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Robbing Peter to pay Paul, reducing the indoor temperature to gain warmer water. Maybe acceptable in Summer but not in Winter in a colder region. .

I feel sorry for the civil servants in the Treasury, the Department of Work and Pensions and HMRC. All their updating work being undone almost as soon as they complete the changes. And now we aren't going to get the previously guaranteed cost of living subsidies after April to complete two...

Not exactly hand luggage! Sorry I don't personally know a UK sourced heat-pump hot water unit. .

Heinzmann used to do a version of their hub motor like that, maximum assist 11mph and loads of torque. Ezee too, with a version of their front hub motor Sprint step-through for shorter riders having 20" wheels instead of 26", so assist to 11.5 mph and better climbing. .

Yes, but like some of the weed and algae varieties on our inland waters now, it will go out of control and take over vast areas. Bringing key world shipping to a halt. We're very good at accidentally starting such endemics, but very poor at stopping them. .

Exactly. All that happened in the late 1980s and beginning of the '90s, but still they kept the Tories in power until 1997. And then who did the great British public choose? An obvious pseudo Tory, wealthy barrister Tony Blair. .

I paid £250 for mine 30 years ago. Beyer Dynamic DT990, still as good as the day I bought them. Still a current model but can be bought discounted now .

That's not how it works. The people learn that one young man, Mark Duggan, gets shot dead by police in Tottenham, and the mobs turn out over hundreds of square miles and riot in fury. They learn that very large numbers are dying from curable conditions, due to long waiting lists caused by a...

Depends on Truss going and how cleverly it's played. Some things do have legitimacy to justify austerity that the electorate can understand, so long as they are expressed with honesty and consistency: The scale of our national debt. The urgent needs of climate change correction. That blaming...

I'll take you up on that! Hunt or his policy revision will be staying, it's Truss who will be going. Remember, George Osborne as chancellor under Cameron lasted many years with an austerity program, since although they didn't like it, the electorate knew it made sense. Their mistake was in...

Very much my heart situation, though mine now in my late eighties is much further on, to the point where I now cannot cycle at all without triggering the same heart problem, even with e-assistance. My exercise now has to be limited to walking, and that now only in favourable circumstances, only...

The answer is in my sentence that you quoted, "I believe---". And the justification for that belief is also in my post, Germany has a very much higher rate of cycling than we have here in Britain, being Europe's number 2 cycling nation. That also carries over into e-biking, Germans buy...

Though the Tories are nervous about what yet another change of PM will look like, I can't see any way she will be leading the party into the next general election. .

I'm sure it will remain Hunt, a safe pair of hands who the market can trust. But Liz Trust needs to go as well, since the problems are entirely of her own making. If she had any decency when sacking Kwasi Kwarteng she would have immediately followed it with her own resignation. Having shown...

I wonder if Kwasi tried Sacha Baron Cohen's line on Liz: "Is it cos I'm black?" ;) .

I dont think so, cycling levels are very high in Germany, far higher than here. I believe they are referring to those who already cycled and switched to an e-bike, which as I showed in my post above can ruin cycling fitness. I see the main benefit of e-bikes is in tempting those who don't...

Or, since we need to make big savings, get rid of all the opposition and just have this government until the next election. They are all the opposition they'll ever need, even Liz Truss as PM is better opposition for herself than Keir Starmer. .

I doubt you have anything to worry about, the fully charged voltage difference between the two batteries has remained consistent at 0.5 volts and the 0.2 volts peak rise is unlikely to cause any damage. The identical small change on both batteries suggests you are simply experiencing mains...

Their key word is cyclists I think, since this very much lines up with my experience. As a keen cyclist riding up to 5000 miles a year I was very fit, though age at almost 70 was beginning to take its toll. Adopting an e-bike to help with that actually made things worse, since having the...

The reason is simple, canal and river barges are tightly linked to the housing market since so many live in them, so are stupidly overpriced accordingly. .