Startling works well.

Try living with minimal stuff and see if you can handle it.

Keep a slush for emergency repair and accommodation during a repair.

Get a dumb phone. If you really must there are a few semi dumb phones that have WhatsApp but unfortunately they also have Facebook apps as well so I would go full dumb

One set of dry clothes for evening. Dry sleeping bag. Protect These. Keep them in separate bags to everything else and separate from each other so you have at least one dry even in a accident. As soon as you pitch up take off boots to air feet.

Outer pitch tent. Take a sponge dish cloth in the tent for wiping down minimise water that is now inside after you had to break camp in the morning when it was pissing it down. Choose a good site out of strong wind if possible but mainly as dry under as possible as you don’t want water to sleep in and get sleeping bag wet.

Wear wool for day time, topped off with waterproofs that even if they end up soaked keep the wind off. Putting it on wet in the morning isn’t pleasant but you soon warm up.

Drink tea with sugar to warm up quick. The process of making tea also acts to focus.

Primroses and landscapes, he (the director) pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport. For of course it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it. The problem was to find an economically sounder reason for consuming transport than a mere affection for primroses and landscapes. It was duly found.
“We condition the masses to hate the country,” concluded the Director. “But simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports. At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus. So that they consume manufactured articles as well as transport.

I think that sums it up.

Go to a car boot sale. Find axe and buy. Give it a sharpen, it will be more than adequate

I am surprised there isn’t something like an epoxy or that stuff you can paint onto rotting wood to stabilise it but for bones.

Aren’t these surveys just done by ‘intellectual’ groups to make their members feels smug that they know the formal names and the ‘common’ people don’t?

Pretty much. Allowing people to feel smug about knowing a word.

I will admit I do it as well. My daughter is learning the guitar and her mum / my partner doesn’t know what a hammer on is. Ooh how we belittle her lack of knowledge.

66pence/l at my local supplier Vs 77pence cheapest on boiler juice.

I bet that 11p is close to their margin. Lots of these portals have a pretty big margin somewhere along the line.

Large punch.

I love a nice beer but it makes me depressed nowadays if I get drunk so it’s one or max two for the taste

Depends on what a “really nice holiday” is to you. A colleague at work said a holiday for him was an opportunity to upgrade his lifestyle. For me it’s about doing things most of which cost very little once you have travelled.

Not usually.

‘Oi my mouse isn’t working’

vs tapping away for at least 30 seconds whilst that stuff is entered into the ticketing software.

Are you saying do not log the ticket? Otherwise I do not see how this argument counters mine?

Who’s time costs more?

Irrelevant both will be waiting while the ticket is being logged.

Find the carrier then book direct through them using a cash back site (quidco etc) even if it’s a few extra £££.

That’s what we are doing now but not via the cash back site never heard of them.

Private browsing mode to search for the flights-you don’t need the airlines knowing there’s a load of people interested in the route on those particular dates

This is standard for me.

I expect to get a different price once transferred to agency and you get the “checking flight” spinner, just as you frequently get a tweak when buying car car insurance it’s after the transfer and checking flight details that this occurred. Takes all details, takes card number, takes money THEN rings you saying not available it’s £500 more!

Globehunter.com
Easemytrip.com

I forget the third, they didn’t take payment.

Completely underhand

London to Hong Kong. It’s a joke, the website has taken money and then ring to ask for more money. It’s a complete scam

Not west Dorset but north Dorset. Okeford bike park does skills training. Worth a email. Closed for another month or so until spring

Cutlery drainers.

Guyaa at work was the floor inspector, he had a bad back.

Another at another work was Dr Shipman, he looked like Harold.

A guy at school was Malcolm. Can’t remember why.

Welding and or machining.

That’s obviously causes problems for everyone and yet the council have to pick up the tab for repairing these roads while the farmers pay nothing towards their upkeep.

That seems completely wrong to me.

It seems completely wrong to me that milk is bought for less than production. It seem wrong to me that government is not interested in food production anymore. It seems wrong to me that you need to farm 500-1000 acres to have a profitable farm if you’re lucky. But you’re right road damage is bad that is also caused by hgvs and verge damage is bad that seems to be caused mostly by people in SUVs and tippers who don’t want to slow down and wait

I massively appreciate what everyone who goes into the military. It has many appeals to me but I would struggle with not questioning things which is what put me off when I was at uni.

