As above, a poor attempt to mimick the other and better American produced custom car shows that are shown on Quest and DMax. I find the Deville chap quite irritating on it, although I can cope with him on 5th gear. The Canadian dude seems like he knows his stuff but the girl strikes me as a shoe in for either diversity or to try and ‘sex it up’, which in itself has an oxymoron vibe to it.

Overall, 0/10

Clearly it’s measurable. We have specified units of measure for atmospheric pressure, temperature, precipitation and wind velocity to name a few of the most important ones.

Admittedly, my e perience of business forecast modelling was circa 30 years ago, however, the basic premise was historical data, or rather, verifiable and relevant historical data and the more that was available, the better the guess and the better the trend analysis. In a cosmological scale of things, we have **** all verifiable historical data, so the normal has to be established somewhere. Where that’s established will affect the changes quite significantly.

An alternative view to that tweet is someone justifying their job and salary. Everybody, well, nearly everybody loves to make themselves indispensable 😉

On the climate change front. And right from the get go here, I’m not denying that climate changes or is changing dramatically to the changes we’ve been witnessing since we started observing and recording climate changes from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year, decade to decade, century to century.. just on that last one, so we can’t go millennia to millennia because we haven’t been observing and recording the same exact data for that long. So, my questions for the oracles are:
Where’s it changing from?
What was the old normal?
How many years worth of data was used to establish the normal?
How do we deduce that change is dramatic enough to hashtag it as climate change/emergency?

I have more questions, but let’s get these sourced first as they may well address the other queries I have.

A couple of points earlier alluded to both jet stream and solar cycles as being very likely candidates to be climate influencers. How long have we been observing and recording these to ascertain how they may be affecting any dramatic changes. How does one be affected by the other? How are we able to influence the jet stream? Increased air travel? Fossil fuel burning? Clear felling swathes of North American forest on a daily basis to make wood pellets to ship to the UK so we can fill up Drax and charge up our electric vehicles?

As I said, I’m open to all sides of the argument/discussion but it does seem to me sometimes that not enough information is present to form a reliable indicator as to what, why and how do we deal with change. The

Just going back a bit, reading through this as I’ve just watched the prog on iplayer; I’m not sure if Mo is just a little bit slow on the uptake or confused as to where or with whom his loyalties lie.

More importantly however, I’m shocked to learn that the world seemingly ran dry of spinach supplement tablets, or powder or whatever other minimised, homeopathic, hydrated form it is prepared. Plenty of the stuff at the greengrocers, large supermarkets, for cold pressing or cooking. 😉

Bit of a shame the weed isn’t some Ragwort.

Fence needs coating with something.

Standards people, standards.

Call me sceptical, are the numbers coming out of, let’s say, China, audited, confirmed and verified?

Or are they what the world wants to hear, rather than the the potentially real numbers?

@hodgynd see how much more involved and complete you now feel about this thread?. Well done! 😉

Have a look at JAC vapour DD.

Could be right up your street.

Layers are good. I use my biking base, mid and top layers for skiing. Good call on the elasticated arm pass holder.

Have fun 😁

Yip, him and his royal buddy

Interesting comment, care to back that up cos it’s the first I’ve heard of any royal acquaintance of his, but I haven’t been following his particular case.

Epstein on the other hand…

Then you can jump straight back out again and go to the back and work your way through the thread like every one else… we’ve had to… no excuse.

My house joggers are known as my “traditionals” my wife tried to bin my last pair after a few years but I stood firm.

Impressive as that may be, on possibly a number of levels…. mind bleach, now. Please.

I don’t like snakes, do what you like with them.

They do indeed reduce flooding downstream, my tenuous point was more towards their potential breeding rate and their questionable residency status as to whether our bio system would regard them as indigenous, which led me onto the potential need to cull because other indigenous critters are being drowned…

I did say tenuous…

Anyway, it’s worked well for rabbits.

Another vote for windy.com. Four or five different met agencies and so click and use the one that best suits your weather requirements 😁

Absolutely @dan2406, have this saved to play at some suitable time this week.
RIP.

