Was up the Aiguille du Midi 3 weeks ago.
Wouldnt mind doing the cable car across to Helbronner… when its fixed 😯

At least the cars have been upgraded:

Book of Japanese Jokes?
Sorry…….

Beaten to it!!!

Put a set in for t’alps in early July just changed them this weekend after a wet and gritty Dalby red – 2 months!
Great pads though – Put some more in hoping theyll last a bit longer than before.
PS. they do squeal a bit when wet but soon dry up.

Edit: theyre Orange!

Fireworks over Juan Les Pins

Les Houches

The ability to grow peaches on an allotment in Halifax (amongst a plethora of other fruits and veg – including a Pinot Noir vine, from which he makes his own wine).
Only last night I went to pick up the kids from his house and was offered a bowl of ‘peaches in wine’ (his own of course), a treat which always reminds me of visiting my Nonna and Nonno in Italy as a young boy – my brother and I must have been constantly pissed on those holidays!
Mustn’t forget the ability to work all hours god sends (when he was still working) – Up at the crack of dawn to start breakfast service (worked as a waiter/restaurant manager/Maitre D’) back home for an hour at 10 for a wash and brush up – back to the hotel for Lunch service – back home for a quick nap in the afternoon before dinner service in the evening, which often carried on through to the early hours. I wish I had half his energy.

Just to clarify…. Category winner I think….

Winner! Congrats…. Well deserved.

Survivor – Eye of the tiger.
Obviously I was only 2 at the time. 😕

Is it round the bars/head tube area you’re having problems with?

Yes …exactly this

So basically all cables going directly into the top tube and not wrapping over the head tube.

This is what I thought it must do after a lot of faffing around…
So rear brake hose goes directly onto top tube without going round head tube as well?

Bump for morning readers……

My moabs just arrived!
Kidding…. Not cancelled yet though….

replace the wife.

Ok, thats that settled then – Can you recommend me a new wife?

Just follow me….. 😉

Draffy,
CAD Monkey
Design Technician etc etc

Ive been called a lot worse….

Sounds and looks like old top gear with new faces doing the same old….
Fail. 😥

Terrible conditions…..stay away 😉

6ft 1″ here and have an XL – size spot on for me (any bigger in the saddle height and I might struggle – but I have relatively short legs for my height!)

Morzine…. 30th June.

Is anyone else spending hours looking at IGN maps, resort trail maps, youtube/vimeo videos and google earth?

Yes! 😀

Brilliant……. That’s the one…..

Lots of options

I’d take the bus via Turin as per your opening post.
Liking that website!

Nothing……

I’m yet to find a food that I don’t like/can’t eat. Even as a young un I would eat everything given to me. 😯

Yes…. family included. Car rental looking about £1000 for the week. Allthough Im not sure how much we’d use it when we got there, apart from getting us back to geneva at the end of the week.

We were going to put it in our kitchen, but at 150/200W per m2 is using a lot of juice when its on. We decided to just to have it in the smaller areas of our bathroom and en suite (2m2 per room). Cost for materials was about £200 and the tiler is fitting for £60 a room. (obviously not as big an area as your kitchen).

This place was recommended to us by a few plumbers/sparkys

bump….

Incredible number of tunnels along that Italian coast road.

I know… we used to count them down as kids until our turn off into San Bartolomeo
This one meant we were nearly there!
#nostalgia

My local trig point- oft visited:

(Norland Moor)

Whats the difference between an inbred and a 456?

A few hearts ….. 😉

IGMC

All sounds pretty positive…..

So the obvious thing i’ve missed is i could know AutoCAD like the back of my hand but its useless with no qualifications/knowledge/experience in the industry im using it in.

Not always true.

I learnt Autocad at Uni as part of a degree in something else. I went on to enhance my Cad knowledge by doing a HND. I had little or no experience of Civils/Railway bridges when I got my first contract with British Rail. I then moved over the structural sector and whilst a lot of my knowledge was transferable most of what I was doing was new. Again, when I decided to move over to Telecoms sector, I was going in blind (I’ve been in coms now for the past 16 years). Learn Autocad well and youll always get a job doing something, regardless of experience (allthough it helps!).

As for Revit, It will undoubtedly take over in the Structural, civil and architectural world eventually – I cant see it happening in my sector (telecoms – just no need). Autocad will be around for a while yet.
Learn Revit as well once you’ve got AutoCad under your belt – you can charge a lot more per hour as a Revit user than as an Autocad user! 😀 .

My main client at the mo would be more interested in employing a proficient Cad user, rather than one who has had previous sector related experience. (theres been some real dross coming through claiming they can use Cad and soon being found out)

As for this:

get rid of the CAD Monkeys

Have you not seen planet of the apes – we’ll take over eventually! 😉

Not so much childhood, but in my late teens the best sarnies I ever had were made by my dad (for himself). Coming home from the pub he would always offer me his late night snack (generally ham, cheese, home grown tomatoes and plenty of salt). I, of course, would accept and he would make more for himself 🙂 .

Good times…..

You get that too…..bloody annoying eh! Decide to wash up to help but in reality wash the knives etc that you’re using (must be hereditary as the wife does it too)

Yes and when she feeds our kids (which Im very grateful for…obvs) when were at work she uses my best Zwilling Henckels 4 star knifes and leaves them lying around (blunted) on the worktop/sink/dishwasher!! (shudders)

Makes my D3200 look insignificant … However I compensate by having a huge ***** 😀

One thing id mention is sliding doors are slow compared to a normal door. Using one for a kitchen might get annoying having to close and open it constantly as you cant really leave it half open and nip in/out like you would a normal door, or pull it closed behind you as you go through. Its very much a stop-open-step_through-stop-close-carryon

Point noted – although it will probably remain open most of the time unless I’m in full on Ramsay-mode.

[thinks out loud] I wonder if i can get a lock on the door too to stop people (mother in law) coming in/standing in the doorway/generally bothering me whilst i am being creative [/thinks out loud]

@ STATO – will have a look at the eclisse ones.

I really like the idea of them but for me they need to be split to open both ways, be automatic as I approach them and make the exact swishing noise from the original Star Trek.

I, too would like this 😛

I’m gonna watch this with interest….

If i decide to do it, I’ll be sure to post some pics!

take the door off

Thought about that …. but dont want kitchen smells throughout the house. Besides were going to be doing a fair bit of re-modelling, so installing one of these isnt really going to be a hassle.

@ andysredmini – great job!

I built my own from scratch

You can come and do one for me if you like… 😀

Do you currently have a normal door that you want to replace or is this to be included in the design of an extension etc?

we would be replacing an existing door – but we have plenty of stud wall to the left to incorporate one of these

Are your walls hollow?

they’re designed to be retro-fitted into an existing timber stud wall – obviously you have to remove plaster board, strengthen frame, install gubbins and plasterboard over again.