This is a worthwhile read.
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/butlersd-warisaracket/butlersd-warisaracket-00-h.html

I know it doesn’t work like that, but I’d argue that your temp staff should be paid more than the regulars. In every other area, you pay for convenience. There’s no stability in it for them, they should be compensated for that risk

Only for the same job. It sounds like the agency staff are not doing the same job as the perm staff. The perm staff seem to:
1. Have more responsibility
2. Be working away from home (as I. Not going home at night)

Both of these things require a uplift. #2 ISA pretty big one as well.

On the other side of the argument I expect the agency is taking at least 50% of that£19 per hour as for some reason employment agencies seem to consider their own work as skilled rather than semi skilled at best.

The obvious choice is Isle of Aran. Not UK but there are plenty of good west coast Ireland makers and Nordic. I have a Norway one and it is super warm

I reheated the end of the stove top coffee top brew I did on Sunday. Tasted fine to me. Not as good as fresh but better than instant by a long way.

Cycle touring

Isn’t that road based?

No bike packing is a subset of bike touring, but some people like to refute that for some reason

Test the element / mat.if you have a clamp meter and can get it round one of the wires (will require fused spur off wall ) you can get an idea of current drawn. View over time. Sometimes these things get worse as they heat up

4x is cool and might work better. You know the site at the end of the day

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Do it, in fact it’s perfect for people who don’t jump as it’s very progressive. Roll it into a road trip and hit up Gawton near tavi, woodies near (ish) Bodmin and several other south west and south depending on where you’re driving from

I’d love to help but I wouldn’t bother with a 4x track to be honest. Just build an awesome jump line with progressively bigger jumps and side by side options etc.

Look what they’ve done with Bolehills. Turned a below average BMX track into a ‘track’ which is also one of the best jump spots in the country outside of secretive trail spots.

Got to say I would be tempted to do this as well. Look at the track in Cornwall for inspiration as well.

I know you say Southampton bike park has this but I would say it doesn’t by a long shot and quite different (admittedly I didn’t go last year so might have changed). No doubles, very mellow lips etc don’t get me wrong it’s fun and a good facility but very different from the track or bolehills

Heard a good one the other day. Perfume, strong and cheap the better. Place in system and kep a nose out.

That thing with the lifting big stone balls onto wooden barrels

I think there has been a devaluation of speed limits, or boy who cries wolf. At least in semi rural and out suburban areas.

There are many places where 40-> 30 and 50->40 etc, but in a over use in a over zealous manor by which I mean an entire road is dropped rather than the busy / dangerous section or the 30 been extended well outside a village resulting in sense of “empty road works” scenario where there are long stretches of excess speed limits and people consider the entire stretch to over limited. Hence devalued.
I always notice when driving in Germany and France the limits change a lot more and seem more appropriate with jumps from 30kph back up to 40 or 70 then back down to 40kph etc where as in the UK the entire long road will be set at a low speed limit. As stated originally this is more of a edge of two and semi rural roads

The bitchimin sheet require full support of osb / ply or similar. Corrugated sheets are cheapest, you can get them with a anti condensation lining. Cement fibre board are off a little less condensation as they are no as smooth and slightly pourous, this is why they are popular in agricultural buildings with lots of animals inside but these buildings also have lots of ventilation for good animals health.

Large motors frequently require a type c mdb. The initial resistance of the windings is so low there can be a higher current spike stauration occurs

How often have handbrake ratchets ever worn out?

It’s also uncooth and abrasive behaviour

Oil fired boiler

Oil has traditionally been a cheap energy source if you tune your buys. More expensive now but still much cheaper than electric

Been looking into this as part of a renovation. Not sure how you are. Calculating that electric is cheaper to run usually wet is cheaper.

Although many companies claim good performance with a this reflective mat underneath it only seems worth while (in terms of efficiency if you already have good insulation under the floor or are prepared to dig down and install a good amount of insulation. Yes it will work with a thin layer of insulation under for a low build up but it’s operating via conduction to the surrounding mass and with minimal insulation the mass below it the earth. Yes it is a point that this is the earth below your house and helps create a stable environment but heating an entire concrete slab+ subbase etc takes a lot more than just the screed.

Hit up a local fabricator or Facebook fabrication group or similar. Anyone with a plasma could knock this out in no time. Most will have a simple circle jig, or make up two templates from wood for them to follow.