Crockett and Jones do the best designs. Church are very good and solid but not cheap. Cheaneys are very good value and they've just been bought out by two members of the Church family. Jeffrey West have very trendy designs but they don't suit every foot shape. Cheaneys also make shoes under licence that you can buy in the factory shop like Cole Haan (NY), I've even seen Jimmy Choos in there. Trickers are very stiff and solid and never cheap. Cheaney and Church factory shop are open 6 days a week and Crockett and Jones are Friday pm and Saturday am.
I don't think these sort of shoes can be beaten. They last for ages, particularly if you rotate them, plus you're investing in a process and skills base that is disappearing in a world of bland mass production.

Easy journey on the motorways. I've done it in loads of different vehicles and way beyond including on a Honda 250N. Try to leave some space to bring back some Medoc.

Use reverse temptation, think (aggressively): "Go on, make me have one! Make me 'kin smoke! 'Koff!"

2nd month off the fags. I don't miss them nor struggle with a pint. What I have noticed is how appalling smokers smell. Blimey I wouldn't want to inflict that on anyone. Oh, btw, I
smoked for 39 years.

I've a pal in Qld who swears by it too.

http://www.brecon-beacons-accommodation.co.uk/

The Castle does really good beer and food. Lots going on in the area. It's not expensive and nice people run it.

I've had an upper back pain issue since early December. GP prescribed high strength co-codamol and ibrobrufen. I had about 4 sessions with a physio, 1 with an acupunturist, 6 with a chiropractor (who has been the most effective)and I've an appointment with a physio this month at the local hospital. I am sick of it but if the physio is any good I shall flag up any useful comments/advice on here.

So the message seems to be get polarized black for Australian beaches etc and bronze or G30 replacement lenses for riding in the woods. Are the lenses easily changed? Any reasons for not polarized? I know sfa about this so all informed advice is incredibly useful given the high cost of buying the wrong stuff.

Hotel Aldo Mori

Really nice little hotel, inexpensive and just behind St Mark's Square so very central. I've recommended this a few times and everyone's been really pleased with it.

Cheapest I've found are at the cyclestore

It was cycling that led women in the UK to fight for the right to wear 'rational clothing' i.e. trousers on a bike. I resent anyone telling women to cover themselves up, women in Britain won that battle 100 years ago. If they were telling white women to cover their faces there'd be outrage. It's only because they're brown/dark/different that the normal rules of equality are put on hold. This sort of relativistic nonsense has reactionary consequences and it has done for organisations like Liberty and the SWP. I say ban it, I am not 'culturaly enriched' by the public display of the oppression and humiliation of women.

Anyone remember the photo of Kenny riding his bike along a dead whale? Ten minutes of laughter.

Get yourself up to Northampton and there are factory shops for Church's, Trickers, Crockett and Jones and Cheaneys in Desborough. All money well spent and a good bit cheaper than the shops. I had a bespoke pair from a John Lobb shoemaker but I actually prefer the Church's off the peg ones.

Carphone warehouse were recently doing major discounts on Samsung notebooks. I got one for £230 and am very happy with it, it travels well too!

I'm rather glad now that I recently removed an antique knobkerry and a ceremonial club from the back of one of my teaching rooms as someone could have got the wrong impression after this case. I do still have a heavy metal (sic) cowbell on my desk, perhaps that should go too?

Daughter singing in the earshot of the (obnoxious) boy from the ex-council houses at the edge of the village, "He's just a poor boy from a poor family."

I resent the pay of COs in the public sector and I work in the public sector. Their pay is yet another manifestation of increasing inequality in terms of income and wealth in this country. The fact that people may have anecodotal evidence of incompetence and inefficiency doesn't mean the whole organisation is like that. Also with reference to this public/private dichotomy, all of my budgets get spent on private suppliers so if I face cuts it will quickly impact on the private sector incomes.

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I don't have a great deal of sympathy for these people, they are part of the lumpen proletariat. They detract from their social and material environment and they contribute little but cause lots of damage at everyone else's expense. I take a similar view to the Lloyd Blankfeins and Philip Greens of this world, who do enormous damage in the pursuit of self-interest.

I rode with some very capable mountainbikers in the Peaks last weekend who were way out of your age range.

Save your toenail clippings. Place them inside a knotted stocking and they make a handy pan scourer.

http://www.questroute.com/onlinegames/fighting/pikey.php

If x had a £ for every girl he slept with at university, he'd now have enough for a snmall sherry.

SM, Byron has got a lot busier it seems since then. I take it that's Julian Rocks in the first pic and it's a right from The Pass?

I got into cycling whilst trying to get fit for surfing (the buzz lasted longer). Have had the pleasure of a lot of breaks in N Cornwall, Saunton etc, Easky, Venice Beach, Hourtin down to Spain, Great Ocean Road, Phillip Island and……Byron Bay. These days neither the cycling nor the surfing are particularly impressive but they ar enjoyed ENORMOUSLY. Back in BB this August, JOY!

Seems a lot but they will probably have to take minutes at all the mettings: governors, staff, health and safety,open evenings, suspensions, appeals, interviews etc. There are LOTS of meetings and generally they are outside the 'normal' working day and there's no overtime pay in education. You need to factor that in.

Most managers in pubcos pay staggering amounts of rent (having bought the lease) before they see any profit themselves.

Have a look at the Genesis range. I half heartedly got one on the bikescheme and have been blown away by how good it is.

+1 TJ
It was a completely ill-managed economy and who's heard of monetarism since then? ….a completely discredited 'theory'.

'There is no such thing as society, just individuals and their families.'
I show my students video footage of the beanfield, miner's strike, poll tax riots every year. Life under the tories in the 80s was appalling unless you were in the richest 10%. Economists are predicting that Osborne's cuts will lead to an extra 250,000 unemployed and a 20% fall in house prices. The only branch of state spending that will increase will be tooling up the police to crack the heads of anyone with the temerity to protest.

I got married in a church (family pressure and they were paying) and the vicar had no problem with my atheism. So, all in all, it was a bit of theatrical hypocrisy but nice for those who believe in it.

Last year I did it with a groovy 'green bag' $1 from Woolworths over my shoulder with a 9'2'' board. I dripped and fumed and vowed to be better equipped this year.
Thanks for the advice y'all, I'm just getting the card out.

'packable'? i.e. it folds down and is light and compact to go inside travel luggage.

e.g. ''my mrs always says "will you rub my feet"? when i hear that magical phrase I know it's time to eat sushi off the barber shop floor''

Made me laugh anyway

I can remember spending lots of time splitting my sides at the scurrilous and unedifying assertions and swipes on here. It has got more self-righteous but there is the occasional thread that stirs up some damned good collective absurdity, obscenity and humour.

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very amusing and still (partially) around
what happened to that kin merlinman?

It produces some great music and musicians e.g. Mayra Andrade

You need to spend a few quid on the port if it is to last and improve with time, LBV will not. Seek advice at e.g. Oddbins.

http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/slides

check these out on the consequences of increasing inequality