Don’t Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult.

and

Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye, sung by Gracie Fields.
It’s got a brillian ending, the sound of steam train chuffing off into the distance.

Why bother upgrading?
Will the lack of support from microsoft actually impinge on your work?
Netbooks are only worth about £100 2nd hand, so is the upgrade cost worth it?

The original article quoted above is from the Mirror, the Fleet Street Fox column. She’s a good, provocative columnist.

Ryanair took me to Morocco once.
The return flight was cancelled. No refunds on the spot, no accommodation help, no replacement aircraft brought in, just a “make your own way home”.
I was lucky, I got tke last seats on an Easyjet flight the same day, but there was a family of 6 left stranded who reckoned it would cost them £2k to return to the UK.

Oh, yes, they did offer seats for free on the next available flights wit hspare spaces, but some of those were 4 weeks ahead.

Absolute nightmare, absolute barstweards

I’ve had an hour in Leigh Woods,that’s enough for 1st January with a hangover.

Selvedge denim: made on obsolescent looms with limited fabric width. That’s all. Nothing special.

Worst: getting fired. (bastards!!)
Best: 1 week in Croatia, walking the High Dales Way, uncle’s 90th party

Sarn Helen, Conwy in N Wales to the S Wales coast, partly along the Roman road, and going through Snowdonia & the Brecon Beacons. Both are on rail lines.

After 3 nights of overindulgence, I think I shall stick with herbal teas.
It’s rest day for my liver.

If you use Ryanair, try to get a thinnner carry-on, as the *&*& have a max thickness of 20cm. Same with some other budget airlines.
TKMaxx often have cheapies on offer, much reduced.

Ignore Flashy.
If you’re only travelling for a day or so, then a good carry-on can save you an hour or so wait for baggage collection, whether budget or full-service airline. On the full-service you can often take two bags on, easily enough for a very long weekend

I’m not complaining. Sorry I missed OldFart’s group ride in the morning, but I’d had a heavy evening before so I had to wait until noonish for a pootle.

I though it was £5 or so. I didn’t know you could return that way.

Why didn’t the slimy toads give the toll road a different number? The M48 / M4 are parallel, they changed the number when the new bridge opened.
Was it just to create confusion & more business for the toll system?

Did you get any more responses, OldFart ?
(Waves at Aleigh 🙂 )

How many balls have you got?
You can’t tell the big boss because spaced man might lose his job.
So man up & tell your line manager that it’s been noticed, he needs to stop toking at work or someone might dob him in.
Is it affecting his work? If so it’s even more important that he stops.

Mrs Toast, my boss also has a narrow waist – try Next jeans, which seem to be the only ones which fit that shape.

Thank you.
My pair are comfy & ideal on the bike but looking filthy now, another for town use would be useful.

A pair from Gap that fit me OK.
A 2nd hand pair of Diesel that cost me £6, but fit well, and some 501s that I can’t ride in. But i rarely wear jeans, I’m more a beige corduroy and comfy cardigan man.

😀

No, the traffic will be fine at that time of day. If T1000 drives that route every day why does he think it’s going in & out of bristol? The route avoids the city completely.

Without knowing your business, it’s worrying that you’re asking for examples of RFPs blind. Why were you selected to tender? Who by?

The sakes guys will help you with your first few, and often write a 1st response themselves. Their job is to get people to ask you to tender, and to ensure that the criteria used to select a vendor are the ones you are strongest in when compared with the competition.
[One of my better sales was when I persuaded a utility to pay us £5k to write their RFP for them. They had a deadline to meet. Funnily enough, we eventually won their business]

T – iain won’t have to go in & out of Bristol.
He’ll come off the M5 by Gordano services and it’s a single straight road to both LW and Ashton Ct, thhe A369. Probably only 5 miles off the motorway, with light traffic in early-mid afternoon.

Bristol should be fast & easy to get to at that time of day: M4, M49, M5 across the Avon and straight off again at PortZ. Less than 10mins from Gordano services to parked at Leigh Woods or Ashton COurt. A circuit or two of YerTiz and across to Nova will get you exercised. 50 acre as well if you’re in the mood.

You won’t get too filthy, either.

What input have you had into the creation of the tender?
What input have your competitors had?
Do you know what the client really wants?

Address the latter as welll as the points required.

Exec summary.
Pricing (poss an overview)
Response to each point
Stuff about your capability
Additional capability – paint a picture of partnership
Conclusion

Get thee down to Marks & Spencers. You’re 32, you’re grown up and past it. Also, you might be sirprised at what they stock.
🙂

I fancied her 30 years ago, I fancy her now. More so, probably.
Shame it happened in London, full of miserable po-faced smog slaves.

The experiments at Porton weren’t diguised, however.
The servicement were told what they’d be exposed to, not duped by tales of “cold cures”

** Having talked to people who’ve read the medical records kept, when I was at Porton

I’ve eaten it a few times, very tasty, but not seen any boar in the UK. Deer, on the other hand are great fun when running parallel to you. There were two great big beauties crashing past me on Follow the Dog, Cannock, yesterday.

Shane they can’t all head across the NYM, up Sutton Bank, a bit of twirliness then Rosedale Bank too. Might be interesting.

Best ever:
There’s a group of us, all mature respectable people, at some conference or other. Afternoon, so we might not have been 100% sober.

One guy takes a business call on his moby.

A woman leans over and whispers loudly into the phone: “Oh, honey, put down the phone & come back to bed.”

Giggles all round.

Just take a big chisel & wrecking bar & hammer your way through. It’ll be just as easy as trying to drill, faster, and just backfill the voided area with rubble & concrete. There’s be much less to hire, too.

Nah, you can tell by the downtube shifters that this is a 1970s perspex-wheeled bike so no spokes are visible

If you look at the photo, you’ll see that the fork telescope isn’t vertical. So as the forks rise, the CoG of the load moves back. So if you’re lifting something in/out of a hole, that location isn’t relevant, it’s to do with where the chains are attached to the forks and the height of the forks.

“Sweet” !! That **** word.
Every time a woman has used it to me, it meant “No, I like you but my knickers are staying firmly in place.”

It was done about a week ago, so search the forum. The concensus is that there isn’t one. Spend some more & get a Nexus or Kindle

No, lots of that is bollox; I’ve gotten to Mcr from Bristol many times for 9am. I spent last year doing BS to Stoke for 8am by leavng at 6. Mind, I’m only 15 mins from the M5/M4 junction. So if you leave at 5:45 you’ll be in Manchester (where?) in time for your meeting.

I don’t think you can make an office in Mcr by 9:30, the earliest train from BRI is 6ish I think. Helicopter would be best.
Driving, also leave at 6.

Nah, India is also a 30min difference, 5.5 hrs at this time of year. They don’t do summer time shift.

In that case I won’t recommend the ones in Lidl/ Aldi at the moment, fine value at £40.

Congratulations. Weren’t you videoing the event?
When’s your next trip to the Bank or the Windmill?

They’re easy to wear on the bike, which is a real plus. I prefer tights to trousers for pootling around, but daren’t now I’m fat & old. I used to wear Ron Hills & skinny rugby shirts in the 80s, with a bum bag to keep my keys etc in.
Surprisingly, I got asked out a couple of times by young ladies.

How tall are you?
I have a nice Thorn Club Tour going cheap for you, sir.
It’s about 5 years old but v little used, with 8 x 3 gearing, bar-end friction shifters, very olde skool & nice to ride.

I also have an On-One Blue Dragon Kaffenback frame & forks if you’re interested.