2x£25 from my first month of investing my severance slush fund.

Yes, I just bought a forerunner 35 for just this purpose. You broadcast your HR from the watch and it displays on the Edge. I’m quite impressed with even the budget forerunner so already thinking of upgrading. Anyone want to buy a 2 week old Forerunner 35 for £60?

The snooker balls in a sock…. savage!

As demonstrated by a very young Ray Winstone over 40 years ago

Does anyone know how the cyclist spectator (wearing blue) is? He was standing watching when at least 5 pro riders land on him plus bikes. Awful.

If you mean the guy with the yellow cycling shoes he was up and hobbling around in the aftermath of the crash and didn’t look in too much trouble.

And the mum mentioned above was back out of the ditch and had the kid in her arms and seemed to be quite calm.

Quick plug for Cure Leukaemia who are the first ever official charity for the tdf and they have a cracking prize draw with 21 different cycling prizes including a Pinarello Dogma F12.

link

edit – I’m also following a guy on Strava doing the organised whole 21 stages 1 week ahead of the real thing. He just did the stage 5 TT and came across the Ineos bus with the back stage crew scoping out the route.

Electric opening tailgates on cars. Having spent a few weeks with cars with this feature at various times at no point have I thought ‘wow, this is so much better than lifting it or closing by hand’ usually I think, why is it so f@%##ing slow and annoying

Pretty good feature IMHO. Mine also has a release button below the steering wheel and by the time you press this, get out of the car and walk to the rear the boot is open.

Regarding the Enacfire headphones Caveat Emptor

MS Flight Simulator coming to Xbox in July link

One of the few downsides of being a Mac user is not being able to run Flight Sim so I’m looking forward to getting my hands on this, but will probably wait until summer is over before I buy the console.

Similar to above, salt, sous vide at 55C, pat dry, blast with a blow torch to get crust.

Or flash on the BBQ instead of using the blow torch. Had Tasmanian beef this way in Melbourne one Christmas day and it was fantastic.

The best ever was the A5 Miyazaki sirloin Wagyu, but at £98 for 160g I’m glad I wasn’t paying.

A few of us recently left our company when they offered a package for the old gits. I was planning to retire in another 2 years but the package was the equivalent of another years net salary so it was a no brainer to take the money and run.

Couple of Typhoons from RAF Coningsby flying circuits just north of St Ives yesterday evening for a good few hours.

Insta
Checkout the 2nd video of him doing press ups. Insane that he can do that so soon after smashing his collar bone.

Update from above. The clear winner is the Waitrose own brand 1% which has a nice clean taste and is the driest of the 3 as well as the cheapest. The Sainsbury’s 1% had a chemical after taste and was a bit sweeter and the Thatchers 0% was just like pop.

Apple products. Always had windows for PC and android for smartphones and tablets but now have pretty much every apple product going.

Any recommendations for low alcohol cider? I bought 3 different types today and just started on Waitrose 1% at £1.30 and it tastes pretty good. The others are thatchers 0% at £1.80 and Sainsbury’s medium dry low alcohol at £1.50 (all 500ml).

When can I first expect to be disappointed?

August. Not great timing putting your money in at the beginning of the month as you miss the following month meaning a wait of almost 2 months. Not that you are missing out much interest on your ISA during this time.

edit: £37.56 per year interest on £10,000 at 0.375% so your extra month delay has cost you a pint in lost interest assuming you invested £10k.

I put a big chunk of my early retirement severance package in on May 24th to stop me frittering it away so I’m still a month away from being in the draw.

My neighbour gave me some T-cut colour fast to get rid of some hedge scratches which did a great job, so what’s the difference between that and clay?

Brewers Clarex which is an enzyme used to stop chill haze also removes gluten. I often wonder with the 20 parts per million how many pints I would need for me to have a reaction.

Thanks for the heads up on Whoosh. Looks like my bolt through axle is a show stopper on that option 😞

I’m looking at an ebike conversion kit for my Ribble CGR to get me through the summer due to some health issues that will hopefully be sorted by the autumn, but at the moment I’m not up to riding anything remotely strenuous. Any suggestions on what to go for? I noticed the new batch of Swytch are coming out on pre-order Tuesday but they look expensive for something I will want to move on in a few months and the lead times are still vague.

