The sound of a cricket ball being struck on a village green.

I get a weak bladder too during periods of depression and stress.

And it sounds like you are depressed.

As it has been going on for a while you should see the doctor.

Awesome performance by Scotland, the last time I could say that was in relation to their male curling team at the Olympics.
It should be obvious by now just how far Southern Hemisphere rugby is ahead, but at least Scotland threw everything at it.
South Africa now my favourites to win the tournament.

And the Word became PDF.

So very sad. RIP Jenn.

It works out just over half what you would pay in the south east of england.
Check out the Garden nightclub if you get the chance, great views and very relaxed vibe.

I suffer from the same condition, although it affects my walking more than cycling, i.e. I need to rest at home a day after walking around. I now wear knee supports but it still hurts the day after.
The main advice I can give is to ensure your pedal position is optimal. I rode a different bike the other day, with the pedals closer together than I was used to, and it affected my knees for about three weeks after. But on my own bike, I don’t have any problems, infact it has probably helped keep the condition under control, so keep rolling:-

If you told me it was 2008 today, I could believe you. I’ve no idea where the last seven years have gone.

Don’t mind if the route is a bit longer than direct, but canal towpaths can be awfully slow if they are narrow and busy, can’t they?

The Lea towpath gets busy on weekends, but thursday daytime should be ok.

It gets narrow in a couple of spots near Hoddesdon and Ware but only for half a mile.

Keep it simple: Lea Valley towpath to Hertford, Cole Green Way from Hertford to Welwyn GC.
I wouldn’t mess around with North West London.
You could also leave the towpath and go west at Broxbourne instead, linking up the woods and approaching WGC via Bayford.

Keep it simple: Lea Valley towpath to Hertford, Cole Green Way from Hertford to Welwyn GC.
I wouldn’t mess around with North West London.
You could also leave the towpath and go west at Broxbourne instead, linking up the woods and approaching WGC via Bayford.

Slowly losing the will to live as stuck indoors with various knee ailments.

Get well soon.
If it’s any consolation, I also had an accident involving my pump!

There are great singers like Sam Smith who make average songs sound fantastic.
Luckily it doesn’t work the other way round – New Order songs remain fantastic whoever is singing.
I thought Hooky didn’t like Unknown Pleasures?

I think you’ll find the region was in turmoil, long before Blair came along.

The old testament is witness to this fact.

I’ve been off the bike for over a month due to a knee injury and it’s really bought home how important riding in nature is to me.
In your situation I would meet the doctor half way – give it 3 weeks then hit the trails, albeit slowly and avoiding the rough stuff.

I left Oxford in 2008 and I have trouble believing these statistics.
A lot of people go into investment banking and law, so they would obviously earn quite a bit more than the average.
But many people go into teaching or stay in academia from Oxford.
I went to a bog standard comp on a council estate and I know plenty of people with zero qualifications who do very well for themselves as tradesmen.

US-Russian relations are at their lowest since the end of the cold war.
But Russia is not to blame. The US policy hawks/neocons who want to continue a reckless policy of regime change in the middle-east and the former Soviet states are the ones responsible for the geo-political mess we now live in. The US was also complicit in the wide-scale theft of the Russian economy after the fall of the Soviet regime.
The Neocons see the escalation of tensions with Russia as a golden opportunity to start another round of wars by depicting Putin as yet another one of their Existential Threats.
I don’t see either side backing down. Depressing.

I liked the location. I first went when Gary and Jude were running it, around 2005, then when someone called Les was guiding, around 2008, and there was someone else in charge, think he was called Gareth.

Is it these people? http://www.joy-riders.com/

Yes. I’ve looked around on the website and it does seem from the About section that they have relocated to the UK now.

I learnt that someone I went to primary school with over 20 years ago now rents a one bedroom flat for £1800 a month in Camden, London, and works as a chef.

The EU and its predecessors have meant that my father’s generation was the first is a very long time (200 years? More? Less? About that) not to see a Anglo-Franco-German war (at least 2 out of 3) that had a habit of drawing the rest of Europe in.

I’m sorry but that is utter nonsense. It was pretty much universally agreed after WW2 that nobody wanted another war for a long long time.

