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Onion smell deters rodents I guess?

Ok cool - will have a browse.

@Nef, to be fair I've only ordered once or twice from YB but of those I tried, theiroast for filter was slightly darker than coffees I buy in London (e.g. workshop). Obviously not espresso dark, but just a bit more than I like

What's the roast style like - I always found YB slightly darker than my preference (same with dark arts + Monmouth); are JG similar / lighter or does it depend?

This is amazing

Oh yeah completely - I was being pretty flippant when I said I might be better off if hurt, I know I am really lucky!

I'll get it sorted and I'm also pretty lucky in that I'm not screwed even if I didn't manage to get the bike replaced, I can ride a different bike.

Thanks! Yeah a bit scary as there was nothing I could do - but just grateful I'm not hurt (even if it now seems like I'd have been better off if I had any kind of injury, however mild!)

Good shout - I've left a message and hopefully they can help

Good point - I have LCC, I guess does their liability insurance also extend to claiming against a driver's insurance?

So - I was rear ended on Saturday. Thankfully I seem to be unharmed but the car (driving above speed limit through a zebra crossing that I'd stopped at) smashed up the rear end of my Mason Definition - so wheel, rear mech + frame at a minimum are gone.

Driver admits fault and we have a witness (off duty policeman who is willing to give a witness statement). However - solicitors won't take a no win no fee case if no personal injury element, and I seem to be fine, thankfully. So how do I claim my loss - I guess I have to get in touch with their insurance direct?

True, but it would still be a good thing to have even if supply is sorted. Which I think will always be something of a challenge - we'll never want to build absolutely everywhere so supply will always be to some extent constrained

Hand wash, as infrequently as you can get away with. I was once told to use shampoo not detergent, which seems to work ok

That's my experience too, but the jeans I got from them via TK maxx don't really seem to be quite as well made as the older stuff. I wonder if they use different suppliers / the cheaper stuff is what ends up going to the outlet sellers?

Pope outfit is the winner for me

Yeah it should, but should probably work in the CD / tuner inputs too. I'd try it in each one to make sure there's no issue with channels not working, and if you can try to run something you know works through those same channels to rule out faults in the amp

Not exactly answering your question but I had the one which you'll no doubt find on all your searches for 5 years (and it wasn't new when we got it) and no issues whatsoever

Yeah fair point, I can see a lot of "it depends" to the calculation

When I've read about it the suggestion was that ferries were lower emissions per kg of load carried, but I'm not claiming to be an expert so happy to be corrected.

E.g. I'd seen comments such as this:

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-can-carbon-emissions-freight-be-reduced

Which suggests the road component of freight delivery can be 100 x the emissions of the sea part.

Environmentally this probably is a benefit, isn't it, if it means trucks off the roads?

(Not that I think it is worth it for all the other Brexit issues)

40mins at 190c for med-rare

You might be right but I'd be nervous with that high a temp and would deffo be doing reverse sear at a lower temp to reduce the risk of getting it wrong! Even with a thermometer there's a risk given temps will keep rising internally for a bit as it rests

They might be slightly on the young side but hever castle is a classic kids day trip?

Haven't seen one specifically and don't know what you're aiming for on budget but that style looks quite like Oliver Spencer to me - might be worth looking there to see?

I'm just not sure it's that simple - I'd need somewhere for the pump to go, plus I think leaky semi will be worse than terrace (one more exterior wall), and upgrading rads won't be cheap itself - we have what, 10 across the house, and they're all big? Plus pipework is relatively narrow stuff so I may need to upgrade that between the rads too.

I don't want to rule it out but I don't really buy the idea it won't be a lot more expensive to make it work adequately

Yep agree go big seems worthwhile...

The only other thing I'm thinking is pipe size from heat pump - seems to be larger bore than typical heating pumps so will need to work out how it gets from where the pump would be to the cylinder (or at least, think about access when we decide where to put the cylinder)

Exactly what I needed to hear, cheers!

Now to work out what "big enough" means...

Advice needed - we need to replace the boiler in our 1920s (not v well insulated) semi.

All plumbers we've spoken to say we replace with gas at this stage and from a pure usability perspective we probably want an invented cylinder.

I don't think we have money to insulate the whole house well enough to go heat pump at this stage, but I don't want to shell out a tonne and make it more difficult to do that in the future - if we go with the plumbers recco and put an unvented cylinder in the loft, is this going to make it a massive pain to sub in a heat pump later? I guess yes, but what is the alternative if the building is too leaky for a heat pump to really work at the moment?