delicious. There are places to perch and eat, but it’s not a restaurant.

For me the real difference between a phone photograph and one taken on a camera is only really appreciated in a print. Phone cameras produce images that are optimised for display on a screen and if you’re careful they can look amazing, but once you print them they limitations become more obvious.

so my suggestion would be to start printing.

I’m completely in agreement.

Listen to your surroundings

speak to your horizon

love all the people.

I just didn’t click on a bluesky sensitive image because of having already seen this thread, so OP, I thank you.

Raw Ti and Carbon, tiny bit of (accidental) orange in the headset spacers as they’re all I had.  It I think the most important similarity to what you are doing is silver spokes.

The trouble with the current fashion for very thin tvs is that it’s very hard to build in decent speakers that can project sound over a decent range and volume with good clarity without some physical depth, especially if you’re going to be up against a wall. So, annoyingly, the answer is “get a soundbar”. 

Along with some of the suggestions above, I’ve been trying Sentia Spirits recently as an alcohol alternative, as real booze makes me vom and very occasionally I do just fancy something to take the edge off the day. They’re pretty good. I also like Trip who make CBD drinks. Both of them have the effect of equivalent to about 1/4 of a pub G&T, which dissipates quite quickly and doesn’t leave you wanting another.

I don’t mean to brag,

I don’t mean to boast,

but I’ll be drinking:

At my Christmas toast. 

with apologies to the Beastie Boys. 

I lived in Los Angeles in the early ‘00s and owned a guards red 964 convertible. It was a wonderful thing.  I live Dumfries and Galloway now and drive a 15 year old Kia Picanto, I think I actually love the Picanto more.

I’ve never done anything involving jumping out/off things, but everything else everyone has mentioned I seem to have done. I think I’m quite lucky not to have an addictive personality.

I love quite a lot of this stuff 

Wireless breaking. 

Octopus Bandit drawing a flintlock pistol in each tentacle: Stand and Deliver!

Foppish Cat: Knave, thou art one short.

colournoise, I’d appreciate it if you don’t have another home for it. 

I have a Varier Thatsit which it picked up on sale during the first lockdown. Initially I didn’t like it that much and was disappointed, but once things opened up again I went into the shop I bought it from and got it properly set up and now I really do.

At the shop they said a couple of things at 194cm I’m very much at the upper end of fitting the chair, in fact I wouldn’t fit it except I’m relatively short leg/long back. They also said you shouldn’t really think of them as kneeling chairs, the weight is still on your bum, the kneeling is to bring your weight  forward and engage your core more.

Who’s going to be the first work from home IT consultant to claim a Wattbike Atom on C2W?

Much closer to Ken, ya ken?

I do like a Swatch, is the best method for getting scratches off the face to polish with baking soda toothpaste or is that too much?

Only a matter of time before this gets thread of the week.