We had an episode of Vera filmed in the street opposite me last year. We got wine and chocolates for letting the wardrobe and costumes truck park outside our house.

Get Carter

Thankfully lots of the bits of town (Gateshead) used are long gone.

There’s a guy on Instagram I follow called @reallyloudcars loads of great stuff on there. His scrap yard photos really take you back

Yes a good time to give a shout out for good service and delivery, so in no particular order:

Bellfield Brewery in Edinburgh 48hours, think they have 20% off right now as well.

Wold Top, again 48-72 hours and delivery included in the price. got 3 cases for £72.

Hadrian & Border, 48hours and free delivery although they are local to me it may cost for courier for further afield.

Abbeydale in Sheffield, free local deliveries I think about £8 for national, 48hours. Doing mini kegs as well now.

Quite a few feeds for this kinda stuff on instagram, rusting classics I think is one that springs to mind.

Ian Rush autobiography on a radio phone quiz. They said it was signed, it wasn’t. And rather dull.

I’ve just remembered, a few months after I had joined up I won a competition in the Mucky Duck in Portsmouth, 2 mins behind the bar to pour as many pints as I could and keep them for my mate and the 3 wrens we were out with. Previous to job, bar manager for Scottish and Newcastle. I was in my element, and very quickly drunk.

Depend on the spec and fit etc, but rear wheels are usually sort after for trainers.

Watching Hospital on BBC2

As always an insight, this one is particularly scary

He sounds like one of those angry cyclists we hear so much about in the papers, ranting and raving at defenceless old ladies just minding their own business.

Had many a bee sting my helmet, just this week a pheasant shot out of a field clipped me on the noggin and I ended up on the other side of the road head downhill on a 10% road.

Also, potholes whilst taking a cheeky swig of the bottle.

Gob fulls of midges and various flying things, this week it seems to be the flying ant whatnots around our way.

By servicing are you referring to Muc Off and Tapoline?

Never heard that story about the RAF pilot before, thats fantastic.

That Sky interview reveals what his base will think, when the economy reopens (notice nowadays nobody talks about a society, we are all economies) he will be seen as a saviour because he has been pushing for it.

Saving lives is much less important than the dollar.

I’m all out of words to describe this oxygen thief.

I asked about sheds last month and after much googling went for a local firm who are (eventually) doing me an 8×8 apex roofed, 19mm T&G, double door, 2 windows, felted roofed, tanalised shed! £680 delivered and fitted.

It ticked all the boxes that folks mentioned I should look out for. Hopefully the tips will open soon and I can get rid of all the rubbish out back to make way for the new arrival

Track and trace isn’t really going to help these poor elderly people in care homes is it, and how would they spot a breakout of the virus in a prison? or any other establishments that require you to hand your mobile in at reception when you visit or go to work.

As many have already mentioned, NHS have often been handed shoddy IT solutions over the years and with this gang of second rate circus jugglers running the show I don’t see anything changing.

Although it might be very successful on Aer Lingus flights from Belfast.

Quite the week for me waiting and watching the letterbox….

A stack of beer from Abbeydale Brewery and Wold Top
Some merch from STW
3 new smoke detectors to replace the ones that expired 3 years ago!!!
A new beard/hair trimmer, finally bought something decent

Just dropped a little something to cover the P+P on the merch you just sent out to me. I do look good in green

Thank you all very much.

As pointed out 6mm is the total diameter and the instruction is for a better seal on the gland into the light.

Thanks, another lockdown job gonna get ticked off the list!

I have an Arkose 3 from 2015, once the original Alex rims died a painful crunching death (after 5000 miles) I picked up some more road minded wheels Mavic Askium.

I’m now on the hunt for a set of gravelly/cx wheels in prep for the winter and getting it off road again, one bike all year round option, rather than 2 bikes, I know this will have me struck off STW for treason but budgets will be budgets.

Whats currently popular or available? I have a budget of around £250 and need QR hubs. Rotors, tyres and cassette already sorted.

My daughter is a teacher in London and the difference in requirements for teaching remotely across different schools her friends work in is vast. Some kids are getting a full timetable of 5 lessons a day and others are doing 2 lessons a day, the feedback from some of her pupils using the online teaching has been patchy to say the least.

She believes that if there is any focus on kids going back it should be for those in year 10 doing GCSE’s.

The worry for most teachers of course is what precautions are in place for teaching staff.

Would agree with OP a lot of the talk about sending them back to school comes from the same places screaming reopen the workplaces EDIT meant workhouses.

Turboferret – not necessarily production issues, smaller brewers brew beers in small batches, this week Stay Puft next week Cwtch. Whats available online probably reflects what they had ingredients for or demand for.

I gave up altogether on the local MTB rides around here, the bridleways and old railway lines are just full. Not that its a bad thing, but i’m not partaking.

Meanwhile out on the road bike a noticeable increase in road traffic this afternoon, like a normal Friday. Plenty close passes today when i’ve had none to speak of in the last 4-5 weeks.

Looks very nice, and I’d say you’ve earned the indulgence after the accident. Enjoy the touring ahead

I don’t have zwift or power meters or know what an ftp is to be honest, but I do have an HR monitor and my Wahoo telling me that on every ride I do, (10 mile or the MTB or 50 on the road) my HR averages nothing less than 155-165 when riding, max’s out around 192.

