Pfizer booster today, so far no hangover/sore arm. AZ vaccines x2 summer time and had COVID end October.

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Jamiemcf: do you know if those wellies would be considered zero drop ? Eg no height difference between the heel and toe area? Or little difference? They look flat to me (which would be awesome)

Singletrackmind: that does 💯 sound like COVID. But weird that the LFTs don’t trigger.

I wonder if I’m somehow impossible to PCR. I’ve 100% had covid 6 weeks (October 18) ago after high temperature, negative. 8 days after that lost all sense of smell. Took a test yesterday, 5 weeks after losing sense of smell, negative.

October 2020 high temperature, took a PCR test – negative. Like crazy quick onset and I’m a connoisseur in having had temperature.

Spent the past 5-10 days with wife and kids who have all had COVID (PCR positive).

Why don’t I test positive when I should? Eh?

I bought some hydrochloric acid and a big tub. I haven’t worked up the courage to do the deed yet. Also need to find my acid safe coat first (and the rest). Also wondering where the heck to pour the stuff out afterwards. I’ll give it a go once and if it is poop then buy a fire burner thingy.

I researched this extensively.

Proper waterproof you’re kind of limited to Helly Hansen.

I bought a Fjallraven Yupik in the end. Warm as anything and a maaaaasive hood (assassin’s creed style) despite my head being massive. Water beads off it.

20/20, suckers :D

Dknwhy holy batman. Yeah seems to be a trust based system with no verification.

Danny: yeah I think shell initiated one, but they didn’t tell me this or the process etc. Scottish power said “we will wait 24 hours because if we raise one and they have too, they’ll cancel eachother out”

Shambles.

Mrmonkfinger; that’s quite shocking that there is no “metadata” around the mpan? Or security? An mpan should you know, never change address. Bizarre system.

Some stats from my first long trip in an ID4.

256 mile trip Newcastle to Craobh Haven (20 miles south of Oban). One charge required in Glasgow (osprey charger, nice).

2.8 miles per kWh. Fully loaded boot, two kids two adults with medium sized roof box. NCL-Glasgow. No massive amounts of rain but windy. Avoided doing 70.

Home trip dropped to 2.7 miles per kwh but I was hitting 70 often and the weather awful with high winds and crazy rain with a lot of surface water.

Net: I think the worst you can do must be close to 2.5 if you stick bikes on too.

Actual motorway (mainly) real range probably then around 210-220 in winter with roof box.

(Also Lochgilphead CCS charger didn’t work but the type2 did). Three pin plug in the cottage charged at roughly 2.5% per hour.

Currently holidaying in Craobh Haven, 20 odd miles south of Oban. Been very wet all week and the A93 has been closed overnight three nights in a row due to landslide risk? Just overnight afaik but Im eyeing up going across Stirling to reach geordieland on friday instead of a93 and Glasgow traffic.

Tesla model 3 has a really low max carrying weight. And still not sure the roof rack mounting points are…..solid/clever enough! (I would 100% shatter the glass roof….). Model 3 had max weight of like 420 kgs or something. With s family of four and stuff, not sure it could cope without sagging/handling (and road legality) being impacted.

Btw, the need for a kayak drove me to get a VW id4. that 600 quid kayak caused me to buy a 40 grand car. Thanks. (It’s an obscene amount of money).

Dantsw13: Ioniq 5 sorry. It was so wallowy I actually felt a bit wary, nearing sea sick – and I never get sea sick! It was super wallowy in corners but even driving it on decent a-roads at speed made it wallow like mad. I really wanted to like it but that and lack of roof bars killed the dream. I’d be interested to hear if anyone else had the same sensation or if this was a dud car/under inflated tyres.

ID4 – had it for nearly three weeks – rwd Life pro performance with heat pump and towbar (woopi).

Pros:
200-300 mile range (about to find about the real range – driving to near Oban from Newcastle). Charging infrastructure past Glasgow towards Oban is going to be tested!

Nice and tight handling (Vs the Ioniq which was really wallowy)

Nice ooompfh off the line

Roomy interior

Good enough boot (100x100cm roughly?) And quite tall boot.
Roof rails – exist!

Good visibility forward and side. Still can’t properly judge the front or wheels (stub nose and height seem to mess with my depth perception?)

Cons:
Rear view when reversing without camera is poop.

Lane keep assist is more like a “I’ll stop you if you try to run off the road” and ,”I’ll quite often annoy the heck out of you” on B-roads with poor incomplete markings.

Cruise control is good, but it has stupidly sped up thinking the speed limit is suddenly 60 when it’s actually 30/50. Weird.

Currently down with what I hope is this cold. Kids have had it (daughter for two weeks with a nasty cough), wife got it lightly as did son (original spreader).

Of course I get proper sofa manflu. Day four. Awaiting PCR test (you’ll get the results within three days, when did it stop being a day eh).

The folder names that can’t be seen on mobile, are the names longer than the folders they can see? Iirc there is something about file name length causing issues years back (not related to mobile though iirc). I lost one specific file that was never recovered.

I saw their vehicles parked up yesterday just north of Newcastle. Lovely vans. One even had a washing machine in it. Ineos guys. Also a weird contraption strapped on the car which looked like a metal detector but wasn’t. Antenna but a disc, attached to what looked like a crutch? maybe or for reading RFIDs? No idea.

How do they do 100+ miles in a day, for several days, without dying????

Knee pain for me always comes when I haven’t stretched my quads. Or when I haven’t trigger pointed my thighs for a while. Inner knee pain, quads and or tight inner thigh for me.

Reminds me of a job where I was going to sell “industrial cleaning equipment” which was IIRC fancy vacuum cleaner to private households.

