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[Penfold]

Just to dig up an old thread and say thanks again to Penfold for recommending printerland, now on my third printer purchase from them (initially B&W laser, then colour laser for a family member, and finally a colour laser for us) and they have consistently had the best pricing and best service :yahoo:

I'm not seeing Wreckfest in this tournament...

No chance of afternoon gaming for me I'm afraid, would be more likely joining around 7:30pm after small child has gone to sleep :crying:

Count me in please - availability might be tricky, but what the heck

I would definitely be keen for "dMw" CS of some flavour.

Despite being utter rubbish at ARMA and my ageing laptop will probably explode, I'm definitely keen to give it a whirl

No worries, I think very few people are as picky as me! Hope it all goes well, as promised, couple of pics of my last one (more for me to show off rather than anything else )

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D6mqcfpQ7V5T-58dc6OE2dhedckvdqEh/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eZbPkq6odwI4M7XLooXxrK9D-u7xz0PQ/view?usp=sharing

Missing from those pictures is our mobile kitchen island, a bit butchers block on wheels, which we used as extra worktop wherever we needed or just had it in the middle for friends to drink at while we cooked

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​My first recommendation would be to get a free home design CAD program like SweetHome 3D and play with layouts etc yourself, don't worry about the colours and feel / fit / finish just fundamentally work out what you want where.

Also think about how you and your other co-habitants use a kitchen, my wife and I often are in there together doing prep / cook etc alongside each other. So weirdly for us when we had a "long thin kitchen" it actually worked better for us to have it all in a line on one wall rather than do it as the "golden triangle" of sink, fridge and hobs/oven.

I have always fitted my own kitchens as I am very particular / fussy / OCD about it all and don't trust most company fitters not to just bodge the job then hide it and for what fitters charge these days, it is generally cheaper to take a few days off work and do it myself.

Don't worry about future proofing your colour scheme too much, most DIY places sell "One Coat cupboard paint" these days, so you can refresh your kitchen in an afternoon a few years down the line. It is more important to have decent solid carcasses - as worst case doors can always be replaced in future.

I'll try and dig out the pictures of the last kitchen I did, where I basically followed the above process then went to https://www.diy-kitchens.com/ and ordered to my design, ended up with the whole lot including my wife's "dream" range cooker done and dusted for £6k

Matrix: Resurrections - loved the first two hours as it went through it's "great action scenes while doing meta, self-referential slating Warner Bros and franchise reboots generally" routine  - didn't like the big "zombie" finale last 30 mins. Ultimately was well worth the rental on *streaming service of choice* - 8/10

Turns out the music industry is just like every other with thousands of people putting their heart, soul, money and health on the line to complete bits of work that no-one ever sees again... :devil:

Bloody hell - glad you got through it fella and hope things continue to improve! :flirty:

Thanks gang - probably means I've spent over half of my life as a member of this forum, not sure what that says about me

After an update a couple of weeks ago a widgets icon (white rectangle and light blue rectangle inside a dark blue square) appeared next to my start menu. It also changes with the weather because apparently there was a weather widget or something... (The weather thing was only reason I really noticed the update to be honest) and since then boot up has been a lot slower. Don't think it is particularly the widgets, more it was the update that made that icon appear on my taskbar that seems to have slowed things.

So W11 has been running brilliantly until about 2 weeks ago when boot up etc started taking a lot longer. About the time that widgets got added to my taskbar... anyone else? Feels like there is probably a config hidden somewhere but haven't the foggiest

I miss bf2