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If I could spend a few days in the garden, guaranteed dry weather, timber delivered, then I might have a go doing it myself. In fact, I'd enjoy doing so. But when I take everything into account, it is much less appealing. First - although we do have garage, it is not suited to cutting large...

Some years ago there was some publicity given to the concept that if you can shift your commute a bit, maybe an hour, the percentage of days on which you would have to ride in the rain is actually quite low. Since commuting myself, despite not having much flexibility, I have perceived the need...

Do I actually have to use an iPad in order to use that excuse? Or can I just quote the "ianboydsnrv defence" regardless the machine actually used?

Good thought! But ianboydsnr has clarified now and, if it had been that, well, it was copied and pasted. :)

I think I'm being dense, why did ianboydsnr give this post a Bad Spelling? Surely not the non-capitalisation of Armageddon? - which was pasted directly so hardly my mistake.

Having always been extremely unathletic, one memorable PE report saying "tries hard despite limited ability", my teens were spent hoping that NS would disappear and not come back. I was scared stiff of having to go through even the most basic training and utterly failing. (It is also that...

The Guardian/Observer has posted this gentle reminder... Government plays down Brexit 'armageddon' fears Leaked Whitehall advice had warned of food, fuel and medication shortages The government has sought to play down the risks of a “no deal” Brexit after leaked advice from Whitehall warned...

Have just been discussing the sense in moving my bike from the garage into a shed of some sort. It would certainly make the garage a bit easier to use and navigate. Especially with the possibility of having a second ebike in the near future... For clarity, we live in a very safe area...

A grain is a small measurement (about 65 milligrams in weight) contrasted with the tonnes of baloney and utter falsehood issued by same people. Also he is so very far from disinterested: Crispin Odey amasses large bet against UK government debt British hedge fund manager targets weaker...

Crispin Odey (doesn't look a very Russian name, but what do I know?)

Replace May with Gove to sort out Brexit, Tory donor urges Government should be bolder in talks with Brussels, Leave campaign backer claims Michael Gove should be installed as the new Tory leader because Theresa May has shown that she cannot “carry Brexit through”, a major party donor has...

At least one of the Motus models actually has the Active Line Plus (the Grand Tour models, at least). You comments might still apply! Or not?

Regardless of income? So someone surviving on benefits (e.g. unable to work at all) would have to pay income tax? (Even if that is offset by the universal income.) Any idea of a minimum income tax rate has to put a context. Further, we need to ensure that living on, for example, profits...

The only possibly answer, it seems to me, is a resounding: Yes!

Flying Scotsman steam sets off London Victoria fire alarm https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44324691 Steam power causes lots of problems! :)

The new Motus we are looking at is actually not the bottom Bosch, but the next one up, the Active Line Plus. :) Definitely do not want derailleur. For someone who has never knowingly used gears on a bike, hub gears are the way to go, I think. Trouble with test ride is that the new model is not...

Wasn't reduced red tape one of the aims of Brexit? (Of course, it is always the aim of so many - especially certain parts of the political spectrum - who then discover that achieving it is difficult to impossible.) Doesn't abiding by two sets of regulations necessarily make it massively more...

Mi Band 3 now announced: https://www.techradar.com/news/xiaomi-mi-band-3-news Price looks good! Availability to the UK? - no idea.

Resonates like last orders in a pub full of thirsty people. Oh yes - we have refused the lock-in.

My first reaction to most stories now is to ask, Cui bono? ("to whom is it a benefit?") I agree journalists don't think that they will now speak for the establishment. All too often, they fail to think. Story after story is barely re-hash, more a simple copy and paste, of press releases or...