As others said, red flags.

Just ordered an ID4 life pro performance WITH a tow bar (factory car that was available) and heat pump. Took a test drive in the Ioniq 5 before driving the id4 and I found the ride so wallowy I actually felt a bit motion sick which I never ever do? Don’t know if the tire pressure was low or what the heck was going on but the deciding factor was there was no roof racks available and even if there were it would have to be a clamp style Yakima (only one seemingly available?). The boot internal height was also quite compromised due to the sloping rear window. I was nearly 100 certain I was going for the Ioniq before the test drive..cool car in many ways but the handling sucked and I’m no race driver, I pootle.

Now I’m a pauper.

GO AND SEE A PHYSIO.

Did you really get a MRI before seeing a physio? :D

I had a similarity bad back in 2014. My lower back spasmed massively and I could not move for almost a week. Reason was leg length discrepancy that inflamed many muscles and causes lots of other interesting phenomena like different shoulder height, forward rotated shoulders, weak glutes and everything else. Anyway, point is a physio (privately, really, in these days) is what you need to go to first. Who knows maybe it’s a hernia/bulging disc but could very well be muscular in cause. Really, see a physio.

I don’t need more hobbies, please don’t tempt me. I’m on the slippery slope of SUP -> kayak but I want more speed and foiling looks seductive…….

Garry_lager:

I don’t use it that much, only once every few months for psoas. The trick is to only use one side and roll onto it while controlling the pressure. Using both ends of too difficult and overbearing.

I bought a psorite for this purpose. Painful thing :)

Hyundai Santa Fe 2010 reg 7 seater had it, but only in 7 seat version. Suspect the Kia Sorrento did it too.

Go private for the physio if you can. 50 odd quid instead of waiting lists (I assume you’re through the NHS). If your arms tingle I’d guess either your chest is tight and pushing your shoulders forward (constricting blood supply/nerves). Tightness in front shoulder could also be a very tight biceps, have a prod and see if you find any tight and sore spots). Given your surgical history there could be other stuff (I’m not an expert). Your traps could also be tight if you’ve been painting, grab hold of them with your thumb and have a poke).

I speak from a somewhat similar experience, but only my left shoulder was forward rotated.

1..physio to determine the cause
2. Pilates.

everyone should do pilates. I am a connoisseur of trigger pointing and my personal high is dry needling at the physio. Needle goes deep into the muscle and many spasms later the muscle relaxes after years of mismanagement.

5lab: idbuzz will be on the same platform as the id4 is on. The.commercial one will be on a different one iirc.

If the muscle has properly spasmed (and other too possibly) trying to stretch them out could be making matters worse (for now).

1. Upgrade your tennisball
2. If it’s your lower back, check if it could also be your quads causing the pain (stretch/trigger point).
3. You may need to trigger point your piriformis (YouTube it) and you will definitely need something harder than a tennisball.
4. You can explore all sorts of tight bits with a Theracane, but also recommend a larger hard ball which I find works best for hamstrings (think 10cm).

Matt out and about:

Max load becomes an issue on the Korean cars, and Tesla M3. Ioniq and Eniro have a Max load 418 kgs or thereabouts. VW id4 has 600ish which would solve load lugging. Ioniq (ev) doesn’t have a specified roof load at all iirc, and no roof rack points (you can get a the clamp style). One option could be to get a Tesla M3 with a towbar specced and pull a trailer with canoes and stuff (and bikes). The roof rack on the M3 still freaks me out with glass breaking risk.

To the OP Mike. You should go visit a physio (private, likely). Could be the best 40-50 quid you spend for a good poke around. And I mean physio, not chiropractor. Find a good one, might take one or two different ones but you’ll know when you find one.

Megacorp slave here too. Well paid good company. Megaproject running for the past 18 months. Brain fried in April, felt a *zzzzzap*, the joke of “calling the GP” became a non joke and the only way out. Been off for 3-4 months.

What I Didn’t know before is the following:

1. Stress burn out lead to clinical anxiety, e.g. couldn’t even look at the laptop (when it was off) without palpations and general fight or flight mode kicking in.
2. 4-6 weeks after getting the sick note I was manically doing DIY. PROPER mania, which I only realized in hindsight.
3. After the initial stress come down, depression hits. This is supposedly quite normal. So now, I avoid most people and conversations, stress out easily but on a path, I hope, to …..return to the megacorp and become a slave again but hopefully never burning out ever again.

Warning signs: sleep impacted, tingling arms / legs, blurred vision, heart palpations etc..

Month four and sure as heck not ready.

Karnali: we had a Zoe 2015 reg (21kwh). Summer distance when new was 90 odd? Mixed driving. Winter range dropped to 57 in year two.

Welding clamp if I had to guess.

Garmin’s livetrack works well.

I am Berlingosexual but I haven’t told my wife yet.

Male, early 40s. AZ Thursday 13th (4-5 days ago).

Immediate symptoms: very tired 3-6 hours later. Next day; 3/10 hangover and 1/5 light flu symptoms (aching body somewhat, delayed muscle soreness from my bike ride on Tuesday, strange).

5 days later: hay fever seems worse than normal? Don’t know if the immense system is confused. Lead to a coughing fit yesterday during a bike ride which I never ever get. Difficult to recover the HR on the bike as easily, heart rate didn’t want to come down as quickly as normal despite resting off the bike.

Fazzini: east of Newcastle, so the north sea then :)

I’ve got them. They are the AW20 model. I only wear Altra for anything and everything.

The Lone Peaks are NOT water proof or even water resistant. Walking in wet grass soaks it right through.