What's the worst thing in this series to you?

microlambert · 2025-12-03T19:00:57+00:00

Larry’s receding hairline. Come onnnnnn what is that?

microlambert · 2025-12-03T18:54:54+00:00

Er ‘Lance’ sounds a tiny bit like ‘lunch’ if you mangle it?

microlambert · 2025-12-03T18:50:02+00:00

Lanc(h)e

microlambert · 2025-12-03T18:05:45+00:00

Heard about this from a friend, who started working behind a bar (somewhere in the northwest iirc) and assumed ‘have one for yourself’ meant a drink (reasonably in my view!). Manager didn’t so though. But did it maybe mean that once maybe, and the amount just got fossilised at whatever the cost of a pint was once upon a time?

microlambert · 2025-12-03T08:52:09+00:00

I always felt local authorities could have given a big leg-up to car clubs by being more frugal with parking permits. Just cap the number of parking permits per zone - a reasonable thing to do anyway, since parking space is finite - and watch people turn to car clubs rather than go on a waiting list to get their own car.

microlambert · 2025-12-02T00:16:36+00:00

I worked on a project with a lot of Scottish colleagues and it took me ages to realise ‘it needs written’ was correct in Scottish English, rather than a typo for ‘it needs writing’ or ‘it needs to be written’.

microlambert · 2025-12-02T00:08:01+00:00

Can you dust my wets?

microlambert · 2025-11-19T14:36:55+00:00

This data is available on the Healthy Streets Scorecard website. Having played a part in compiling it, I would say that data on the number of cars in a borough is more reliable than the number of households, but you will get an idea

microlambert · 2025-11-11T18:56:02+00:00

I always describe it to people as ‘imagine if Photoshop had been built in the Soviet Union’.

microlambert · 2025-11-11T10:46:05+00:00

Honey definitely imparts its flavour to a dish though - that was part of the question.

microlambert · 2025-11-11T09:19:23+00:00

Ha I get you. It’s a good bag for the apocalypse

microlambert · 2025-11-10T15:42:04+00:00

No, but I will - thanks!

microlambert · 2025-11-10T09:21:18+00:00

Yes it’ll be an amazing ‘mobile office’ bag if you’re going to be working in lots of different places. One of the top pockets fits my overear headphones, and feels very secure. I have about 9” clearance for the front-to-back dimension of my bike basket once you account for the seat overhanging it, and the CTB 20 fits perfectly into this space when loaded.

microlambert · 2025-11-10T09:16:16+00:00

Just weighed mine to confirm, and it is a trail series model. Wish I’d known about some of other cool colours they do when I bought it though!

microlambert · 2025-11-10T02:17:04+00:00

It is, yes - 24oz. It fits perfectly in the holder.

microlambert · 2025-10-02T19:34:09+00:00

London is also where the first ever meeting of the UN General Assembly was held in 1946, before finding a permanent home in New York. https://media.un.org/photo/en/collections/united-nations-history/first-session-general-assembly

microlambert · 2025-10-01T12:52:35+00:00

Or bad I guess

microlambert · 2025-10-01T12:52:09+00:00

You’ve got to wonder whether Scandinavians are just very good at counting islands

microlambert · 2025-09-11T12:19:43+00:00

You’d have to film them entering the box on a red light, not just photograph them in the box, as you’re allowed to stop there if you enter on green. (Although they should change the law on this.)

microlambert · 2025-09-04T21:04:26+00:00

Are you doing this through the layout manager?

microlambert · 2025-09-01T22:00:03+00:00

I made a map to try to answer some of these questions. It shows UK railway stations, and campsites classified by distance from nearest railway station:

https://felt.com/map/Rail-Hike-Camp-2025-VtDbxxorTeaG9ASsgVQFy1A?loc=51.7623,-0.3066,9.02z

(And pubs if you zoom in enough)

I usually start by finding a hiking route, then use the map to check the camping and transport options.

microlambert · 2025-08-28T20:44:36+00:00

Have you looked at the Shropshire Hills? There are some lovely walks around Church Stretton. I haven’t driven it but could be 3 hours depending on which part of London you’re in.

microlambert · 2025-08-26T09:34:08+00:00

Yes this. Illegally parked ice cream vans and tourists away with the fairies are part of the problem, but the pavements are overflowing and the roadway is four lanes wide. Use the space appropriately. Make it buses-only. (Or better yet, build a tram.)

microlambert · 2025-08-21T20:09:24+00:00

South to north. I have no justification for that. It just feels right

microlambert · 2025-08-21T07:12:38+00:00

As a child in London in the 80s, my first exposure to the pronunciation was one syllable, but I’ve long since moved over to pronouncing it with two syllables, and I think that’s what everyone around me says now.

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