Up to maybe age 12-13 it shouldn’t be too competitive. It should focus on personal ability, improvement, gains year on year. If the kid at 13-14 feels they want to win, then being pushed is a good thing.

I can still remember my coach telling me in the early years of my athletics not to worry about what the other guys were running. He’d give me various reasons why they were faster and why I shouldn’t worry. I just feel gutted that I threw away the sport when I went to uni :(

Ya, £38 off a strimmer I wasn’t going to buy…

cloudnine – Member
New Cooper Pegler Knapsack sprayer.. the height of exciting purchases!!
Saved a few quid and was going to buy one anyway

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I’m a Berthoud man myself

Pretty much filled the 8 yard skip, along with some of the other rubble lying around the garden. Though the 100cm deep hole plan was thwarted by a clay drainpipe right in the middle of the hole at 70cm deep, forcing the spec to be changed to a slightly raised trampoline with a nice grass banking! :)

Looks great though. Thanks for the maths.

The wee man’s stutter has gone of it’s own accord thankfully. I can’t say exactly when this happened, but we’ve noticed that it just doesn’t happen any more which is great!

He is still a shy thing, especially in groups of new kids. But the next thing we have to think about is his hearing! We’ve had it checked and he has glue ear… may require gromets in a couple of months time. I just want him to be able to communicate with his peers in a natural way so he doesn’t get a mental block or think he’s different somehow.

I am also a fan of darkness at nighttime. Quite happy for street lights to be off and streets to be quite dark. But that’s unlikely unless you move to one of those conservation villages sadly.

Why do people like Miranda? She’s also shite

We watched Wonderwoman last night. Sat here this morning feeling sad that I wasted 2hours of my life.

Rick, just wonder if you got my email with name against a bunch of maps? Cheers, D

What does this mean?

NEVER shut a stove down to try and keep it in overnight – poor combusion = tar = eventual chimney fire.

Mine arrived this morning. She looked after the wee one while we took the older one to a show.

She is mental though and drives her daughter up the wall. Butters her toast on the counters then brushes the crumbs onto the floor, puts things away in random places so we can never find them, doesn’t listen to anything you say so she’ll constantly ask questions that you’ve literally just answered etc.

3 kids this Christmas!

Ok, you’ve bored me with your semantics.

Anyway, just for the OP. I know it’s mild, but this one’s for you. The boiler is still running to heat the rest of the house, but as we live in a smokeless zone in a fairly busy town, and got a stove for the fun of it, I might as well…

You need to read the OPs posts again instead of asking pointless questions.

Three_Fish – Member
Anyone who preaches about the environment really needs to make sure they are squeaky clean first.
I could spend all day burning diesel-soaked mattresses in my front garden, and yet still be completely correct in saying that wood burning stoves pollute the air.

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But they’re not preaching that they are correct. They are preaching that they are RIGHT. Subtle but massive difference!

Anyone who preaches about the environment really needs to make sure they are squeaky clean first. I bet a look around the home of some of the above would reveal some uncomfortable truths.

The title of this thread is a bit Daily Mail isn’t it? There’s nothing saying “goodbye to wood stoves” in that article. But then, some people don’t like letting their hearts be ruled by facts.

Anyone can be good with kids on a short term temporary basis… it’s when you need to really take responsibility that your true mettle is tested.

There’s no such thing as “modern geometry”, only what the current crop of media and manufacturers decide they want to sell you!

Woppit, you sound like a radicalist. What % of people with personal faiths do you think torture and imprison others?

Frankenstein – Member
I don’t watch BBC at all.

I pay the licence fee for..?

Wish I had a choice instead of forced to pay for this $hit.

I subscribe to Sky/Virgin etc.

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Choose not to pay the license fee then.

Stigmatising people’s faith is wholly wrong.

For years I’ve seen regular religion-bashing and heavy pro-atheism from many members of singletrack. What these people don’t appreciate is the richness of life that faith gives a lot of people. It is entirely up to them if they believe in something, if they want to talk about it to other people, and providing tv programmes relating to faiths is appropriate and right.

