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  • King-ocelot
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    Thanks for the replies.

    Sorry to hear you had problems with your westie, I was after the good & bad accounts of the breeds so I don’t see you as a bearer if bad news.

    Our pup is mostly black with a bit of gold/brown. I will add some photos. I’m visiting again to take him a toy tomorow.

    King-ocelot
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    Celica 190 T-Sport gen 7 (mine)
    MR2 mk3 (hers)
    Both mildly tuned.

    Fiancée has works car too, Golf Bluemotion which is dull & boring.

    King-ocelot
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    He he possibly, I like the vintage/heritage look that’s on trend.

    King-ocelot
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    MrSmith, just looked up private white, they look like nice clothes. Quite glad in a way that I didn’t see the Bromley with 20% off I’d have brought it and I’m supposed to be topping the savings up!

    King-ocelot
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    Peregrine jackets are spot on. I’m saving up for the Bromley wool jacket. I have very broad shoulders and the cut on the back is ideal and I like the heritage look.

    King-ocelot
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    North Face has become the default attire of Cheshire mum in her Range Rover, much like the car she doesn’t like getting the jacket muddy. I saw a whole family of North Facers at Delamere, they walked as far as the pic-nic benches and then hogged the lot, the boy was splashing too much in his new Chelsea boots so they packed up and went home. It was after that I noticed a massive change in their customer base.

    King-ocelot
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    BAND: Radiohead
    ALBUM: OK Computer
    SINGLE: Nirvana, Smells like teen spirit.
    GIG: PJ Harvey, Manchester Apollo.
    Missed last trajn home and spent the night in Crewe station 🙂

    King-ocelot
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    king-ocelot: possibly “oh whistle and I’ll come to you” by M.R James. On YouTube…

    Wow thanks! I have been looking for that for years, I thought it was older than that and American. That bed cover bit is just as I remember it but the rest of the play slightly different.

    King-ocelot
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    I watched something when I was around 8 with my sister. It was black and white with a bed sheet that cane to life it was possibly stop-motion as the movement was really jerky. I was petrified. Our house was been renovated and we were sharing a bedroom for a bit, for weeks I lay awake looking at her bed thinking the cover was going to kill us. Never been able to find what it was we watched but we both remember it vividly.

    King-ocelot
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    I see your orange bike and I raise you this one:

    http://www.tsunamidave.com/tdbike/gallery.html

    King-ocelot
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    Both my friend and my uncle are VAG mechanics, one at VW one at Audi, both worked at Audi. They advised me to steer clear of the cars. My friend said the trouble is people buy them thinking it is bespoke and while the cars are very well screwed together there are so many things that can go wrong on them that are often diagnosed by trial and error at the consumers expense. Their households non-company cars are Honda and Toyota. On the flip side my sister has had golfs for about 8 years, R32, GTi & GTD 170 and had no real problems with any of them.

    King-ocelot
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    One of my greatest fears is that my children will go the same way. Not because I am like my father, that will never happen. But I just worry that my problems might affect the way they develop emotionally.

    One if the reasons I haven’t had children yet is the fear of passing depression on or letting them see me when I’m down but you can’t worry over things that haven’t happend yet. Spend good times with them and when the going is rough think of those times.

    King-ocelot
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    Back in 2007 I was a mess, I didn’t leave the house, hardly ate, slept 17 hours a day and just wanted to not wake up. It’s been a tough journey but today I am engaged to a stunning girl, holding down a good career in an area I love and have a mortgage. I still suffer with anxiety more so involving social events. It hurts me to look at what I was but I can easily look forward now and be happy.

    You can turn it around it just takes time. Ride more, eat well and try not to think too much.

    King-ocelot
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    chvck – Member
    I’m curious as to what Fish n chips style filling is!

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    I was given a free sample and was curious too. Imagine you’ve been given an Iceland frozen fish and chip meal, you have chewed it up till its a paste, then spat it out, let it go cold and then spread it on some bread. Just like that really.

    EDIT: thinking about the mate who gave me the sample, it was open as he had ‘tried some’ & I would not put it past him to chew up some food and hand it on… Feel a bit sick now.

