I thought you’d learnt yor lesson from last time. 😉

I thought he’d blown so much on the house that he’d collect all the dumped mattresses from the fly-tips and put them in the lounge and what a waste of a Ducati!!

The wife obviously hated it but Barry was the man in charge all right. He must have a few contacts on the council to get a place like that built in that area.

It was a truely ugly house. I know some of the properties in the area are more ‘Posh & Becks’ than Lutyens or Robert Adams but it looked like a Brighton & Hove City Council building.

Scrape the chocolate off with my teeth and see how far I can get before it breaks and then dunk it.

Chocolate side down. 😀

Tell him he entered a contract with you when he bid on the item and the contract included the price of the shipping.

Ask him very politely to pay you full amount within the specified timeframe and that if he doesn’t you will cancel his bid and second-offer to the next highest bidder or relist.

Congratulations!!

Hopefully the first of many similar stories.

At last some bluebells sighted in Guildford, not many so far but at least they’ve arrived.

Good idea, go for it. It will be a positive point if you come to sell the place in the future.

Years ago when we lived in MK we had our 3 bed semi done. It cut our heating bills by about 20%. We paid about £350 at the time.

We’ve just had a quote for having our current place done under the government sponsored scheme.

3 bed semi, quoted £198 for cavity insulation and £198 to have the loft insulation increased to 10″ from current 4″, all pipes and water tanks re-lagged to current spec.

Got our quote done through Tesco.com

V8 fitted to the Mercedes WSPC cars of the 1980’s. You didn’t hear them as much as feel them.

Also the Jaguar V12 fitted to XJR racers of the same era. Different noise but glorious sound down the Mulsanne Straight.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/5100025/New-Zealand-shepherds-stop-using-dogs-as-stresses-lambs.html

Try this one from the Torygraph. Apparently using sheepdogs stress out the sheep. 🙄

Conratulations to you all mate.

Now you really will have to find a job!! 😉

Which mobile phone?

Because their Mums would tell them to stop being so whiney and to get a proper job! 😉

RudeBoy – Member
STB; well, if I’m 4x rarer than others, and 1 in 7 are left handed, am I therefore 28x rarer? Or is the incidence of left handers born on 29th Feb much lower?

I think it’s probably lower and here’s how;

There is only one 29th Feb every 4 years so the chances of being born on that day are 1:1461. If left-handed people are 1:7 then the chances of you finding another 29th Feb/Left handed person of any age is 1:10227.

If the average age for males in the UK is 76 that means there are 19 leap years in the time frame giving a 1:19 chance of a match or a 1:194313 chance of finding someone who is left-handed and born on the same day and year as you.

As the population of the UK was 61,000,000 in mid 2007 then there are likely to be 313* (male and female) other people in the UK.

*As statistics are not my strong point any correction of assumptions and figures will be accepted without argument.

You can only get one done when you work or volunteer for an employer who requires you to have one and they lead the process.

Once done the CRB check is only valid for that employer. If you are freelancing like I do, for healthcare training, you should in theory have one for each different employer.

The intention of the system is good but the implimentation is rubbish.

There is a plan to make CRB transferrable but then they will need to be updated every year or so.

At £40 a go it has turned into another government inspired money-making scheme.

Been discussing this with Mrsjova and me Mum.

We moved from MK to Worcestershire 13 years ago and just after the move had a holiday in Ilfracombe.

As we were checking out of the hotel on the Saturday a family from 3 houses away in MK were checking in.

When I left school I joined the Army and went to college in Harrogate. Just before the first half-term holiday I was ordered to go and see one of the instructors. He wanted to offer me a lift home to Horsham in Sussex as his Mum lived in the next road to my parents and he was going to see her.

glenh – Member
jova – get a kingsize bed. They are over 6′ wide, so even if she is 90 degrees the wrong way you’ll still get 1′ or so!

We bought a king size glen and it made no f***ing difference!!

Daughter had a woman come into her shop the other day with a small boy named Oedipus.

Bet he’ll get a complex! 😉

IGMC

Always on the right. Had five different houses now and only in the last two have I been near the window.

Can’t sleep on the left.

Mrsjova sleeps all over the bed so I get left with a six inch strip down the edge. Even when we bought a wider bed she still demanded most/all of it. I wouldn’t mind but she’s only 5′ 2″ tall and 8 st wringing wet

Oooo! That’s so annoying!

