Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

Up by the BBC were you?

Neville Street, I believe.

 

[DCLane]

No1 daughter and a friend got almost to the top of Snowdon, yesterday!
Discretion being the better part of valour, they turned back as the weather was too nasty to risk it. Sensible decision, methinks!!

Snowdon's the final one on my list to still finish, having got injured on a 24-hour UK peaks walk a few years ago. One day...

 

[classic33]

Neville Street, I believe.

Almost under the railway station! You'll sleep well tonight.
I thought I recognised the wall, I was wrong.

Not far away is "The Dalek" and "Tornado Alley". The pavements have glass shielding to stop you being blown away.

 

[Reynard]

Well, that's a replacement NOS power pack / charger thingy bought for the Vaio. Didn't bother getting one with a mains cable, as I have two cables as it is.

Now doing a quick bit of research on the laptop that I'm looking at getting - Lenovo 430 Think Pad. A mate bought one a couple of months ago and he's really pleased with it.

Downside is it's a 14 inch screen rather than the 15 inch that I'm used to, but there's nothing with a similar spec AND a 15 inch screen in budget. Other question is do I go for a 256 Gb ssd and 8 Gb RAM or a 240 Gb ssd and 16 Gb RAM. The latter is 40 squid more. I'm angling towards the bigger hard drive.

FYI, this VAIO only has 1 Gb RAM and a 120 Gb hdd...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well, that's a replacement NOS power pack / charger thingy bought for the Vaio. Didn't bother getting one with a mains cable, as I have two cables as it is.

Now doing a quick bit of research on the laptop that I'm looking at getting - Lenovo 430 Think Pad. A mate bought one a couple of months ago and he's really pleased with it.

Downside is it's a 14 inch screen rather than the 15 inch that I'm used to, but there's nothing with a similar spec AND a 15 inch screen in budget. Other question is do I go for a 256 Gb ssd and 8 Gb RAM or a 240 Gb ssd and 16 Gb RAM. The latter is 40 squid more. I'm angling towards the bigger hard drive.

FYI, this VAIO only has 1 Gb RAM and a 120 Gb hdd...

I went from 4 to 8RAM and the improvement was so great that I've never envied 16. So I'd save £40....

 

[PeteXXX]

Snowdon's the final one on my list to still finish, having got injured on a 24-hour UK peaks walk a few years ago. One day...

A mate and I rode up it a few years ago 4 days before my 63rd birthday.
We want up the Llanberis Path & down the Snowdon Ranger. I've never walked it, though. (Apart from the unrideable bits, that is )

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A mate and I rode up it a few years ago 4 days before my 63rd birthday.
We want up the Llanberis Path & down the Snowdon Ranger. I've never walked it, though. (Apart from the unrideable bits, that is )

Some wags also drove a 4x4 up Snowden a decade ago. Twice!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/sep/30/snowdon-4x4-abandoned-summit

 

[gavroche]

I am glad so many of you come round the part of the world I live in. I love North Wales and have been living here for 40 years now : beautiful scenery, lovely people, loads to see and of course, plenty of places to go cycling.

 

[PeteXXX]

I am glad so many of you come round the part of the world I live in. I love North Wales and have been living here for 40 years now : beautiful scenery, lovely people, loads to see and of course, plenty of places to go cycling.

I've not done many Road miles in N Wales apart from Vrynwy to Bala and back over a couple of 'little' hills
Most has been MTB: Coed y Brenin, Marin Trail, That hill down to Harlech Beach, along the beach, and back up to the castle. Lovely riding, as you say!!

 

[postman]

I have spent a wet windy sunny all of the above day,compiling a list of songs for my funeral,whenever that will be.It's on my Spotify list on my phone.A mixture of pop and worship songs.

 

[DCLane]

Almost under the railway station! You'll sleep well tonight.
I thought I recognised the wall, I was wrong.

Not far away is "The Dalek" and "Tornado Alley". The pavements have glass shielding to stop you being blown away.

That's on my commuting route; I got blown over at Bridgewater Place where they've now installed the glass walls and vents. Being blown over bent the frame on my Raleigh Airlite

 

[Reynard]

The original power pack for the laptop is well and truly kaput. It won't work regardless of which mains cable i use and what kind of fuse I put in the plug. I doubt the issue is with the mains cable as that's just a length of 3-wire cable with a connector at each end.

The generic "spare" one from Maplin, I've managed to revive - the dodgy connection has been rendered non-wiggly by a load of electrical tape and duck tape. Standard engineering fix. Hopefully this will work until the new power pack / charger turns up on Wednesday or Thursday.

I'd rather try the cheaper option first, rather than pulling the trigger on a new laptop right away. Although that might well be on the horizon anyways, because I still need to find the time to see if I can't get my flatbed scanner working again. If the scanner can't be revived, then a newer scanner may well require a newer laptop. I really need to do my homework on this one...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

That's on my commuting route; I got blown over at Bridgewater Place where they've now installed the glass walls and vents. Being blown over bent the frame on my Raleigh Airlite

A bit of local research means that I now know where Bridgewater Place is and I can confirm it's a place by a bridge and water. Haven't seen any glass walls though.

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, it's time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[tyred]

I think I have made a mistake in my Sudoko