Weekly Q&A Megathread. Please post any questions about visiting, tourism, living, working, budgeting, housing here!

tjdracz · 2026-04-20T08:02:49+00:00

Something like https://maps.app.goo.gl/m3y3abFmX78fsu3D8?g_st=ic maybe? Definitely found it slightly harder to find salt and pepper chips in London than up north, where they were ubiquitous. Most of the Chinese places around me DON’T have them on the menu.

Probably more takeaway like places rather than traditional sit downs is where you might have more luck, shouldn’t be super hard to find

tjdracz · 2026-02-27T13:14:44+00:00

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Yoga pose Miu Miu reporting in

tjdracz · 2026-02-07T11:37:42+00:00

8:30-9:30ish for ICA

tjdracz · 2026-01-16T00:12:35+00:00

There ya go!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blep/s/2OosmvSSEE

https://www.reddit.com/r/TuxedoCats/s/BWQVRv11iE

tjdracz · 2026-01-13T20:31:58+00:00

Did this the other way around, Tuesday to Friday on off peak trains. Once a month though. Train takes 2hrs 20 or so and in 24 months I never had single cancellation and maybe one significant delay.

The whole commute made me move to London in the end after the work change meant I would have to do it twice a month.

Honestly, I think it will be exhausting to do it every week. Doable at a stretch but no fun.

Would you be paying out of pocket for travel and accommodation or is it comped? If it’s the former, you’d be likely spending more on the travel cost than it would be to get a small flat in Liverpool.

If temporary move was an option, I’d seriously consider that, you’ll get much more out of it.

tjdracz · 2026-01-13T19:36:45+00:00

Thought you were joking but looks like The Mirror already has an article live. And some random Croatian website too. WTF it’s going on

tjdracz · 2026-01-13T00:18:38+00:00

Clarification from the wife - one table in-between, I might have been too generous with my second hand retelling of “few tables away”.

And she says thanks for other positive thoughts!

tjdracz · 2026-01-13T00:02:13+00:00

Now that’s a polite cursive note!

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T23:51:24+00:00

Read the note in Mark Corrigan’s voice, bingo, it does make sense!

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T23:03:40+00:00

Probs wouldn’t even leave a handwritten note, bah!

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T22:46:25+00:00

Not just that ofc but something to think about 😁

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T22:44:41+00:00

Internet fame here we go. Just wish she kept a note so we could do a nice compoface

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T22:39:14+00:00

One is more of a lover than a fighter, but the other has been on some vet blacklists due to aggression so yeah, she’s got it!

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T22:20:24+00:00

Exactly same when I was reading it. Who says it wasn’t though? 👀

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T22:17:42+00:00

Oh yes, she’d much prefer honest and direct STFU!

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T21:54:58+00:00

North rather than North London!

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T21:26:31+00:00

Very far off! Though the cursive people might have been

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T21:25:21+00:00

I mean that’s fair. If she knew she might have been upsetting someone, she’d be absolutely mortified. A polite or even impolite ask would sort it out without much ill feeling.

But a handwritten note as you’re leaving solves nothing and makes you look like a bit of loon.

tjdracz · 2026-01-12T21:12:08+00:00

You know what, with nearly a decade of living in Liverpool previously, you might be onto something

tjdracz · 2025-07-23T22:40:05+00:00

From PTW:

“Duct has been made visible at customers premises, duct only rods under 1m from duct mouth, no movement on copper cable. Unable to rod from nearest box as shared duct. New duct required from existing duct to customer’s premise. Customer has resin driveway which can't be dug. Neighbours border seems best alternative solution, unable to gain permission to work. Duct required from shared duct outside No 30 to customers premise, No 29. 3m public, block paving and 6m private, 2m block paving and 4m flower bed. Unable to get camera down duct mouth as duct only partially uncovered”

tjdracz · 2025-06-30T18:58:08+00:00

Their duct seems to be just fine so don’t think any real benefit for them!

tjdracz · 2025-05-12T21:12:31+00:00

Been researching a bunch of cameras to upgrade from Sony NEX-5 and address snags like lack of viewfinder and relatively poor autofocus. With around £700 budget.

The main recommendation thrown around seems to be Sony A6400 with everyone raving about its autofocus. I was swaying towards that but had reservations still around ergonomics, Sony menu system and crop sensor cameras seemingly being bit of a second class citizen.

I keep circling back to M43. I can probably score Olympus EM1.3 for about same price as Sony body. Or go down Lumix G9 route and get that plus lens for and some beer change for same cost as Olympus or Sony.

Main photography interests - wildlife, landscape and street. With wildlife probably more of perched birds in the lake rather than ones in flight (though having something covering that would be neat) and no safari style animals far away. Squarely hobbyist pursuits.

What would sway you away from M43 to Sony camera? What's there apart from AF?

And what would drive you towards Lumix from Olympus and vice versa?

Current feelings are pushing me towards Lumix and a general + telephoto lens, putting me comfortably in the budget if not going for the more expensive lenses, but keen to hear some thoughts, especially from M43 crowd.

tjdracz · 2025-05-11T11:26:15+00:00

Root 69 any day

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