Irrelevant if you like Dyson cleaners or not, you have to hand it to him for doing so well from vacuum cleaners that he can even think about building a car. To be honest, it is a massive jump, and I would think it is more likely that they end up developing an electric drivetrain that they then sell to car companies. A bit like how so many cars have Peugeot diesel engines.

In the same way, I really wonder if Apple will release an electric car. More likely all the software and electronics, licensed to manufacturers.

Anyway good on him for being so successful.

Certainly are dark inside.The only issue is it seems have a loads more vents than normal so not sure if it would be cold in the UK.

After years of switching suppliers and regularly checking of prices to make sure I saved money, I have just signed up with Flipper. they search for the best deal for you and by having direct access to your online account can then switch you onto the best deal. They check every few months and then switch you if it will save £50 or more.

They have switched us once so far and all has been fine. You pay £25 a year but that is only if they move you. If they don’t move you then you don’t pay.

Seems like a great idea as now I can forget about thinking if we are on the best cheapest tariff.

https://flipper.community

Got a T5 LWB and never had a problem parking. Not sure why you would every go with a SWB. When you have a smallish van isn’t every cm important. 30cmisjustvundet the width of a cupboard

I’m a big Apple fan boy but there is no way the iPhone x has an edge to edge screen. Have they not seen the Samsung Galaxy Edge! The problem with android phones is they are just so awful to use. They certainly have some great features and had had tech for years that Apple is now just getting but I find the combined experience not very good. However I am bored of the Apple tech and the loss is the good days when companies came out with distinctive designs that used different materials. Everything now just seems the same. I don’t think £1000 is really that bad when I take into account how much I use my phone day in day out. I generally keep my phone for 2 years so that works out £1.30 a day.

Is it overpriced compared to the competition, for sure. But than again so is Santa Cruz compared to a Canyon.

It does amaze me that one of the richest and largest companies in the world brings tech to the market years after others and aesthetically at least has so few options.

You don’t have to go to the store as usually it’s a nightmare to get an appointment. In Bristol it was a 2 week wait to just gat an appointment let alone the time to actually fix my MacBook. Anyway I said there was no way I could make it and they just sent UPS to pick it up. UPS came with a special box, dropped it in and off it went to the central repair place. 5 days later I had it back.

Also don’t play there game of having to pay for support calls if you don’t have AppleCare. Just state you have done the latest software update and then noticed there was a problem. They will then deal with any issues and you don’t get charged. The whole AppleCare set up is a con and most of it is covered by consumer law anyway.

6yrs EU law.

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/%5B/url%5D

Turner have great customer service as well. Would totally recommend.

Always go for a Rose from the south of France and you will be sorted. Far nicer than white wine but it has to be very dry. The sweet stuff is like alcopops

Got a Beko Condensor dryer and no humidity in the room at all. However, it is a A+ model that is meant to use less electricity but it takes hours to dry a load. I think it uses less electricity per hour as it doesn’t get as hot, but takes loads longer to dry. So, all in all, it uses the same amount of electricity. Basically, it is cheating to get around the Energy labelling.

Would love to support Hope, but totally agree the hub noise is so bloody annoying. Just totally against what I think mountain biking is about. Getting into the peace and quiet of the country side.

First off I can’t believe how cheap house are in the north and can’t believe salaries are half as much. In Bristol that the cheapest is £135K and nowhere near as nice. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67833449.html

To me the inside doesn’t look that bad at all. The front looks very drab and I would look at sprucing that up. Kerb appeal does make a massive difference. Also agree the blocked in back door isn’t nice, but not sure what can be done apart from cladding on rendering the lower back half.

Have a look on street view as there are some with hanging baskets and window boxes on your road and they look loads better. Cheap as chips to do that. Make it so they say wow just looking at it from the street. Also de clutter to get to the point where it is easy for you to tidy up quickly. Try and change your routine so you keep it tidy all the time.

Mate worked in a prepacked food factory. It was refrigerated and they constantly sprayed water in the air to reduce germs so standing inacouw of cm of water. He had to stand by a conveyor belt and press 1 button every few seconds to drop some sauce into the meal tray. God knows why it wasn’t automated. They gave him no work wear so came back with almost hypothermia the 2 days he lasted.

The clear difference here is that he chose to take the front brake off. The act of actively doing something before hand makes the big difference compared to someone that hasn’t maintained their bike or someone who is riding too quickly but on a full functioning bike.

That’s why there was a case a couple of days ago when a guy got 4 years for driving too fast and crashed his car killing his friend. He was prosecuted for dangerous driving and not manslaughter. If he had taken the seat belts out of his car, as it was more thrilling to drive without them, then he would have been prosecuted for manslaughter I would have thought.

It’s the conscious pre-planned act that is the issue.

What I like about the Steady Rack is that you roll your bike into it. No faffing around trying to lift it up and hook it around a hook. Not so much of an issue for me at 6’3″ but difficult for my wife and kids

We use ours all the time and the kids love it. They need to work out a better way to access info in skills as you need to remember how to turn the skills on. I think they need to incorporate some skills into her knowledge base. Very handy for multiple timers when cooking. It’s all basic stuff but works together really well

Fast sandy singletrack
Washout front wheel
Crash crack ribs

I have stopped on and off over the years when busy doing some other sport, hockey, climbing. But always come back. Now 42 after starting riding when I was 15 and loving mtb more than ever. Really more picky when and where I ride with mtb in the summer and road in the winter. Short and sharp is what I do now as riding is close by and it then doesn’t effect the rest of my life, wife and kids too much.