Seeing a vocal minority stamping out displays of faith, such as wearing a cross at work or putting ornaments in a window makes me sad and a bit embarassed to be british! I wonder how many countries see these sorts of things happening on such a regular basis. If people move to an area away from their home they should learn to fit in or live with, not learn to change the locals.

Scary Carey my boy is approaching 4 and still whines all the time. He’s just not a fun time kid! Went sledging, lasted two runs before it started. Groups of kids running about having fun and he tends to sit at the side, or sort of tries to play by following someone and just ends up annoying them instead!

What would the police force cost if they took on this level of “serve” for everybody?

Left my phone on a bus.
Can’t get through to a taxi, need a lift.
Dropped my keys down a drain.

Etc

Surely there’s the bigger picture to see here…that of biological need. Without kids we’d be gone in 70 years. Overall, having kids is essential. OK, like the animals, a number of us won’t for some reason or another.

Personally, I thought life was important before kids. How wrong I was! They ramp things up a few notches and turn you into a better person. You have to learn a new skillset almost immediately. Absolutely nothing feels as good as a little persons love for you.

I love the idea of having more, I’d have 5 or 6, but I don’t have the energy for the early months of waking up in the night, and Mrs is absolutely against any more.

If the lock cost £30 and the locksmith £20, that adds up to a £50 loss, not 20. Or am I missing something?

“Reasonably forgotten era”? What age are you OP?

Put this together after a thread on here a while back

Just saying hello…. ?

Hate both, they’re just crispy oil-containers

100k is a large job for a small firm, and 20k is a high risk. credit account or not, the builder still takes on that risk when they acquire the materials from the supplier.

Probably the best outcome for all is a compromise of some sort.

I am sure there are very few countries who have accepted the gradual erosion of native tradition that us Brits seem quite happy with. We would rather change our ways to suit people of non-British origin than encourage them to accept our traditions. Changing the names we use for things, banning religious wear… I think it’s a travesty.

I’m not interested in the simple comments from “Christian-bashers”, especially as it seems so in-vogue from people on this forum! I’m not making a pro-Christian point (if you think that, you’ve misunderstood my point).

Also, if Britain holds a long-standing christian basis for our version of Christmas, then that IS where we should look to for a traditional version of the celebration.

Brooklyn 99 is entertaining, but

Best comedy for years.

it is not. It’s simply too predictable, simplistic and rigid. It feels like an episode of Roseanne at times.

I’m sure it’s been mentioned here, but Rik and Morty possibly fits that accolade.

If you find a pub, and stay in it long enough whilst keeping the beer flowing, you won’t even need to think about ‘what to do’…

timothycdbarnes – Member
https://www.amazon.co.uk/DeLonghi-Magnifica-Espresso-Cappuccino-ESAM4200/dp/B001EOMZ5E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511877478&sr=8-1&keywords=esam+4200

This. I’ve had one for 4 years, I reckon 2000+ coffees out of it, and just a broken steamer knob last month in that time, £10 replacement from espares sorted that.

Ditto, although ours had to go back to fix some broken thingy inside and get a service, cost £80 or something if I recall, plus the postage out to them.

I’m not sure I’d buy another one though – I am simply NOT getting the perfect coffee that I imagine I should be able to make to match the artisan roasters in town!

Just came on to say “Limitless”, really bloody good.

Quite fond of mine, though it doesn’t exactly do the chopping for you! I still had to scrap a few chunks of knotted pine.

Ecstatic dishwasher control board

But you can’t possibly slag him off for anything…He’s had an illness.

I blame Facebook for allowing the morons a voice.

We’ve a 4bed house with 12 rads and fairly low mains water too. And we have just arranged to have a new Ideal Vogue 40 combi fitted to replace the older Vokera thing that has cut out randomly a few times in the past year.

She is the part of a bell that’s not the beginning or middle. Total idiot. Does the business owner not have the professional mind to sort her out?

Same…old…names…posting…the…same…old…OPINIONS