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Figured as much. I guess I'll just try to not lose the key then...

I've just been quoted north of £200 to get a spare remote key for my 2003 Citroen, and £70 for a spare without remote, by Timpson. The car cost me £300! Does anyone know of a cheaper way to get a spare key?

Ideally I'd get one with a remote as the boot doesn't have an exterior keyhole but I'd settle for just having a spare key full stop without paying £70...

It's a European hornet: https://www.bbka.org.uk/faqs/identifying-asian-hornet

In this case, there were builders in the back court and they propped the close door open. I was thinking the other day - are most bikes nicked from closes that have windows on the landings (as opposed to closes with skylights)?

I was in the Morrisons carpark at Crossmyloof the other day and when it's dark you can just see close landings with bikes on them up in the sky like illuminated advertising billboards.

I know people aren't doing much walking because of winter/lockdown but I thought I'd try here before classifieds: I've got a pair of Meindl Burma boots that I've never worn outside for sale.

https://meindl.de/product/burma-pro-mfs-en/?lang=en

They're size 10, which for Meindl is 44.5 - nothing wrong with them, but they were just a bit too small for me but I'd waited too long to return them. I've only worn them around the house to try and get used to them but eventually I conceded they were too small and bought the next size up. They've been in a cupboard for a couple of years and I don't have the box.

Would anyone be interested for £100 posted?

In order for this to not be just an ad, here's a couple of pics from Ben More (Mull) from September, just before the Scottish lockdown started, and Beinn Narnain in the mist in early October.

There's someone in the Physics and Astronomy dept at my university whose surname is Starshynov. He should be the protagonist of a 7os scifi where the Soviet Union has gone to space.

Update on this: the owner managed to get CCTV from the shop downstairs that showed the guy coming in and then leaving with the bike. The police recognised him and apparently have arrested him. Didn't get the bike back unfortunately.

Just opened a dispute with Wiggle regarding a Hermes package. They sent me an email confirmation that it was delivered (to my workplace which has a 24hr staffed desk and postroom), but nothing doing - until they sent me another notification two weeks later that it was ready for delivery, then delivered again. Still nothing doing.

Wiggle sent me a grandiose email saying that Hermes were going to launch a full investigation, search their stockroom, interview drivers etc - then when I completed the form that supposedly launches the investigation, they immediately offered me a full refund. Hermes are a joke.

Cheers, he's been recommended to us before and he's on our list of people to get quotes from.

Can I have your guy's number too? I'm in Glasgow and looking for a floor sanding quote atm.

Stolen yesterday from a close in Victoria Rd, my pal's 2018 Genesis CDA 20. Pretty stock except for some tape to stop the lock rubbing. If you see it around please stick a lock on it.

I'm tidying up the woodwork in my flat - we've got a lovely painted glass door panel that the pricks who previously owned the place got paint on because they didn't mask it. They definitely saved a lot of money on masking tape...

The glass is wavey so the old stanley blade scraper doesn't work so well - does anyone know of a good trick to remove paint from textured glass? Like is there a kind of non scratch metal wool that would do the trick?

Gone for these in the end: https://www.hokaoneone.eu/en/ie/men-trail/challenger-atr-5-gore-tex/1111990.html

I wish there were more Gore-tex trainers that didn't say GORE-TEX in giant text across the side. It rains all the time in Glasgow and waterproof trainers are actually useful here

Sapele is a kind of hardwood that is often used for parquet flooring. #mysterysolved #everyonecangohome

On a similar note (not aimed at you in particular @brokenbetty), there are a bunch of these in my flat - all painted over. Is there any easy way to tell if they're still live so I can remove them? Or do I just have to treat them as if they're live and turn off at the consumer unit then remove and make the cable ends loop?

Or just paint over them again in the new colour that we're doing...

Could I ask how much that disc tab cost? Might be tempted to do the same to my touring bike...

I used Enterprise Car Club for a while when I first got my licence - it's better than the main rental side of the business if you're doing short-ish trips or multiple trips within 24 hours, because their pricing (for a small car) is about £5 per hour up to 6 hours, but £30 max rental charge in a 24-hour period - so if you're going to book a car for 6 hours you may as well book it for 24 as there's no extra cost.

The only catch is that they charge for mileage too, but not much. I tended to get a car for day trips out of town, and we could come back late at night without worrying about returning it before the place closed, just take it back the next morning. Generally cost around £45 including mileage to get from Glasgow to the nearest national park - if you get 3 or 4 in the car it's cheaper than return train tickets an equivalent distance and we could get to hidden spots.

If trips out of town aren't an option or you don't want to drive for its own sake you could ring round local food banks and see if they need stuff collected/delivered...

We'd taken a few weeks off from the allotment and had assumed that everything would have stopped producing, and went to tidy up this weekend and found a bumper crop thanks to early-October Scottish sunshine! That cloth bag is also full of runner beans. The cucumbers are disappointingly bitter though - apparently a temperature thing. Will do them in a polytunnel if we try them again.

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That's interesting, normally you'd just have a mezuzah on the storm door so maybe at some point it was a lodging house. Our flat has marks on the bedroom doors that would indicate that they all locked separately at one point.

What neighbourhood are you in? Here in Pollokshields there are two old closed synagogues nearby (one on Nithsdale Rd, one on Niddrie Rd).

We've got a mate who does stained glass: https://pavilionpavilion.com/Coloured-Glass https://www.instagram.com/pavilionpavilion_/

He's based in Glasgow but is regularly in London to install. We've got a couple of internal windows and an internal door that he's done for us - can highly recommend Jack's work, his rates are good too (and not just for mates).

My parents have one of these in their back garden, a slightly larger model (4 windows on the front). They're very happy with it, my dad does bookbinding/paper conservation which uses temperature-sensitive materials (and is temperature-sensitive himself) and hasn't found it too bad. Important to situate it so the plate glass windows don't face full sun/sunset though.

Don't remember the exact price but it definitely was less than £14k a few years ago. I reckon with inflation/extra demand of covid times it could have gone up...

@russmeyer #rep

So we've had a plumber in to remove our leaky disaster of a shower, and hidden by the tray he's found... a live, broken plug socket. I emphasise leaky again: the reason we're redoing it is that water leaks down the side of the tray. Thank fuck noone died of electrocution.

The negligence of the previous owners has rendered us speechless, as has the fact that they received a letter of comfort from Glasgow City Council which said that they knew the work wasn't up to spec but they weren't going to insist on improvements.

Shouldn't that be 'It's Little Boy'