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Looks like 2016 but they have a 2022 single so suspect there might be a new one this year

That's it, meshuggah are on Spotify tomorrow. I have a broken solidworks toolbox at work that I need to fix and angry music sounds are needed Been listening to coheed and cambria a lot recently, worth a listen if you like prog rock.

I had a balloon explode whilst blowing it up, a whipping tail end hit me in the eye and badly scratched the cornea. Went and got it checked at minor injuries and they gave me some ointment to keep it lubricated. Spent a day not being about to look at any light and it was fixed after that. The eyeballs heal stupendously quickly but really annoying because it prevents you do lots of things.

Also do not clamp/cut the cord or let them do it until the umbilical has stopped pulsing completely. That's your baby's blood, it belongs in your baby, don't deny it a fairly essential thing to start life off with!

Water birth relieves a huge amount of weight off the mother so it's easier to get the oxytocin going. Oxytocin is the main birth hormone that the body uses to do the whole relaxing and pain relief bit, stress reduces it so the more comfortable you are the more oxytocin. We home birthed Persephone and Aneurin with no drugs, just a quiet, comfortable dark room with no stress and the birth pool at the right temperature. Three hours and two hours labour respectively, P was 9lb 1/2 oz and A was 10lb 9 Oz. We freebirthed A completely and only phoned the midwives after he was born. If you have someone fussing over you in order to complete a tick box checklist (which unfortunately is what midwives* mostly do ) then the stress levels build, oxytocin drops and it all goes tits up. *Not all midwives are like this but there is still a lot who stick to the old 50s NHS training of a very rigid birth routine. Some of them, particularly younger ones are really progressive and more willing to go with the flow. If you're interested in the home birth or even at alternatives to being strapped screaming to a hospital bed then find a local doula and they will be able to help a huge amount If you want any further insights, hit us up. edit: oh and home birth? What are hospitals full of? Infections that you're not used to, stay at home and minimise the infection risk. If things are going wrong then blue light in. Plan it from the start and be aware that EVERYTHING is your choice and they cannot make you do anything.

That's some impressive stamina Mike, no wonder you were so knackered on the brecon beast! oh right, I see, not 11 years constant.... Four bits of advice - home/water birth, attachment parenting, baby wearing and cloth nappies Oh and weleda calendula nappy cream, that shit is the bomb

Gotta work on the dad bod now Congrats again!

Yeah I've heard the name ebac but not looked into them, it would appear that only a few companies still split the drum to allow bearing replacement. Pulled the old bearings and seal out this morning, went and got replacements from the local engineering supply and set about cleaning the drum up before putting them back in. A YouTube video had suggested using gorilla glue to stick the two halves back together but this one is polypropylene so all but impossible to glue. Bolted the cut flange back together with about 20 M5 screws and nylocks and then welded the joint shut with an old soldering iron. Tested it with a couple of gallon of water as a drip test and all seems to be water tight. Just finished putting it back together and run a rinse and spin cycle though and all sweet as a nut and back to being virtually silent again Total cost, just over 35 quid. How long it lasts is anyone's guess I think it'll be ok as long as there isn't a massive out of balance load. The concrete balance weights are attached to the front and back sections of the drum hence if there's loads of movement then it'll be stressing the weld rather a lot. Time will tell.

So the washing machine has been getting noisy on the spin cycle of late, seal has obviously failed and washed the grease out of the inner bearing. Outer bearing is perfect and the drum is rock solid with no movement so now is the ideal time to pop new bearings in. It's 7-8 years old and has been washing nappies all of its life so to be fair it's done incredibly well. Except f**k you beko, what tosser though it was a good idea to weld the two halves of the plastic outer drum together so you cannot get the inner drum out to replace bearings. 140 quid for an entire drum assembly and throw the entire thing away.... Bollocks to that, the machine might go pop next week so we're not going to spend 140 quid on a new drum. Enter Mr hacksaw, after 3 hours of sawing I now have the inner drum out, ready to get new seal and bearings tomorrow. What a bloody ridiculous design, it appears to be rife with most of the manufacturers now Aneurin helped me with a spare hacksaw blade converted into a padsaw with some cardboard and masking tape for a handle

Extension shell is all closed up, plumber came and routed the boiler flue up through the roof this afternoon and I've started to put the new back door in. Shame that since we took the mortgage out for the build, the cost of materials has tripled and the naked shell has blown the budget entirely edit: there is no chance of me changing career to be a door fitter! Frame went in lovely and square but after I'd packed it out I realised that the bottom catch side of the door was sticking proud of the frame and the lock hooks wouldn't engage without a bit of a shove. After much f**kery I needed to trim 10mm off the nose of the sill on the catch side and pack the hinge side up by 3mm. Door now closes sweet as a nut, all finishes square and flush and the locks engage properly Also covered in expanding foam ...

I have a nasty suspicion that I still have the original hope mini pads on the back of my intense from when I bought the caliper back in about 2003 I dare say that it's not had so much hardcore use though

House extension shell should be finished and watertight today Now we've got to do the inside bits!

This is true, turning circle on the 7m long sprinter is almost as good as the 5m smax, mirrors are much better and because you're sat so much further up you can spy on what crap people have in their footwells when sat in traffic jams on the motorway

Ah but he was talking about a 7m long motorhome, the sprinter I posted up there is only 500ish mm longer than the caddy

Try standing up in it and making a cup of tea

Oh and don't discount the luxury of being able to stand up in your van, so many transporter owners I've seen that have to park, pop the roof up, put the awning up, build the kitchen and THEN make a cup of tea! We can park and be cooking bacon and brewing coffee within minutes

You might be suprised just how easy sprinters are to drive, they're relatively narrow for a van and I don't thing that's much longer than my smax! If you fancy some light reading on a self build, this book is excellent. Don't set a budget and just build what you can, when you can https://climbingvan.co.uk/product/the-van-conversion-bible/ edit: smax length is 4796, SWB sprinter length is 5267!

What you want is a SWB high top sprinter, they're f**king comical to look at though Do your own conversion and tailor it perfectly for what you need.

Could almost do all that in a ford smax Not as good as a van for amenities though! Persephone does MTB training at Cannock chase on a Saturday morning and it's lovely to tromp back to the sprinter and put the kettle on for tea to warm up before driving 20 minutes home

Unfortunately buying a van at the moment is a fools game, prices are still up a few grand over what they were pre-covid. Might be better with a big estate/mpv?

With a small air bubble in there it may still be enough force to move the pistons in free air but as soon as any resistance in met it will compress and lever will pull to the bars. Hang it up by the bars over night, tap the line occasionally to try to get the bubbles moving upwards towards the lever and syringe bleed the last bit of air out

This is also true, life of excess takes its toll. I'm amazed that lemmy lasted as long as he did

I believe he had quite bad asthma, who knows what other co-morbidities. Likewise.... I had my last jab in april, according to the government covid will put me in hospital and I need to get boosted NOW! Or I'll just let my natural immuity handle it now like it did over christmas and I didn't catch omicron despite it being in the house.

That's a bit pre-judgemental isn't it? I mean she might be a lovely lass!