I have a confession to make.

Baildon is 11.4 miles away from the hospital I was born in. Bugger.

Civil war is the answer

tried that, it didn't work. As soon as the head revolutionary popped his clogs, they ushered back in the family that his mob got rid of only a few years earlier.

And can you honestly see the xfactor generation taking part in something "for the greater good" unless there was a no1 single in it for them?

But that's a golf.

not now it's flat-packed it's not

footflaps is in Cambridge (see 4 posts above the pic)

I nearly got stuck in Cambridge the last time it snowed there. I'd been down to Halstead, Essex & set off home about 3pm. 11.30pm & I'd just got past Huntingdon, from where the roads were strangely empty and snow-free.

I did get off the M11 though.

it was 2am the following morning by the time I got home; it normally takes just under 4 hours

FWIW in Baildon, W Yorks, it sounds exactly like the description of Chesterfield

I can only remember a few cars my dad has had over the years:
Ford Anglia
Triumph 2500
Saab something or other
I think he has an Avensis now

stepdad, on the other hand, since 1977:
Morris Marina
Ford Escort mk2
Ford Escort mk3
Toyota Corolla
Ford Cortina mk4 x2
Ford Sierra mk1 (up until this point he was a sales rep so these were all company cars, then he joined the Inland Revenue…)
actually, come to think, this was 1977-1982…5 cars in 5 years – way to go

Mini
Fiat 126
(these two were "second cars" while my mum was learning to drive. she gave up in the end, with a Fiat 126 to look forward to I can't exactly blame her!)

then from 1983,
Lada Riva Estate
Nissan Sunny
and a series of Nissan Micras ever since the Sunny got rear-ended while parked outside my house in 1990ish

I have that sim, it's very good. needs a suitable Tx – I bought "RC PlaneMaster" for £20 before I got into helis, and the (USB) Tx works well with Clearview, but I'm sure with the right cable a regular Tx will probably work

it's next to Sheffield

actually I worked there for nearly 2 years. depending on your route to get there, traffic can be shocking. Town centre is surprisingly pleasant (or was in 1997-98). Big retail park on the way out to Rawmarsh (Parkgate)

I like that site, cheers Mikkel :-)

btw in that picture you have a PicooZ (a toy), a Twister v2, a Blade 400, another Blade (the Hughes 500 one) and what appears to be a 30size scale Bell 222. I'd only avoid the PicooZ out of that lot ;-)

here's another site. It's basically a "STW for R/C aeronuts"
http://www.flyingsites.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=8.0

nothing particularly wrong with that CX2 (although I must admit it's a new one to me), but I'd dispute thatit is a very entertaining model to fly for the more experienced modeler.

It's a contra-rotating helicopter; by their nature they are so stable they can never be "entertaining for the more experienced modeler (sic)".

There's a Chinook type model by Twister (J Perkins) that has two sets of contra-rotating blades. It's so stable in the hover you can put the transmitter on the floor while you make a brew and it won't deviate…

Contras are good for learning orientation and the basics of up/down forwards/backwards/sideways, (I've got 2 of them) but they won't teach you how to fly 'the real thing' (of which I have 3 and after 2 years I can still only just hover tail-in. Granted I only practice once every 2 weeks, but still)

Born in Leeds, lived in Morley, Wakefield, Batley.
Went to uni in Bradford, lived there for a while, then 11 years ago moved to Baildon. All of which are (just about) 10miles or less from the hospital I was born in

So yes, I guess I fit the statistic too, just

Honey Bee is ok, get Collective Pitch if you can

Fair point. Midland Helicopters are good too, as are Rocket Rotors in Bradford.

While the Belt CP is good for the price, you need a good sized room (I.e. church hall) to fly it indoors.

I have a fleet of 5:
Blade MCx – tiny, ideal for front room
Twister Medevac – about a foot long, ok for front room
Twister v2 (fixed pitch single & tail rotor) – church / sports hall
Twister Storm (collective pitch single & tail rotor) – aerobatic capable, church/sports hall
Century Hawk .30 nitro – outdoors only

If you were in West Yorkshire i'd recommend a coupleof clubs, but it's a long drive from Inverness ;-)

Where are you btw?

Heliguy are good, yes. Also try Fast Lad in Barnsley.

For that price and a total beginner i'd go for an electric contra-rotating jobbie such as Twister Medevac or Hawk, or one of the Eflite Blade range.
Blade MCx is great for small spaces and is so light it's very hard to damage it or anything with it

Don't go for a 'proper' heli just yet as they are not easy to learn on.

Have a look at http://www.collective-pitch.com (I think) for some other links.

Maybe but it works for me.

Paragraph 1 – the job you're applying for and where/when advertised
Paragraph 2 – what you're doing now and the skills you use that are relevant to the job you're applying for
Paragraph 3 – previous experience and/or qualifications
Paragraph 4 – any other info that you feel may be useful.
Then "I look forward to hearing from you in the near future" etc

If you have the person's name it's "Dear so-and-so" to start and "Yours Sincerely" to finish, otherwise "Dear Sir or Madam" and "Yours Faithfully"

Nowt here (Barnsley)

BSG Season 4 got interrupted by the writers' strike; what you need is "The Final Season". And yes, it's very good.

Josh Whedon (the creator) described Firefly as "a Western set in space". Try getting the boxed set from Amazon

And can you bill them for our time as well while you're at it?

Put it down as "STW Internet Consultancy fees" or something ;-)

But then the dispute wwould be between school x and the op and nowt to do with 1 2 or 3?

So you used to work for driving school x then gave pupil 1 some lessons, independently of x, and pupil 1 gave you money in exchange. But never gave any money to school x.

Then 1 recommended you to 2 and 3 and again money was exchanged between you and the pupils in exchange for lessons independently of scxhool x.

WTF does it have to do with school x then? The contracts were between you and the pupils, not school x and the pupils

Sounds like x is trying it on to me

Yeah but ipods don't play CDs ;-)

See glasgow/s wales. Barnsley

doner kebab. without the pre-kebab beer

xmas do in January? methinks someone doesn't "get it" ;-)

there's a song called "disco stick" which contains something like "I want to ride your disco stick" or something.

Can you explain to a 5yo what a disco stick is?

Yeah, just another night

For the first time since I joined the company 9 years ago, there's an official xmas party.

Not wanting to break with 23years of (my) tradition, I won't be going.

Besides, it's in Barnsley & I live 30 miles away.

ah but 275 is fairly close to half a pint

thursday/friday maybe

boot isn't huge, nor the tailgate. If you can live with that, get one.

Magix movie editor or some such is pretty intuitive. Easier to get started than say Pinnacle.

There are other video editing suites too. Eg Roxio, MyDVD, etc

I thought it was something like that.

A waste of space then ;-)

remind me what a "blog" is, and what it's purpose is

can't think of any reason to. There are better 4x4s if you need off-road ability. There are more economical, faster cars. There are cars with bigger load areas.

I have never watched this thing.

I have better things to do with my life. clip my fingernails, pick my nose, iron some shirts for work, you get the idea. If it wasn't dark, cold & damp I'd even cut the grass

benji_allen – nice bit of Chaucer there ;-)

longer than pennine, not quite as long as grumm. I think.

can't be arsed, with all this crap weather, to be honest. I thought this weekend was supposed to be crisp & cold. 7degC is not cold. OK it's not tropical, but cold it is not. It's cold where my sister is – Peace River, Alberta. Proper cold. -12degC and that's in the daytime

pastrami