Ours is also from a combi, but certainly works well.
I hate the faffing in hotel showers, when it takes 10minutes to get the water at the right temperature & flow.
(So I send Mrs M in first)

Not to mention the phasing out of mercury amalgam tooth fillings, due to fluoridation of water and replacement by synthetic cements.

But there’s certainly no point in taking $ then changing them to Baht – you’re just giving two sets of commission away

Serious question, Rone: why would you worry more about her safety than yours? And did you recognise the gentlemen? If not, why would they worry about being caught?

On a misty day in Ashton Court, Bristol: a deer appearing from nowhere and running parallel to me, only a few metres away. Magical.

100,000 have applied for tickets, including Mrs Moses. I think that she’ll pass it on to me, if she gets a place.

Yes, how do they manage the stop? A ramp and a jump into a paddling pool?

Microsoft Skydrive / OneDrive,
Google Drive
GaduGadu (If you read Polish)

for starters

Based on our experience, consider a rock’n’roll bed as the back seats, and restrict your cooking to 2 rings, which will free lots of space.
Can you get a 2nd hand capsule loo-shower room from an old caravan?

We had a Ducato converted by Autohaus / Acare and it’s 95% of what we wanted – we made a few spec errors because it was only our 2nd camper. It’s absolutely great, excellent for 2 or 3, with a semi-permanent double bed in the back.
The truck itself is absolutely fine, bought new 4 years ago for about 15k, the same as a Fiesta !

Have you plunged the ubend a few times to flush any nasties out? there may be a hair monster full of rotted soap and skin attached to the plughole.

I have a £7/month contract with EE which suffices for my needs, and bought a 2ndhand Google 4 which worked fine. It was nicked, so I’m now using a Windows Nokia (820 I think). I prefer the latter, the text prediction in particular is scarily good.
So look at the MotoG and a Nokia Lumia 520/5 to compare the operating systems, you could buy either for £100, both would do everything you want.

Interestingly, I’d backed up my contacts from the Android Google phone to my gmial account, then when I added that account on my Nokia, the contacts were automatically downloaded to it. Very neat!

It’s those little orange toadstools that do it for me.
They taste divine, especially in a creamy sauce, but they have a dwell time of about 30 minutes.
I had to turn down an offer of taking a lady home once, as I was so desperate to find a loo to pass flux in, following a meal of the little bastards.

Does the ?Red Lion at Blakey Rigg still have camping? It’s central, does food, easy drive to many villages, cycling from the door.

There’s a very decent pub just S of the first Swindon turnoff, on the road to Marlborough. I can’t remember its name, but I’ve eaten well there a few times.

edit ** J15, the Plough at Badbury, only half a mile form the M4

St Georges, poss nearish the park, also excellent for the cycle path to Bath. Downside, you have to cross the ringroad by Lawrence Hill to get into town by bus

and my testicles tuck

I’ve got a Litespeed Niota (in Al) which says its a medium but is more like a large- too big for me anyway. Recently serviced, but little used anyway. £180 including shock?
Oi’m based in Bristol, but travel around a bit and can post.

You’re miles out!
I wouldn’t stay in Chester-le-Street if I wanted to see Newcastle.

For parking, go to the Downs. There’s a long straight road suitable for parking in, called Ladies Mile. It’s only 200 yards from the zoo, on foot.
It would be fine to leave your van there all day, too.
But there is loads to do here, the zoo, SS Great Britain, museums, art galleries, theatre, architecture, just wandering around.

Right in the centre, close to SS Great Britain, the Cumberland Road might be worth considering for parking, but it won’t be quiet. I don’t know about parking restrictions there – but there IS a van / caravan park just off it, entrance near Underfall Yard.

I have a couple of friends who both thought they didn’t want kids. Then time passed, and it was too late. They are now quite distraught about it, and get quite tearful. For some people, it never seems the right time but really it always is.

Have children as soon as possible, then live life more fully afterwards. You’ll still have “me” time in the interval, but some of it will be “we” time, and you’ll love that even more.
My children are grown up, Mrs M is often away on her mini-adventures, and I get more-or-less freedom for mine. I’m 60, & wish I’d had children younger so I could have had more travelling in my 40s instead of waiting until now.

Can someone explain the significance of Jamie’s squid, please?

