If you're in London, why not take an early train out & ride home?
If you need to bail, it'll be a shorter distance to a station and less time to get home.

A couple of years ago I did Reading-Bristol on the canal towpath & some roads, about 100 miles. Brum-London on the Grand Union would be about right for you I'd have thought

I recommend the north side of PenYFan, S of Brecon
There's a car park about 1km W of Plas-y-Gaer with plenty of places to pitch nearby.
I've stayed there in a van overnight, no problems.
There's woods & a clean stream, too.

He's still an MP, £60k a year plus lots of allowances.
He'll be fine.

Dunno about the rest of us with Mr Cameron in charge

Now 57, young by some standards.
I think SFB and Ernie are within a few monhts of my age, too.

The Wye is good, downstream from Hay to Monmouth. There are companies hiring canoes who will hire then fetch you back

Did the destination account holder name & number match up?
Ask the banks, as a first step.
What did they say?

And put something in writing to the bank, now

I reckon (11:45) that it's more likely for Brown to go, but a Lib-Lab pact will be formed with another PM.
The LibDems need proportional representation, and the Tories would not give it to them as it would be in their interest to delay such a bill, then hold another election in 6 months

Mushrooms.
Too many of the wrong sort, and they go through me in about 40 minutes.

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A friend stayed there with new SO & enjoyed it. I remember 2-week holidays there from 40 years ago, magical.

Thrupp? I bet you know Clarissa & her girls.

Thanks, all.
Mark – I only picked it up on Friday evening, but pix will surely follow. It seems to be just what we wanted – a fantastic thing.

See you soon, and good luck with the barn,
Martin

Congratulations to you and your family!
DOn't worry, there will be plenty more scary moments to come. Kids are like that. You'll have fun.

Nor me.
That's because I know how effective the US is at stopping illegal immigrants and all drugs at their borders; it's a closed country.
Or not.

Pak or ex-USSR bombs on the loose are what frighten me.

Germ war is difficult and doesn't kill people (or so the bods at Porton Down have told me).

The advantage of a small nuke over a plane is that once you've got it, it can be smuggled into another country – like drugs – and let off where you want, whether that's Bombay or Boston.

I'm surprised that no group has tried to develop air-blast weapons like the US' Daisycutter, as the materials are not too hard to come by and the effects impressive in the right circumstances

No, but that's because we pass too many laws.
Foolish ones, for the most part.

My own idea for reforming the upper house is better.

We need representatives of the people, not necessarily those skilled at climbing greasy poles.
So, have an optional secondary prize in the national lottery of 5 years as a Senator (or whatever). SO there would be a rolling membership of 260 or so, all provided with a salary and appropriate accommodation in London. It would be self-financing, as many people who don't go in for the lottery now would take part if that was a prize.

In my first year of 2ry school, I was taught one lesson a week by our head, in a school of 400.

It was his way of making sure he knew every child at the school, but that was the mid-60s.

A friend described Mr Cameron's appearance very accurately: he looks like a "freshly **** cock"

Spot on.

Solarider – you ought to check again.
We liberated France & Belgium etc, yes; but we had to invade first.
And the Germans and Italians weren't very keen on the idea.

You seem to forget the role played by the Russians, too.

WW1, seeing lots of mates die. (Awarded MC)
Unemployment in the depression and no dole.
Hunger
Not being able to clothe his kids properly.

Things are better now.

Chemotherapy 😐

Also check out the train services – it's easy to take bikes on many, so you could train out & ride back to a base or vice versa

I also stink when I use technical fibres, so I've given up wearing them next to my skin. My mates stink too, so we remain friends.

Yep.
The older Severn Bridge, Aust to Chepstow, has a cycle and pedestrian lane

Geoff Haslam is a good architect.
0777 9222 126 geoff@localagenda.co.uk

Cut science & engineering support, reducing our manufacturing capability.

Stopped "subsidies" for mining & manufacturing (mainly in the north and west) but introduced "Incentives" for investment in the city & south-east.

Where's Humper's ?

I like Weston's perry when I can get it. It's got that acetaldehyde taste, too much acidity, but it goes down wel..

So do I

Next time, take a Cadbury's (Kraft's?) Caramel, think of the bunny girl and when it all goes wrong, relax.
You don't have to compete against yourself especially if you're going to lose: you're never going to be a world champion so you just cannot continue to improve forever.

Me: I'm fifty-plus, flabby, useless. But I enjoyed a 30-minute tootle this afternoon; riding up and down a few kerbs and steps is enough sometimes.

Is that so you can ride with her thighs around your head?

Oh god. Is Talkemada Fred?
Welcome home, Az.

Nah.
We need a dictator who WILL resort to hanging bankers & other politicians

I read of one interesting scenario in which Labour & Tory agreed to form a government, to keep the LibDems from power. After all, LAb & COn are both Thatcher-Blairite in ideals.

Then when the LibDems are excluded, call another election without the threat of proportional representation

eeh, and when I was a 12-year old I used to carry a 6" sheath-knife when out walking. How times change

I'd guess that Old Market will be OK to park on as it's a busy road, the side-streets not so great. But car and bicycle crime is rare here.

😉

Force majeure is there in the contract becasue of these unusual occurrences.
Ryanair flies places you can't otherwise get to as cheaply and strands you there if it has problems. (Like me in Morocco)
You'll get you money back for the flight, as they promised. It's just that getting home might cost you more by other routes.

Streams?
You know, free running water coming off hills?

Try to calculate how much she's paid on a hourly basis vs minimum wage?

Set up on her own, give each child a letter for mum & dad to read?

Or just talk to her?

via the Santander ferry ?

It's not just the safety aspect: it's the damage to the planes. If they have to have new engines / refurbs and new cockpit glass every few flights, it'll make air travel uneconomic.

Reading to Bristol is doable in one day if you start early (well, I did it once), just about 100 miles via the various Kennet & Avon canal paths & old railway path.