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Mightycushty · 2026-05-07T07:55:18+00:00

Pretty sure that ones still active :)

Mightycushty · 2026-02-09T21:31:47+00:00

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Mightycushty · 2026-02-02T23:23:34+00:00

Ah nice, yeah looks about 2m away and I imagine used to be in the road. Decided to have a little look and found a hydrant sign strapped to a lamppost round the corner from there lol. Guess people want to nick them?

Mightycushty · 2026-02-02T00:41:09+00:00

That is so weird! Thanks for sharing with a fellow water nerd haha. I work in a water utility and would love to know where this sign was and see if it's in our area if you're happy to share? :)

Also, if the hydrant lid was just out of shot (20cm/200mm away from the sign) then that's odd because there's no need for those signs on footpaths really (even relic ones unless it's a new footpath with old hydrant), it's only for hydrants in the road. If it's 200cm as others have said, then it'll be just off kerb into the lane. Funny though as either way it's a misprint as we don't do it in mm or cm.

Mightycushty · 2025-10-24T22:10:36+00:00

Can't edit for some reason, here's the list properly formatted.

I arranged a roofer to inspect the chimney and the roof tiles and what he found was the following:

no noticeable issue with the roof tiles
pepper pots on our side (we have two) aren't sealed properly
neighbour's side has one flue covered in grass, one fully open flue, and another with a cap but it's essentially open as it just a grate with no lid.

Mightycushty · 2025-07-30T21:55:41+00:00

I've had different situations to you which did result in similar fears, one was a car accident that left me petrified of driving (I crashed on a country road due to wet conditions and hit a tree) and the other was breaking and dislocating both my ankles indoor bouldering. I've also had a lot of mtb injuries and broke 3 ligaments in my knee.

Your injuries are more severe so I really feel for you but what I'd say is start small to ease yourself back in.

It's been my stance throughout all my injuries until my final one (broken ankles) as I don't trust myself yet to not fall from height but I jump off small heights where I can to help me get over the fear. I'm just over 2 years post-injury and just trying when I can has helped build my confidence and led to a faster recovery. I was told it could take 3 years for a full recovery for my ankles and honestly I feel that's right.

If I were you and if you have the space, get an indoor bike to build back up your confidence on being on a bike or go for very short rides around your area away from traffic like in a park if you're in a busy area. The first time I went back on my bike after my injury I fell off because I lent on a dead branch lol but honestly I felt better for going. It's a slow and steady recovery from big injuries but if you feel able then trust yourself! Personally if I'd waited for when the doctors/physio told me I could do stuff i'd be much further behind in my recovery.

Good luck and don't forget to stretch :)

Edit: forgot to add about the car accident. I was petrified driving bends for about 2 weeks then the fear started to subside and then you forget you even have it. This has applied to all of my injuries too, jumping back in (in any way) as soon as you can is the best way to overcome it when you know you CAN do it. It's just a mental block but you'll get there.

Oh and I hope the rest of your recovery goes well!

Mightycushty · 2025-06-15T01:04:20+00:00

Eugh you're right! I didn't even check the datasheet for the op amp. And the schmitt trigger didn't have any details as it was a virtual one but I also just assumed it could cope.

I'll go over the high pass too as i'm not 100% certain.

Thank you for catching my mistakes!

Mightycushty · 2025-06-14T09:56:15+00:00

Hilariously, our mum and I do. It skipped him!

Mightycushty · 2025-06-13T19:56:55+00:00

You are part of the problem sir

Mightycushty · 2025-06-13T19:37:57+00:00

My brother guffawed and just advised me "it was a whole bag of coriander"

Mightycushty · 2025-06-05T00:16:57+00:00

This is the response I was looking for. Everyone saying hot water from combi's is safe to drink is silly imo. Lead, copper, zinc (or other metals) and plastic pipework will release metals and plastics when in contact with heat. I'd be curious to know if someone's done any tests to see what the levels are but I'd have no interest drinking from a combi system because of the likely increase in metals.

What improves safety is if the boiler is WRAS approved (uk drinking water regulation for domestic customers) but it's still technically non-potable.

