Thanks man, that’s really helpful.
Frame is a Cooper Bikes commuter and is specific to the Gates system.

It has only been going for 6 months so bit early to judge

My bad, screen annoyingly shows a 3y return not allowing for inception

I,d stick 30k on CF Woodford equity income.Tick the dividend reinvestment box,light a cigar,put your feet up and Waaaaaaaaait.Neil
Pretty much my strategy!

Hasn’t that fund done less than 2% over last 3Y? vs FTSE100 doing 14%? For a 1% fee!

Of your suggestions I’d personally go for The Ledbury. Also look at Square as others have suggested as well as Fera though I’ve not yet tried that. Claude Bosi at Hibiscus is worth a look as is Helen Daroze at Connaught. The other one people haven’t mentioned is Gavroche though personally find that underwhelming however well executed. Depends on what you’re after.

Lots more suggestions other than that if its not so much fine dining/tasting menus you’re after.

Sugarsync looks rather expensive, why do you choose to use that?

I just find it more fully featured vs Dropbox, in particular I recall Dropbox was entire contents of a folder where Sugarsync enabled a little more control which suited me and the way I work. I think the version control is better also but not sure.

Really depends on your work stream/flow.

What works for me is (I work across iOS devices and an iMac (home office) and office PC

Drobox (free) for some work/projects
Sugarsync (paid) for ALL work/projects
Time Machine from iMac to ext HDD
Crashplan (paid) from iMac to Cloud

This works for me across devices (sync) and platforms at relatively low cost.

Didn’t Brant invent the mountain bike?

Few things happening in the market that could explain it taking longer to sell your’s than those you’ve seen some months or so earlier. But after a few days you can’t really say.

Those factors however are the increased controls on mortgage lending and more likely prospect now of interest rates.

Other factor of course is location and which price range you’re in within that market, I just bought a house in London which was a real struggle – foreign cash, offers over asking price, sealed bids etc. On the other side at the same time I was selling a house in Brighton, people struggling to get mortgages, very slow market and so on. It took us over a year to sell that place.

Edit: Just saw link you your place. I note you’re asking offers over X. I personally would never do this (despite what agents tell you) as I’ve always been surprised how reluctant buyers are to make offers, it’s almost like they’re shy or scared of offending. Probably a British thing. If you want X list it at X would be my advice.

Good to see you have your investment priorities right. You can withdraw from an ISA immediately yes. So allow 2/3 days for funds for bank transfer.

If the bike/design or whatever is already in the public domain then there is no reason for an NDA.

Reading between the lines however I expect it is not and your ex client is looking to protect some aspect of the design via patent or design registration.

In this case the NDA would be required since unless under confidentiality the disclosure to you represents a risk to granting of patent (or design registration).

20mph zone in Camden borough now, feels more like something to aim for rather than a limit, wish I could drive that fast!

Because to make wine you need a vineyard, grapes and a winery, not a kit!

Summer job fine, but I can’t see the point of a menial term time job. For one it detracts from study and frankly time when they should be enjoying themselves. The latter being an important part of development also.

Personally I’d agree to cover all rent, food and books plus a reasonable entertainment budget.

Though I’m kinda pleased I don’t have to worry about this for 13 years…

EDIT: From a financial perspective I’d get them to take out max loans and use this but cover repayments myself.

Rainbow Man really reminds me of Doig. Lovely work.

Get a bigger credit card and go somewhere nicer?

http://trevorcook.typepad.com/cc/2011/01/moros-spanish-tortilla.html

Key is onions cooked for best part of hour and not cooking the whole tortilla the whole way through, ie little runny in the middle.

Wine here. Buying, drinking, collecting.

were they dredged up to the last election?

1. Aren’t the proposed job cuts covered by voluntary redundancies?
2. Sure, might mean some people move jobs, get pay cuts or increases
3. But net jobs are the point, can’t work around vested interest of a minority
4. And anyway, isn’t the point to provide the best tube service, not preserve jobs
5. What is the point of ticket offices in any case?
6. How does Bob Crowe earn 150k and live in a council house?

