Thanks everyone, once again STW comes to the rescue ;-)

£1, No reserve.

Shows that you are serious about selling, gets people interested and they start researching…before they know it, they are wrapped in a bidding frenzy.

If your selling HiFi gear, be prepared to sell to European buyers.

Speaking as someone who was basically driven from their last house by rats, I would personally get rid. My understanding is that if you are regularly seeing them during the day, there is a significant problem as they are normally nocturnal creatures. Although we thought we only saw one or two during the day (and they were cat size, not like large mice), when we started baiting, there must of been hundreds. Going out in the back garden was not nice for months…dead rats….everywhere.

We sold the house and moved. My wife was pregnant, and I could not really see the baby and rats (dead or alive) being a good combo. Each to their own, but it was horrible. Once they got into the house, Jesus, I did not sleep properly until the day we moved.

Cool , thanks for the heads up.

Nice one grum, well done.

fingers and tops

It’s just a phase – it’ll pass

Lot easier to say that when it’s someone else going through it :D

Oh Teletubbies is on

Happy memories! Terrible hangovers trying to catch an extra 10 minutes sleep with a screaming baby, waiting for CBBies to start.

Got it all to come again from the 17th of December….kill me now.

More feeding before bedtime?

Only time I had this kind of problem it was the memory card that was faulty.

she’s a skinny coke-head what hangs around with knob-ends

I think that pretty much sums up my opinion of Kate Moss.

We need to get the blues for CG sorted!

I agree with Don, it’s not just guitarists, they exist everywhere. I have been fortunate, in that I have never had a guitar teacher who would show off. My first teacher was an amazing player, but I’d known him for years before I heard him do anything other than illustrate what he was trying to teach, and that was only because he was showing me a new amp he had bought, and why it was good. He was confident enough in his own abilities to never have to show off.

There was a great story about him from the early 80’s which I only found out about recently. He used to go and try guitars for pupils to make sure they were OK. He regularly did this at A1 Music in Manchester, because at the time they were one of the few shops in the North West doing top end rawk guitars. There was a sales ‘assistant’ who used to show off in front of the tutor before handing over the guitar. The tutor would check the neck, finish and fit and strum a few chords without being plugged in. He did this time after time for different pupils….never did anything more than strum chords.

One day the assistant must have pissed him off, because he plugged in, played Eruption note perfect behind his head, then handed the guitar back to the assistant.

The assistant stopped showing off, and the tutor went back to checking the neck, finish and fit and strumimg a few chords without being plugged in ;-)

He’s a cock, and a poor tutor.

No one looks at my pictures (sob sob) but I like this one….

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I saw the title of this thread and got ready with my clicky linky, but looking at how good the competition is, I think i’ll leave it. Some fantastic pic’s here.

‘How not to run a club’ by Peter Hook, v. amusing and my first Kindle book.

The PC version of Elements Organiser did not have a great rep, dunno if it’s better for the Mac.

TV – standby – 1W

Both TV’s in our house measured c. 0.15w.

I think men are probably better at salary negotiations whilst not necessarily being better at the job (talking about women earning less than men in comparable jobs).

I personally believe that your rate of remuneration should be relative to how good you are at your job rather than negotiating skills.

IMHO, that hits the nail on the head.

We did some tests of various bits of electrical gear round the house last year, modern TV’s on standby use nack all energy. Not even worth thinking about. Plasma TV’s don’t use much more energy then LCD, dispite all the negative press about them. It’s heating and boiling kettles that use the power, but the enviromental brigade don’t really get excited about them, because there is nothing to be jelous about someone owning a kettle.

At the risk of sounding pretentious, I think Super Mario Galaxy is a work of art. The music and the way the music fits into the game is amazing. There are some brilliant concepts in the game. I love it. Easily my favorite Wii game.

Thanks for that Simon, that’s perfect for what I’m after.

There are some nice ones here….(dunno anything about the shop though)

http://www.fareastguitars.co.uk/usedguitars.htm

If it were me, i’d try for a secondhand 80’s Tokai or Squire strat. I think they are c.£500-600, and you won’t loose money if you move it on. If you get the right one, it would be good enough to never need to replace it.

I’ve had Merrells for the last 15 year and really like them, but the last pair have been really bad….just a weird shape / really bad fit, and the soles are slippy as ****.

-1 for Humax i’m afraid. We have one, the EPG takes ages (like 5mins) to load, it crashes frequently, it HDMI output quality is worse than the SCART, and the user interface is poor.

Caught my lad catching a bubble…

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I’ve tried doing the All Sizes thing, but the link has my name in it! Am I doing something wrong, or by specifying a photostream URL when I set up the account will I always have my name in the links?

Thanks for that Surfr, that’s handy (Nice watch BTW).

I’m not feeling comfortable… applying security right now. People are adding me as contacts who I don’t know, is that normal?

Surfr, I am doing it for reasons 1 & 3, could you explain what you meant in point 2…

2) to display on websites of my choosing as hotlinked images but not to appear on my photostream

Can I link to a photo an make it so anyone can see it, but they can’t see details about me? How do you do that?

Is it common for people to leave everything open?

let’s not confuse most of these proposed cuts with efficiencies

A very valid point IMHO.

The arch is cool too.

There an area with loads of nice bars with live music, close to the river, had a great night out there, but can’t remember anything about it!

Neko Case is doing it for me at the moment (musically speaking). I love female singers, at the risk of being sexist, I think the best singers are female. M T-B, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Laura Nero…hell, I even like Girls Aloud in a non ironic way.

FFS borrow or buy a satnav. I’ll never forget the turning we missed and the 3hour nighmare which unfolded following the missed turning.

After being grilled for 45 minutes by an HR Lady (for want of a better expression)……. she asked me what position I was applying for :-)

Do it and enjoy it graham.

it still gets brought up from time to time

There's the problem :-)