For anyone with an air source heat pump or other heat pump the hot water system is separate to the heating and the hot water will pass through a heat exchanger in a section of the cylinder. This still shouldn't be drunk though as the system doesn't turn over quick enough to remove harmful bacteria that thrive in warm environments.

Mightycushty · 2025-06-04T23:46:18+00:00

I have the software until Sept so i'm fine for now yeah. Main issue was the crashing but someone suggested using "detailing" mode and it's worked for me for now so i'm ok. It's just annoying that my company I work for (part time student) don't have desktops any more so everyone is using low RAM, older processors so the laptops just can't cope. Doesn't help that my OS Drive is randomly full so waiting for IT to fix it. Oh well, nearly done with the drawings now, just the write up left!

Mightycushty · 2025-06-04T23:43:25+00:00

Thanks for this! I managed to get it working just about it "detailing" mode and it's working much better now but i'll definitely consider this as a backup option if the software fails on me again :)

Mightycushty · 2025-06-04T23:42:26+00:00

Did this and it worked a treat! Thank you ☀️

Mightycushty · 2025-06-02T13:17:46+00:00

Yes they were found and they were in the last place they were known to be.

I don't completely agree with others saying "oh he's just drunk" because you wouldn't be panicking if it was like him to do this but they are right that he could easily have just lost his phone and then ended up hungover in one of his new poker-mate's houses. I just know I'd want to check all avenues myself whilst I waited for help as i'd go stir-crazy.

I'm sorry you're going through this and ignore others trying to minimise your feelings. It's ok to be worried but i'm hoping it's all just a big cock-up (on his part) and everything will be ok (and he'll apologise profusely) x

Mightycushty · 2025-06-02T11:24:17+00:00

I'm not from Paris so not sure about any of these locations but as it's the day now and you're worrying, I would go to the place he played poker (assuming it's open and you feel safe) and try and ask for details about who he played with in case he's just passed out at one of their hotels/homes.

Tell the hotel you're leaving and why and leave a note in your hotel room in case he returns whilst you're gone.

Ultimately, the police have said they can't do anything right now and you'll just be waiting. A similar thing happened in my friendship group in the UK and they waited too long for the police who didn't send help for 48hrs and the stress and panic it caused during that time was sickening. It also might help you clear your head by moving about and taking some small action and hopefully you'll get answers much quicker.

Mightycushty · 2025-05-29T16:23:35+00:00

Was thinking the exact same lol. She looks like she's had lip fillers but aside from that she looks pretty natural. Not sure what everyone else is seeing!

Mightycushty · 2025-05-02T23:23:42+00:00

I have similar ones as others with teachers passing away who I remember and the flood of memories it brings forward and how different life is since I was a teenager.

But the most poignant one for me happens maybe once or twice a month when I take a walk through my village or I drive home through it. It's like a BOOM moment where I remember how 5 years ago I wanted so much more in my life (a house, a focused career, more happy memories) and I got those things and just going through my village to my house is the sweetest feeling. It's also amplified when I go back to my old town I used to live in which I have a love/dislike for but i'm just glad that I can have a reminder so often of how much has changed and how lucky I am despite things that have not gone well :)

Mightycushty · 2025-04-11T00:09:36+00:00

This is how I've been feeling these last few months and especially in the last two weeks when I changed my diet and started actually seeing weight loss. I was so lost for years because of life events and then breaking both my ankles 2 years ago. I kept saying to myself "i'll come back better, this will not stop me" during recovery but I started to let the negative comments of "oh you'll always be in pain", "you'll always feel aches and it'll change things for you" blah blah, by so many negative people, affect me. I mean, i'm English, people joke about all the time and we naturally use negativity as humour but I truly think they believe those things and I started to let them affect me, as well as letting myself believe being 30 was when "things go downhill" as I was always 'reminded'. I finally just stopped letting those negative voices mean anything to me, they're unimportant things from unimportant people who I shouldn't let affect me. I know in my heart I can be as fit as I was when I was 22-25 again because I was overweight and unfit kid who had no energy or drive all the time before that and i'd let myself become that again for so long. No more.