The EU is now crippling Europe economically, especially the Southern states, leading to political radicalisation (both on the right and the left). The EU is laying the foundations for a series of Balkan-like conflicts.

He is the man we need to sort this mess out.

The Pulp Fiction robber girl looks more like Stacy Herbert off the Keiser Report.

Just looked her up on Wikipedia and am amazed she didn’t attend Cheltenham Ladies College.

I think the tradition of British eccentrics is slowly dying out.
We lost Brian Sewell recently and he would have been top of the list.
Probably less said about Saville the better.
Worlsey is a good presenter and the scripts for her programs are well written. She also has the enviable habit of reverse aging like Benjamin Button.

The current Tories aren’t right wing from a historical conservative point of view.
If you want to focus on economic issues, then they are essentially neo-liberals (unrestricted free markets, mass immigration, new world order stuff), that is they are Thatcherite. Paleoconservatives (who consider themselves true conservatives, I think with good reason) tend to oppose neo-liberal economics as it somewhat utopian and also involves giving away power to trans-national organisations like the IMF and WTO. I don’t consider Lady T a conservative, I think of her as a revolutionary for her time as an early supporter of neo-liberal economics.
If you want to identify a properly right wing person then Peter Hitchens is probably your best bet, and he hates the Tories for being left-wing on major social, moral and cultural issues like marriage, divorce, and drugs legislation.

I shall have my milky bar now please mother.

Completely the opposite to what you asked for but for chicken go to the restaurant nearby to the Pollensa Park hotel.

I’m going to ride to my favourite local pub for lunch. Hope to get a couple of pints in before it all-kicks off-like.

I’m considering starting spinning classes now. I have had to give up normal interval training as due to arthritis in my knees.
I’m assuming that like cycling, spinning doesn’t put pressure through the knees? Or does the extra resistance make it more like riding a singlespeed?

Flew with them from luton last month and I didn’t see them call anyone up on it. They seem a lot more relaxed than RyanAir.

The young lady did make me watch every time

La Camilla. Stunning lass back then.

My favourite places are Zadar, Split and Dubrovnik. Zagreb is nothing special so best stick to the coast. The weather forecast is lots of rain there at the moment.

Listening to the radio, I’m amazed the bookies had England as second favourites to win the world cup after the All Blacks.
Hasn’t it been widely understood that the southern hemisphere sides are generally light years ahead in rugby terms? That’s what we saw last night.
The northern hemisphere sides which have dominated up here, Ireland and Wales, have Kiwi coaches. Even then, they have been unable to regularly compete against the Southern hemisphere sides. England beat NZ and Oz but only in friendlies.
When England did win the world cup, it was during a period of transition for Southern Hemisphere rugby. They have now rebuilt tactically and the gulf has been re-established.

I have to disagree with the idea that this is fundamentally a very good England side in development. Other than Mike Brown, George Ford, and Steffan Armitage (who needs to be brought back in), I don’t see any of the current England players walking into a Southern Hemisphere side.
Australia look excellent, precise, cold, quick. England are moving backwards as they still won’t address the lack of creativity in the backs. It’s depressing how often an England back receives the ball in a stationary position. Australia had far more fluidity, movement and creativity in the final third.
A disappointment, but I said England would struggle to get through before the champs started.
I still think Ireland could make the semis, or even the final, which could give the World Cup some much needed local support.

I used to do work for a fairly wealthy couple with three kids. They had the most horrific double garage.

This also now extends to the lower middle-class. On the estate where I live, everyone seems to open their garage or double garage on the same day in the Spring to have a bit of a tidy-up. I’d estimate over 80percent are no longer functional garages but monuments to the 5 minute wonder.

There’s a hand car wash place near me, in a former petrol station. All the employees are from Eastern Europe and get to live in the building. They do a good trade but I always feel sorry for them, doesn’t seem like the greatest life in the world.

Sounds like a challenge alright. Just trust your body, it’s a case of mind over matter, especially when it feels like someone is stabbing your legs with daggers on the final climbs.

Accept that unhappiness, discontent and emptiness will be forever present in your life in varying degrees.

This is partly why modern consumerism is successful, as it helps distract us from the existential void inside.

Saying that I do know some people who have dropped out of society and they seem genuinely content.