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Of course it’s down to brexit. The Japanese FTD just made it a no brianer.
Told you the brextremist PR wheels would be going into spin mode.
It will effect more than than the 20k ed. The 20k will be directly defected, but given Honda is such a big employer in the area there will be alot of indirect fallout across the whole area as unemployment Thame in the domino effect, as everyone slows their spending.
Give it 18 months and there may be some good housing investment oppertunites. Long term mind. Buy up all the defaulted houses, for buttons, and then rent them back to dss renters.
Honda are out too now. RIP Swindon. If only there was anyone experts predicting this type of stiff ?
I’m sure the brexiteers PR wagon is sringing in to action to try and spin this as a non Brexit issue.
Balls with will incur tariffs or at the least concessions. They have us by ours, or rather we gave them ours on a plate. All we need to do to get them back is play the game as you say.
On a side not I seen on the forces did com magazine yesterday that it looks like our new type 26 ships is looking like we’ll be inporting French built diesel engines. As it doesn’t look like we’ll have the skilled manpower to build them in the future. Not sure if this is related to brexit or not. But freedom of movement could of offered a few nice jobs for the French to come in and full the gaps while training up more brits.
Also given we now are incapable of building our own nuclear power stations, not a new thing, how are we going to build the new plants we need?
Surly we can’t bring in French EDF people over. That would be hypocritical. Surely Out means out.
Turns out there was Zero gas attracts in Sryia. The footage was of people covered in dust.
I’ll liek a video, but that has the links to the Independant and other sources to back this up.
I said the day I seen that video no CS, sarin gas was used that day, as many first responders had not protection on what so ever and was working away fine. I was correct.
Don’t believe anything the BBC tells you. Just like in Venezuela, last week the BBC (and us outlets) all shown a anti Mudro rally, made it look like 1000 of Venezuelans turned out in support. It was was doubt full given it was in agentena in the university of buenos Aires (look at the huge chrome flower monument. Bit of a give away). But all networks failed to show the 10s of thousands of pro mudro demonstrators in Venezuela. This will be the next Sryia. Iran may be squeezed in somewhere too.
They still use the shadow boards bob. Can’t be leaving tools inside airframes or left to be blown around Helo pads.
Same is used in his private job too. A shadow board can’t be beaten by tech, some times the old ways just work. As Ed said, the tools are taged also so it’s known who checked out what tool. I assume it’s some type of NFC set up, so it’s instant and doesn’t stop the flow of work. But that’d an assumption. Im also assigning his usa bace he is currently on uses the same type of set up.
Ive not had a chance to stay on his afghan base, but did stay on his RAF bases quite often, and once on, as he was a Sgt, he’d show me around the exiting bits.
Also my high school used them too, to keep an eye on tools.
I actually could be in agreement with you there. Markets move when soros says jump. He is one of the most powerful people on the planet.
Soros is one of the pupet masters of the world. Also had no remorse of helping naxis take belongings of fellow Jews. With zero guilt and he says its funny as he learnt alot about business and markets form his time as a nazi collaborator. All with a big smile.
Although his words can bring down nations. Don’t piss him off.
My BiL is an AT, ex raf now for a private American Co in afghan, I doubt that he will fancy playing AT in his down time. Maybe in 20 years when he has hung his slammers up. (or whatever they use) .
Bob – I bought thst book, but the SF series I mentioned above is so good I’m currery on book 5 of 7 (think it’s 7), so I’ll get round to it.
You mentioned the all arms course, we had the all arms commando course, iirc it was called 29 commando,(I may be wrong on that. But the army, navy, raf lad that took thst on got a real hard time. Worse than we got as the training staff didn’t see then as real commandos and the ‘came in the back door’ so to speak. Both them and the royal marine reserves that made it to commando status over a few year wasn’t respected that much, Especally the resevers come full time commandos.
We had a term for them that pissed them off royaly ‘Rubber Daggers’. Looking back now it’s still a great achevment however you get a green lid, but when youre there you resented they didn’t but the work in that we did.
Back the the all arms lads, on they had it rough, we didn’t have it easy mind. But we had it over 30 weeks, and iirc they got 30 weeks of beastimgs compressed in to 9 weeks. They was flogged to death.
A bad term really. As I had a lad die in my testing troop, just 16 years old ?, in week 11. Doing our first river crossings. The boss was taken off duty and given a desk job.
Our issue was half of our trading staff was SB, and they treat us as how they expected us to be form day one, so we got a really hard ride of perfection or punishment.
The river crossing incedent was deemed to demanding for a week 11 recruit, but cos the trainimg staff didn’t see it as anytjing special, they had us do it mid way though an week long exercise called hunters moon. We was ment to do a crossing on that exercise, but in a different location, but the training team seamed it to easy, and the load carry not long enough before it. So we marched much further, to find a more taxing crossing. Sadly we lost one guy because of it.
