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Nice. What is the shower lined with? Always thought it is fucking daft to have mould-loving grout in a shower...

These are absolutely cracking lenses - got the AF-S version of this. It's bonkers sharp even wide open. Bargain.

Baguette, crispy smoked bacon, ripe brie, mango chutney - tomatoes optional.

If I was a student I'd be thinking about the massively increased value proposition of a used machine right now, not about spending north of £3k on a laptop that does the same thing but fractionally faster. Yes there will be some use cases which legit benefit from the improvements, but goodness me that's a lot of money.

It's probably not as explicitly and vilely expressed, but there is certainly an underlying suspicion of difference among certain people in some villages and towns of rural England. With terrible (and deteriorating) rural bus services, people on low incomes or jobless and without a car are seriously isolated. My mum, a retired teacher, regularly met kids who had never left the county - sometimes never even been to Cambridge just a few miles away. Easy to forget when you a baller.

My parents use a painter and decorator from a nearby town. He was working on a window frame outside their house. Their cleaner - an ostensibly lovely women well into her 80s - rushed in an exclaimed, "Dave, there's a black man up a ladder outside!". Was she suspicious of him? Dunno, but the mere fact she mentioned his skin colour goes to show that seeing not-white people is still a novelty in some places.

Knowing what we know now, we would have traded space for location and moved either to a town or a village with a train station.

I wasn't so lucky in the end: cut-off date is either four years after manufacture or maybe purchase date (mine was April 2014) or two years from when the recall announcement was in 2015. So no joy for me, but the issue is pretty much confined to the top-left bezel. Maybe I will rue my decision but I settled for 10% back from the seller.

I'm not bothered by people wanting out of the EU if they have arguments that stand up to enquiry - or at least aren't entirely false/racist; that's certainly the case around here. And having been quite shocked at the vitriol aimed at the travelling community, I'm starting to understand why (intimidation, sometimes violence, always a fuck-ton of rubbish abandoned). I'll be doing the open gardens before long at this rate.

The wife and I have thrown ourselves into village life. I'm heavily involved with the local residents' group; she's on the PTA. We are not unhappy by any means. But after two-and-a-bit years here, I'm disappointed that we so often find ourselves feeling a bit out of place and wonder if that will ever go away.

As I say, there are clearly loads of benefits of not-London; trying to weigh them up against what's been lost (identity, culture etc) is the hard bit.

I've posited to Mrs2wheels that we're perhaps just in the wrong bit of not-London. Thing is, once you have kids and they are at a school (which they love and can't bear the idea of leaving) it becomes much harder to test the waters elsewhere until you find your place.

There's just so much less friendliness or desire to get to know people here, in my experience; more of a cult of the individual, or family at least, maybe down to everyone having a garden and not congregating in the lovely local parks which litter London. Also the unutterably shit public transport, which of course you come to take for granted in a city. Again, that brings people of all backgrounds together and quietly creates a sense of community and acceptance of difference. Here, everyone gets in their car to do anything.

We also have a lovely big house, garage and garden which is well in excess of what we could move back to - not to mention a smaller mortgage.

Got kids? If so, how did they manage with the changes?

So much this. Wife and I feeling really torn after a weekend in the smoke - not for the first time. There is so much to like about where we are now (south Cambs) - great school on the doorstep, endless countryside, wildlife, family nearby - but it's all just so homogeneous. Can count the number of people we've met and really gel with (Hi Sam!) on the fingers of the hand of my former woodwork teacher.

It's very hard to articulate without sounding snobby or self-important, but there's something very different about people who've never lived in a big city, particularly one as diverse as London. Maybe it's not about that, rather that those we live near now just haven't had the same interests and experiences growing up, but the London thing has become my reference point.

Then I think of my former commute down the Old Kent Road and think I'm being daft.

Anyone on this thread regretted their move so much that they've done a reversy percy?

Does anyone have experience with data recovery or directory repair tools such as DiskWarrior or Disk Drill? Got an external drive with 1.5TB of data on which won't mount, so disk Utility can't repair it. Done a scan with the free version of Disk Drill and the data's there, so wondering whether to upgrade so I can recover it - or whether DiskWarrior's partition wizardry is the better approach.

Yeah, cos this is the finished bike.

Finally getting around to doing something with this frame. Could not get these fucking Hutchison tubeless tyres to seat for love nor money so put tubes in to see if that helps the bead to sit against the rims. Got some old XT cranks, derailleur, cassette, cantis, bar end shifter. Quite a parts bin build to see if I like the frame first. Lovely colour, though, and that's the most important part, right?

That's reasonable for that quality of carpet. Obvs depends entirely on dimensions but we paid about £4k all in for 2 big rooms (30m2 each), a smaller room and a long hallway. 60oz 80/20 hobby with top-end felt and rubber underlay, fitting, threshold bars etc. Worth spending on quality, I reckon - still looked great after 4 years and 2 young kids.

@dammit @laurenced - you both have a Fuji 23mm f2 for sale I see. How much do you each want?

Very easy with focus peaking. I'm pricing up postage to Europe currently. Will keep you in mind.

I've got a Genius Bar appt this Friday; the recall period for the 2013 models ends in July, so I am scraping in but hoping it will be replaced. From what I've heard, they do a full shakedown of the machine and replace other bits with issues gratis at the same time. Not getting my hopes up, but I've got my hopes up.

You're in luck! Free replacement period has been extended to 4 years from the model discontinue date - so you should be okay. Call Apple or do a live chat and book an appt at your local genius bar.

Anyone got some old, unwanted RAM sticks lying around which they want to sell for cheap? Looking for 2 x 4GB 1066 DDR3 for the iMac I'm selling upthread.

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Yes but have you experienced this, though. The screen issue, not an assault with frozen sausages.

Hmmm, having now inspected this used MacBook in a sunny room, I see that the screen is displaying what I think might be the retina coating issue I've read about. Anyone seen this on their machine? Apart from on the bezel it's not at all visible when the screen's on but I'm concerned it might worsen. eBay seller is amenable to a discussion later. Trying to work out what my position should be.