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If I may, I'd like to ask a question of anyone here who uses Ocado (I searched for fresh white asparagus - tess'co sometimes have it, but in very thin pieces which are hard to peel - and I see Ocado have it, with prices for that and blood oranges which make the purveyor of custard tarts look cheap ) - Are they reliable in providing what you ordered ? TIA. ĸen

Whilst I understand the sentiment, from time to time on one of the Discovery channels (Quest?) there is a series about a Welshman ('Moggy') converting old cars etc to plug-in - mainly usingTesla parts, and lots of bespoke made to order fixings. Quite an old series, for some reason many of the vehicles were Irish. I dread to think what an insurer would make of them (e.g. old VW camper van with a large battery in it, "classic" BMWs and similar with what I would regard as a short range before needing to charge - bear in mind that even now charging - both availability and time - sems to be a problem in many areas. Anyway, the one which did impress me was some sort of Land Rover - according to that episode, the off-road performance was much enhanced.

Probably 39% of your recommended daily intake. But the measurement is per-serving for however many portions the package claims to serve.

You've dealt with Public Relations people and Project Managers!

If you had been inside, and not heard them, you would not have known the package was on the doorstep. Someone delivering won't know if you were in, but incommunicado, or out.

Colour me impressed. My memory (I'm talking about maybe 30 or 35 years ago) is that riding anything below 30" on roads could be interesting (doing a wheely on a bike with luggage in rear paneers is not recommended). Off-road, of course, lower gears could be very useful.

Just catching up - I think spring is here! Some weeks ago I read in a weekly paper that the English asparagus season was early this year, and the Marky Sparky would have it in stock. Maybe in some hallowed part of London town, but not here guv. Today I went to Tess' and at last it's here. mmm, griddled asparagus.

Sizing of bricks in the 19th century can be a bit of a plunge down a rabbit hole. From your picture I make the following guesses: 1. The lengthwise bricks at the right are facing the camera (so top and bottom are out of view). For new bricks it is not possible to tell if they are facing, internal (lower quality) or specialist. 2. I think that the end-on bricks at the right are each slightly more that a quarter of the length (gaps between the face-on bricks. 3. The bricks at the left might be different, they are stacked with much more air between them. I can't make out enough detail to see the main "wall" part of the bricks at the back, beyond noticing occasional gaps. A guide to a little about imperial brick sizes in the past https://www.imperialbricks.co.uk/guidance/everything-you-need-to-know-about-imperial-brick-sizes : note the modern (20th century) 'Imperial' bricks shown as 228mm by 108mm were variously 50 to 80mm tall. For a deeper dive, try https://jaharrison.me.uk/Brickwork/Sizes.html (from the first page, heights of 42mm to 90mm). A random search produced other sites suggesting special purpose bricks such as engineering bricks would be at the taller end of the variations. In the absence of example bricks, all we can really say is that for the 19th century the likely length was 9 inches. So I suggest you work from that. For me, a more interesting question is what colours the bricks appear in the period you are interested in (i.e. after probably decades of weathering and smoke). Some of the bricks in the photo seem quite pale, others a deeper (red?) colour. In my own case, railway stations built in the 1860s and viewed in the 1960s tended to have very mixed colours of locally made brick - built down to a price, with added facings (pebbledash, I suppose) on the side facing the prevailing wind/rain. Better quality bricks used for facings on higher quality buildings were probably much more consistent. Research the sort of building, and location, you intend to model. Then make your decisions, and when you are happy with them go for it!

A few hours ago I was watching the 6pm local ITV news. In the middle of that was something about what would be on the national news. I think you can guess what it was. Starts to sound like a conspiracy. And yes, the Hogwarts word was mentioned.

Those who read TNM may have already seen this because I posted on the wrong topic. Nothing to do with parallel strips of metal, this is where I intended to post it. <sigh/> When I was idly killing time looking at so-called news on my phone earlier this week I saw a lot of posts saying that iplayer apps were closing down, with a comment from the BBC that it was too expensive to continue. When I can be bothered, I've been using get_iplayer (on linux) to download things - quality often not brilliant, but good enough to watch on a computer monitor. Having closed down all the other things I was doing, I thought I ought to stop installing the perl modules get_iplayer needs. But before that I gave it a try - working perfectly, including local news from Thursday evening.

Doh, I've done a @polybear and mixed up ERs and TNM!

When I was idly killing time looking at so-called news on my phone earlier this week I saw a lot of posts saying that iplayer apps were closing down, with a comment from the BBC that it was too expensive to continue. When I can be bothered, I've been using get_iplayer (on linux) to download things - quality often not brilliant, but good enough to watch on a computer monitor. Having closed down all the other things I was doing, I thought I ought to stop installing the perl modules get_iplayer needs. But before that I gave it a try - working perfectly, including local news from Thursday evening.

I think that acceptable bedside manner may have depended on where/when a doctor was trained. For several years I 'worked' online with someone who had started out studying a science (i forget which, possibly physics or astronomy), switched to medicine, but at the end was unable to become a doctor because of his bedside manner (lack of empathy, or telling it to them straight). Dealing with him online, he was a fun guy and spent a lot of his time gaming - I think he was unemployable. Neurodiversity is no doubt over-diagnosed, but for those playing with software it is a feature even more than for those playing with toy trains. In the end, it seems to have got too much for him. I still miss him.

I think that must be the Buddha from Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, otherwise the Buddha you meet on the road. More commonly, the Chakras can be aligned using Malachite, the various shades of BR(S) coach / EMU / DEMU green, and Improved Engine Green.

Thanks. It caused me some grief for a long while, I'm just persuading myself to let it go.