Mugabe has apparently been to the hospital to see him. Wouldn’t be too surprised if he was there before him.

One of me is sure it is schizophrenia but the other is not so sure.

Curry – home made
Corbieres – grenache syrah carignan
Nick Cave – on Spotify

That’s a credit crunch night in for you

Not pleasant stumpy but wouldn’t the best thing to have done to be to drive over it again.
My wife’s uncle once decapitated a cat while cycling, it ran out and went head first into the rear wheel.He was doing a fair speed at the time and it made a real mess. It still disturbs him now and this happened over 20 years ago.

I don’t know about the lampshades but I did read that the u boat crews had socks made from human hair. Obviously they could have collected that from the barbers but I don’t think did it that way.

mrmichaelwright you should be careful with your own details. I work for a production company who use freelance AV technicians. From the information you have made public on here I know that you are a freelancer in the same area of work and I might also surmise that you were a bit of a bolshy …..
So I might then decline to get in touch with you regarding future employment opportunities. So you are right, we really are watching you :-)

I’ve got the 1.9 Doblo which I think has the largest interior space of all of them. It’s been reliable and does 50 mpg despite being used mainly for short journeys. They are very basic but I like that and as they are all ugly you might as well go for the ugliest of the lot. When I was looking around the Doblos seemed to report fewer problems than the Berlingos and Kangoos. Have a look athonestjohnhe’s a pretty good source of information. The only thing I’ve found is that the rear leaf suspension can be noisy when the bushes dry out. It’s only apparent over speed bumps and isn’t a handling or safety issue.

sorry bunnyhop your right and all of course in pink.

I’m sure if you trace your girlfriends ancestry you’re going to find some trailer trash not too far back. If she carries it on then it’s time to leave. If you let it carry on then it’s only a matter of time before a knitted doll appears on the spare roll and a specially shaped rug goes around the toilet. You have been warned.

Yes specialbike was the one I was thinking off. There don’t seem to many recent photos in the galleries but the web site is still active which was why I wasn’t sure if they were still operating.

Army surplus gortex here for my off road commute. Wear them most days in the winter because the route is usually wet and muddy. I just wear boxer shorts underneath which are fine for a 6 mile ride and they don’tget too hot.
I use a couple of velcro straps to keep them out of the chain.

There was a firm specialising in bike refurbs in Hove. I’m not sure if they are still trading but they built some lovely bikes out of bits.
And what has gone wrong with the weather in Brighton? Yesterday riding in to work I thought summer had arrived and I was thinking maybe time to take the mud x’s off, the trail was dry all the way. Today I’m riding over the downs in fog, maybe yesterday was the summer, still at least I got to enjoy it briefly.

Well I liked the music, perhaps it’s an age thing

I wasn’t being serious mrsflash, I’ve no idea what education they’ve had. What I will hazard a guess on is that if the situation were reversed and Manchester had broken the rules in this way and had won the majority on here would be saying they should keep the title. But as Monty Python showed all those years ago with Upper Class Twit Of The Year there is nothing funnier than seeing the percieved posh fall on their arse. The real problem with the competition is that the filming schedule bares no relation to the academic year. The final was apparently recorded in November. Bamber was on radio 4 last night saying how absurd the filming was and how it restricted who was elligable to participate.

Anybody else see Starter for Ten when it was on the telly recently. Not a bad film with a great soundtrack and a disqualified team.

I don’t know where you passed him Smee you kept the exact details of your own actions very vague, why we can only speculate about. So did he pull over at the third passing place or did you pass him safely on the road.

One of those Muddy Fox handlebar bags from 1985, the sort that sat on top of the twin stem arrangement popular at that time. Still used every day though now it sits in my rucksack to hold bits and bobs.

And guess who made them for Muddy Fox

Smee you could argue that all day in court it would do you no good. By waiting for the passing place you’ve already indicated that you don’t think It’s safe to overtake on the narrow road. The only point I’m trying to make is that when you get it wrong in a car then the consequences can be pretty horrific AND DRIVING ANGRY IS REALLY NOT A GREAT IDEA. The whole beard rant just shows your rational judgement has been effected. The guy is clearly a rude obnoxious arse but that is not yet a capital crime mores the pity.

Dull to say it again but Grapes of Wrath is a masterpiece.

And I’m also going to say Chickenhawk as it comes up on every forum everywhere when someone asks this question and it is a great read.

I Claudius is another fantastic book and goes down as the book I only picked up because I found it lying around and now would be my Desert Island Discs book.

But these people have been used to an unfair advantage all their lives, they cannot be expected to play by the same rules as those who have come through the state system. Very clever but not clever enough to read the rules. Still a few years and they’ll all be running banks.

I’d pull in, I firmly believe that courtesy can be contagious

however all he did was hold you up while you decided that that warranted putting his life at risk by overtaking in less than ideal circumstances. If it had been safe to overtake other than at the passing points you would have done it earlier, you didn’t indicating that in your rational mind you knew overtaking him was not safe. You cannot argue that his actions endangered his life as he was at no risk until you made your decision. He was rude and inconsiderate but the worst possible outcome of his actions was to hold you up and cost you a bit of time. You understandably lost your cool and your judgement and the worst possible outcome of that is the guy getting killed.
So although he may well have been in the wrong that would be no defence in court.

Is it me or are mobile phone tariffs the most complex thing in the universe?

Thanks spooky I’ll look into that ans sorry desf for the hijack.

