weight gain rather than fat increase

Indeed…. healthy overall weight gain during pregancy in the mean population is something like 25 kg. Typical baby is less than 5 kg. The remainder is obviously directly related to the placenta etc…. but general fat gain for breast feeding, extra blood volume, water retention etc will show up as the classic all over ‘glow’ (or looking a bit tubby all over, if you like)….. which has nothing to do with pigging out lack or exercise.

Stoner will be along in a moment…….

Saloon – nope, estate….. maybe……

no real reason to gain weight apart from the actual baby weight

Medical advice seems to disagree http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/antenatalhealth/physicalhealth/weightgain/ amoungst many other references with broadly similar numbers.

bristolbiker- when my missus was pregnant she didn’t turn in to a fat biffer – so yes have first hand experience cheers

Whoa there fella – 2 others have pointed that a bit of padding is par for the course during pregancy, which is my experience of pregnant wife/friends as well. If you’ve managed to snag a super-Amazonian-wonder-woman (TM), impervious to the presence of a parasite in her belly for 9 months then more power to your arm – Pui may be just one fo the masses. Just saying, like 😉

Check for burring/wear/splaying of the bar (maybe turn it over as a quick test if you don’t rotate the cutting edge routinely)….. but as Richie says, my Husky is quite sensitive to chain tension.

All done now – gsplit did it fine.

I did see the Windows port for Emacs….. but (as with the Perl solution) I don’t really want to spend more than 5 mins on this as the data manipulation is where the effort is at….. and there is – inevitably – a deadline on it.

Thanks again all.

Lemonysam/mogrim – many thanks. Looks like both those solutions will do the same thing/are ideal. Thanks again.

Rich – not a bad shout that – don’t have Access as part of our Office install though. Grr….

textpad? Not sure if can handle that sort of size, but its free.

Pretty sure not based on a bit of googling. I have tried LFT Viewer, which will handle the size no probs, but is only a VIEWER and I will need to copy multiple large blocks of data out of it once opened.

Learn ruby or perl, that kind of thing is easypeasy

Probably true – lets assume I want to do this today, and conceivably may never get myself into this mess again 😉

Or if you’ve got access to a unix box

Hmmm….. we will have a Unix machine landing in about a week, which is about a week too late.

Any other suggestions?

Seriously, my advice earlier does work. Jump off the M32 a junction early and head in through old market.

She’ll be parking in Cabot Circus (they do a season ticket apparently)

If this is where whe’s going to park, the only (car) entrance is off the M32, so even going through Old Market will mean coming back onto the M32 to get into the carpark (unless there is another entrance of course). Not sure how much time this will save over just toughing it out on the in-bound M32. Agreed – if she can park elsewhere then the options open up….

I’d have thought a P+R at Jct1 of the M32

Short of building on the Frenchay Hispital site if/when it is downgraded, I can’t see too many ‘acceptable’ (non-NIMBY) sites otu that way, without going the other side of the M4.

Is it worth circumnavigating all that balls and coming off the M5 at the Gordano junction (19) and traveling into the centre up the A369 or via the A4 Portway

I would say avoid the A4 at peak times now that Bridge Valley Road is open again….. The days I have to drive to work I have to go from Shirehampton/Coombe Dingle to Winterbourne/Yate. Best driving solution so far is M5 to Thornbury and then drive back towards Bristol again. Seems bonkers, but it is quicker and much more consistent, so agree with being creative.

It amazes me that there’s no Park and Ride on the North side of the city.

Getting Bristol and South Glos to agree a unified transport strategy for this side of town would appear to require more skills than the United Nations.

I’ve not done it for a few years now, but I always used to find it frustratingly variable. Either clear as a whistle or backed-up from Purdown. Bike FTW 😉

What is “lovely” about a short dumpy woman?

You do realise she’s pregnant at the moment?

Anyone who’s successfully moved on from being a teletubbie is fine by me.

Hmmm…. a bit more urgent then – I wish you luck.

I was half-listening to R4 last night where is was said there is no mechanism to withdraw the bill as such – it could be bounced between the houses for ages being effectively and eventually watered down to nothing. I don’t know if this is actual-factual-fact (TM)

Just wondering when I have to start sending them body parts in payment for doing something about it

It won’t help – they’re not human. TBH, I’ve lost interest in my claim (only looking at about £20 – I’ve probably lost that already in time spent chasing it to date). I keep getting nice (standard) letters saying ‘…you’re claim is being processed…’ and am therefore resigned to playing the long game on this one and anything that comes of it will be a bonus.

