There is no correct answer. I immediately came up with the same pattern as Drac, which oddly gives the next 3 terms as 36, 49, 64 the same as the n squared pattern. I was always taught not to answer such questions at school. You can induce as many patterns as you like, no one is more correct than any other.

I seem to suffer from the opposite effect, agents/head hunters contacting me for roles that are legions above my abilities and experience. My linkedin profile is upbeat but honest.

You have my sympathy I will collect my new car on Saturday, was thinking that on a 63 plate it is less likely to be keyed, perhaps not!

Neat motive 2’s driven by various varieties of naim kit.

Yes it is true the dry powder inhalers are supposed to be more effective mg for mg, as it is a better delivery system. I found the opposite, but not sure I ever got the technique right. Hope it works for you.

Seretide and symbicort are in essence pretty much the same, both include a steroid and a long lasting bronchodilator.

I would be far from convinced that a change between the two would make a great deal of difference, provided you are on equivalent doses. And if anything the steroid in seretide is more effective mg by mg.

It is the variation in peak flows that matter, mine is typically about 620-640. I can feel the difference if it drops too 590. If mine was at 450 I would be in a&e.

Are you symptomatic at 450 or is that just your peak flow?

My dad just bought one and he is 89, good for all ages 😆

Take a look at M&S car loans where you can defer a residual amount a bit like PCP etc but you own the car from the outset. You can probably do better than 5% without looking too hard, if you are a good customer with your bank see if they can do an off tariff loan Hsbc did one for me a while back.

On a similar (or perhaps not too similar) note an old guy in waitrose accused me of damaging his bag of chestnuts yesterday because I placed the plastic divider too close to them on the conveyer belt at the till.

Blackdown near haslemere?

I used to play a lot through university but haven’t played for over 20 years now, I suspect it would kill me now.

It gets a lot easier the better you get, the game in essence slows down and becomes far more tactical, rather than crazily running around the court.

I used to play doubles in training for the university team, the idea being it forced you keep the ball tight, otherwise you would just trip over each other. Has anyone else tried that. Not sure we ever really mastered it.

A suit and tie, with good polished shoes.

Otherwise you will look like a **** when the other guy waiting for the same interview is wearing a suit, and alternatively when the other person is in a suit and you have dressed casually you will feel inferior. How do you know your interviewer will not be wearing a suit?

If you are 100% sure the latter possibilities are not the case then dress as you wish, but if that was the case you would not be asking on here in the first place, or so goes my logic.

There is a stunning £8,500 Scapin in SigmaSport in Hampton Wick right by the doors near the exit, tell your friend to go in with £4000 in cash throw it all up in the air and then run off with the £8k bike in the commotion that follows. 😆

As strange as it sounds £4k no longer seems that much for a road bike, although I would still pay £2k and then get some better wheels.

Obviously, for the record, I am not really advocating that anyone steals from my LBS

Ok I will change the example to London to Sydney via Bangkok. One single flight (the BA009 IIRC) that seems to be the same as the one train Nottingham to birmingham stopping at long eaton.

ebygomm – Member
If the price is the price and not arbitary why do you get situations like this?

Cost of peak day return Nottingham to Birmingham – £34.50
Cost of return to Nottingham to Long Eaton plus return Long Eaton to Birmingham travelling on the same trains – £21.60

Unfortunately with the highly complex pricing structures that are deployed in the railways and airlines etc then these “pricing anomalies” are inevitable and almost impossible to eliminate (I acknowledge that the example provided is a glaring one)

However, it is important to remember that the consumer has not bought the same product from the train operator in the two examples cited and the contractual obligations of the train operator to the passssenger are not the same in the two examples.

The passenger who buys one ticket Nottingham to Birmingham return has bought one return ticket and there is one contract in place between the passenger and the train operator. The passenger who chose to buy two return tickets one for Nottingham Long Eaton return and the other for Long Eaton to Birmingham return has two SEPARATE contracts. The key word being SEPARATE.

In the Nottingham to Birmingham example, then not knowing the T&Cs etc then my thoughts would be little may go wrong.

