Bedec Barn Paint, finishes in gloss, semi-gloss and posssibly matt. It’s water based, flexible and hard wearing.

My usual go to is oil based for exterior, like the Dulux Weathershield system.

Very thorough and I stopped reading. How old is your battery? Cars driven infrequently on shortish trips are not well suited to modern cars and their electrical requirements when sat in a driveway.

My 58 plate Mazda6 is 2020’s testament to this. I now use my ctek charger every few weeks to keep the battery conditioned.

Have you done the obvious and purchased a new battery?

Another Baavet user for the last year, I love it. Apparently no need to wash them , just hang them out to air every so often.

I spent a number of years oakwrighting in Hants, Sussex, Surrey. I used to use a couple of guys based near Milland IIRC. Doug and Wink Northway. They may well be still going, good prices then and quality English oak from the south east and east anglia.

Me too! Like, does the Solent area have 4 high waters each day, or two prolonged high tides?

I am far from being an expert on macro economics, as a result I’ve been quite cynical of the system. However, The Reith Lectures this year are being given by Mark Carney. If his first lecture is to go by, I’m feeling more encouraged.

Mark Carney Reith Lectures 2020

Wanted: Broader brush for sweeping along lots more generalisations, assumptions, prejudices and misconceptions 😂

Willing to exchange for alcohol of your choice 😉

As you were.

It’s what is called a capitalist monopoly.

Another vote for plusnet and whilst they are part of they who shall not be named, their support is prompt and efficient and line speed reliability good too, even with the last half mile of overhead copper lines Owned by openreach that go through every bush and tree in the county to get to my home.

Well, this has become quite complex, that’s blokes for you.

Anyway, how about a F1:FormulaE analogy? As far as not seeing the point of mildly duplicate sports. Yes, I’m aware the pedants will fapp over semantics on this, in which case.. crack on.

Are we not embedded into a legal justice system of those with the biggest bank balance wins?

What sort of ‘smell’ is it? Oil and rubber, for example, are two distinctly different odours.

Perhaps you spilt your coffee and you actually have Covid?

OP, do you check out Retropower on YouTube?

This thread reads like everyone is feeling a little sensitive and fractious. All good things eh?

Poncing around in a ludicrously expensive sports car with a tasteless paint job

Vinyl wraps, paint is soooo last decade, do keep up ;)

It really does seem to be all about bread and circuses, just like the end of the Roman Empire.

Very busy. Keep away, nothing to see or do here and it’s not safe, riddled with Covid and cat aids.

A very large barrier has been installed just north of Thetford on the A11.

Have you considered Lincolnshire?

TL:DR

In response to the OP’s question, this forum over recent years has been a prime example.

No experience of the Big Dug benches, however I’ve recently converted an integral garage space to an archive filing room at work, using the Big Dug metal shelving system. Well priced, well made, easy to assemble, everything included, sturdy and totally fit for purpose. There was a lot of it too.
HTH in some small way?

There might of course be some correlation between the weight and strength of a bike frame and its components and the weight of the rider?

An 18stone rider on a super lightweight xc short travel bike may not maintain the integrity of the bike in the same way a 10stone rider might on the same rock strewn downhill section of a trail.

Perhaps.

@tjagain, then your dentist is clearly happy to provide a treatment based service. Multiple practices, it’s a numbers game, more patients seen per day = more money. Not all dentists are, thankfully, of the same philosophy, however it’s good to know that some patients are happy to spend a few brief moments in a chair before being ushered out before the next one arrives. I dare say with all the latest cross infection controls and deep cleaning of rooms between patients, his volume approach will suffer. Possibly as much as the oral health of his vast patient list…

Gotta love STW for the outliers.

City of Sin – The Dutty Moonshine Big Band.

Awesome and highly recommended if you like that kinda thing 😁

Here’s a lockdown version of one of the tracks

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know the true situation and I also know that all dentists want is to be fairly rewarded for providing high levels of care in a demanding and stressful difficult job.

Since you are working in the system, I’d live to hear your thoughts (defence??) on the situation raised above where a dentist is refusing to provide service under nhs but happy to do it privately. There a couple of ways to look at it, the more obvious one doesn’t look good in the profession.

I can provide an insight to that gained from many face to face discussions with practitioners, before, during and after their transition from an entirely nhs funded practice to one that had a mix of nhs and independent revenue. For many, their reasoning was because they could not afford to provide the service based on the very low nhs fee rates, generally speaking, the nhs fee rates based on £/hour fell desperately short of what the practice required to operate, and make a profit. Which, like it or not, is the one of the main aims of a commercial organisation.

The significant majority of dentists at the time, would have preferred to provide free at the point of delivery service that is essentially the nhs. The transition often required time for the dentists to come to terms with the reality.

