Epicyclo – excellent story!

Whatever happened to Halo Jones? I had quite a crush on her.

Again?

Look for the ghost of Jack Taylor’s frame builders.

And back in the 70’s UK blokes were waaaaay to busy striking and burning pallets in oil drums to be messing about on push-bikes

Not the 70s I remember.
But I didn’t ride a bike much because my flares got caught in the chainrings.

However in the 60s, as in Scotroutes’ film clip, off-road cycling was a thing even if it didn’t have a name. Labels make a difference.

So racing my mates on a single-speed Elswick-Hopper down Rudland Rigg in 1968 doesn’t count? I is disappoint.

SOG, some have, yes. There are also several biotechs working on new antibiotics including RedX in Alderley, and university groups funded by industry.
The financial problem is that any new antibiotics will be the treatment of last resort (to stop resistance developing to the new drug), so sales will be very low which makes this an unattractive area to work in.
The FDA is considering incentives to get more companies interested in the area.

CG:

Pharma only fund research where they know that the findings will fit their agenda.

This is bolleaux. Pharmas fund research where they think that there is a need for an improved treatment, where they consider they cn provide that, and where they can make some money. It doesn’t always work. Big pharma companies have spent billions on looking for Alzheimer treatments, so far without success. Merck stopped a Ph III trial on verubecestat only last week – that trial was running since 2012, and earlier development work for about 5 years before that.

A pair of ball finials from our victorian garden gateposts. We still haven’t been able to find suitable replacements, 13 years later

Ford Thames 12-seater van in cream. 3 gears.
My parents took us camping over Scotland in that beast.

Can anyone recommend a tree surgeon type near Nottingham? Young Ms M would like a masshoosive pine removed from her garden. Problem – access is restricted to vehicles less than 2.1m high.

Not Central America but the Yucatan sin outhern Mexico, last year. The buses are excellent, making getting around easy. Visit the sites early in the day, before the tourists from Cancun arrive in their coaches. Make sure you swim in a cenote. Uxmal & Coba are much quieter than Chitzen Itza, so more atmospheric.

Also: Belize

The last few times I was feverish & delirious my brain dragged up some wonderful early erotic memories that had somehow been lost in the mists of time. So it wasn’t all bad.

Stoner:
1. Some snakes have heat-detecting 3rd eyes or pits for detecting prey. I * seem to remember that IR has too long a wavelength for mammalian eyes. However bees and other insects can see UV, not that that’s relevant.

2. Dunno

3. It’s getting toward the foetal position & minimises heat loss, I reckon. Get well soon

My job title was once “European Sales Manager”. I asked for “Bloody Rep” on my card, but the idea was rejected.

You’ve got Malvern malaria. It lasted most of lst week for me, & I’m still feak and weeble.
Get well soon, and send me the keys to your van.

Many of the small businessmen on this website will be used to this sort of thing, either buying / selling on 90 day’s credit (which some big companies insist upon from their suppliers) or retentions dependent upon snagging etc. So payment requests often go missing until the end of a financial year or afterwards.

Pay it, it’s the right thing to do.

He’s had a personalised contact. It’s an invoice for goods that he has received & used. Now it’s time to pay. I can’t see why the invoice should be queried at all, unless it’s to check whether the original agreement was for E or £.
Regard the sale as 12 months’ free credit, and arrange to pay like the honest person we’d like you to be.

I’m sure that by now Canyon will be aware of this thread, [edit: beaten to it! ]and will have a good idea of who the purchaser is. Any claims of ” I didn’t get it ” might not be believed.
A change of circumstance after a purchase is not a good reason to seek a cancellation of a debt. Even if you were not billed, there will be an assumption that you will have put those funds by in order to pay,.

you will when yer 91 said Bert.

