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Got the same reply. Posting my card tonight, and have asked them to delete everything they know about me per UK GDPR art 17 “right to erasure”

winter cycle outside in the rain all day setup […] Jeans / lined jeans / shorts

Cycling all day in the wet in jeans sounds horrible

I had a super crop from some “facing heaven” in pots outside.

Going to cancel my membership and put some of these stickers on my Brompton. What a bunch of idiots.

British Cycling now sponsored by Shell. Until 2030. Cancelling my membership.

Edit: see “British Cycling being embarrassing, obsequious idiots” thread & Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives for merch including waterproof vinyl stickers

Filled the last of the bags we’ve been offered, the 7th I think—“community payback” drag them to be taken off by the council. Apparently we’re allowed a fire once a year on Nov 5th, so that’ll hopefully see off the pile of bramble stems. Some onions have gone in, next steps are putting some anti-weed cover down & more rooting (tubering?) out of couch grass. Will take a normal hoe down for weeding next visit too.

Consumables?—solder, flux, sanding cloth, mask. Feed the parking meter?

Hard to make that come to £90. Perhaps ask for itemised bill?

intensive study period of the ceiling tiles

I used to love going to the Barber-Surgeons’ hall—a great ceiling there & a fine tradition of blood-letting. Can’t give blood any more for medical reasons, which I feel sad about.

Edit: found a photo

I can’t stop looking

Ink caps are very tasty before they become inky.

Yeah, a van on the street would have to be taxed. I doubt that you’ll get away with constructing something for long unless the council are OK with it. Talk to your local councillor?

Buy an old van?

Rosie Holt

Remarkable reporting from the NY Times from the early days of the war: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/28/world/europe/russian-soldiers-phone-calls-ukraine.html

I would like a laptop that can simultaneously run Teams w/ video meeting, VS Code w/ Live Share, a few low-CPU Docker containers and a 4K monitor without the fans going non-stop. Is that a given with any M1/2 laptop these days? Not very old faithful is brought to its knees by Teams

They are indeed in there, in PDF form.

Edit: at least 1878—1900 and 1946—1949. The naming scheme is questionable, and it’s a Google drive so not super easy to navigate on a phone…

credit karma

Use a disposable email address for them, they send lots of unstoppable “service emails” pushing their mobile clients etc.

…picture taken by a passenger, I hope.

Nowhere near that old—the former Nicholson gin distillery, grade II listed 1972, List Entry Number: 1208769:

J&W Nicholson was a London based gin distiller and m c.1808-9 set up their business in Woodbridge Street, London. The business quickly expanded and in 1828 a new complex of buildings was erected on St John Street. Gin distilling was an essential trade in 19th century London and was particularly concentrated in Finsbury.
The former Nicholson's Gin Factory comprises Nos. 187-211 and was built in stages. The northern section was constructed in 1828 with piecemeal development continuing the site until 1894. […] The buildings were designed as offices and were intended to have a friendlier style in yellow and brick stonework. The facade is described in Pevsner's, The Buildings of England: London 4: North, as 'architecturally prominent'.
[…] Nicholson's Distillery closed in the late 1950s, and in the late 1990s was partially rebuilt and converted to apartments. The Facade dates partly from 1828 but is mainly of later nineteenth century origin. Nicholson's remained a family business until after the Second World War, but following its takeover by the lnd Coope group, the whole of the Clerkenwell premises was put up for sale in 1961. Contemporary photographs recorded unremarkable industrial interiors. After this date, the buildings were occupied mainly by firms in the meat trade.

The rubber is gradually oxidising, I wouldn't worry about it. Edit: better explanation

Distiller claims to be London’s oldest gin—1736

Busy day trying to ignore our national parasite problem. Just about finished digging out the brambles, anti-weed membrane, rotten carpet, extremely annoying weed barrier stuff (like a 30cm wide strip of lino buried lengthwise, zero discernible effect on weeds), defunct fence etc etc. Filled four of those massive builders bags so far and have a large pile, got about another four—six bags to go I reckon.

Couch grass is everywhere and roots v deep, a healthy bindweed and nettle patch mingled with plastic carpet remnants at the back.

Big shout out for (Chillington) digging hoes; bought one for the job, and it has been ace. Also a bastard file to keep it sharp because there are stones everywhere.

I’m all for blitzing the whole thing with glyphosate on a calm early spring day, but we’re going to try “mulch organic”. Hopefully more manageable than trying to sort out 100+ m² of cardboard; ~6km to the allotment, no car, and no bastard plastic from tape used to make up boxes, have picked out so so much of that.

Found a dozen wild spuds, so have already had a mini-harvest.

Any seeds that aren’t from an F1 hybrid plant are worth a try.

First proper harvest this year (have been picking on demand for ages)

It wasn’t the Gordon’s distillery