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Sorry this may have been asked before, but are there any really cheap radiator valves that work with a google nest thermostat? Don't need them to do anything other than turn up and down wirelessly. Assumed there might be aliexpress ones or something?
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I'm fairly often in Lewes (my parents live there) and I'm always particularly annoyed by the 'pedestrianised' Cliffe High street which is generally full of cars parked on what looks like a pavement but appears to be mostly parking for the antique shops, betting shop, etc. the road is supposedly access only, but as there's no enforcement people just drive along it anyway. Frequently see people having to manoveure pushchairs round parked cars into the path of cars that shouldn't actually be driving down there.
Second most infuriating thing is the narrow overgrown path alongside the A26 out of town - main route to the industrial estate, etc, but it's horrible to walk or cycle along and needs a proper pedestrian/bike crossing to the industrial estate.Lewes has always suffered from being surrounded by rabidly Tory small villages/countryside.
The cycle path to Ringmer is quite good at least. Though getting onto it is less so.
I usually just ride offroad when I'm visiting.I'll catch up on latest cycle gossip when i'm next down there. I think my Dad said some slow progress was being made with Egrets way, etc. I believe it's mostly the fault of that farmer with the land in the middle.
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Funnily enough, I just came back to say that maybe a slip leash you could pop onto Barry and then return him to his owner might be a less violent solution. I know they're what a lot of dog trainers suggest for breaking up dog fights. Plus still involves a bit of neck-oriented dog discipline, which I think is what Barry is in need of. I think the chances of him paying attention to thrown water are minimal.
I do think the chances of the police getting involved in any London dog dispute are very minimal either way.
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Not suggesting a really hard kick obviously. But it seems like you're tried all the nice, reasonable approaches. I feel like a terrier in a rage is likely to ignore water pistols, etc. A firm pinning down by the neck would be better than a kick, but also more chance of you getting a bite that way.
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Worth bearing in mind that you're meant to declare dog aggression when insuring your dog, so while formal complaints about Barry will almost certainly achieve nothing, they'll definitely make life more complicated if he's insured. Plus if you had to claim against him for vet's bills it would leave him uninsured, etc - might be worth pointing this out.
But would also be inclined just to give him good kick.
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Smaller terriers are impressively fearless.
Have his dog friends made any attempt to step in when this has happened? Am quite surprised if they haven't, though dog group dynamics still confuse me. Like play with 3 dogs often seems to turn bad in my experience, whereas if there's 4 or a larger group, it seems to generally be fine. -
Here's Ada being suspicious that I'm going to make her go out in the cold again.
(she's fine once a street away from home, but the initial transition to outdoors is something she is wildly unenthusiastic about). -
The obvious solution is to get a powerful second dog. Let it bond with your dog and then take them to the park together and follow up on the owner's suggestion to 'let them sort it out' themselves.
Suspect there'll be a load of cane corsos up for rescue soon ...
I realise this probably isn't much help. It is definitely Barry's owner's responsiblity. It's amazing what some small dog owners will allow their dogs to do though. As the owner of a dog who'll not afraid to be quite 'assertive' when she thinks other dogs have bad manners, I still treat it as my responsiblity/failing the few times she's properly kicked off with other dogs, even when the other dog is generally the one that's instigated it. -
Attempting to defuse an unnecessary argument - you will almost certainly get closer to the money you want by taking it apart and selling the bits individually. If you want a fairly accurate idea of what it might add up to, then search via sold prices on ebay. If you're selling here (which is both better and worse than ebay in various ways) then you'll want to sell the individual bits for a bit lower than ebay prices.
But also bear in mind that track bikes have depreciated in value considerably in the last few years, so unless you want to wait until they come back into fashion again then you're probably not going to do that well on fixed specific parts.
Going rate on ebay is quite a bit higher than 160 at moment.