I remember my mother talking the same way as the Flanagaj the original poster, when she was 60-ish. Now she is 91, almost 92, she’s hanging on to her unhappy life while my dad (also 91) looks after her.
Your thoughts on hanging onto life change as your body & mind change,

According to http://www.alpinequest.net/ , AlpineQuest can use qct files.
The full version costs about E7, so it’s worth a punt, even if the free Lite version won’t do it for you.

Ambrose, look for an app called MMTracker, not available via Appstore, which reads .qct Memory Map files. It works very well for me.
IIRC , Memory Map forced the producers to withdraw their app from general distriution, but it’s still available if you look.

That and Maps.me are the location apps I ues most.

Something that fits, from a shop that knows what it’s talking about. Different shaped feet need different boots. £70 on a pair that hurt after 5 miles is just a waste.

If you’re up that way, I’d suggest walking from Craster to Dunstanburgh , or looking round Bamburgh rather than going to Kielder unless you’re into watersports. Not the Donald Trump sort. I thought that Kielder was just a lot of forest blocking the views.
Don’t forget Alnwick or Warkworth, either.

Also in the NE, Teesside, 1960’s.
Two bottles per week, usually cherryade or dandelion & burdock. I also remember a Rington’s tea van, a black-and-yellow three-wheeler.

We went as a family a dozen years ago, loved it all except for the tourist food. That’s improved now, by all accounts.
Don’t miss the Bay of Pigs museum, where pride of place goes to a British Sea Fury, one of the planes that enabled the Cubans to defeat the US / CIA-funded invaders.
Cuba used to be a British Colony. We swapped it for Florida.

Yes, in the garage.
Blame the worn-out rubbers.

I live in a fairly densely populated middle-class area in a city, and when the weather is cold the suburb stinks of wood-smoke. It’s no better than burning coal, which became illegal to burn here following the Clean Air acts.

A great shame.
My brief claim to fame was being on stage with him at the Bristol Old Vic, with Prince Charles in the audience.

Yes. Or at least probably.
Young Ms M managed to get 2 people, 2 bikes and a week’s worth of camping gear into a Micra so if the Mini is the wrong shape, buy a Micra instead.

There’s a caff on site at the visitor centre, it’s not wonderful.
No, you can’t get anything like as close without paying (I went in 2016), and you get only a one-sided view. They close the byways to motorised traffic at certain times so don’t bank on access that way, either. As others say, go to Avebury & eat at the pub or the village cafe

Malvern, thanks for the memories. Mrs M had a pink ape for several years, until we gave it away. It was a lump. Is the new Spesh stem suspension related to the Girvin FlexStem?

Mrs M met the “girl with the mousy hair” last year. One or both of them might have been spaced at the time.

I hired a car for a week in SE Poland, last October. We had no problems, apart from finding somewhere to part in the centre of some towns. Admittedly we spend most of the time in rural areas, but it seemed pretty much like driving anywhere else in Europe, to me. Some road surfaces were a bit iffy.

Give it up & get a Dutch bike. Weekend traffic out of the Dam can be awful, Perhaps a fatbike for the dunes all along the coast would be fun?

I volunteer in a localish primary school helping 8-9 year old kids learn to read. I’m pleased that although most of them are New British with a variety of maternal languages ( Portuguese, Somali, French, Wolof, Urdu, etc etc ) and don’t communicate in English at home, nearly all have broad Bristol accents.

All fine and dandy until you get a tenant that stops paying their rent, etc

And what would an agent do if this occurred? My experience is that they tell you the rent hasn’t appeared, then leave you to it.

Blacks / Millets currently has half-price Berghaus waterproof kitbags in a range of sizes.

oh, Muker.
My mother was the last (head) teacher there before they closed the village school.

The great thing about the Dales is you can have one climb them be on high for a good long time, with no constant switching between ascent and descent. I consider it the best walking in the country.

The Google Fit app is free and should work with most Android gadgets. By default it records walking and running, but you can also link it to Strava to integrate any cycling you do too.

Fit records cycling time fine if you carry your phone in your trouser pocket. If GPS is switched on, it’s fine for distance and route covered too.