BUT, transfer the same example to an airline with a passenger travelling from Edinburgh to New York via London, who elected to buy two tickets one Edinburgh-London and another London-New York. Two tickets, therefore two distinct contracts.

Then IIRC then from a contractual standpoint

1. Then when the passenger checks in at Edinburgh the airline has no contractual obligation to through check the passenger, and no obligation to through check their hold baggage, so they may be asked to reclaim their bags and recheck them in London
2. If the passenger has heavy or excess baggage then they may be asked to pay twice, once in Edinburgh and then again in London.
3. Oh and if they miss their connection in London (irrespective of whether the inbound flight was on time or delayed), then the airline does not necessarily have any contractual obligation to re-book the passenger onto a later flight, not pay any incidental expenses food etc nor an overnight stay if needed etc etc

In practice I am not sure how many of the full service national flag carriers etc would enforce all of this, but pretty sure that under the relevant IATA resolutions they would be fully entitled to.

Going back 15 years or more BA used to employ Revenue Protection officers at LHR to stop people checking in for the BA001/BA003 (Concorde) who had bought a ticket Paris-NYC. The BA fare PAR-NYC would have been cheaper than the LON-NYC fare, so people tried it on. If people are wondering why it was cheaper from Paris, then remember Air France where also flying Concorde directly from Paris to New York in competition to BA. It would have been 4 hours Paris to New York, 6 plus hours (at a guess) via London

Fulcrum racing 5s from merlin for £150. IMO they ride much better than one would expect at this price point. Never used shimano so unable to comment.

brakes. That is where you and I will need to agree to disagree. I as a consumer I only need to understand the value of something.

Are the railways heavily subsidised these days? I honestly do not know, but the interim results for Network Rail for the 6 months ending 30 Sept 2013 are very healthy. Post tax profits of £861k with a capital expenditure programme of £2.7 in the first 6 months.

Not sure the position was as healthy a few years back.

Everyone knows about basic pricing economics, the point here is not that it’s £100 on a Tuesday and £200 on a Friday, it’s that it’s £100 on any day and not £50. Trains are expensive on any day of the week and for some there is no other choice of transport.

Does not questioning why it is £100 and not £50 demonstrate a lack of understanding in even the most basic concepts of pricing?

National infrastructure is not a “product” to which that methodology should be applied. There’s a big public cost we all bear as a result.

To what extent are the Train Operating Companies part of the national infrastructure? Rightly or wrongly based on past Governments decisions I now find it hard to see them any differently than airlines, buses etc. Is their relationship with Network Rail materially different than an airlines relationship with the BAA or other Airport owner?

It is the basic pricing economics of supply and demand. If you don’t like the price travel on the 3rd or 4th of January. Or better still you should have got your act together and booked earlier, if you were unable to confirm your plans earlier then you can hardly blame the train company for selling the seat earlier to another passenger at a lower price.

I could go onto explain that train, airline, hotel etc pricing and overbooking is almost as Marxist in it principles as it is capitalist. It is in neither in the consumers’ or company’s interests to have static non dynamic pricing, and not to overbook. This is one example where the fat cats really do support the poor. 😆

Oh and that train on the 2nd of Jan may depart with empty seats, and most probably will! 😆 Companies with highly perishable* products do not maximise their profits by selling every product it has – the Marxism bit falls over here a little.

I worked in airline revenue management for many years

* pretty much every consumer product is perishable

I hope to retire when I am 60, maybe a little bit earlier. I have a reasonably good defined benefits pension, and plan to complement that with savings. Long given up on ever receiving a state pension, from a purely narrow minded perspective I would rather they just scrapped it, and I pay less tax/NI. Yes I know it would not quite work like that.

Was that picture taken with the Nikon. If so it is a damn sight better than anything I managed 😆

5 pairs for work plus another pair for funerals, interviews and weddings etc.
5 pairs of casual boots in various guises
2 pairs of merrell type things
2 cycling shoes. Road and MTB

A Rowlett here ( if spelt correctly). Cost about £160 12 years ago still going strong. If it goes for another 4 years or so it will have been a sound investment 😆

Bikeradar

RM Williams

If you have the budget then Naim, I would rather have an original unserviced one than one that has been tampered with. Buy wisely and you will not lose any money when you sell.

