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The Hamax's of London are getting some use this weekend.

Extra hour for Gilles Peterson though... I'm here for that.

And Liz Kershaw can get in the fucking bin

Can someone get Jurgen Klopp or Nigel Farage on the phone?
We need some advice about whether to self quarantine or not.

My 4 yr old son has a cough, shortness of breath and a high temp/shivery fever.

111 are useless.
No-one can tell us what we should do.

Could just be a cold/virus, but I do feel we have a duty to do the right thing if there is a risk.
However, self isolation of a family of four with two toddlers would be a fucking nightmare.

Not really but kinda but not really.

I just wrote "navigating the inflection point" for a conf presentation.

I am part of the problem

Absolute arse fallen out of it all.

Have just got a little bonus and have shovelled into the nutmeg managed S&S ISA in the hope that it will come good and I won't have to explain to my kids that they won't be going to uni afterall.

Some retro tribal baggage you are carrying there champ.

Some belters on there.
Not a dead lot south of the river or out of zone 1.

The Trafalger in Greenwich is a rat-infested shit hole and I will be writing to my MP to lobby for it's removal from this list.

Yeah, Defo mice.

https://twitter.com/jonestowncoffee/status/1230104852908462081

I saw these exact yoots do the up and over with a brompton chained to a street pole (not lamppost) in Shoreditch about 6 weeks ago.

I keep about 12 trays of this topped up at all times behind the kick boards in the kitchen.
The mousey bastards love it.
I also bait the traps with it.

They eat so much the dosey fuckers eventually crawl onto a trap to get more.

https://www.pest-expert.com/pest-expert-formula-b-rat-killer-poison-1kg-with-safety-gloves-10-x-100g-12-p.asp

@WornCleat trackstanding like a boss on Commercial St.

Does it look exactly the same as it did 5years ago?

I got food poisoning from there after being served some bad lamb.
It was 7 years ago, but I can never and WILL NEVER FORGIVE.

Taking the cookery<>bike building analogy...

Electric plate/element - gas pipe steel. Cheap. Outdated. Complete pain in the arse. Does the job but it's hard work, and laboured.

Gas - 853 Reynolds Steel. Has feel. Gives a robust performance with vitality of connection between user and equipment. Where the real motherfuckers be at.

Ceramic - Alu. Neither here nor there. Bought by people who don't care about cooking in any way.

Induction - Carbon. Performance at all costs. Looks slick. Requires delicate treatment. Pain in the arse. Fails more than it should. Flash git's choice.

Not too sure where titanium fits in with all of this.

So the response to risk of bird strike at whatever thousand feet is

*B*ack away
Maintainability direct *e*ye contact
Be *a*ssertive [not aggressive]
*K*eep calm [don’t run]

Think it was about 2k for 2 x 300cm lengths and 1 x 150cm length but can't find anything to say how much we budgetted or paid.

It is three pieces and the joining and filling is a bit scabby.
They cut and finished the three pieces on site and finished it freehand, so the drainer grooves to the right of the sink are uneven and the beveling on the vertical face is not uniform.

I'm being pernickety, so maybe 8.5 out of 10.

They also did all their cuttings in the street and covered my and my neighbour's cars in thick thick white stone dust. I had to pay for cars to get washed in an act of neighbourhood penance. Caused us a bit of grief with one neighbour whose soft top is still a shade of grey when it should be black because of the layer of stone dust that settled into the fabric.

I checked out as a guest so I am reliant on them to send me one, which they seem incapable of doing.

While we're on the kitchen chat. Has anyone owned a decent white work surface for a decent period of time (at least >3yrs)?

How has it held up?

We have white quartz from these lads in Plumstead http://www.superior-stonesolutions.co.uk. Had it about 4.5 yrs.
It was a 8/10 cutting and fitting job, but the slab itself has held up really nicely.
Almost anything buffs out with a bit of that old school kinda grainy/abrasive Cif stuff.

Only issue we have is that my belt is at the same height as the vertical face of the slab and so there are lots of black scuffs and scratches that we need to periodically tend to.

I have been trying to return an item to Rapha for 4 weeks.
I have emailed them back and forth 16 times.

They are fucking useless.

Their pricing is opaque and complex and they only sell to registered trade, so your tradesperson can mark up whatever they think they can get away with.

Quality is a decent, but nothing worth shouting about.

Trades bitch about Ikea quality and the effort needed to trim and fit etc, but it's just bluster to get you to pony up for a significant material cost that they can slap 20% on.

We came into school one day to find the press outside the gates because the headmasters office stash of gay porn and sex toys was strewn across the place.

His son was in the year above, poor fucker.

But yes also drinkers, shaggers, sadists and a raft of those who were in the wrong gig.

Did you ever hear a Chris King hub go PING...?