I have no idea what the nhs fee rates are nowadays, but I dare say that a routine check up, scale and polish fee paid to the dentist is very low and if the practice needs to generate hundreds of pounds per hour to make it viable, how many patients would need to be seen to meet that hourly rate? Lots and lots. Fillings mean that the lowest priced and quality materials are used, to keep costs down.

As in all walks of life, there are the shysters and dentistry is no different. Their motives are fundamentally for the money, to be honest, as a patient, you can spot these people quite quickly, for example do they plug their cosmetic work heavily? Implants have seen a huge growth and whilst it’s the more ‘fun’ aspect of dentistry, a healthy mix with the core message being prevention and education, then you can be pretty sure of the ethics of that practice.

OP, don’t be too hasty. Since the early 90’s successive governments have continued to reduce dental health care via the nhs.

I know that when the ‘New Contract’ was issued around that time, it became very difficult in all respects for a dentist to provide the level of care using the nhs fee scale, which was treatment and fee per item based – very much like traditional private dentistry. I don’t suppose the fee rates have increased proportionally since the early 90’s, so the only way a dentist can run a viable business on the nhs is to do volume, more patients, more treatments, etc.

Denplan Care is not insurance, there is an emergency insurance element within the core package, as it is stand alone and I think there are other more renumerative insurance products now available under the Denplan brand. Essentially, the core philosophy of Denplan Care was to enable a dental practice to provide the level of care they ascribed and wanted to and as such, the fee you pay is for time, not treatment. More time with the dentist or preferably hygienist gives us, the patients, a better chance of improving and retaining a higher level of oral health care. That’s the theory. Denplan Care is a capitation system, not insurance. It is a company that provides administrative services to dental practices, your contract is between you and your dentist. It is true that some dentists used to hide behind the brand, it is also true that there were other companies like Denplan where the dentist could brand their payment scheme under their own banner and not a corporate one.

A capitation health care system has a better chance of increasing personal responsibility for our health. IMHO.

I do see your point regarding paying monthly fees for little or no service, however, it is not the fault of the dentists. As @ceepers said, practices are only able to see a fraction of the patients they would have seen pre lockdown. I’m also aware that dentistry has bled qualified people away from it due to their concerns for their own personal safety and health. Remember, they are literally staring down the barrel of a gun in the form of an open mouth, and invariably, there is lots of saliva in liquid and droplet form, not to mention blood.

If you choose to leave the capitation scheme, then as indicated earlier, private fees will go up, there’s no foreseeable way any business could sustain a circa 70% drop in revenue and maintain the overheads, let alone one that has demands for peer review, continual professional training and expensive medical equipment to maintain.

You’d be better off hassling your local MP to ask why there are not enough dentists to provide for the population.

My knowledge is rusty, it was in the 90’s that I used to work for Denplan. I am aware that dentistry in this country was pretty **** up before the pandemic, there are many places where trying to find affordable dental health care is impossible and I cant see the situation improving anytime soon.

That is lush. Top choice.

Hey @chevy… I’m butt hurt eh?

****.

That would make a great lyric and with a catchy melody behind it… I think you’re onto something there! We could ask you know who to see if he would sing it 😉

‘Massive blues rip off merchants’????!!!

Is that right? Says who? Apart from you obvz…

Keep watching, then listen to some more and then put on Kashmir with volume on 11.

**** blues rip off merchants… how old are you?!

Junkyard. THM. Another I can’t remember the name of but he changed bikes very often, possibly settled for a while with a Heckler?

Someone here professes to have files, or possibly dossiers, on various ‘big hitters’…

Yup, I’ve done quite a bit of oak framing, design and build.

Your dimensions for posts and rafters (which I presume are your ‘beams’?) are okay but there’s a good chance they’ll be awkward to lay out, scribe and cut your mortise and tenons due to their lightness. They will dry out perfectly as it’s outside but depending upon where the 2” section stuff is taken from the tree, what tension it holds, will have more bearing on whether it twists as it seasons.

If I were using 2”x6” softwood rafters/ beams, I would fit one or more courses of noggins to help control the behaviour of the timber. Noggins in a framed construction are not required.

Wall plate? I’ve no idea what your current car port looks like, it’s size or the material used for the roof, more specifically it’s weight.

Racking? What bracing have you considered? Curved beam stock is available from a decent saw mill, ask around.

It’s all about proportions and what looks and feels ‘right’ as much as it is about the dimensions of the beam stock able to take and support loads. Personally, with the caveat as above, 4”x4” posts will look light, lighter still if you set a stop chamfer on each corner. This in itself could work if you wanted to hide the car port, but I get the sense that you kinda want to make a statement.

