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Worked it out. How were security about you taking photos late at night??
I think you may have to come back to Bristol for your tagging-of-every-single-bike-tag to be valid. Your 'Bristol' tag in fact belongs in South Gloucestershire Bike Tag
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Hauntology
Entirely in keeping with Derrida for you to use this to mean whatever you want it to mean
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Not a single one, I don't think
I'd probably go for 'false nostalgia'
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Valerian grows exceptionally easily in the garden in the UK
https://www.claireaustin-hardyplants.co.uk/products/valeriana-officinalisYou want that species not centranthus ruber (red valerian)
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samphire
Here's the page from Jekka's 100 herbs to grow book (fabulous book btw). it doesn't mention normal salt (apart from when cooking) but it does say about horticultural epsom salts
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Pricey but I got one of these and it's extraordinarily good. Goes through a branch as thick as your upper arm in seconds
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This is now approaching its final form, and feeling much better with new drivetrain, hoses & cables. Tubeless installed - a first for me - and it does immediately feel extremely supple, which is nice, albeit I'm not sure yet how well it's holding air, obvs a must on an everyday utility bike.
But by far the biggest improvement is, for the first time, mudguards that don't rattle on every bump, which had been really upsetting my zen. I can now see I haven't got the curve quite right yet, mind
Last thing on the wish list is a Brooks B17, always fancied trying one and this feels like the right bike for it
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I'll have to see how I get on with it
Agreed that adding the plug was fun and easy and I'd much rather be doing that on the roadside than changing a tube
Overnight both tyres dropped to 20psi, so not flat but about half what they need to be able to hold. Hopefully that was a one time thing while the sealant gets to where it needs to go, and does its thing, rather than something that's gonna happen every night
Any clever solutions for storing a kids bike (14 inch wheels) inside, taking up as little space as possible?
At the moment I am wedging the handlebars in between the newel posts on the stairs, so it's at least not right in the middle of the hallway, but it's not as out of the way or as secure as I'd like