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I have a Nespresso C113 machine that I descaled this morning.

The descaling appeared to be successful, I ran the water/descale mix through twice, then ran two full containers of fresh water through, and put the machine back to normal mode.

When I now go to use it the two buttons light up as I would expect, when I press the 'long' button it flashes as expected, but the water pump never starts and after about the 6 seconds the light stops flashing.

I've unplugged it for about an hour, then after plugging it back in I press one of the buttons to wake it up, the buttons flash for several seconds (I assume while warming up) and then go solid, but when I press one of the buttons the machine makes no noise, the button I pressed flashes for 6 seconds, and then returns to two solid lights.

I did put it back into descale mode (hold buttons for 5 seconds until they start rapidly flashing) but in this mode the long button does not start the descale process when I press it. When I put it back into normal mode I have the same issue with the pump just not running.

Have I killed my coffee machine, or is there something else I can try?

There is a relatively young tree that the Council planted next to where I live. I think it's been struggling over the last few weeks, there's been noticeable leaf loss. I've taken to watering it each evening over the last two weeks, I pour several litres of water down the watering tube (at least I hope that's what that is) and another few litres onto the soil/earth.

Apologies for the low quality images (taking photos of trees on the street is more difficult than I expected). I know nothing about gardening or plant care and while I'll almost certainly keep watering the tree each evening more in hope than expectation, is there anything I can do to confirm the tree is still alive, or anything else I can do to help?

TLDR;
Did something happen at Heathrow last night to cause 9 flights from Terminal 4 to depart late, between 0145 and 0225 when departure restrictions are in place?

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I live about 8 km from Heathrow, and right under the flightpath for a lot of aircraft departing towards central London (they pass over my flat at about 2,500 - 3,000 ft.).

The aircraft were here long before me, will be here long after me, and I've got pretty good at filtering out the noise. It's more difficult in the summer when all my windows are open, but we get some respite overnight as Heathrow is subject to restrictions between 2300 and 0600.

I got woken up at about 0150 this morning as Omar Air flight WY102 to Muscat passed overhead. I hoped I'd get back to sleep pretty quickly, but over the next ~35 minutes a further 8 long haul flights took off.

QTR1V  - Qatar to Doha
CES552 - China Eastern Airlines to Shanghai
RWD711 - Rwandair to Kigali
CSN304 - China Southern Airlines to Guangzhou
SVA118 - Saudia to Dammam
GFA006 - Gulf Air to Bahrain
ELY318 - El Al to Tel Aviv
MAS1   - Malaysia Airline to Kuala Lumpur

Did something happen at Heathrow last night to cause several flights to be delayed? All those Airlines operate out of Heathrow's Terminal 4, and when I googled the flight numbers some of them were listed as "Runway Delay".

Redecorating room, moved some furniture prior to starting cleaning and painting next week (so excuse the dust), prior to new carpets being laid.

Discovered this. I assume it's the copper oxidising, any chance I can just clean and paint it, or is this going to need a replacement section of pipe?

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Update:

General consensus is there's been a slight leak, for a long time. I'd tackle replacing the valve, but I have no idea how bad the copper pipe is. I might try and clean it with some wire wool to see just how bad it is, but if the pipe is bad then this feels like it has the potential to go quickly wrong, so I think I'd be looking for a plumber.

I need a pen and pencil to live in the bag I now carry with me when I'm out, and while digging around in my desk drawer desk I re-discovered two Rotring multi pen/pencil models that I haven't used in years.

I'm not sure what model the two pens are, I think one of them might be a "trio", but I'm not sure;

• One of the pens has three 'options', with markings around the barrel for a 'normal' pen, a 0.7mm mechanical pencil, and some sort of 'bright' pen.
• The second pen has four options, a 'normal' pen, a 0.5mm mechanical pencil, the same sort of 'bright' pen, and a stylus designed for a resistive touchscreen (like a Palm Pilot, or Sony CLIÉ).
• The main barrel of both pens is 130mm long (minus the cap).
• The lower removable barrels are 9.8mm in diameter.
• The upper barrel of the '3' pen is 9.2mm, upper barrel of the '4' pen is 9.8mm (same as the lower barrel).
• The stylus on the '4' pen does not appear to be removable.
• I believe the refills are of the D1 type, but stupidly I removed and binned the main refill from the '3' model years ago when it ran out.

I'm particularly interested in using the '3' model as I prefer a 0.7mm pencil (and I have no use for a stylus in the '4' model, especially as it doesn't appear to be removable), but I don't know the model number of the pen to confirm what refills I need.

Assuming it is a D1, then some quick research suggests I probably want the following;

• Uni JETSTREAM - Refill - 0.5mm - Black - SXR-200-05

But I'm curious what I could replace the 'bright' refill with, it says "Rotring Made in Germany", but I can't read the number on the side.

I assume I can replace it with any D1 type refill, so I was wondering what other interesting options were available?

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Edit:
I think the model with 4 pens is the "Rotring Quattro-MultiPen" or the “Rotring Axtension Data Pen”, and uses Rotring 'Magic View' system to select pens (basically, gravity. Hold the symbol for the pen you want facing up, and the button will extend that pen).

The Captive's War series was removed from TheTVDB.com. It did have tvdb ID 457634, and it doesn't appear when I search for it on tvdb.

Does anyone know if there has been a change to status of the show's development, or is this just an odd tvdb update?

I read the articles about the fleet of electric BYD BD11 buses being purchased for the SL7 route.
While this route still uses the diesel Wright/Volvo B9TLs, I saw my first BD11 during the week, EBD168 as it passes the Maddison Close stop on Park Road in Teddington.

I regularly use this service (just 1 stop for local travel) but I haven't yet been on the new buses, the B9TLs still operate the majority of services.

We had very heavy rain early morning of the 2nd June. So much so that the tracks by the bridge over the A311 Wellington Road in Fulwell flooded. I happened to be out walking (in the rain) and took these photos at Fulwell station at 0830 on the 2nd.

Speaking to a Network Rail engineer at the station he mentioned that this was the first time the track had flooded at this spot since they installed drainage pumps at Strawberry Hill several years ago.

The rain has eased off, but I'm surprised that the line is still closed the following morning. Last Tuesday in South West London we had 35°C temperatures, this Tuesday lines are closed due to heavy rain.

Edit;
Looks like normal service was restored on Thursday 4th, two days after the line was closed.