Really about the shuttle it’s sat next to the DVD player on ours about 10mm taller similar depth and half the width.

Do you mean this??

Thats about three times the height of a typical dvd player? and would never fit in the shelve of mine.

Introducing car parking charges to out of town megacentres should be a priority*, not encouraging more cars and congestion into town centres that don’t have the infrastructure to cope.

Oh for a little congestion.. or even a couple of extra cars… please.

I thought all the studies showed the opposite? What brings in customers to town centres is pedestrianisation and making them more accessible on foot/bike/bus?

Local authority funded studies maybe?

The facts in the real world are very different. Take my town for example.. It’s a market town that for centuries has pulled in the shoppers from all the villages around. People here need to drive, yet it’s been made so restrictive in town that they now drive to the nearest out of town shopping centre as to park in town is expensive and very risky should you inadvertently spend a little too long in a shop.

I like the daily mail. it’s entertainment.

er this

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Shuttle xpc. Low powered chipset laptop psu and silent. Runs on 2.5″ drive with dvi hdmi and vga optical surround sound etc. Pair it up with xbmc for general media duties and your away.

As I said.. Wonder if there’s an extra slim desktop pc case with front mounted usb’s and a dvd that would fit nicely into the dvd shelf on most tv stands

as in the same shape as a home dvd player. The shuttle isnt.

Been a store owner for close on 25 years and survived through a couple of resessions..

Couple of facts..

The are some fantastic deals available on high street locations at present if you are willing to negotiate hard.

Business rates are not killing the smallest traders as for the past few years there has been a thing called ‘Small business rate relief’ Any premises with a rateable value of less that £12k qualify. I’ve paid zero rates for the past few years.

The main cause of high street destruction can be put straight at the local authorities hatred of the car.

Over zealous traffic wardens. Expensive Local authority parking. Private land clampers. THIS is what has killed the town centre.

The facts speak for themselves.. During the small period between the police stopping parking control and the local authority taking it over trade boomed for high streets. Personally our trade literally quadrupled. It was chaotic yes, but the town was buzzing with a vibrance I’ve never seen before. Fast forward a couple of years after the local council introduced the parking stasi.. the place is an absolute ghost town.. the worst I’ve seen in 25 years. Mid week the wardens outnumber the shoppers. Yet the council refuse to accept the facts.

Is it an optical illusion or are the doors not square with the shutter?

agreed.. but I’m weighing up the pros n cons of Buildings only v buildings n contents.

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Dont get the concern.. looks just like loads of other cars currently on the market.

Sailing (and windsurfing), Boxing.

Wonder if there’s an extra slim desktop pc case with front mounted usb’s and a dvd that would fit nicely into the dvd shelf on most tv stands.. more usb and hdmi on the back.. now that would be ideal.

I actually have a wireless mini keyboard with built in trackball that I use for the ps3 and find it ideal for the living room. PS3 isnt the ideal media center though 🙁

What with my mum being called Mary, my dad Joseph and me being born on the epithany (all true) what else could I expect but to be riddled with self belief.

28.. I expected higher hehe

TVs powered by treadmill.. ‘Pay as you walk’ jeremy kyle.

(c)2013 ElZorillo

Elzorillo would the teacher be Runcorn based?

No mate.. Notts.

Elzorillo where are you based?

N.Notts/S.Yorks. Dont know about the build quality of supernovas in general, but all the ones at our club are first generation and none have any problems that I know of. In fact the opposite is the case, as more try them more are getting them.

re the solo/streaker.. both are absolutely as new. Both bought last year. One owned by a guy who immediately fell ill and couldnt sail (nothing terminal hehhe) the other was bought by a disabled guy who refused to accept he was disabled (he’s now coming to terms with it).

Have a pal on there.. he regularly collects random girls from the railway station and gives them a seeing too before taking them back.. And from the stories my wife tells me of a couple of female teachers at her school, POF is more of a pickup site for sex. One of the teachers currently has FIFTEEN blokes on the go 😯

A fair few solos & streakers for sale at my local club (There’s actually a mint solo and a streaker for sail, both used less than four times)..

I really liked the simplicity of my old streaker (although I just lost it in the recent floods 🙁 and am still trying to get the insurance claim sorted)

As I said above.. A lot of fellas seem to be going for supernovas at my local for some reason.

Cant see that anyone has mentioned them yet but the Supernova is a fantastic little dinghy,… very similar to a laser but with more leg room for them older knees and a rapidly growing following.

Cant see why anyone would moan about the accent.. Your own local accent will most likely have changed substantially within your lifetime.

No one even knows what the accent was from that period so why all the fuss??

Used to love watching South American TV.. Canal13 from chile being my favourite. It was in the dark ages re sexism and just about every single TV show had some pervy old bloke and a hot scantily clad young woman… Loved it hehehe
Notice now that most have started blocking their transmissions for international viewers 🙁

Used to regularly watch reruns of ‘especial del humour’. It’s from Peru but gives a gist of what 90% of SA programs are like…

Enjoy

Large areas of the trent valley around newark/lincs have now been under water for the best part of a month and shows no sign of going down. Primarily caused by Nottinghams new flood defences pushing all the water further down stream and compounding the situation here.

