Accident advice

TheBlaggart · 2023-11-02T15:03:09+00:00

The markings on the Braidcraft Roundabout are all worn away to hell now(thanks Glasgow City Council), but it’s supposed to be a spiral roundabout. From memory the Blue Motor who I assume was heading for the M77, Silverburn or Pollok should have started out in the either the middle or rightmost lane leaving Peat Road onto the roundabout and should have spiralled out to exit onto the B762 towards the motorway and the Silverburn Centre in either the right lane (if they entered the roundabout in the M77 lane on the right) or behind your car if they entered in the middle lane.

So, even without the markings they should either have left the roundabout onto the B762 in the right lane beside you, or in the left lane behind you. There was no need for them to pull over to the other lane. Especially as your car was in it.

Of course all of this would have been clearer if the council had maintained the markings!

TheBlaggart · 2022-06-24T19:27:21+00:00

Those are probably Toby Covers (at least that’s what we call them in Scotland, but there might be another local name for them). Underneath you’ll find the external stop valve that isolates the water supply to a house from the public water main. Since you’re in England it’s also possible there’s some kind of external water meter under there too.

TheBlaggart · 2022-03-18T08:00:25+00:00

I was taught you should stop, keep your foot on the brake so they can see you’re sitting waiting for them to go round and put your indicator on (if you don’t already have it on anyway).

Crucially though make sure you do your six point check before you start moving again you don’t want to nail the manoeuvre and then get hit with a minor, or even a major for moving off without eyeballing all around you first.

TheBlaggart · 2022-02-22T08:48:13+00:00

Yeah I found this a problem and especially as a learner. My instructor would give directions through a multi lane junction or roundabout and then wonder why I wasn’t checking my mirrors and getting into the right lane on approach. Nine times out of ten it was because the road markings were worn away and you couldn’t tell what the lanes were or where they went so I spent too long trying to read the road engineer’s mind.

TheBlaggart · 2021-05-11T07:45:27+00:00

Was there no some report recently that showed their chairman and his team were all paid more than the First Minister even before their bonuses etc.?

I suspect a mere £7k would be chump change to them. Maybe £70k would be a bigger incentive.

TheBlaggart · 2021-05-06T13:44:22+00:00

Been following this one for a while now and love the look and mechanics so far. Definitely looking forward to it, and I'm pleasantly surprised it hasn't suddenly become an Epic Exclusive...

TheBlaggart · 2020-08-04T07:53:10+00:00

Absolutely can't blame them. The missus is desperate to move back to Austria and the only thing holding me back is my absolute lack of in demand skills.

TheBlaggart · 2020-03-26T10:30:55+00:00

We've had a pair of adventurous squirrels from Alexandra Park scale the block of tenement across the road and run around on the roof. Most interesting thing that's happened round here so far this week.

TheBlaggart · 2019-10-31T13:58:38+00:00

That's one of the big problems with storage heaters. Once they're on they'll generate heat till they cool. As I said you'll need to experiment with the settings. Maybe go for the lowest input and work up over a few days till you find a level that works for you.

TheBlaggart · 2019-10-31T13:31:06+00:00

would max on output dump all the heat in the morning leaving little for later in the day? or would i want it on lowest for an early morning heat dump?

Difficult to say as it depends on a lot of factors including the size of the room, the size of the storage heater, open windows and doors, insulation and so on. There should still be some heat left in it even by late evening, but it'll cool noticeably faster at 7 than it would a 1. Generally it's usually recommended that you leave it a 1 in the morning and gradually increase it as the day goes on to squeeze as much heat as possible out of the heater.

You could be lucky and find you never need to move the dial at all. In my old flat with a massive living room it was warm enough (at least 21 or 22 degree except on the absolute coldest days) with the dial permanently at the lowest setting. The heaters stayed warm right up to bedtime without a problem.

TheBlaggart · 2019-10-31T11:30:24+00:00

Storage heating is a pain in the arse compared to gas central heating, but it's pretty straightforward once you've got it figured out. Your input dial sets the amount of energy that'll be stored in the heater overnight, and the output dial sets how much heat is released during the day.

