There are a few pavement build outs just there already, but if they then get full of Lime Bikes and rubbish (as in the photo), they aren’t really useful. The build outs on parts of Bishopsgate and around Monument Junction do get well used by the foot traffic there.

Over it now (crosses fingers) at 55 but yeah, it was WTF why are these pains like I’m 13 again? I found Flo pads really helpful, teeny things for the absorption they have.

Does remind you not to be an over perfectionist though! And it is nice to be wearing something you know no one else is.

Packable but not super small is the Tog24 one, similar to the Regatta previously posted. I have this one. www.tog24.com/collections/...

Bit hit and miss on size vs price availability, and sizing is generous.

I only went for the EE thing as it was offered as an upgrade when my existing BT contract expires next week. Openreach may have dropped the ball and not provisioned properly by the sound of it. BT I'd had no problems with for many years though so kinda annoyed.

The transition from BT to EE is being a pain. Glad I had the 4G Hybrid Connect on my contract. Openreach did their bit for the fibre modem on Wednesday, but it won't talk to either the new EE Hub or the old BT hub, despite all the Openreach lights indicating a connection. Another engineer next week.

When D was going through his cancer 2020/21, he had secondary brain tumours, obv he was told to stop driving. We hadn't run a car for years anyway. All trips to hospital for those 9 months were via taxi (black cab, booked via GETT, then got a regular driver).

Also, needing a car and actually owning/driving one are not the same thing. Occasional use in a city like London for example can be handled via taxi, still probably cheaper than cost of ownership, which tends to get overlooked. Plus parking causes issues.

Sending hugs. Pretty sure mine is done now (it has to be 12 months without anything I believe) but the fatigue, joints and hate is a thing. Mind you, I hated everyone before so ;) My first symptoms hit during nursing D through cancer so put them down to stress (plus during lockdowns), but hellish

Is the brown furry stuff in the gutters what comes off the plane trees? Have been having a bit of a coughing fit once on the train at VXH in the evening. Not as bad early am.

Is it a lot of tree pollen at the mo? On my commute it’s not that green per se but in C London lots of plane trees and similar along the main roads and it looked like bits floating around in the air?

Same here. Felt lousy last couple of days.

Come on, don’t you know Zone 6 is the Twilight Zone? TBF I do have C9 in LBH thanks to a former councillor who stood up to the NIMBYs, but I have to travel 6 miles before the start of it, and I can’t work out WTF if anything is supposed to happen in the centre of Brentford.

Are you sure we weren’t separated at birth? 🙃 as I am also 55 in early June.

Indefinite Leave to Remain is a long winded and very expensive process, often sponsored by the company if the applicant is a high level C suite executive. These guys are net contributors and higher rate taxpayers who employ thousands.

High level management skilled visas are 5 years at a time, so only 1 renewal.

My hairdresser (not near you, sorry) charges by length of hair, plus the cut and the finish separately or packaged, so I have a short hair dry cut, essentially clippers and a bit of scissors over comb, 7 on top and 2 back and sides, £20. Long hair not that ££ though.

Way to go SWTrains. Perfectly good 450 with 2 x wheelchair spaces and 2 x bike spaces per 8 car replaced by a 458/4 with no bike spaces, even though still 8 car. Thought I was losing it when I couldn’t find 3 flip down seat equivalent. Not like there is any luggage space either.

Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!

I was. I'm glad the internet etc did not exist then. As it was, I got punished for bunking off due bullying, yet nothing done about the bullies themselves aside a stern talking to which if anything made things worse. If I'd been exposed to social media, not sure I'd have made it though.

Student quoted as driver coming from side road by Indian High Commission out onto pedestrian section (how WTF) sharp turn, rammed into fence by church in the middle. There are serious bollards either end of this section, so authorised delivery entry?

According to latest on BBC one woman dead, several critical, driver drunk and drugged, near Indian High Commission. Which is Aldwych rather than Strand. Plus Kings is on the pedestrian bit now?

I've never known another one as quick as the one at Sunningdale. Green Man was instant all 4 times I used it in the last week. Most times in London there's quite a wait, even on a straight road with no competing junctions.

Just over 6 years ago, down my road. It was a drugs growing place in a vacant property where they'd hacked the electric. Lady downstairs, 80 at the time, had to be rehoused for 2 years of the rebuild as both flats damaged. There was a scramble for moving cars to get appliances through at 4am.

Is there an algorithm programmed into beg buttons on crossings? As in per crossing, determined by traffic flow? In London, you can wait ages for the green man. I was in Sunningdale this week, and the crossing of the main road by the train station, it's instant green man. Should all be like this.

Agree. But online nut jobs are never happy. They always say what about our homeless when a low budget hotel is used for immigration housing, yet when we try to do the right thing, the NIMBYs come out.

What was nice is that when I got to the pavement and was examining that part of the B to see what had happened, a couple of other cyclists pulled over to see if I needed any help.

Mine was part way round the Hammersmith Gyratory in the pre C9 days. A bit hairy but thankfully I’d already got across to the lane I needed so coasted to the pavement, folded and got the tube.

I can't even bear to listen to Trump. It's hard to fathom the US elected someone with a childlike demeanor and speaking voice, no gravitas, no presence, no anything other than an ability to throw a paddy, p*ss off most of the world, and kiss P*tin's backside?

Not a monster mash?