The boss was moved on, and the Sgt has a mini break down moment about two weeks later wen we won some inter regiment tropy. It was a bit strange, but then he was back to being a twat for the next 15 weeks.
He and the rest of the team turned out to be great guys, the last 10 week of training you didnt really get any of the admin crap of the first 18 or so, as by then your a qualifies solder and had entered the command stage. So there was non of this trying to break you anymore and if you shown you was up to it, they would really push you in positive ways.
Our adimin was really sloppy tbh, I think because the team was mostly SB, whey didn’t really care to much for the BS side of things and just consentaited on making us the best we could be, and was rather relaxed about the BS side of stuff. As by week 20 they had weeded out all the guys that couldn’t cut it.
Only time we had to do adim and clean the our block probably was adjedents inspection and I think one CO inspection, in both the whole training team help sort the place out, as us failing reflected on them. They hated the cleaning side of stuff. So they would moan as much as us.
So we had the worst and and best training team. They was arsholes to begin with, pushed us hard, Beasted us harder, but once we entered commando phase was brilliant. They wanted us to pass, there was non the ‘if you don’t do this your out’ we got in the first weeks.
But still one lad did die. Which I don’t think about often, but this is the se ond time in 3 days. Was talking to an old friend about it on Saturday.
He got a full militery burial even thoug he was a recruit, I think that was out of guilt tbh. I sadly seen a couple more, but that in really sticks in ly mind. I can’t recall where he was buried, but it was close to Lympstone/exeter as he was a local lad. It was a butiful grave yard off a tiny village, with rolling hills around it, and in the relativly far distance their was a lone bugler paling the last Post. Every time I hear it it takes me back to that day.
Alot of phone for 200 quid. I’d be interstein in that for me, but I’d still go g play for a kid. Less serface glass to break. And a bigger choice of cases avalible.
But it looks a nice modern phone design, with good specs.
My FiL used a hand full of press’s.
He sheads a) mail and junk as it comes in, then dumps it in a on old black buin of water. Then once a week he fishes out enough pulp to fill his 5presses, he also adds old cooking oil to the press, then leaves them pressing themselves for the week untill he takes them out and put under his lean too to fully air dry. And he refills them. He never runs out of pulp mixture.
Hes has never complained about less heat. For him it’s free heat from zero effort. (well about 7 mins worth a week), he has springs attached to his hand presses, so he doesnt have to hand press the, he just comes back every Sunday and frills them. In the summer I think he does it twise a week, as his ahead gets hot, so they are solid in a few days.
He does often complain of too much heat of some hard woods. Thou I couldn’t tell you which, I can’t tell one from the other.
I just got my girl a G6 play for £119 of amazon 4000mah battery was the decider.
It’s a cracker.
@ricedg, its even more astonishing when the remain predictions have historical data to back them up. But the leave have nothing to back there predictions of a great UK triumph.
They seem to fall back to the EU will collapse, and it seems they wish that true. No matter the fall out that is likely bring.
My wife was saying last night to me that sky had messed up big time last month, overcharging alot of people. She said a couple of her friends had metiond they had been overcharged too.
I haven’t looked into it, I didn’t give it a se ond thought, but tou should ring them.
I know what you mean Ed. In my village most /or alot) houses have either coal or wood fires. I notice it’s getting cold as they all seem to start using the fires around the same time, and the smoke hangs really low, you can taste it. You get use to it after a week, and don’t notice it.
My FiL has two fires, and he has a lean to on the back of his large shed, that has a lots of wind pass thoug it. he keeps his wood there. He still has the original coal number bunker into the side of his house, and uses that for coal. But that’s his emergency back up. He gets a relively small bag dropped of about every 2 years.
Now he is retired (or ment to be) he has a gardening round to keep himself for being bored, he does about 3 slow days a week, and will pick up a few garden clearances along the way. The clearances he likes as they usally give him a few weeks worth of wood. So he like to say he gets paid twice.
The rest of the wood he burns comes out of the houses the family has refitted. And anyone that’s in the pub and mentions wood or decorationing, he likes to ask can he come and look at what they are chucking away.
The older he has got the more self sufficient he is becoming. He loves his pv cells, he cot his just before the government rebate got slashed. So it pays him back quite well. In the two summer quarters he ends up up, and the bit he was paid in the summer covers his winter overages. Still saying that it’s a big investment. That is going to take prnaly ten years to pay back, before his ele teiciry is trully free. He is probably close to the ten years actully.
His aims was to rid them self’s of most bills before they retired. So if the wort ever happened they would still have heat and light, and of course their home. He keeps threatening to start growing food, but he is yet too.
I’d love to of got pv when he did, but we had the house surveid and because of the mountain cover it just wasn’t worth it.
My house is 105 years young, has no cavities and the gable faces the Irish sea. It got a battering last night. We was woke to rattling roof tiles and fingures crossed.
