Could be a Bluetooth issue with connectingto the phone?

I have started turning Bluetooth off on long rides. Battery lasts a lot longer and all I am not bothered about text notifications etc

You can’t even send a route from the app to the device without going via the web. Spectacularly useless in the wilds.

You want this:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/courses

Garmin are quite spectacular in their non-intuitive non-usablity.

Keela Roadrunner Trousers.

Have a velcro bit to bring in the ankles.

Roadrunner Trousers

On for one morning this week (Wednesday?):

Was 1C outside so had the heating on for an hour to bring the house up to 16C. Then off.

Coming back to the OP:

his masseuse using a spray on a cut on their finger that contained the anabolic steroid and then giving him a massage.

Massuese should have had WADA training too.  No excuse.

Thanks ahsat.

Thump has started at Strathclyde. Plenty of lectures and contact time. No complaints and enjoying himself :)

Apart from the Campbeltown Pipe Band in 1977.

Yeah, but some bloke ruined it by singing along.

While we are at it, the only pipe band to get to number one in the UK singles chart :)

A controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band. The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

There are apps that allow you to use Shox bone-conducting headphones as hearing aids too.

Not ideal but a useful emergency tool when your hearing aid is currently in a jeans’ pocket in the washing machine….

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On the plus side apparently I can get cheap train travel as Thump’s carer (as he’s hearing impaired). Who’d be looking after who is anyone’s guess.  :)

The hospital is a good way away so ‘transferring’ to specsavers would be useful. How’s that work?? Scotland btw.

You will have a local audiology clinic.

For Stirling, all the big assessments (CT scans etc) and ops are done at Forth Valley Hospital.

For hearing aids, Thump gets them fitted and tuned at the audiology clinic at the local community hospital (in Stirling). They have a daily drop in clinic ,run in part by volunteers, so if he snaps a tube or something he can cycle up and get sorted the next morning.

Tuning a new hearing aid is done at the audiology clinic too, It’s only the fine tuning that is done with the phone app.

In 1964, the BBC and others made The Great War TV series. The series was the first to feature veterans, many of them still relatively fit men in their late sixties or early seventies, and gives an excellent account of the global conflict.

Episodes are available on Youtube and Amazon Prime and is a sobering watch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04plbqn

Interviews are also available in full on iplayer. Katie Morter’s  interview is heartbreaking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01tcxp4/the-great-war-interviews-2-katie-morter

cycle.travel uses OSM for routing.

Thanks. I use cycle.travel for planning road / gravel routes but find it seriously lacking for the hike-a-bike mountain biking I do.

Bikehike is another one I use – Google imagery side-side with OS mapping.

TP Link M4 3-pack, £110; or there’s an E4 for £20 less.

E4 has a maximum speed of 100Mbps, I think.

If you’re not getting this to the house going faster will not help, but does future-proof you,

https://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm will show you an OS map next to an aerial view.

Thanks nickjb – I’d forgotten about that site. Coupled with Strava heatmap I can work out a route across the hills…

https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=All&style=hybrid&terrain=false&labels=true&poi=true&cPhotos=true&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100#14/56.1678/-3.83359

Back to old school parenting of shouting up the stairs and threats of no pudding!

The app does allow you to set up parental controls and also see which devices are connected and using bandwidth. 

But that will not stop the kids downloading videos and watching them offline :)

Your approach sounds good to me.

I changed the network name – make it something fun like AlienMothership – and kept the old password.

*goes off to nosy at Google Streetview*

Here you go:

It’s even more obvious in real life.

Look at it from a distance.

House on our street (20 yrs old, raft foundation) has a 20-degree lean. Bloody obvious from 100m away. Home Report was “Slightly uneven floors”.

New owners were devastated. Everyone else was, “but it’s so obvious!”.

Check planning applications.

Friend was going to buy a house. Pointed out the new quarry would put a tipper lorry past it every 60s !

Dog fighting above North Berwick / Eyemouth.

A Typhoon has also just gone over Glasgow.

I have just fitted a MagicShine bar mount.

