I got back from the Gym at about 10:50 this morning only to find the “sorry, we missed you!” card on the mat with the attempted delivery time of 10:45!! Looks like it’ll be Wednesday before I can get my sticky mitts on the BFe now 🙁

If he is genuine then he’ll appreciate that your helping make his job easier and won’t mind chatting to the police, but if he’s (as you suspect) bogus then you might just stop a crime or two. Either way you won’t do any harm by calling police to check it out.

if i promise to put swampthings on all my bikes even my roady commuter, will that stop the deluge?

I think it’s worth a try

Great vid, although 07:10 made me feel a bit bilious 😯

If you want a break-up song this ones pretty good:

I’ve got a large black one on order (I would get the green if I didn’t have an irrational aversion to the colour green!), I can ‘t wait to get it built and out on the trails 🙂

I don’t really get why it matters. They’ve not done anything illegal and I can’t see how it will affect how fast they swim so why does anyone care?

Fair enough the photo could be taken as promoting a gun culture, but then posing with a fast car could be taken as promoting speeding or posing with a road bike could be taken as promoting Performance-enhancing drugs 🙄

If you don’t know what your talking about….

Don’t include you’re/your in a thread title – you’re bound to get the wrong one and a pedant will pounce

Oh bugger, in that case all pedants should be rounded up and ‘put behind electrified fences until they die out’!!

It’s just another way in which the UK insists on being different (despite it costing us) like driving on the other side of the road compared to the majority of the world. People get so precious about daft things like the imperial / metric systems, but it doesn’t really matter. We really need to pick one and stick with it, at the moment we seem to have a half-arsed mix of both systems, which can be confusing, expensive and open to mix-ups / mistakes.

We once went night fishing (d*cking about and drinking beer while one of my mates did some fishing) under the Itchen Bridge in Southampton, it was quite a cold night so we decided to build a small fire on the shingle shoreline. One thing led to another and we had a pile of old wooden pallets burning away nicely, what we hadn’t noticed is that the tide had come in slightly and the fire had moved up the bank and off the shingle and onto the concrete. We realised what we’d done when there was a huge explosion and lumps of concrete and burning pallet were thrown in the air lighting up the underside of the bridge and spreading all around us. Needless to say my trousers were a little brown after that!

With 10yrs construction experience you’d get tech IOSH easily (just need a h&s qualification) also look into CDM co-ordination which is much more about design and less h&s and better money than h&s, for this look at the association of project safety (aps), most CDM jobs look for Rmaps and/or techIOSH.

I wouldn’t bother with the general cert as the construction cert is more applicable and covers the same basics.

I did have a blue iridium but went for a change with the new lenses and they are now black iridium (so it’s like having new glasses).

I got some a few years ago and really like them, I’ve just had them re-glazed (with new prescription) and they are still fantastic.

I’d definately replace them if anything happens to them.

Wow, looks like the trail dudes have been busy, didn’t look like that a few weeks ago.

Really? I’ve not been for over a year and it didn’t look much different to me. I think it’s about time I make the trip back down!

I’ve done that previously (sold a couple of things for my Mum), but no matter how clear I think I’ve made it people still ask where it is and I’m a bit worried about putting off potential buyers.

BBC News says:

Gary Connery, from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, was due to attempt the stunt at 13:00 BST but the jump has now been delayed until 15:00

Edit: ooh bloody-hell it actually worked!!

If your running along a beach it’s OK, the park is boarderline, but through a town is just screaming ‘LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEE’

Slightly off topic, but I saw this a couple of years ago:

I was once walking through town with a friend when we were stopped by a lady who asked us:

“have you had an accident in the last two years?”

Without any hesitation my friend says:

“yes, just the other day I drank ten pints of Guinness, then farted and followed-through”

To which the lady said:

“that’s not what I mean”

So my friend protested in a very loud voice:

“IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, I DIDN’T MEAN TO CRAP MY SELF”

…….well I found it funny even if she didn’t!

OK can anyone tell me how to go back and unread the books please?

Either beer or a blunt object smashed against the temple may work*

*This is by no means advise and I take no liability for your liver damage, brain damage, death, etc!

While I think that the ‘rich’ should pay their taxes I cant help, but feel that if I were ‘rich’ I’d also be using any loopholes available to avoid paying tax, which is why I believe that we need to simplify the system and remove the loopholes so that the option of tax-dodging isn’t there!

I generally find that if you watch the film then read the book they are both still great, but if you read the book and then watch the film the film never meets with your expectations and should be avoided! (this is a general rule applied to all books / films and not just Game of Thrones)

Thanks All, I now think I know what I’m looking at/for 🙂

Thanks Sum, that makes more sense now 🙂

Great to see Rossi back on the podium, let’s just hope it’s not a one-off!

Any of these would do it (although you can probably find cheaper from non-national tool hire place:

HSS Hire

Every time I see a ‘TO LET’ sign I have a very childish desire to put an ‘I’ in the gap!

I don’t know why, but this graffiti in a rural Greek bus stop made me chuckle:

We’ve currently go the back door approx 400mm and then the window, unfortunately they have two separate lintels. The top of the door and window are level and I’d take the window down to the same level as the door (directly above DPM). The inside wall is clear.

Initially we were looking to put a small extension onto the kitchen, but the quotes are far too high to make it worthwhile, so I’m just looking for a cheap(er) option to get more light in and allow us to see the garden (existing window sill is quite high). Thanks.

Will the door be the same width as the window thats there just now?

Yes, window opening is 1190mm wide, which appears to be a standard size 🙂

It’s nothing to do with being Spanish owned, but I don’t trust Santander at all. I had an account with them (previously N&P) which I just used for rent, bills, etc. When I got a flat with my then girlfriend I added her to the account so we could both use it as the rent, bills, etc were for both of us. She used the account fine for several years until we got married and she went into a branch to change her name. She was then told that they have no record of her (despite her using the card, with her name on, in the ATM to show otherwise). We were told that the only way to fix it was to close the account and open a new one so we did (but with another bank). Just to add one last balls-up, about 18months after the account was closed I received a new debit card!

What part of Oxfordshire are you in?

I believe the witney mountain bike club[/url] ride a couple of evenings a week during the summer (although I’ve never joined them so can’t give an objective opinion).

Recent email from Paul @ Cotic:

We have a new BFe coming into stock in about 3 weeks and there will be large sizes available. The new frame will have a 44mm headtube and cowled dropouts. Colours will be gloss black or bright green and the price is expected to be £350.

I appreciate the rain thing – during my A levels a Geography teacher recorded 300 days of rain in one year 😯 , but that’s why I learnt to drive!

If we were to move up we’d probably look at Rawtenstall or Haslingden (possibly Ramsbottom) so traffic wouldn’t be too bad.

Email from Paul @ Cotic confirms things:

We have a new BFe coming into stock in about 3 weeks and there will be large sizes available. The new frame will have a 44mm headtube and cowled dropouts. Colours will be gloss black or bright green and the price is expected to be £350.

Thanks metalheart

Sorry for being stupid, but what’s a 44mm head tube?

And did the c0ck and b@lls win?

I’m fairly sure the election was won by a male-chicken, but I don’t think it was the one I drew.

In last weeks council elections I had the choice of labour or conservative so I drew a cock and balls on the ballot paper – I thought it was my best option!

There was a pile of about 30 discarded bottles near the top of one of the DH runs at fod today, is it really that hard to ride with a bag?

The other thing that really pishes me off are the red royal mail elastic bands which are dropped everywhere, I’ve started picking them up and dumping them in post boxes but it doesn’t seem to be getting through!