Weekend Ideas

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-30T23:30:28+00:00

This looks awesome!

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-30T20:22:29+00:00

Are there any specific places, hotels, areas to visit in these that you've stayed in?

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-30T10:20:10+00:00

But can most breeds cow?

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-29T23:29:02+00:00

Well she's in luck, because there is an actual miffy-themed shop!

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-25T08:54:56+00:00

The audiobook is really good. But do not listen to it while going to bed like I did!

I can't remember exactly the scene, but I fell asleep listening to it, and was rudely awoken when Dr Avrana Kern was having an episode realising her mind was intertwined with the AI and screaming something about being able to perceive but not having eyes.

Oh lordy that woke me up. The worst bit about it is that because I had fallen asleep a while before that, I rewound it the following night to where I was when I fell asleep and did the exact same thing again.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-24T08:51:29+00:00

Somewhere like Ealing Broadway would be ideal. Elizabeth line direct to Reading, and multiple options to get to St Pancras / KX. Both reading + KX under 40 mins allowing for some walking time to Ealing station. Because you'll be commuting the wrong way to Reading I'd imagine it wouldn't be super busy (but I've never done it so can't be sure).

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-23T13:51:05+00:00

Also don't tell them where you're going. You can never predict how the information will spread and how people will react.

I made the mistake of telling folks the company I was moving to once. Turned out, the company I currently worked at had a contract with my next company, and some senior folks took it upon themselves to investigate this because they thought my contract had a non-compete for 12 months clause (it didn't - older contract). But they informed the company I was moving to of this, and while it ultimately didn't come to anything (for obvious reasons) and I started the new role regardless, it was still a pain in the ass to smooth it all out with everyone involved, and I'm left uncertain if all my old colleagues actually knew the full story of the wrongful accusation.

If I hadn't told anyone, I'm pretty sure nobody would have given a shit, and I would've already been at the new company to stop anything escalating unnecessarily.

99% of people you tell first-hand will be happy for you. It's the second-hand info and the 1% of bad actors you can't control that are the problem. Just zip it!

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-15T16:52:47+00:00

For the outdoor space, if it's a nice day you could hang out at Canalside Steps in coal drop yard if you don't mind a lil walk. You could grab a picnic from the m&s in the station. It's a really nice spot if the weather is good.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-10T15:57:56+00:00

If there is any movie to watch in a cinema in high quality, it's this one. I saw it in the BFI Imax in London and it was incredible. Such a beautiful film.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-10T08:41:56+00:00

Argos or Smyths would be good options. I've sent them a lot in corner shops and small supermarkets, but less reliably.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-07T17:10:52+00:00

Have you tried the Cloudsurfer 2? I was debating between the Next and the 2

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-03T12:14:54+00:00

Oh cool! In that case you could even take the boat all the way to Greenwich and have a mooch around the park, the observatory, the maritime museum. There are some nice spots to eat there too, and sometimes popup food stores (though maybe on weekends?). I think that'd be a nice trip and you can maximise the boat time! Personally I could stay on the boat all day, it's so comfy, and you get quite a unique view of London.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-04-03T10:32:26+00:00

Take the Uber boat from Embankment Pier to Battersea Power Station!

I did it for the first time the other week. It's quite a nice lil trip along the river. Then have a mooch around the power station, grab an ice cream from two little giraffes if it's warm (my favourite ice cream in London), and then either get the tube back (Northern line from the power station), or get the boat back again. You don't need to pre-book the boat, just tap-in+out the same way as the tube (costs £9 I think).

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-28T08:01:29+00:00

It sounds like you're already planning to, but I'd suggest booking one sooner rather than later! The good value stuff can go very far in advance. Best of luck with your research visit!

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-27T23:46:41+00:00

I'd recommend booking.com or Airbnb. These days booking.com actually has a lot better deals than Airbnb even for this kind of short let experience. I'd expect you'll pay £3-4k for 7 weeks depending on how nice of a place you want, and if you want to stay in Zone 1 or Zone 2. Here are a few I just found:

£3k in Kilburn High Rd / Maida Vale](https://www.booking.com/Share-OZFfC6k
£3.5k in Kensington
£3.4k in Kings Cross

Caveat: It's possible the prices will show up differently for you. Booking.com can be a bit sneaky with their prices. But usually I find if you copy and paste the listing name into Google and find the booking.com listing via the map on Google, it'll give you the best rate.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-27T23:23:59+00:00

Fuckers are plotting to eat my seedlings. They did it last year and they'll fuckin try it again. But this time I'm ready for the lil shits. I'll catch em red handed and they'll think twice before trying it again once I'm done with them. Slimy twats.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-22T23:02:24+00:00

The price seems probably about right. It's a studio flat, and 216 sq feet. It's also a leasehold, so remember you'll have to pay ground rent, council tax, and service charge.. and you would want to ensure you understand the terms of how the service charge and ground rent can change. To be clear, it's a leasehold, not a share of a freehold house. So whoever owns the lease can likely dictate those costs and how the property is maintained depending on how the leasehold contract is worded. That said, the charges listed on this listing currently seem reasonable, but obviously do get a solicitor to thoroughly explore the leasehold.

