Land Rover owned by Tata.
Nissan Leaf is Japanese owned.
I’m talking about state sponsoring of our very own electric car industry not making
batteries for another nations established industry.
But yeah, carry on with your half-a**ed fact checking and mutual back slapping if it makes you feel better.

European Union my ar**. It’s a French/German carve up.
Go on then, tell me he’s off to Malta or Latvia next.

Other EU nations aren’t even allowed to provide government funding to get electric
car manufacturing industries off the ground, which leaves it to those
countries with an existing auto industry in place. That’d be Germany and France then.

P&D here.
The mist coat should have been a very watered down coat of cheap (contractors) emulsion which is applied when the plaster is properly dry. The new plaster sucks all of the water out of this and effectively seals the wall ready for painting. Mist coats dry double quick, no need to wait a week as half an hour would have done.
The stippled effect could be due to the wall not being properly sealed with a mist coat or maybe the following coats of silk were applied too thickly. Apart from being unfashionable the sheen of silk will show up roller marks way more than matt especially in a stairwell with light shining down it,a nightmare combination.
To rectify get a sanding pad on a pole and sand what you’ve done, no need to go mad. Then paint with Matt emulsion.
It looks like natural light from a window on the landing will make it difficult to hide roller lines whatever you do.
The professional finish that you’re after takes practice basically.

Funny for those who don’t understand the escalation and reprisal aspect of violence.
Like it can only happen to people you don’t like.

Probably 6 amp circuit breaker at CU and 5 amp fuse wire at old box. Have a look, see if it’s blown and if so put 5a fuse wire in.

The Detectorists

Parkrun.
Enjoying our beautiful countryside on a mountain bike.
Boating on the Thames in the summer.
Raving.
Chilling out with a cold beer at a festival.
Drinking in a traditional pub (especially in winter with a real fire on the go).
Eating fish and chips(especially at the seaside)
Enjoying a roast dinner with the family.
Going out for a curry !
Standing on top of a mountain in Snowdonia on a clear day.
Surfing in Cornwall or Devon.
Being polite.
Pondering The Henge and other stone circles.
Laughing at ourselves.

Born in ’68, I listen almost exclusively to music from my past- Acid House, Madchester, Reggae, Faith No More ….
Very rarely do I hear anything new that gets me going. Gerry Cinnamon’s good though.

This one tune sums me up though

Brexit really has opened up a massive chasm in British society. Even on a thread like this where the subject is about ruined family relationships due to the vote, people can’t help themselves and spit poisonous inflammatory comments with no sense of irony.
I do think that we are at peak vitriol at the moment while the government procrastinates over our exit. While Brexit will roll on for years to come I think that it will slowly slide out of the headlines and peoples level of interest and attitudes will soften. Hopefully one day it might even be like 2015 again !
James O Brian though – seriously no one has done more to stoke division than this man that I can recall in my lifetime.

Hypothetically, if there were a second referendum and remain won the vote, obviously a huge sigh of relief all round from those who never wanted to leave. The economy would stabilise and the status quo would be restored.
However, what would be the fallout from the result of the first referendum never having never been implemented? Democracy seemingly a concept that can be either ignored or implemented. The seriousness of what this would mean and how the population might react could dwarf any of the problems that leaving might entail.

My mum is like this in her own house. You walk up behind her, she jumps and then moans at you for “creeping about”. Thats old people for you.
Then again maybe I should ring the doorbell to let her know that I’m in the house ?

Iceman. Stoneage hunter/gatherer goes on a revenge mission after his clan are killed. Best film I’ve seen in years.

Incredibly sad.
I was about to post that I loved that inner sleeve artwork… it kind of summed up the whole rave generation feeling for me. Happy days.
Playing 3 Kilos and welling up. RIP Keith.

I once went out with a girl who was into all that hokum-pokukum bull****. She told me that she was so in tune with nature that on occasion she could see aura’s coming off trees . When on one such occasion she pointed to a large tree and exclaimed that she could see it’s aura rising up above, I had to explain that it was in fact a swarm of midges.

The progressive modern view of sexuality seems to be that people are fluid in their sexual preferences. No doubt for some this is true. However my lived experience tells me that in fact most people are plain old straight (boring I know) and that this new gender redefining has more to do with minorities inflating the size of there sub group than actual real life numbers.
How many transvestites do you regularly encounter ?
For the record, I couldn’t give a **** about somebody elses sexual preferences, life’s too short.

But we wouldn’t be making her stateless by refusing her re-entry into Britain would we. She turned her back on us to go and join Islamic State (The clue’s in the title). The fact that I.S. has almost collapsed would seem to be the point at which she was made stateless. Wherever she physically stands is where she should be dealt with (with U.N. help if necessary).
You could argue that I.S. was never a globally recognized sovereign state as such, however for her it meant even more than that and for countless thousands who died it was very much a real thing.