Actually, having read the OP properly, the first response acknowledging the claim came through in a couple of weeks after all the paperwork/photos were submitted and the 10,000 virgins were slaughtered to help speed the process along – it’s actually getting them to do something about it and resolve the claim that is the problem.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…… until hell freezes over. 4+ months and waiting here on one claim. If you want anything more than glacial progress, program the number into speed dial and keep on them day and night.

Had a similar problem with a 106 GTi (same engine?) – would turn over fine, but struggle to start from cold then have a very lumpy idle for a few minuteds when it eventually did start and then would be fine/start first time once warm.

IIRC, eventually traced to an air leak in the petrol lift pump meaning fuel was draining out of the fuel system back into the tank if it was left for several hours.

XT hubs on open pros from lbs

This is what I started with. Bombproof, relatively cheap and easy to fettle. Moved on to using a pair Speedcity’s now in the summer, but go back to the XT/Open Pro’s in winter.

Single-lane bridges, especially down south, are fun. Some of them are very long, and its usually first come first across, and whoever is bigger wins

Defo this – esp the one going south coming out of Greymouth where (IIRC) the bridge for the single carriageway road is shared with a main railway line, but you do get a few passing places and a good view in each direction……

My take on driving there a few years ago:

– Anything beyond single carriageway is a very rare thing, beyond approaches to major centres.
– It takes time to get anywhere because it’s all single carriageway. Just accept this. The speed indicators on the bends are a fair reflection of what is safe – stick to them. Road surfaces are generally fine.
– The truck drivers out in the sticks are mental.
– The gravel roads are generally fine, just don’t treat it as a rally stage.
– There are a few odd road traffic laws and customs that’ll you’ll quickly pick up or cause an accident/pick up a ticket from.
– Do not speed. The cops carry mobile speed guns in the cars and they are mandated to stop you. I know this, because I got a ticket. Nicest telling off I’ve had anywhere in the world mind, and the guy not only recommended a great local place for brekky that morning, but remembered us/happilly chatted when we saw him a week later a petrol station 200 k’s away.

Having been in a similar position with a 3k car (private sale or trade in) I can now say that I should have traded it in as the time, effort and cost of the private sale in no way made up for the difference between the trade in price and the price I actually sold it for.

Dyno hub – gotcha – makes sense now.

Defo says reflective RIMS – reflective sidewalls on the Marathons are good…. until you don’t wash them for months, or the reflective strip starts peeling off….

First post/is this spam? I’m so confused…..?!?! 😉

I’m intrigued by the reflective rims though, could you tell me more?

+1

Take it you’ll be using a tensioner to go with the Alfine (that is an Alfine in the box?)? What are those shifters, and why two – intruiged 😉

I’m currently using the B&M Lumotec IQ Cyo. I wouldn’t say it’s like riding in a tunnel – the beam pattern is certainly clipped at the top to stop too much spill upwards. I find it pretty wide and even TBH – ideal for road commuting. In terms of absolute power I doubt if there is a lot to choose between the three lights you’ve listed – I’m toying with the idea of upgrading to an E3 triple and the matched rear light before next winter, but that is the only over-the-counter system I have seen that would make me change. Homebrew is another matter entirely….. 😉

…. I thought so! 😆

Bollocks, sometimes by hands move quicker than my spelling can cope with

😆 Was that for effect??? – still time for a cheeky edit 😉

Disclaimer: I am no expert…..

…but, does it not come down to how many appliances are being fed on your side of the meter/distance from meter/no of tee’s etc? i.e. – it depends! If you can achieve the required gas pressure at the appliance with 15mm then it should be OK, but it will be up to the installer to do the calcs/sign it off.

is that bike really worth that much

Nope, I would struggle to be interested even if the decimal point was moved one number to the left.

pencil, paper and a few dimensions should be plenty for the initial discussions? Maybe Sketchup if you must?

<cough> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-fancy-a-frame </cough>

Should be a cracking one in Moto2 too

TBH, I much preferred most of the Moto2 races last year to MotoGP – 30+ loons with apparently fresh air between their ears prepared to have a go anytime, anywhere, anyhow…..

equivalent salary and x3

ALMOST ‘how long is a piece of string’, but my time is sold at the equivalent of salary x~3.5 (office based) and I know competitors who charge at the equivalent of salary x~8. Depends on what you want to earn, how often you can pick up work, overheads, what you think you can get away with, the client…. and on and on and on…..

EDIT: factors edited following some more current calculations….

Not used these poster strips, but use the hook ones all the time and have proved to do what they say on the tin.

Honda vs Yamaha (read Stoner vs Lorenzo), Ducati best of the rest (unless they pull a giant, talking, albino bunny out of the hat), satellite teams after that trying not to be outdone by the CRT bikes (assuming they develop at a reasonable pace and their riders are good/mad enough to have a go). Transition year.