“Celery is the winner. Just chop it real small if trying to get the meal past celery doubters (there are many of them).”
This helped cure me of my life long aversion to celery! Now I even have it in my morning smoothie.

Do it in a Volvo!
Or a roller…

“Ryobi also make AEG, and Milwakee power tools, so probably same bits inside and different colours for different brands.”

My first cordless drill, some 30+ years ago was a 14.4V AEG, and my god was it a step up from the Makita then available! I needed to double up a few years later so bought the same drill in 18V guise branded as Milwaukee. That lasted me 25 years of constant daily abuse, outliving 3 sets of batteries, until it finally went tits up a couple of years ago.
So I bought another, half the price, half the weight, but twice the power! Though I don’t use power tools that often anymore…
If Ryobi make them (though I doubt they do) I won’t expect it to last long. Ryobi were shit, probably still are, and very likely charging the batteries will burn down your shed. It happened to a friend…

“I always find these ‘beginner’ videos extremely difficult. It expects a certain level of flexibility which some people like me, don’t have. I can’t do most of the stretches correctly or at all in that first video.”

That’s why proper classes are so beneficial if you can find the time. A good instructor will have a room full of varying abilities all “performing” to their full abilities, and introduce more advanced poses and their variants gradually.

“Those of you who have continued 6 months+, have you found it beneficial?”

Damn right I have!
I took up yoga again after a 30 year hiatus 3 or 4 years ago when I met a yoga instructor who wanted me to go to Bali with her…
So I started a 3 week, all the yoga classes you can manage for £35 deal at my local studio, and did a class a day before going to Bali, and 2 classes a day while there.
For 50 years I have suffered from cramp in my feet, calves, and back of the thigh if I swim the crawl or use flippers when swimming. After 5 quite intensive weeks of yoga I could snorkel for a couple of hours cramp free!
And all my other little aches and pains have gone too!

£2k insurance??? Blimey!
My daughter’s 1st car was, and still is, a Seat Mii, bought 4 years ago for about 5k, and insured through Elephant for £900 fully comp with no black box. It’s about half that now.
I thoroughluy recommend them, and the car!

“we have continued each time to use the tyres that came on it from new, so they were the VW specc’ed tyres…”

And what tyres are they?

Any links for the lazy?

Subarus have it. Hence there’s quite a few old ones driving around like speed boats…

A Volvo as a mid life crisis purchase? You need to live a little!

Lululemon ftw

Their travel mats are surprisingly good! very grippy!

I was on Bisoprolol for a couple of years, ten years ago. Didn’t like them one bit so I came off them after discussing with my cardiologist. resting heart rate of 24 rising to a max of 60 meant I was moving like a zombie. I might as well have been dead; I couldn’t work, couldn’t do anything I enjoyed.
I’ve been right as rain since, other than the kidney **** ups I had as a result of taking them…

Yes! I haven’t noticed ANY downsides to being on Alopurinol!

I developed Gout about 15 years ago, thanks to taking Beta blockers for a dodgy ticker. I also got kidney stones at about the same time. I stopped the Beta blockers and the stones stopped but the gout persisted. 10 years of food diaries and elimination – the cause was found to be lentils!
2 years gout free but I developed another trigger. Bit the bullet and took the Alopurinol offered, and haven’t had an attack since.

Any pics? I have old 3D cranks and there are no special tools needed. just a bunch of allen keys…

Is there any play in the headset? This can produce some pretty scary tank slap. Had it on my Soulcraft a few years back. I thought the headset was seated properly but it wasn’t quite. A quick tweak and the slap was sorted…

If not or If so? Do beards provide protection?

How can they blame the installation making the flooring warp when the floor hasn’t attained any standards whatsoever??
Shouldn’t you have established that first?

TBH you only have yourself to blame. You tried to do it on the cheap and your gamble didn’t pay off.
Why didn’t you use the shop’s recommended fitters?

Two advocates of complicated sharpening… If anyone needs a Veritas guide mine is sitting unused and getting dusty, so is up for grabs. 50 sobs including the small blade attachment…
Email nixon.dcase @gmail.com

Get yourself some Diamond stones, Dia Sharp or Titman. 125 grit, 1000, and 10000. It takes no time at all, with no risk of overheating. All my chisels and plane blades have been sharpened this way, but my gouges get finished with a strop.

There’s no need for a guide. They take forever to set up and are a waste of space. You’ll get a feel for it in no time.