    King-ocelot
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    deepreddave – Member
    King-ocelot – that’s outrageous. Fair play to you but seriously worrying for anyone in that road given the availability of info. on the net and all. I’m assuming it wasn’t vastly over priced to start with? I’ve regularly seen offers under the asking but not by that much. There are still some who regularly seek an extra few thousand off the day before completion….. hate that with a vengeance.

    The others in the road sell for around the £190-£200k mark. Ours is the only one left in the road with a downstairs bathroom. It was on with 2 agents both who told us this was the reason the house had not sold. I’ve just got plans drawn up to add a bathroom upstairs.

    As others have said depends on area abd situation. I would always make a cheeky offer. The seller can only dismiss it.

    King-ocelot
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    I must add further to my cheeky bid listed above, when the house sale was published on Zoopla one nosey neighbour thanked us for ‘devaluing the road & bringing the price of the road down’. 🙂

    King-ocelot
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    We bought in May, house was on for £225k then reduced to £200k after a year with no viewings (I think it’s worth £190k ish). We offered £140k, they said no, we offered £150k and said we would complete in 28 days. They said let us think, 2 days later accepted. We were moved in within 3 weeks. Previously offered £150k on an £180k house (it was our first choice) and they said no way, £180k is all they will accept. Go low, nothing to lose.

    King-ocelot
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    Confused.com

    Look at the original post not the image here,, keep watching the window.

    King-ocelot
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    None in 2 years. Pulled over twice one for a cracked number plate while I was driving to the garage to buy a new numberplate I was let off as I had documents with me to buy plate and told to use a taxi if I happened again. And pulled over once for driving ‘suspiciously’ whatever that means.

    King-ocelot
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    Told this before but here it is again.

    10 or so years ago I was a student and worked the holidays labouring for Dads building company. He had brought some empty barns to convert right at the back of an empty farm. We were aware squatters had been using the site. First task in the dead of winter was to gut the barns skipping the piles of junk and debris. Someone uncovered a newly bricked up wall, not cemented in, just bricks stacked to form a complete divide. Intrested we took the bricks to reclaim and I noticed a white object on the rear wall. Getting torches we peered inside to see it was an animal skull surrounded by candles. I thought it was some of the lads playing a practical joke but everyone seemed unnerved. There was loads if burned paper and ribbons on the floor. Dad not being one for anything like that, a level headed hard man, said squatters found a sheep carcass and were messing around. We all cracked on. One of the labourers a huge ex army hulk claimed he could hear children crying when he was in that room, I saw another man burst into tears and the room always felt cold.
    The job was completed and that area became a walk in wardrobe.

    The barn then rented out,, it was not mentioned about the hidden room. he contacted Dad about some electrical problems. Lights going off in the walk in wardrobe. Electricians inspected it and found no fault. A few weeks later there was another call he wanted to end tenancy early as his fiancée was having nightmares of the occult and had taken to sleeping at her mums. She didn’t feel safe, also next doors children were noisy crying all night but he never saw them. Investigating further next door didn’t have, nor ever had staying any children.

    Dad sold the barns.

    King-ocelot
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    Is it HPI clear?
    Were are you based and can the car be viewed in another location? I had trouble selling my girlfriends car in Chester changed the advert to Stafford (were my parents are) next to the M6 and it sold the next day to someone who was not searching a wide area. The buyer wasn’t concerned, against advice, from buying the car from somewhere other than the registered address.

    King-ocelot
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    I had a Maine Coon (family pet when growing up) he kept getting crystals, vet put him on dry food which seemed to help but wasn’t a cure. He lived till about 7 a huge blockage killed him. I’ve got 2 rescue and a Bengal now, they eat felix from a tin with some dry biscuits usually Iams on top. I give my Bengal prize choice raw meat heated in a microwave twice a week as recommended by the breeder.

    King-ocelot
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    grum – Member
    How do you get street view on iPhones etc at the moment? Didn’t know you could. Where’s the option on the maps app?
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    From the purple pin on your map click the icon with the white man on orange background. It goes to street view.

