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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
A ray of light. I refused to believe something as good as this could just end. Massive props to the collective and rest assured I'll be upping my donation. If there is a way to swerve the PayPal fees I'm all ears too. Understand a decent chunk of my monthly is eroded by fees.
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Saw this and thought you. Well, actually - thought of my misses - but think she needs something a touch slacker. This is an early Solaris Max when the geo was more modern XC than modern Trail. Bargain at the mo.
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Hope no damage done. Bet your fingers and toes felt it. I had a short walk up St Martha's Hill and it was very frozen. Beautiful though.
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North downs have everything from sand, standard issue mud, claggy clay stuff and slidey chalk - so depending on your route, different bits will be different. Unless it stays sub zero in which case it might all be great, apart from the chalk which will still be slidey as fuck.
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However their actual fuel mix will likely be closer to UK Average.
Yep. Depends what your trying to say, but the electrons delivered to anyones house will be close to the regional average for that area. The supplier you chose will have no bearing on what comes through your wires.
This article puts some flesh on my points better. I doubt Tomato are investing in anything given how cheap their rates are - but I'd caution anyone to feel cozy about green tariffs. If you don't have your own renewables, the next best thing you can do to be green is use less, use it when it's cheap and vote for politicians who are pushing grid decarbonisation.
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Been bedlam out on our feeders today. The colder the weather the more visitors it seems. Here is where I'm at today:
Blue tits,
Great tits,
Coal tits,
House Sparrows
Dunnock
Robin
Female Greater Spotted Woodpecker
Parakeets
Female Blackcap
Blackbird
Starlings
Collard doves plus regular pigeons
Miscellaneous corvids and gulls on fly-bysMost pleased with the blackcap and strangely the house sparrows. We moved here early summer 24 and sparrows are something I've missed - but today is first day they've been here en-masse. Such a lovely racket they make. I've seen the blackcap around - but only worked out what it was today. Very smart grey thing with a russet brown cap. Only missing visitors are some semi regular long tailed tits and goldfinch which must be bothering someone else's feeder today.
The woodpecker should be star of the show, but they are a daily visitor and both the male and female hang around for ages on the feeder when they get started.
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All depends how much you think "green tariffs" are driving increased grid wide decarbonisation. While there may be some link to new renewable investment, most of that investment is on the basis of government policy (like CfDs) rather than consumer habits. Many green tariff are little more than REGO shuffling. The tomato tariff saves money by not bothering.
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Yeah, good point. Neat solution.
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So, is he using one of these, with a disk rotor in it for the rear brake?
https://problemsolversbike.com/products/cog-carrier
Brake doesnt work rolling backwards i guess, which is of little concern but will still be odd. Must put a fair bit of force through the freehub when you grab it though.
Am always amazed at how many cyclists i see coming through the pitch black of Richmond park with a proper strobe going on front and rear. Given there are no cars after dark and the park is otherwise a haven of tranquillity the one man disco is both blinding and baffling.