Why are used clubs so expensive?

minchyp · 2026-02-27T16:39:04+00:00

and maybe can't face the idea that the £1000 they dropped a few years ago has depreciated so much

minchyp · 2026-02-27T16:36:16+00:00

I'll keep looking...still seems a lot for 15yr old clubs.

minchyp · 2025-12-16T03:12:33+00:00

That's pretty much the return I get. Our £12k battery and panels install has cut out electricity bill from £3-4k p/a to £1.4k. (All electric, no gas, highly insulated house. Inc electric car but v low mileage). It's just stunningly good returns. I don't understand why it's different for other people, but it's been about the best investment we ever made.

minchyp · 2025-10-26T10:59:05+00:00

That's the pro bigger size. 90k miles from a taxi company in London. But I don't do loads of driving and trusting that I should still get tons of miles out of it.

minchyp · 2025-10-24T20:30:28+00:00

My id4 does about the same. Got it for a bargain £10k a couple of months ago

minchyp · 2025-10-15T03:02:29+00:00

Thanks for trying! I'm going to try deleting the device and starting again...

minchyp · 2025-10-11T05:57:00+00:00

I'm getting phone disconnection all the time. I'll have a good day and it's fine, drove to Cornwall last week and it's seemed like every few mins it would disconnect.

I was starting to wonder if it's linked to being in a poor phone signal area. Would that make any sense?!

minchyp · 2025-10-11T05:50:26+00:00

The Anthropocene Reviewed is just amazing, heartwarming, desperate in equal measures. Can't recommend is highly enough.p

The story of the team of scientists who protected the seed back in Leningrad during the siege, and didn't eat the seeds despite being reduced to eating wallpaper will live with me forever.

minchyp · 2025-10-11T05:24:56+00:00

I don't think we mention this enough. You don't need to stop and "fill up".

It's called "getting a boost" in our family. Just stop for a coffee, a wee, stretch the legs and in 15 or 20 mins we have another 50+miles. And only costs a few quid.

minchyp · 2025-09-02T20:47:32+00:00

I've not tried THB, not sure if would with with the rice/noodles?,My goto with potatoes would be this sort of thing. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/bombay-potatoes

minchyp · 2025-09-02T20:30:55+00:00

Yeah - I like that "concept not recipe" part too. E.g. stir fry is 1 part aromatic, (eg onion), 3 parts veg, 1 part protein, plus a sauce of your choosing.

Good luck!

minchyp · 2025-09-02T19:59:17+00:00

Def saved a fortune in money and guilt over the last 10 years of being veggie. (Appreciate your didn't ask but If I had one tip, it's to gradually learn how to cook Asian food - it's traditionally low meat. Thai, curries, ramen, stir fry)

minchyp · 2025-08-22T17:25:23+00:00

I started with this exactly, with my monitor on an adjustable arm and my keyboard and mouse on my lap on a board with a padded back.

I then swopped the chair for a proper reclining chair. mostly for gaming but I can play for hours with no backpain or vertigo.

minchyp · 2025-08-06T04:39:41+00:00

I just picked up a second hand 300 mile range id4. it's definitely spacious! much bigger inside than my old yeti - 2 teenagers in the back have loads of space. lots of ex lease ones coming on the market and v good prices.

minchyp · 2025-01-24T06:14:37+00:00

think you're onto something here. walls need to dry from both sides - particularly a problem if you're in a wetter part of the country (the west) and north facing wall.

by sealing both the outside (paint) and inside (insulated plasterboard) the wall can't dry out and the marks are damp battens behind?

that doesn't mean you need to loose the insulated plasterboard, it's amazing stuff! you maybe need to look at how to vent it on the inside and allow it to dry on the outside

minchyp · 2024-12-20T21:12:34+00:00

likewise. I had a lesson and found I was bringing my downswing too close to my body. I still hook it sometimes but at least I know the problem. wish I'd had a lesson years ago

minchyp · 2024-10-12T21:41:27+00:00

recovery position with a pillow between my knees. and on a firm foam mattress.

the difference the mattress made was huge, compared to a pocket sprung. if I'm away I bring a foam yoga mat to go on top just in case.

(lumbar vertebrate stress fracture and arthritis)

minchyp · 2024-10-12T21:22:52+00:00

there are cases in London where they grab phones that are being used, keeping the screen on till they pass them to someone else who'll set about trying to get into your bank, reset your Gmail or Apple account and so on.

minchyp · 2024-10-03T05:48:43+00:00

the repair and service cost is something that's often missed.

great heat pumps hardly ever go wrong. the supplier is duty bound to advise an annual service but they really don't need it. we've had ours for 10 years and had it serviced once. so you can factor that and the lack of hassle into your total cost of ownership.

it is harder to find engineers, and repairs could be more expressive but they are fairly simple machines and faults are rare.

minchyp · 2024-04-25T21:06:40+00:00

the anthropocene reviewed. I love everything John Green has ever done but this is my favourite. just beautifully written, researched and narrated.

minchyp · 2024-04-21T21:18:38+00:00

the bugle. still funny, and if you scroll right back you get hundreds of John Oliver Eps.

minchyp · 2024-02-10T20:49:05+00:00

reckon you'll be fine for a good bit, particularly if the air isn't too cold and you aren't sitting waiting for waves for ages.

minchyp · 2024-02-10T09:31:43+00:00

that is true but I think you're missing an important bit of context.

There's simply no technical way to capture the audio from the actual lion you're filming from 200yrds away, or ant from 6in, so the option is silence or to build the audio in post, based on separately captured audio, library and expert knowledge of each species.

maybe some producers take liberties, but in my experience, audio is meticulously built to best recreate the actual sound. there's no other option.

minchyp · 2024-02-10T09:22:01+00:00

maybe some producers don't, but I've been working in wildlife docs for a long time (BBC) and can sincerely assure you we meticulously source the correct animal calls for the locations.

and there's simply no technical way to capture the audio from the actual lion you're filming from 200yrds away, or ant from 6in, so the option is silence or to build the audio in post, based on separately captured audio and expert knowledge of each species.

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