hell must have frozen, cos for once i agree with TJ.

Its her decision – and you must support her.
a baby puts a huge strain on a relationship – and if it is a little rocky before hand, the first couple of years can break the relationship if theres resentment about the decision.

http://www.cantickhead.com/

Former lighthouse keepers cottages on Orkney

Vango Spirit 300 or 300+. Hydra 300+ or Tornado 300 – al should be within budget.

I know the Tornado is light, and can fit 2 in comfortably, has a front porch. and is good in strong winds – as we often camp at Anglesey and other exposed locations in all weathers, and it stands up very well.

at least you can do that with HTC phones…

if the battery goes flat, then you can have a second fully charged up.

dunno about for the Android models, but certainly the WinMo phones i've had, HTC have also put out a bigger battery pack with a new back plate.

indepth review of the HD2: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_hd2-review-418.php

and lots of smart phone reviews at: http://coolsmartphone.com/

for Youtube theres a separate viewer built in that opens when you click a YT link.

BBC iplayer is a little tricky – when i last tried it, it said phone not supported – but i poped into the registry file and changed the device identification, which sorted the support issue, but said iplayer only available on the 3 network. quick search of XDA-Developers.com had me sorted out.

installed myplayer, and coreplayer and iplayer (TV and radio) now fully accessable. and have added a link so i can listen to Planet Rock.

i can also listen to other online radio via the streaming media program

i agree with DaveyBoy. I do pretty much all my own servicing.

the only difficult thing with the oil/filter change is to get to the filter is a bit awkward due to its location: you have to take the drivers side wheel off, and get your hand through a little gap to get to the filter.

have a HD2 – yes i believe you can.

also when you plug it in with a USB cable, it comes up on the screen if you want to have the phone act as a WiFi router, or you can switch it on in the settings menu.
it can used as a mobile modem.

camera is very good.
this was taken on the HD2.

Also has 2 LED lights with the camera as a 'flash' (there is also a programe (or app in iphone speak) you can install where you can use the LEDs as a torch)
Internet very good on it. it also supports flash pages.

storage wise for music – mine came with a 2Gb microSD card (with SD card adaptor so it can be used in old full sized SD card slots.) but it supports the current 16Gb and 32Gb microSD cards, so it is full expandable. when installing games and programes you can chose to install to the phone or the storage card.

Also some of those counts take place on the next day for transport reasons – such as St. Ives, as there are no flights from the Scillies to return the boxes to the central count. Same with the Argyll and Bute count, since they are lots of islands.

Thirsk and Malton polling has been delayed until 27th May, due to the death of one of the candidates.

according to the Electoral Commission, of the 650 constituency, 627 will be starting to count the votes within hours of the ballot closing, 22 are delaying the count till the next day

going off the info from Wheels-in-motion – the mk3 with its taller suspension due to EU bonnet height rules is a problem, because they just jacked up the suspension, and didnt alter the geo – upsetting the camber settings. fitting the Eibach springs gets things back to how they should have been, but if you havent got them fitted, then get a 4 wheel alignment done by a '5 specalist and it'll improve things.

(even better once I'd done a 5min remix on it).

you did…. WHAT?

Dave: in my Mk1 its a standard fitting – i've got a cheap £20 radio/cd/mp3/SD card/USB player from Lidl in mine didnt need any extra fittings.

but the imported Eunos cars had a double radio slot. tho most will have been converted to the standard single slot by now.

http://www.mx5parts.co.uk/index.php/cPath/86

have a 1995 mk1, 130,000miles on the clock. Had it for 4 years – lives in the street, driven in all weathers.

