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Perhaps I got lucky - I got commuting included with AF for an extra £10-£20 (can’t remember exactly), for those occasional sunny summer mornings!

Wowzers, blast from the past! Love the warning and extra link to the whole 170kb image at the top. And all the old school html. And being able to afford to casually decide to go for a meal out…

Haha, never! Surely the whole original point of the Lotus/Caterham 7 is the lightweight, revvy, N/A engine. The engine in this car is probably the best bit. It has the Supersport camshafts in it, so the idle is ever so slightly lumpy (but perfectly acceptable), it has a feather light throttle...

So, what with a milestone birthday looming this year and having missed my promise to myself by ten years to have either an Elise or a Caterham (for the last big birthday), I decided it was finally time…! After a little to and fro, I decided to go with a Caterham, mainly thinking back to my late...

Just a thought - not read the whole thread, but I did have a very similar problem with my 06 plate E91 325i. Would have been the same N52 engine as yours, before the 325 became the detuned 3 litre N53… My car would occasionally misfire from a cold start. You’d bumble out the village, but the...

That reaction and these circumstances are entirely normal and not in the least surprising. Yes it hurts and incapacitates you. For a handful of seconds. Once the weapon has cycled (you hear the beeps on the video indicating the end of the power cycle) that’s it. Unless you press the button to...

At the risk of backtracking the thread from the welcome development today… This is almost entirely incorrect. “Pepper spray” is a pain weapon, if you wish to put it that way. It hurts, it’s in your eyes. You can’t see. Some people are almost immune to it, some not. You can indeed fight through...

And so they have: https://twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1730290741220364656 It appears to be a totally run of the mill Taser job in which the officer has acted in accordance with Taser training with proper intentions to make a dangerous situation safe. In fact, in years gone by this would be...

What were the dynamics of the situation? Did the officer know there was nobody else in the house? Eight seconds is a very short period of time to gather any amount of information before having to make a decision - maybe the officer didn’t even see the mother or know where in the house she was...

Met Police officer cleared after Tasering girl, 10 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67576994 Not misconduct then, and a sensible decision. Not sure how else the various armchair experts imagine they’re going to go about disarming anyone with a pair of garden shears - prior to the...

Whatever Screwfix have an offer on? I think they’re all pretty much a much of a muchness, and most people will recommend the brand they went with themselves. I went with a DeWalt drill/driver combo last year when I started doing my house up. Expanded with a bare circular saw that I could share...

Crikey. I had various estimates to refit my bathroom (3x2m) of over £5k about 18 months ago. We were moving into the property and needed an old disabled wet room ripping out and a family bathroom including proper bath putting in for our growing family. I did it myself in the end. Found friends...

As the necro thread has just been re-necro’d again… Short version: no, I didn’t! Long version: I’m still a cop, and I’m just about to hit the top wage bracket. My teaching and instruction experience proved the key factor which landed me a job in the training department working with student...

We’ve just paid £50k (give or take) for a simple single storey rear extension to a plastered finish - approx 5.75x3.3m, so under £20sqm. Building work, and anything construction-ey just seems crazy expensive currently. Driveway quotes, patio quotes, landscaping the garden quotes…. I know...

I renovated our bathroom at our 50s built semi we moved into last summer - it was a disabled wet room type setup with non-slip flooring and a sunken drain etc. Had quotes of £3-5k labour only, not including any materials to sort the bathroom, anywhere up to double those figures for a complete...

@dLockers I would heartily recommend one of these basin waste seals. I’ve had no end of bother with seeping water down the threads of waste traps under basins until a mate pointed me in this direction. Literally a couple of quid and just works. Wouldn’t bother installing a basin waste without...

Keep diner and living room where they are currently. Keep kitchen door off hallway. Brick up the wall between living room and diner and take out the wall between current kitchen and diner. This will give you a nice enclosed “snug” living room (with an additional entire wall to put a sofa on)...

Don’t discount IKEA. We’ re going through the process at the moment similar to yourself - the builders are actually partway through the extension build as we speak. We went to IKEA after a recommendation from a friend who fitted one. We had a free two hour design consultation appointment with...

I think it’s a good idea not to stud the whole wall out. Aside from the extra effort and expense, I think you’ll run into an issue with lack of elbow room when going for a dump…!

Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. If they’d seen you they’d have stopped you.