Watching coverage now and grateful I don’t live in the UK where it looks like there’s no way to watch it! Looks like the classic “can they do it on a cold, rainy night in StokeBournemouth” game.

Team: Kelleher. Gomez, Matip, Quansah, Tsimikas, Elliott, Endo. Jones, Salah, Gakpo, Szoboszlai

Substitutes van Dijk, Konaté, Núñez, Mac Allister, Adrián, Jota, Gravenberch, Scanlon, Alexander-Arnold

Surprised we’re starting Mo - although he does get to wear the armband. Maybe he couldn’t resist those lovely white and green shirts lol.

No idea how Mo can shrug it off with a smile when someone grabs him with two arms and wrestles him to the ground with not even a foul given.

I think there’s an assist there for Darwin - which breaks his “I only assist for Mo” record.

Edit: apparently I’m wrong… I guess makes sense that the post breaks the chain. The streak continues!

It’s certainly feels like there’s a 2nd goal in here for Toulouse.

Also it looks like the away end is on fire. No… literally on fire. Camera caught a brief shot and it’s a solid mass of flares… you can see the smoke starting to drift across the rest of the pitch now.

Commentary:

“Endo didn’t need to do much with that cross”

“The technique on that header was excellent”

🙃

Talk about a manager stamping their style on a team, this feels like nothing more than all those Dyche Burnley games.

Solid side out today - doesn’t matter where Everton are in the table, this one always matters. Glad Richarlison is no longer an option for them… always felt like he couldn’t keep his head.

We FINALLY got there today on “the last day” - only to discover they’ve extended it for a week :)

I’ll admit not my favourite - I prefer the exhibits where you can see workings and watch machines work. But very interesting, as always - there’s always great conversations and thoughts to have around the exhibits and personally I find that as fascinating as the exhibits themselves. Like today we realized that, in “No Longer Adrift”, the focus is on the microscopic fragments of dust gathered from the airport lounges, but the same patterns of dust movement seen in the other two exhibits can also be thought of as similar, on a larger scale, to the movement of the planes and the people that brought the dust into the airport lounges.

Pride “10 days” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it! Nice to see so many events that it can’t be crammed into a single week.

I definitely used to look forward to Thursday publication date even just a couple of years ago. Always exciting to see what made the lead story (and the awesome photos that Jennifer Gauthier would always nail for the cover shot)

I think digital-only is only going to make the current situation worse. I love it for local news but hate the corporate/non-local stuff that’s forced down the chain from Glacier Inc and all the rage-baiting letters. At least on physical paper there was a limit to the space given the need to publish local stuff. Online they can include as much as they like.

Nice timeline of local papers in The Anchor today: https://newwestanchor.com/p/highlights-timeline-new-westminster-newspapers-2023

Photo of an estimate from a local mechanic? And same with you - take all the physio you need and bill the hell out of them. Hope the knee’s settled down now but an expert opinion might spot something long-term that can be corrected now.

Sorry to hear :( Feels like we’re all one momentary lapse of concentration (usually someone else’s) away from a life-changing coming-together. I’ve lost track of the situation with the shifting sands of ICBC and what they will/won’t do these days, but can you claim against them for a) any out-of-pocket medical expenses (eg physio) and b) damage to bike/helmet?

Ahhh right, sorry - must read more carefully - I see you’ve already said ICBC will cover the helmet. If you get the bike in for a mechanic to look over & give you an estimate then presumably they’ll cover that as well?

I’ve never understood why there’s a fuss about default wallpaper. It ships with a dozen options and you can obviously install your own. I guess it’s the opportunity for a news story and a sign that things have reached a certain level of development and are getting close to release.

Personally, I saw the item on installing your own dynamic wallpaper at https://www.omglinux.com/dynamic-wallpapers-for-gnome-desktop/, followed the instructions on github and set up a lovely time-of-day based wallpaper based on the game Firewatch (https://github.com/manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers#code-firewatch) - I love all the sunrise/sunset options there but if you’ve played Firewatch then this one might speak to you :)

…and yes the bike valet was there and we did use it :)

Wasn’t the most amazing showing of food trucks - although that’s probably because we attend so many events with food trucks in New West it was a case of “eaten at that one before… and that one… and that one…” ( Although I got some awesome bread pudding from the “Crack On” truck that mostly sells egg sandwiches :) )

Great event though - it’s lovely not being penned-in because I want a beer. And the tables & chairs were smartly located in the natural shade along Columbia. And plenty of water stations. And the fore-mentioned bike valet. Lots of little improvements on last year… which was effectively the first running of it after the relaunch.

Ahhh - a rather bigger audience! I think we’ll try & make an effort to see it properly next year, esp if they have a bike valet. Always fun to support these things and I never see much of 12th.

Did you go? We haven’t before but were cycling home around 4pm and crossed 12th - looked like a lot of good music and a decent number of stalls… didn’t get a chance to wander around though… end of a long day. New West is a festival every weekend in the summer :)

Seems to be a lot of fragmentation in the ebike rental market. Coquitlam has Neuron, Vancouver has Mobi, North Van is Lime, Whistler is Evolve - New West is asking for public input before it selects a vendor, not sure about any other municipalities.

This seems like a bad thing - sure I guess they’re marketing them for short trips but ebikes are so much fun that I think yes you might want to take your rental bike from Coquitlam into Vancouver, drop it there, spend the day, then pick up another one for the ride home… which of course you can’t if they’re all on different systems.

The casual-use rates ($1.19 unlocking + $0.39/min) don’t seem a million miles off Evo car rates.

Gordon & Sarah work so hard for the New Media Gallery. Not only do they source and setup the installations, AND act as guides but also, because every exhibition’s different, they strip the space down to the outer walls and reframe everything between exhibitions to create the appropriate spaces for the exhibits.

I would never have thought of myself as someone who was into art, least of all modern or new media art, but the New Media Gallery’s a must see for every exhibit and I think pretty much anybody in the Lower Mainland would get something out of anything they put on there.

Does this mean I’m going to have to post more cycling things? 😁 Glorious cycling weather right now and lots of cycling stuff in the news… seems like cycling is consuming a disproportionate amount of my brain.

This is great news - I remember this being originally talked about maybe 3-4 years ago. Tailor made for New West and the hills lol - assuming we don’t just end up with all the bikes left at the top of the hills.

One of the key points I got from the survey is they’re eyeing a dockless system with designated parking zones. So fast to roll out (no physical docks to build) but no discarded bikes left all over the city.