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Lots of bike bits as I wind up the last (hopefully!) set of mods.

Adjustable levers:



LED taillight and indicators:



New headlight bracket:

 

3 lots of fuel, for 3 cars at 3 different filling station across the country, no bother, no fuss.
Oh and I've spent way too much on bloody clothes.

 

Ooo interesting, we are considering one of these for our house in the not too distant future, let me know if you have any feedback.

 

Bought an old Lego Technic Dacta set from eBay. We used to have them in high school back in the day to learn about gears and pulleys and motors and the like. Apparently it has all the pieces but these things regularly have the string and rubber bands missing so we'll see when it arrives! I hoping my kids find it as interesting as I did.

1030-1 by veato posted 28 Sep 2021 at 18:13

 

memories!

 

The unvented hot water cylinder is in, will update when the shower is swapped over (it uses a different non-pumped shower controller) and that only arrives tomorrow.

So far pressure is really good on both hot and cold water.

If you got high enough pressure on the mains (1.5 bar) and decent flow around (20 l/min) then its the best option.

 

Oh my god. I know I used or owned one of those sets many many years ago, but I'll be damned if I can remember when!

 

Thats a full box of memories right there, its what got me into Lego/Technic to start with.

 

Oh that's awesome, I must admit I've never seen one of those despite being right in the age bracket where I should've used one at some point.

Are they telephone number silly prices now?

 

Five visits across three different filling stations over a 36 hour period to get diesel.

Sods law said this would happen at the end of the month when I need to fill up. The fuel range got down into single digits - squeaky bum time.

 

Finally caved in on M$ 365 Family...

My daughter was having trouble with an assignment last night, Office 2010 was playing up.

So, I'm on the subscription train now. £70, for 15 months is OK. I still don't like getting on that treadmill, but it fits the way we work now.
Cost looks better when you realise you get 1TB of One Drive for each of the 6 users, and someone won't be paying £7 a month for Dropbox any more!

 

I love my One Drive. Having everything sync across my devices is brilliant. And to think I was initially sceptical about cloud storage. Well, I mean everything is downloaded onto at least two hard drives daily (automatically), but still good.

 

Must admit, DropBox seems to be getting steadily more and more confusing to use, whereas OneDrive just gets more features that all just work.

The OneDrive phone app is superb for document scanning. Recognises the page you're taking a pic of and only captures the page, adjusts for perspective so your 'scan' is square, then it just appears in your sync folder.

 

This is good to hear. SWMOBO is the big dropbox user and finding it a bit opaque to sync. Will be happy with the cost saving too.

Win for doc scanning too? That is also welcome, as both of us are doing that semi regularly

Must look at how to sync one drive with local backup storage.

 

100MB FTTP broadband from Zen. Could of upgraded to 900MB in theory but didn't quite see the point when I've survived two years on 80 MB FTTC. At least once its installed it should be easy to chop and change to a faster package if I really 'need' something faster.

 

A wee pod, hopefully more pocketable when going out out, providing the battery has enough legs in it

 

Not putting files on them.

It turned out so great I ended up buying 6 more.

 

Mechanical keyboards have never really done it for me - I’ve tried all sorts of ones, pedestrian, high end, vintage and have never had the “need to get me one of these” moments. I’m pretty content with a high quality scissor key board.

And even then if I were to get a mechanical keyboard, at £205, (or even worse, £280 RRP), this iPad keyboard may well still be the most expensive. But it arrived today and it’s a lovely thing at least.