1/3″ ? How about changing your cranks from 175 to 170 or 165?
Or buying flatter pedals?

Also have a look at Insightly for a CRM. Free for 3 users, then builds slowly. It looks OK to me.

Saab 9-3. Nice.

Excellent. Ta for your help!

^^ as above. Also good if you’re interested in sailing.

It’s called Danger W4nking, I believe

I don’t think that online drugs will actively kill you, but they are less lkely to keep you alive than EU/US manufactured ones.
Ranbaxy is one of India’s biggest pharmas. The following article was written for the industry, but is fairly layman-friendly:
Scarily bad

DunkyDunc’s suggestion is unlikely to save money: you still have to pay the prescription fee, then the drugs on top.

Browse your local gumtree then take a look at several, make up your mind. We bought our first for £7k, sold 3 years later of £6k. It was an 8-year old Iveco self conversion, great to see what we liked and what we didn’t.

I wouldn’t trust any online. Indian drugs are notorious for not being well made. The postage from overseas would surely add a quid or so to the cost.

How about asking your doc if she can prescribe 3 months at a time, so cutting your cost to less than 10p / day ?

I recommend that you ask on Mumsnet. I believe there is a legal question section. Have a look through, it may be less hostile than you think.

I feel used.
I thought that I was the only one she’d given her number. Now you’ve told me that she’s after you too. How will I ever trust a woman again?

It prob means aerospace quality, assuming some aircraft are weapons.

No, it’s not OK. You won’t get reliable answers.
However, if you ask how valuable your service would be, that’s another matter.

On a side-note, has Austria put out any statements about why they stopped Bolivia’s plane? I’ve seen nothing from them yet?

Yes, frequently. Sometimes for no reason, sometimes for a pee.
Often I lie awake for a couple of hours before drifting off again. It’s annoying but not a problem, as I’m resting and thinking.

Northwind,
Even if it’s not a direct copy, it’s still using someone else’s idea for your benefit. The variation may or may not be enough to avoid infringement, that’s for the lawyers to decide. The development may still take work, but the IP is imortant too.

Another drug-related analogy: the patents on a particular drug are for the active chemical used. Patent busters and generic manufacturers still need to work out how to make that ingrdient, which may involve quite a bit of R&D. They still can’t sell the drug while its under patent, even tho they could patent the process used to make it.

Northwind, for knock-off I mean copying the key features. If the EPO decide that the key feature is the cross-section change, then if you copy that you may be infringing the patent. Non-functional aspects of the design are irrelevant.
If Works are confident in their design, I’m really pleased. I like to see UK-manufactured goods.

SRAM applied for the patent before anyone else started making the parts. Yes, they can ask for retrospective licence fees & damages, just as Apple did to Samsung in the USA.

However they are not abusig their position. There are alternative chainsets available, just not with this particular feature. We don’t have to buy thich-thin rings, after all.

It is possible to patent a new application for old technology, in this case for lightweight bike chain drives, using the thick-thin principle. An example of this is the extension of drug patents from one disease to another indication (eg Botox, Viagra)

Even if they’re able to rein in the copy market now, the genie’s out- we know a little company in England can make rings that do the same job for £35, so even less people will be happy spending £70 for a SRAM one.

But it’s not about the manufacturing cost, it’s about the value to the user and the cost of the R&D. For instance, bringing a new drug to market costs up to a billion US$. The drug might only cost pennies to manufacture, pennies to market, but they have to get back those R&D costs somehow. That’s why prescription drugs cost so much and why patent protection is needed. Viagra, for instance, is just about to drop in price by 80% now it’s off patent in the UK. Its price will remain high in the US, and is dirt cheap in India where they don’t recognise IP so effectively. (They also have a habit of not making to a high purity, but that’s a different story)

So just because a UK company can charge £35 instead of £70 for a knock-off, is no reason for saying the higher price is not justified. The manufacturing price is a small part of the overall cost for originating products.

By the way, Sustrans’ part-time lawyer spent many years in patent law. He might be interested in some consultancy!

I suggest that you’d soon find yourself miserable at having to take a pay cut for a job that won’t turn out to be what you expected. The right thing to do is to look hard for a job at a higher salary. (That’s assuming you’re a “professional” rather than a tradesman.)

None that I know of in this house, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
However about 10 years my 1st girlfriend bought a terrace house in which a member of my family (known as Our Annie’s Arthur), committed suicide by slitting his own throat, in the mid 1930s.

