This is absolutely ridiculous, it seems to me that we’re being polarised into being a persecuted minority group more and more now.

Time for Critical Mass type rides through this village every weekend?

If we’re splitting up and dividing England as well, I’m with the Iceni. 😀

Henry our Romanian street dog. Big strong and a hint of German Shepherd/Collie like someone above said may happen when dogs are left to their own devices. I reckon the big dogs would come out on top as the pack instinct is still in them and big and strong would be an advantage.

If nothing else he’s ready to use all the bikes that would be left laying about!😂

I got a Titan 30 litre wet and dry vac with power take off for 70 quid in Screwfix a couple of months ago, very happy with it and it’s been great at keeping the dust down when working in the garage with the table saw, plunge saw, and router.

Lidl have a similar one on sale this Thursday.

Is that a straight-up list of all the advertisers during “scourge”?

It was on my Sky recording, I went through the whole lot. I don’t know if everyone sees the same ads though, it may be area based or targeted by some other method

Italeri 1/72

I’ve not made a 1/72 kit for about 20 years (Airfix WWI Albatross), I’ve got a couple in the kit stash so I might try one soon if my eyes can take it.

If there were as many advertisers as spursn17 suggests

Some of then were really short.

From the start on my recording through Sky (do they tailor the ads to you?)…

Fairy Liquid
Gorilla Glue/Tape
Ben and Jerry’s
Open Table
Neville Johnson
Babybel
Maltesers
Aldi
P+O
Play Ojo
Vanish
Age Partnership
Amazon
Compare the Market
DFS
Citroen
American Express
Bloo
Deliveroo
Always Discrete
The Game Fair (Hatfield House)
Barclays
Walls Magnum
Specsavers
Gillette
Ribena
Lidl
QuickBooks
Surf
Robinsons
IKEA
Hagen Daas
Jaguar

Lidl will probably be the first one I contact as they sponsor the Quickstep team.

Hasegawa 1/48 scale

“here’s our advert, please only screen it in the middle of rabidly anti-cycling shit”…

Surely they must have some say in where they don’t want it screened though?

I’ve got a bit further with the P51! I lost interest in it for a while when I messed up the paint, but after being confined to home with two broken ribs all I could manage to do was watch TV and do some modelling. It’s almost done now, just needs weathering and some final assembly. I was pleased with the way the guns and drop tank plumbing turned out.

I switched off after the cab driver ranting about cyclists not wearing a helmet while driving his cab without a seatbelt on (I know, they don’t have to wear one, just like we don’t have to wear a helmet). And the cabbie moaning about the red light jumper when there were clearly 12 cyclists at the other side patiently waiting on a red.

I saw a suggestion on Twitter that I thought was good, someone said to make a list of the companies that advertised during this rubbish and target their social media.

…Milwaukee keyring, not Macalister.

Update 2: bum!

Two(!) 700mm tracks turned up at my house today, with a hoodie (textile, not meat and bone), a cap, and a nice Macalister multi-tool keyring. The tracks are about 50mm thinner than my Aldi/Scheppach ones though, I think they’re for the other tracksaw that Scheppach sell and won’t fit mine.

Oh well, it was worth the gamble for 12 quid all in. I’ve got one of those small plunge saws with a 100mm blade, I might make up a sole plate for that to use on the smaller tracks. If nothing else I’ve got a nice couple of aluminium straight edges.

Still impressed with Anglia Tools service despite the tracks being wrong, and to be fair to them they didn’t state which model they were for and I didn’t ask.

Remember you’ve got to feed him and take him out for walks. And pay his bail.

😂😂😂

Now I’ll just wait and see if it actually turns up! 😂

Update: just had a phone call from Anglia Tool Centre, he said that it was the last one they’ve got and the strips of grip rubber underneath end a couple of mm short of the end of the track. This doesn’t sound like a major problem for me, especially at that price, and they’re going to chuck in a free hoodie!

Top job Anglia Tool Centre! 👍

Cheers Mowgli, just ordered it.

Now I’ll just wait and see if it actually turns up! 😂

Ignore that clap trap.

