Recent content by cliveb

Thanks, found it. But crikey what a faff. In the old app you could just scroll through how cold and windy it was going to be for the days ahead on a single screen. Now you have to go into a separate details screen for wind and then click again to advance each day. And then repeat the whole...

There are two things that are missing from the updated version: Feels Like Temperature and Wind Gust. In the old app, they were given hourly (or 3-hourly for days beyond tomorrow). The new app gives them for just the next hour (for today), and a single maximum value for every subsequent day...

Looking at the spec, it appears that the video is recorded to a card in the camera itself. If someone breaks in to your house, then they might be aware of this and take the camera, so you will lose your recording of who it was. Lots of security cameras are now recording to somewhere in the...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I now have a shortlist of apps to try out. Re. This: I only use it on Android, but the Met Office website says it's also been updated on iPhone.

Met Office has updated its app and (predictably) made it less useful. Now looking for an alternative (on Android). There are loads to try - any recommendations for which ones to put on the shortlist? (I've used AccuWeather in the past, but that got updated and ruined a few years ago).

Get her two walk pads. Put one in the kitchen and one at the top of the stairs 😅

948 million???!!! What are they doing - rebuilding every single government IT system?

The way you phrased it was too much of an open goal to resist. Sorry 🤣

You do know what that means, right?

Well yes. Of course brakes need to work, but modern brakes are so good that we're talking about minuscule effects. As for lower weight improving fuel consumption, that's a bit ironic seeing as how cars are getting SO much heavier these days!

If you're driving on normal roads rather than a track, is that important?

I never did understand why car manufacturers ditched steel wheels. For sure, alloys look pretty, but apart from that what's the point?

Do you, like me, play "spot the new pothole" on your journey?

Yes it is. Doesn't mean it's not true. There are plenty of dedicated people who give up their time to help out their clubs, and I applaud them. But there are also a lot of others who get themselves onto committees for their own self-aggrandisement.

Indeed there are such people at golf clubs today. Unfortunately we find a lot of them on the club's board of directors or heading up the various committees.