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Big fan of Conn Iggulden. I'll wait till he's finished then Athens set of books then batter through them all fairly quickly.Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden. An excellent book (as always with him - his Genghis Khan series is the best historical fiction I have ever, ever read). Great story, well written. Next one in this new series is out in May. I'll get it when it comes out I think.
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Need to do it through a web browser. Can't do it through your ps4 as far as I'm aware.How is it I add the PS5 games to my library for later when I get one?
I canny find it.1 -
Days Gone and Zombie Army 4 on PS4 for April and Oddworld: Soulstorm on PS5.
Sony certainly upping their efforts in recent months.0 -
Not PS plus, but Sony are giving away 10 free games to keep on ps4 this spring. Mostly indie games but also Horizon Zero Dawn.
https://blog.playstation.com/2021/03/17/play-at-home-2021-update-10-free-games-to-download-this-spring/0 -
I may be completely missing the point with this full thing but surely most people won't care if its the original clip with the block chain etc, as long as it shows the goal or whatever it is then most people will be happy.
Its the exact same standards. The point is not about replicating the original, the point is about proving the identity and authenticity of the original in a manner that is 100% factual.
Its utterly, utterly irrelevant how likely you think it is or isn't. Those paintings have, and always will have an above 0% chance of being forgeries, and any forgery I attempt has and always will have an above 0% chance of succeeding regardless of how many "effectively"'s, "almost" or "nearly"'s you want to throw into it.
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This is why I like the way American sports do things, the team that is generally the worst for that season (I know there are other factors taken into account) get the pick of the most talented player(s) for the season ahead from the college system in the draft system.I've been on this bus for years. The traditional league was designed for what was basically an amateur sport in the 19th century. It is completely unsuitable for a commercialised 21st century sport where a club like Celtic competes with a club like Ross County.
It's very easy to prove that leagues don't work anymore by simply looking at the fact that most leagues are won by the same team or small group of teams every year.
You would never design a sporting competition from scratch today that wasn't settled by some kind of play-off system, yet football clings to the 19th century despite mountains of evidence year on year that this gives us a boring, predictable sport in which the vast majority of clubs have no hope of success.
Obviously this wouldn't work for British football as its all academies owned or affiliated with clubs but at least it keeps it abit more competitive.0 -
I'd tried a few different brands of alcohol free beers over the last few weeks before the wife gave birth and have to say that Tennents was easily the worst I tried (and I enjoy a pint of the real stuff).Tennents alcohol free beer, too hoppy to be branded as the famous T.
The Estrella Damm was prob the best stuff or Adnams Ghost Ship if you like more of a craft beer.0 -
Have a look at geforce now if you have a half decent Internet connection. Basically cloud gaming games which you own or have purchased in your steam/epic/ubisoft launchers.How "heavy" is Valheim specs-wise? It's rare nowadays that you get a complete PC exclusive that I really want to play, and I'm not really that well set up to enjoy them. Got a desktop that could likely easily handle it, but I very rarely get the chance to sit down and use it for gaming. Much easier just to chuck on the PS5 in a shared room. But if it would work on a laptop...
Doesn't work with every title but Valheim is one of them.
There's a free version that let's you play in one hour sessions or £25 for 6 months let's you play for 6 hour sessions and also has added graphical effects like Ray tracing etc.0 -
Final Fantasy VII remake is part of March's line up. Really surprised by this as its a AAA title that was one released last year.
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Anyone on here play this?
Downloaded it yesterday and spent about 6 hours on it last night (didn't feel like that) just trying to get the hang of it.
Game seems likes it got unlimited potential and some of the workshop items available are fantastic. It is certainly a step up in terms of detail and micromanagement compared to the Rollercoaster Tycoon games back in the day.
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The random 4 slabs are meant for a whirly gig to be installed at the end of.I think the design the builders have gone with is a bit odd looking at the layout, the waste of a strip up the left side and a random patch of 4 slabs doing nothing either! Your idea of bins and path on the left is a far better idea and makes the space more usable.
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The path needs lifting, new one needs digging out a new track for and relaying on sand or a mortar bed (more expensive).
Turfing, they'll possibly need to dig over or rotovate the soil to loosen it up, level off, compact again and throw the turf down. Providing the soil is ok, which it looks from the photo, they should just be able to level off and throw the turf down. At the size of garden you have id estimate to turf the whole fucking thing (lets say 50m² @ £5/m² which is dear for turf) you'd be £250 + VAT and delivery. So lets go nuts and say £350 for turf.
