Steve_M
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Probably not for too much longer. Shame ‘cos, as you say, it’s a nice tree.
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About double the height of the house. Probably 1.5m in diameter.
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If practical, remove just the one root which is on the SE side (the house is due east).
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Bugger. The tree diameter is probably four feet, the bit I need to remove is about eight feet away. The tree surgeon cost is going to be expensive
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I need advice about dealing with the roots of a (Sequoia) tree, one of which is damaging our drive. Cut it down is a last resort…
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I would highly recommend training, then continue development by joining one of the local IAM or RoSPA groups.
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Which is fine if you’re doing point to point, but our tours often end up with a route a bit like this
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I done that now, though it was a case of shutting the stable door after the horse had bolted.
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Happened to me with the car and the SV650. Luckily the garage could fit the car in next day. I’ve decided to postpone the SV650 MoT while the weather’s so inclement which means I’ll probably get stuck at the back of a long queue.
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Thanks for that link. I’ll have a peruse. I have photos for that day that will be time stamped somewhere on the laptop. It was probably mid-morning given that we stopped for refreshments. Which day, though?
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Damn, I don’t have a photo of my bike at the top. Seems like I’ll have to go back.
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Nor me. I recall the nervousness of riding across the wet, mossy, sloping cobbled village centre in Vega de Pas. Still makes me break out into a cold sweat. However, we took the Tremola in the dry at modest speeds and were giggling like schoolkids by the top. There is an alternative, non-cobbled route up to the Gottard, by the way. PS. Beware the Vosges. Tarmac roads with occasional cobbled hairpin bends to catch out the unsuspecting.
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I finally got around to removing the end can to clean all the tar spatter off it. I’ve never encountered a bike that has so much tar spatter thrown up at (by the rear tyre?). So good to see it nice and shiny (until the next warm day?).
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MRA is a sophisticated bit of kit. It has great depth of functionality most of which is not greatly used - 90/10 rule applies - and is relatively simple to use on a variety of platforms. I liked it when it was Tyre, simple without the bells and whistles. I’ve continued to use it as a day by day route planning tool when touring, and for sharing routes. EG. Norfolk RoSPA group use it to share their weekly ride out routes as it can be sed by most members regardless of which satnav unit they use.
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I showed it to my good lady. Her reaction? “There’s still not enough room for your stuff”.
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This is a confusion of terminology here, it seems. As far as I can tell, MRA’s waypoints are the equivalent of Basecamp’s shaping points, while MRA’s Via Points (which I don’t use) equate to Basecamp’s Waypoints).
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What’s the difference between waypoints and shaping points? MyRouteApp, which I use, uses the term “waypoints”, yet as far as I can tell, they appear to perform the same function. Yes, there is additional functionality, but it’s very much optional. I don’t pre-plan our tours in a manner where that would be of any use (too much faff, as you say).
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I did only had a quick google to find it, and checked the “top rated” map selection for the couple of areas I know well. They seemed fair enough.
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It’s new. Things may (will) change.
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It didn’t go too badly in the end. Some fettling required to get the door to close, and we’ll have to bugger about with scribing strips of wood where it meets - or, more accurately, doesn’t meet - the stone wall (builder’s foam may be used). I’ve cobbled together a bench ready for when we sow seeds.
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Welcome to my world…
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Back in the mists of time self assembly items came with written instructions and supporting images. You felt that the person who’d written the instructions may have actually assembled, or seen the process of assembly. Now you get a sheet of paper with some line drawings which are generally open to misunderstanding. And misunderstand you do. Or, at least, I do. Yes. I’m constructing a greenhouse from a kit…
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You might find this site useful. Best biking road, allegedly
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Caution when changing providers broadband and phone.
Steve_M replied to onesea's topic in General Chat
We had fibre when we lived in Norwich (NR4). Now on old GPO lines and unlikely to be anything else for the foreseeable.