    I won’t update iOS if I will lose street view as its a useful tool, unless of course there is an app.

    King-ocelot
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    How long would a pencil drawing take him?

    King-ocelot
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    I had a similar experience but was a bit older than your son (9 I think) I went to a karate class, first session the sensi was swinging a bamboo cane around himself as he span in a circle, the object was to jump over it. However the fella was deliberately lifting the cane high to whip our legs and shouting at us, (bunch of 7,8,9 year olds) then just shouted buy didnt really instruct. I didn’t go back and found a good class trough the council gym that I enjoyed for many years. The knobber sensi’s club got closed down a few weeks after I joined.

    King-ocelot
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    I haven’t watched any thing in the series post Connery and Moore, so has the character evolved and developed smoothly into a figure more palatable for a generation that glorifies violence..? Or was there a revelatory film/moment/actor..?

    Modern bond isn’t cheesy, he has moved with the times, no longer slapping women or making people cringe like the Bond of old. Craig is close to the Bond in the books too.

    King-ocelot
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    samuri – Member
    Craig seems to be the only Bond who has read the books.
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    I think he read them after Dalton finished with them. The best Bonds by far. Looking forward to this film.

    King-ocelot
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    I do most of those exercises with a 10kg and I don’t consider myself overly strong. The handles help keep form with what your article calls ‘rocky solo’ but I wouldn’t consider a handle essential. I was just talking to my girlfriend about this, she sometimes goes to a 1 hour toning class were they use 6-8kg ones.

    King-ocelot
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    I use a 12kg one at the gym for Russian twists and a 10 for everything else. I think most would quickly outgrow a 6, my girlfriend uses an 8 and she is tiny. A big mirror is useful too to watch your form.

    King-ocelot
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    Thanks for all the replies. I will have a proper look into DIY publishing. The USP of the book would be my method of teaching drawing, its a new system I have been private tutoring with and getting good results. It’s been an idea/dream since I was a child to have a drawing book published and I want to make it happen now. Thanks for the vampire tip, although possibly said in jest, it actually made me realise maybe the subject of my tutorials could be a bit more current and attention grabbing.

    King-ocelot
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    Crysis 2, got it in Christmas sales but was too busy playing skyrim still to try it. It’s quite good but a lot going on at times meaning you can miss set pieces of enemies interacting with each other/hostages/environment while you busy opening a case of ammo. It’s a stunning looking game and the physics are great for manipulating objects, often with humourous endings for enemies. I paid £5 for it, it’s worth a fiver for any fan of action or FPS games easy to get into and good to explore.

    King-ocelot
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    The Delgados – The Great Eastern

    Forgot that cd, going for a listen now 🙂

    King-ocelot
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    Tom Waits – Alice
    A great album, but way earlier – 1990 from memory

    I managed a record shop in 2002 when Alice officially was released, if I remember correctly most of the album was heavily bootlegged after original recordings had been stolen/leaked in the mid 1990s. It didn’t sell as well on official release as we hoped for that reason. Cracking album though.

    King-ocelot
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    Radiohead, in rainbows
    Yeah yeah yeahs, fever to tell
    …and you will know is by the trail of dead, source tags and code
    Modest Mouse, good news for people..

    King-ocelot
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    Sounds like you know the pitfalls I your prepared for it have a test drive. They are fun and the interiors look fresh. IIRC my mate can’t get the rear seat down in his, might be an issue if you wanted to carry bikes about.

    King-ocelot
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    You can get Iso-fix seats in the back. I love my celica it’s been faultless, I often get 37mpg, my rx8 owning mate struggles to get 300 miles from a full tank. I think you can get a bracket for iso-fix for them too, reaching into the back might be a chore with no rear doors.

    King-ocelot
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    King-ocelot
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    Some great photos.
    Gary that ‘jump’ one is brilliant, I have seen a Bengal before with a dark nose cool cat.

    King-ocelot
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    Some great photos keep them coming 🙂

    King-ocelot
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    Valentino, he is about 6 months here.

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