But most people die through long age-related illnesses anyway. Smoking kills us sooner, saving pensions as well. So the NHS won’t benefit at all.

A one-man tent (Helium 100) for mini-adventure practice, prior to proper travel when I retire in the next couple of years

and Brunel’s Buttery, the brick shed by the harbourside. There’s always a queue.

My last bile will *probably* be an electric bike; getting up the hills here can be a bugger. Fortunately there are a few years to go before I’m 75, so battery technology will be even better.

Assuming that this isn’t an April Fool, carbon dioxide.
More-or-less the same density as N20, cheaper, more available. Personally, I don’t believe you.

The BBC has a language site, not bad at all for revision.
BBC French[/url]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/

I once took 12 hours to get from Teesside to Bristol.
That was hitch-hiking, though. and a long time ago 🙂

CFH and I failed to meet in London, about 6 years ago. But we are still here!
And thank you very much for the offer.

Hi CFH, I guess the most obvious location is London or commutable to London as that’s where the money and prospective clients are.
As for people, are we talking STW beer vouchers or real fees?

Have a look on the OBN and OneNucleus websites, too. There are many conferences of various sizes and specialities. BioTrinity in May is the biggest in the UK, I think, but check whether you can look around the exhiobition for free, or have to pay.

Fluffy bunnies are OK.
Foxes, badgers also.
Just use a vehicle to kill them, and it’s fine.

The whole structure of the rail system has been concentrated around London since Beeching: there is not even a direct line between Oxford & Cambridge any more. A dozen years ago there were plans to reinstate the dozen missing miles around Buckingham, but those plans were cut.

The Cross-Country lines are too slow. It takes 4 hours for the 220 mile from Bristol to York, as opposed to 3 hours for the (really good) 200 miles from London to York.

Again, Molgrips:

” I had to laugh a bit at you suggesting it’s all because of Canary Wharf – London’s dominance goes back a lot further than that. They had to build that because the City was short on office space.”

I didn’t suggest that at all. But the recent growth in the financial sector, and its focus on London, was started by tax concessions and incentives given to redevelop the East End, ie London at the expense of the North. They didn’t “have to” build there at all, but it was made financially attractive.
They didn’t have to build the Docklands Railway either, but that was put in before there was demand, to stimulate the development of the area.

As another example of SE-centricity, the Diamond JEt was built in Oxfordshire and scientists moved from the existing Rutherford labs near Warrington, in a purely political move.

I *Think* the post office card doesn’t charge for overseas transactions, check it out anyway

Molgrips, sorry but “Transport links to London are good BECAUSE London is so important, not the other way round. ” is bollox. Good transport links create demand, ask any road planner.

No, London grew partly because of the government choices of investment there. Canary Wharf because of incentives given in the 80s to build, while it was drawn away from manufacturing in the north. London is in the south-east, with most of the country to the north-west. The decisions to build national airports easily accessible only via London meant London prospered at the expense of elsewhere.

Decisions on transport matter. Birmingham grew partly because it was a canal hub, Thames Valley prospers because of Heathrow (that’s why all the US software companies are there), industrial estates grow out around motorways because of the accessibility of transport.

The north needs investment, and 4-tracking between Liverpool -MCR- Leeds- Hull will help a damn site more than HS2

Very nice. A late ’50s was the first bike I rode, around my mate’s large garden. He’s been given it by the bloke next door.
My firt owned bike was also a Tiger Cub, and I want it back!

Buy my oldish but hardly used Kaffenback frame & forks, the beautiful Blue Dragon look from the past. It’s your size, too. I’m asking £100 plus p+p

The best review of the situation I’ve seen is this one, which seems fair to both sides and is written by a Ukrainian :
Grauniad

Mrs M on Mt Etna in Sicily, early 1980’s, wearing a then-very-trendy boilersuit. (Think onesie for outdoors, but more practical, for you youngsters.) It was warm, so she wasn’t wearing anything under it except knickers.

Somehow a bumblebee go inside the boilersuit then stung her. Next moment Mrs M was dancing around nearly naked for the other tourists, flapping her clothes around to get rid of the bee.

Then there was the time I pretended to take a photo of her wearing just a towel around her waist. She responded by lifting the towel to cover her bosom, resulting in a photo of her naked from the waist down. She wasn’t amused.