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. If you feel the picking up area is too small (they often are) go and talk to the local authority that designed and constructed the school, not the teachers who had no say in how the place was laid out. . The school at the end of our cul-de-sac was rebuilt a few years ago - a huge drop off area &a...

I wish organisations would stop replacing thin peel-off laminated membership cards with plastic ingots where this is not needed. National Trust and Cycling UK both did this. I just looked and I have 14 credit-card sized cards of the standard 0.76mm thickness in my bulging wallet. Funnily enough, th...

The last time I used a film SLR, I shot 6 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm film. Even with Jessops low prices, the cost was a considerable chunk of the cost of an entry level DSLR. At the time, even though I had a digital compact camera, the cost of the film, developing and printing caused me to give film...

Here's an alternative view I'm one of Tangled Metals in between people. I want to jog memories, I want to take interesting photos, I want to enjoy the taking of the photo. I'm not flush with cash, I am technically poor (but learning) and I don't take a lot of photos. I use film cameras. Shock! Horro...

I've never had a comment about my choice of headgear. I wonder if it's related to the rest of the outfit? Do riders in 'all the gear' get these comments if they're unhelmeted much more than riders in casual attire? (As you might have guessed, I tend towards everyday clothing and flat cap) I'm a tren...

You can never get it right all the time, though. I had a similar experience when riding slowly on a towpath, except that when I said "Excuse me please" one turned round and snarled, "Why don't you ring your **** bell?" To which I replied, "I did - three times!" :roll: ...

Over the years I've come across a couple of closed roads due to RTCs - being pleasant to the police officers at the closure, and explaining the issue of the detour has allowed me through on each occasion. I don't take this for granted, and show respect at the actual scene and make sure I don't make ...

I experienced several shades of "team building" exercises during my years attempting to climb the greasy pole of NHS management. Without exception they were toxic, disturbing and unhelpful. I saw grown men reduced to tears; experienced female managers fighting like cats, and friendships of...

brynpoeth wrote:I love my back-pedal or coaster brake

So do I - I've used them for many years.

I'm seeing disc brakes appearing on newer bargain-basement machines, I would guess these will be the first point of failure.

I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my gormless idiot phone.

These comments mirror what a lot of people in the analogue photography world are saying. Certainly the non-proffesional digital photographer will 'spray & pray' whereas film makes you ensure that every shot counts. (Or in my case, you attempt to try to make it count!). With film there's less ten...

120 roll film still in production and available at Jessops https://www.jessops.com/p/ilford/fp4-plus-120-roll-19454 Ta. I couldn't find any some years ago. I might give it a go. A long time I worked in a local newspaper darkroom, so I have some skills remaining but I have none of the equipment left...

Like you Sweep I have 2 of the battery ones and one of the original Lithium ones. I keep that in the fridge cool section. I have glued a short cable to that one as I intend to run it from a smallish powerbank. Good lights but they now cost too much. What do Aldi do? Aldi have also rather lost it on...

I said on Twitter that this was a London-centric issue, and was taken to task, but I stand by it being a big-city problem. I probably spend more time on towpaths than most due to my volunteering role with the Canal and River Trust (CRT) and see all sides of this. Most of the towpath network is perfe...

At least he (or his minion) seems to have read your letter. No matter how individualised my letter is, my MP (also Tory) only ever responds with two line preprepared "thank you and sod off" letters.

I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my gormless idiot phone.

When I was fit - a long time ago. I used to ride a heavy black roadster (you know the type of thing - a 'policemans bike') to & from work. Saving my decent bike(s) for weekends. There is a long deceptive drag, not that steep, but long, up to the lights near my house. I used to delight in seeing ...