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It's not ideal but in some ways I would sooner it was burnt than going into the environment.

thanks for helpful suggestions - going up today to have a look

I rent a house out and the tenant has a new custom built PC - he plugged it in and power supply went bang. He got a replacement PC from the company and exactly the same happened. The fuses tripped but could be reset ok. He has lived there for 3 years and is a good tenant, never had problems before. He does run a lot of stuff on the circuit. I can get an electrician out to check circuits but wonder what is going on?Any ideas? Electrical safety check and certificate was done ok 3 years ago. Thanks for any advice.

Every local authority must have similar needs for IT - HR, data access, safeguarding etc. If the government procured a system that could be used by all authorities it would save a fortune. However this seems impossible same as police, NHS etc. No one seems to have the foresight, ability or power to do this.

I have found https://www.komoot.com/ to be useful when route planning showing off road options.

I've got a mountain bike but changed knobbly tires for smoother ones. Easier on road but still ok on gravel/towpaths.

Years ago I had a transit van and I found a simple black switch that disconnected the ignition installed by previous owner. I used it when parking up. It saved it from being stolen twice when thieves broke into and couldn't start it. Maybe something that needs to come back into fashion?

Thanks for recommendations will have a look

Can anyone recommend a trail camera? Not too expensive as I want to leave it out at different country parks in the city. I do environmental volunteering and want to see what animals are out and about especially at night. Thanks

Really noticing food inflation when I went tesco yesterday. e.g. used to be two packets of cheese for £3 - now £4 with one packet of mozzarela £2.60 that is 33 percent inflation and gas/electric way higher than that. So headline figure of inflation is not representative of typical cost increase to average person. I got rid of virgin tv box and landline - reduced monthly broadband bill from £58 to £28

looking at linkedin spam messages What used to be the personnel department that morphed into human resources are now talent co-ordinators. I can feel a victor meldrew moment coming on.

Do you find that this cuts down on printing worksheets etc? My last school of 1200 students were printing/copying 2 million pages a year.

pizza - buy a panasonic bread machine - makes dough in 45 minutes. Can make them as nearly as quick as takeaway.

It will never happen - more distraction tactics. Can't stop illegal scooters - halfords sell about 10 sorts. In fact just legalise scooters and say they can go same place as bikes.

Having just read Sherlock Holmes The red-headed League I am suspicious of this