Always starts, keeps going.
I would say – very reliable, but as said, they do rust (doesn't matter the age or the mark of car, the body shop who did mine has already had the mk3s in for rust) – mostly its in the area between the door and the rear wheel, on the wheel arch, down by the sill where the jacking point is.
Its not terminal, costs about £200 per side to sort out properly: but search the owners club forum for past experience of garages, as one who has a good rep for '5 rust fixing will be cheaper and better in the long run.
Battery wise – i'm still on my original mazda battery (15 years old it seems), I had the exhaust replaced when the original rusted through a couple of years ago, suspension replaced after 120,000, clutch around the same time. basically wear and tear.
only failures i've had are – misfire due to HT lead: they are recommended to be replaced every 40,000miles, i never got round to it, and it broke a while later, cheap fix. secondly was clutch slave cylinder leaked – £40 had that replaced (the slave cylinder seems to be a – they all do that, eventually)

if the roof leaks, and it doesn't have any cracks in it – and its dripping from around the point the roof, door and windscreen meet (tis were it happens on mine) try Vaselining the rubber seals around the windscreen and/or make a little adjustment to the tension of the roof (theres adjusters on the roof clips)
roof replacement is a DIY job, and you can get mohair roofs with zip out plastic screens for about £250. (took me about 4 or 5 hours to do… but next time would be quicker, i stripped the car down more than i needed to)

at the end of the day – mine is the ultra basic model; it doesn't have power steering, electric windows, central locking, air bags, abs, stability control. controls are a simple cable between the accelerator and the throttle linkage, firmish brakes… it was everything i wanted – i wanted a basic car with good handling. i did drive an S spec when buying which had alot of the electronic extras, but it wasn't what I was after

bootsize wise: get rid of the space saver spare (useless thing – i have a can of tyre weld stuffed in a wee gap behind the fuel tank – the space saver says not to put on a driving wheel or a steering wheel… in a 5 that leaves the errrrrr…) boots pleanty big enough.

this was taken at the start of a weeks holiday to France – so the car carried tent, bedding, and clothes for me and the missus and all the usual extras you end up taking.
equally we have been away camping at race meetings – so tent, cooking gear, clothes – plus 2 hold all bags with our marshalling gear in. you get good also at finding the little nooks and crannies around the cabin like behind the seats and on the parcel shelf.

on the motorway – they are more noisy that a regular closed car. with a standard exhaust its not too bad, its mostly wind noise. mines a little louder (not by much) as i have a Larini stainless steel exhaust fitted, but its still a case of being able to hold a normal conversation, or listen to the stereo without having to shout. ( a big improvement i made was to get a little fabric windbreaker which is fixed between the seats which reduced the wind in the cabin with the roof down.
and long distance motorway wise – from the above picture – we drove from manchester to dover, then on to Le Mans nice and easily and comfortably.
70mph is about 3500rpm hence why its a little noisy on the motorway.

if you test drive one – remember they are very sensitive to set up – a poor/neglected set up can ruin how the car feels – a good geometry set up will bring feeling to the steering wheel, and feels more planted on the road.

engine wise – there was the original 1.6 which had about 115bhp (this is the one that is used in the mazda mx5 race series) then in 1994 they introduced the 1.8 with 120bhp. the Uk spec 1600cc engines were reduced to 90bhp (these are the ones to avoid – very underpowered) while the 1600cc Eunos imports kept the 115bhp engine.
the 1800cc stayed through the mark 2 variant.

I do like mine – i do find myself sometimes taking the long way home, just for the fun of it, (tho having tasted the experience of caterhams and elises – i want i want i want!)

Education Secretary (1970–1974)

When the Conservative party under Edward Heath won the 1970 general election, Thatcher became Secretary of State for Education and Science. In her first months in office, Thatcher came to public attention as a result of the administration of Edward Heath's decision to cut spending. She gave priority to academic needs in schools,[37] and imposed public expenditure cuts on the state education system, resulting in, against her private protests, the abolition of free milk for school-children aged seven to eleven.[38] She believed that few children would suffer if schools were charged for milk, however she agreed to give younger children a third of a pint, daily, for nutritional purposes.[38] This provoked a storm of protest from the Labour party and the press,[39] and led to the unflattering moniker "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher".[38] Of the experience, Thatcher later wrote in her autobiography, "I learned a valuable lesson. I had incurred the maximum of political odium for the minimum of political benefit."[39]

She successfully resisted the introduction of library book charges. She did not volunteer spending cuts in her department, contrary to her later beliefs.[38] Her term was marked by support for several proposals for more local education authorities to close grammar schools and to adopt comprehensive secondary education. Thatcher, committed to a tiered secondary modern / grammar school system of education, was determined to preserve grammar schools, which prepared more students for admission to universities.[37] She abolished Labour's commitment to comprehensive schooling, and instead left the matter to local education authorities.[37]

what ernie says Edukator says makes no sense.

ernie_lynch – Member Edukator – can you clarify what you mean by Germany between the wars, and Argentina not so long ago, having "stable currencies" ? Because whichever way I read it, I can't get it to make any sense………pardon me if I'm being a bit fick

what Edukator said.