Its a drafty house, even with the double glazing. But I think if we fully sealed it up damp would become an issue. Like most housed in my village. As it has never bothered us, we must be warm blooded, we haven ever tried to ‘seal’ the house form drafts. I quite like them tbh.
We have a combie boiler as hot water isn’t an issue.we did have an electric boiler when we moved in, like I had as a kid. Turn it on 3p mins before you want a bath. But with 7 of us it was easier to turn on at 0700h and turn off about 2100h. That mixed thith the electric soriage heaters, that heated through the day when no one in, was pointless and for our first two moths coat £1600. So we went 3 winters with zero heating. As we had no gas.
Now a leaky detached house on a mountain facing the sea, with zero heating, is a cold place in December. We lived in the living room with a single oil electric heater, thermals, quilts and wolly hats. As asson as we paid off the electricity bill we couldn’t afford, (meter job) and we could afford CH it was done. Also we had to pay to run gas to the house.
We are thinking of putting in two wood burners now, thst way we could minimise the gas bill. The breasts run up the centre of the house, so wousl act like CH. I was planning of making paper bricks all year form waste to fule the winter.
That’s a good point Ed. Our heating is on 2h morning and evening, so doesn’t really need “learning functinon”.
It’s been a mild winter, as this year we have only probably had to have the heating on all day a hand full of times, and that was the end of Jan.
Today for instances it was on this morning for its 2h, I’m assuming it stayed on the full 2h, but hasn’t come on this evening. It should come on if the house drops below 16. It’s currently 18 everywhere and 20 in the kitchen. So it not been triggered.
Its set to ignore the triggers after 2100h to 0630h. When it is triggered it set to stay on for 2 hours or turn off if it hits 22.
I think if we lived in a newer house that doesn’t have drafts we could do quite well with out hardly any heating. I go in to many peoples houses that are like saunas. It just makes me feel sick and start leaking. My auntie has the heating going 24/7 almost all year, and thd gas fire on from about October through May. I come out of the place needing a sleep. They must pay a fortune in energy bills. As mine a 70 a month and hardly use the heating.
I think the nest is pronaly the winner hands down, I think it’s the only one (atm) that learns from your habits, and will auto turn off on and pre heat for you, with user input after a while. Even learning which days you go out and or not, and what different times on siad days. It is a good bit of kit.
But at £200 I just can’t pull the trigger. Mine is cheap Chinese job that I pre program and have it take readings off sensors around the house. Basically if a sencer gets cold or hot, it riggers a notification on an android phone then I have ifttt read notifications form said app, and if the key word I put in the notification is read by ifttt it tells Google now to tell the the heating to come on.
I already had the theromoitorz and thd Google now(home) set up, so the heating system only cost £30 iirc, and it can be controlled by voice via google home, as well as be programmed like all others. So it gets 90% of the way there for a 7th of the price.
The thing I had to master was getting the xiaomi mija theromoitors to talk to google now. Which is where ifttt’s notification key word script came in.
Next up is indevidual ‘smart’ radiator valves, but they arnt cheap yet. I’d like to be able to only turn a radiators on in the rooms that we ate in and is cold. I know by the end of the year I’ll at least have one in place. Given its February now and our radiator is usally off my end of march, its not worth the expense atm. See if they come down by October. I’d like xiaomi ones tbh, all their smart kit is brilliant and cheap.
In China they are the equivalent of apple, they are more expensive than the majority of electronic brands, but their kits we well made and Alwasy rather pretty. Puss compared to our usual western makes still cheap for us. Thier yee ligjbulbs is what introduced me to them, smart RGB bulbs for £20, needed no hun too. Thoug I ended up getting their hub as ive not got their fire alarm, theromoitors and a few other things. All great products. Shame the hub doesn’t speak engilsh, as its like a alexa/home, but doesn’t work for uk. But the app is English, (mostly), so easy to set up and manage. Plus most of the hardware once set up in the xiaomi mija app, then auto shows up in your Google home app once you link it. Same with tp link smart sockets. And sonoff switches.
A shame the thermometers didn’t ‘just show’ in Google home, as I wouldn’t need the ifttt to watch for triggers. But it works.
When I changed routers it took me about a month to get everything back working how it should. As half the stuff you set up, you set and forget. Don’t use alot so only realise when you need it, and find it doesn’t work. The tortoise was one example. Lucky I never put her into hibanation as I think her lights was off for 3 days before some one noticed. She doesn’t get fed daily, hence no one noticed.
I won’t be getting a nest camera, too expensive for me. Just like nest thermostat. Every time I see the thermostat I have to touch it, it’s one of the most satisfying bits of tech to play with.
My house is coverd in Homes but not echos.
You can log in to Google and see (and erase) everything you have ever said to Google in chronological order
https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
This is a better direct link to voice storage.
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