No rail so your options are limited. I’d be taking the car if you have one. If not, it’s bus or hitching (and I wouldn’t fancy that).
Or if you’re over 55 you can use Club 55 to get the train to Inverness (£19 return) then bus to Ullapool.

Generally, far in advance but play with times as well. Travelled to Dundee from London, £20-£40 difference in prices on same day. Was cheaper taking 1st class at 12 than 2nd class at 10.

Nope, I’ve not had a problem at all. Samsung Smart telly

No way that was a stunt.

Maybe it was a very cunning one.

Do the insurance company actually do this though or do they just pay out & not chase it up?

who cares so long as they they stump up? But I’d have thought they’d be looking at recovering their losses if there’s someone they can show as at fault

IANAL but if you go through small claims and win and they’re skint you might “win” a £5 a week for the next 20 years settlement. Use the insurance route they settle and chase the neighbours. Plus as mentioned, you just tell them you went to insurance to get the damage fixed, whereas if if YOU take them to court it’s YOU taking them to court and I can see that ending up with an insurance claim anyway

..
really?
..

I want to go to Iceland and get as close to a volcano as I dare.

Try Sicily – bus from Catania to near the top of Etna, then another to the top (used to be a chairlift, destroyed in an eruption), then out for a walk inside a smoking crater. 10000 ft up and stones to hot too hold comfortably.

Close enough?

I’ve also flown a loop the loop in a Tiger Moth, WW1 design open cockpit biplane.

As a kid, I never wore a helmet. 40+ years later, I’ve still got the scars from an incident involving a Transit.

I don’t think he’s criticising the internet as opposed to the monopolies that have established themselves on it and are destroying real world businesses (and the jobs that go with them).

Have you actually read the whole article?
Ever seen one of these

Suppossed to give us personal freedom, led to out of town supermarkets killing shops on the high st and left us in thrall to a few multinationals poisonong our planet

Got one – no closer a shave than my 1960 superspeed, but it feels great in my hand, is really well made and a pleasure to use. Love it. No issues with blade being loose in the head.
EDIT

On a side note the satin finish is better to use than the chrome with more grip with wet fingers.

+1 surprisingly so because it doesn’t look particularly grippy

Deutschsland deutschland uber alles
Piss off your ukip supporting colleagues

Having been harassed by a waiter in NY and Johanasberg (who had both been at best anonymous and the food ‘posh fast food’) for not making my tip sufficient by a few cents the whole concept of it being either voluntary or performance related seem long gone in other countries.
When I lived in France (which was a few years ago so this may not be the case now) I knew a few peple who worked in bars and cafes. Most of them got a pay slip showing they earned the minimum wage and their employer paid the tax and whatever based on that, but didn’t pay the employee any actual money. Tips were their wages which makes them a bit touchy about not getting a tip, regardless of how crap the service is.
BTW, I tip if I feeel like and don’t if I don’t However, if the service is bad, I leave a tip of around 1p – it’s not that I forgot to tip, it’s just that’s what I think you’re worth

Flying to Malta. No Mrs involved. And with no moaning women involved, free to indulge in some train geekery and take the train home.

In a word .. badly

do what it takes to get your money back

quite, and remember you should be entitled to interest as well, after all YOUR money is probably sitting in an interest bearing account.

Post up the IP address and someone’ll tell you. IP address is xx.xx.xx.xx where xx is a number between 0 and 255.

I’d go witha scooter over a mpoed – better weather protection and some of them have under seat storage. Peugeot and Aprilia are makes to look at and anything by Honda is usually reliable.

Bourbon is aged in new barrels which will give it a darker colour (whisk(e)y is aged in used barrels, amusingly they’re usually old bourbon barrels)

Part of the bourbon rules are that the spirit is matured in virgin wood. Scotch is matured in used wood, normally ex-sherry or ex-bourbon casks. To ensure a steady supply of used wood some of the Scots distilleries (well, one comapny actually) bought some woodland in the US and they rent the wood to bourbon distilleries then ship it over here when the casks are emptied. Over here, the wood is used up to 5 times before ending up as garden furniture or used to smoke salmon. Fascinating industry.

Smokies – smoked haddock, warm, just out of the barrel

First, condolences on your loss. It can hurt.
Sorry, but this

they WERE close to my mum

doesn’t sseem to be correct. if they were, they would have done something. People handle things in different ways that’s true, but if you’re indifferent about something you’ll act indifferently. Are you sure you’re not just projecting your expectations on them, and disappointed because they didn’t act in line with your feelings? I regularly get grief about not being around when my father has a difficult time and people just don’t understand that I simply don’t care. It might be easier if I could be arsed to pretend I did so people would stop telling me what I should be feeling and doing but I can’t be and would like that to be the end of it. It’ll be relief when he does finally peg out. Are you sure that’s not where your kids are?

Going to the toilet on an aeroplane, you open the door and HOLY **** the smell jumps out and attacks you. You can feel it sticking to your nostrils and the back of your throat starts to itch. Step outside, take a deep, deep breath, back in have your pee. Then as you open the door you think the smell will stick to your hair and clothes..

OR

the look you get from the attractive lady /hostess as the smell follows you out and it really doesn’t matter what you say, word is going to travel

Late for something, getting to a door, pushing it open, walking into it because it doesn’t push open it pulls, pulling it open, smacking yourself in the face with it

OR

being laughed at by the students

to be fair

awful typesetting on the label though..

which makes me wonder why I picked it up in the first place. Glad I did though

For your reference, I don’t have a problem. I don’t drink. My wife, on the other hand, used booze as a crutch after we lost our second child and, as a result of this, very nearly destroyed our marriage and her health. So please, if I am a little bit touchy about the subject of alcoholism and the damage that cheap booze does, forgive me.

