Very sad. I used to enjoy his radio show in particular. One of the longest careers in the business.
He always looked on the bright side, and I thought he had a great time on his recent programme travelling and eating around the UK.
RIP Terry Wogan.

It depends on how settled your kids are. They are the boomerang generation after all (often through no fault of their own).

They will refer you but could be a long waiting list.
Might be worth booking in one diagnostic session with a private physio if you have to wait a long time.

I spent a long time at uni (BA, Masters, and PhD). I never worked more than 35 hours a week, I’d say I averaged 5 hours a day at postgrad level, and probably 4 hours a day as an undergrad.
The only people I knew who worked “full time” hours at uni were the science PhDs.
When it came to writing up, I started to use EndNote, but as others have said, it was buggy and crashed a lot. Using some sort of citation software will certainly save you a lot of time in the long run.

I’m contemplating starting a degree with th OU later in the year so this thread could be very helpful for me! I’m a mechanical technician by trade but looking at doing Environmental Science as it interests me a lot more than an engineering degree.

This could be a good choice, as there is going to be a lot of opportunity in AgriTech over the next 20 years, for which an environmental science degree would be beneficial. Check out AgriTech East, they are bringing a lot of info together, it’s an area I am looking to work in at some point in the future.

Derby to win, Van Gaal to lose his job.

That’s what you pay your licence fee for?

My parents lived next to a cat killer, and sure enough he got our cat.

I worked for a year in an independent school. It’s long hours, I was probably doing 50 a week, plus you are expected to be involved in lots of extra curricular activities, hence why some schools like the staff to live on site.

Have you considered the independent school sector? They like people with PhDs (looks good on their promo materials) and you don’t necessarily need a teaching qualification.

Rome. Always Rome. It’s eternal, apparently.

Too big to fail…

I love that song, so peaceful. RIP Colin.

Just going to chuck this in again (as usual) how many people on this forum run limited companies and use tax allowances/dividends/directors loans/entrepreneurs allowance to reduce taxation on you and your business – glass houses and all that

That’s par for the course. But what the big companies have been getting upto is a completely different ballpark.

I have a feeling that things can’t stay like this for much longer…how much more will people put up with?

It’s Neo-feudalism.
Them: the ruling class, in politics and tech.
vs the rest of us.

Very sorry to hear this.
Condolences to his family and friends.

Another vote for Lucca. Great place.
Cinque Terre is unique, definitely worth a visit. 2 nights is ample.

This is true, but then I imagine a situation where some scally scrote has knocked up one of my daughters and I can clearly visualise myself being somewhat less than objective.

I agree. The operative word here is “imagine”. It’s easy to let your imagination get out of control and envisage the worst outcome.

I guess this is why the schools run sex ed classes. Usually the mothers also have a quiet word to ensure everything is safe. Most people in the UK lose their virginity around 16.

Isn’t this what is known as dating?
My sister starting dating around that age. As long as they are sensible, then I can’t see any harm.
And really, the boy is someone’s son too. So I find all the threats of violence (even in jest) to be overthetop.
If you didn’t want to see your kids grow up, then why did you have them?

Shackleton was his hero, and Worsley will become a hero for the next generation of explorers.
RIP.

I couldn’t resist so googled “Mrs Stoner”

“To the rainbow rooms” yells another

Off-topic, surely?

what is a MILF in lycra?

A RESULT.

Where do you live? I might send my wife there for a weekend away, she’ll soon dissuade them of that idea.

Lol. Well one of his friend’s previous conquests was also in the pub that night.
Think Pat Butcher in her prime.

My immediate reaction was, your friend has to go see a psychotherapist.

Well, older for them, as they are in their 20s.
(Forget about locking up your daughters, lock up your wives is the impression I got). 8)

U2
Coldplay
Ed Sheeran
Eminem
Prince
Queen

The security at the University of East Anglia had a Defender. Didn’t stop my bike from getting nicked off campus, so I always questioned its credentials.

Maniac!

Losing weight will not necessarily improve your knees.
The process of losing weight, especially if you loading up with weights, and doing things like squats, could aggravate them.

Heathen, the lot of you.

I once had an empty can of fosters thrown at me by a bloke in a convertible. He also shouted, “Get a wig you bald bastard”.

There’s also an active Freecycle group in Hertford.

The psychologist Eric Fromm diagnosed the citizens of western capitalist societies as suffering from profound levels of alienation.
He also wrote extensively about productive living, productive working, productive love, as opposed to what he saw everyday in his clinics – depressed people who find no meaning in their lives, no matter how hard they search.
Viktor Frankl also wrote about the importance of meaning.
I think a lot of what we do in the West outside of work is pure distraction. Get drunk, have easy sex, watch tv, do anything to get us away from ourselves. Frankl coined the term “Sunday neurosis”, and I think this is how you tell whether people are happy or not, how they spend their leisure time, whether doing something meaningful or something distracting.

I always thought there was something of the Maggie Thatcher about her.
Tough lady.

We should all ditch the job, stick it to the man, and start a commune.
We are overdue a digger movement, the last one in the UK was in the seventeenth century.
Whose bringing the mushrooms?

YouTube as opposed to TV makes me happy. I can watch the things that interest me, which are too niche to get airtime on mainstream TV, such as seventeenth-century history documentaries.
Creating things can also be enjoyable, but it’s also a struggle, so I have plenty of unfinished projects and poems.

I lost a grandparent at that age…I really can’t remember anything about it, as it’s such a young age. The kids will be upset but ultimately fine.
Sorry to hear about your mum.

learning new things.

Soros is not a nice man. Neither is Trump or Putin.
It’s a battle between neoliberal economics and ethno-nationalism.
And it’s coming to a head over the next 10 years.
Interesting times.

A damp Jan for me. Drinking every other night, due to work stress and other things that are going on.
Well done to the dry Jan folk though!

Wear what you want. It’s uni, I think I wore smart casual for my interview, a suit is fine but most won’t wear a suit to a uni interview.