Nope, but it’s good watching. Pierre was with the guy that killed Victor, I think. God knows how Lena got the scar: presumably she was shagging at the time.

Yeah, but there are something like 2000 different acts over the weekend. You know you’ll get value from your ticket, whoever they put on. And Mumford & sons are headlining Sunday on just one of the many stages, so in effect about No 50 in the pecking order.

That Mmmmmm a woman makes as she snuggles up afterwards.
larks on high moorland on a sunny morning
swifts in late summer
waves at night

Excellent collection of tyre levers round his neck. 🙂

Can you show a pic of a ruler as well? Scale is important!

The 28 Dates Later blog is written by a mate of a long-time STW chappie.
You’re right, it’s quality reading.

Maroon, sort-of. I look out for ticks when I shower after a ride – if I’m washing all over it’s not an effort as I’m not a hairy bloke. It depends on the place & season. Winter across the Qs wouldn’t be a worry, but going through chest-height bracken somewhere else would be.

This thread is useless without pics of Hora’s S-I-L.
Now!

Maroon, check your whole body when you shower after a ride. Have a close look at any new blemish, from poppy-seed size upwards to 6-7mm length. Ticks (google images) are little legged creatures, you can see the legs even on the smallest ones. They range from pale grey to black in colour.
They latch onto a leg & crawl up to somewhere warm, or where the lycra starts. I’ve had them in armpits and groin, so check carefully all over. You might notice them by feel, like new scabs.

On your phone – yes.
On landline broadband, – no

HFCC has been shown to make rats fat, alterning the amount of food which they eat:

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Mumsnet, right-wing? You must be joking. It’s as anti-Cameron / Osborne as you could wish (witch) for.
Generally it’s full of helpful advice & nice people.

The obesity “epidemic” shares many characteristics with other epidemics, in that it spreads (?) within nations and sub-populations by association. It seems to have started in Arkansas. There is a hypothesis that our psychology & physiology may be modified by an agent such as a virus or viroid (cf scrapie), in the way that toxoplasmosis alters cats behaviour. It’s a very slow-spreading disease, if it is one, which changes desire for food and activity.
Or it could be a change in gut bacteria:
Pipeline

Bottom of Whiteladies?
Some of the commuter trains from Weston & Nailsea pass BTM to stop at Clifton Down, 5 mins from the BBC.
What#s your budget for a house? That will have some bearing on where you end up, I guess, unless you like the look of that £1.75M farm. £300k will get you somewhere in Horfield close to the common & the Gloucester Road (cool), 20mins ride from the Bridge, 5 mins drive from the M32, 35 mins walk from Whiteladies, good schools nearby.

^^ That pic is Bemmy, hardly Southville. I could show you a photo of Yate as a nice suburb and tell you it’s Winterbourne. The op would run screaming.

Nope, but it’s fabuloous viewing.
The damn thing is, that lass Camille was on the cover of a Blind Faith album back in the 70’s – and that IS scary.

Bear, sorry, it’s a function on their website rather than an app – but still neat.
I’d just look at where I could get to from Manchester or E Mids or Donny, then flip a metaphoric coin. Have fun, wherever you end up

I don’t get the cancellation bit. Most scheduled full-service flights will have a couple of seats spare, and these days all airlines (SFAIK) charge more for last-minute bookings.

As an alternative, look at Easyjet’s “Inspire Me” app – where can i go to tomorrow, if you like. Or just take the 9am flight from your faveourite airport.
There’s trains & buses, of course. Take a random flight to Europe, then when you’re bored go to a train or coach station & see what comes in. A move of 100 miles is as much a change of scene as 1000.

You’re being paranoid.. well-balanced children can generally tell when something’s wrong.
Many adults game, don’t wreck a man’s life for the sake of the Daily Mail.

IMHO you’re thinking like a commuter, assuming the only ways to travel are car or train. If you lived in a suburb your wife could cycle or bus into the centre (traffic is bad, but buses have bus lanes and cycling isn’t hard).
Some incomers I know are very happy in Southville, 15 mins walk from Temple Meads, 10 mins to Ashton Court for the trails, 15mins drive to the M5.
Older terraces, acceptable gardens, sense of belonging.
WoT has Blaise Estate on its doorstep, leafy surrounds, and was a village, once.