I do wonder if some of the land around here will ever be erm.. land again.

On a sad note.. Whilst out on the rescue boat, the amount of dead wildlife is devestating.

May I recommend a very good spanish language book .. ‘La Sombra del Viento’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

Excelente!

I spent 7 years learning online just chatting to spanish speaking people (initialy through the old IRC network as thats all that was available then). Had great fun and met a lot of good friends. Then I did an OU Modern languages degree (which was Shite). A few years in I knew less spanish than at the outset (but thats another story).

My vocab always let me down but found some south american speakers much easier to understand than European Spanish. I’d recomend Chile/Argentina for easiest to understand (that of course was my own experience).

Met some cracking women too and if I wasnt already married I would have been over there like a shot.

Unfortunately, not spoken any spanish for a couple of years and you soon lose it. Ended up in the weird situation that I recognise the words but cant remember their meaning. (may be old age though).

First-footing is done in friendly northern neighbourhoods at New Year; you visit friends and neighbours with coins, chunks of coal, booze and probably nowadays a couple of joints and a packet of johnnies to signify your wishes to them for a good year. The bearer is supposed to be a dark-haired bloke.

Actually… I remember when I was about 17, my mum asking me to do such a thing with a chunk of coal.. I thought she’d gone stark raving bonkers. This explains it hehehe

Round here, we just use coal for first footing. One piece has lasted me 10 years

I must be totally thick as I have no idea what you just said 🙁

Same here.. found coal far too dirty.. Only thing I use it for is a few lumps to keep the fire in longer.

Since using coal I found the inside of the burner covered in stuborn black soot, where previously a quick sweep and a vacume would leave it spotless.

My choc lab is almost the build of a rottweiler.. the golden is a bit shorter.. neither can jump into the back of my truck without help, let alone run anywhere!

😳

We are currently experiencing massive flooding around the trent valley area. Spent the whole of boxing day with the local sailing club on our safety power boats rescuing people/animals from floods. Never seen so many snakes brought out of hibernation and clinging to branches..

We are now in our fifth ‘once in a century’ flood since 2000. The last one being only a month ago.. (maybe the last one and this one could be considered the same flood though).

Weird thing is.. we’ve not had that much rain really.

Heating on full whack and the log burner raging!!!

Please dont mention gin… still recovering from yesterday…

Remember as a kid there was this student teacher whose passion was building balsawood gliders powered from a rubber band for the initial lift.

They would fly for absolutely ages.. sometimes into the distance, never to return.

I was fascinated.

.. at work

Fire cement is usually used.. although I just packed mine tightly with rope and according to my huge nose and the Co2 detector.. it’s fine. Once the flu warms it naturally drags any fumes up the chimney anyway.

RE sweeping the flu.. depends on what you burn.. I get no more than 1/4 a pint (volume) of soot out of mine after a full years use and could probably get away with doing it once every few years.

Well he could have downloaded it from my server.. I’ve already got it from the broadcasters servers and put it on mine.

mmm too late now.

It’s what your mate assumes it to be that’s important.. not what the self appointed protectors of liberty on this forum assume you should and shouldnt say.

Then I apologise

8)

I may have been a bit jumpy.. but I was simply trying to help the guy, have no idea what the hell a beam newcomen engine is and your reply did come across a little condescending.

Which episode is it you want…

How Britain Worked Guy Martin discovers a world of hi-tech engineering, show-off architecture, intrepid plant-hunters and anxious city fathers as he explores Birmingham Botanical Garden’s Victorian roots. broadcast Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:00 GMT, channel4, duration 60:00

How Britain Worked Guy Martin helps restore the world’s oldest surviving Brixham sailing trawler, experiences the dangerous job of deep sea trawling, and learns how Britain got its taste for fish and chips. broadcast Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:00 GMT, channel4, duration 60:00

How Britain Worked Guy Martin’s project is the first piston engine ever built – The Newcomen Beam Engine – which the team set out to return to full working order at the Black Country museum. broadcast Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:00 GMT, channel4, duration 60:00

How Britain Worked Guy Martin helps to get Llandudno – the queen of Victorian sea-side resorts – up to scratch in time for the summer season, working on the pier, a helter-skelter and the funicular tramway. broadcast Sun, 4 Nov 2012 20:00 GMT, channel4, duration 60:00

How Britain Worked Guy Martin continues his celebration of the workers of the Industrial Revolution, as he works to get a Yorkshire saw mill up and running again, and use it to make a Victorian pedal bike. broadcast Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:00 GMT, channel4, duration 60:00

How Britain Worked Guy Martin celebrates the workers of the Industrial Revolution by bringing some of the 19th century’s most impressive engineering achievements back to life. broadcast Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:00 BST, channel4, duration 60:00