I believe I’ve reached the pinnacle of British car boot finds. I stumbled upon this beauty at a stall selling watches and knew I had to take it home. Wooden dice, purple £100 notes and all: it’s definitely the coolest Monopoly set I’ve ever seen.
England.
My parents are being sued by an Amazon delivery driver by a no win no fee company.
He walked past a parcel bin, opened a gate that warned of 'dogs running loose' 'keep gate closed'
Knocked on the front door, the dog could hear it and came running around the front of the house from the rear and barked. ( he is a dopey golden retriever).
The amazon man got scared and jumped off a balcony that is 5ft high and landed on 2 of my dad's motorbikes damaging them both. He ended up breaking his finger, my parents took him to hospital, waited with him for scans, and ensured all the parcels were transferred onto another van.
My dad is fighting cancer for the 3rd time and this is very stressful for them both.
Whats the likely outcome going to be?
Thank you for any help.
Edit:
It's a very rural house. It has a very long and steep drive towards the house with a driveway at the top. You then have a pedestrian gate, after that you have around 10 steps that take you to the house that sits 5ft above the drive, with railings so you don't fall off..... this is what I called the balcony. The gate says ' keep gate closed, dog running loose' They have a labeled and dedicated parcel bin at the gate.
With the gate closed the dog has about 2 acres of garden that is all fenced fully fenced off.
We don't know if he is self employed or works for Amazon.
TLDR: Running a dehumidifier with the window shut may make you feel colder even if it heats the room up.
Room was 32°c but “felt like” 42°c.
Ran dehumidifier, room heated to 33°c but “felt like” 33°c.
I’m on the spectrum and one of my quirky little obsessions is humidity, originating from a damp problem in my bedroom.
I own loads of hygrometers (things that show you the relative humidity in a room) to prevent damp, and a 12l dehumidifier. I found that in the winter, when I went in the room and it was very humid (>60%) that the room would feel FREEZING. I ran the dehumidifier, got the humidity to like 40%, and the room felt amazingly warm (relative to how it was before I ran the dehumidifier).
I went down a rabbit hole the other day and thought maybe the inverse would be true, because everyone who defends themselves against Americans etc saying “29 degrees, that’s not even hot!” references how the humidity of the British Isles makes it hotter.
So I begrudgingly closed the window despite it being cooler outside at the time, and turned the dehumidifier on. I started at 32°c, at 75% relative humidity, which was absolutely unbearable, and let it run for a few hours. I ended on 33°c and 35% relative humidity, because the air was being heated by the condenser in the dehumidifier and the window was not open to let the hot air escape.
It felt SO MUCH BETTER. I later looked at this chart, and saw that what I started with, 75% RH + 32°c, had a heat index output (the “feels like” temperature) of 42°c, and what I ended up with (33°c and 35%) had a heat index of 33°c.
Maybe don’t do this if you don’t have a hygrometer (Though they’re very cheap on Amazon, etc) because if your room isn’t humid to begin with it’s a waste of time.
Human sweat cools us down when it evaporates, but at humidities of 55% and more, the sweat begins evaporating less efficiently, and this makes a huge difference to what heat feels like.
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What's the most dad thing you've done this week?
I'll start:
I spent 20 minutes adjusting a gate because it had dropped slightly and would no longer latch properly.
The gate now closes with a satisfying click.
I am disproportionately pleased with this achievement.
A standard 3×3 Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions.
That's 43.252 quintillion combinations.
If each possible cube position was represented by a single sheet of ordinary office paper, and those sheets were stacked on top of one another, the pile would reach approximately 4.3 trillion kilometres into space, or nearly half a light-year.
For comparison, the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is about 4.37 light-years away.
Despite this enormous number of possible arrangements, every scrambled Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves or fewer by an optimal solution.
The cube therefore presents the interesting situation where there are enough possible states to create a stack of paperwork stretching beyond the Solar System, yet a sufficiently clever person can always sort the problem out in fewer moves than it takes most people to put away their shopping.
Most Rubik's Cubes, however, spend their lives three-quarters solved on a shelf.
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The gap between railway tracks in Britain is 1,435 mm. This measurement was influenced by decisions made nearly 200 years ago.
EDIT, due to the request of more information. I have taken this from Wiki.
As railways developed and expanded, one of the key issues was the track gauge (the distance, or width, between the inner sides of the rail heads) to be used, as the wheels of the rolling stock (locomotives, cars, etc.) must match this distance. Different railways used different gauges, and where track of different gauges met – a "gauge break" – loads had to be unloaded from one set of rail cars and reloaded onto another, a time-consuming and expensive process. The result was the adoption throughout a large part of the world of a "standard gauge" of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), allowing interconnectivity and interoperability.
Origins
A popular legend that has circulated since at least 1937[9] traces the origin of the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) gauge even further back than the coalfields of northern England, pointing to the evidence of rutted roads marked by chariot wheels dating from the Roman Empire. Snopes categorised this legend as "false", but commented that it "is perhaps more fairly labeled as 'Partly true, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons. The historical tendency to place the wheels of horse-drawn vehicles around 5 ft (1,524 mm) apart probably derives from the width needed to fit a carthorse in between the shafts.[11] Research, however, has been undertaken to support the hypothesis that "the origin of the standard gauge of the railway might result from an interval of wheel ruts of prehistoric ancient carriages".
In addition, while road-travelling vehicles are typically measured from the outermost portions of the wheel rims, it became apparent that for vehicles travelling on rails, having main wheel flanges that fit inside the rails is better, thus the minimum distance between the wheels (and, by extension, the inside faces of the rail heads) was the important one.
A standard gauge for horse railways never existed, but rough groupings were used; in the north of England none was less than 4 ft (1,219 mm). Wylam colliery's system, built before 1763, was 5 ft (1,524 mm), as was John Blenkinsop's Middleton Railway; the old 4 ft (1,219 mm) plateway was relaid to 5 ft (1,524 mm) so that Blenkinsop's engine could be used.[13] Others were 4 ft 4 in (1,321 mm) (in Beamish) or 4 ft 7+1⁄2 in (1,410 mm) (in Bigges Main (in Wallsend), Kenton, and Coxlodge).
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Most teaspoons spend less than 1% of their existence stirring tea.
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A supermarket trolley may travel over 10,000 miles during its working life, despite never being trusted to leave the car park.
What will you be getting up to?
We have a local vintage tractor club that will be ploughing fields using vintage equiptment. It's quite a big thing for our little town.
How are we all today? What interesting things will we be getting up to?
On my way back from a job, and waiting for Dom to turn up to collect his winnings, going to offer him £10 to tell me how he has scammed them.
Just had a notification about our babysense monitor needing a recall due to a fire risk.
If it has the S/N starting with MVRX
unplug and stop using it immediately.