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My black S4 (the larger size) is languishing in a drawer after I upgraded to an S10 recently. I can dig it out and be a bit more descriptive, if you’re interested.

Cool. I’ll pm you.

HP LaserJet Pro M118dw Wi-Fi/Ethernet 1200dpi duplex laser printer.

With toner cartridge and new spare toner cartridge.

It’s only a couple of years old, but leaves a smudge on the side of the page, so I suspect it needs a new drum unit (a simple consumable replacement – £22 from Amazon: https://amzn.eu/4Ftvv9g).

Free to a good home, but you’ll need to collect from Lancing (on the way to Worthing), though I could drop it off if you’re nearish.

Nothing special, but I'm impressed at how well the Halide app's 'macro' mode works on my non-macro iPhone. Also finally discovered what's making those marks on the wooden shed...

The PX lobster gloves are great value - probably the warmest gloves I have, though that does mean they get sweaty (liners help). I find they work great with SRAM shifters (some mental adjustment required, admittedly), since the whole lever moves. It’s the smaller inner lever on Shimano shifters that make them tricky for me, but still doable.

Hey Stuart

Yep, these have been sitting unused and unworn since I posted this 2 (!) years ago. I've since moved to near Brighton, if that's any closer to you – else happy to post.

-Jules

Just a small PS for this one. Spotted these beauties at Shoreham airport this morning.

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There’s more of a structured plan for returning to the Canary Wharf bank office I work(ed) at, but the plan for the foreseeable future seems to be ‘most people in for some of the time’. It’s at managers’ discretion, though, with a pledge of no monitoring, so it’ll be interesting to see who returns – many seem to want to (I don’t and nor do I need to for my job).

‘Collaboration’ has also been bandied about as a sizeable plus for being in the office, which is odd given the anonymous hot-desk misery with no meeting rooms of the before times.

Vegan leather made from mangos.

https://youtu.be/rcieZYwyEiA

Looks like you got off lightly...

I read that in the 80s. It was terrible.

Ah. I had a vague recollection of it being something to do with adjusting the noise cancellation to allow some noise through, but it was 2 years ago now and I can't remember. The microphones were dire, though – useless for calls (again, unlike the Airpods Pro).

WF1000XM3

I returned mine after getting tired of one earphone routinely losing connection to the other – only one connects to the source and then the other earphone connects to that (since fixed, maybe). I loved the sound and found the noise cancelling to be pretty good, but the tap controls were fiddly. And isn't there an audio setting tweak to combat wind noise?

Anyway, I replaced them with the Airpods Pro and i think they're better in every way, apart from the colour.

Vegan butchers: Could one be opening on your high street?

...the British Meat Processors Association, which is the leading trade association for the meat industry, said it was concerned consumers could be deceived by the rise of "fake" meat.

"We really don't understand why this deceptive practice is occurring," said CEO Nick Allan. "Vegetables are vegetables and meat is meat.

Not entirely sure where 'hot dogs' fit into that.

I'm not sure a plan will help much, but here's a rough one to show how things stand. The original drawings had the boundary line (and new party wall) as being across the actual boundary line by some margin – I now wonder if that was intentional, given the '150mm' comment. So that means they're allowed to build into our garden, reducing its already meagre square footage?

These are old two-up-two-down terraces, btw, to give an idea of house and garden widths.

We already have a single-storey extension that extends into our garden – and, in fact, so do the neighbours – it's currently a mirror image of ours. They're just rebuilding it (still single storey) to go right up to the boundary line, which we think will reduce the amount of light coming into our back room (it opens onto the garden via patio doors). I don't think there's any getting around that, so it's really just the impact on us of the foundation digging that's a concern.

Their surveyor won't deal with us at all – leaving us no option but to appoint our own at their expense, it seems.

A party wall award hasn't been issued yet. Neither a surveyor nor a planning officer has visited the site yet, so all we have so far is a formal notice of the planned works, asking us to consent or reject within 14 days.

Amazing – thank you!

The wall will ('should') be right on the party line. That's what started off the problems – the designs showed it over the line on our property.

The council didn't care about that, and that's where things started to unravel. If the council don't care about plans that are wrong, where do we stand once something is being built?

Thankfully, that issue seems to have been resolved with the neighbours, but we're still concerned about the apparent lack of attention to detail for everything else we've seen so far – hence the need for independent expert opinion.

Can anyone recommend a party wall surveyor in London – West London, specifically?

Our mid-terrace neighbours are building a new extension and its wall will run right up to and halfway along our garden’s property line, partially replacing our wooden fence that’s currently there.

Despite the plans misstating the property line in the neighbours’ favour and a bunch of other issues (sewage pipes, right to light, etc), Hounslow council has just waved the plans through under permitted development and won’t otherwise engage with us.

We’ve talked things through with the neighbours, but not to our complete satisfaction and we’re still concerned about the whole project. Our small rear garden is slate tiled and we don’t know what the new foundations being dug right up to it will mean, for instance.

And, as it turns out, the mid-terrace neighbours on the other side share similar concerns – essentially all stemming from vague and incomplete information from both the neighbours (and their team) and Hounslow council.

It seems where party wall work is being done, those doing the work are obliged to pay for an independent party wall survey for any affected neighbours, if they want one – and it sounds like we need one to sort out what’s so far looking like a potential mess.

So has anyone had a good experience with a party wall surveyor who they can recommend?

No sure about CCC, but SuperDuper is partly broken with Big Sur (Intel & M1). It still runs, but it can't create a bootable volume – only a backup source for restoring – so it's nowhere near as useful to me now.

More detail at https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/

Command + click opens the file's parent folder. I agree that the lack of right-click options is baffling.

It's in excellent nick, so how does £30 plus whatever your preferred postage method costs? I don't think I have the box any more, but I can sandwich it in cardboard.

Any use?

Not what you asked, but if you don't find anything...

I have an old pair of the OG Sony MDR-NC500, but they're wired – not wireless. Great noise cancelling, though – I only used them for the 12 months I worked in an office full of noisy sales people (of which I wasn't one). Boxed and everything.

Is your VC software not available for iOS so you can use your iPad in standalone mode for calls?

I’m using Camo to use my iPhone as a Mac webcam, with a phone stand behind my desktop monitor to maintain eye lines while talking/typing. Works really well with the free version.

£20 before this goes to the charity shop..?

Bars and rack still available – ideal last minute Xmas gifts!

It means not only does the sealant drain from the valve back into the tyre, but it also avoids it being sucked from the pool at the bottom of the tyre into the valve when air is released. At least that's why I do it that way.