This is the mount I’ve been looking for over many years.

https://amzn.eu/d/2fZyBNY

You’ll be fine.

I use the same chainrings on both bikes – 11spd and 12spd.

The app also shows transactions in £ and in euros.

 it just converted over there automatically

Yes.

Yes. I think.

My son recently used Revolut in Malta (and Paris, Rome and Amsterdam). I added money in the UK (as Sterling) and he bought stuff in Malta, in whatever their local currency is.

He used a physical Revolut card to do this.

Anything he didn’t spend remained in the account (in Sterling) for my other son to buy his school lunches with.

Note: Thump has only just turned 18 which is why we do this. It’s a useful backup.  In this case he was travelling and lost all his luggage.

What’s decent for clear lens, typical grey South Scottish day time riding conditions?

Like today?

Melon Optic Alleycats with Low Light lens.

That’s what I’ll be wearing today. Very light tint, but so light you can wear them at night.

The only glasses that don’t spend their life in my back pocket.

Halftime at Stirling Albion and walking football is the demo: guy in his 70s doing star jumps to warm up.

Old chap in the row behind goes, “He looks like a bit of an athlete” :)

Like Billy Bremner he was from Stirling maybe not Raploch.

Big Dunc’ was from the other side of town – the St Ninians / Bannockburn  end on Glasgow Rd. Went to Bannockburn High School while Billy Bremner went to St Modans – which was also up that end of town until the 2000s.

David Goodwillie is also from Stirling  – and played for Carse Thistle, like Billy Bremner – but we won’t go there.

A plaque was unveiled last week outside Billy Bremner’s childhood home in the Raploch,  Stirling.

Unveiled by Eddie Gray #legend.

BBC News – Gray proud to unveil plaque honouring Scotland legend Bremner
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c2dgykk04nlo

They’ve been buzzing around Stirling and Fife the last few days, and refuelling at Balado airfield.

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I answerwith a polite, “No thanks, but take care: they still eat missionaries raw on the other side of the road.”

That usually does it.

March for me.

Picked up a stick which took out the mech and jammed the wheel in a horrible chain/spokes/cassette interface.

Used a chain-breaker to release everything and free the back wheel so that I could walk home.

Also had a chain snap last year due to a bent hanger. Removed the dead link and rejoined with a rapid link to allow me to cycle gingerly to the pub.

Nowt :(

Stop the route. Scroll the map and drop a pin into the cake stop and tell the unit to navigate to the pin.

After the cake stop, drop a pin on the original route and and tell the unit to navigate to the pin.

– This may also work but I am not sure: Reload the original route and tell it to follow that (but not from the start).

My shock bolt seized. Creaked like a creaky thing.

Known problem and the carbon frame was replaced under warranty. Supplied with another stupid aluminium shock bolt so replaced with the stainless steel upgrade bolt.

My purchase receipt says:
If you have any questions, contact us at hello@melonoptics.com or call us at +44 20 8123 9828.

In a similar vein – the TV documentary on Alex Ferguson is excellent: Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In

I read a few sailing books as a kid and Michael Hutchinson’s Hello Sailor is fun.

LTA have been sitting on £millions for years because of this luxury housing project.

And now the money can be spent:

“Tennis Scotland will soon be announcing an exciting team of national performance coaches for the SNPP, which will operate from a central hub at the Scottish National Tennis Centre at the University of Stirling, alongside provision in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

https://www.lta.org.uk/about-us/in-your-area/tennis-scotland/news/tennis-scotland-and-the-lta-agree-record-investment-in-scottish-performance-tennis/

Depends on the kid.

I’d want to see a “practice trip” in the UK first, then “yes.

Although I recently had to accompany Thump to Birmingham as he was under 18 and competition rules demanded a chaperone.

Thud has been bopping around Scotland by train since he was 12. Have skateboard,  will travel.

Trench Foot ?

That’s my guess.

Symptoms match and the cause is as described.

My son survived many scout camps and this was a routine thing with his friends.

It should resolve before the GP opens.