Hit ’em with a hammer.

‘Right of light’ and access rights, etc.

Contact the council

There’s bugger all they can do, if it’s not part of a hedge. You have NO right to light, views etc. If it’s part of a hedge it’s possible that they could force the owner to keep it below 2m high, but they also have to take into account what effect cutting it back would have on the health of the hedge etc, so unless it’s going to survive a severe chop, they won’t enforce.

If the tree is overhanging your property, you have the right to chop the branches back to your boundary, but you must offer to return what you chop off, as it technically belongs to your neighbour. Don’t just throw them back over the fence like my neighbour did.

TBH, if the tree is just blocking your view/sunlight etc, rather than physically impeding you, you should probably just learn to live with it. After all, it’s just a tree, and probably not worth falling out with your neighbour over (assuming you haven’t already burnt that bridge…). Things could be worse, you could have a complete c*ck-jockey living next door to you going out of his way to make life difficult for you. That’s what we’ve got… 😕

Why not save your money, and just spend some time evening out your lawn? Buy a bag of grass seed and a ton of topsoil. Fill in the hollows, shave down the lumps, pack it down, then spread the seed around.

How the **** did you manage to crash at the sleepless?? Even with the layer of sludge it was one of the least technical courses ever ridden!!!

Do you have trouble riding along smooth tarmac??? 😉

Interesting quote from your website there Mike…

a film crew and photographer from the Media Group are following a group of teenage girls and young women

😀

They’ll be fine. They say that so that you don’t try fitting them on a normal rim (without any tubeless kit), and then wonder why they won’t seal.

Keep on running.
Anything by Sting.
Evenflow – Pearl Jam
Waterfall – Stone Roses
Greetings from Sh!tsville – The Wildhearts

Not sure what I ate last night to cause it, but it’s not pleasant… 🙁 😕

It’s probably toe rot. Caused by the red dye in your socks. Usually fatal, but nothing to worry about.

Changed back to green flag this year after a few years with AA & RAC. WAY cheaper, for better cover, and going by my previous experience the service is just as good. The RAC’s attitude on renewal made me sick. They put the price up from last year on the renewal note, and wouldn’t drop it at all until we told them where to stuff it, when they dropped the price to only £30 more than green flag for the same cover…

Haze banned for false accusations

This is a theory that’s coming out of the bottom of a wine bottle, so don’t flame too much, but…

…doesn’t virtually every use of energy produce heat? Be it using a lightbulb (energy efficient or otherwise), charging a battery, producing nuclear power, burning fossil fuels, driving a car, even riding a bike or whatever… They all convert some sort of potential/kinetic/chemical/atomic energy into heat, (and light, motion, website pron. etc). Newton’s law (can’t remember which one) states that energy can’t be created or destroyed.

Seems to me like we should just be making an effort to use less lecky, rather that arguing about how to generate more of the stuff. I geuss that you could argue about the whole greenhouse effect, (I have no opinion one way or another on that whole minefield), and how we need to reduce our carbon emmissions etc, but surely the one thing we can be sure we need to do is reduce our energy consumption, and therefore heat production!

If you can, partition the hard drive, and put all the files you want to save on there, then do a full install of XP over the old one.

Dunno about the new versions, but I’ve used the old design for years, and they’re superb.

Twas actually last Sunday, but I’ll put it up anyway…

Pants.

Rare for someone to buy them?

Take 1 cow. Slap it on the barbecue. Cook until burned on the outside & still alive in the middle. Eat. Destroy any trace of food poisoning in your stomach with 5 gallons of beer/wine/whisky.

Barbecues don’t need recipes. They just need meat and booze.! MTFU! 🙂

3 dashed line…

Constuctive dismissal.

Meerkat.

Nuff said.

Hora, engage brain before typing. The media did not give as much time to Jane as they gave (and are continuing to give) to Jade. I didn’t see her on the news every day, in every gossip mag, and on the front of every newspaper.

Jade resonates more because she had been such a figure of hatred and loathing in the press before they realised they could make money off her.

When it’s what the politicians think the public wants to hear.

When it’s an empty promise.

…

If only the media had given as much time over to Jane Tomlinson. Dying of cancer, she rode tens of thousands of miles, and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. She actually made a difference to people’s lives, in a selfless, modest way, while slowly and painfully dying.

Jade on the other hand has briefly raised awareness about cervical cancer, and tried to grab as much cash as she can for herself, all the while being manipulated by the parasite that is Max Clifford. I think that Telegraph obituary sums it up quite nicely really…

Is female impersonation a sport?

I wouldn’t pay $200 million for a boat that’s about to fall over!

Our postman left a parcel in our wheelie bin the other week. Not quite sure why though, as I was in at the time. He never even bothered to ring the doorbell.

Could be worse. When my car was in getting fixed a couple of weeks back, they gave me a Toyota Aygo! I managed to completely fill the boot with £20 of food shopping, (3 bags).

Miketually, why is the Consett-Scumderland bit putting you off? That’s the easiest bit of the whole thing. It’s virtually all downhill, and apart from having to get past the kids in Sunderland who still think it’s a novelty to see someone on a bike, there’s nothing to worry about.

You can get the train to the start if you can’t find anyone willing to give you a lift over.

Been considering doing it in a day myself, but never quite got round to it yet…

To answer the original question, virtually all the sustrans route is rideable on a tourer, as the only real off road section I can remember is the old coach road in the lakes, (and you can avoid it if you need to). The rest is decent gravel tracks and road. Probably the ideal bike would be a hardtail with fairly narrow tyres, (conti xc 1.5s or something similar), so you get the comfort of an MTB with less drag.

ending up with the wrong bit of his ice axe in his shoulder.

Is there a right bit of an ice axe to get in your shoulder??? 😯

I’ve got a brand new (stainless) Hope one finishing on Ebay in about an hour, if anyone’s interested…
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It’s probably hard to do right now, but think of it as a new begining, and a chance to make all the changes in your life you’ve always wanted to, but have been too settled to actually do. Take some time off work, and travel. Buy that new bike you were scared she’d go apesh!t over.

On a more practical note, if you have joint finances, go to the bank and split them now. Do some proper budgeting, and work out if you really can afford to stay there, and whether you would need to cut back on certain areas if you did. Prioritise things, and do what’s most important for you first.

Before any of that though, talk to her, calmly, and find out why she’s decided to leave you. Chances are you’re not going to be able to change her mind, so just treat it as some sort of closure. If you don’t find out why, it’ll always nag at you.

If you want something to help you see the positive side, a mate of mine was divorced by his wife of 5 years, 2 years ago. He was devastated, and to be honest, we were all worried that he was going to top himself, he was that low. She did her best to completely shaft him in the divorce, and to be honest, she’s still trying to do it now, despite the fact she’s shacked up with the rich doctor she left him for. Doesn’t sound like a happy story does it? Well, he’s now happier than he’s evere been. He does what he likes, goes out when he likes, sleeps with whoever he likes, goes on holiday when he likes, and nobody tells him not to. All his friends have been very supportive, and he’s come back from being as low as I’ve ever seen anyone get, to being one of the most content people you’ll ever meet.

All it takes is a bit of time.

Is it wrong that I’ve loaded that fist image into photo editing software and have been upping the brightness & contrast?

Yes. It’s kinda sad and desperate. There’s plenty of pictures of that on tinternet if you’re that desperate to see one for the first time.

As far as I understand it, once your original probation period is up, and you don’t have a fixed term temporary contract, they are obliged to treat you as a permanent employee.
If she’s told them she’s pregnant, and they try to get rid of her, they might as well take down their trousers, bend over the table and wait for the employment tribunal to right royally f*!k them.