Try the Beer4Coeliacs group on Facebook. I just did a quick search and there a few hits on France for Lidl and Intermarche. As far as imports are concerned if he can get his hands on some Czech Bernard GF Pilsner that is well worth it.

I just don’t see how adding more process to the existing expensive process makes things simpler and cheaper.

Add in the vollitility and you’d be as well having Zimbabwean dollars

Keep up at the back @trail_rat, my post and the link clearly state the currency is StableCoin linked to Australian Dollar so hardly in Zimbabwean dollar territory.

If a commercial organisation like eftpos want to bring a new financial product to the marketplace it will have to be financially viable for all parties and it will sink or swim on that premise.

No one has yet figured out how to make micropayments work properly but I am not sure how this would address the problem any better than anything else.

This is what the poc eftpos ran in Australia was trying to establish using a combination of hedera and Aus$ stablecoin. link

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If its backed by fiat currency, then why do we need to reinvent the wheel when well already have a functioning banking system for digital financial transactions?

That’s what I took from the link supplied and hence my solution looking for a problem comment.

From what I’ve discovered so far it seems to be a solution to micropayments where e.g. paying an artist directly to listen to a single track or buying an extra life in an online game. The current banking system would make the cost of a micropayment prohibitive so the receiver would end up owing the banking system money for a transaction of pennies.

hedera sounds like a solution looking for a problem .

and heading towards chaos for various reasons.

Why so @trailrat?

Eftpos (think Visa) in Austrailia have joined the Hedera council along with big hitters such as Google, LG, IBM, Boeing, Deutsche Telekom etc. Eftpos are also looking at linking payments to stablecoins which are backed by fiat currency so avoid the volatility of other digital currencies.

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Yep, thanks for asking @chevychase I clicked on the link so thanks for ‘enlightening’ me. Having done that I can’t get my head around where the crypto currency and token ecosystems diverge with Hedera. For example, in a microgrid environment the usage will be captured using Hedera Hashgraph but presumably the customer will be billed in local currency?

Hopefully this will clear out the trash, bad players, scamsters, sh&tcoins and over complicated services pretending to be useful / smart.

And this is where I struggle. I’m a steady Eddie investor mainly investing in funds and trusts and the odd company that I research before investing in e.g. I’m currently looking for opportunities in Cyber Security companies.

I have tried to get my head around Crypto and planned to put a toe in the water with a small investment but for the reasons quoted above I can’t see the logic.

Thanks Colin, I’ve got FR24 so will look into filters. Yep, usually around 11am but before Covid they had extended operating hours into the evenings.

Anyone know how to get the times for the Beluga landing at Airbus Chester? They bank over our house before lining up to land from the east and I want to get some photos.

That’s also a good shout @molgrips. I used to downgrade in to that place when Hilton Bankside went above £300 a night ;-)

Citizen M as mentioned previously but the one at Tower Hill has amazing views from the Sky bar of Tower of London and Tower Bridge. link

@andytherocketeer
Have you got a link to the channel you find useful? Thanks in advance.

Hardly pump and dump when he also states “Tesla, he added, will not be selling any of the Bitcoin it owns, with the fair market value of its holdings as of March 31 was 2.48 billion dollars (£1.76 billion), according to securities filings.”

I’ve had a couple of spam calls recently to my work mobile but the odd thing is they come from mobile numbers that are very close to my own number. First one was +61 and second one -276. Coincidence or not?

Looking at the history on X Box Series X availability at John Lewis they sell out within 2 minutes of having stock. No chance of picking one up without some kind of bot at your disposal.

There was one at Argos Brixton a few minutes ago but out of my area.

Cheers, I’ll look into that.

a car that even Hamilton has said “You can’t just turn up, jump in, and win with”

Russell had a bloody good go last season

If Tories created problems and Labour failed to fix those problems then they’re both responsible for the problems.

