Do you remember the “Star Wars” special then did about the US Strategic defence initiative ?

I have a 13 plate Trafic sport that I have had from new and now done 20K miles in.

I love it, its a SWB so not really that much bigger than say a 5 series estate.

Nice to drive all the toys and a 4 year 100,000 mile warranty.

I have a really nice BMW that I hardly drive these days.

I just find it so practical. I use it for lugging two motorbikes to trackdays as well as the push bikes for mountain biking.

Last year I went to the alps with two motorbikes two DH bikes and all the stuff to go camping at a music festival. Its awesome 🙂

PeterPoddy do you live in Dorset by any chance ?

I am a contractor and I would.

a) Do the work best I can.
b) Finish the 7 months
c) Leave on good terms and not burn my bridges.
d) Only ever go back if I had nothing else to go to !!!

At the end of a day your a business and the idea of a business is to make money. If you want a career be a permie 🙂

Bazzer

I am a biker so I move over bit as PP said I do it to let them know I have seen them rather than to give them room as normally there is enough room anyway. Most thank you but if they don’t I am not that bothered as if they are new to filtering I would rather they concentrated than wave or nod at me.

Controversial I know but loud cans help filtering if I hear you I will look for you.

As for speed I find if I am filtering for a long time through lots of traffic my speed can creep up if the traffic starts moving. Sometimes I do look down at speedo and thing hmm maybe I should go with the traffic now. But as someone said its the speed differential thats the big thing.

I love it in Europe when a mass of cars part for you, makes you feel like royalty 🙂

As I am a fair weather biker (Apart from Touring) I hope this rain goes away soon 🙂 Going to Portimao for a track day(s) end of May it would at least be nice to do some riding before that 🙂

Yep of course its West Meon. I recogised the bend. I ride through there a fair bit.

Thats the Red Lion at Chalton isn’t it ?

I ride my motorbike on a route around there quite a lot. Try to respect the 30 speed limit though !!!

Konobunny

Do you have any references about that ? I always thought they kind of regretted it a bit ?

I am off to Val D’isere again on Sunday. Can’t wait 🙂

I am training for a triathlon in May. I started off by alternating a length of front crawl and a length of breast stroke. Then went onto 2 crawl 1 breast, 3 crawl 1 breast etc etc.

Worked for me 🙂

Just bought a forerunner 910xt as I am training for a triathlon and its ace. But maybe an overkill if your just running.

Probably because that’s the time of day when kids want to go swimming. To be honest I’d expect a lot of pools to be all kids’ lessons at that time of day. I think in most of the pools I’ve used lane swimming is early morning, lunchtime and late evening, which does actually give you quite a lot of options.

Its a members gym and on the web site it says that pool is always available for people swim lengths at any time.

Its not convenient for me to swim at any other time. I leave for work at 6am and have an hour commute. Gym is on the way home and I don’t want to

a) leave work any later
b) Go home first

I pay my gym fees so the pool is available to me when I want to swim.

Its annoys me that they are using the lessons to get extra money at the expense of fee paying members. Would expect it at a municipal pool and I think you would be right. At a private gym/pool I expect it to be available to me.

I get a bit miffed at the pool at my gym.

When I go after work they have half of it laned off for kids swimming lessons. Which I can cope with, its when the bit thats left over is then full of other kids milling around when I want to swim lengths !!!

Why can’t we have at least one little lane for people who actually want to swim !!!

If its just for one day until you can get shop to do it why bother ?

Just a bit of quick wax and away you go.

Unless you racing gates, why worry about it ?

If I suggested a scheme where people pay me for a pension. I then spend that money and pay them with the money other people give me later, I would be sent to jail. Its a Ponzi scheme !!!

Booq stuff is nice

http://www.booqbags.co.uk

I did laugh at this bit

“This may be because the students who go there are cleverer: you have to pass stringent tests to get in.”

Another vote for Le Ski here.

In fact going to Val D’isere with them again in two weeks time.

£529 on my 2013 Trafic Sport.

Bedford insurance through Van Quote Direct !!

Can they really take his pension ? After all he has paid for it ???

Crazy situation though !!!

Hudl is good value and does have the Play Store.

Though does have a load of Tescos shite on it 🙂

I still have every issue of How it works, except 1. How annoying is that !!!

