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Another donation, I'll share too.

The NHS do take this kind of thing (staff doing dopey shit in public) pretty seriously compared to many employers

Bristol is just very damp.

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she connects at about 20 mph, we both go down and now my knee really fucking hurts

Reading this I'm surprised a lawyer didn't materialise from behind a lamp post, waving forms and the prospect of compensation

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Sounds mueslical

Looks more like a fig roll.

Sausagemeat, possibly

Before someone asks: Fischer expanding foam guns are pretty good.

It's lunacy if your time is valuable! You might do it in a day, depending on the finish you are looking for.

Look at hire cost and work out if it's worth your while. Proper sanders will help you keep the dust down too - wood dust is nasty stuff.

Picture rails were getting a bit suburban by the 1930s.

Go by what feels right visually, I reckon. Older picture frames were generally between 1 and 2 feet from the ceiling. They came from an era with higher ceilings of course.

Mince pies with icing on them. Takes me back to the 80s, not in a good way either

I always like a bit of real-world functionality as opposed to Radavist nonsense, so enjoyed this Kepler-with-bar-ends I saw earlier.

Not mine, so take no responsibility for the locking

Triples never stopped being great.

Very nice. Needs a bit of mid century furniture and Scandinavian glassware. Or are those out of sight behind the camera?

This is great, a nice unfussy build. Plus we need more lilac bikes

I have a hard time imagining a comfortable ride through that reedbed, or wherever they've photographed it

I like the ones (not Ofo) in Bristol. They're fairly shit to ride but very convenient and seem to get well used.

Predictably the cyclists in Bristol are having a massive whinge because, I dunno, they're built from evil private capital or something.

Beautiful floors those. Would cost an arm / leg / other bits to get something like that put in these days

The current government, at least, will never do this because it would never undermine the interests of those who already own or have 'banked' prime land. This is the real story behind much of the 'housing crisis'. Given a sort-of-airing here:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/02/britain-farmland-tax-haven-reform

Cheers, this is what concerned me.

It's a good sign - what they really need to get is some commercially minded people though, and the skills to implement and manage projects all the way through the chain. I really hope they get the resources to do this.

I despise mince pies, but this thread did result in a trip to Lidl and me stuffing an entire packet of Lebekuchen into my face

Councils are not empowered (and don't currently have the expertise) to develop land

I'd suspect they will never get that expertise back - they're now dependant on consultancy for most of the things the Borough Architects and their associated offices used to do. The skills aren't there.

scrape some of the profit from private developments in the form of S106, or CIL... although this can be lessened with accountancy tricks

There are of course people who make quite a good living arguing down s106 contributions, affordable housing elements, etc. They're well worth their fee, if you're a developer. The public sector no longer has the cash or appetite to argue with them.

Some leaders of local councils have awkward ties to developers. Or developers can always go above the head of the local council and involve the government, or mayor of London.

You see lots of former councillors who start hawking themselves round offering 'services' to property firms. Professionally they are generally as clueless as you might expect but are sometimes useful for getting the current planning committee on side. The biggest problem of all of course is that no council these days has the taste to fight a potentially expensive appeal.

If the above sounds a bit depressing then, well, it is. Very easy to be nostalgic about some of the things achieved 50 or so years back.

I just bought some virtual brevets from my local organiser, a bit optimistially perhaps. An Edge 200 should be able to handle recording a track for a 200k shouldn't it?