Edukator – Member Just off the top of my head the people of Germany between the wars, Argentinia (and other Latin American states) not so long ago and Hungary post war all suffered more than in any country with 10% unemployment but a stable currency.

ernie, if you miss out bits of a sentence, its no wonder things dont make any sense to you.

and also to the person who said he was born in 1977 and said he remembered Thatcher 'snatching the milk'
It really is amazing that you can remember something which happened during the 1970-74 goverment.

Outwell are the only tents to buy, good range and worth the cash.

totally disagree – i find outwell are an overhyped brand, whoes demo tents are just covered in wording to highlight supposed extra. and can fill a camping shop with over priced junk like the 'fitted carpet'

as to the OP – if your after cheap camping for 2. I started out with a little 3 eurohike tent. slept 2 comfortably inside on a double airbed. with a overnight bag besides. Used to go camping by hiking/train journeys too, so the tent was strapped to the bottom of the rucksack, tho the rucksack had to say in the porch area. if there was 2 inside

that was ok, only cost about £30, lasted a few years.

our current smallish tent for normal camping is a Vango Sigma 300+ which we got for £60. packs up fairly small (or first camping trip with it was in our MX5 with the rest of the camping gear + our 2 marshal's hold alls. and bought the tent at a camping shop in a sale on the way to a meeting as the tent we had ordered online hadnt arrived in time. and it was a cheap way of being able to go to the race meeting.
That has a decent bedroom area, that we can get a double lilo inside, with a small bag to one side. plus 2 porches at each end for putting your shoes in.

Good lightweight tent in a small pack size for general camping. semi-geodesic gives ok resisance to battering from winds – but the poles are little on the thin side for the mountaineering stuff of more expensive tents.

otherwise, we normally use a Vango Tornado 300 when going away and its going to be strong winds. which is in a different league. (and with a price to go with it.) very quick to go up – 3 alu poles, strong design, light and packs up small. But it is £200.

but our main workhorse (bearing in mind we are pretty much camping through the motorsport season March to October most weekends) is a Wynnster Curlew 6

our origonal Curlew lasted 3 seasons, being used most weekends. after 3 seasons the poles were getting a bit weak, and the material was looking very bleached from the sun.
Since nothing else comes close to it, we bought an updated version last year. The only difference between the old and new version was the new has a sewn in ground sheet, which cuts out some of the drafts in side in the living area.
Its tall enough to stand up in, we dont put up the seperate 2 person bedroom, prefering the extra room, the 4 person bedroom is massive. and you can pick one up for around £99. but it does pack down a fair bit larger than the others i have mentioned.

SNP saying Gordon lied about not authorising the leaflets – producing one from Brown's constituency, making the same claims of the SNP.

according to Yougov, tis Cameron the winner 36% to Clegg, Brown last

cutting free bus passes and winterfuel allowance shown to be lies buy Channel 4 fact check. http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/2010/03/23/tories-to-cut-pensioner-perks/

am i watching the same debate as the rest of you?

Clegg looks and sounds like a double glazing salesman whoes just knocked on your door.

Brown looks like hes struggling to contain his frustration

mastiles_fanylion – you forget one thing – yes a CaterField is quick up a hill climb – but in real world B road blatting – theres one thing that can help make the 106 quicker than a 7 – ground clearance (some of the roads round here the 7s have to back off for fear of banging the sump on the bumpy/yumpy roads

as is normally the case:

Tree: 1 – Car:0

I love Elises – certainly dont depreciate like a stone – If anything the origonal S1 from the mid 90s are appreciating (what was available for £5-7k grand a couple of years ago is now going for £7-8k)

only had a 111s (had a 1.8vvt toyota engine rather than the more powerful 111r) for a few weeks, very easy to drive around town and on the motorway, even in the snow. and of course for a nice blat at the weekends.