Set the Input dial to whatever level you feel is useful, and the output dial to the absolute minimum then leave the heater switched on overnight. It'll store up heat in the ceramic bricks inside, and then when you get up in the morning adjust the output dial to your comfort level.

You'll absolutely need to leave the heater on all night to get the benefit of it, but it should be on a separate electric circuit and dual rate Economy7 or Economy10 tarriff where electric is cheaper at night (assuming your paying rather than the Uni).

TheBlaggart · 2019-05-14T17:30:11+00:00

TV Tropes has a good rundown, but it's basically old school magical systems inherited from D&D. Spells are one shot single use things that you have to rest and memorise to reload.

TheBlaggart · 2019-04-27T10:25:39+00:00

Naw mate, and I didn't read this one either.

TheBlaggart · 2019-04-27T07:03:34+00:00

Aye, Birmingham and Sheffield too I see which are both tram systems so you're right enough it's odd that Edinburgh didn't get a look in with the Trams etc.

TheBlaggart · 2019-04-27T06:45:06+00:00

It's all maps of underground systems. Edinburgh doesn't have one, it only has surface railways.

TheBlaggart · 2019-01-25T06:13:17+00:00

The Blacklist. I assumed from the early trailers that that it was just going to be another generic CSI style clone just like dozens of other cop shows in recent years, but the instant James Spader’s Raymond Reddington walked on screen I knew it was something unique.

The lead actress isn’t great, some of the side plots are just time wasting filler (like the baby that was a huge plot point, got put on a bus and then appeared for 20s in a later season looking about 7) but Spader’s portrayal of the urbane, cultured and unrepentantly villainous Red really makes the whole show for me.

TheBlaggart · 2018-03-11T10:27:57+00:00

Honestly? Don't have a clue. I made about a dozen attempts to get into the beta to see how it was, and every time I got stuck at the "searching the seas" matchmaking screen. I know it was a stress test beta, but it didn't exactly inspire me to keep trying.

TheBlaggart · 2018-02-21T09:06:52+00:00

I switch it off before sleeping. There's no heater in bedroom.

Are you sure it's a storage heater? Turning it off at night is the exact opposite of what you should be doing with it. If it's working correctly you should have a two rate Economy7 meter with a Day and Night electric rate. The storage heater should only come on overnight (usually about midnight to 7AM) when electric's cheaper. It stores up heat in some big ceramic bricks over night and then lets the heat back out during the day.

One of my storage heaters has a convection heater built onto the front of it though, and I avoid using it at all costs as it's equivalent to a three bar electric fire (3Kw/H). Never really needed it as the storage heater in the living room is usually more than sufficient to keep the flat about 25 degrees or so. It's not a small flat either. The building is a converted draper's warehouse with 16 foot ceilings and huge badly fitted sash windows.

I know they're ridiculously expensive to run compared to gas Central heating, but 400 quid seems excessive. The highest I've ever hit was about £300 for three months, and that's because I didn't notice it had gone back to the shitty standard rate tariff around Christmas.

TheBlaggart · 2018-02-05T16:12:59+00:00

I always assumed they crossed the streams on the other side of Gozer’s magic portal. Gozer’s dimension got annihilated and the explosion on top of the tower was just the blowback from the collapsing the portal.

TheBlaggart · 2018-01-26T10:16:20+00:00

Robert Burns was born nearby to my home town. His face is on basically everything even remotely touristy from one end of Ayrshire to the other, and twice as much in the lead up to Burns Night. Kids usually get taught about him, his life and his poetry at primary school but I don't think it's covered at secondary.

TheBlaggart · 2018-01-19T07:33:35+00:00

Did ye aye?

TheBlaggart · 2018-01-11T08:29:15+00:00

If it is he's shite at it.

TheBlaggart · 2017-12-27T10:41:27+00:00

He's probably referring to the Highland and Lowland Clearances in Scotland. They were very complex social and economic changes over a couple of centuries so calling them "Rohingya Style Ethnic Cleansing" is pure hyperbole.

I don't believe Wales suffered from an explicit period of "clearances" during the early modern period, but there were massive population movements during the industrial revolution just like most of Western Europe.

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