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Arts and Entertainment / Re: Today I am Listening To...

« Last post by citoyen on Today at 05:16:23 pm »

6music today have been celebrating The Cure's Disintegration by only playing music from 1989, the year it came out. Massive nostalgia-fest for me, one Proustian moment after another...

It's a much better year for music than I remember.

They've played Rebel MC's Street Tuff twice - first Lauren Laverne this morning and Huw Edwards has just played it again. Amazing.

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Food & Drink / Re: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

« Last post by T42 on Today at 05:15:17 pm »

Opened a new bag of seed for the parrot today

How long does it take to grow a parrot from seed?

Dunno. I'll chuck some out the window and get back to you.

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The Pub / Re: What have you fettled today?

« Last post by The Family Cyclist on Today at 05:05:06 pm »

The drivers window on our car would only go down when it fancies it and up with some assistance. Contacted a breaker who wanted just over a hundred quid for a replacement motor and mechanism. Euro car parts with company account  £42 +vat

Wife had a late night and kids slept in so fairly early started stripping out the old one. Bit of a faff and some help from a really good YouTube video as a few less then obvious screws.

Did have a panic as thought the new one was wrong but I'd actually just caught the cable that drives it on the bodywork. All now fitted and working and a happy wife who uses the car a lot more than me...and only a small amount of claret offered to the lesser gods of car DIY

And just done the passenger one.. bit was 20 quid off ebay and seems to be working. Just need to reassemble door and locks etc now

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The Pub / Re: Your house rules

« Last post by rogerzilla on Today at 04:35:58 pm »

A shirt for Dez's funeral.

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Audax / Re: BP history

« Last post by Ian H on Today at 04:31:13 pm »

ACP and UAF organise some sub-200km brevets but they were originally intended mostly for wives and children while the blokes rode 200+km (it was quite a while ago). AUK followed ACP's example and expanded it. Audax Oz, RUSA and some randonneuring organisations in Canada organise sub-200km brevets, mostly derived from AUK ex-pats. Only Audax Oz has quite a few sub-200s.

FFCT covers a range of brevets, most of them not as codified as ACP's brevets. ACP and UAF are both within FFCT's overarching event calendar/ system.

It'a  shame we don't have a competent equivalent of the FFCT in the UK.

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Food & Drink / Re: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

« Last post by citoyen on Today at 04:23:17 pm »

Opened a new bag of seed for the parrot today

How long does it take to grow a parrot from seed?

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Food & Drink / Re: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

« Last post by T42 on Today at 04:12:01 pm »

Opened a new bag of seed for the parrot today: 23 dried chilli peppers sitting on top along with a stuck-together ball of candied fruit the size of a golf ball.  The previous bag was similar - chillis must be dead cheap at present.  No point in giving either fruit or peppers to the bird, he just throws them out.

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The Pub / Re: What have you fettled today?

« Last post by T42 on Today at 04:03:47 pm »

Checked the back tyre & tube from the Trek: sealant in tube still fluid enough to gurgle and no green squits inside tyre.  Slime tube valve cores would appear to be removable.  Also retensioned saddle a bit to try and stop the creak.

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Freewheeling / Re: End of April Cycling Weekly request

« Last post by LittleWheelsandBig on Today at 04:03:07 pm »

Bump.

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The Pub / Re: Your house rules

« Last post by Mrs Pingu on Today at 04:02:47 pm »

You're retired, WTF are you ironing?