No news of the Trafford Centre burning then

that could be a positive to come out of all this!

Mario Kart!!

ltheisinger, How do you find getting the bikes on the top of the CR-v and what roofbars do you use? I’m test driving one on Friday, and one of the concerns I have is getting the bikes on the roof. I’m current car has roof rails, so it’s super easy to get bars on and off, are they easy to fit / remove on the CR-V?

That’s a couple of days wages for an IT contractor isn’t it

Day and a half tops….pay the bill and move on :-)

If you want to improve the sound of a TV with little fuss and little money, buy a pair of active monitors like Fostex PM0.4’s and plug them into the headphone jack. You don’t need any additional remote controls / switching and they will sound loads better than the built in speakers.

Dunno about Audi’s, but on Mondeo’s it was commonly a sign the EGR valve needed cleaning/replacing (not expensive).

I bought a Custom Shop relic a few years back, it’s OK, but I’ve noticed as I’ve played it, the neck has started to look less old than when I bought it…which makes it feel a bit phoney (which of course it is). I think i’d rather buy new and let nature take it’s course.

Although as it’s Foo Fighters it’s hardly groundbreaking

It was a tiny bit groundbreaking, in that it was recorded direct to analogue tape with no protools editing in Dave Ghrol’s garage..pretty unusual in this day and age.

Tame Impala after you recommended it ;-)

Sorry to hear about your Mum MF. Personally, I think it would be OK, and it might left bring some happiness into the occasion, but my wife (like yours) has never been keen. Itmight bring more stress on you at a difficult time if the kids are there though?

I’m driving a Navarra at the moment as a company pool car…It’s without doubt the worst car I have ever driven. Noisy, uncomfortable, cramped in the back, boot is not secure, costs a fortune in diesel to run, hard to park, awful to drive.

Avoid.

My bank did it over the phone, cost £20, took about 10 mins to initiate, most of which was the bank covering it’s ass in case the money goes to the wrong place.

3 mifi here too….it’s been great.

There was a good chapter on Husker Du in the excellent book ‘Our band could be your life’.

Just used the Vodafone data roaming in the Netherlands, it worked, but it was really slow, dunno if buying a native SIM would have been quicker?

V. cool Chaos. I want one!

Won’t even now let me run the Windoze disc to reformat the HD

Is it looking to the CD to boot from? Sound like it might still be trying to boot from the hard drive?

Guitar Mart is OK, but a lot of the adverts are years old. Sound on Sound also has a guitar related section in it’s classifieds. Both are free.

I have tried to sell my mint condition PRS on ebay twice and had no luck whatsoever

How could it not sell on eBay? You couldn’t at £1 for it?

for Emma was amazing,…looking forward to the new one :-)

Got my lad catching a bubble…

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I use lightroom..it took a bit of pain to organise initially, but once it’s done, it’s been great.

Nice one footflaps.

The place we are staying does not have wifi, it’s got internet via ethernet cable…I suppose I could take my router?

I’ve always though Geldof had his priorities wrong…to think there are children who have never played Angry Birds :-(

Can’t you just get a SIM in each country

I hope so, will they work OK in a UK iPad?

I’m off to holland next week, so I’ll do a straw poll on what age the kids are going on bikes.

Hey, I feel like an overprotective parent for the first time….I like it!

OK TJ, can you kind any manufacturer of papooses who suggest their products are suitable for babies less then three months (you can include dutch manufacturers if you like)?

I’m genuinely interested.

Edit – I found one….looks like i’m gonna get some abuse ;-(

TJ – I honestly think you don’t know what your talking about and your ‘advice’ is dangerous. IMHO 8 weeks is too young to even walk in a papoose, it take a baby on a bike at that age is crazy.

12 weeks is way too early IMHO, ours is nearly six months and he’s not ready (he’s probably slightly above ave. size). IMHO Cycling with a baby in a papoose is nothing like walking, as the forces you put on a baby if things go wrong on a bike would be much greater then walking.

TJ – do you know what a 12 week old baby is like?

Dixons @ airports have pretty good prices on Apple stuff, i’ve been looking at a 15″ MBP, and they have it for £1440, is that a good price?

tame impala

Perturbation

The drainpipe wasn’t as bad as the dolls house that looked like it had ginger pubes for a roof 8O …..nasty.

I thought the best bit was when they showed how to make a nite light in a jam jar by putting a nite light light….in a jam jar.

Looked like they had a 2million pound house in surrey FFS.

I found it pretty painfull (lefty was easy, righty a lot less so). . No purple or black discolouration but very, very sore for 6 days. iPad earned it’s stripes in protecting them from the kids when out walking :-)

Nice :-(

We’ve been looking at this….I think FC’s are better for weekend trips, as you don’t have to put the awning up, and they are ready in 10mins. The TT’s give more of a camping feel (a good thing IMHO).

All seem quite expensive though.

Clicking of a Hope Hub?

Think my mum went back to work when I was 8(ish). I was to busy building go-karts and making model planes to notice :-)