A proper, full-sized Zeppelin

I've no idea how he did that on a unicycle. It's magnificent.

Uplink's right.
The actual difference after taxes etc will be (say) 10k, take car costs into account and it's closer to £6k. SO I would choose security, especially if it's a route into a permanent job.

If She has made the point of reminding me that I'm "just" a locum and that one day I will "no longer be welcome".
She means, I'm going to get rid of you soon.
So I would walk now.

Perhaps you should pluck up the courage to ask her how long your job is secure for. Id you're not on good enough terms to ask, that might be an indicator of what to do.

But a lot depends on the actual salary levels.
If it's the difference between say £45k and £32, that would be easier to take than the difference between £32k and £19k.

Hooray for Cockermouth, Cumbria

Primo is a nice and easy converter. It has a better viewer than Adobe, too.

Fat, flour, sugar, flavourings.
That's the basis of all desserts, isn't it?
Spotted Dick is no different in that respect to pastries or gateaux or churros or whatever.

I'd try to get hold of a shed-load of pure heroin & overdose on it. I'm sure it's possible.

Other methods:
Hanging (wife's cousin) – Nah.
Cutting own throat with open razor (Great-aunt's husband in 1930s) -nah
Driving car off multistorey car park (drinking acquaintance) -nah
Jumping down tower block stairwell (Good friend, still miss him) -nah

Old age is the ideal way.
😕

Oh god, I can't believe no-one's said this already:

Meat and two veg, of course.
🙂

He spent some time in Sheffield as a boy, when he wasn't at Eton.Perhaps he knows Jarvis?

That poor girl in Birmingham, Ms P.E. Cotton.

Polly Esther Cotton, of course.

Knowing that road pretty well, I think it's a good idea. Some cars absolutely zap along, and the sheep are s-tup-id.

Wether (!)or not it will have an effect, I don't know. At least they intend to monitor that instead of leaving it there,

Oh, Lund. Nice. I must nip over to ActiveBiotech there sometime again…

Very nice, very restful.
Where in Sweden are you?

"Exotic" DVD ? do you know his taste in film / books/ birdwatching?

It was Gullett Quarry, and there were enough visible bottles to make me wary of the hidden ones.
The warden was a really good bloke, we chatted for some time. His job, poor sod, includes litter picking the morning after the local youth have partied in the carparks etc, leaving all sorts of rubbish. Mind, that morning they had left him half a case of beer by the quarry so he may not have minded. Plus towels, food, discarded knickers, etc.

His opinion seemed to be that middle-aged people in camper-vans staying illegally dissuaded the youth from being too obnoxious, so we were a good thing. Also, we don't litter.

🙂

Chin up.
Otherwise they won't be able to get to your windpipe.

And I'll buy you a pint when you've recovered from the Op. Make it soon.
Moses

They weren't endangered, then…

I thought it was the oil from fulmars that they used to use for lights. but I am prob wrong.

of the student house I lived in,
"It's like a shithouse struck by lightning"

Health & Safety would have them shut down.
Ask the local council
It sounds like considerably more than the tickle you get from a cattle fence, so he's obviously doing something dodgy

Beat you all so far: 1s10d.
In the Sun in Stockton-on-Tees

Apropos special equipment, old quarries tend to have a bed of broken bottles near the shore.Can anyone recommend any good footwear for gettting in & out. We were warned about this by the warden near a v. nice water-filled quarry in the Malverns, the other week. There were enough broken bottles visible to make me concerned about wading in barefoot.

PS Mrs M has skinny-dipped much of the upper Thames and a fair few other rivers. Brave woman.

I wouldn't stay at the Tan Hill – too high & bleak.
Reeth / Hawes would be better, or for a beautiful town as opposed to village, go to Richmond.

All of Swaledale….

or write Cymru am Byth on your rear tee-shirt, and be Welsh Back.

Long John Silver (lived in Bristol)

in a sari? Indira Gandhi went to 2 schools here.

Long pointy nose and be COncorde?

I still open the window, though

Serious suggestion, try Mary bars. The sweep will change your hand position enough to make a difference

To be fair, they do have a boxed edition of the first thirteen issues, at only £250.
A bargain, perhaps, at nearly £20 per issue.
Super-butch Belgians?

PC- yes.
Because private vehicles are so common, there are far fewer public transport routes, so those without cars are much more isolated.

And people talk to each other(still) at bus-stops, in buses, in trains. (Except in London) So yes, they destroy social cohesion.

Also, because there are far fewer people around the streets at night, those that are there are more likely to suffer mugging or be afraid to go out. So again, private vehicles are a public ill.

😕

It's one of those virtuous circle situations.
One you get lots of people using the system, it becomes worthwhile to add more routes and stops.
CK's objections were partly based around costs – why would it be necessary to book inadvance if rail fares were cheap? Why should a cheap system be overcrowded – all it needs is a more frequent service?

I'd say that sort of accident is a very good reason for never wearing headphones/ using MP3s when out riding. Tractors usually make a fair bit of noise.

It's only worth a couple of days IMHO, and there's not that much to see apart from the markets, some mosques, etc
Be prepared for lots of hassle.
We ate in a cheap place at the edge of the market: not a stall, but a permanent cafe with plenty of middle-class Moroccans eating.

Went in February and effing Ryanair cancelled our flight back to Bristol.
They did offer us seats on the next plane with space available, which was in 3-4 weeks.
So we paid top whack to get back to another airport, paid £180 for the taxi ride home at 3am.

1. Nissan Micra, because
It's cheap to insure for the kids.
It was good for them to learn in
It's a hoon to drive around town. great fun.
It was better than all similar size cars

2.
Iveco Daily campervan conversion. Cos campervans are cool, and this was a good one for starters, and cheap

nostoc, tell me precisely why "young cyclists have to dope in order to compete"

That's rubbish.

When I did contract work at Lyneham, the Hercs were always called Fat Alberts, and that was 20 years ago.

Lee's carpets at the Horfield end of Muller raod heve been pretty good for us

you sound ideal apart from the taste in music. God, I'm acting like her bloody elder brother

Hairy, my friend asks, how old are you and how long have you been over here?
I dunno why she's being picky. Just nervous, I guess

Alpin- you stick with your landlady / model friend. (To be fair, you did provide pictures of her)
Hairy, YGM. Google language helped here.

any more?

Wow. Fewer replies than I'd expected. Call yourselves red-blooded?
But thank you for those who did.

Have a good weekend all.