Good Friday spent putting in 180ft of spuds and broad beans, harvesting the last of the leeks, the first of the cauliflowers(a first for me :D), great day, sunshine, hard graft and a bit of solitude.
The ‘clincher’ had to be the Hobby that took a Blackbird of a fence post not more that 20 feet in front of me at full tilt! Made a hell of a racket and startled the bejeesus outta me, the falcon then hopped about with the squawking Blackbird momentarily before flying off with it over the hedge.

An amazing sight to have witnessed, but i wish it had taken one of the damn pidgeons!

brakes,

no you cant, but you can wee in a policemans helmet! :D

mu3266

There is a flaw in Ernies plan..

Harry reckons the Mother n toddler spaces are near to the entrance to reduce the chances of the ankle biters running out and getting splatted by messrs Offiah and Hatton.

If the spaces were at the further end of the car park, Ernies fatties, being incapable of reaching any speed to enable escape velocity from thier parents would be left unharmed.

A wierd Darwinian ‘survival of the fattest’ scenario would then be played out leading to the whole of the supermarket car park bieng marked up as disabled spaces to allow the surviving fatties egress from their vehicles…..

Less abled friend here..

MTFU!

And just hope you never hurt yourself bad enough to have to learn how to ride a bike all over again and own a blue badge THAT ENABLES YOU TO PARK OUTSIDE THE BL**DY SUPERMARKET WITH ALL THE MOTHER N TODDLERS!

Have a peugeot partner proffessional 08 1.6 HDI, used to have the expert. Good fuel economy, dont know exact figures but i can get 500 to 550 out of the tank normally. Usually filled to the brim with bikes or stuff for the tip as we’ve just gat a new house and garden to sort.

Great little van!

Can get 2 bikes in with the front wheels on and all the kit no probs. Dont seee a problem with towing but not towed with that vehicle.

Hugh Manatee … :D

My muller corner has just been filed under Clinical Waste……. 8O

fair play to you sir for fronting up with this one …

I need fuel for work. Have gone over my milage allowance for the year…back in january, so i’ve been subsidising the NHS to drive to the clinic/domicillary visits that ive been sent to.. to stop peoples feet rotting off. Im not going to whine or whinge about it. I drive a vehicle on the roads, its my job, and it gets me to the hills for my riding fix.

My Career choice, im part of the problem, Fuel is getting low, but dont whine about it, dont whine about people filling up while they can! Our love affair with the petrol engine and our need to flatten the land with tarmac to facilitate its use is our bloody fault!

Go fill up, have a moan about the price, have a moan about the queue, have a moan about having to drive around to find fuel due to everyone else having more than a pair of brain cells to rub together and get on with it like everyone else…

Biking weight at 6’2″ 12 stone. Lardarse weight 16 stone. :? been lardarse weight for a while, ….

You’re probably more likely to be around to take your grandkids out on their bikes than he is!

Ooh OOh OOh…..jusy found my clear crud guard in the loft! :D

:D

+1 fpr suntour xc pro thubies.
Onza bar ends….still have mine
Onza white porcs
girvin flex stem

if you prune the lower brances by a 3rd you will encourage a lot more growth, and fill the tier quicker than if you left the or only lightly pruned them

Why would you want growth lower down? Is the tree a spur, or tip bearer? Train the two branches to the wires, support them on bamboo canes at 45 degrees to the wire and adjust them parralel to the wires gradually, train the leader straight and prune again when they reach the second wire, then repeat for the 2nd tier. I have 8 trees like this at home and plan another dozen more as a fence around our property. Just have patience, its easy enough. Mine have 4 tiers, are 6ft high and have taken 5 years since planting to reach the last tier. Plenty of fruit on the 2nd year of planting to be honest. I have apples, pears and quince trained this way.

Quit smoking after several attempts, some of which even lasted a couple of years! Social breaks at work were the worst. Finally cut mu smoking down to 20 a week, but they were all smoked between 7 and 11pm on a monday night playing pool! Eventually quit pool for 4 years while back at uni, and never missed them. Even back playing now and still dont miss them, been 8 years now! Good luck fella…

Good work! She’ll appreciate the one upmanship and have to work harder to surpass your level of devious detective work to get it past you in future.. A good life lesson well learnt!

looks like its yours with a bit more haggling…. Enjoy! :D

Paid £400 for a retro chrome colnago SLX with campag record gold anniversary groupset,…. 19 years ago! and that was a bargain back then!

Peugeot Partner for me, my lad, 2 Bikes, and the obligatory Border Terrier!

+1 for konegirls advice.. depends what part of the country you’re in for unheated sowing. Will be sowing my toms next week down here (Somerset).

Stick with the stuff that would benefit from the warmer environment. Tomato, pepper, chilli, aubergine, cucumber, melon, successional lettuce.. spuds are good to set later in the season for ‘new’ potatoes at christmas for example..

Jeez! That is a thing of beauty right there! That ha sto be the King of pies..

Most eagerly await the next pic update.. I swear i can smell it baking!

+1 for thread of the year, its going to be really hard to stomach the ‘healthy’ salad that the SO has prepared for lunch… one of the rare occasions that we have to work together and DrP has to put me throught hell!

trail rat, you git! Ok, so i shouldnt have clicked on that link! Sarnie heaven thats is, . . . given up bread/pasta/rice/spuds for the forseeable…was doing alright until then! :|

Cant answer for dog breeders but bred pedigree cats as a registered breeder…

Its all down to the honesty of the breeder. Visit shows/breeders and get taliking to them, they are a very competative/protective bunch and the honest ones very proud of what they do and only too happy to help you aviod the ‘rogues’ and puppy farms.

Any breeder worth their salt will be only too happy supply references of satisfied owners of their pups.

History of blood lines can be checked (althopugh painstaking and not easy) through cross referencing of related blood lines and matings.

Good luck!

Im not saying chiropractors are purveyors of snake oil, just making the point that we’re not all out for profit, certainly not with the NHS! mansonsoul, get yourself to see a physio/podiartist for a full Biomech examination and take it from there.

Medical professional here too..deal with foot ulcers for most of the week, no problems. Had to leave a leg ulcer clinic in a hurry as i had to chuck…. Can stand most things but not that. No way.

Have you seen the amount of blood that leaks out when tattooing?

:roll: yep.. told two patients that no treatment was necessary this morning.. of course they could always go to a bone cracker and have treatment every 6 weeks and declare that they never have any more problems.. :?

DT78, we dont advise people to ride with them, and i suggest you leave them out if you wont be doing any significant walking. The orthoses can be kept quite fresh if you wipe them down frequently, they shouldnt pong too much! If in doubt check with your Podiatrist for his advice.

:-)

Dad died two years ago. Had no idea how much i’d be affected by such a loss of the one guy i looked up to and aspired to. I found myself in exactly the same situation and definately didnt want any form of unsolicited intervention no matter how well meaning. I didn’t grieve properly for a long time until funnily enough last weekend when reminiscing about ‘Haddad’ with my 12yr old lad. Wept buckets unexpectedly but fortunately realised what was happening and just ran with it…..

Feel as if i have been run over by a bus and emotionally drained but also refreshed and ready to grab life by the throat again, rather than just shuffling on behind it as i was before…

IMHO Just give it time and be there for him.

Cant put a price on a good gloat globalti.. good on ya!

Arse.. :(

Arsebiscuits

Got a Triumph Herald convertable to get rid of…..?

So you just want half the pain relief all the time or all the pain relief most of the time?

jenga anyone?