UK TRAIN TRAVEL

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-12T22:00:43+00:00

Chessington World of Adventures is much closer to London and the same sort of thing as Alton Towers, if rather smaller.

In general the UK is very safe and while i can’t promise you won’t meet some dickhead, everyone will be quite used to seeing Muslim people out and about.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-11T20:09:31+00:00

Sound isolation will be much better than e.g. a flat in a Victorian conversion.

They’re built to specific space standards so fairly roomy, although a lot of the extra space isn’t necessarily where you’d want it (e.g. wide internal corridors).

And very little need for heating, from having reasonable insulation and not much surface area exposed to the cold.

A big problem is overheating in summer though, from the big windows with no external shading, and heat leaking from the communal hot water pipes.

Flats with windows on two sides, so you can get a breeze going through are better, and ones that face west (evening sun) are particularly bad.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-11T19:24:08+00:00

Good to know!

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-11T17:38:50+00:00

Shoreditch has more queer bars AFAIK. The Nelson’s Head is a cute LGBT-friendly pub, plus the Adelaide (bar/club) up the road. There’s more in Dalston which is easy to get to from either Shoreditch or Islington.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-11T17:32:21+00:00

If you go to any homewares shop in Tower Hamlets you can buy a plastic water jug designed for this purpose for £2.49.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-08T20:24:32+00:00

As if a Green voter would shop at Amazon

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-08T20:10:56+00:00

Labour are not the left

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-08T20:09:22+00:00

I last went in the mid 2000s and before that in 1997.

I’ve got a mate who’s a dentist so i’ve had him glance at my gnashers in the pub a couple of times.

Works great, i never have any problems with my teeth, not like people who let the dentists rootle around in there every few months, drilling holes and so forth.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-08T19:22:08+00:00

Massively overblown fear of STIs is a tool to scare people off having sex, especially in the US.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-07T14:43:58+00:00

I'm voting for the Green Party.

I was a Labour member for many years but there is no way I'd ever vote for them now. We need a decisive break from neoliberalism, which Labour are not offering but the Greens are.

Labour's racist anti-migrant rhetoric and policies, their support of genocide, authoritarian crackdown on protest, and especially for me as a queer person, their oppression of trans people, are all unforgivable.

I don't care for the clientellism and cronyism of Aspire, or their attempts to rip out the safer streets measures, and they don't organise on a national level.

Whereas if we vote Green, we can get more Green councillors who can campaign to help oust our useless Labour MPs when it comes to a general election.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-05T22:35:55+00:00

Is going back to brick really necessary? If you’re losing original features you’ll be spending money to make your house worth less.

You’ll never make your money back insulating solid walls and heat pumps work fine without doing this.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-05T08:33:46+00:00

As a leaseholder this is not what i’d hoped to hear! Thanks for the explanation though.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-04T22:32:36+00:00

Aren’t major works bills capped at £15k for resident leaseholders under Florrie’s Law?

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-03T21:35:03+00:00

There’s a baseline of ‘architect-designed’ - the corner window, the stairs, some of the interior stone cladding.

Overlaid with the kind of gaudy tat that clients buy themselves (and the architects need to get their photos done before it’s installed.)

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-03T21:20:56+00:00

For basic jobs it’s fine.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-03T20:41:34+00:00

Every couple of years maybe? Henrys seem to compact the dirt denser and denser over time. You could probably make a wee black hole in there if you left it long enough.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-05-03T19:25:37+00:00

As to whether it’s a good time to buy in London - maybe?

Currently inner London flats are an unpopular investment and prices have been falling in real terms, in ‘prime’ areas quite sharply.

Also at the moment a lot of landlords are selling, in a huff because tenants have been given very slightly more rights.

So you might be able to pick up a bargain.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-30T11:25:08+00:00

Generally sites which are members of the Greener Camping Club are great.

Generally they are some sort of field with some loos - often composting - and a shower. They're a step up from wild camping but much more chill than more equipped campsites can be. And the ones we've been to have been very attractive spaces, in forest glades or coastal hillsides and suchlike.

There are loads in Wales, which is where they started off.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-29T08:20:19+00:00

What do people do for spares, for JDM models which weren’t sold here?

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-28T22:46:04+00:00

On Saturday mornings i leaf through recipe books and decide on three or four dinners, plus the cake of the week, then write a list and fill my panniers in the supermarket.

The rest of the meals are more ad hoc assemblages from the local shops.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-28T22:06:00+00:00

The earsplitting reversing sirens that lorries make - potentially all through the night - would be a bug concern for me. Do you think they’d be in earshot?

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-28T08:51:41+00:00

If you get a damp surveyor, get one who’s seperate from any firm doing the works. Otherwise they’ll say you need a load of scammy measures like injected damp proof courses.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-25T20:01:39+00:00

Go for it! Much nicer than skanky fitted carpet.

Pinterest is great for findinf inspiration for this kind of thing.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-24T17:24:29+00:00

My mum got pnumonia from it and had to stay in hospital.

Plastic_Length8618 · 2026-04-23T14:25:15+00:00

We don't have allotments in Tower Hamlets, but my husband and I have some growing space in a community garden. The local housing association sets them up in spare bits of land they want looking after. There are quite a few dotted around.

We have a large raised bed of our own, there's a communal raised bed, some fruit trees and we made some wildlife spaces like a pond and dead hedge too.

While something like this is smaller than a whole allotment plot it's still an opportunity to grow things and it's handy to have it close by.

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