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Wow, that escalated quickly. I don't want to mess up the list but will try to find out how to edit it and add my preference (2 x medium Olive).

I'm 38 and have driven since I was 17, sometimes regularly for work (3 years with a company van and regular rentals of cars and vans) but never owned a car. What is the best/cheapest way to get insured if I buy a car now, nothing fancy but big enough for bikes etc.
Are there any types of car I should avoid, thresholds in engine size? My partner can be the primary owner/insured person as I heard that there can be cheaper deals for female drivers?

I have a 54R if you want to give it a try? In E8

I ride mine on 'gravel'

If they put a cooker in there it probably wouldn't pass building regs/fire safety.

I'm keen for a burner as well!

I just got mine back from ISON, replaced for free with the newer model. It was done as a warranty but my two years ran out in Oct 2020.

Really good service, very impressed.

We had messy plasterer/decorators in. Engineered floor was filled with dust/paint etc. The best way I found was vinegar and water with a wax on wax off technique. Wash with a big sponge, then dry straight away with a towel. You need to get the dirty water off the floor.

Sounds like double bayed (I think that was invented by estate agents). Double fronted would be rooms/bay windows on either side of the front door.

Sorry, I just can't let this go. It it drawers, not draws.

Dangerous to get into a debate with you, but the problem with some Mavics is the fact they use a bushing not a bearing in the freehub. I have personally had two sets (and know of at lease two other people) that have developed the Mavic scream of death. It's pretty scary when the freehub decides to lock up at speed and the chain backs up.

Dibs Blue Carre/Sarre racing one (pending size) pm coming
I know you want rid of all of them, but maybe combined with @J_FixedIt it will work

Have you seen this one @cornelius_blackfoot ?
Not sure if it meets your spec or not.

Yes, it's still here. When can you collect? - DM me and we can arrange it.
For full boxes,if you are down my way, try here - https://www.hackney-cycles.co.uk/ on Hackney Road. They sell a LOT of new bikes, although boxed may be on the small size.

I'm 25w down on this time last year and 50w down on my peak. It does mean I managed to do the first week of SSB high volume without too much trouble, not sure how many more weeks I will do it for though. Just thought I would see what it was like.

It's very exciting! I managed to build my box from my building's recycling area. DCR wheels in Lewes serviced my wheel and sent it back in the same box within three days. Pretty good service.

I now have a wheel box going spare. Collection from E8 if anyone needs it, complete with paper/bubble wrap.

@BigH @ofathens ?

Maybe irrelevant, but we recently had an EICR done on our flat and upstairs lighting circuit is the original 2 wire with no earth. No one seems to care as long as you know that you can only use class 2 fixtures.

What the electrician did point out is that in our flat (Hackney ex LA), they intentionally used metal conduit which will act as an earth.

Looks a lot like they are watching the Trump rally, maybe before he goes on? Not the march to Congress.
Edit, missed the audio at the start, that's fucked.

Thanks both for the advice. I will go away and google leading and trailing spokes!

I'm going to send my SP Dynamo Hub back to ISON for a warranty job. It's built on a DCR wheels alloy rim with CX Ray spokes and alloy nipples.

Is there a particular way I should dismantle it, or just unscrew all the nipples and that's that? I really hope I can keep the spokes and have it re-built for me after I get the hub back. Is this realistic?

As with every lockdown (including the first if I recall) there is a very mixed message with what work you can do or not. The guidance says:

'You may only leave your home for work if you cannot reasonably work from home.

Where people cannot work from home - including, but not limited to, people who work in critical national infrastructure, construction, or manufacturing - they should continue to travel to their workplace. This is essential to keeping the country operating and supporting sectors and employers.'

At no point does it say your work has to be 'essential' however people keep on questioning this. It seems like the government are intentionally fuzzy with the language mixing key workers and essential in the hope that people stay at home and not work at all, when the law says they are allowed to go to work.

I’m looking for a wheel box but it would have to be delivered to E8. Anyone got something local?

This is advice that you would 100% not follow if it was your house.

How come the crop on the pics you posted is wider than the original? Extra enhance feature?