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Day 1 of the King Alfred's Way today, starting and finishing in Reading. No gravel. Lots of sand though.

Silver spoons presumably?

Surely the German prefix 'unter' and the English prefix 'sub' are equivalent? As in submarine and Unterseeboot, for example.

I think the reference to French bureaucracy is a clue.

Forgot how much of a commitment paint stripper is.

Modern consumer paint stripper is useless. Might as well soak it in baby oil. Try some SynStrip or get it acid dipped.

Always endearing when the billionaire oligarchs answer to how could you improve things is make access to social security harder

Making poor people poorer does seem to be a consistently popular theme among billionaires.

She must, at least one time, have possessed some academic ability having attended Oxbridge.

Academic ability, marginally, in my experience. Critical reasoning, absolutely no guarantee of that. There were plenty of people at Cambridge who got good results by memorising a lot of stuff, and then regurgitating it on demand during exams.

I've got a pair of those rims, although I haven't got round to building them up into wheels yet. They are mahooosive. I've got MTB rims that are a lot narrower. I've probably got MTB tyres with less volume than those rims.

I got a letter today from Direct Line saying I've been overcharged for my house insurance, so I'm getting a refund of the sum overcharged. With interest!

It comes to a grand total of 54p. I shall try not to spend it all at once.

Try an internet search for "short term car insurance" and take it from there. Lots of options.

Sign up to tinder? I managed an amazing amount of tidying when someone was due to come round.

Ah, not just me then. Having trades round to quote for or get work done can also impose the need for tidiness, but it's usually possible to get away with just shuffling detritus from one room to another. A date inspection requires a more thorough approach.

Excellent, hope you enjoyed it! I haven't done that ride for over 4 years now, but I have very fond memories of it,

Despite having been a Strat man since, well, forever, two and a bit beers at the Lounge Bar in Lerwick, with no little assistance from the live band, has persuaded me that I need a Gibson. Straight for a Les Paul or should I try a gateway Gibson guitar first?

It's not quite the weekend. But it was a good ride. I can thoroughly recommend Shetland as a place to ride a bicycle. As long as the weather's good.

I find it quite therapeutic, but it is a faff.

Glue is faster on the road, tape is faster to apply.

99% chance you won't need a Roadlink with a 32t cassette. You can fit the longer cage plates from an RD6800GS to give it extra capacity but they'll need to be modified.

Anyone else seen the film Bob Roberts? Worth watching.

No Green Wing? No Catastrophe? Not even in the top 50? Hmmmm...

I did have gears. Not enough though! Could have done with something lower than 34x28 going up Buttertubs.

I did the Struggle Legacy sportive yesterday, starting and finishing in Leeds and visiting some of the lumpier parts of the Dales. It was a long day, but a good one.

A surprising number of former politicians seem to turn from mendacious arseholes into reasonable people once they leave politics. Maybe he's just going through this process very quickly.

Lord Cav?

I still wouldn't want to have anything generating that much heat in a cupboard. Not with the door closed. It'll get very hot in there without active cooling.

Otaksune 103 secateurs. If Carlsberg made secateurs...