@johnx2 🤣🤣🤣 my thoughts exactly 😁

Oh well, that’s alright then. Anything non-indigenous that harms anything indigenous is fair game.

Seriously?

And on a same but different note there are calls from some people to introduce Beaver because it’ll prevent flooding… Have any of these people seen what one family of Beaver can do to a woodland and water meadow in one night?

**** me gently too…

This. We have a pretty big detatched house with no gas, just oil for the CH.
I’m just about to light the stove in the kitchen/breakfast/snug which is a 17m x 5m room that’s used all day. Without the stove I’d have to heat the entire house most of the day which, including upstairs, is probably 8 times the size of the kitchen. Doesn’t really make sense.
I’m luck though in that I have a good supply of very very cheap wood that I split and store. Right now I probably have enough logs in IBC cages for the next 2-3 years so the issue of wet logs and coal doesn’t affect me at the moment.

Swoon 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Although in all seriousness, well done for applying yourself to your chosen occupation/profession to enable your lifestyle.

The real win is of course an extra jumper.

🤣🤣🤣 bit inefficient when required for hot water.

Historic dockyard and Mary Rose museum and everything else? Definitely, a day won’t be long enough, enjoy.

Lord have mercy, you lot are strange!

Fortunately, the regulars of STW are a infinitesimally small proportion of the human race and even less of those who ride bikes

However, my favourite threads on here are those relating to clothing and personal fashion, just gotta love a bunch of 40, 50 and 60 somethings getting all street and down with the latest clothing trends, do’s and don’t 🤣

Desperately sad.

First and foremost that someone so young saw no way out of where they were.

Secondly, the packs of wolves that loiter and wait for opportune victims, both in the press and social media, which includes this place.

Post a pic of some snow blades/ Big Feet on the ski and board thread! 😉

It all sounds as though the set up is too long for you OP. When I suffered from neck ache, it was wayyyy back when bars were silly narrow and stems were 150mm. Too much weight on my shoulders and neck and going back down to a shorter (at the time) stem cured it IIRC.

As you’re already on a short 35mm stem, as has been suggested above, raise the height of the front end and bring the bars back towards you. There are various ways to achieve this as above, try one at a time to see which makes the difference for you.

Ahhhh… so do those credentials make you a….? 😉

Yep you’ve convinced me.

Awesome 🤗

Actually, I’m slipping in my old age.

You can get pads for that. With or without wings.
HTH

Although I doubt if you’re aware of the Broads Internal Drainage Board (who are part of the WLMA – the Water Management Alliance) their remit of responsibility along with the EA, whose remit is for the main rivers and coastal defences. There is also the Broads Authority.

So, we have 3 agencies, unfortunately because in the region it is the EA who are responsible for the main rivers, which ultimately carry the volume to the North Sea, it matters little what the other two do if the volume flow is being constantly interrupted and messed about with so the volume isn’t able to go anywhere.

Work of fiction? Hmmmm. Check your facts buddy.

In which case, I have fulfilled my density 😉

Thank you. I’m not sure I did but you crack on with you 🤗

Easier to point a finger at the EA though.

Errr… yes..

The stated purpose of the Environment Agency is: “to protect or enhance the environment, taken as a whole” so as to promote “the objective of achieving sustainable development”. This protection includes threats such as pollution and flooding.

I doubt the loop will ever be formed, too much personal and corporate greed involved.

Cite one example from the late 90’s in a village called Farringdon on the A32 just south of Alton in Hampshire. Property developer obtained planning permission to build a number of new houses in the village, with a proportion of them classed as ‘low cost social housing’ to swing the deal. Except, where those were to be built, the older people in the village said wouldn’t work because in times of heavy rainfall, that empty part of the village, just by the main road that runs through it, became a pond.

These people were laughed at at the planning meeting.

Suffice to say in the winter of 2000, when it rained much more than the ‘relentless’ rain we’ve endured thus far this winter, a waterbourne formed and ran alongside and then on the A32, effectively closing the road for around 10 weeks. Because the deep ditches that were running beside the road had filled up with vegetation and detritus because the Drey men were no longer an expense Hampshire County Council wanted to pay.

