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It's fine if you are able to stay in the same house until it's worth more again, if you need to sell then you lose a tonne of money.

Depends why you're selling. If you're selling to buy a bigger house then a crash is a win as you now need to put in less extra cash to upgrade to the mansion you want. If you're trading down ("we're old, we don't need this big house, we'll trade down to a flat and live off the profits") then a crash is bad, because you get less money out.

I am getting a cat in the New Year to sort them out properly.

Good luck with that. We never had a mouse problem before we got cats, now they catch mice in the field over the road and then release them in the house. They've worked out that it's easier to go and catch a new mouse than to tease the current mouse out from under the fridge.

It depends where you're starting. You could come down further to the west and turn left at Ascot.

Also reminded I have a blood pressure monitor we bought because my wife freaked out during the registration check up at her new GP and posted coronary levels due to white coat effect

When living in South Africa, I urgently needed Telkom (like BT, only more so) to get something done, but they wouldn't talk to me because the line was in my wife's name. I ended up taking a phone to my wife's hospital bed while she was recovering from an operation.

The nurse took her blood pressure while she was doing battle with them. Her telkomrage lead to a reading that caused the nurse to give up and come back later.

Will, was it standing at your feet in that first shot or were you up a tree with a long lens or something ?

I've snapped my Good Grips garlic crusher. Obviously don't know my own strength.

Can anyone recommend a replacement model?

Mrs Earthloop is very happy with our Garlic Twist, and it's much easier to clean than our old crusher. £13.40 from amazon.

Downside: while easy to clean, it's almost impossible to dry without leaving it lying around somewhere until it dries out by itself.

I think that, if this is the case and you retrieve the socket you should be able to glue it back on and add a dab of solder at the 5 points to reconnect the connections.

It looks to me like only the 3 closely spaces pads in a line would need to be soldered if you've glued the connector down; the other 2 look to be just for physically fixing the connector.

Mine is a "Roadlite AL 6.0 SL"

Right click on the image, and choose "View Image Info" or "Inspect Element" or however your browser spells "tell me more about this thing".

Commuted using only my left leg this morning, because my right ankle is injured so it's that or the train, and I've been meaning to do some work to correct my right leg dominance anyway. Bloody hell, I've never worked so hard to go so slowly before. The left leg feels tried but not destroyed, which I think is a good sign. Train tomorrow though, or I risk picking up an overuse injury on my one remaining good leg.

There may well be a panel you can remove by undoing 4 screws to reveal the hard disk, and you'll be able to pull it out without doing anything irreversible. Have a look on the base and around the sides.

tailwind!

A Canyon Roadlite Al 6.0, recommended and fitted to me by @scherrit.

+1

I've had one of those for a while, no problems so far.

I don't even understand how anyone can spend more than maybe 8hrs on a bike. c.16 is madness.

I like riding my bike. I'm not pushing myself on to put in a fast time or holding myself back for perfect pacing, just rolling along at the speed at which my legs want to go. I don't get depressed if my pace is a bit slower than I expect. It's a quiet mellow activity that (I've found so far) I can happily do all day.

Also how on earth do you eat so little during a ride?

I estimate I took in about 5000 cals, but there's some guesswork there. It soon adds up when you're porking entire 250g blocks of sainsburys basics red leicester cheese. How much of that I actually digested and was able to use as fuel is another question. 90g/hour of sugar would have been 6000 cals. Strava thinks I burned 9000, but 50mg/hour of caffeine and a suspect hrm means I don't really believe it.

My much shorter ride (see above) involved all the food, ever, and I was bonking fairly hard at the end.

You went faster.

To me or to you? To me - yeah it's a big ride but then no if he could've done 30+kph by eating more appropriately.

On the previous ride with 90g/h of 2:1 multodextrin:fructose I was a bit slower overall, but not by enough to reach any firm conclusions.

Budget wheel lights: http://www.lights4fun.co.uk/i/q/LL-03P/10-led-pink-battery-operated-indoor-fairy-lights

They're listed as indoor, but I did a dun run in light rain with one of these and it was fine. Battery pack taped to the axle, lights taped to the spokes pointing outwards.

Problem with remote images though, I don't know that stuff.

What if you were to add client side javascript to report the dimensions of embedded remote images back to the microcosm server ? Malicious clients could mess it up, but if the server only acted on information for which all reports are unanimous then the worst a malicious client could do is take us back to the situation we're in now.

#workupto500 September 425

My 425km ride in September was supposed to be a ride home from Devon, but that trip got cancelled so I cobbled together a last minute route to Bradford and back.

On recent long rides my mantra has been Eat All Of The Sugar Now, but this time I tried something completely different. Since the start of September I've been on a low carb (~ 25g per day) high fat diet, with my 55km per day of commuting fuelled by fat and maybe some ketones; I peed on a ketone detecting strip and it said "yes, lots" but those things can be unreliable.

Breakfast: salmon and soft cheese, coffee with cream. On the road: almonds, cheese, biltong, droewors. Electrolytes only in the water bottles. 50mg per hour of caffeine in the morning, stopping at noon.

For the first 8 hours everything felt fine, except for a bit of stomach pain if I ate the cheese too fast or didn't take enough water with the droewors. At the 8 hour mark I'd covered 225km, a distance that normally takes me 9 hours elapsed.

Then I think my blood sugar started to drop, and by the 9:15 mark I was well into a bonk. I'd slowed right down, I was unable to spin to up to 90 even on the flat in a very easy gear, and my primary thought process was "cycling can fuck off". My emergency energy gel perked me right up, and I followed it up with 30g of dextrose over the next hour. I felt better, but didn't regain the pace I'd hit in the first 8 hours.

At the 11:45 mark I felt the early signs of the next bonk, so I added my remaining 60g of dextrose to my water and bought some jelly babies at the next garage. I perked up again, but continued to gradually lose the extra hour that I'd banked during the first part of the ride.

By my rough calculations, that means I burn about 20 to 30 g/hour of carb, and my body had about 225g of carb stored when I set off. Next time, I'll add a small amount of carb to the road food.

The next day, legs properly wrecked. During the later part of the first 8 hours (A4, no twists and turns, just pounding out the miles) my heart rate was hovering around 150 to 155 and I was comfortable maintaining that. At 160 I start the heavy breathing. Maybe the higher than usual caffeine dose on this ride caused me to be comfortable at too hard a pace during those hours and wreck my legs and burn more carb than I otherwise would, or maybe it was the bonking that wrecked the legs, or maybe they just need to HTFU. Further experimentation is needed.

http://www.strava.com/activities/200934112

also [s]strike[/s] or ~~strike~~

Hmm, that's weird, it works when I quote it.

Yes, it works unless you make it into red/pink codeblocks with backticks as I did, so that people can see what to type instead of an unhelpful like this.

I don't know how to strike through text

Same here.

~~like this~~ or <del>like this</del> or [s]like this[/s]

Don't use ` instead of ', the server doesn't like it.

Stop making me overtake you so I can see where the fuck I'm going.

Alternatively, dip it so that I can ride behind you on a brightly lit bit of red road.

1. insert kitten into vending machine
   
2. direct it to item of choice with laser pointer
   
3. profit