Mean UK salary is £24k, so appreciate what you've got.
Median UK salary is about £18k, so MTFU.
Above £42k, you're in the top 10% of earners.

Money can buy self respect, and toys, and comfort, but it cannot buy happiness. In your case, I'd sign for the next 6 months, but save as much as possible / pay off my mortgage completely. I've worked in crap jobs before, but needed the money to pay the mortgage & bills. It's called life.

Sorry to roast you, but I don't think you appreciate how financially lucky you've been until now.

😕

Uplink – I will trump you one war. Same place, though.

My grandfather was sentry guarding Hartlepool port in the early days of WW1. He swapped duties to see his girlfriend, and the tommy who replaced him had the honour of being the first man killed in British soil in the war. The German fleet was shelling from offshore.

Tis easy to tell the difference, just by looking.

At their passports, that is. 😯

Otherwise, IME, not

Does your moby not have a "record" feature?
My cheapo Nokia 6300 does the job fine.

Buy mine? Converted Iveco Daily, very robust, sleeps 2 people under 5'10", with cooker, sink, loo, etc. Tres comfy, although not the prettiest available.

I don't understand the physics of it, but if you put a neon light tube in the field of a power line, the tube will glow.

There was a wonderful art installation a couple of years ago, with an array of fluorescent tubes placed under a power line at the edge of the Cotswolds between Bath & Bristol, where the cables came low.
At night, the glow was quite bright & spooky.

More and more? I thought it was dying out.
I think that it's restricted to words in which the H isn't pronounced, like "Hour", or where the transition from H (aspirant) to the next vowel would make pronunciation difficult.
Hotel was originally a French word, so in theory the H wasn't pronounced,so an.. was correct. The Guardian style guide now says: a hotel not "an"

Moreover:
Style GUide

a or an?
Use an before a silent H: an hour, an heir, an honourable man, an honest woman; a hero, a hotel, a historian (but don't change a direct quote if the speaker says, for example, "an historic"). With abbreviations, be guided by pronunciation: eg an LSE student

How about sorting out the job first, then deciding where to live?
You might want to move to Bracknell as thats where there are plenty of IT marketing jobs, it's a sh1thole but close to Swinley.

Personally, I like Bristol but then I live here and am prejudiced.

I'm sure you'd find a special goat to keep you happy.
Perhps it's too hot to make good cheese?

I'm sure that some craft cheesemaker would take you on as an apprentice for a while.

£250 is probably too little for a new one, especially if he wants to use it for gaming.
IMO, of course.

Depends on the specific sorts of cancers.
But I'd cut out the fags and beer and cured meats.

Meg & Mark,
Keep going, be tough, and may your luck & life forces be strong.
My thoughts are with you.

mjg

If you know where she's going, buy her an excursion / special flight somewhere. Say, a flight up to the glciers in NZ, an elephant ride in Thailand, a yacht trip in the med.

It cost me £20 k to refurb a flat with new kitchen, new internal walling, – so I think you are being hopelessly optimistic.

Shame.

There are still quite a few Overbury frames around. As above, the shop is in decline.

Did Fred Baker not make their own frames (road) in the late 80s / 90s ?

I've been taken out by a BMW driver. She was rather pretty, and bought me drinks and a meal. Shame I'm married.

Chaps, chaps, we are not here to discuss Goan's skills as a driving instructor; but to argue the merits of putting an unsafe driver through her test.

Yes, let her book it. She pays you to teach her to pass the test, not how to drive.

😕

bh: Emissions per head are much higher here than in India or China.
They'd be better off demonstrating in Oz or the US.

Or, to save travelling, and because they are UK citizens – why not here?

Just call him an old bloke, & tell him he's past it.
He'll get the message.

Go to YouTube and search for derailleur gears. There are loads of vids on how to do it.

As above, lots of conditioner & combing. Don't forget your own hair and bed-linen as well.

Next, thread-worms.
"Daddy, my bottom itches…."

Stoner,
Thank you, that would be really useful.
Mrs M and I passed by that way 2 weekends ago, and it's likely we will do so again soon.

Thank you all.
Calling that lot will keep me busy, and it's great to have recommendations.
Any more?

they never gave back the Statue of Liberty, did they, whatever they said about the French?

Tea. Followed by a toothbrush & toothpaste.

My daughter's your size, & has a small Trek Fuel which suits her well. I think her b/f slung on a shorter stem.

Is it Start¦recent documents ?
If not, then she probably didn't save the file to the computer disk, and she needs to start again.

See the Nirvana album cover.
Very young.

When the Americans shot down an Iranian airliner, they paid no compensation to the victims' families, nor apologised. Libya did both – although that was probably to obviate more trade sanctions. It was more likely not a Libyan action anyway.

Meccano was the biz. That and a Mamod donkey boiler, and you were away. Engineering, here I come.

But how do you know?
Have you been watching them when they are out of their lycra? Which ones in particular?

Slicks

Between 7-9 hours. If I cut it down to 6 for more than a few days, I just feel dozy all day. I used to get away with down to 4 hrs for a few days on the trot, but that was 20 years ago.

No-eyed-dear, does the abbreviation CFC in your last line stand for "Captain Flasheart's Cr4p" ?
If not, it should. 🙂

Have a lovely Thursday.
A couple of paracetamol, plenty of sweet tea, that's what you need. 🙂

I bought 5:10s a couple f weeks ago. They do make a difference.

and worms grow up into pythons that eat cats. Great, isn't it?

British oxen are soft.
2m elsewhere. Just google images for ox mill