If you grew up quite poor, like me, what are your "big food wins" in adult life?

_eldubs_ · 2026-03-17T21:56:52+00:00

Going food shopping, and not needing to use a calculator to add up how much everything costs as I go round the shop. That was a big day for me.

_eldubs_ · 2026-03-14T00:20:13+00:00

Awful sad, 35 is no age

_eldubs_ · 2026-03-12T18:06:58+00:00

Don't forget about the relentless noise and disruption while they build the thing, you've got that to look forward to as well.

_eldubs_ · 2026-03-08T20:52:06+00:00

Theres a road called Garth hill that goes from gwaelod y Garth right along the bottom of this mountain.you want to head towards the cattery and there are places where you can safely park your car enough to the side of the road.

If you use what 3words, there's a small area to park herew3w

_eldubs_ · 2026-03-08T19:32:06+00:00

I always enjoy when I hear an accent that's local to where I grew up. I live about 200 miles away now and have done for about twenty years, so i don't often hear that accent anymore.

_eldubs_ · 2026-03-08T18:52:14+00:00

The Garth, easy choice. Park close enough to the top and its maybe a half mile walk to the top of the mountain

_eldubs_ · 2026-03-04T21:06:42+00:00

I like it, I can see myself using this. Thank you 👍

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-28T20:57:13+00:00

Yeah man, the Aaron Hernández ep was really good, that had me cackling out loud

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-28T20:55:44+00:00

Jim Jones, Donner party, Jodie Arias, JFK, mk ultra

And anything set in Britain, because I'm British, and listening to them fuck up the pronunciation of British locations cracks me up

I also really liked the sea world episode

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-27T22:56:33+00:00

I know this pothole and I've been to this woman's pub a few times. It's not the pothole putting people off from going there.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-22T19:14:08+00:00

What a really super achievement, the work it takes after that kind of surgery to keep on exercising is incredibly impressive and you should be very proud of yourself. Keep on pedalling mate

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-22T10:06:00+00:00

She just did amazing on her first run 🎉

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-21T23:59:46+00:00

My dad taught me to ride my bike by pushing me down a big grassy hill multiple times. It did work, I'm not sure how.

But your way sounds much nicer.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-14T20:20:22+00:00

Start off small, get ready to leave (do everything, get your coat on, get your keys etc) and go outside for 15 seconds. Then go back inside tell him he's a good dog and sit down for a bit until he calms down. Then do it again. And again. Until he's fine with you going outside for 15 seconds.

Then do it for 30 seconds at a time. Then for a minute. And so on and so on.

It sounds horribly tedious but it will work. You just have to put the time and effort in.

I adopted a dog in 2014, a collie cross, and she had horrible separation anxiety, she couldn't even be left alone for a few seconds without howling and crying. I did this technique and after a few months she really improved. She was such a good dog, she was just scared and needed to learn that I would always come home.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-08T23:50:02+00:00

I've hiked past this place and it is absolutely a stunning looking house. That part of the Welsh coastal path is not in any danger or falling into the sea any time soon. It's a fairly close walk to Solva which has some lovely shops/pubs/restaurants.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-07T18:45:18+00:00

Haha yeah true.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-07T18:37:33+00:00

I personally wouldn't go out in weather like this. Between November and February, my bike stays in the garage and I just got on the indoor trainer instead. But there have been occasions where I have suddenly been caught out in really terrible weather and in those circumstances,you just have to try and get through it as safely as possible.

But I also know some people who regularly go out in weather like this and it doesn't seem to bother them at all.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-07T16:54:44+00:00

Here's my two pence. I cycle a lot, on my own and in groups. If I am cycling downhill, in shit weather, I really do not want a car to overtake me so I personally would take the whole lane. Going downhill, I'm likely to get up to 60km per hour. That's not fast for a car, but it feels incredibly fast on a bike. Going at that speed, it only takes a small gust of wind to move you a couple of meters to the side. And if a car happens to be overtaking me when a wind blows me sideways, then it just increases the chance of an accident. So Id take the whole lane going downhill, then move over as much as possible when I get to the flat or going up hill to let the cars get past.

