I got two of these. They ll last longer than  I will

Small Maple Reversible Prep Board-12" x 8"

Mainly because I am in my 60s but also I don’t keep eggs in the fridge .

It’s been common knowledge in Fort William for roughly six months. I think competitors had complained that the course is too long.

There was also a change of dates this year which didnt help as organisers managed to pick a date that clashed with the Scottish Six day Trials, already the busiest week of the year in Fort William

This  was not a factor in the decision but didnt win UCI any friends amongst accomodation providers.

I shared his desire for indendence . I didnt always agree with him or even like him,but his contribution to the campaign for indendence was massive and I admired him for that

I put an e bike onto we buy any e -bike for valuation.

Firstly they dont buy an e-bike if it’s more than four years old.

Mine is

Secondly they dont buy any e-bike that’s done more than 4000 miles  mine hasnt Never mind the good servicing reacord etc still wont buy it

Thirdly after I changed the bkes age just to see what they might offer. £132 . Having just spent £80 on parts they can stuff their £132. I’ll just keep the bloody bike anyway

I thought it was pretty poor all round until the very end when all of them appeared to back a two state solution with admittedly varying degrees of enthusiasm. Victoria Derbyshire could not get two of the participants to shut up so much of the time was wasted as they talked over one another

After a year of this I am dismayed to say that each day I wake up to find the whole situation in Gaza more shit, more desperate than I ever beleived it could be 48 hours beforehand.

Also still cant work the quote function

or maybe, just maybe, become reliable and durable

Dual e bike owner here cube hybrid for commuting and general faffing about.  Orange charger for mtbing. Both 4 years old used  regularly especially  the cube,and both reliable…….

I have jinxed it now have’nt I.?

so I should just keep supping from the Bonne Maman jar then?

Why not so long as there’s no spills?

An hour walking on Cow Hill path in the dark. Was fine till the rain came on . Might have to take a look at Kassandra. Does she do tai chi?

I have both Glencairn and Norlan glasses. Glencairn is the better drinking glass imo

How ever for the win drink more expensive (better) whisky from cheaper glasses

E- Jaffa Cakes

D -Black Coffee

L-Lady Grinning Soul David Bowie

For what it’s worth my ex and I divorced when my kids were six and four respectively. I became the absent parent with access at holidays and every 2nd weekend . I worried about being a bad parent constantly. The “kids are now in their mid thirties and doing well. It is natural to worry. What Mister P said +1

I have a complaint about my bike to work bike. I have had it for  4 yearsA cube kathmandu hybrid which has been virtually flawless given the spasmodic maintenance I lavish on it. It has been reliable till now. Three or four  of days ago it would switch on then switch off again after a few seconds eventually it got going, The next day it would not switch on at all. Did all the usual cleaning connections looking for loose cables etc , nothing worked.

After more searching online I discovered that the bosch intuvia display has its own battery  which sometimes fails, and stops the bike from switching on.  Also sometimes has plastic poured on top of the small screws making it very difficult to remove them to replace the battery. I have bought a new display unit at £80 if that does’nt work it ll be into the shop for a repair which will be expensive when it doesnt need to be .

Collected and stacked some firewood this afternoon. Could have done with a woodchuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

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Ì’m in gave it a go last year , did pretty well though I missed 3 or 4 days .  Have been a lazy bastard since then and my health is poorer, regular sensible exercise will help.

Possible charging with reimbursement like the French system

How are those who don’t have the money to pay for treatment then?

Spent the first few weeks of my 2nd year sleeping under the desk in the bursers office with my flatmates since our new build flat wasnt finished. This was ok at weekends but a pita during the week when the burser came in at 0845.

This was in 1981

Your satnav is not a money grabbing charlatan

I’ll eat Heinz and some supermarket own brands . Never morrisons and never branstons. Make my own now and then too but it’s a faff

No not one of Anders ones. I wont say any more than that.

@TheDTs I can confirm that my daughter works on just that type of estate in Sutherland.

Moothie poorly and concertina less poorly.

E  Sausage chips beans onion rings

D  Coffee

L  Patti Smith Live at CBGBs 1979

Well if it has a capri in it I might have to watch some of it. Preferably without any Clarkson, and not much speech at all   Also I prefer later models of capri

Me too, worst state of unfitness ever

I can “read” maps really well , make stuff from diagrams reasonably well. Can’t draw to save myself

DT78 I think it’s much more complicated than that. Sure there’s a few as you describe but many suffer from multi generational poverty and addiction with all the problems that brings. So when some shit stirrer like Farrage comes along and tells them their problems are all down to some other easily identifiable group they believe him/her and react in the way that seems most appropriate to them

Mine are still shits at 35 and 33  but then look at their dad

Zero chance around Fort William due to clouds

A pox on both of them .  I am in the process of deactivating my twitter account 30 days of Twitter abstinence and it is gone  odd that Mr Musk can delete my account instantly with no comeback at all.

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How do they know it wasn’t just carried by a glacier and then found in the locality?

…terminally morainic comment.

I am a rock but you are very slowly grinding me down

Wrong thread

Afro/Chilean.  Whatever? 14 minutes of your life well spent

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSRCG4DrmI&si=xlytYKIfB6MgH5DI

There certainly is distinctive taste to many single malts  so I would not say the whole thing is a marketing exercise. There’s a fair amount of work put into the various “finishes” but for me the real skill is in judging how long a whisky should be aged for before it is bottled. Given the loss of whisky  to evaporation and absorption by the barrell  a 25 year old would have a lot less spirit to sell than a 10 year old. So the job of tasting the whisky is vital too perhaps it’s the skills of the workers that determine whether a whisky is good or not

Mrs Gordimhor who knows about these things told me about trade between Orkney and Ireland  many thousands of years ago .

Err that’s to say she told me recently about a  trade route that existed many thousands of years ago ?

what has happened to the like button ?

It does look like the one priced at £180 in the link to Master of Malt above. I would’nt expect anything like that for the bottle though . Especially not in a private sale. I have been buying whisky from MoM for years and I’ve never really had a “bargain” yet

@Kramer Naah really good shortbread melts in the mouth, caramel and chocolate messes that up.