So if the consensus is pay as you go what is the best package. Our daughter is about to turn 11 and will be getting her first phone and at the moment I’m thinking of the Orange raccoon package which offers free texts. Any other recommendations.

Geoffj they come pre loaded with babycham.

We’ve had two Dysons, first one a cylinder the second an upright. First one lasted years second one only just reached two years before dying. I’m suspicious that the quality went down when they moved manufacturing out of the UK. Yes I know that may seem hard to believe and if it’s true it may also be unique. The whole bagless thing is great until you actually have to empty it. A far better design would dump the dust into a bag without blowing the air through the bag giving you the best of both worlds. I can’t see how a man who can combine a football and wheelbarrow couldn’t have got that sorted. But of course that wouldn’t have been so easy to market as being revolutionary.
We’ve got a Seebo now which works and seems very well made and best of all doesn’t have an automatic cable rewinder which always play up whatever you buy.
However if I was going out to buy a hoover then I’d come back with a Henry, a man’s hoover! We use them all the time on exhibit stands and they last and they work. And look in the back of any builders van or what commercial cleaning companies use, henry every time.

I’m currently using £7 Bolle clear safety specs from Screwfix and they don’t show any signs of fogging even on cold mornings stopping at traffic lights where my old glasses always misted up.

2009 marks 25 years as a veggie for me as well as 25 years of mountain biking. Perhaps there is a link.

Microwave?

Following MrNutt in the hope of enlightenment.

They are great for flights and do an excellent job of cutting out the low roar of the engines. I’ve a pair of the Sony in ear ones which work well but don’t stay in my ears all that well. I think it’s largely because the built in microphones which are there to analyse which sounds need to be cancelled out make them heavy in comparison to standard in ear headphones. I’ve also used the Bose QC2’s for long haul and they are fantastic, really shut you off from everything and I found them still comfortable after 10 hours. The only drawback with them is that they won’t work as standard headphones if the battery is flat which the Sony’s will.

History is written by the winners so we’ll have to wait a while before we know who’s who.

As I mentioned in the other post some of the finest wooden roller coasters left anywhere in the world. And if you take a pilgrimage to St. Leonards road in Marton you can see where I was born. And then it’s just a short walk to Stanley Park which has a fabulous Art Deco café and you can go for a ride on the boating lake on the same motor boats which seemed clapped out when I first went on them 40 years ago and haven’t improved with age.

snowslave – stay on that Mouse for more than one ride let alone a weekend and you’ll be pi**ing blood for a month but you won’t care because the brain damage will be permanent. It has to be tried though, I liken it to having a gorilla bounce you up and down in your seat while another hits you round the head with a length of 4×2. It’s been running for 50 years now so you can’t be too surprised if the locals are a little odd. It’s also my home town but we left in 69 before the real decline set in. I’ve ended up in Brighton now which I wouldn’t change but we did enjoy a weekend back in Blackpool at the end of last year. It was my parents 50th wedding anniversary so we all went back just to see the place and take the kids to the pleasure beach and the illuminations which they loved. Unless your into roller coasters though and want to go and ride some of the best wooden ones in the world then it hasn’t got a lot going for it. And if you do like roller coasters then make sure you do the Grand National as well as the Mouse and sit in the back. The gorilla puts down his length of 4×2 and kicks you in the arse instead. My 7 year old boy just managed to squeeze out the words “I’m dead” as we went on that one.

I take it this is in the wrong forum to try to draw out all those nasty people to abuse you. :-)

[quoteThe sole function of a camera is to take photos

Well thank god you’ve cleared that one up for us SFB, I’ll never again doubt your authority on matters photographical. :-)

Yes he does take good photos if you think that a good result is an amateur taking a photo that looks like it was taken by a pro to fulfil a particular brief. I’ve been a professional photographer in a previous life and I think the last thing an amateur should aspire to is to reproduce the type of commercial work that pros are commissioned to produce. They do it to earn money, you don’t have to so do something different. Copying the sort of work that one sees published commercially is just more and more of the same and just says I have no ideas of my own and no way to value anything other than by what it might be worth if I were selling it. SFB’s pictures are good technically and he could probably earn his living as a photographer from what I’ve seen but unless he is going to do that I fail to see the point of his photos other than for personal reward. however I must say this is an opinion based on just what I have seen here. SFB may well have other photos which he doesn’t post here which might totally change my mind about what he is doing with his talent. MrNutt I do like the chef that has something about it. I think though that you deserve something better than the Zenit. Perhaps an Olympus OM1n or Pentax K1000 would be worth tracking down. They will both give you results when you get it right whereas the Zenit will let you down even when you do get it right.

Well my old Ritchey saddle was giving me problems so I swapped it for a Selle Rolls I had lying around and I’ve still got the same problem. It isn’t really sore it’s just the sit bones clicking as I ride. I need to sort it or I could end up with an arthritic arse and no one wants that. I think it’s probably a positioning problem rather than the saddle itself.

Nukeproof does putting the metal bit in water make it work better or is that to protect it from sparking. The guy who showed me it was using the works microwave so wasn’t too worried about blowing it up.

Woke up with the imprint of the anaglypta wallpaper embossed in my head after falling asleep on my knees in the bathroom. This was due to the actions of a colleague who had been spiking my lager with whisky for much of the night. Worse decision I made without help was to drink Malibu, white wine and Merrydown cider. I can’t recall the exact mix for this cocktail but it is served in a pint glass. It was years before I could smell coconut without gagging.

light bulb – try it