I’m in Elm just outside, lovely little village, pub is spot on. I commute to Peterborough in half hour, and the wife to Bar Hill in an hour. Good rail at march or king’s Lynn.
It is the fens so very open.

This

I moved to a small town 10 miles north of Wisbech (Sutton Bridge) just over a year ago and haven’t regretted it.

I wouldn’t live in Wisbech itself but the outskirts are fine (such as Elm!), there are lots of really nice houses at very reasonable prices.
Cycling here took some getting used to as it’s so flat and there is a definite skill to it, there’s a decent cycle club in Wisbech that I joined and is very welcoming.

I moved from a crowded part of Sth Essex that was falling apart, so my perspective may be different from yours. If I were you I’d book a couple of days in a local hotel, and also book a few house viewings with local estate agents to get a feel for the area.

Haha, I can Google as well, I think that’s what got me so confused!😂

GrahamS, thanks very much!
I’ll have a look at it later, hopefully it’ll give me a base to work from. I’m not linking to Spotify I’m trying to access my locally stored mp3’s so I’ll see if I can adapt it. I appreciate the help that you (and others) have given me.

This seems to be doing the job…

card = (“0004370273”, “0004385158”)

while True:
number = input()

if number in card:

print(“play playlist”)
print (number)

I can now call the variable ‘number’ to play a specific playlist in VLC (hopefully!), I Just need to put some simple exit program code (CTRL-C) at the bottom, anyone?

Right, got this to run once. just need to get it looping now.

card = (“0004370273”, “0004385158”)

number = input()

if number in card:
print(“play playlist”)
print (number)

And this is the result in shell..

============== RESTART: /home/pi/python projects/cardreader5.py ==============
0004370273
play playlist
0004370273
>>>

This is what I just tried myself, when I scan the card it shows up in the program after ‘else’?

a = ‘0004370273’
b = ‘0004385158’

input()

#print()

while input == a:
print(“play playlist”)

else:
print(“error”)

I’m going to drink beer and see if that helps!

It’s just a generic USB card reader off Ebay, it reads the number of the card OK. 0004370273 in the error messages above.

https://www.ebay.com/p/125khz-USB-RFID-Contactless-Proximity-Sensor-Smart-ID-Card-Reader-Em4100/501755355?iid=163732946714

This was another one…

from time import sleep

reader = input

file = open(“ID.txt”, “a”)

try:
while True:

id, text = reader.read()
print(id)
print(text)

file.Write(str(id)+”\n”)

except KeyboardInterupt:
print(“cleaning up”)
GPIO.cleanup()
file.close()

And this is the error message for this one…

============== RESTART: /home/pi/python projects/cardreader3.py ==============
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/python projects/cardreader3.py”, line 10, in <module>
id, text = reader.read()
AttributeError: ‘builtin_function_or_method’ object has no attribute ‘read’

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/python projects/cardreader3.py”, line 16, in <module>
except KeyboardInterupt:
NameError: name ‘KeyboardInterupt’ is not defined
>>> 0004370273
SyntaxError: invalid token
>>>

This is one version that I tried…

import time
import sys

card = ‘0004370273’
def main():
with open(‘/dev/tty0’, ‘r’) as tty:
while True:
RFID_input = tty.readline()
if raw_input == card:
print (“Access Granted”)

print (“Read code from RFID reader:{0}”).format(RFID_input)
else:
print (“Access Denied”)

And this is the error message…

============== RESTART: /home/pi/python projects/cardreader2.py ==============
>>> 0004370273
SyntaxError: invalid token
>>>

GrahamS, thanks. It’s getting the card number into the program whole that I cant do, once it’s in there I reckon I should be able to knock up some frankenstein code to make it run the playlist.

The IDE (Idle) reads it in the shell but I can’t do anything with it?

Thanks chaps. See this is my trouble, two answers and both suggest different methods. LOL!

I’m learning in my normal haphazard fashion of looking up bits of code on the net, and then stitching them together eventually. Not the best way to learn but it works for me (sort of).

I’ve looked at so many examples in the last two days that I’m thoroughly confused now.

