Saul

To be honest that is pretty much how I feel about camping. I could still do it but don't really want to. I am partial to beds and bathrooms.

Don't worry, it is worth my while.

I am working overnight 22nd, 24th, 25th then 29th, 31st and 1st. Off on all the other dates then back to my normal rota.

I hope you are going to get the Mrs to do the lifting. Don't want you opening up like a zipper.

I watched the first 4 episodes last night and I quite liked it. I remember the first series was on a submarine.

Very nice powerful bit of kit. I seriously thought about buying M3 Pro this year but chose to upgrade my phone instead. Maybe next year but if I’m honest the M1 is plenty for my needs and probably will be for years to come. Want and need are two very different things. Probably makes more sense to upgrade my Intel Mac Mini to an Apple silicon one first but again I don’t really need to. Problem I have is the females in the family squabbling over my cast offs and encouraging me to upgrade so they can have my current kit.

That is very possible with the heat.. If you want to find out which chip, click the apple in the top left hand corner of the screen, scroll down to About This Mac, should be the first option and it will tell you which chip,operating system and ram and other stuff. The M1 Macbook air came out in late 2020 so if yours predates that it will be intel and your wont have the potential 18 hour battery life. Should look something like this. Battery Medic doesn’t work well with the M1 but it is still accurate for battery life and my Air has 15 hours left on 92%. My Air is 3 years old now so it has deteriorated a little, max life I see now is around 16 hours, normally plenty to last a whole weekend at work without charging. Odie says Macs Rule.

Is it an intel chip one? The M1 and M2 Macbook Airs have a solid 10 - 18 hour battery life, which is pretty close to the best you can get.

Not sure, you would have to look into it.

I was reading something the other day and thought of you. One of the dog charities, Dogs Trust I think, was running a scheme for older dogs they can't rehome. The deal is you home the dog and they will pay all the costs including vets. Might be worth looking into mate.

The Darkness worked out we have been together 31 years this year. I could have murdered her and still been out of clink for 15 years by now. But you are right time speeds up when you get into your 30's

I remember reading Ricky Tomlinson's biography, I went right off him after that. In fact I never finished the book, after the chapter where he ran off with his step daughter, I thought what a prick and put it down.

You put some thought into that,

I'm browsing on my 14 year old Macbook Pro as I type this with Youtube running in the background perfectly. It will run Garageband and iMovie, given not the latest releases but still functional and not slowly at all. On a 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo. I have tried patching it to run the Big Sur which did slow it down but went back to El Capitan and all is back to normal and plenty quick enough. Horses for Courses. If I want more grunt I can use my 2020, fanless M1 Macbook Air running Sonoma which is blindingly quick on all but the most intensive tasks. In fact the only thing that does slow it down, and only a little, is rendering video in iMove, on battery power. Try that on a PC Laptop and the fans will be intrusive and munch through the battery in no time. My 2018 Mac Mini, now on Sonoma, has been running pretty much non stop since I bought it, as has my Mrs 2014 Mac Mini. No Mac will crawl at 5 years old, unless you make really excessive demands on it. Now I am not pretending to run any sort of commercial software and you will get possibly get more bang for buck in the PC arena but it won't have anywhere near the longevity. Now of course tax deductible is great but unless you build a PC with the top notch components (which I have done several times) it won't last as long as a Mac and even then you will be on the upgrade path. Some off the shelf HP isn't in the same ballpark, just in my humble opinion. Now I have admitted I am a geek when it comes to tech, and I am starting to even bore myself writing all this, and I have deleted half of it. Having said all of the above enjoy your new PC on the Tax Man.

Binge watched Halo season 1 last night, pretty good shoot um up Sci Fi. Surprisingly entertaining.

I know, just been putting some roller blinds up for my daughter, with advice. I am ready to kill . Sorry Pete, buy any old shit you want if it makes you happy.

Well that's a chart that measures fuck all. What's the benchmark? what's the load? what's the task? Who did the test and when? Just a random set of numbers with no provenance, we can all make them up to serve our own bias. If you want a PC and it serves your needs fine, but Buckster is right buy a Mac, it will last longer than you will

I quite like the CL500, smart looking bike that would be very easy to live with.

I will tell you a tale from when I was 16. I had a temporary job working in the rubber factory, making medical supplies like the plungers in syringes and similar little things. Anyway these things were moulded in sheets and then trimmed by presses. Working in the trim room were mostly women and working in the press deck were men. There were many more women than men. Anyway I was the QC in the trim room so working with the women. The times I got touched up as you had to bend and reach unter the trim presses to get a sample to test. Twas a daily occurrence and it was always the married women 35+ doing it. But it was 1982 and that was normal accepted behaviour in that workplace. When I left to go back and work for my dad, on the last day the women tied me to a tea trolly pulled my pants down and tied a ribbon around my dick then pushed the trolly around the trim room for all to see. Thank fuck there were no camera phones then. As you can imagine there was little to no supervision in the trim room as long as the work was done nobody cared. Looking back now twas pretty grim but I don't remember being outraged or scarred by it, not that I would recommend it. Can you imagine the furore if something like that happened now.

Too busy catching those naughty fisherman not sticking to their quotas.

Seekers in the harbour.

How could I . But Pedro does ride his bike a little more than you

I take it you didn't hear him prasing the 500X then

I nominate Pedro for the sheer quantity and quality of his posts and trip reports. He posts the most content.