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@JeremyCherfas My mother's father (a wounded veteran of the trenches in France in WW1) was a linotype operator in a newspaper in a small inland city in Victoria, Oz. Each working day he'd cycle from home to the main office & set up the paper there before riding 10 miles northeast to set up the smaller local edition there. Then a trip on the bike of another 35 miles to yet another satellite edition in another town that needed doing.
He'd sustained a leg wound in 1916 and had a slight permanent limp thereafter. He said sometimes he was just too tired & sore to manage the 25 mile ride back to the home town and would catch the train back.

// @hazardwarning

Last week's trial of a loaf of oat sourdough bread has me wanting more of it. I need to find more sales outlets.

Weird behaviour from the MacBook Air, strange permissions requests from Droplr & Dropbox at bootup, Outlook account kept disassociating its password from the Mail app, OneDrive app wasn't recognising its own login details although it was fine in a web browser.
A litany of utter lunacy.
Bit the bullet & restored to an 8-day-old Time Machine backup.
Eventually, and after a restart to settle things, it's all working fine again & I've recovered 6 GB of free space.

“Entrapment: The terrifying but tragically true tale of Trevor’s trapped testicle” by Bill Kearns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch

One thing really troubled Don,
Not Vladimir or Kim Jong-un,
Not the economic crisis,
Nor the terrorists of ISIS,

Climate change or cheap fake tan,
Weinstein or the Ku Klux Klan,
Not even nuclear escalation,
But Alec Baldwin’s impersonation . . .

@phoneboy Horses for courses. A wise tea drinker will have stores of both available.

Mechanic’s report:

This is wot done it. A stone, collected on Friday while crossing a ridge of gravel made by a road grader on a narrow dirt road. I had to cross over the ridge to get to the side of the road that was wide enough to travel along.
Mechanic said that in effect I had a stone engine mount when reverse was selected & the engine torque in reverse jammed it in tight, negating the effect of the rubber mounts.

Mechanic just called. Asked if I was sitting down and ready for a price. I said I was. It’s around $850 LESS than I had been led to expect. There was a stone caught up in the gear linkages somehow causing the noise in reverse & at idle. Cost of repair is $55!

@gtwilson I recall helping to replace the clutch in Dad's Toyota Hi-Lux pickup in the early 1980s. It wasn't overly difficult, certainly doable in the back yard. But unlike a front wheel drive car you don't have to dismantle ½ the engine to get at it cos everything's no longer all in a straight line like the old vehicles.