Very much this.

A mate of mine recently did a really good potted history of our experience of Labour/Conservative during our lifetime:

Here is a selection of my personal moments of deepest political and economic despondency.
Let’s start with the militant trade unions in the 60s exploiting our lack of sensible labour laws, wreckers under the direction of the Soviet bloc. Political extremists who swallowed communism, coercing and cajoling honest working men into strikes and violent picketing. The clearest case of “lions led by donkeys” in 20th century British history.
Continuing with Heath and Barber pissing Roy Jenkins’ good work against the wall and backing down to the miners, abandoning the sensible labour law we needed.
Then the incompetent Callaghan fiddling while the unions ran amok and Benn nationalised Leyland and left it to vegetate, as Wilson had done with steel – Clause 4 accomplished, Sir, now sit back and watch the wealth create and redistribute itself – I don’t think.
Knee jerk to Thatcher, deciding “industry doesn’t matter” and bleeding it white with high interest rates (Milton Friedman couldn’t believe his luck, finding a national leader daft enough to try out his theories – in any case sensible, well governed countries already had interest rates out of political hands). And that “railways are old fashioned” and ditching the ATP after it broke down in trials during exceptionally bad winter weather. Leaving us to buy the tilting technology from Italy for far more than the 37 million BR had spent, just few years later.
Next up was the privatisation of public utilities, ultimately allowing foreigners to subsidise their own domestic prices and balance sheets from British purses.
And this from the Iron Lady, who took us to war with Argentina to save our national face, but surrendered our markets to our competitors. Not just without a fight but while tying our manufacturers’ hands behind their backs with high interest payments and then stabbing the same backs by spending public money on foreign goods that could be made at home.
Cue the arrival of Major, more destructive monetarism, nascent Euroscepticism and the first sleaze, typified by “cash for questions” – the direct antecedent of what Johnson is being harangued for here. Would that it were only Johnson doing it!
Enter New Labour who reversed the Tories’ spending policies to create a phoney feel-good factor, but didn’t raise a finger to reverse Thatcher’s and Major’s (lack of) industrial policy e.g. Vauxhall in Luton – contrast with what Merkel did to salvage GM sister Opel in Germany.
And their greatest folly, opening the immigration floodgates into an economy that was short on decent jobs in industry, eventually mutating to gigs and zero hours contracts.
The state of the nation with criminality rife and a seam of dishonesty and lack of integrity right through the populace are the direct result of all the above, but especially “industry doesn’t matter” and New Labours’ acceptance of what they took over (shades of Corbyn’s doctrinaire Brexit inaction?), that turned fitter-turners and first hand smelters into white van men.
In parallel leading to the diminishing of UK’s participation in even simple technologies, as they were imported and domestic suppliers went down the pan (cf. the Army getting Renault vans while Leyland DAF expired under Blair). In short, knocking the shit out of the fabric of the land that invented industry and most of the things industry gave us.
Finally Brexit, the barmy culmination of being governed by an elite that neither knows nor cares about working class conditions or aspirations, and has become more and more self-seeking. As well as EU jobs emigrating, and banks, Toyota and Honda doing runners, we have missed out on a Tesla works, the Land Rover Defender clone – and many other chances to welcome foreign companies wanting a foothold in the EU in an English speaking country – while day-to-day trade with Europe is a shambles that may or may not recover.
However, who cares? Reet-Smugg’s hedge fund will prosper, salt its profits away in tax havens and then claim all the plebs need is more like him and trickle-down.
And the sad fact is that I could have mentioned perhaps three times as many examples of economic mismanagement and sleaze – Jenrick, Desmond, Patel and Green, for example – by the cynical or plainly clueless in government.
Oh Boris, you enemy, you.

My strategy is to buy regularly (perhaps £100 a month), try to buy into a few different coins to diversify & continue to research to understand the market more & why things are shifting around, as they are.

The problem is backing the right horse. According to Coinopsy there are over 2,000 Dead Coins which are cryptocurrencies that have either been abandoned or have turned out to be scams.