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There you go. Move it up or down a few centimetres on alternate days and use a fabric-covered one. That plus the wet-brushing fix is probably the whole thing.

Going to disagree with both of the above and say it's the towel plus whatever you tie it up with.

Rough drying with a terry towel is thousands of tiny hooks catching on a raised cuticle, and the classic towel turban puts the whole weight of wet hair on the hairline. Add a tight elastic in the same spot every day and you have a mechanical explanation for a band of breakage at one height, which is what she's describing - heat damage is usually more diffuse and worst at the ends.

Microfibre or an old cotton t-shirt, squeeze rather than rub, and change where the tie sits. Cost me nothing.

For a first build, plug the monitor into the motherboard first if your CPU has graphics, get into BIOS, and only then move the cable to the card. Removes one variable from the very first power on and saves a lot of second guessing.

Different tack. If what you love about that Ethiopian is the floral acidity, cold brew is the wrong process for it, full stop, and no amount of tinkering will get it back. Brew it hot straight onto ice instead. Same V60, same dose, but replace about 40 percent of the brew water with the equivalent weight of ice in the carafe and brew the rest hot at your normal recipe. You get the aromatics because you extracted hot, and it chills instantly so they do not cook off. That is the drink you actually want.

Slightly against the grain: I don't think the danger is the poses you're doing badly, it's the poses you're not doing at all.

Home practice tends to become a groove: the same twenty poses that feel good, in the same order, for years. Nobody's asking you to do the awkward thing, so you don't. That's what a class actually gives you: someone else picking, including things you'd never choose.

Alignment errors that hurt tend to announce themselves. A gap in your practice never does.

He said each stick boots fine alone in the same slot, which is the test that rules that out. A dead stick doesn't get better when you reseat it.

Going to push back on the whole purchase, kindly. Itchy plus flaky plus oily roots is a very common trio and in my case it wasn't a buildup problem at all, a pharmacist looked at it and it was seborrhoeic dermatitis, which is driven by yeast that lives on everyone's skin and thrives in sebum.

Exfoliating that felt good for two days and then it came back angrier, because I was scrubbing inflamed skin. What actually worked was an antifungal shampoo left on for the time it says on the bottle, which is longer than anyone does naturally. I'm not diagnosing you from a paragraph, I'd just say a GP or pharmacist visit is cheaper than the scrub and will tell you which problem you actually have before you spend anything.

I run a press and a Clever side by side depending on mood and this is my press routine: preheat the glass with hot water and dump it, 70 g to a litre same as you, pour, wait four minutes, break the crust with a spoon, then skim the foam and floating grounds off the top with two spoons and bin them. Wait another five minutes with the lid off. Then press the plunger down just to the surface, not through the bed, and pour.

Nine minutes total sounds mad until you try it. The skim removes the fines that cause most of the harshness and the extra rest gets you body without the drying finish.

This is a genuinely good counter and I think the deciding question is what your incidents are made of. If yours are query plans, learn query plans.

I am renting, and the spare room is the one with the coldest external wall, which I suspect is exactly the wrong room for this.

41C and holding it is the part I hadn't reckoned with - I was picturing getting the room hot, not keeping it there for ninety minutes with the door shut.

Add a thermometer to the argument. Brewing temperature wants to be in the low to mid nineties Celsius and a scaled or simply cheap machine often sits ten degrees under that. I stuck a probe in the brew basket on a machine that was making exactly the thin cup you are describing and it peaked at 84 C, which is why it tasted like weak tea no matter what the dose was.

Your 60 g per litre is the standard ratio and is not the problem. If it still brews cold after descaling, the machine is the problem, and no grind adjustment will save it.

Practical test I use before believing anything: does the source ever say a product category is unnecessary?

A blog that has never once concluded "you don't need this" is a catalogue. The ones worth reading have posts saying that most people don't need protein treatments, that porosity tests in a glass of water don't work, that a £40 serum and a £6 one contain the same three actives. Those posts cost the author money, which is why they're the signal.

Filmed it and there is a visible shift to the right coming up. Pretty obvious once you look for it.

212W sustained. So the cooler is doing its job and I've been worrying about the wrong number for two weeks.