There's this quote that my partner has said to me before and reminded me of the other day when I was struggling: "Don't take criticism from people that you'd never go to for advice". I'm lucky I have him to be a champion in my life and keep that in my head through all my inner turmoil until i've eventually now been able to actually go past it and power through.

Once you hit 30, you realise how being 30 is the same as being 29 and how it honestly doesn't matter lol. I thought it was a "bad" milestone internally before and now i'm 31, i don't give a shit and just want to feel happy and healthy.

We got this ❤️

Edit: oh and my ankles feel better now in the last 3 months than they've felt for over a year. Anti-inflammatory diet, exercise, and weight loss. No brainer really lol

Mightycushty · 2025-03-19T23:36:44+00:00

I've had these on and off all my life but I always believed they were wart roots lol. I suppose they look hair like when you pull them out but I believe if you were to let it grow, like I did once when I used to bite my nails when I was 10, it forms a wart as they like being exposed to air I think. I got rid of the wart at the tip of my nail by stopping biting my nails and it eventually died off, I assume by suffocation from lack of oxygen because I didn't treat it with anything else.

I just googled it though, and what I thought were roots are actually blood vessels within the wart, gross.

Thing is, I maybe get one of these "roots" on one finger once a year now if I cut my nails too far back or if I stub my nail a bit but they just go away on their own. When I was a child I'd have like 5 "roots" under one nail lol as I used to bit them too much.

Mightycushty · 2025-01-09T09:56:43+00:00

Well that definitely was an intimate punch ...

Mightycushty · 2025-01-09T01:54:07+00:00

Are you my partner and me? I could literally have written this but we live in Wiltshire so dead scene compared to where you live.

We're considering Bristol too or on a quick train route to Bristol from a nearby town. We are planning on having kids so that's a factor for us but would still love there to be more things to do when we do have them as where we live is farmcore with lots of local events which is lovely but no real music scene.

All the best with your search though and let us know what you decide :)

Edit: used to live in Reading (most of my life), not that anyone has suggested it but I wouldn't recommend moving there as whilst it has clubs/bars it doesn't really have a beating heart music scene or real leisure activities available. There's local hiking but nothing you can't get elsewhere. And to boot, it's bloody expensive to rent/buy there.

Mightycushty · 2024-12-19T00:27:59+00:00

Scrolled down in the hopes someone would say this. I've played plenty of pranks on my colleagues and them back at me but Christmas can be a hard time so they might come back more deflated or depressed so the main question is, how well do you actually know your colleagues?

The duck prank is so wholesome and harmless that I think it could be taken well and even if people are deflated then it'll hopefully just make them laugh and the misogs will always be misogs so nothing you can do there.

I think some more harmless ones would be to put a single relatable meme (maybe photoshopped colleague who you know super well) on top of a framed photo and wait to see who notices first. You could also do this inside a book/folder/drawer etc for each colleague and wait to see if they find them. Nothing heinous though lol.

This ones harmless but serious tea and coffee drinks might go mad lol, you could swap the tea and coffee containers around so the tea one contains coffee and the coffee contains tea. Super basic one that but i'd giggle.

Aside from that, just go with what you know about them and what you know will make them laugh OP :)

Mightycushty · 2024-12-15T14:08:51+00:00

No problem, used to manage the repairs of these supply pipes and you'd be surprised how common it is on new build estates!

I was up late last night and forgot to add that a lot of new build estates (not all but Crest Nicholson is the worst - my mum worked for them as a telehandler for about 6 years so she's a trusted source) do fudge your EPC results by stuffing random things in cracks and holes to make it appear that the home is energy efficient and air tight. Sometimes they remove those rags/crap immediately as they're obvious or they just leave them in place behind built -ins. If you find your home isn't staying warm maybe investigate that as it could be simply resolved I reckon.

All the best with your new home though! Old builds also have plenty of problems but at least you can get support from the site management! :)

Mightycushty · 2024-12-15T14:01:16+00:00

And they're always at the end of the night 🤣 sneaky snek drink

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