Failing that a good Cyrus 1, but finding a good one can be a bit hit and miss. Exposure has it’s following.

Arcam are plentiful, but lack character and have a plasticky build, their aesthetics have not faired well with time.

$2500 + 8% sales tax in Barney’s in NYC for a Georgio Armani suit in 1999 to be the best man at my mates wedding. A young kid at clapham junction mistook me for working as a train operative 😳

Suit only ever wore once, and I have never bought any Armani stuff since.

Can’t you describe your performance in less specific terms. Constantly beating targets by x%, relative to peers etc. I would have thought you were sailing pretty close to breach of contract, gross negligence sharing any figures with a competitor. I do not work in sales. Most importantly do not take evidence, but I may be interpreting what you have written too literally.

My first question would be is you new cooker less than 3 kilo watts.

Madone 3 series and Domane 4 series here, both take guards, not used them.

I built a whyte 19 carbon hardtail from a Thomson seat post. So what started as a £70 post ended up being a bike costing over £2.5 k. Only to find At the end I discovered I needed a 410 mm post and not the 367 mm I started with 😳

I donate each year but do not recall a time I wore the poppy.

I was at Kingston Bridge yesterday at 11am, paying my respects at the end of a ride and was suprised at how many people just got on with their lives, didn’t stop, turn off their engines, etc whilst the police had stopped all the traffic etc.

You may not have gone out of your way to be there, neither did I, but for FFS stop and take 2 mins out of your life, for just a moments reflection.

My father fought in the 2nd world war, it changed him from a boy brought up as firm Methodist to a man with no time for god or the church, such was the horror he witnessed. This was the first year since the end of the war due to ill health he could not make it to his local cenotaph, I know that this upset him deeply.

It is as good a place to start as anywhere from an anti depressant perspective.

Each GP has their favourites, what they have used on many patients time and time again. It may work well, it may not, and the latter is quite likely, it can take a a few attempts to find the AD that best suits each patient.

So long as you are not bipolar or acutely anxious already then the side effects in the first few weeks will be annoying, but hopefully tolerable. Go back and see your GP in 2-3 weeks, whilst the meds will not have completely kicked in, it should be possible to tell whether the drug suits.

If you become more anxious and start having panic attacks then go to your GP, SSRIs can make people very anxious in the first few weeks.

Yep, no witnesses, plenty of other cars but on a very busy roundabout in the rush hour understandably no one stopped.

Just sold my A3 Sportback 2.0T FSI Quattro S line special edition 200 hp full leather with loads of extras, full audi service history 56 plate 44 k one owner, to a VW garage in twickenham. They are looking to give the alloys a refurb, sort out a scratch and I believe sell rather than push through the trade. Not sure where you are but it is a very fine car.

I have been on thyroxine for over a decade. For me it turned things completely around in couple of weeks, until I saw the CG thread a while back, I never realised it could be such a problem for so many people. Me, my sister and aunt all take the thyroxine, none of us had any problems. I was marginal at first and struggled on for a few months, but never looked back after starting the meds.

I have rolling 90 day plan of the big things that need done.

Besides that I struggle with to do lists etc, the stuff that is important and drives value will surface to the top. Where I really struggle is keeping on top of my team and ensuring all their work actually really gets finished and not just 90%.

Whenever I write a to do list I will typically come up with 40-60 things to do, nigh on impossible for me to prioritise.

I am an avid but pointless note taker, never get around to re-reading it and struggle with my own handwriting so I would be better off listening more.

So any tips gratefully appreciated.

I have posted both hope and exposure lights using Royal Mail with no problems. But then I was never asked the contents.

Anyone whoever worked for a large consultancy will probably share my pain!

Yep, been there and done that. The only difference being they despised me more than me them and they kicked me out. Probably the best thing that ever happened but god knows how many years later and I am still in IT.