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https://www.ddhammocks.com/product/DD_Tarp_5x5?from_cat=33

We use a 6ft by 6ft tarp, with 4 x bell tent poles and guys ropes to give ourselves a decent outside shade area when we go camping with a few other families.
Let me try to dig out a pic

This is great.
The majority of my pots are medium term savings (pot for Xmas costs, pot for holiday savings, pot for kids birthdays etc)
Chuffed they are now getting 4.58% instead of just sitting in a vanilla pot

Yeah, it only works for me because I am fully commited to monzo (me and my partnr - Monzo personal, joint and biz accounts) and have no credit products beyond my mortgage.

What you are describing sounds like something Open Banking should facilitate?

I wouldn't say high end, it's a franken-mess of google formula's that would probably irk someone who properly knows how to use pivot tables.

Let me see if I can find a way of sharing how I have it set up, without showing you how much I spend in Budgen's each year.

I have a Monzo account and an IFTT set up such that every time I spend on my Monzo account is drops a line on a Google sheet.

I have my spending analysis, domestic budget and all sorts running of it. Can run custom categories and split category spending and all sorts.
The reports I have running off it make me feel sexy.
Been doing it for 7 odd years and the level of visibility and forensic analysis I have over my finances has saved me thousands. Possibly tens of thousands.

Same.
But I didn't get the pink cap.

"Despite tireless efforts, we’ve been unable to reach a viable agreement with HMRC - which means there is no realistic chance of trading out of the current debt, even with those offers of investment and ongoing improvements in productivity.

Having exhausted all alternative options, we have been forced to put the company into administration. At the same time, a group of existing shareholders bought the company assets back from administration as a going concern - preserving the jobs, the service and the mission.

This is a devastating decision that none of us ever wanted to make, but we have acted now in order to protect the mission, and our people.

This unfortunately leaves you, our shareholder, in the position we have done everything in our power to avoid; with your investment worthless in cash terms. For the majority of you whose investment sits under EIS or SEIS - there is some consolation in the form of loss relief, but I am very aware that this is a far cry from what your investment could have realised if things had worked out differently.

On a personal basis, I’m absolutely devastated by the turn of events that have led us to this point, even whilst remaining incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved together.

I believe that people who invest in good projects deserve great returns - and that could have been possible this time, if things had been only a little different. If we’d made only a few key decisions differently and if a few external events had been different. I’m sorry that we haven’t been able to deliver what we’d hoped for you, our investor.

As the single largest shareholder in Bike Taxi Ltd (the company underlying “Pedal Me” until today, that you hold shares in), and having had to contribute personal funds at considerable risk to myself to allow the company buy-out in order to conserve jobs, believe me when I say that I would have done anything possible to avoid this playing out in the way that it has.

I do, however, believe that this process allows the Pedal Me mission, which you have been a fundamental part of establishing, to have the best possible chance of flourishing.

A fresh start with better governance, processes, and the learning from the last 6 years."

Looks like a regional nature reserve visitors centre

Ebay for the win!

Just snaffled this.
Yamaha stage custom bop kit.
18" bass drum, 12" snare, 10" and 12" toms in lush natural finish.
Comes with yamaha hardware and basic cymbal set too.

Is the tidy little jazz kit I dreamed of owning in my twenties, which is also coincidentally the right size for the boy to learn on.
Pretty chuffed to be honest.

Those bars look very low.
Assume it is quite an aggressive/aero riding position?

Here you go - https://share.octopus.energy/teal-bear-449

Man alive, this has scratched an itch I didn't know I had!

What are the max tyre clearances on this frame?

I am about to spend a decent chunk of change on cavity wall insulation.
1970's property with nothing at all in the cavity.
Getting quotes for poly bead and adhesive fill

There are a few risks I am worried about

1. Damp and condensation
   
2. All the beads escaping when we replace the windows, for example
   
3. Having zero recourse should either of these two things happen
   
   

Has anyone appointed an insulation contractor to do cavity wall insulation for them?

What sort of accreditations should I be looking for and what certificates do I or building control need?

I have passed the bug to my 8year old son who starts lessons next week.

Does anyone have my leads for a good quality small second hand kit?

Not necessarily a junior kit, just something scalled down.
Thinking 10inch toms, 18inch bass drum, 12 inch hats.

Basically a Richard Spaven kind of set up.

Anything about?

Interested.
Have PM'd

Yeah, I think it's this.

As you enter the room the pole will be directly horizontal across you, at just above head height.
Having that line flat is most important, and I can do that with the laser level.

A wee bit of rough rafter square eye-balling should sort the rest

thanks everyone

Wouldn't that require the wall I am fixing to to be plumb?

I am probably over thinking this

I am fitting a pole in a small utility room, to hang wet washing off and the like.

I need the pole to span from wall to all at exactly 90 to ensure it is the right length and that it lands correctly in the wall fittings.

I have a lazer level which will make sure it is vertically level, but trying to find a way to make the pole perpendicular to both walls and level is thrashing my head.

Anyone got any pro tips?

Shiiiiiiiiit.
I might just keep it and get a gravel bike on Cycle to Work

Happy to hear offers, or what folk think would be a more realistic price.

I would really rather avoid splitting as I just end up with £300 worth of parts I can't shift sitting in a parts bin.

Testing the water here.
I built this up about 8 years ago, rode it for a couple of lush summer rides and centuries etc but then I had kids and didn't get out so much.
Did a bit of commuting on it when the weather was good and I could take it inside the office.
Apart from that it has been criminally underused.

Then it sat in my office and was used as a Wahoo/Zwift rig through the pandemic.

It's all pitlocked and hexlocked for that London commuting flex.

It's in excellent condition.
No dints or dings, never crashed or pranged, regularly washed and lubed.
Next to no wear and tear.

I have just moved out of London to near the South Downs and am fixing for something more gravel-y so I can manage the shitty road surface and make the most of the paths and what not.

Full spec below.

F&F
Frame - Lynskey Peloton titanium 54 geo here
Forks - Lynskey Sport Carbon Road Fork 2016
Headset - Chris King sotto voce 1-1/8" Standard unthreaded in silver.
Top cap - Pitlock

Finishing kit
Bars -Deda Zero 100, 42cm wide, 31.8 clamp
Stem - Deda Zero 100 Performance, 80mm with Hex Lock bolts
Seatpost - Deda Zero 100, 27.2mm
Seatpost collar - Pitlock
Saddle - Brooks England Cambium C17, slate with Hex Lock bolts

Wheels (built by Arup)
Front - DT Swiss R520 on Chris King R45 Ceramic Pewter 28H on
Rear - DT Swiss R520 on Chris King R45 Ceramic Pewter 32H (inc rear hub conversion new axle and freehub body for 10sp to 11sp)
Tyres 23mm Schwalbe Durano Plus SmartGuard
Skewers - Pitlock

Groupset
Full Ultegra 6800
Levers
Brakes - Calliper
Front Mech - Band On
Rear Mech - Short cage
Cassette - 11sp, 1 - 25
Cranks - 170mm, 52/36
Pedals - SPD-SL

Probably cost me about £3,000 to build.
Would be looking for £1,800.

Bike is near Lewes, but I commute into London Bridge once a week or so so could meet central.

They send pictures of their own genitals to each other on Snapchat.

So it's the forks?

Presumably whatever brake I choose now will face the same issue?