I’ve just finished the latest copy of ST and I gave up counting typos after the first dozen.

I know we unemployed should have better things to do but if you want anyone to do some freelance proof-reading Mark then my email is in my profile. 😀

6 months if it’s a new employee but they can give the responsibilities of the role to another staff member provided they don’t get the same title.

It’s the position that is made redundant not the person, although the effect is the same.

Couldn’t find any bluebell pics but in the spirit of plants with colour names here is some greengage blossom from my garden to be going on with.

Don’t worry. We’ve been in Bellfields, couldn’t afford anywhere else, for nearly 8 years and it is improving but only slowly.

That’s the fb I mean, use it to get down to Whitmoor common.

Here’s a random question. Did I meet you and your wife on the Downs Link about a year ago when you were looking for St Martha’s church?

@ theotherjonv,

I’m in Bellfields near the footbridge, are you in Grange Road/Stoughton area?

Sounds like a cheap redundancy, forcing you to resign rather than pay you off.

Could this be ‘constructive dismissal’. If you are not in a union perhaps it’s worth contacting ACAS and CAB; both very useful organisations

I’ve had a complete bike in the boot of my Saab 9.5 saloon with both wheels and pedals still on.

It was a bugger to get out though.

Used one last year to spray my brother’s fence.

The coverage was pretty good but you need to be on good terms with your neighbour as the stuff that gets through causes havoc in their garden. Cheap pastic dustsheets from B&Q or Hombase fixed on the other side of the fence would certainly help.

You also need to ensure that the ‘paint’ is properly mixed and that you clean the nozzles properly after use just like any spray gun.

It’s not as easy as it appears on the ad but it is easier than a 6″ brush.

I’ve noticed the opposite.

Levels of received spam have reduced on the address I use for STW since the change of forums.

I have a number of Tiscali accounts and their spam filters are stopping all but one or two spam emails a week. The general level of spam to all my accounts appears to have reduced since early December 08. I used to get about 100 spams a day it’s now down to less than that a week.

If you’re looking for a guide on house prices, place next to me, ex-council 3 bed semi no garage currently on for £230,000 but needs a bit of work doing and I’m in one of the cheaper areas.

Agree with cg about traffic. With the A3 so close if it rains or an accident occurs then the whole place grinds to halt.

Place I used to work was 7 miles away on the other side of Guildford. On a good evening I was home in about 30 mins on the worst occasion it took 90 minutes.

If you know where you are going to work try an buy on that side of town unless you’re going to ride to work.

If you are going to live in the town area then I agree with davefarmer.

If you can afford it look outside the town for one of the villages.

We lived in Wonersh for about 9 months before we bought a house in town.

Annual town centre road races sponsored this year by …errrr… Cycleworks! 😉

Don’t forget to shave the small patch on your forehead for the thumb-print. 😉

Congratulations Phil. Hope you will both be very happy and long-wed.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/first-bluebells-south-glos#post-222975

Here

Not seen any in bloom down in Surrey yet but plenty of plants showing through the undergrowth so should only be a short time.

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Trespass – Genesis
Led Zep 4 – Led Zepellin

Went out for a pootle around the local heath just after the GP finished.

Quite fresh and plenty of water on the tracks and not many people around, maybe they forgot to put their clocks forward.

Sun just beginning to shine through when I got home.

santacruzsi – Member
i like the new format, plenty of action and overtaking. Think first is sorted, it’s a race for second…

Maybe not quite.

Button still has to use the super softs and they don’t seem to last very long.

16 laps to go and the interesting stuff is still to come with proper racing right down to the end?

Harry_the_Spider – Member
The first 18 weeks are the worst.

More like the first 18 years, then they go to Uni and it starts all over again when they come back.

Seriously though, congrats to you and Mrs Jackass and long may she only wake up once a night.

Well, that was five minutes well spent and it provided a nice cheery end to a fairly slow week.

Good luck Molgrips, it’s about time you at least got an interview.

Congrats to you both.

Great name Eleanor, called our second daughter that and never regretted it.

I’ve just parked my 1998 146,000 mile Saab 9.5 SE in the garage.

I hope it’s still there in the morning otherwise Mrsjova is walking to work.