I would go as big as you can. I have just built a 4m x 6m workshop on the back of the house and it’s already pretty full

VW’s are expensive but they do hold their value. Buy a van spend some money on it and it will actually be worth more than what you have spent. Have you seen the price of some converted vans!!

We got ourselves a Tag already so hopefully it will save some time, if not one less thing to think about.

spooky_b329 – Thanks for the tip about hightop campervans and Paris as we have one. Helps me to make my mind up to avoid Paris.

Any tips on places to stop or campsites on route?

Actually quite like Frozen. Cars is pretty dull, luckily the girls think so to.

We use a decathlon pop up tent. works a treat and really does take seconds to put up.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/base-seconds-pop-up-camping-shelter-id_8208602.html

I also wonder if one of these would be good

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/air-seconds-base-xl-inflatable-camping-shelter-id_8358157.html

For really tough protection you have Griffin Survivor or Otter Box. If it is the screen breaking then it might be worth having a look at an Amazon Fire Kids. They have a breakage guarntee. No questions asked replacement.
Amazon Fire Kids

+1 for loving dual control

This isn’t a political complaint of should we be in the EU or not or should the Tories be in power. The crap safety standards are just as much the fault of Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

This I totally believe in.

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I couldn’t care less whether we are the 5th, 6th, 7th or 20th largest economy in the world (which seems to be an obsession with our political “elite”); I’d rather the UK be a world leader in equality, healthcare, education, personal-freedom and honest foreign policy.

For starters we need to get away with this obsession with everyone doing high paid jobs. For a society to work you need people to do the basic jobs that keep society working. Cleaners, builders, postmen, dinner ladies, etc, etc. Now I agree that these people should all get a decent and wage. This obsession of high value, high wage jobs is silly as in the scheme of things only every a small % of the population can do them as there will never be that many. We need to take the technical trades more seriously like in Germany and make many of them a skill level as equal to a degree. We might then actually have some plumbers and builders that know how to use modern building practices and materials.

Going back to Grammers if the powers at be really do think thay are a benefit for society then role them out nation wide and make sure all the non grammers schools are just as amazing. If they don’t role them out nation wide then they can’t be all that important or beneficial.

40″ Samsung curved. Ultra HD and brilliant.

Ignore all the silly advice that the picture isn’t clear at angles. Every other HD TV we have now looks terrible.

3D printing would do it for a lot lot less.

Brilliant thanks all, I will give that chrome extension a go.

What I don’t get is the cladding would burn very quickly as it doesn’t have huge mass like wood. This would account for the fire moving so quickly. But how did the fire then actually get inside the building. If it is a concrete building with cladding on the outside, how come the inside burnt so badly, concrete doesn’t burn. As the insulation is a plastic I would also expect it to burn at quite a low temperature on the outside of the building.

Also this isn’t to do with austerity or government cuts. They just spent £8m on the building. Bad decisions on how to spend the money, maybe, lack of updated fire regulations and controls, maybe. But not austerity, that’s just jumping on the political band wagon.

Agree that the HomePod looks dull and to honest it all really hinges Siri. Currently she is terrible and get more wrong than right. She is also extremely limited compared to Alexa in basic form let alone with all the 3rd party Alexa skills. Apple first has to get Siri as good if not better than Alexa.

Its also a very dull looking product and not something that shouts out style in a loud or subtle way. Just looks like so many other bluetooth speakers on the market. I am sure they will sell loads but not sure is they will take that much market from Sonos. At the price that an Echo is if Amazon just incorporated multi room then it would still be top the the game.

I guess I meant Costa Blanca. Show my lack of Spanish knowledge!!

I kind of know what you mean. We have a stables up our road and they are constantly riding horses up and down the road. We are surrounded by fields and god knows why they don’t ride in them. Isnt riding a horse up and down a road just bloody boring.

Thanks everyone, narrowed it down to Costa Brava area now and was looking at Denia last night, which looked good with it harbour and lots and lots of beaches

Are Gravity Dropper even in business any longer. No one seems to sell them and their website hasn’t been updated since 2013!! If there was ever a company that failed to capitalise on a market exploding in size.

Thanks all, looking to go Late July, early August. when I said peaceful, of course this is a relative term when kids are about. I meant not like the packed beaches of Benidorm, etc

Hive, not smart just internet connected. Nest keeps playing up and doing odd things, like coming on when it is specifically told not to. Not sure it has saved us any gas. Tado great but only if you have a stable internet connection. Went on holiday for a week. Wifi went down and Tado defaults to always on. So on solid for 7 days.

Yup first time I have ever had my bike serviced in a shop and exactly the same happened to me. What makes it worse is the day light robbery they charges for a replacement.

maccruiskeen – thanks for that. It is not to fix the drill but for a project I am working on. I need a way for a lead screw to move back and forth by an electric motor but then for the screw to be locked out if force is applied to the traveling nut. The simple way that electric drills and screwdrivers lock out would be perfect, as they are cheap and simple. Ultimately I want to find a supplier that has off the shelf units. I’m sure there will be something out there, it’s just knowing what it is called.