Oh, and pre war Addis chisels and gouges keep their edge for a long while. Nothing modern even comes close, except maybe very top quality japanese stuff, but they are ten times the price.

Perhaps the Peter Principle at play…?

Tell him he’s flying it upside down…
When I lived in Bermondsey, every day I passed a pub with a massive union jack spread across the front, with windows and doors cut out. It was upside down. I wanted to pop in and tell them but didn’t have the balls.
But maybe upside down means something else, like the missus is at her sisters,,, or we’re sinking…

It’s a dog’s dinner of a flag anyway. Brazil’s would be good!

What kinda shoes? If the cleats are set up vaguely in the same place they have been for 20 years, then move them this way, move them that… it may help. it may just be the shoes…

“I have an automatic Berlingo which I really like which would also be handy for baby/tools etc. It’s a bit clunky but it’s been super cheap to maintain/MOT etc”

I had a Berlingo a few years back for a couple of months. A horrible thing that cost more to insure than the Forester S turbo that preceded it…

“This attitude is why there an issue in some areas. Just because you think your low risk doesn’t mean you can’t pass it on.”
Just because you’re vaccinated doesn’t mean you can’t pass it on. According to a triumphant Matt Hancock carriers are 30-40% less likely to pass it on if vaccinated, but that’s it!

This!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103230475745?model=C6&radius=1501&year-to=2021&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&make=CITROEN&sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_cars&postcode=gu271he&include-delivery-option=on&page=1&modal=photos

Nothing but nothing is waftlier!

“So you would tell them where you live then?”
Yes. I’m no Paranoido.

You’re selling a bike. Buyers will want to look at it. They need to know where you are…

How old is Mini?

A coping saw is probably the best bet. There’s no need for electrickery.
If you want shiny shiny check out the saws from Knew Concepts…

My Red Fell Terier is still searching for his best mate who submitted to cancer 3 years ago. Every Jack Russell he meets gets a right old sniff! Proof that he’s blind! none are quite so fat!

It’s His problem, not yours! It’s all very well being mighty neighbourly about it, but his “agreement” would have solicitors priapic at the though of helping to sort it out.
Get an agreement written up by professionals, at his expense. If he doesn’t like that idea he can rebuild the wall.
You’ll soon find out how neighbourly he is….

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/auctions/1993-porsche-968-club-sport-QgNZjg?utm_campaign=Broadcast%20%7C%20Saturday%20Auction%20%7C%2003%2F04%2F21&utm_term=01ENAR8YZW64M6ED1PC99ZAMPT&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter%20-%20Engaged%20in%20the%20last%2012%20months&utm_content=&_ke=eyJrbF9jb21wYW55X2lkIjogIlg1UUx4UyIsICJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJuaXhvbi5kQGJ0aW50ZXJuZXQuY29tIn0%3D

I have a small Carradice saddle bag and its utter shite! So all further purchases have been Ortlieb…

Go! see your mum.

Are these new green oak sleepers or old, covered in tar sleepers?
If the former, Footflaps suggestion of a tracked chainsaw looks spot on. If they’re old, the oak will be rock hard. film yourself and give us all a laugh.
Any circular saw is going to have to be effin massive. My 65mm 2.3kW saw scared the shit out of me and I only ever used it clamped in a bench. The depth of cut will be much less at an angle.
Have fun!

For some reason I assumed you wanted to Rip saw the sleepers. If you just want to cut them in half use a handsaw. Far easier than poncing about with powah…

“As several of us have said, we don’t want our kids worried they’d killed granny.”

And you’d be sure to tell your kids they were to blame wouldn’t you…

If someone doesn’t want it, you can’t force them. Maybe they’ve had a rich and fruitful life and despair of their namby pamby offspring who don’t appear to do much of interest, just spending every waking hour on a cycling forum when they don’t even cycle..
Or maybe they just don’t like being used as free babysitters…

Stretch and build up your core. Cyclists, especially ones that drive or sit at a desk a lot, don’t move their back in all directions enough so causes muscular in-balance and this results in pain and suffering, which leads to the dark side!!!

At last! PLenty of suggestions of weights, diet and drugs, but a good stretch may be all you need…

Try Yoga!

The carrier may well try to charge you VAT and duty. If they do and they cannot see the error of their ways you can recover it from the taxman. not sure about the handling fee though…

“Jake Thackeray.”

You wish!