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Yup, shade, poor drainage and heavy use (including pets, paddling pools etc.) make many small lawns far more hassle than they're worth.

Both our neighbours gardens hold water when we have a heavy downpour, no such issues with my devil lawn.

@jono84 I'm trying to work out if that's a good thing. Lawns being waterlogged makes maintaining a lawn very difficult, but it suggests that the water is at least being held before percolating slowly downwards. Fake grass drains really well, which could mean that the water gets into the subsoil quite quickly. I don't know whether that's good or bad, but it's obviously 100% better than paving, which has instantaneous runoff.

Plastic grass is... removing natural water retention in soils and aiding flooding

As noted before, this is somewhat misleading.

Middle class men, who control this group, have an ideal stereotype of a woman - normally blond, white and with good teeth.

Please do fuck all the way off. If you're going to start from lazy, tedious, creepy, and vaguely insulting generalisations like that then you're only ever going to produce bullshit.

When I see articles praising the heroism, virtue or sanctity of these women, I often question what's going on beneath the surface, and sometime post them here.

The vast majority of the "posh bird" articles that you've so assiduously shared here are in the format: person with direct, personal experience of a problem relates their experience. It's been explained to you that that's how a huge amount of journalism works.

Today's example is a story about an incident that happened in the London Borough of Newham, one of the most deprived and ethnically diverse areas on London. The Guardian however featured an article written by a white guy centred on a white couple who look like they've just walked straight out of a Persil commercial.

How dare they be clean! More to the point, the incident took place in a specific building (managed by a cross-borough company) to a relatively small number of people, who may or may not be local. I've swum in that pool with kids and I lived on the opposite side of London. The relevance of it to the Newham as a whole is hardly a key feature of the incident, it's a human interest story, not a local community issue.

This has been discussed before, but I'm really not sure about an outright ban on artificial grass. We had some in our last place and it constituted about 2 x 3m of a garden that was roughly 5 x 10m, the rest was trees, raised beds, flowerbeds pots and some patio. We'd tried to maintain a lawn and it wasn't sustainable, so our options for that area, in order to make it something we could actually use, was paving or artificial grass. Given that we lived in an area of London that had increasingly regular flooding problems, impermeable slabs didn't seem like a very friendly option and if fake grass looks shit so does having a garden that looks like a car park (like some of our neighbours' did).

I think there's a strong case to be made for garden designers to move away from it and to find other ways of discouraging its use, but pretending that everyone is making a choice between artificial grass and a bee-friendly flower meadow is pretty unrealistic.

8mm no? It's a hex/Allen embiggener (rather than a socket) to fit on the end of a 6mm hex key to enable you to tighten up crank bolts on the road.

Fucking hell, 100% cuts? How serious is that proposal? That seems ridiculous given that the budgets involved are probably a tiny fraction of overall TfL finances.

A wheel which is so over-tensioned that it starts moving when you ride it

I'm not sure what you mean by that, why would over-tension in itself cause the wheel to move (assuming that it's not so catastrophically tight that it spontaneously pringles)? My intuition is that the repeated stresses from actually riding the bike might act to settle the spokes in ways that the building process wouldn't e.g., finding their optimum path round the flange and each other as they repeatedly stretch and recover. I could be completely wrong.

I'd love to know what the name for this is as it happened to me for both instagram and twitter. For the former I could trigger a password reset and claim the account back, but not for twitter.

The advice I was given by an old CSM (infantry obs)was stay away from tanks because every f****r wants to kill them.

It has been suggested that we really should reduce our i.e., UK's tank numbers for this reason, plus we have to ship them to anywhere that they would actually be useful.

Cheers, I'm mildly concerned that I've slightly over-tensioned the spokes on a back wheel I've just built. I'm reluctant to back everything off by half a turn, as I'm aware that I probably tend to build wheels too loose rather than too tight. I'm wondering whether a certain amount of settling in will ease the tension slightly and then I can just true things up.

Do people generally expect spoke tension to drop slightly over the first few hours of use as a wheel beds in and a degree of natural stress relief occurs? Do you usually revisit your wheels for trueness and tension after they've bedded in a bit?

Super glue, but cover the bits you don't want want it to stick to with something (vaseline maybe?) before sticking it.

Can you collect the car? I can't find any info on where that might be from.

@cookiemonster is there any reason why you can't use Onto as a car hire company? We're finding that we quite often want a car for at least a month over various school holidays.

I'm still enjoying the Revstar immensely. @Bobbo I really like the look of the Meteora too and I wondered if it might feel somewhat similar to the Revstar with P90s or humbuckers (as you choose) and the same relatively flat fingerboard radius (now 12", old Revstar was 13 3/4"). The chambering on the new Revstars is probably a good thing as it was a weighty guitar, I wish they'd kept the metal tuners on the new range though.

How important have people found it to build rear wheels with plain gauge spokes on the drive side and butted on the non-drive side? Some people say it's key to building a balanced wheel, but I'm not sure how essential it really is.

The middle-ground here would be a Sage machine that is sort-of semi bean-to-cup. This one will grind and tamp the coffee and froth milk decently, but can also be used with pre-ground if people want to bring their own (decaf, for example), it also does hot water. That would be a lot closer to real espresso if you're fussy. I have no info about ease of cleaning or longevity, as I've only used a relative's (and was quite impressed).

Thanks, but that's still 67p per spoke (plus P&P), which is substantially more than Sapim Race double-butted spokes from cycleclinic and than the ACI spokes from cyclebasket.

Thanks for this, I've ordered some up.

Cheers, yes they probably can, but I don't think they'll be cheaper than just going up a price point up to a double-butted spoke from somewhere that actually has the stock. The availability is not ultimately a problem, it's just that I can't quite source the spokes I need to do this at the budget I want (it's a relace, so I want it to be pretty cheap). So I guess the question is "where do people buy their spokes from, so that I can shop around properly"?

I need to build up a 27 x 1 1/4 wheel (630 ERTRO) and I'm after some unfussy but decent quality spokes, the problem is that I need quite long ones (299-301mm or thereabouts), and a lot of places have quite limited stock at that size for plain gauge spokes. Best bet at the minute looks like stepping up to a Sapim Race from @cycleclinic. Before I do, does anyone know of suppliers of something like the the Sapim Leader at a good price that I may have missed in my ad hoc googling?

The west has its own oligarchs and is turning into a feudal society.

Oligarchs>semi-rich>law enforcement>peasants

Nick Hannauer makes this point (and he's stupidly rich). He says fellow billionaires need to pay attention, because it will either end up with a police state or pitchforks.

Thanks!

What's this then?

Wasn't that the meeting which people were saying was faked? (I'm neither supporting nor rebutting that assertion)