Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

lir, re something you wrote on a different thread. Have you seen this site for walking sticks? You can get lots of different colours and patterns and they'll even customise:

http://www.switchsticks.com/

That is the one i have now. It has nicer ones that i have seen or have, but still not....enjoyable.


But thank you so much for finding it for me! It does have nicer ones, so maybe i should take a look!

PasturesNew

yertiz wrote: »

Good morning all you NP I have a 7 and a half minute walk to work and do my shopping on line, don't mind who with but usually with whoever does the best deal on delivery atm.
DH has just bought a second hand electric bike, has any NP ever used/had one? He is going to try it out (been fiddling with the battery) and if he likes it proposes we both buy new ones.

I've been intrested/intrigued by these for about 35 years - never actually seen one though. There used to always be a Zetek advertised in the Sunday papers decades ago.

I used to be interested in a rumour that I heard that in France you could ride an electric bike from age 14 or something - and over there you had a normal bike and a simple mechanism that attached to it and you could get it to be electric, or normal, simply by making the motor mechanism roller touch the wheel or not.... seemed a lot easier, to me, than having a whole dedicated bike.

PasturesNew

I picked up a folding stick for my old from the local cheap shop. It was fine, until the first time I tried to fold it and unfold it - one of the little knobs that affixed in the holes to make it straight again disappeared inside the stick and I had to spend 10 minutes fiddling to get it back out again. It was then decided it would never be folded again.... and while the stick was useful at the time (first time the old had used an aid), really the old was well beyond safely using a stick and now has a full blown stroller. Old needs it because they are "off like a rocket" quite often, but unstable.... can walk, but liable to lurching and thus falls. The trouble we had was getting the old to realise that even though these things are for old people, at nearly 90, that's exactly what they are

lostinrates

Pn, you can get electric coversion kits for bikes.

If i has a bike i think it wpuld have to be electric!

vivatifosi

Re electric bikes. There was a couple used to come in the library where I used to work with them. They said that they had revolutionised their lives and allowed them freedom of travel. They were of that age that they had retired, but the age at which you could qualify for a free bus pass was higher and it was a great way of getting around town. They weren't particularly expensive either.

They bought theirs for about £300 each, not top of the range but fine for them. I chatted to them about it at the time and also had a look on line and a lot of the price was down to the battery. Newer batteries were much more expensive. The other difference was with some bikes you have to pedal, with some you don't even need to do that if you don't want to. I ruled it out for me in the end because I live at the top of a steep hill and couldn't be sure they would work here but still a good idea.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Not all tpo trees ate tagged! Lydia, i am very sure yours won't be, but t will almost certainly be a search option on council website!

May depend on the council?

Protected tree in my parents old house back garden was not tagged. My dad used to prune it at 2am for some strange reason.

chewmylegoff

My commute is 50 minutes each way. Get a seat though, and it's a good opportunity to read. Don't think I would ever read if I didn't commute by train.

Wheezy_2

My commute is 20-25 mins by car.

Re supermarkets: There are also big differences within the chain in my opinion.
For example the Tesco in Sunbury is a mess, badly stocked, useless staff...while the one in Ashford (Middlesex) or Brooklands is quite OK.
Asda is Feltham is OK also, while the one in Hounslow is a dump.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've been intrested/intrigued by these for about 35 years - never actually seen one though. There used to always be a Zetek advertised in the Sunday papers decades ago.

I used to be interested in a rumour that I heard that in France you could ride an electric bike from age 14 or something - and over there you had a normal bike and a simple mechanism that attached to it and you could get it to be electric, or normal, simply by making the motor mechanism roller touch the wheel or not.... seemed a lot easier, to me, than having a whole dedicated bike.

Whe I was a kid we used to holiday a lot in France and we saw these bikes everywhere. You didn't need a special licence for them as they weren't legally like motorbikes or scooters. You usually pedalled them to start them off but once you'd reached your desired speed you could flick a switch and the motor would stop you slowing down (the motor couldn't accelerate you, just maintain your speed IIRC).

I think the were technically legal here but seeing as how Glasgow was all slopes and hills and had 90% of the UKs rainfall, we hardly saw any bikes anyway.

silvercar

My commute is about 10 paces, from the kitchen to the study!

LydiaJ, if you are going to attempt to remove the stump, you need to leave some hight on the trunk to act as a lever. Cut it down to about 2 foot, then cut any near surface roots in a circle around the base, then push and shove the 2 foot trunk stump.