We are about £10k for the year. Books, trips, uniform extra. If a senior pupil goes on all trips through the last two years this can add to to 20 or 30 grand (no-one goe s on all trips).

I’m looking forward to Oct 1/2 term in the Red Sea 🙂

If for no other reason than his name and he lead Fiennes up so many mountains.

Yep teacher and a combination of exam leave and “fun lessons” in the lead into the hols (2 weeks and 1 day). Mean that i am effectively baby-sitting whilst watching the kids set fire to themselves.

If we applied the egg throwing (green slime) and shouting down (old bloke at party conference) to New Labour what would happen? Oh wait i think i know the answer to that.

Just to counter the (rather over used) anti-english sentiments from all scots, can i raise you the anti-“jock” sentiments by all english.

Oh sorry is it not all is it a small but vocal minority in each land that causes knee-jerk reaction by some.

Curry powder in the air vents. Stays there for months and becomes quite sickening after about 15 seconds.

Got one of these it’s brilliant and i don’t burn things on it.

Oakley tend to cost the same no matter where you buy ’em.

Couldn’t watch Black Hawk Down without waiting for random Trainspotting moments.

Just about to head out on the dark side with sun lotion applied.

Carpet tacks a la etape caledonia?

AS above Passat is good and the octavia is based on the golf estate so smaller.

The engine to go for is the 2.0l tdi, plenty of pulling power.

THat and the staement about it being a Franco-american affair.

Octavia would be the answer but because they are seen as the cheaper alternative demand has risen and they are now much of a muchness, according to the skoda garage i was talking to.

[Motorhead]
We are the roadcrew!!!
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Alka-Seltzer (or however you spell it). Lots of electrolytes with the added bonus of pain relief, dunno it just makes me feel better sometimes.

SSSHHHH the euro has been falling slowly but steadily for a few weeks now, i’ve been watching due to an alps trip in the summer. But if we make a noise about it it might pull it’s socks up and come back strong.

I have one of these in black it is very good.

http://www.endura.co.uk/Product.aspx?dept_id=124&prod_id=58

Pub i served in used to serve Loch Winnoch by the jug for free. If someone annoyed the staff we charged for it, well you gotta clean glasses pay for the lemon/ice cubes somehow.

avdave2 – Member
Lot of BA employees on here aren’t there. No wonder they’ve lost 70 million.

Grrrr to that comment. As she who must be obeyed may lose her job with BA. But that doesn’t stop her from having a six day week with three stop overs.

I think the problem is the locked/unlocked room. I had a laptop stolen from a room i had locked but it had been opened by another member of staff. The insurance would not cover it as the room had not been locked BUT there had been a lack of XXXX(duty of care not quite the correct statement) on behalf of my employers.

If they said it was safe then you can assume it’s safe, therefore their liability BUT i’d try you own insurance first and £600!?!

the dirty dozen

Get a turbo trainer, do a Sufferfest, feel the pain.

sunny here

Endura do them, although less than 15 carries a charge (although it is for charity so…….)

http://www.endura.co.uk/Dept.aspx?dept_id=134

Farnborough was always fun, especially on an industry ticket, colud always watch it from teh window if teh weather was pants.

Can you become a member by proxy? BA Citflyer are laying off cabin crew and other half may be in the firing line (no pun intended).

Bang goes my cheap holidays and claim on a trolley dolly

HAs anyone actually tried to put their elbow in their ear? I’ve got a class of 15 year olds trying as we speak. Very amusing and better than the new GCSE Chemistry i’m meant to be teaching them.

If you look to the “road east and south east of the field there woul dappear to be mains drains waiting to go in. Strange pattern tho.

“No Focker comes close!

Gary, i’m 3717

and considering full wetsuit:-)

But most of these claims are transparent.

As in invisible and can’t be seen as opposed to can be seen by all.

Bloody hell Gary-M’s post must have subliminally affected me

I leave at 7.46. Bit confused by that but plenty of people to hide behind and chase down.

Second the early start.

Smee on his birthday Glentrool axe head about 7am

last summer there was a vertitable chain gang of at least 8 polis on mtbs powering through stockbridge in edinburgh, only time i saw them on bikes but that said there have been more around in teh past week or so in edinburgh.

Going up the Menock pass last w/e on roadie with mtb-borders tope on.

“Bet you wished you had 27 gears now”

I think that the population of Gealic speakers on the Scottish border/D&G boundary is down to teh fact that no one can understand anyone from Langholm.

aracer – Member

Was put off cf when this happened (to be fair the chain stay was pretty dinged as well)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but that looks suspiciously still in one piece. So your issue is that you have a big impact of some sort (might be more useful with a little context), and a cf frame gets damaged?

Well the stay is cracked all the way round and what you can see is splintered and deliminated through its depth. The chain stay is Al and pretty bent out of shape and this was a point stress break on what i would assume is one of the structurally weaker points of the cf. Large lateral loading on a single point. Oh my roadie has plenty of cf so i should have qualified the statement with “I was put off having cf on my mtbs whenthis happened”

Was put off cf when this happened (to be fair the chain stay was pretty dinged as well)