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fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
It's stopped raining ! :crazy:
 

Mo1959

Legendary Member
It's stopped raining ! :crazy:

Not here it hasn’t! :rain: Gave me a chance to try out all my new wet weather gear and it passed with flying colours. Gore Tex trail shoes, Inov8 race pant waterproof trousers and a Ronhill/Mountain Warehouse gore Tex shake dry jacket. Not far off £400 quid’s worth but worth every penny if you like getting out no matter the weather.
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
Better go out when I get home - parent's anniversary, so better get flowers and a card. Don't think flowers will survive 10 miles in a pannier ! That's my excuse for not getting flowers for MrsF ! :crazy:
 
nice, until the middle of 1st grade we lived 1 block away from a elevated train in the North Bronx. the sounds are romantic to me. the screeching of steel on steel & the sparks, the thumpity thump of wheel after wheel rolling across the seams. loved it all. we called it "the L". it was all electric, by my time, but it started with steam locomotives
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That's cool. :okay: This line here is a main one, but not terribly busy compared to some. We get maybe four passenger trains an hour or so (those two or three car diesel jobbies) but the majority of traffic is comprised of goods trains. It's nice to look out of the window and see what's on them.

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I have a question for people knowledgeable about Science and/or Bihology.

I usually buy Persil "Colour Protect" washing pods. However, last time I ordered some on line, I asked for "Bio" by mistake. What exactly does Bio and Non Bio mean?

Basically the bio version of the detergent contains enzymes that "eat" the dirt from the fibres - a layman's description from my vaguely remembered A-level chemistry. It's very effective, but alas, if like me you've sensitive skin, it's not so good. Bio detergents make me scratch like a baboon.

To answer your other question, the colour protect just has certain compounds in to enhance the colours. Like if you use a whitener, it contains a blue dye, as we perceive that as being brighter.
 
'nother question. Peeps on this forum have been writing about a "Ninja Foodie" oven.

Out of curiosity I looked the prices up. A medium size one is £200, and is reckoned to save 50% on your Eccentricity Bills. So when you have used it for about 160 hours, you will start to save money.

That is 90 minutes each week (over two years) saving circa 45p each week. Is it even cheaper to have a cold meal once a week to save that? Btw, I used my mental arithmetic to work that out. Have I got it wrong?

Dunno about the maths, but it sounds like spending a fiver to save a penny... A bit like a cat show friend looking to buy a heated clothes dryer rack thingy to use instead of her tumble drier.

If my oven went t*ts up I might buy one, but in the mean time it's not something I can justify buying.
 
Old what do you mean old.While my utter rubbish Firetablet charges up.I have decided to play on the house computer that works on steam.Its that old Mrs P never uses it.She has a modern laptop.So i have just been noseying and this thing is on Windows Vista which i understand Noah had on the Ark to check weather forecasts.Now then lovely boffins on here how can i upgrade this ancient thing,and no i dont mean me.Any idea and help will be accepted

Nope.

Running Vista on the laptop I'm currently using (Sony Vaio), and it can't be upgraded. It simply doesn't have enough slots for the RAM needed to run more recent versions of Windows. Might be different for a desktop as there's far more space inside one of those, but it's major surgery and probably not financially viable.

I'm no expert though, so you might find it worthwhile popping over to the Hobbies subforum and asking in the PC repairs thread. IIRC @DCBassman is a fount of knowledge when it comes to computery things.
 
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