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Oof, my daughter has just exploded with something the doc said looked like a Viral rash. Might be test time!

Sympathies on the rest - my wife has just gone back to work, coinciding with our daughter starting nursery. So far she's been sent home with a temperature on average twice a week, had tonsilitis (passed on to me and my wife) and now the rash. Just one thing after another.

Hello me from a few weeks ago! I did what lookitsluke did above - removed the mount's plastic spacers and fitted over my usual steerer tube spacers. Seems fine on the daily 10 minute ride to nursery.

Ta! Doesn't sound ideal.

I've got the land registry docs but don't entirely understand what I'm looking at. From what I can tell though the land is owned by the Church of England Pensions Board, then someone paid 130K in 2008, which if I'm reading right was the 99 year extension.

Sounds less and less ideal.

How much of a pain is a leasehold property? All ready to offer on a house we were blown away by only to spy its leasehold at the last minute! Looks like 86 years left on it as it was a 99 year lease in 2008.

My dog has had this exact issue - separated from litter, then rescued, then in an accident and kept inside for a long time, has meant he's bloody terrible at reading other dogs' signs - "growling at me is it? must want to play!".

Going out with the dog walker a fair bit has really improved things for him though. Here he is looking goofy/noble:

Well this was more popular than I anticipated! And said child got in the way of replying! Will take a look at PMs now.

So Skully and JalopyVeloist in the hot seat for now -cheers.

Here's the pocket on the other one...

Hello hello - I have more panniers than I could possibly need and a young child who means I never get to ride. So, for sale are:

2 x Carradice Super C Front/Universal panniers: £40. These: https://www.carradice.co.uk/bags/panniers/super-c-universal-front-panniers. You can collect from me in Sheffield, or I'll post to you for £45. NB The names on the labels inside have a cross through them, which I think means I bought these as Factory Seconds. I can't remember what was supposed to be wrong with them but it hasn't impacted me - it might have been the flap for the front pocket is on the wonk a bit.

2 x Arkel Dolphin 32 Waterproof Panniers. £60. These: https://www.arkel-od.com/dolphin-32-touring-gear/. You can collect from me in Sheffield, or I'll post to you for £65. These are very pleasing Panniers with pockets in all the right places.

Absolutely wrecks my head when the local dog walkers round mine, who are otherwise utterly consistent in choice of walk times and routes, throw in their bi-monthly curveball and do their route in reverse and leave me scrambling!

I guess they think "ah, this person doesn't want to see their holiday cover-er to see what they've been up to"

Huh, Tom Dumoulin taking a break from cycling.

Yeah this! In fact, even my baby name is similar!

If you'll forgive the rant, it's been a bit of a nightmare since the start for us: not being able to visit my partner in hospital when she was taken in early before the baby was born, then kicked out immediately after a very stressful birth and not allowed to visit for all the time they were kept in afterwards, no homevisits for the first couple of months from any of the usual midwives etc meaning medical issues missed, only one of us allowed into hospital when we've had to dash to A&E in the night etc etc.

Once back at work, like you say, very hard to work with the constant interruption and crying - has just meant I've not been able to work to even 50% of normal productivity, while also being no help at all with the baby.

For my partner, loads of the NCT group events have been cancelled, 'sing n sign' cancelled, swimming cancelled, general ability to go anywhere/do anything compromised, one set of grandparents only meeting their granddaughter once so far.

Has caused a unpleasant breakdown of hitherto rock solid mental health, and we've only been saved by a family member staging an intervention essentially, and bubbling up with us.

So yeah, I'm all for the bubble.

Bozza can still do one mind.

Thought that FT piece seemed a bit unpleasant, but perhaps I'm overreacting as a beneficiary of it.

This year has been an extraordinarily shit time to have a baby.

The best method I've found is using a pointy spade/shovel with a long handle. Just bash the point underneath them, and lever 'em up. Remarkably quick, and they seem to ping out in big chunks.

Like dis: https://youtu.be/dYhWachjKu8

Oh this was a reply to @stevo_com

Forgive the word of caution, but just something to bear in mind - my dog Bob was similar (cypriot street dog rescue, about 6 months old) and the first two weeks with us he was the model dog, seemed confident/happy etc and we congratulated ourselves on our great luck.

Then after that he got really very nervous, and we could barely get him the short walk to the park. Unfortunately culminated in him completely freaking out at a kid on a scooter one day, and slipping his harness and escaping, and sadly getting hit by a car.

Dog trainer we had subsequently said he heard similar of lots of rescues - initially very confident seeming, then its almost as though they decide, "actually, XYZ new thing is a bit scary". In retrospect, we definitely could have mitigated by doing less with him in those early days, and not being so "OMG, he's so great, lets take him to the cafe and the pub and the park".

Two years on and he's an excellent boy. Still get a chilling reminder each year from google photos "on this day..." feature which delights in showing me an animated gif of my pictures from the vets of him with his wired up jaw and broken legs!

Hello hello - I am admitting to myself that I am not ever going to get around to riding my MTB, so its up for sale. Ridden home from the shop, and once around my local park. £400 ONO.

Based for collection in Sheffield, unless you want to sort yourself a courier - NB, I have no box or anything for it so no way to package it up myself.

It is a Trek Roscoe 6 2019 Women's bike, in "Anthracite". Frame size sticker say 17.5 - that's a medium in Trek's sizing. Not sure what makes it a women's MTB - seems to just be colour.

Trek's page for it: https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/mountain-bikes/trail-mountain-bikes/roscoe/roscoe-6-womens/p/24067/

Picture below, happy to give it a clean before pick up!

Ex-LDN sheffielder here!

Sheffield is great - pubs are great, peaks access is great. Its a bit of weird place in that the city centre is not exactly thriving (though new development is happening) but lots of the suburbs are really really good with lots of stuff happening.

We initially moved to Nether Edge and I'd highly recommend there - a peaceful enclave between the more grimy pubs/bars/bakeries/kebabs of Abbeydale and London Roads, and the mix of the students and posh of Sharrow and Ecclesall Road.

On the best side for the peaks as well, escaping up Ringinglow Road. Or off road, can ride from Endcliff Park, out along the Porter Brook up the Mountain Bike tracks at Lady Cannings completely off road.

Fractured Pelvis for Thomas say Ineos.

Total suicide line between the barriers and Gaviria from Pascal Ackermann to win today's stage of Tirreno Adriatico. Made me wince.

I'll take a punt on the parka! Will DM.

Yeah he was "lucky" in that he got held up in the small crash before so was still fighting his way back to the front.

Very unpleasant crash in the Tour de Pologne finale just now, following a very messy sprint.

If useful, for me it wasn't the supports that actually broke - it was the main bagman bag holding bit itself that snapped as the aluminium wasn't strong enough. The support rods seemed fine.

Ha, yes - bring whatever has the easiest gears.

Depending where you're going/living you can live a fairly tram free existence if you're lucky.

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