Sika pave fix from Screwfix is one brand although there are others. Don’t confuse it with regular kiln dried which won’t set like these products.

There is a product for just this purpose. A type of sand that you brush into the gaps and then it sets when it gets damp. I did my parents patio with it a few years ago and it works and lasted well. Comes in a big tub from builders merchants etc.

Zero sympathy. Just remember the beheadings, pushing people off tall buildings, setting fire to people in cages etc. etc. etc.
I can’t forgive any of this.

How’s the campaign for a “peoples vote” going ? It would appear that they’ve thrown in the towel already. Or maybe they’ve all gone up Snowdon for a mass pant wetting!

Good Lord. Just go there. Most people are fine wherever you go. You come across as some kind of Guardian reading Beta male, scared of your own shadow.

I melted mine on top of a homemade burger the other day, delicious.
Sorry to divert from the soup.

We bought my 9 year old daughter a 3/4 size Squier strat for Xmas (looks great in red and white).
She can allready read music and plays cello in a junior orchestra but we noticed that she was often on youtube learning rock songs on her uke. We now get youtube up on the TV in the front room and both learn tunes together on the guitar. It’s fun and she asks to do it
The Squier was about £100 but well made and plays well.

Thanks for all the advice.
My plan now is to try one of the sprint events in the spring to set a benchmark and then see if I can improve on that and better my pb. Are all the sprint events exactly the same length or can you only do a pb for each individual course ?
Depending on how this plan plays out, I could possibly aim for an olympic distance triathlon later in the year .

I built one of those garden cabins, roughly garage sized, with a friend about ten years ago. We cut the turf off, bashed the ground down hard (end of a sledge hammer I think), light layer of sand trowelled flat and paving slabs on top. Obviously we levelled them all up. The slabs were placed at suitable distances apart, about 12 in all from memory.
Still rock solid today. At the end of the day it’s a shed not a civil engineering project and I would definitely use this method again.
Hope this helps.

Just to clarify, this is absolutely a true story. Not re-telling someone elses tale or telling for Xmas effect.
That’s not to say that he definitely saw a ghost though. Even he doesn’t refer to it as a ghost.

Telling a middle aged man with lower back pain, who’s new to the gym to do deadlifts is frankly very, very bad advice. Check out bodybuilding.com and in particular their piece on bodybuilding with lower back pain for informed advice.

My advice is start slowly (light weights) and build gradually. Make sure to get them to show you how to use a foam roller on the induction. You can’t beat push ups, front and side planks for core strengthening.

AthleanX on youtube has great exercises for dealing with lower back pain.

Remember when everyone was…like…”Je suis Charlie”.

Is that unfashionable now ?

Was really disappointed with ‘A quiet place’ . It’s massively over hyped  for an unoriginal  alien invasion movie. Plot holes galore and frankly large parts of it are plain slow/dull. Sicario 2 looks a corker though !

Love – when a job goes well with no hitches (very rare).

Hate- silicon sealant.

Wether or whether, they both look wrong. Only weather gets the nod from me.

OP here. Set of on my local park run today and without planning to do so, found myself running inside the top ten when I’m normally about mid pack. The pace was obviously higher and was a bit of an eye opener as to what I will need to be doing. After lap 1 (of 3) I dropped off and then sat on a park bench to contemplate the task. Jogged the remaining 2 laps just to say that at least I completed it.
Interesting.
Anyone else doing a similar thing, feel free to highjack this thread. Would like to hear other peoples stories.

Thanks for all the advice. Will check out the McMillan coaching Duggan.
I’ve told the Mrs about my plan and also bought a Garmin watch for the pace making, so I now have a financial investment. Will keep you posted.

I’ve yet to see a ropey grid girl, so I’m not sure why they’re under review ?

Hope for nearly everything.
Wellgo for their £10 alloy pedals. I even enjoy stripping them to repack the loose bearings with fresh grease.

I think that their brazing looks fine, just needs dressing up. Essentially what they’re showing is the unfinished product.
There is a photo on their Instagram feed though, of a gusseted headstock which is wrong in design. Strengthening gussets should have the weld finish before the end of the metal, not a continuous seam weld as this transfers the stress point to the end of the gusset. In fact 1″ welds around the gusset with , say, 5mm gaps in-between (no welds in the corners) provides the best strength with no transferred stress points.

Fudge. It’s what all the other hair waxes try and fail to be. I find the one that suits me best is their rocker wax.

KLF – What time is Love ( The original non-rap version)

Are we talking early 80’s elecctronic, Depeche Mode, Visage etc. or the ’88-’89 acid house. Both good, but for me very different beasts.

I bought a cheapo evolution from Screwfix years ago and its still going strong. It’s done loads of work and in fact we did a large decking job in the summer and it was just as good as my mates top of the range Dewalt.
I would however snap up the Dewalt for £169.99 as quick as you like !