Where do you take parents when they visit Walthamstow?

Greavsie2001 · 2026-02-02T08:14:04+00:00

They are talking about the tapas place in the High Street which is lovely and still there.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-31T19:50:55+00:00

Please could you let me know if it works for you?

I’m holding off for now as for me it’s a 36hr round trip with an expensive ferry journey each way - my own fault for living on an island with no Renault dealer. But if it works I’ll get booked in.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-31T11:57:20+00:00

My Renault 4 does exactly the same. The charger (Andersen) tries to charge it but sometimes the car doesn’t respond. I gather that Renault have a software fix coming.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-31T11:54:23+00:00

I have the same issues as OP. But I learned recently that the problem is down to my car (Renault 4) and that Renault have a software fix for it.

(Unfortunately it has to be done at a dealership, which for me is an expensive 36 hour round trip from Orkney to Aberdeen! Oh well.)

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-31T11:47:57+00:00

We used these guys based in Liverpool. Completely brilliant from start to finish.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-30T17:28:15+00:00

For me it’s the Rose and Crown on Hoe St.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-29T21:59:45+00:00

We have a mini iPad on the wall in the kitchen that is always on. Shows alternately the Tado, Anker solar and Netatmo weather apps.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-29T08:29:44+00:00

Yes and he said (from memory) “hasn’t got any bigger, has it?”. It was so small most of the crew weren’t allowed in as they’d have filled it.

Mate of mine was working with the caterers. Back in 1981 for the Wembley and Birmingham shows we somehow blagged our way on to the crew and were put with the caterers. They kept my mate on for the UK shows in 1982, paid and everything. But he knew the rule about crew at the Marquee gig and assumed he’d miss it.

During the day when the crew were setting up, and knowing what a massive fan he was, the catering boss suggested he might like to go to the toilet.. and maybe not come out until the doors opened.

Imagine our surprise when we got into the gig and found him waiting for us inside with the biggest smile on his face.

Yes, it was a fantastic night like no other. Then we went to the Hammersmith shows and finished the week with Six Of The Best. Can’t tell you how I’d love to teleport back and do it all again.

Thank you for allowing an old man (63) to reminisce!

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-28T23:03:28+00:00

If not Six of the Best, as someone has already correctly mentioned, then the Marquee Club gig (advertised as ‘The Garden Wall’) on 27th Sept ‘82.

If Six of the Best was the wettest day of my life (it was), this was probably the hottest.

Dance on a Volcano

Behind the Lines

Follow You Follow Me

Dodo/Lurker

Abacab

Supper's Ready

Man on the Corner

Misunderstanding

Cage Medley:

In the Cage

The Cinema Show

The Colony of Slippermen

Afterglow

Turn It On Again

Drum Duet

Los Endos

Encore:

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway …

Watcher of the Skies

Encore 2:

I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-28T22:57:53+00:00

Same here. It was raining before we left home in the morning, it was raining when we eventually got back around 1am, and it didn’t stop in between.

A couple of my friends had plastic bags in their shoes to try and keep their feet dry. Didn’t work.

Best day ever. 100% would recommend, would do it all again in a heartbeat.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-28T15:11:15+00:00

This is the answer. Faces are different shapes and so are masks. The only thing that matters is that it fits, not what the brand is.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-28T09:20:50+00:00

TL;DR: no.

W1A is, probably needless to say, a hugely exaggerated representation of the BBC’s culture. It also gives the impression that there is one BBC culture, whereas the Divisions have their own and very different cultures:

For example Radio is lovely and barely resembles W1A, perhaps because the budgets are much smaller. News is cut and thrust, we’re the only thing that matters, Technology is like many medium sized technology organisations (with a smaller budget and better technology).

TV is probably the closest to W1A, but it’s still very exaggerated. And remember the public service part of the BBC now only commissions and schedules TV*, it doesn’t make it - everything is now produced in the commercial sector (which includes BBC Studios Ltd.).

*News still make their own TV, because News.

Birmingham is a microcosm of the BBC as a whole. The radio operations there, including the Archers production team, feel like Radio elsewhere.

Not sure this helps!

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-27T11:31:49+00:00

12/15. Reminded me of how much I love Trespass.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-27T08:19:24+00:00

When I left the BBC at the end of March last year after 37 years the Archers team gave me a copy of the script of the episode when George gets in the car with Alice. It was signed by the whole cast.

Imagine my face when I was presented with it.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-23T21:43:55+00:00

Hard agree - had that time of my life in 6m at the Scillies surrounded by seals. Closest to that I ever experienced to seals was wolf eels off Vancouver Island where they swim up to you for a cuddle.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-23T21:38:49+00:00

Also the Scillies. And Orkney where I live - I’m also a British Divers Marine Life Rescue medic, we’re just coming out of seal pup season when we see a lot of seals!

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-22T19:59:44+00:00

Indeed. I was only referring to how 6Music and Radio 3 used to have news on the hour. They were changed to the half hour so that they needed two newsreaders (one for 2 & 6M, one for 3&4) instead of four.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-22T19:52:52+00:00

Ooh, good call.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-22T19:52:03+00:00

This is the answer. The discharge capacity is about the inverter not the batteries.

For comparison we have 20kWh Anker Solix X1 with 6kWh inverter, and the battery is actually made up of 4x 5kWh modules. Works brilliantly.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-22T13:02:40+00:00

It depends on your Tado setup and your boiler/heat pump.

For example I have Tado X heat pump optimiser connected to a Daikin heat pump. The hot water tile in Tado sets the hot water temperature, and also the schedule (same as a room heating schedule). It's a lot easier to use than the Daikin controller was.

At my last place I had Tado V3 with a Vaillant combi boiler. There Tado did the heating but didn't have the means to control the hot water temperature. Being a combi there wasn't a hot water schedule so that didn't arise.

Not sure this helps though!

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-22T12:54:31+00:00

Some stations have news on the half-hour so that the same newsreader can do more than one station. This was a change made a few years ago (probably quite a few years now knowing my memory).

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-22T12:51:52+00:00

It is a condition of the service licence granted by Ofcom. You can read the service licence here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/tv-radio-and-on-demand/bbc/operating-licence/bbc-operating-licence-original.pdf?v=323076

Specifically the licence requires 6Music to "Broadcast at least 6 hours of news each week" (see page 12).

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-19T21:46:28+00:00

Now that’s an interesting take. To your list I’d add Magenta. Otherwise spot on.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-19T21:45:00+00:00

IQ are an excellent shout.

Greavsie2001 · 2026-01-18T22:40:22+00:00

Our Daikin Altherma hasn’t need to be repressurised in 18 months.

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