my Beyonce poster 😳

As an ex small business owner :(, Berm Bandit I can relate fully to your position.
I had a maternity situation some years ago where someone took there full benefit as it was at the time, we covered them internally during this then they decided not to come back at all,
Very difficult situation with the Husband working for me as well, totally unprepared from a HR point of view, cost me many hours personally covering her work.

Makes my wee wee boil when politicians talk about removing red tape for small employers, it is the absolute opposite!

Im doing a bit of mail sorting up to Xmas, but if your anywhere near Wiltshire and you need some help in the new year send me a pm, I will help out if I can 😉

Thanks guys, think I’ll go large…. or maybe medium and large?

philconsequence, I think the fourth T should have been an I?

yes I am bored, and on the dole 😀

I had a similar idea about getting a turbo 25 years ago,

hence I have a rusty 25 year old turbo trainer in the garage that has been used about a dozen times 😀

Could you not just paint the skirting board the same colour as the carpet?

It started with some postcodes then went on to fairly long series of numbers and/or letters and dots and dashes.

Annoyingly I’m pretty sure I was 100% accurate on the page I got timed out on (except the one I hadn’t answered in time obviously)

Not sure if getting timed out means any of my answers would have been recorded?

Had a little hour and a half blast in Wiltshire, perfect evening, Ogbourne St George, Liddington Hill way (for any locals) 😉

bgd, hopefully my tale will give you so hope?

Aged 20 I injured my knee playing football, then spent 3 years waiting for someone to tell me what was wrong and 2 years on waiting list for op (back in the good old days of the NHS)

So at 25 had an ACL replacement, whilst in hospital bed reading a mountain biking mag the surgeon came on his rounds, he took one look at the mag and said “you can forget doing any of that again” I was also told that chances are I would have OA by the time I was 40, as the joint had been worn in the 5 years I was waiting for the op!

As soon as I could (encouraged by physio) I began cycling, turbo at first then road and eventually off road, now it’s about the only thing I can do, walking even short distances gives me knee pain.

The Donjoy knee support (I think it was called) which I was given at the hospital is no help at all, uncomfortable to wear and does not prevent joint pain.

Anyhow I’m 45 know and still cycle between 120-150 miles a week, completed Le-Jog in 2009 and rode the 7 day TransWales event in 2010, have completed 400k Audax rides and 12hr TT’s.

So my advice would be if it don’t hurt do it, I firmly believe that regular excercise on mine is what’s keeping it going, and with cycling being non load bearing there’s not many better ways out there to excercise, I also do weights a couple of times a week to keep the muscle strength up.

Anyway that’s enough of my ramblings, get your bike out tomorrow and go for a ride 😉

Saturday – 100 miles on a Dual Carrigeway with skinsuit and pointy hat

Sunday – Suffering and wondering why I thought a 100TT was a good idea?

In a few months time when some water company official starts on about an abnormally dry winter, blah blah, hose pipe ban, I will drive to there office and punch them on the nose as hard as I can 😯

Just getting sorted to head over to a 10 mile TT,

Event not til 4.00pm near Tring, do you think i’ll get a ride?

Not sure what broke really, it doesn’t appear anything has come loose, the hex nut on the pedal body (which is how I thought they came apart) is still done up?

Will have to dig the receipt out, Pedal On, I think.

18 months old though so might be stretching a warranty claim?

In a sock 😉

Don’t get it mixed up with your w@nk sock though, can get messy if you do!

Get yourself a time trial bike and a pointy hat, then you will be loving the fact it’s flat.

I did 1:59:51 in a 50mile event on Saturday, A11, A14 round Newmarket area 😀

The ones Wiggins uses are Osymetric not Rotor Q rings,

If anything the Osymetric appear even more oval than Rotor Q rings 😯

I feel better equipped to survive @ 45 on a 3grand bike

Than I did @ 20 armed with only a flexstem!

The 25 years of experience doesn’t go amiss either 😉

2012 models are 20% off @ Primera again at the mo 😉

left the gate open?

Call me a traditionalist,

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 you get the idea, it tends to work quite well and you don’t get people asking all night why their table is called something that the majority of people don’t have a clue about.

Boobs are like lager, everyone has their prefrence, but at the end of the day you will take what’s on offer!

Flanagaj – I would get your back sorted out first 😉

Have you got your model and or exchange rates right?

Jet 9 RDO is £2599 in UK and $2599 in USA, so if you can get it for nearly £1500 less than UK that would be considerably cheaper than in USA 😯

They are quite rare, I saw one at the Bucks off road ride a few weeks back didn’t get chance to speak to the owner though.

If the prices are right Medium please in Licorice finish, will give you a good drink out of it 😉

cover yourself with a sheet, or at least wear a false beard and glasses, assuming you don’t actually have either 😉

It had to be yesterday?

There was certainly 90 mins in the evening that felt like a day on it’s own 😉

I packed up at the end of April, and TBH now I don’t know where I ever found the time to go into work 😀

Ask them to send a photo of the parts you ordered before you send the card photo 😆

TSY will be along with his MTFU 😆

dirtygirl, how much would you do on a normal week, time wise?

Lindisfarne?

Thanks z1ppy 😉

I got a Scudo, it’s an 07 so probably the newer shape to the one your looking at?

Doesn’t normally have much in the back (weight wise) and everytime I work out the mpg it’s been 40 point something fairly consistently.

It’s the lower of the two outputs 90ps (I think) which again is more than enough if you don’t have it weighed down.

It’s a 10.00 start and the rain looks forecast to clear midday ish,
it’s just the thought of the last couple of hours with soggy gear on
🙁

I was planning for a no cake day as I’ve 2 stone to lose 🙁

Likey, likey 😉

Price will be very interesting?

On the big assumption your moving to a more expensive house then it’s a very bad idea.

Waiting for yours to go up 20k may mean the more expensive house you are looking at may have gone up 30k

Bitty!

My A9C is an absolute dream to ride, don’t know about any of the others as I haven’t ridden them.

As far as being harsh on the back, I’m 44 and normally get a bit of lower back discomfort when riding, the A9C is no different to any of my other bikes 😉

I’m about 2 miles away from Spirthill and have never ridden there, I got a FB message about this the other day but like Fuzzyfelt said I couldn’t imagine 4hrs round there would be much fun?

Good to know it went well and you enjoyed the course, will have to look out for the next one 😉

I wouldn’t go to A&E unless the rib had punctured the skin and was sticking out causing problems with tight fitting clothes 😆