What I think I need is for someone to just point me in the right direction regarding the input so I can code this…

Grab this number – convert it to whatever – now use it to refer it to a url

Sol Campbell

Two faced weasel, I don’t think that there’s a Spurs fan that doesn’t detest him.
I so hope we draw Macclesfield in a cup competition!

Who uses talcum powder ?

Northern soul dancers.

this kind of BS needs to be called out

After living in Sth Essex and talking to friends who’ve worked for Ford’s for years, this is what I’ve been repeatedly told by several people from differing Ford locations. Please don’t say it’s ‘BS’, it’s just a differing opinion!

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10026411.amp/&ved=2ahUKEwiHu6-38dfiAhUhWxUIHWJqDkkQFjAWegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw2c3Nrvm6WGu6R1tyUJbZ34&ampcf=1&cshid=1559928309537

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/features/manufacturing-keep-britain-moving-with-turkish-transit-vans-8732521.html%3Famp&ved=2ahUKEwiHu6-38dfiAhUhWxUIHWJqDkkQFjAVegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw1RBa385EN17FvfhOUHKa7T&ampcf=1&cshid=1559928309537

Ford have been moving their production from the UK to other EU countries for quite a few years now, the EU subsidise this to get weaker countries a stronger manufacturing base, and it’s cheaper labour for Ford.

It was happening a long while before the Brexit vote, the EU didn’t help Dagenham and Hailwood (and many other Ford sites).

Lidl or Aldi drill, cheap as chips and usually a decent guarantee. For light home use they will be fine and are decent value for money.

I had a Lidl one for 5 years before it died, I properly abused it as well!

Spurs fans – bloody turn up with some decent flags – it’s the UCL Final for crissakes. Liverpool fans at the opposite end have 3 or 4 flags the size of your house waving and you’re just waving the plastic shite put there by the organisers.

Flags, we don’t need no steenking flags! 😂

According to our lot in the ground Liverpool may have had the flags but our lot sang louder and longer. I was in a pub in Madrid with loads of Spurs upstairs and Liverpool downstairs, didn’t hear much from them either. The good thing was that it was all pretty much good natured all weekend, I think the Spanish old bill caused more problems than the fans!

I used to live a 26 minute train ride away from the City, I’ve now moved the south East Lincolnshire and it’s bloody great, not crowded and much slower pace of life.
My commute takes me 2.5-3 hours each way and to be honest if I wasn’t retiring in 3 or 4 years it would drive me nuts as I’m losing a lot of time at home. If you’ve got little people at home it would be even worse, luckily mine have all grown up and left.

PS; my cycling has suffered as I haven’t got the time to get out as much now.

convert

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No excuse not to stop

I ran over a ginger moggy that chose to run the wrong way, from the way the wheels bumped and the amount of times it bounced of the underside of the van I guessed it wasn’t well.
3:30am going through a village and it was very foggy so I couldn’t even reference where on the road I’d hit it. I’m not knocking on random doors at that time of the morning, the people who didn’t own the cat would’ve had a pop at me, and the cat owners (if I’d found them) probably would’ve as well.

So yeah, I think that I had a reasonable excuse not to stop. I’m also a cat owner and would be gutted if she didn’t come home, although she did go missing for a week and came home with a broken jaw. It is a risk you take when you let your pets roam free like a wild animal.

Square is better as it cuts a ‘trench’ in the plastic, a bevelled blade will score a line but it’ll create two minute ridges on either side where the plastic gets pushed over and up.

I’ve read that you can stick Dymo Tape down and scribe against it to make a straight edge.

I use this, I don’t stick it, I just hold it on. You can also use a bit of the frame (sprue?) That photoetch parts come on.

How much better is a dedicated re-scribing tool compared to a scalpel blade?

If you’re using a Swan Morton scalpel you can make a scribing tool. Snap the tip off the blade with a pair of pliers, you only need to take off 1-2mm and it’ll leave a tiny sharp square edge. Turn the scalpel upside down and drag the tip backwards along the plastic. I’ve never tried it but I imagine a photoetch folding tool would be good for snapping the tip?
Just wear some goggles when you’re snapping it though, sometimes bits of scalpel blade go flying about!

What, no love for McEwan’s Champion?

I like this one, especially at 3 for 5 quid in the Co-op!