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I haven't had much luck with rear lights on my bike. They either fall off and get lost when traversing uneven ground or potholes, or they fade out after only a few minutes even with a full charge. I need one to fit the end of my rear bike rack, not seat post mounting as I have a knapsack on the...

You have a fair amount of work to do to fit a Tongsheng to that bike. I would just fit a rear hub for a diy job. Don't get me wrong - I love my Tongsheng but if you don't like messing about or feel uncomfortable changing stuff with that particular bike then why do it?

Been using this self-amagamating tape for decades, used to use it on aerial installations as a tv apprentice back in the late 1960's. The apprentices always got the shitty jobs, outside in the Winter doing aerials when it was pissing with rain and blowing a gale up the channel and inside a...

@Bogmonster666 Re-your original query, regarding the ingress of water into the display, I just use a peice of cling-film with an elastic band around it, replacing it every 6 months or so. Keeps it bone dry and cheap as chips. No need for fancy solutions, may not look the best, but it's...

I was all set to buy a couple of these Gaadi inner tubes, but looking at the reviews on Amazon, it seems the quality control is virtually nonexistent. Many people have been let down by them straight out of the packet. Are there any other manufacturers that are better?

Ahh, not quite - check this out: https://ahdb.org.uk/eu-and-uk-import-tariff-rates-for-selected-horticultural-products The UK has significantly reduced tariffs compared to the EU.

We buy masses of fruit and off season vegetables from Africa, and more exotic stuff like bananas and pineapples, mangoes from the Caribbean and South America as well as the near/far East. TM's deal I am not so sure, that isn't the way I read it, but it was 7 years ago so memory plays...

I agree that tariffs are good for the French and German industries/agriculture. Not so good for us, we import lots of fruit and vegetables, not so much steel and other stuff needed for heavy industry. So tariffs do not really work in our favour, quite the opposite. I do agree with your...

That's really gorgeous. Our country has some fabulous places, you are fortunate.

What happens in London today will eventually spread to the rest of the country I suppose. Living here in Bournemouth/Poole/Christchurch has not changed that much since I was a lad. The main influence sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse is the upgrading of Bournemouth College of...

Some say the EU block brings stability. Undoubtedly it does. It has been carefully designed to favour the Franco-German bloc in the way it treats tariffs and subsidisation of French farmers and German manufacturing. It positively discriminates against the UK's mainly service based economy...

My final ambition is to be shot in bed at 85 by a jealous husband. Now that's a fitting way to expire.....

Bloomin Aussies they get in everywhere...

Some cynics and conspiracy nuts have intimated the covid epidemic was a strategically designed vehicle to cull the numbers of the aged people in our population in order to reduce the burden of our taxation and social security systems. I personally think that is a bridge too far, but the...

They are now in a far stronger barganing position than previously when one job had many applicants. Now the applicants have many more jobs to choose from, I know which set of circumstances I would prefer as a job applicant.

Flecc, agreed with much of this, but as you say it is of our own making. I remember vividly the furore in the media when our captains of industry were tripping over themselves to export whole factories to the far East aided and abetted by Thatcher. Our major problem since the 1970's has...

Mmmm, I think the exit of the cheapest Eastern European labour has made a massive difference to those on the lowest wages in our society. For the first time in decades, those on the lowest wages are able to drive harder bargains with prospective employers, that has not been the case with cheap...

That is not the point. The point is they bailed them out and rubbed our noses in it time and time again, and we all watched meekly on while it played out in front of us. If it were almost any other country there would be riots in the streets, but the UK populace just shrugs their shoulders and...

Flecc. What about the greed of the bankers who caused the 2008 crash and then were bailed out by we taxpayers? They got off scot-free, unlike the bankers in Iceland who were prosecuted and jailed. It's always one law for the rich and powerful in this country, another for the rest of us.

You should not hate the BBC. It performs a function in our society that most other countries are envious of and many have attempted to emulate. The news arm has lost it's way recently (since the referendum in 2016) with blatantly partisan views expressed as news and biased presenters, but that...