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Lots of info hear in case you've not seen it yet - https://www.seat61.com/

Also highly recommended..

https://www.robinstudios.com/weddings

I’ll take this please. Will PM. Cheers

I'll take the bell if you can post. Will DM. Cheers

I've got a set of omniums that I bought second hand about ten years ago. They always creak when I put a new BB in (every few years), until I take the BB back out, clean+regrease+reinstall between one and three times. I can't speak for others, but on my part I fully blame user error...

Does a Condor Tempo fit the bill? This is lfgss after all...
I have a 58cm f+f plus most bits that I need to get rid of. (Would sell as f+f alone or complete apart from the fact that the rear wheel has a snapped spoke).

Different (brush) strokes for different folks.

In the extraordinarily unlikely even that anyone needs a rain cover for the bassinet version, I have one practically new - purchased in error but used a few times before I realised that my baby-addled brain had bought the wrong one.

I've got a Condor Tempo f+f that I'm looking to shift. Can probably add in a few other bits apart from wheels too.

58cm frame, with a TT of 57cm (horizontal equivalent).

I'm 6'3" and it suits me very well. I had a Condor Pista before this in the same size, and was fitted for it in the shop.

I'll dig out a photo if you are interested?

Not the first to suggest this...

First Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

(John Betjeman)

Tasty. That said, while I dearly love my HFM, if I was spending that much on a watch I'd like something other than comic sans for the numerals.

I'd pop one of these on it and call it a day:
https://www.watchobsession.co.uk/collect­ions/rios1931-watch-straps/products/rios­1931-mittenwald-retro-organic-leather-wa­tch-strap-in-black

Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for something similar for a while. I bought it shortly after, then got a call from WO saying they noticed my delivery address is in the same town as them (Aberystwyth), and offering to drop it round directly. From reading your post to the hand-delivered parcel arriving was about 3 hours!

No worries. Good luck with your search!

Not exactly what you're looking for but sort-of similar, I have a 58cm Condor Tempo that I need to sell. Suits me well at 6'3".

Any recommendations for getting a dial change? I love my Hamilton Field Mechanical in every way apart from the dial (not least the comic-sans-alike typeface). Seeing all the Seiko mods got me thinking that switching out a dial can't be that difficult to arrange. Absolutely no intention of doing it myself, but I assume there must be some people out there that offer this service?

I loved the NATO that came with my Hamilton FM so much that I've since bought two more from them for other watches. Obscenely priced at £45 each but I've never found a NATO elsewhere that is as comfortable or well made (or looks as good). The black / Orange is perfect for my Squale.
I'm sure the ones you get with a new Omega / whatever are good but a bit above my pay grade...

Having a six bed house in Wales rewired now. Coming in circa £5.5K to £6K. Probably not far off what a London 4 bed would cost!

Their planning application will reflect their design, which appears to assume a Party Wall Notice will be issued to you, and that you will not dispute it.
If they don't issue you with a PW Notice you can either apply for an injunction to stop them working (spendy and boring) or knock down any part of their wall that sits on your land (quite cheap and a lot more fun).

Ouch - good luck! Be prepared to be quoted many hundreds of pounds for even such a small job..

Are you in Wales btw? We are, and found Wales & West Utilities very quick to respond when we asked them to remove a gas supply. Unfortunately they can't do it until Scottish Power have removed the meter, and they are (so far) very fucking slow. Probably about 6 hours spent on the phone to them in total, and at least the same still to go I reckon..

Pretty sure you can't just get any gas engineer to fuck about with the supply pipes. If its between the gas main and your meter it would need to be done by the gas network people. Then only the utility supplier can move the actual meter. For anything after the meter, you can get any (qualified) gas engineer to do it.
Find out who they are from here https://www.energynetworks.org/operating-the-networks/whos-my-network-operator. They will probably have a link on their website to generate a quote request, as you would if you want a new supply / remove a redundant one etc.

VAT consultant is not on the list of people who will be getting the money gun pointed at them...there are plenty of others!

Read up on what is included here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/buildings-and-construction-vat-notice-708#section8

Also in my experience it helps if your wife went to school with someone in the council that decides to help you out with documentation!

But then if you are in Wales like us, you’ll also get stung with the need to get fucking sprinklers installed if you want to get your building control certificate at the end of it all...

This should fall under permitted development. I'm currently doing this the other way around - turning two flats back in to one house. When I checked, both directions fall under permitted development - assuming your not doing any other significant works that would require planning permission.
The 5% VAT thing is real (and a lifesaver), but you'll need to get something in writing to show your builder because ultimately it's them that has to bill you at 5% and then prove why if HMRC come calling.

Love a micro-rotor.