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Yeah I popped over to it this afternoon about 2ish, and there were about 6-9 people there, couple of women, some older guys, but as I was leaving after having a look around about 5-6 young guys came hooning over on hire bikes, so could imagine at certain points during the day it could get a bit close proximity wise.

Missus wants to practice her roller skating so may do a morning thing, in the holidays as a family, get out the door for 9.30ish, stay there to about 11. Then head off for lunch and gelato, do that a couple of mornings a week, hopefully he’s comfortable in his surroundings to not get freaked out when it gets busier

You need an m2 nvme enclosure, I usually use the ugreen ones, but you can find loads for under £20, just need to double check the pins to make sure your ssd will fit.

BiL took jnr to clapham common skate park on sunday. Jnr was a bit intimidated by the older skaters. They've always had a bit of an issue with engaging with other kids in and around equipment they want to use. Usually takes them a while to warm to, get comfortable with those types of situations, as well as to overcome their inhibitions about not "being good enough".

I'm planning on taking them back there during the summer holidays, probably during the day midweek so there aren't so many older kids/skaters there, and they can pootle, make mistakes, figure out where they like to be, need to get better etc. But as I'll be probably figuring out how to navigate the park myself any tips on anything else I can do to get a 6yr old more comfortable at the skate park?

how else are you gonna figure out what is not ripe enough, too ripe, just right?

there is a desktop version of whatsapp but it links to a phone, and every so often you have to reverify it using your phone (smartphone). Might be easier if you get an ipad with a sim card to run whatsapp, banking stuff on, and then a "dumb" phone for everything else.
Or use the sim ipad as the "phone" for whatsapp and then only have it on the desktop. Be aware you can't make any calls using the desktop version of whatsapp, just message..

yeah which is why I say it's complicated, quie interesting to see who gets to impersonate who and not catch flak for it, probably depends on how racially diverse your audience is I suppose.

Fonehacker guy was Asian/iranian so slightly more complicated than your normal Caucasian black face/voice

Jnr’s board is squeaking and not rolling for very long. With the recent wet weather they’ve been doing some rolling through puddles.
I’m thinking it may need new bearings or maybe a service of the current ones.
Gonna pop into local skate shop this afternoon for their opinion but thought I’d ask here first. Thoughts?

I was hoping to just throw some oil at rusty bits to take the squeak away, but think that’s not going to do much

That’s fair enough, you know people who’ve lost their Brompton’s locking them up for a “little bit”, I know people who’ve owned and locked for years and their bikes always been there when they return, but the major point I’m trying to make stands, if your fear of losing your bike stops you from using it as much or as often, or as widely as you’d like, you lose the majority of the benefits of riding a bike/brompton.

We all know people who’ve lost bikes, bikes they’ve loved and slaved over, but often the voices saying you can’t lock your bike here, or there, or anywhere because it’ll get nicked are the loudest and skew massively the perception of how, where and when you can use a bike.
Yes losing a bike is shit! But the possibility of having your bike stolen is part and parcel of riding one, I wish it wasn’t, but whether for a Brompton or any other bike, the risk vs reward ratio shouldn’t be so tilted as to make the possibility that it will be stolen one of the first things that you need to tell people when they’re making a decision about purchasing one or using one.

Kemi and Kwasi, as much as I dislike them, are certainly in the same position as Diane, but without the history of competence and community engagement that she has as an mp, which would make you do a double take at their treatment.
But there is also a major class component (as in feeling closer to boris then Diane) with the majority of the black/asian conservative mps, which makes it difficult to sympathise with or generate support from the community for them.

Gary Younge from 6yrs ago.
“Black women don’t get to make light of their gaffe-making, impulsive remarks or off-colour comments. They don’t get to have bad days. Anything short of exemplary personal behaviour would result in public retribution & humiliation.” And here we are.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/02/boris-johnson-white-privilege-black-woman

Hard disagree, how is bringing a wet Brompton into a place any different from bringing in a wet suitcase?
Why would you carry around a bag to put your Brompton in?
You ask them to put it somewhere out of the way and crack on, or you carry it around with you.

