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In other kitchen news, the worktop people arrived this morning with the new quartz worktops, only to discover that the genius who did the templating forgot to add an overhang at the front of the worktops. So they're going to be cutting new 30mm quartz worktops to be fitted at the end of the week, and the existing quartz worktops (retail price >£4k) will be scrapped. FML.

I’m not saying they don’t exist

They do. I built up a pair of Brompton wheels with Sapim CX-Ray spokes. They were a bugger to source though, and the spokes on the rear wheel proved to be snaptastically unreliable.

Which values are those?

The value of doughnuts, a nice cup of coffee, and anything for an easy life.

Racist, homophobic, misogynistic?

Optional, but generally very acceptable if disguised as "just bantz". Or not.

Well, whether they're silicone or plastic, I think they should be between the rad brackets and the rad rather than the skip!

They're hard plastic. The brackets themselves are made of fairly thin stainless steel, so I assume one of the purposes of the spacers is to spread the load so that the radiator isn't resting on the edge of a thin sheet of stainless. Either way, the radiator's coming off. It's not vertical, it's not parallel to the wall, and for some reason (I suspect because one of the rad tails was too short) they've hacked chunks out of the plaster to fit the brackets into.

Are they actually a plumber or a kitchen fitter/builder?

The plumbing under the sink was done by the kitchen fitter. However, given the total Horlicks the plumber made of fitting the new radiator, I doubt he would have done a better job.

These are the spacers which are supposed to go between the radiator and the radiator brackets. Which I fished out of the skip on Friday after a little light skip diving.

Also the vertical waste pipe on the left appears to be coming out of the joint at an angle, which would likely lead to leaks there.

It is at a slight angle left to right, as is the exit from the sink waste. Fore and aft it's even worse...

I'd appreciate a bit of the collective wisdom from the hive mind on this one. The photo below is from the under-sink plumbing in my new kitchen. It seems to me that the plastic push-fit T-piece is being expected to do rather a lot of heavy lifting here, given the angles of the pipes. Too much for comfort, or am I getting overly fussy here?

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Looks very reasonable compared to mine. I had 16 panels installed and a 7.2kWh battery, and I think it cost about £11k. That was also part of a Solar Together scheme.

Could be or could be the "AC-ness"?

It is. 61xxx bearings a deep grove bearings (maaaaaan) and 71xxx are angular contact bearings.

I am aware of good testers closing the FTP gap to a few %, but they are probably not as fit as they would be had they done more training in a traditional position

I'm pretty sure I never fell into the category of being a good tester, but when I was racing TTs a lot my average power output was always the same as on a road bike, to within a modest margin of error. I suspect that's because I was only racing on a TT bike, and that made up quite a lot of my 'training'.

Given that Trump had been firing off AI-generated deepfake photos of her, I reckoned it was only a matter of time before she put her head above the parapet. And she is, as she pointed out, a childless cat lady after all.

Is it even true that your power output in TT position can ever equal your output on hoods or in drops?

I don't see why it shouldn't. Assuming we're talking power output over the likely time period for a race, power output is going to be largely dependent upon aerobic capacity, and there's no reason why that should be affected by a TT position unless it's so extreme the rider can't breathe properly any more.

Soz. Feeding the trolls is my weak spot sometimes.

What do I know but I don't think Russia has any intention of "taking over" Ukraine

What do you know? Fuck all, evidently. They invaded, headed straight to Kyiv, and planned to install a puppet regime so they could impose direct rule on Ukraine. How does that not amount to "taking over"?

Well, nothing wrong with it functionally. It worked as a kitchen. Not really very well, but it was OK. Apart from the lack of full height storage. Hence the mop left out in the open.

First fix on the electrics took place today, but nothing particularly photogenic. The coving's also been removed, and the plasterer will be around tomorrow. Actual kitchen fitting will apparently start on Monday next week, but completion won't be until late October/early November due to the lead time on the glass splashbacks.

Work started yesterday, and by the end of yesterday most of it was gone.

After much prevarication, I finally decided that I did want a new kitchen after all. There was nothing really wrong with the old one (other than a total lack of full height storage) but it was looking old and dated. And was getting a bit tired.

It definitely reminded me of Catastrophe (which is great, Catastrophe is probably my most favouritest show evaaaaah) but with a cute dog on wheels instead of lots of sex. Definite parallels between the Ashley and Sharon characters.

Looks good. Does that flooring go underneath the toilet pan or round it? I want to have a new floor in my downstairs loo, but don't want to have to lift up the sink or toilet.

Especially impressed (beyond storylines which are very good) at reasonably well integrated queer and spectrum elements.

Becky Chambers is very good on this front too. A Closed and Common Orbit is really good, but it's worth reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet first. Also, because it's a good read too.

Any recommendations for decent-length but fairly digestible sci-fi and fantasy series?

The first three books are quite short but The Murderbot Diaries are the best sci-fi I've read in a while. Very funny at times too.

I did too, as she's nothing like she's described in the books. I am, however, warming to TV Shirley.