Is that why you so glibly suggested that the rest of the world should pay more even if the rest of the world can drink sensibly? Pretty selfish attitude that, isn’t it?

1 series? Really?

if its a deal breaker and could cost you the job then id be tempted to get someone else to do it for you. once youre in, then you can work on improving it maybe.

Sackable offence if it’s SIS/MI5
is one of the questions
How do you drink dry martinis
[ ]shaken
[ ]stirred

The words are 13th Century Gregorian chants, Orff’s contribution was to arrange the verses musically.
Ford Motor Company had more questionable associations with the Nazis, would that affect your car buying decision?

Very favorite would be Karl Carl Orff s carmina biranah Buranah

Certainly are some interesting lyrics
From Cignus ustus cantat (The Roast Swan)
Once I lived on lakes,
once I looked beautiful
when I was a swan.

Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!

The servant is turning me on the spit;
I am burning fiercely on the pyre:
the steward now serves me up.

Were diu werlt alle min (Were all the world mine)
Were all the world mine
from the sea to the Rhine,
I would starve myself of it
so that the queen of England
might lie in my arms.

Chramer, gip die varwe mir (Shopkeeper, give me colour)
Shopkeeper, give me colour
to make my cheeks red,
so that I can make the young men
love me, against their will.
Look at me,
young men!
Let me please you!

In taberna quando sumus (When we are in the tavern)
When we are in the tavern,
we do not think how we will go to dust,
but we hurry to gamble,
which always makes us sweat.
What happens in the tavern,
where money is host,
you may well ask,
and hear what I say.
Some gamble, some drink,
some behave loosely.

BTW it has to be hand written CBIL

sorry, slightly better at handing out useless advice than reading posts
what about a page at a time?

scan it into a PC and complete it electrocically?

You know, when you’re feeling a bit low, you put on your favourite piece, play it through, and by the end your world seems a slightly better place.

youtube – anything by vanessa mae or nicola benedetti

Dozens. My CV is such a work of fiction that I couldn’t correct it if I tried.
2nd Lifeboatman
Cinema projectonist
Bouncer
Berry picker
Barman
Dogsbody on a horse stud
Hotel porter
Hotel night porter
Forestry labourer
Gardner
Something in loans insurance
Whatever it was I did in the electrical retail warehouse
Antiques dealer and shipper
Motorcycle courier
Fruit and veg delivery
Student
IT support
IT management

,,and some I’d prefer not to mention

Saint Saens Organ Symphony No3 in C Major. Saw a live performance on our town hall organ and it does need to be played on some massive organ (ooo errr missus)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, but I’d suggest watching Shine to give it some context

We used to have a classical open air proms near us that finished with a grand firework finale, last time it was Tchakovsky’s 1812, Awesome with fireworks.
In fact Fantasia is a pretty amazing film for it’s time. Still worth a watch
Look around and keep an eye open for a chance to go an see a full orchestra, regardless of what they’re playing. An orchestra in full flight really is an amazing noise

Just for the dimwit

NIGEL FARAGE: “People only think UKIP are racist because they’re looking at what our members say, do and campaign about.”

That is not a UKIP candidate but just a voter like many others.

like I said, too stupid or lazy…

we are all low in brain juice like it

some more than others, as you seem to be determined to prove

Anyway, sorry, but I find racist, misogynistic, bigoted, ignorant halfwits boring, so eh’m oot.

Plenty of people like that bloke on the planet unfortunately

What’s unfortunate – UKIP candidate= got your vote, no? Or are you following the UKIP line of being too stupid/lazy to find out what you’re talking about before spouting off?
You do know that when you own up to taking UKIP seriously, people know you’re an idiot, you don’t need to prove it?

Crikey do you have to post a pic of that bloke? Who is he?

UKIP thicko in not able to work Google shocker

I will still vote for Farage
Like I said, not the brightest – you vote for the party, this “clown” as you put it was selected by the party to represent them. Really – are you struggling to understand that? Ah sorry UKIP voter, it’s not actually possible to underestimate your reasoning abilities. Were you going to say that it’s just this one that’s a clown, but all the others are thoroughly decent chaps? Like, for example Geoffrey (Bongo Bongo Land) Bloom, maybe Alex Wood.. (seems like a nice boy), or maybe you’re thinking of Chris (“sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-f******, ragheads” )Pain. Or perhaps you’re thinking of Nigel Farage who bravely speaks out against tax avoidance whilst hiring a tax accountant to set up a trust fund in an off-shore tax haven.
Still, this is as you point out, a democracy and if these are the sort of misogynistic, bigoted, racist hypocrites you can identify with, then you should vote for them. Personally though, I’d be a bit embarrassed about mentioning it in public

Everyone votes for something that means something to them is it not?

..and what means something to you is bikes off the road and on pavements with pedestrians having priority? Or banning the unemployed from the roads which will take 6million cars off the roads even though there’s only 800,000 unemployed? Or perhaps that congestion is all the fault of those damn immigrants? Ok, in the brightness stakes you’re not going to give an energy saving lightbulb anything to worry about and that’s fine, you’re the UK Idiot Party’s target market, but you really need to stop kidding yourself on that believing that guff shows any kind of self-awareness or capacity for independant thought. It’s not, it’s just trotting out one meaningless soundbite after another marketed at the foaming at the mouth Daily Wail readership.
Sometimes I read this guff and it’s really enjoyable. Farage is one of the funniest peopole around, completely beyond satire. Then I realise that there are people who actually believe it and take it seriously and I despair and wonder what happened to our education system that it can let people down so badly that they give this bunch of clowns any more than the time of day.