the fuel for nukes is scarce and in countries that are unstable

That’s why we used to have breeder reactors in the UK, to ensure a supply of fuel. I guess more could be built if the economics were right.

TBH, we need to do all three, invest in nuclear power, cut down usage by travelling less and insulating more, and by investing in solar sources (nanosolar, for example, make printed solar electric films that should provide electrcity as cheap as coal – but we need to start investing in better research now)

TJ- The Pelamis pilot, off Portugal, is curently offline & u/s with engineering problems.

Generally, the world has 2 choices. Rely on fossil fuels for the next few years and destroy the ecosphere as a place habitable for humans within 50 years, or go nuclear and find a way of coping with the waste. I prefer the second option.

Suggest you ask if Jason at MudDock needs somehwere; he’s just returned from overseas & is living with his family

Grizz- you’re slightly wrong.
The ship was a warship. and instead of a crate of monkeys there was just one – the ship’s mascot, who was dressed in a miniature uniform. So he looked and talked just like a small, hairy Frenchman. Yes, obviously a spy.

Bristol based?
Well, we’ve Pieminister pies, which are fab.
Lots of local cider, and just to the south –

Cheddar Cheese.

Yokel smocks, oi reckons.

…and recently, 100 miles on the Kennet-Avon canal path, Reading-Bristol. That’s a good ride, too.

At 17 – had to get home. So Whitehaven to Stockton, 118 miles on a 5-speed Raleigh with panniers via the Lakes and over the Pennines.

I couldn’t do it now.

Cut a long piece of beercan so that you can wrap it around the seatpost when inserting it into the frame. It may slip upwards, so make it deep, as well. Say 8×8 cm?

Where guacamole becomes mushy peas.

Forget the Barth/Bath dichotomy; the real locals pronounce it Baath.

Mammals that are faithful in pairs /monogamous tend to have both sexes the same size; those that don’t tend to have males much larger than the females (think deer, gorillas, where the males weigh twice as much as the females).

In humans, males are on average about 15% larger than females, so we’re basically monogamous, but meant to mess around a bit.

oh yeah, snakes.
Commuting from Radley station to Oxford Science Park via (??) Sanford Lane, the biggest adder I’ve ever seen. I put it on my rack, but it slipped out of the bungies en route. Shame, as I wanted to put it in my mate’s desk. He got a squashed frog instead.

and Ton, I apologise for the slur on your credentials.

ASk me in 2 weeks when I return from a walking holiday in Tuscany.
FLing to Pisa, => Lucca then somewhere else what MrsM has arranged.

Its called a Target Rich environment. Imagine if these people were killed.. imagine the effect on our economy… imagine all those productive, hard working, ambitious people who provide wealth and employment …

Oh no .. wait.. imagine empty dole offices..

Exactly, Stoner.
Imagine if all those productive hard-working people had been involved in making things or improving lives, instead of inventing financial fairy-tales that made themselves rich and the country poorer; we might have empty dole offices.

“The working class can kiss my arse,
I’ve got the foreman’s job at last”

Ton

—and does a wallaby in Wales count, though that was when driving.

A hare on the road, still warm, near Craster.
I put it carefully aside in the verge & collected it later, carried it by zip-tying its hind legs together and putting them round the handlebars.
Three decent meals for 4 later, yum yum yum

Try Simon Armitage:
It ain’t what you do, it’s what it does to you.

I have not bummed across America
with only a dollar to spare, one pair
of busted Levi’s and a bowie knife.
I have lived with thieves in Manchester.

I have not padded through the Taj Mahal,
barefoot, listening to the space between
each footfall, picking up and putting down
its print against the marble floor. But I

skimmed flat stones across Black Moss on a day
so still I could hear each set of ripples
as they crossed. I felt each stone’s inertia
spend itself against the water; then sink.

I have not toyed with a parachute cord
while perched on the lip of a light aircraft;
but I held the wobbly head of a boy
at the day centre, and stroked his fat hands.

And I guess that the lightness in the throat
and the tiny cascading sensation
somewhere inside us are both part of that
sense of something else. That feeling, I mean.

My Casio must be getting on for 20 years old. It’s had 1 replacement battery, cost £12, and tells the time & is waterproof. DO I need more?

No! Poetry is for everyone. You can even set it to music, and call it “songs”.
Well, I like it, and I’m not a poof.

Where are you? I didn’t think they were native to the UK?

Dawson- my mate is selling a 53reg, 62,000 mile Mondeo diesel estate in good nick, FSH, for £3000 or less.

Halfords? Poundsaver?

But I don’t understand the A-shape comment. You need to bungy or strap the handlebar grips direct to one of the roof bars, really tightly. The seat will rest somewhere on the other bar, and strap that hard down, too. If you try to rock the bike when it’s tied down properly, it shouldn’t budge.

Mrs Moses & I do quite a bit of long distance walking, usually B&B ing carrying only daypacks. We reckon that 15 miles is an easy-to-middling day which can be sustained. 20miles/day can knacker you quickly. “Easy” country with lots of stiles is surprisingly slow especially if it’s muddy whreas open uplands can be quick.

Spesh Sirrus.

Pink hose too? Sooooo sweet. Admirable.

I had similar probs with the van – it turned out to be a disconnected air hose to the turbo. £0 to fix.

Hunters are everywhere.
Mrs Moses & I were hiking near Entrevaux (Var) last October, and as we climbed to the top of a ridge we saw that we had been watched by two boar-hunters (Sangliers) with very smart guns of a type that’s illegal in Britain: combined shotgun & rifles. (Two barrels, under & over)

Yep, it’s designed as a commercial / goods vehicle, not a car.
As is the Dispatch.

Get rid of several of the spare frames littering my spare room.
Get the SS working again.
Ride more.
Stop falling off sideways. My ribs hurt still from last week.

Do the Reading-Bristol / Kennet-Avon ride again.

Ride more.

Reliant Scimitar? Princess Anne had one. for what that’s worth

Good luck.
Remember, bullshit experience is always good in interviews so long as you know your stuff. And you will by then, so you’ve as good a chance as anyone.

I’d second the Saab – they can go on forever.
I’ve also got a mate who’s selling a Mondeo diesel estate, 53 reg, 62k miles, for less than £3000, which sounds good to me.

I’m godfather to my first girlfriend’s grandson. Does that count?

Try Axminster: Here

That’ll be fun if you go there ski-ing sometime or need to go on business. They’ll stop you at the border, and it’ll cost more than just a speeding fine by then.

WCA – are you on LinkedIn? I use it a lot for sales prospecting, but others use it for networking / finding work. I’ll invite you if not.

Flu.

It’s like that nutter in the corner of the world’s pub. Most of the time it’s just unpleasant, laying people out for a couple of days.

Then, once in a while it goes berserk and kills millions of people. It’s due for another episode soon.

Hmmm. Tempting, especially if it’s a gentle pace. Grid Ref?