This one also as it is good for treble. It holds a special place for me as it was the demo track in 1994 when I bought my first pair of B&W 602’s from a hifi shop in Leeds:

This would be one of mine:

ouch. sleep tight.

I am all for leveling the playing field at a national level, but to do so in an individual school is narrow minded, and I am not sure it happens. Grade boundaries are set at national level, so if a particular school restricts calculators to the base model then they are still competing nationally with schools who have the better equipment. Ultimately a decent calculator will not make a poor mathmatician into the next Fermat, but it does help a little to check work and work with more speed and confidence.

Thanks for the advice munkster (and others!). I will check with Head of Maths and see what he says. I know an fx83 or similar is perfectly functional, but some of the extra features on the more sophisticated calculators do help check that answers are correct and for students to spend more time on the difficult bits of a question.
My son has an FX-CG20 that I got him at the start of YR11 so that he could get used to it before A-Level. He sit’s his maths and further maths A2-levels in a couple of weeks and hopes to study maths at York if he can get ABB.

Daughter has said that changes in the new GCSE require them to remember conversion ratios (eg 8km = 5 miles).
I guess some of the info stored on the calculator could be classed as a databank, but if you need the lid to use them do they count?
Also she believes the 991ES is “too good” as solving equations to be allowed.
I don’t want her to have an “illegal” calculator, but I do want her to have the best allowed.

I know standards change, but what are the standards? Must be some official up to date guidance somewhere.

Oxfords or Brogues?

Sound’s like you have avoided a problem in separating. I have been fortunate never to have slid down the scree slope of despair, but I can see how it can happen so easily and can consume a person. Accept how it feels right now and have faith that it will feel better in future. Hope the prospect of a bunch of middle aged blokes sending you good vibes helps more than it scares!!

Yes, unless her tank is marine! The tank water should be good for plants. As Cheesy says, keep it off the stuff you want to eat, no one likes their veg washed in fiss pish.

I agree that fresh have about a 4 month window when they are rubbish. But from March to November you can get great UK or Spanish tomatoes. We use lots of tinned tomatoes as they are better for some stuff, but fresh can be really cheap and tasty in the long season where they are available.

hell…no way! Cirio are the best of the tinned brands, much better than others. But if making pasta I normally use Lidl or Aldi fresh tomatoes. Lidl often have punnets of fresh cherry tomatoes for under 50p. Why would you use tinned when fresh is so cheap? From July onwards my allotment yields crazy quantities of perfect Rosada F1 cherry tomatoes for all my cooking and salad needs.

It’s one of about 5 websites (BBC being another one!) that I look at daily.
Yes there are pointless arguments, but there are also threads/posts that inspire and I learn stuff frequently.
It is also the one place that I can be 90% certain that I can ask ANY obscure question and someone will know the answer. For that reason alone I can tolerate much of the tosh that is written.

Heard two loud booms, whole house shook in south Leeds. Jets scrambled?

I very much doubt they are going bust. The have done crazy discount sales since forever. Dave the boss there is well known for springing a sale on at short notice and clearing out a load of stuff to make room for the next container of carbon wotsits or steel frames due in next week. A great Yorkshire company, if a little eccentric.

Time Bandits.

Definitely if they charged less then people would buy more. I refuse to buy for the crazy prices they charge.

My wife sews a LOT…costumes mainly for theatre.
She got herself a Janome J3-20 three years ago and it has been brilliant.

If the band suggested above is formed in “heaven” then I imagine Terry Wogan will give disparaging Eurovision style commentary as they play.

The Queen should be playing Purple Reign from the balcony in respect.

We have a 2005 model 163bhp. Bought it 6 years ago with 101,000 miles on it. Now on 139,000.
The later 185bhp are better as they have a 6 speed box and the drive sleeve for the AWD power to rear wheels is not prone to corrosion.
Our’s has been relatively problem free.
I service myself and other than oil/filters and brakes the only jobs it’s needed in 6 years has been ATF-U fluid replacing and next week it is due to have new droplinks fitted.
I think our next car will also be a Volvo as they age well and are nice to work on.

Kids are kids and get treated as kids.
If kids choose to behave like adults then they get treated as adults.
Too many parents accept the childish behaviour, but reason with the said urchin as though they were an adult.
If you don’t mix the two (ie treat childish behaviour with distain and clear boundaries, but explain that if they can be more adult then they will get treated as adult) then the kids will understand that how they are treated is in their control.
Father of two here and they both turned out OK.

Been wearing mine quite a bit since I got them.
Only advice I have is don’t wear them on a boozy night out…those buttons, with individual baffles and French bearer do NOT make for quick loo breaks! Lovely keks though and I will buy another pair when funds allow.

Raid over Moscow.

I have noticed this too. Try emailing them with a complaint, that’s the only way they will build up a picture of unhappiness and MIGHT do something about it.

Lamy 2000 fountain pen.

I have two sets of Facom. Best I have ever used.
I also have some £12 Bahco ones from Amazon, they too are pretty good.
Not had Wera hex wrenches, but I have their screwdrivers and am not too impressed with steel hardness.

Cheese strings.

Ditto what Daffy said.

This thread is like Donald Trump. There’s no reason for it to keep going, but it does. I think we should ban STW until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

The mess up here was from the top down, the control room messed up in a high stress situation.
I feel sorry for the officer who killed him. This officer ran towards a man who the control room had led him to believe was a terrorist with a bomb. I can’t even imagine the level of commitment needed to your job to run towards a (believed to be) suicide bomber knowing that you are the only person who can stop him. In that situation I am not surprised he fired. Prosecuting the poor sod with the gun sounded wrong to me.
The mess up was why did they even let him get on the tube and it’s obvious that the MET handled the aftermath wrongly/dishonestly/ineptly.

I have an old Yamaha (15 years old!). It’s so good than when it dies (or I get fed up of no HDMI pass through), I will get another Yamaha.

I have one of those very knives and it’s really good. I bought it from Amazon last year and the quality is as good as any other Global knife.

Philips Sonicare here and I love it. Bought in the sale for about £40 from Amazon. Rest of family have Braun and are happy with them, but I prefer Philips.

….has vision of a skinny (well slim) pair of trousers with mahoosive long legs!
It was simpler when I was in my 20’s 32/32. Thanks for the update!

I have come home half expecting a parcel for the last couple of days. Reckon they must have sent them down by boat on the Aire/Calder canal and forgotten that it’s closed at Shipley. Isn’t impatience great! Also number curious!!

Used it for years. No problem.

…it’s the only way to be sure.

We had about 1.5sqm of it in our back garden. Dug it out without too much bother. Personally I would just trim it, dig it and then glyphosphate to hell anything that emerges in the spring.

Looks like you stepped into the light to me! (9 year Nikon user!).

****!
DRINK!
AR$$E!
GERALS!

A key part of the best comedy ever.