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Panniers.
you want something rigid enough not to get tangled in the spokes.
some mounting hardware that won’t snap off.
i bought a pair of karrimor panniers in ‘94.
they detached from the bike as I pedalled through a gate, and the only way to stop them taking the spokes out was to mount a pair of oven shelves to the rear rack.
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Epoxy resin & hardener
Carbon Fibre specific scissors
Sellotape / Scotch tape
3M (almost anything they make)
Anything you keep and use a lot rather than use once or twice and throw away
Hooker - less likely to get a nasty disease, robbed, caught up in a bad situation with her fireds or, depending on the school you went to, find out she is someone you went to school with*.
*Happened to a friend apparently and put him right of his stroke when he realised, not helped by her asking if his Mum was still okay
Have we said saddles?
Especially road bike saddles.
Cambium C15 vs. the Planet X standard issue Manhood Mangler (or whatever it's called) it replaced. It wasn't until a few days riding back to back I realised quite how bad it was.
No blame on PX the bike is built to a price but just ouch!
You know how you can buy a bike without pedals? I think we need to do that with saddles to stop me binning cheap nerve annihilators.
wheels
Izal Medicated is more expensive than the usual stuff.
Isn’t that the slippery Teflon-coated stuff we had at school? Which seemingly did little more than smear it around rather than wipe clean? 😖
Gardening tools, non-powered type.
Spades
Forks
Rakes
Especially Secateurs. However, I feel that cheap ones are needed as that way they are cheaper to replace when Mrs Seadog throws then in the garden waste bin... again.
Wet wipes are where it’s at, and expensive are definitely superior to cheap.
Mate, go buy a Toto bidet seat. Literally my favourite thing in our house. Only downside is that I don't want to take extended poop breaks at work anymore because I miss my lovely heated ass washer 😥
wine- to a price point, and restaurants.
Sadly, wine and cheese.
Cambium C15
I put one of them on my MTB. It was bloody (once after quite a long ride, literally) awful. Although I do wish I'd tried it on my gravel bike before I sold it to my Uncle for really cheap.
Twenty quid Charge Spoon, or one of its clones for the win!
Agree with WCA, you can't skimp on balsamic vinegar. Due Vittorie FTW
My ex used to leave them in the garden when she'd finished with them. For days. (It's a big garden)Especially Secateurs. However, I feel that cheap ones are needed as that way they are cheaper to replace when Mrs Seadog throws then in the garden waste bin... again.
She left a set of loppers in the forest behind the house a few years ago. I bought another set, then found the originals, rusted half to death.
As they were decent ones, an hour with an oily rag, GT85 and some elbow grease, i now have two sets of fully operational loppers.
Nah, hard no. The AldiWest Country Extra Mature Cheddaris the best Cheddar I have ever eaten.
Cheap* cheese seems to have suffered enshitification over the last few years. I always used to buy the generic supermarket mature / extra cheddar, it was generally hard and crumbly and nice enough for 90% of it's uses sacrilegiously covering italian food, melted onto/into toast or slathered in Branston's in a sandwich. Now some supermarket stuff is just as horrible and plasticy as the value stuff used to be.
*no rhyme or reason, some of the supermarket stuff is as expensive as the 'branded' stuff, and some of the ostensibly upmarket supermarkets are the worst
Cheese is a highly variable commodity, it varies by season and supply etc and it's a challenge for suppliers to provide a relatively consistent product across the country, and sometimes it's not possible. We usually buy Asda extra mature, once or twice we've had crap cheese in the same wrapper, but not often. It's not a recent thing either, this has happened randomly to me in the past over my 30 year cheese buying career.
Due Vittorie FTW
I've taken that as a recommendation and ordered some. Used the last of our cheap Carrefour own brand on my salad yesterday.
Cameras, at least for wildlife. They say a better camera won't make you a better photographer, which isn't untrue butttttt the fancy camera will get you way more shots that sharp and well exposed enough.
Cheese is a highly variable commodity, it varies by season and supply etc and it's a challenge for suppliers to provide a relatively consistent product across the country, and sometimes it's not possible. We usually buy Asda extra mature, once or twice we've had crap cheese in the same wrapper, but not often. It's not a recent thing either, this has happened randomly to me in the past over my 30 year cheese buying career.
It's not so highly variable that the Aldi Ex Mature I bought recently had the taste and texture of a poor mild. That's almost certainly down to poor grading. I worked in a cheese factory for several years, working closely with the cheese graders (yes, there are such things!) and in those years we never had a point where extra mature tasted like mild.
Cameras, at least for wildlife. They say a better camera won't make you a better photographer, which isn't untrue butttttt the fancy camera will get you way more shots that sharp and well exposed enough.
Specifically, lenses. I think the camera tech focus thing started when digital began taking over and it just became a mega-pixels arms race. Expensive cameras with gazillion MP CCDs but optically poor lenses would sell by the bucketload.
That's almost certainly down to poor grading. I worked in a cheese factory for several years, working closely with the cheese graders
Blessed are the cheese makers
I've taken that as a recommendation and ordered some
Noted. Sainsbury's had Belazu £5 off Nectar price a bit ago. We're just finishing the supply I bought at that time.