For context I’m 48, 77kg and pretty fit and healthy. Went through a load of tests last year and was found to be fine by the local hospital after having some pretty painful episodes down the left hand side and chest.

I’ve got a mate I occasionally ride with who’s 61 and av’s around 140, he’s a bit overweight and not riding anywhere near as much as me.

If the brewery has a good range of beers, just go direct. Or try your local bottle shop, many up in the north east/yorkshire are doing local deliveries from their existing stock and whatever new stuff they get in. Breweries seem to be getting orders out no problem.

Been hearing a lot more birdsong on the dog walks recently but I have put it down to the lack of road noise, possibly it was always there just drowned out by traffic. I get annoyed when one car comes roaring past me now, it sounds so loud, 2 months ago I didnt even notice the car noise because it was just the norm.

Right, thank you all for the tips.

Project – some very good points made I hadn’t considered. Thankfully the base area is solid and has been down for many years. I had planned on putting this up myself but then found a local firm that will install at no extra cost, so will need to check undercoating of floor when I call them tomorrow to discuss options. I’ve just removed all the guttering from the shed and fitted it to a summerhouse we have in the other corner of the garden, but I will be fitting new and getting another slimline butt for the water.

Reggiegasket – I am in Tyne & Wear

RDL-82 – I have a page open on the browser looking at a BillyOh so your advice shall be noted.

The forecast here for the next 10 days will allow me to empty the shed, fling out the crap, hide the lengths of assorted timber Ive been clinging onto for donkeys (always recycle the trees!) dismantle the electrics and hopefully take delivery of something new.
The plan is to get the best built I can, I am hoping to move more stuff into it to allow me to walk from one end of the garage to the other.

Duly noted, part of the issue with this is the floor has collapsed all over with damp and rot.

Replaced some guttering on the summerhouse, sorted out a couple of loose fence panels, now emptying the garden shed (which in itself has produced more work to fix/bodge)

Brass Castle in Malton North Yorkshire
Abbeydale in Sheffield

From memory I bought a 6 month old Raleigh Montana from my mate for £150, he bought it for £250 in 1992. It had a seat like a grifter, above bar thumb shifter gears, the most rigid of rigid forks and a steel frame so thick and heavy that Mount Doom in Mordor would struggle to melt it down.

After serving an early apprenticeship on the old railway lines and bridleways around Gateshead it joined the Navy and ended up getting me around Faslane base and the surrounding hills. It was terrible off road and remained planted to the back roads. Gear changes were available every second shift in the month and it had more indexing carried out than a library.

Happy days.

My neighbours just got in the motor and drove to their daughters and back to pick up a bag of shopping, away all of 5 mins. Usually she comes round every day with the shopping or one of the grandkids brings it or one of the girlfriends, they all pop in the house sit around the garden, sometimes all together sometimes not.
When not living at the grandparents the kids live with the mother 5 mins walk away. So they are mixing all the time and haven’t stopped.

Worst of this is that the mother works at the local hospital.

Some people just don’t see things ever happening to them until its too late, and if they cause it to someone else, well thats just tough. We very much have a me me me society

I’ve asked my council about this in the past and had diddley squat back from them. Just checked online and the last application or adjustment happened in 2018.

I’m now having a look at the map and its real easy to navigate……..

Pains me to say it but some parts of Gateshead are like land fill now.

What I couldnt understand with the fosters everywhere was they were almost metre markers on my ride, it was as if somebody had hundreds of empties and was chucking them out of a car window as they were driving along. You wouldnt head up these places for some anti social drinking on foot, its totally rural.

Riding out of western fringes of Gateshead into the Hills around Kibblesworth, Beamish and towards Sunniside there is an increase in flytipping but more than anything else every hedge and verge seems to be covered in tins of Fosters cans for miles. Just depressing.

On the main roads round here speeding seems to be something that has increased, now the roads are empty it seems you can do what you like.

I do enjoy hitting the roads and not having to look over your shoulder every 30 seconds to find somebody sucking your wheel in a car but when they do pass it seems it must be at 70.

I wouldnt miss her TBH

Excellent, thank you for that. Bit like that old film of the Austin car that was on here a few weeks back, can’t not watch it. Excellent medicine for our current times

I have a basic tacx trainer. Got my wahoo with speed,cadence and HR monitoring bits.
I get on the bike and pedal for 30 mins at 16-18mph, twice a day. No idea what is does for me but given that ive ridden bot all this year I dont feel unfit when I get out on the road proper, so its working for me.

Ours came down a few weeks ago, Woolwich/Barclays BoE + .74% been on it since 2009ish. Best/luckiest decision I’ve made. My only worry is that with 28months left to go the stocks & shares ISA I’ve had since it started has probably fallen through the floor in the last month. Thankfully with the rate being so low I’ve been shoving in the overpayments since I took that rate.

My daughter left her phone in a taxi in Nottingham one time which was handed into the police, as the screen was locked the police officer said to the phone ‘siri phone dad’ cue a rather anxious wake up at 1am for me. Got the phone back though.

*only works if siri is activated and user has a dad in the phonebook