what I have learned today.

[rogerzilla]

Robin Williams collected bikes, and had a Ron Cooper track iron.

[Wombat]

What is it, with Garmin and being picky about cables?  My Garmin sourced car nav unit is particularly picky about having the exact Garmin cable, instead of any other of the dozens of decent quality micro USB cables that litter this house.

[Mrs Pingu]

What is it, with Garmin and being picky about cables?  My Garmin sourced car nav unit is particularly picky about having the exact Garmin cable, instead of any other of the dozens of decent quality micro USB cables that litter this house.

Yes, we have that issue also.

[T42]

That, according to a snippet in Nature, only 5.5% of people say thanks when someone does them a favour. Among one particular people, in S. America I think, nobody said thanks.

[rogerzilla]

What is it, with Garmin and being picky about cables?  My Garmin sourced car nav unit is particularly picky about having the exact Garmin cable, instead of any other of the dozens of decent quality micro USB cables that litter this house.

Yes, we have that issue also.

Same for TomTom car twatnavs.

[pcolbeck]

That you dont have to buy WD40 in the cans with the straws that always get lost. They sell it in 5 litre containers along with a mister bottle to decant it into. And its cheaper that way !

[ScumOfTheRoad]

Pcolbeck.. who uses five litres of WD40? I have several cans bougth over the years, and I am sure they will form part of my legacy.
It is the one thing lurking at the back of shelves in any garage, that and 3 in 1 oil.

ps. Dont get me started on trigger packs, ie those bottles with the spray attachment. I completely agree with using one for WD40.
It is a CRYING SHAME that such finely engineered pieces of equipment, made using the worls oil supply, are used once then binned.
I saw in a supermarked once a concentrated little tube of kitchen cleaning fluid. Drop into a used trigger pack, fill with water, and voila. Such a good idea. But I never saw them much again. That idea both saved plastic and the stupidity of moving water by the lorryload across the country.

[pcolbeck]

It annoys me that eventually you end up with a can 1/4 full of oil and no propellent. 5 litres is about a lifetimes worth for most people I would guess. Not so much if your a garage or a keen armature mechanic.

[Torslanda]

Ditto for 'Muc-Off' type stuff which I use lots.
I have three 25l drums and buy TFR in a 5l concentrate.
Tip this into one drum and fill with tap water.
Decant this into a second 50/50 and top up both with tap water.

Result is 50l of ready to use cleaning fluid which decants into trigger bottles. I buy another concentrate when the second drum is halfway down.

Costs less than 20 quid to make 50 litres, I'm sure you can do the maths...

[T42]

...Dont get me started on trigger packs, ie those bottles with the spray attachment. I completely agree with using one for WD40.
It is a CRYING SHAME that such finely engineered pieces of equipment, made using the worls oil supply, are used once then binned...

Plant spray.  I keep one full of water & detergent and another of plain water in the workshop.  Also have another of plain water next to the parrot's cage for when he gets stroppy.

[Torslanda]

I have learnt today that I am old enough to receive a 'Senior Discount' if booking at Center Parcs sur le continent*

Paradoxically my youngest son is still young enough for us to claim a 'Junior Discount' at the same place.

Of the two I think I would much prefer the latter. Do you think they'll let us have both? 


*Dunno if it would apply in the UK. CP absolutely shaft families in the UK at school holiday time compared to European prices. Perhaps they're using UK business to subsidise Germany, Holland & Belgium. Very much like our train operators . . .

[Cudzoziemiec]

Might also be that UK schools tend to all have their holidays at the same time whereas some sur le continent countries stagger them.

[rafletcher]

That when riding a time trial one has to have a top that covers ones shoulders, but when riding in a triathlon one can have bare shoulders.

[Torslanda]

Might also be that UK schools tend to all have their holidays at the same time whereas some sur le continent countries stagger them.

A while ago - think back to when the Euro was worth less than the Pound - I thought the same so, mainly because I could, I sat down with a laptop and compared prices on a week by week, month by month basis.

Whilst prices rose incrementally towards the Summer in Europe, there was no obvious spike and they were consistently lower in Euros than the UK in Sterling. When the UK was on school holidays, however, the parks over here were absolutely rinsing the punters.

It isn't that we think we're paying over the odds, we ARE.

[jsabine]

Might also be that UK schools tend to all have their holidays at the same time whereas some sur le continent countries stagger them.

*English* schools tend to have their hols at much the same time, but *Scottish* ones are on a different schedule. (No idea about Wales or NI.)

[Pedaldog.]

CBD OIL, In capsules, seems to lessen the 22 1/2 year HELL OF PAIN that is my head a bit. In with the Opioids I'm feeling some, slight, hope.

[T42]

I have learnt today that I am old enough to receive a 'Senior Discount' if booking at Center Parcs sur le continent*

There's one of their places in the Moselle, on a favourite route of mine: https://goo.gl/maps/T1YfhTpC1NF2

Doesn't look too alluring: https://goo.gl/maps/hvTDV618E482

[pcolbeck]

I have always had a hankering to visit Parc Asterix having passed it many times on the A1.

[Torslanda]

CBD OIL, In capsules, seems to lessen the 22 1/2 year HELL OF PAIN that is my head a bit. In with the Opioids I'm feeling some, slight, hope.

That's a bit of good news, can you vape it?

[Pedaldog.]

CBD OIL, In capsules, seems to lessen the 22 1/2 year HELL OF PAIN that is my head a bit. In with the Opioids I'm feeling some, slight, hope.

That's a bit of good news, can you vape it?

Afraid not, oil in the atomisers ain't good. Capsules are small and easy to carry. Unfortunately, at the price, a £20.00 weekly bill is restrictive. I have hopes on the current wave of "Make this stuff available on prescription" shouting that seems to have hit the headlines today.

[fuaran]

The scientific name for twinflower is Linnaea borealis, because it was a favourite of Carl Linnaeus.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yesterday, in fact. That the Deltic engines in trains were a downrated version of an engine originally developed for motor torpedo boats. And many other facts about Deltics. Just some of the fascinating facts you pick up chatting to audaxers!

[ScumOfTheRoad]

Deltics - I knew that they were originally developed for the Navy. Didst not know were for MTBs.
OK train buffs - are there still any Deltic locomotives running in service on UK railways.
(Prepare for incoming!!!)

[Peter]

There are at least these two:-



http://royalscotsgrey.com/0/

http://thedps.co.uk/category/alycidon/

There are another four preserved, I believe.


Peter

[rafletcher]

That one of the uses of CO2 is in the slaughter of chickens and pigs. And Waitrose are restricting online purchases of frozen goods as they use dry ice to keep the deliveries cold (as I assume will all the other home delivery operators)