Then with artificial grass they'll need to dig out a fair bit of soil and dump (which is a big cost in skips or removal), infill with gravel and sand or whatever, get it level and compacted properly. The cost of good fake grass isn't cheap per m² either. Way more than turf, id say £10/m² for the stuff that starts to look decent. Theyll also be pricing a digger for the artifical grass job too i assume, I doubt they'll dig out by hand. Especially considering the following paragraph.
What they've got think of too, and I've found this with new builds the hard way, is that usually there's a layer of 2 inches of soil then about 25 feet of rubble the builders have buried to get rid of so as soon as you start digging you're into bricks, concrete and f**k knows what. (Thats why most new builds end up having yellowish grass when its drier in summer as its under stress from drought and malnourished tae f**k.)
So they'll need to get shot of that potentially too so removing waste is where a huge part of the cost is probably coming from.
Personally, I'd get someone to do your slabbing then if the soil is level (if not get the guy doing your slabs to level off) buy a bag of grass seed for a tenner and a cheap wee mower.
Then, if you hate cutting the grass (its not a huge lawn to cut and we'll be in lockdown forever so it gives you something to do at the weekend) then you could get some c**t to do the fake turf later and it'll spread the cost at least but it means more disruption.
The prices aren't horrendous as its a decent skelp of a garden but you could probably get a bit cheaper, especially just the plain old turf option. However, the cheaper you go the less you should expect quality wise and follow up service.
Have any other neighbours had this kind of work done? You could ask around and get an idea of what they paid or who they used.
All the neighbours seemed to have elected to pay the house builders to turf the back before they moved in although from the neighbours I can see it looks abit patchy (might grow in during the spring/summer).
I don't actually mind having to cut the grass and it's not a huge area to run over every couple of weeks, knew astro would be more expensive, just didn't know how much hence why I thought I'd get quotes for turf and astro.
I'm waiting for another couple of quotes to come back to me so hopefully they might be a bit more along the lines I was thinking.1 -
Moved into a new build at the start of December so starting to look at options for the back garden. Garden measures 5.2m x 11.3m (photo makes the proportions look off).
Ive emailed a few landscape businesses to try and get quotes.
We are essentially looking to move the bins to left hand side then have the path come in the gate, past where the bins would be the turn in and hug the left fence line. Put up a 6x4 shed where the bins currently are then turf/artifical grass the remainder.
First quote just came back for £3380 for turf or £4380 for artifical grass.
I have no idea how much landscaping costs but this seems pretty steep considering the majority of the slabs are already here and it's the rest is mainly just turfing (I know there's prep involved).
Am I just being a tight b*****d or is this quote quite high?
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Is it possible the dealership you bought it from hasn't sent it to you?New car arrived this week, but doesn’t have an owners manual. What sort of weirdo keeps the owners manual of a car they’re selling?
We had this problem with the wife's new (second hand) car a couple of months ago. Only after badgering Peter Vardy did they find the manual, service book and locking wheel key.0 -
How long do you destarch them for? I usually just run them under water until it runs clear (5 mins at most).PTTGOMN is people thinking chips in the oven from potatoes take ages because they can't be arsed destarching them.
TBF if you add the destarching time it takes much much longer but they taste nice0 -
The wife said she fancied steak for dinner last night so I went down to the local butchers and picked up 2 cracking rib eye steaks.
Cooked them absolutely perfectly, tasted great, served them with some home made buttery mash which was so smooth you could have plastered your walls with it, some tenderstem brocoli and some shop bought peppercorn sauce.
Wife sits down and comments on how good the peppercorn sauce (which she knew was shop bought and just het up) and how nice the brocoli (which was cooked in boiling water for 3 mins) tasted. Not a fucking word about the steaks or mash!1 -
Aye fair enough, not sure which one they've counted as an attempt on goal to be fair!Although this has came in, these offers are not guaranteed as the last few have not came in1 -
SkyBet price boosting Salah to have 1 shot on target against Leicester to evens.
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Fair enough, didn't realise that. Still absolutely mental of the clubs and the SPFL not to have a contingency!They tried. The clubs said no.0 -
Apologies if this has already been covered in previous pages but surely the SPFL should have agreed some sort of plan with all clubs prior to the start of the season, as to what should happen should we be unable to finish the season.
To start the season with a realistic possibility that it won't finish, without their being any plan in place comes across as mental (although it is the SPFL)!1 -
Most low/alcohol free beers actual taste quite decent and you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference in a blind taste test.
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Can't decide if its the best thing ever or the worst!0 -
Microwave rice from Aldi for 49p a sachet works out cheaper than new pans for those who can't cook rice.
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Anyone got any experience of using them? I know they use the 3 network which isn't great to start with but they're doing unlimited data sim cards for £16 a month with no contract.
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Great show. Roy Choi seems like a top bloke as well!Big fan of The Chef Show with Roy Choi and Jon Favreau0
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