But yeah, – wouldnt class the new elise with the 1.6 at 27 as 'affordable'
That would go to Caterham for a new 'classic' 7 at £13,000 (of course if you want to spec options like say a windscreen or paint then the price goes up a little. 😉

Google latitude scared me a little!

it will only update when you have it switched on on your phone and updating.

When you look at the replays of the lewis/seb pit stop – the RB lollypop rises first – but the mclaren lollypop rises just as seb starts moving – had lewis not had that little bit too much wheelspin leaving, then there wouldnt have been a problem. So i wouldnt say it was an unsafe release, the lollypop man can only see so much, and the time difference between the 2 releases mean when Lewis was released, there was nothing coming down the pit lane – ergo it was clear to release.

i didnt think it has been announced yet what the decision is

Dont worry about the harvest. I'll have everything sorted next year.

Hora: yes, the year i bought the car, the Turbo blew. as did a few other things.

It seems tho it was poor maintenance by previous owner that was behind a lot of the problems we had.

for example – it needed a new gearbox soon after we got it (about 3 month later) – when the box was taken out one of the plugs hadn't been screwed back in, so it gradually lost oil. gearbox replaced via dealer warranty.

turbo – due to being run on semi-synth oil/long intervals between oil changes.

we did the update to the crank case breather system that should have been carried out a couple of years before we bought the car the same time as replacing the turbo – 3 years and 60,000 miles later its been fine.

only other things we've had has been a cracked vac pipe, and a leaky slave cylinder. both of these we've had one other cars at similar ages.

even more for the camera man at the back of the gravel trap who has to duck to avoid that flying wheel.

9-5 shares engines and running gear with the Vectra.

diesels yes are GM/Alfa Romeo.

the petrol engines, no. they are saab.

suspension set up by saab engineers.

saab was a redesigned vectra/cavalier,

not really. the only major thing the 9-5 shared with the vaux/opels was the floor pan – even then it was lengthened to suit the size of the saab.

theres less in common between the Vectra and the 9-5, than there is between a Skoda/Seat/VW/Audi

would go for the petrol engined SAABs over the TIDs – i get a good 37mpg out of a 2.0t petrol, had a 2.2TID for a couple of weeks – which got 42mpg over the same journeys – just didn't add up – plus i find the petrol has better drivability.

saying that – the petrol needs to be looked after. that is – change the oil every 6000miles with fully synthetic.

otherwise comfy mile eater, with a big boot.

Channel 4's fact check on the labour claims Here

another one for a wander around the science and industry museums – free to go round.

4hrs wont be long enough to see it all – but its plenty of time to wander around the power hall – lots of old steam engines from mills, and locos, and the air and space hall across the round.

Arrogant ****

where as i saw a guy really suprised to learn that was how well his start had gone.

hammi seems to have mellowed of the last year or so and just enjoying things.

i had to replace the turbo on my (petrol) Saab a couple of years ago.
used a recon turbo, there was a rebate for sending the old knackered tubo back to them for fitting new internals (usual problem – bearing went causing impeller to disintergrate)

make sure all the intake pipes are throughly cleaned – if your turbo has done the same thing then the intake pipes/intercooler will be full of little flakes of metal and oil that you certainly dont want reaching your engine.

I fixed the saab my self, but i dont know how easy the audi is to do yourself.

Dibbs – have a look on XDA-Developers.com put HardSPL on it, then you can flash the updated ROM onto the phone (use something like SPD back up to save all your data on the phone – things on your memory card wont be touched)

I did that pretty much as soon as i got the phone.

tho saying that – it does invalidate your warranty, but there are instructions on how to return the phone to factory settings if you need to for warranty purposes

whilst neatly avoiding the issue of all your sceanrios paying the same as the duke of westminster under your "fairer "sysytem.

aahhh the policies of jelousy

got one too, love it.

excellent camera, quick for picking up GPS signals, push email for exchange servers (and can be set for pop email too)

big battery option available if you find you chew through it too quick.
it is big, but i got used to it quickly (had a Touch Diamond before which is tiny)