Also I occasionally carry a lock around with me and lock up Brompton, as I would any of my other bikes, yeah the fear of it being stolen is real, but it’s the same fear I get whenever I lock up any of my bikes.

Bikes are transportation, if the fear of locking up a bike and the faff around not wanting to lock it up, always being around it/close to it, outweighs the convenience of using it to get from point a to point b, then there’s not much point in having one.

yeah, did a semi off road/bridleway/camping tour for a stag do recently on the brompton, was slightly nerve wracking with the small tyres, but would do again.
Thinking of doing london to paris for the tour de france on a brompton, staying at some chi chi bnb's along the way, and then using the brompton to potter around the arrondisment for the long weekend, and then eurostar it back, though the eurostar bit might get a bit annoying, but could see myself doing more city break touring on one.

Question is what do you mean when you say “only bike” Is your wife wanting to do distance? Go fast? Commute? Touring?

I denied brompton’s for a long time, then got one when my missus got pregnant and the thought of an hour long commute back from work wasn’t as appealing. Since then it’s been a game changer, probably my most used bike after dad bike. It’s so versatile. And if someone is getting a bike I usually recommend a Brompton over a full size thing. Just because being able to fold it and dump it in a taxi/bus/train, being able to not worry about locking it up as you just fold it and bring it inside with you, takes away a lot of the stress of bike ownership, especially in london.
You can do a bit of everything on it (though I wouldn’t advise gravel or off roading) and you just have to suck up the initial expense of it, and the cost of tweaking to make it lighter/more adapted to your needs, but when you get past that, if you click with it (ie it’s your decision no ones pressuring you into it, you get used to the weight of lifting it, the benefits of having it become clear) it’s the bike which will stay with you for a good long while.
And as @C4r1s says having a bag which is large enough to do impromptu shops is a blessing..

As @Mr_Smyth says get yourself a portfolio site up and running with the best bits of work you’ve done, and direct anything and everything to that, mine is through Fabrik.io, it’s got piss easy integration with Vimeo and YouTube and other social media sites where you may have posted work before, have a look at yunojuno as a way of getting some initial freelance work, and obviously LinkedIn to start and widen that network.

Looking to get back into the sourdough game, spending too much weekly on bread from Gail’s. Anyone willing to part with some active starter so I don’t have to spend a couple of weeks making one from scratch?
Based in SW london but can travel with jar to collect.
Thanks

Has this been posted yet? Popped up on my Instagram feed
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7XeFPpMG­uZ/?igsh=YTR1Ymxvc25lYW95

Has this been posted yet? Popped up on my Instagram feed
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7XeFPpMGuZ/?igsh=YTR1Ymxvc25lYW95

I’m considering swapping from Vimeo to something else for hosting videos on. Have used frame.io for a couple of projects, usually from client end, so uploading video to it so they can then feedback on.
My portfolio is a fabrik one, so it has easy integration with Vimeo, one of the reasons I haven’t moved away from it. But not sure how long my loyalty/inertia will last..

Trying my hand at this “Summer souls”
https://youtu.be/neIyeDwybIU?si=8tTATEIIOk3fd9Ms

as the demo’s just dropped on the ps store.
I have no idea what I’m doing, no stamina, big sword, and haven’t figured out how to parry properly. Real challenge to not just mash all the buttons at once, to KILL EVERYTHING ..

https://youtu.be/qEdop3Wc-jc?si=0-qYarXsAJ-rJU5Y

Was watching streamer playing hades 2 (already had hades as a favourite in PlayStation store, just never got round to buying) and thought i should buy the first to see what all the excitement was about, then saw it wasn’t discounted currently and thought ill wait until it is. I’d say I should have it and be not playing it by September..

Sure I’ll take them. Sent you a pm.

I would have been interested but ride concepts are on sale currently through sports direct/ Evans and house of Fraser (basically all the Mike Ashley businesses)

You can ask in here,
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/168855/

But £500 is super cheap for a Brompton
£600 - £800 is the going rate for one, where you’d feel you got a good deal, and even then you’ll be scouring eBay looking for one that other bidders overlook or needs some work..

Good luck with the search