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Oh and finally, the oil money doesn't really touch any of this. That money is squirrelled away abroad for the long term.

And a cushion: Norway has been withdrawing from the pension fund to smooth the impact of Covid https://www.ipe.com/news/norway-takes-record-withdrawal-from-swf-in-revised-budget/10052707.article

No more than the UK surely? We just let successive governments sell it off cheap rather than investing in the population

Well yes, exactly. Norway isn't the UK.

Agree, it's possible to live like that, it doesn't make sense to just say 'oh well Norway's different, smaller population it'll never work here etc etc'.

I'm not saying the UK can't be better, but I think pointing at Norway and hand waving the differences away isn't making any case at all for how the UK gets there.

The fact that Norway has massive sovereign wealth due to their oil reserves probably helps a tad.

It's seen better days cosmetically but it's solid.

Asgard question....

This is my current store on its base.

The base has a brick border front and back. The concrete area is 80cm wide, and the bricks add 10cm to each side. The bricks stand about 5mm proud from the base

I want to replace the current store with an Asgard 4 bike store with is 95cm deep, so it would need to stand on the brick area front and back.

Is it practical to use my current base and pack the gap under the sides, or will I need to get a new base laid?

The other layer.

Would anyone like this collapsible bookcase?

It's actually 3 layer but the top glass has cracked. You could replace the glass, put a solid panel in, or just use it as 2 layers.

As you can see it's very scruffy and split. The dismantled parts are a good indication of general condition.

The good things about it are: once assembled it is solid because the parts are weighty and the fittings are cast iron. It has bags of character. It's easy to take when you move because it's designed to come apart into flat pieces. Genuinely if we still had space for it we'd keep it.

I suspect its next journey will be to the tip, but thought I'd give it one last chance to survive.

Collect N15, or I can deliver N15/16/17/4

Ah bugger I'm off work this week, 19th was the first day back. I'll have to break my "no logging in on holiday" rule and shift a bunch of meetings while there's still some gaps next week.

Thinking about it, she's also provided a thread of continuity for world leaders as well. One person with access to a huge number of leaders and life experience going right back to the second world war.

More likely to be the other way surely? If the party you support is in power, they win elections. Democracy looks good to you. If the party you support never gets in, maybe democracy seems like a bit of a disappointment, or maybe like a good idea in theory but not with the current electorate.

If you are buying a bath to fit a tall person but you have a small partner, be aware that a too-long bath isn't great either.

I got a 1700 long bette and have to use an old lady bathmat to stop me sliding underwater. With hindsight should have got either a shorter bath or a double-ended one like t.o. posted.

That's cheered me up after a grotty day :D

Why an investment trust specifically? (Just out of interest)

My garden is horrible this year. Everything grows but badly and infected by pests, fungi or both. It's like the horticultural version of Royston Vasey. (The fictional town not the comedian).

I think either the apple tree is just too big for the space and its suffering is bringing the rest down, or the compost has become evil, or both.

Mini bank holiday project - I stripped the axle thread on my velosteel coaster back in May, making my usual commuting bike unrideable. I've had a replacement hub sitting around for ages but no time or space to fit it until today. I left the shell in and just swapped the guts over, shifting the hub on the axle as well so the wheel sits more centrally. Still got to replace the bar tape but should be an easy job sometime this week then finally I can ride to work with a bit of oomph.

Well I'm totally confused by the last page or so. Which picture is the current active tag?

Back in the 30s my granddad had a German pen pal. They would both have been early teens I think. They only exchanged a few letters but Mum still has them (they are in English) and they mention in passing about being part of Hitler youth and how good Mr Hitler is for the country.

Probably not much help, but I got a sofabed from Tesco in the 90s that's been the everyday sofa for about 25 years and still going strong. The delivery guys told me it was a good brand resold by Tesco. I'll see if I can find any label to see who made it.

I need to increase exterior bike storage. The blocker on getting a bigger shed is a flower bed with mature shrubs that limits the space to access and manoeuvre bikes in and out so I'm wondering about taking out a bit of the front wall and getting an end-access bike store.

Is there any legal/planning or practical reason I shouldn't have a bike store in the front garden that opens onto the pavement?

I realise it'll be a little less secure, but since the last time someone broke into the bike shed they didn't think there was anything worth nicking I'm reasonably relaxed about that.

I have this to give away. Fresh ink cartridges and all seems to work. My mum used it for printing A3 maps for walking with but now apparently only walks as far as fits on A4

https://www.brother.co.uk/printers/inkjet-printers/mfcj6530dw

Can deliver in Tottenham/ Stamford Hill/Finsbury Park/Harringay/Hornsey area

Given the number of investment scandals in the 80s and 90s (Allied Dunbar, Equitable Life, endowment mortgages etc etc), as well as the performance of property over that time period (particularly the golden years of BTL under Blair) I do understand it.

Property going up and trad pensions failing are two sides of the same falling interest rates coin. Pisses me off when boomers* (no, I'm not one despite how it looks to young-uns) complain about the latter without acknowledging they also benefitted from the same mechanism via property. Thinking they could have had both is having your cake and eating it.

.* the ones that own property anyway

I have an offcut slab of gey/white Carrara marble 1700 * 1800 * 20 mm. The snag is it has to be collected from Hatfield this week.

Anyone need marble and fancy doing a deal?

I am going to see if anyone on the Kitchens thread fancies it! But current marble trends are for lots of "movement" and this is just boring old grey/white carrara

It's not a piece cut to size, it's the offcut of a slab I bought, which my actual worktops have used less than half of, which I had to pay for in full, which the worktop company tell me is not, in fact, my slab, I just bought it for them. But I can have it if I collect it this week. And right now I'm feeling bloody minded enough to get it even if it will be in several pieces.

I find myself in the unexpected position of having to collect a slab of marble from the Hemel Hempstead area by the end of the week. I'm a 5'2" middle aged female person. My car is a Vauxhall Meriva. The slab is 1700 x 1800 x 20 mm and weighs about 160Kg. These facts will not work well together.

Has anyone got any suggestions / recommendations for marble slab moving services or very strong men with very strong vans?

https://www.corwell.co.uk/

Was a recommendation from this thread!

Be warned, they are not cheap. But they did do an amazing job.