This river, flowed very neatly all along the A32 and came to rest in the now occupied with housing association homes bit in the centre of the village. The water level got to the height of the ground floor windows.

The houses were subsequently demolished and the area is once again an empty village green.

Wisdom – applied knowledge. Works much better than the arrogance of youth.

Yeah, fair comment. And I do find her just… annoying! 😉

No. No I don’t.

Give yourself a break @kuco!

Read my post before coming over all sanctimonious please. As for my ignorance on the matter, I’ll let that one slide.

The drainage dykes that have served the area very well for well over a thousand years have been neglected for the last 35 years. Which is why people are out at midnight clearing the blocked culverts and putting up barriers.

Because no one wanted to foot the bill or continue paying for something that didn’t appear to be an issue because they were regularly maintained and kept in good working order.

The relatively new agencies do not see it necessary to reinstate the dykes, rather they use automatic water level monitoring stations that activate sluice gates in perfect isolation to each other and okay, there are no people involved in that process, which makes it even more dangerous. River Bure I’ll cite as an example. Please go check where the monitoring stations are, where the automatic sluices are and how these are linked to high and low water times at Gorleston. And when you do finds that last bit, ffs let someone in the EA know, because they can’t find it.

I wouldn’t worry, however reading this thread has been both depressing and amusing in equal measure, so as a spectator sport the topic has lots going for it.

And like all political organisations, the SNP is habitually crap at choosing a competent leader.

Actually, I’ve started, so I’m going to carry on.

For hundreds and hundreds of years, the flat and boggy part of Norfolk and the Fens were managed very successfully by the people who needed to survive in it. They learned that to do so required efficient effort, mainly because they were too busy trying to keep themselves alive.

No electricity, no heavy machinery, no hydraulic rams, just hands and basic shovels and spades, which meant that they built dwellings where it didn’t flood. It also meant that they created drainage systems or dykes and… guess what? They maintained them, they kept them at a sufficient depth so that excess rain or tidal water was absorbed by the extra capacity. They had learnt wisdom.

Wisdom is applied knowledge.

Our forebears needed wisdom to stay alive and procreate. With the state of humanity now, it begs the question whether our forebears really needed to bother.

Nowadays, no one wants to take responsibility for the dykes that served the marsh lands so well for well over a thousand years. It costs money to maintain them. Local councils don’t want to know. Private land owners certainly don’t want to know. Farmers… well let’s just say that the farmers don’t want to know. The EA, they don’t see it’s worthwhile to clear the dykes, because they can control sluice gates with one person on a computer.

Except they don’t.

I’m getting bored of this. Hopefully you get my point. If any of you know any high ranking cockwombles in the Norfolk division, please, send them over. Thank you.

No, I can’t tell you the departments within the EA who are cockwombles.

At a guess, they’ll be the ones who oversee river flows, levels, drainage and dare I say: ‘river management’. Also the separate department who look at tide times, ranges and how these might be affected by weather.

Neither of these two departments regard it necessary to talk to or share information with each other. In fact, the former ‘department’ appear to have sub departments, according to ‘higher’, ‘middle’ and ‘lower’ reaches of rivers. These sub departments also consider it unnecessary to communicate in any shape or form with any other part of the EA, or in fact the Broads Authority (who, like the EA, are an unelected quasi local government faction).

This organisation wide existence of splendid isolation and point blank refusal to look out of the window, or heaven forbid, go and have a paddle in the foot deep water where it’s meant to be a road, or go and see how remarkably muddy the bottom of the river is now that there is now water left in it, is truly breathtaking in its arrogance that the computer says no, so therefore the real world answer is, no.

Cockwombles. Utter cockwombles.

Edit. Orinoco isn’t a cockwomble. He was my favourite 🤗

The EA are a bunch of cockwombles though.

Modern textbook thinking and technology rather than learnt wisdom seems to be the modus operandi in and around the Norfolk Broads.

It’s getting tedious quite frankly but they don’t appear to want to learn.