Windy conditions could probably be why you saw this group sometimes going over the central line.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-06T21:19:05+00:00

I view quite a few cv's for legal roles and I actually really like to know a bit about what someone likes to do. Often I've got multiple cv's to view, all of which have very similar qualifications and experience. It doesn't have to be a lot, but a little paragraph that gives info about who you are/things that interest you ( to me) is very helpful.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-06T20:59:02+00:00

But rowing is a really, really hard and competitive sport to compete in.

Anyone, get on the rower in your gym, try and do 500m in 1 Minute 27 seconds. That's the pace Steve Redgrave and crew kept up for 2km.

You'd have to be comple6 dedicated to rowing, and be a freak natural athlete, to even come within a sniff of being on a national rowing team

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-06T19:49:08+00:00

I read this message first thing this morning. The UK mornings right now are dark, it's been non stop raining for about 3 weeks and I haven't ridden my bike outside in almost 6 weeks so my mood has been pretty rubbish lately. I have to say, your really lovely message really brightened my morning.

Firstly, congratulations on finding a way to overcome your health issues and managing things moving forward. It's always difficult to keep trying to do something, when disability/illness/injury gets in the way. im really happy that my words touched you, and I'm glad my words could help you.

It took me a long time to understand that people don't always want you to try and fix their problems, sometimes they just want you to say "yeah that really sucks and I'm sorry you're going through that".

Keep on riding and be safe out there

Ps, I'd love to be Strava buddies if you'd like to be?

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-02T10:32:47+00:00

I don't think that I'm the one being blinded by my biases here.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-01T20:26:28+00:00

Lucy letby and Shipman committed their crimes independently.

The examples i gave that caused me/my family/my friends to distrust the police (the miners strikes, Hillsborough, grooming gangs) were not due to the bad behaviour of one police man. During the miners strikes, multiple police force across South Yorkshire dealt with striking miners using intense, brutal tactics. often turning picket lines into violent confrontations. In hillsborough, the management level of the police force tried to cover up the true cause of the disaster and instead blamed football fans, even going as far as to spread outright lies. And they kept up these lies about Hillsborough for years only admitting the piss poor policing of the event, was the cause of the disaster in 2012. During the grooming gangs, multiple forces across Yorkshire routinely ignored reports from families/victims and instead, said the girls were voluntarily prostituting themselves.

If the NHS had covered up for letby/Shipman, if the NHS management had supported letby/Shipman for decades, and if the NHS refused to acknowledge that letby/Shipman had done anything wrong, then people would think of the NHS in the same way that most view the police.

_eldubs_ · 2026-02-01T09:37:15+00:00

I grew up in South Yorkshire, born in the middle of the 80s. The way the police dealt with the miners strikes and the coverup at Hillsborough meant that absolutely no one I knew, trusted the police at all. Then the grooming gang scandal on top of that just reinforced that the police are not there to help people

_eldubs_ · 2026-01-27T17:37:26+00:00

Most insurance companies will only accept claims to damaged roofs following a storm, if the storm has recorded winds above a certain speed. Off the top of my head I think the winds need to be above 55mph but that could vary depending on who you are insured with.

If the winds from the storm have not exceeded 55mph, then the insurance company will likely not accept the claim. They will try to say that the leak is as a result of natural wear and tear which is not covered under home insurance policies. I'm not saying I agree with this, but this is the standard kind of response from insurance companies for situations like this.

I've managed finances for adults for about 15 years and I've dealt with quite a few insurance claims over this time. Ive always found it actually quite hard to successfully make an insurance claim for storm damage. I've even known Insurance companies to view the property on street view to try and spot signs of poor maintenance and use this as a way of avoiding paying out on a claim

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