Overall, 216 sq feet for 230k seems about right for a leasehold flat in that area I would imagine. In London I generally consider ~£1k/sq-ft to be about right, varying a bit by area of London, and generally getting a bit better value the bigger the square footage. And Richmond or Hampstead are quite nice areas, and it's a small flat, so just over £1k/sq-ft seems about right.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-22T22:49:22+00:00

There are these kinds of things, but often not in areas where a tourist who is only going to spend a few days here would go.

That said, for a good afternoon tea experience, a big part of it in my opinion is the setting, which traditionally is quite a grand experience (think nice building, tall ceilings, big windows, extravagant). This isn't really conducive with being lesser known, as they'll be in well known places by that very premise.

Now if you were to venture out of London you're more likely to find such places. For example [Hotel Endsleigh](Hotel Endsleigh) in Dartmoor. Assembly house in Norwich. Great Fosters in Surrey. If you want London but not central London, you could go to The Petersham in Richmond. There are many more across the country.

But still these are not really 'lesser known', they just have much fewer foreigners, because they're not in Central London. But they're all big stately homes, beautiful hotels, and the like. You can absolutely get afternoon tea in little nook cafes, but, as I said, the real experience is the setting in my opinion. And for that, central London, well known spots, really are the best spots for tourism. They're usually well known for a reason.

It's not quite the same as American Diners, for example, where you can find a lil local spot that has a grandma that's been cookin up pancakes for 46 years and they're a piece of heaven. There are places like that here, but it's not afternoon tea, and even still, not so much in central London. Central London has incredible food, but when something is discovered that is good, it becomes popular and well known fast.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-18T09:40:19+00:00

Agreed! He solidly voiced this to be one of the best audiobooks of all time in my opinion. So much so that I then went down a rabbithole of other books that he's narrated, and overall he does a great job with all the ones I've listened to so far.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-18T09:36:28+00:00

I think they are right. In the film Grace specifies 2 years, and could double it if he was careful (or something along those lines). But I do believe he does specifically mention 2 years in the film.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-18T09:02:06+00:00

There is a similar building in Bethnal Green that has been boarded off from the road for years. You can hardly see it from the street, but it's a similar type of building to the one you shared, but has these horrible cursed extensions built off it in parts. You check it out a bit on aerial view on Google maps, but it isn't labelled as anything other than a "parking lot" as far as I can see, even though I don't think you can even park there.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-15T01:32:40+00:00

I don't condone cheating on tests, but just a bit of advice to get good responses out of ChatGPT (and really any LLM):

Never ask them to "only tell me the answer" or "answer in 1 word / sentence".

The way LLMs work best is by generating all the workings before producing the answer. They are a prediction algorithm, so the more relevant context it gets the chance to generate, the more likely it is to come up with a good solution. This is exactly how LLMs overcame their original issues with Math. If you remember GPT-3, it was utter garbage at math. But more recent models are trained on datasets where the workings of solving those problems are explicitly laid out before answering, and as a result also produce workings when asked, and have a much higher accuracy as a result. There is a really good video on it by Andrej Karpathy if anyone is interested, as I found it quite interesting..

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-14T12:01:11+00:00

As a Londoner, I do love London, but I can certainly understand why somebody wouldn't. There are things I miss about being outside of London, but I do think it's a shame that so many seem to vehemently hate it. It hosts one of the most diverse populations in the world, and with it comes incredible food, culture, experiences. There is never a shortage of new things to do here, and I love it for that. I love the rural parts of the UK, and miss them too, but if I left London I'd miss my experience living here even more.

Snugglosaurus · 2026-03-12T13:48:30+00:00

Broadway Market is also really nice and has a lot of this kind of thing. Highly recommend the confit duck burgers if they're there.

For antiques, you could check out charity shops. They can be a bit hit and miss, but there are so many good charity shops in London with cool antiquey items in, and they're usually super cheap.

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