I’m struggling to square that circle. And thats leaving aside the Bob Crowe holiday cheek, entitled to holidays yes of course but priorities should have been elsewhere in his position at that time.

Nice story but I think thread is about strength training rather than endurance.

What evidence is there for a 200lb guy needing 200g of protein?

Research also indicates that individuals performing strength-training activity require more protein than sedentary individuals.[2][10][21] Strength-training athletes may increase their daily protein intake to a maximum of 1.4–1.8 g per kg body weight to enhance muscle protein synthesis, or to make up for the loss of amino acid oxidation during exercise.[10][22] Many athletes maintain a high-protein diet as part of their training, and so protein deficiency is less likely among this group than among non-athletes.[22] In fact, some athletes who specialize in anaerobic sports (e.g. weightlifting) assume a very high level of protein intake is necessary, and may over-consume.[5][22] Research indicates that many athletes consume more protein than they need even without the use of protein supplements.[5]

You bolded wrong bit!

Although admittedly that only works out to 162g at the upper limit. But lets work on the basis of research you post…

How would you suggest consuming 162g of protein a day?

Agreed. My point still is that most people are already getting enough though if you really aren’t no doubt, the shake is an easy way to help.

So a 200lb guy needing 200g of protein in day. How do you suggest?

Is this really what the average male finds funny?!

Ah Sugru is a great story born of RCA project and NESTA some time ago.

So a boiler is either fully on or off?

Ignore me!

Be lucky to get 2 beds and 1000sqft in NW london

I dont think it was the driver that punched the cyclist. It was the passenger.

Did the car run over his foot?

ent to a club on Sat night for the first time in many years. We danced non-stop for THREE hours

Only 1 pill?!

Cyclist had a panier rack!

I’d have punched him just for that!

And a rucksack!

Even without intent still an offence.

He didn’t bang on the window, and strangely the law says that hitting somebody is assault, but swearing at them isn’t.

Threatening, abusive or insulting language in a public place falls under the Public Order Act. It an offence to use threatening, abusive or insulting language with the intention of causing someone else harassment, alarm or distress.

Probably most significantly in this case it is an offence to use threatening, abusive or insulting language with the intention of making someone else believe that immediate violence will be used against them.

I would argue this was the greater offence than the driver (however stupidly) attempting to position to overtake the ASL. I’m not even sure you’ll find a car in the ASL to be a criminal offence.

Deserve? Really?

Yes. Really. Agressive, shouting, swearing, banging on his window. Create those situations and you deserve some kind of response. He’s probably just got away with it before because its been little old ladies or something.

Yes, clearly that’s always the correct response to somebody swearing at you

No of course not. But in that context, creating a confrontation as the cyclist did, frankly you deserve to get punched or should at least be prepared for that outcome.

Sure the driver was impatient and stupid to pull to the side to get away at the lights but it did not put the cyclist in danger and it was the cyclists own behaviour that brought the confrontation about.

The driver was out of order – but no need for the cyclist to chase after him and call him a fcking prick. Deserved a punch.

Of course none of that is actually of that much relevance as it is well known that the biggest single influence on an childs eductional achievement is the attitude of the parents.

And that of the childs peer group.

Believe it or not there is a middle ground between selfish ‘I’m all right jack’ attitudes and wanting a worldwide socialist revolution.

Indeed there is but it will not be achieved – tragedy of the commons.

For me education is mostly about luck. Being lucky and getting a good teacher. Being lucky and having good rather than nuisance classmates.

You’re more likely, while not guaranteed, to get both those things in a private school.

My daughter goes to private school.

What does surprise me is how it seems acceptable to deride people who send their kids to private school while the converse would be shouted down as snobbery.

I get the point about social mobility but my job is to get the best education I can for my daughter, not change the world.

Thought some of you might find the following interesting, well written and easy to understand article on why the low fat paradigm is wrong (or at least not entirely right). For those more interested author is Gary Taubes and this was his 2002 NY Times piece some time before his Why We Get Fat book.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

edit: on reading the posts I noted it interesting that many asked for evidence re keto diets yet no one asked for the evidence on low fat diets? evidence for the latter is most lacking of the two.

Err if you have a pension you likely invest in tobacco and arms etc