Think about the size of the post as having to accommodate both the wall plate and a primary rafter. Jointing is quite straightforward so long as you scribe and mark everything correctly. Look up English Medieval Tie Joint, or Post Joint – I cant remember, sorry.

Guaranteed, even with one long wall, if you just throw it up and bolt it together it’ll look naff and probably not square, or true. But that doesn’t stop anyone having a go, so my advice would be to do some research.

I’ve no idea of your skill set and relevant experience but it’ll be a fun project and one I’m sure you’ll get great satisfaction from as you research, design, and build it. Done properly, it’ll outlast your house!

HTH

Louise.

Bedec Barn Paint.

I’ve used it for the last 4 years or so on a range of buildings, barn doors and exterior joinery. The dark colours are particularly impressive, with no fading, cracking and stays put with minimal aftercare.

I’m unable to log out.

iPad safari iOS – the latest 13.3.1

Apologies if this has already been reported.

Whilst I admire your creativity and skills OP, there’s a very real sense of complete idiocy when we’re all trying to unburden the A&E departments with unnecessary injuries 😉

Appropriate clothing makes you more of a man 😉

@Basil your link doesn’t work, please can you repost or just tap out the podcast/programme title? Thanks.

IF, this was aimed at me…?

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I’d advise some of the contributors here to get out more, but you know…

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Lol @chakaping

Very true, on all sides

On cue 😉😁

Yep. These people: Probreeze,

I have 4 of them of various sizes dotted around various houses where tenants have excessive condensation issues. Let’s not go there.

For the last 5 months or so they’ve been faultless, running pretty much constantly from what I understand, using the humidity control and happy residents. Bonus.

Anyway, I’m particularly impressed with the 12litre unit as it’s quiet and very usable features. Relatively inexpensive too and they’re often running discounts.

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HTH 😁

I received a letter from my local council this last week within which was a phone number and email for those who wanted to volunteer their services to assist vulnerable people within local communities.

As above ^ perhaps contact your local council?

No @kilo, I haven’t, nor do I have any desire to do so.

However, it would seem that quite a few £m per year is spent by police forces on their ‘covert human intelligence sources’ with some opinions claiming it is money well spent/invested, equally, others who claim that the quality of information can be unreliable and that whilst some prosecutions are successful following an informants information, these are predominantly the low lying fruit of organised crime as the fear of reprisals prevent the people within larger organisations from being dobbed on.

Which is what I was referring to.

So, moral of the story, when you get through to the police, perhaps ask them how much the information is worth before spilling any beans. Desperate times and all that.

Always makes me laugh that faux hardman myth, everyone knows criminals make the best informants and are keen to do it.

😂😂 Stitches possibly less inconvenient to broken knee caps.

Have you ever been a guest of Her Majesty’s? I’m sure that’ll help an incarcerated, or not, informant sleep more soundly! The police would be grateful for your knowledge too 😉

In no particular order:
Led Zep
J J Cale
Prince
Guns n Roses

Am I the only other person (aside from the poster and moderator) to notice that a post has been deleted/removed?

Hmmmm…. they walk among us 🙄

@offcumden – your approach need not be any different to before the ‘lockdown’, if you have a concern for someone’s well being and/or safety, you can contact social services, or find out if he has a care worker assigned. And yes, before the avalanche of ‘the welfare services don’t have the resources, yadda yadda’, they may or may not, give it a go and if not, exercise leverage for the change that’s required, hassle your MP etc etc.

Extreme opinions tend to create opposite extreme reactions.

I seem to remember there being a number of people earlier in this thread saying they had or were going to call the police. Which is typical STW/internet virtue signalling really, spot a band wagon and hop on so they can ‘belong’.

Interesting to note as more opinions of the opposite view started to emerge by those who know they don’t need to find a gang, the number of new admissions for calling the police kinda fell a bit down…

Maybe that gang isn’t quite so cool anymore?

As for @monkeycmonkeydo’s comments, reactionary to the general virtue signalling I’d wager. He does make some valid points though, so before you all gang up and bully his lone voice into submission, or a ban.

The average death rate in the UK is a little over 1,300 per day. Unfortunately, the headline stats are not really differentiating between those who would have died anyway, and those who were seemingly perfectly healthy before catching the virus. So it’s fairly pointless to argue that one.

Also, shock horror, we will all die one day. When is that day? Tomorrow? Next week? Month? 5 years? We just don’t know.

Two of the most important things to achieve in life as a human being:
Loss. There is always loss, life is how we deal with loss, or rather, for those of you starting to boil your wee at such a truth, it’s what we gain from loss, rather than what, or who we lose.
Secondly. You will die, prepare yourself for that inevitability in whatever way you find easiest and one you can live with.

Apart from that, as you were.