Any question answered...

The Wi-Fi version comes in a completely different box:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9u0-5p99lE

(scrolling through youtube unboxings they're all consistent)

Ah. Thanks. Damn.

Also no joy with trying a couple of the online bar code look ups.

Currys stock both and list the EAN in the description.

thanks, EAN checks out for the non wifi version.

i guess i'll order another one from not amazon and take my chances with amazon returns.

Where in London can I buy good T45 / pastry flour for croissants?

Here's the borked one:

And possibly the green thingy next to it.

Thanks! (& @cyclotron3k)

You could take the wheels off, hold it on one hand and frame on the other and you'll be allowed in.

It is actually legit per TFL, just did it on Sunday, wheels on my bag, frame on the left, Brompton on the right, made it from Turnpike Lane to London Bridge!

Thanks @aggi!

Unless you get some wanker at the gates who decides he ‘can’t let you in’. Then you’re stuck at Paddington with a frame and not enough bike parts to make a rideable bike and it’s 10pm and your phone’s about to die so you’re fucked…

I see where your point but I've always got on when the wheels are off.

Always with a full rideable bike though but once when I had a double puncture in Dalston and had to get back to Clapham Common, Victoria to Stockwell and then to Clapham Common, wheels off strapped onto my bag, frame and all other bits on my hand, got through fine.

When shopping for a new thing to sleep under wherever you are how do you compare how warm different options are without togs?

In Australia, they measure it in dogs.

I have a domain with Gandi and also have an email account attached to that domain, also with Gandi.

So far as I can tell, I'm waiting to hear back from their support, they have increased the price of the email service from £3/year to £55/year. I assume I can use another service for email and still link it to my domain, if so how? It's one of those things where searching for it seems to assume you already know how to do it.

Also, any suggestions on who to use? Everything currently gets swept in to gmail so storage isn't important. Ability to have multiple aliases/a catch-all is the main thing.

I migrated everything from Gandi to Hover when they got bought. They do a comparable email service to Gandi's old offer. Not quite as cheap at 20$ p/a but better than Gandi.

I assume I can use another service for email and still link it to my domain, if so how?

Either transfer your domain to the new place or leave your domain with Gandi and set the MX records (and a few others like SPF) to the values given to you by your mail provider. I do the later.

Also, any suggestions on who to use?

I like Mythic Beasts. £2/month for the basic mail package.

Thanks for raising this, I need to do something very similar as my mail hosting fees are creeping up.

If worst comes to worst a have a bag the bike fits in knocked down, but I’ll try to just wheel it on and see what happens …

leave your domain with Gandi and set the MX records (and a few others like SPF) to the values given to you by your mail provider.

Cheers, it sounds like this is what I want to do as there is some other stuff I changed in Gandi and I can't remember what that was.

Better do some googling using those terms.

All good 😎. Tester complained that everyone bar 1 failed that day, so I guess luck had some part. Apparently the test date scalping issue is big enough to have Parliament talking about it now.

Well done

Congratulations

I've got three single bolt bosses on the downtube and I want to route a rear disc brake there. The bike would have come with bolt on plastic cable guides, i cannot find generic ones anywhere. Can anyone assist maybe my search skill are poor.

These?
https://www.balfesbikes.co.uk/components/finishing-kit/trek-bolt-on-double-cable-housing-guide-in-black__58647?currency=GBP&chosenAttribute=W311726&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiApY-7BhBjEiwAQMrrEbTbvXPG3q0hnzug_qtHQyiaZ-DKreKtHc_ZZmaCqkaYnPQDqN6knxoCqusQAvD_BwE

Or..https://slam69.co.uk/products/dartmoor-bolt-on-cable-guide-for-water-bottle-bosses?srsltid=AfmBOopNiDbqdg39f_O59_VxPKmBcDZzWHRyJOaTccsw3g3NUjF2-LqQ

P-clip.

I don’t have a degree- I went to UCL to study Architecture but being an alcoholic torpedoed that pretty effectively.

I admit I feel that failure, sometimes more than others- and would like to get a degree, if for no other reason than to prove that I can actually do it, although I very much enjoy learning.

What options have people here pursued for a degree qualification later in life when they have a pretty demanding job?

I do not wish to sound glib or facetious at all, but if you can afford to throw £50k at something just to scratch an itch that you don’t technically need to scratch, you could think about sponsoring someone who needs it but can’t afford it. No extra demands on your job and you’ll probably feel way better than doing it yourself if there’s no career benefit to you. I’m an associate lecturer and it terrifies me that the students I work with are spending that amount over three years when it’s clear that a big percentage of them probably won’t go on to get well paid jobs in that field because they simply don’t give enough of a fuck about the field, by the time they graduate at least.