Edited to add

Except one issue, not missing issue 1.

I also loved 2000AD as a kid too.

When I say NAS I mean a small low power Linux box running Ubuntu.

I use Crashplan and I find it great. You can choose what folders you want backed up its straight forward.

I have a NAS which everything I was backed up goes on which is on a raid array. That then gets backed up to crashplan.

It even keeps the history of old files to if you delete one or over write it you can get it back.

Perfect solution for me.

@Rockape63

I was not second guessing the situation though was I ?

I have to say reading between the lines, there is a 90% chance she has met someone else who has turned her head. Sorry, but that is something you need to get your head around.

Why do you need to put shit like that in the OPs head !!! You know nothing of the situation !!!

Its not always because someone else is involved and making him paranoid is not going to help.

Its not over till its over though, you don’t have to admit defeat until the Decree Absolute drops on your door mat.

Sure the fight can be really really hard but loving someone is not about being there when they are at their best its about being there when they are at their worst.

Good luck !!!

Well I’d certainly want a guide – but no, Slovakia has a slightly more relaxed attitude to health and safety so no guide or beacons required

There are lots of places you legally could go without a shovel, probe and transceiver, that does not mean its wise to do so 🙂

38MPG tops unless I drive like a granny in my 13 plate Trafic Sport with 15K on the clock.

Good luck finding a Hudle, rocking horse poo at the moment..

Only if you want a black one, ordered a blue one to pick up from local Tesco tomorrow.

FD I said its not “Just” about them being comfy.

A pair of boots when done up cuts the blood supply off maybe comfy for a race run but would not be comfy for all day skiing. The fit for all day skiing is different to what you want for a full on race boot.

Again its fit for purpose, the type of fit you want is dependent on what you use them for.

Totally agree they have to fit though !!!

I think I need a new pair this year really. Mine are knackered but comfy all day. I know that I would ski better in a new pair though. They have done, one full season (103 days on snow) and 4 years of probably 6+ weeks.

So should probably replace them, but I am a skinflint 🙂

Thing with boots is, you have to know what you want from them. Its not really just about them being comfy if you ski at any sort reasonable level.

Its really not that hard to fit a set of boots that someone will walk out of the shop and think, these are comfy.

Ski boots are often a compromise between performance and comfort. So you need first decide where along the scale you want to be.

If you want a pair of boots to cruise around the piste and not undo them all day. You need something different to someone who wants to do mach 1 for 3 minutes and undo them on the lifts.

You may be a Level 10 skier on there scale (what ever scale that is) but might want to spend your time in comfort even though you could do an Olympic downhill run at warp speed.

So just make sure they ask you the right questions.

If you fancy Val D’isere which I think is brilliant 🙂

Give http://www.simplyvaldisere.com/ a shout ask for Kim and say Baz sent you 🙂

Was there last week and it was amazing for early season.

Shaver sockets are 240v or 120v but are isolated via a transformer.

So you would have to grab hold of both wires for a shock not just one via ground.

The Kano also runs on ARM not X86 so not going to be any good for a netbook.

As far as I can see the Kano is just packaging a Raspberry-Pi in a fancy box along with some extras and making some money. Its not really adding anything to the party.

I am heading off on Friday for the Val D’Isere opening on Saturday.

Can’t wait 🙂

I have driven a 130i, E46 M3, M135i and owned the 135i

All I can say is they are all great cars but all quite different. The M3 is an animal and much more of an event to drive than the others. I would say the 135i is the next most “focused” car with the M135i being the easiest to toodle along in rather than full on Grrr mode 🙂

hammyuk – Interested

Metalic blue 40K miles, FBMWSH, recent tyres all round, leather, bi-xenons, bluetooth, business stereo, rear parking sensors.

Its nice !!!

Is there a can’t find a personal mail option to send my number !!!

I have a 57 plate 135i that I could be tempted to sell. Great car, I just don’t seem to drive it that much since I got the company van.

130i is a great car too, slightly better throttle response than the 135i but the 135i had way more low down torque and of course a little bit more power.

Also the steering on the 135i is hydraulic rather than electric so you get a bit more feel.

Brilliant cars !!!

I know you might think it would be a pain in the bum, but consider a bigger van. They are no harder to drive and not that much bigger than an estate. Way more useful !!

I rarely drive my car since I got my Trafic van.