chevin is still on here from time to time

supermarket in packs of 3 or 4?

seriously. If a cat doesn't like where it lives, it will move out. Nothing its "owner*" can do to stop it.

If it then finds somewhere else (i.e your house) that it does like, then, again, not much you can do except accept it with open arms.

* dogs have owners, cats have staff

what johnners said.

You know the rules about school holidays when you choose to have kids. No sympathy

anyway, at our place, if I was on a week's holiday, not going anywhere, and decided not to bother with the holiday and return to work, my boss would be grateful.

OK I could rearrange the holiday for later in the year, but so what? It's only April FFS. Not like you've got a department of 10 all wanting the same week off w/c 23/12/2010, is it? Or is it?

Boss is being unreasonable, IMO

You may as well adopt it

I think you may find that it has adopted you 😉

yeah but don't you have to prove you can swim before they'll even let you in the beginners' pool?

funny thing is, give me a mask & snorkel (don't even need the flippers)& I'm happy as Larry; take them away and at best it's a "drowning dog"

cool for cats, eh?

Do they catapult planes off carriers?

yes, they have to use steam catapults to give the planes the extra oomph to get airborne. Acceleration from their engines isn't enough in the short space they've got

Personally I'd love to go scuba diving (hardly "adrenaline" sport) but I have a wee handicap. Can't swim. Never needed to.

I did but I haven't bothered looking at them yet, wasn't very impressive.
Baildon, W Yorks

I think he should reschedule the whole thing

What if you happened to be on holiday the week before in, say, Orlando? Would he still expect you to drive to Berlin?
what a t*sser

from a pretty hazy memory, it's pretty hard to hire a car in the UK unless you're over 21 AND passed your test at least a year earlier

glider pilots have 'chutes too. Or at least I did when I tried it

what coffeeking said. what a waste of decent weather

besides, I prefer not to drink while it's still daylight.

I think 'dormant' is the word

There's a brewery in English Harbour, Vancouver that does some nice stuff. Doubt if you can get it here though

nowt wrong with GW

it's very Escher-esque

is it the deck or the fencing that's on a slope?

couldn't you have kept the pond & put a nice big galvanised steel grill across it instead?
1) save filling it in 2) no need for a lawnmower and 3) no frogs or fish would become homeless

a more recent pic of "Xena" (on the right):

why do you want to store it as a string?

you want a PICK-type database 😉

in PICK, dates are plus or minus the number of days since (or before) 31/12/1967; times are seconds after midnight. And the system has operators that convert them into something readable in whatever format you like.

Tables? What are they? PICK has 'files' instead of Tables, and individual
records rather than 'rows'. Each record is multidimensional too…

Always had a bit of a thing for John Craven from Newsround, too

my mum worked with John Craven at Leeds Copperworks

speed is not everything with fighter jets. agility is also highly valued. It might be mach 3 in a straight line but if it can get turned inside out by something slower, it's going to be in trouble

good god that's ugly

try typing "migraine" in & see how similar the results are 😉

looks like the bastard child of a Typhoon and an F16

probably not the cat that your allergic to but the dust & pollen it brings in on its fur

mine hasn't started yet but when it does I swear by Beconase nasal spray

Light hearted jibe about a comment you didn't even understand?

I'd lay off the coffee if I were you, your fingers seem to run off before your brain has properly engaged, and not just on this thread

You shouldn't make assumptions, you know.

you still never explained why you think I'm a poser though

let me remind you:
me: Maybe the next 3-series… if they can sort out the rear wheel arches
you: Blimey, you are a bloody poser aren't you?

context: I've had a 3 series. The boot was too narrow. full stop

I had a 320d Touring.

I never got better than 40mpg. Not heavy footed or owt, just a crap commute through Shipley & Bradford to get to the M62/M1 & then back again in the evening

now I have a different make & model & still get 39mpg. Until today when I managed 44mpg – where did that come from? oh yes, the schools are off, so the traffic atually moves

Just goes to prove that the MPG you get probably depends as much on your route as on your vehicle…

although I'm sure molgrips will disagree

now, most of them are made in the UK, so it's a non-issue. Nissan made in Sunderland, Honda made in Swindon etc

is there an echo in here?

I'm not sure if you can't go lower than that – say 5-10% below the asking price. Can't hurt, can it?

no, they're often made in the UK – Swindon (Honda), Derby (Toyota) or Sunderland (Nissan) – so parts shouldn't be an issue

a good choice, I think. not an exciting one, but given your age, a good one

anyway; 18 months ago mrs_drummer's 1998 Astra gave up the ghost; we traded in for a '56 plate (i.e. 2 years old at the time) Citroen C4 1.6, £5000 I think it cost, with less than 30k miles on the clock.

OK people whinge about French cars being unreliable, but I had 3 renaults in a row & only one of them was a lemon, the other 2 were sound.

Estimating £5000-£6000 worst case scenario, bonkers… it's a 6 year old Micra

does not compute. You could get another 6 year old micra for less than that & probably get a mechanic to swap the engines over too

well he called me a poser the other day because I said the space between a BMW's wheel arches – from previous experience – was too narrow for my needs.

I never did get a "reasoned argument" on that one either

there's another one now. shedstore.co.uk.

how the f*** do these companies target their advertising? It's genius

that 300W rig is (at best) a rehearsal room rig – for the vocalist(s) only. It might at a pinch be ok for a mobile disco, but certainly not for a live band.

We did a gig recently in a small pub with a rig not much bigger than that. you could hear my (unamplified) drums & the guitar amps, but the vocals were struggling…

I'd contact your local PA company & ask for their recommendations. If you can't find any, try your local music shop, they'll know a few

concrete foundation not necessary for a shed, but you might want a nice level surface. My shed came with three bearers which you put underneath the base on a firm level surface; if your topsoil is firm enough, a 12in square slab at each corner & two across the middle should be good enough. Not sure if you'd need a fully slabbed surface though

whereabouts are you? There's a garden centre in Bradford with a decent range of sheds, and an 'outbuilding' supplier in Leeds that looks pretty good too. Does sheds, wendy houses, garages, greenhouses etc.

and **** me, look over there —->

there's an ad for gardenbuildings direct. How the f*** did that get there?

<edit> it's gone now </edit> but the prices looked quite good. 8×6 apex shed for under £200