I would, I have done.
Yum.

Yep. With some fiddling and a poploc lever / old friction shifter

….or if it’s bad at the time.

Any thoughts on the Kona Ute in comparison? £635 at Wiggle? (They were cheaper last week)

Yes.
It involved a French colleague 20 years younger than me.
It was stupid. It’s over. I still miss the conversations. Regret it? Dunno.

:)

It’s not just you.
Mrs M & I spent a few months there, a long time ago. I wanted to stay; she couldn’t stand it & wanted to come home. She won.

I’ve got a pair of those in the attic, I think.
£5 the pair plus postage if you want’em.

Most of the Danube has got cycle paths beside it – they used to be towpaths.
Good for S Germany to the Black Sea.

Biking is great for sit-up-and-beg commuters, cycle paths everywhere, nice & flat apart from the slightly arched bridges over canals.

:)

If we’re going to argue about the Falklands, please don’t forget that it was Mrs T who withdrew the Endeavour support ship from the area & S. Georgia, and who ensured that the Argentinians were led to believe that we would not fight to retain the Falklands.

My personal belief is that the treaties / deals we made with the US military to get satellite surveillance & other help, are the reasons that we had to go to war in 2003 in Iraq in their support.

thisisnotaspoon:

Because they weren’t just abandoned,they were destroyed so they could not be reopened.
Machinery removed or wrecked, drains blocked so the rock below would become unstable. Very political rather than just economic.

Food?

Answer: because we are all intelligent,, well-informed people who make it our business to understand the complexities of national, international and religious politics worldwide.

Or, the same reason that the many N. irish think they know what the Westminster-based government should do when they’ve never set foot in London.

Yep, I struggled. I was slowest on Skyline, just about managed to get around with mates waiting for me every couple of miles. No lack of breath, my legs just weren’t fast or strong enough. That’s being old & overweight & unfit, I guess.

:cry:

Fred, why are you carrying that little doll tucked into your sweater around your waist?

..or if you’d had an argument with someone and they decided to blacklist you?
No comebacks, no informing you of their actions.

I hope that the purchasers of the information are suable, too.

I remember that one – nice buttocks and blue star, I think.
Shame the picture’s gone now.

‘n’ I didn’t think you were that Northern, more an East Anglian type.

I can never quite manage to really loathe him, he is just so much better at being a politician than pretty much anyone else in the government.

That’s precisely why I loathe him so much; he’s an unprincipled politician and as smarmy as they come.

Yes. Grab your 1:25k map, go up the Horse and start riding

Not organised but took part in. (A friend, late 40s, liver cancer)
Yes, it was very pretty but not a vast improvement over a humanist service at a Quaker / Friends Meeting House followed by a burial in a local graveyard. It’s more to do with the speakers than the location, I think.

for what it’s worth, I believe that that green burials are much more expensive than the local council’s cemeteries.

Rental values are also dropping, so making profits is still not going to be easy.

BD -what other investments are sound at the moment, in your opinion?
(Not that I’ve got money to invest, you understand, just interested)

Titanium, too.
I want one, and a shed to put it in.

Rather easyJet than effing chuffing Ryanair, which decided to strand us in Marrakech 2 weeks ago, no spare seats back with them for 2 weeks. Absolute arseholes.

Project, it’s prostate, not prostrate. :o)
Just remember to feel your balls regularly, as well.

JulianA- do you have any knowledge of a Delvaux called “Le Reve” (The Dream)?
I remember it from years ago, but can’t find a photo of it anywhere on the web.
It means something to me – the woman in it looks so like MrsM did in her 20’s.

acjim: I went to an exhibition of Bouchard’s in Bath, and the big pictures were all done to commmission and cost £10k+ (I think). They’re very detailed and very large. But there are prints for sale at about £100.

In Bristol there are several art fairs held annually in the artists’ houses – it’s become quite an event, traipsing around one part of town and looking at art. Good fun, and a good way to get art seen. Some cafes will also put art for sale on the walls.

I do like the Piddock. Philip Bouchard is also fascinating in the modern surrealist vein. I’d buy one if I had a shedlaod to dispose of.

If it’s for a bulk order, and in London, why not ask brompton for a quotation?
Otherwise look at the Dahon ranges.

Yep, I’ve bought a few paintings / pastels. Some original, some prints.
Whilst I agree with Samurai that watches “Do stuff” – the difference in functionality between a £10 watch and a £10,000 watch is zero; it’s all appearance after that.

My wife paid £250 for one of Bob Antell‘s pastels for my Xmas prezzie. It’s very traditional art, neatly done, and I love it. I suppose it’s not unique because there are both cards and prints made from the orignal, but I think that increases my enjoyment of the pastel. He’s a friend of ours.

I’ve seen 2 good solutions: one is a Wiki. Pfizer uses one – 10000+ users.
The other is an open blog / series of blogs with little restriction on the users, with RSS feeds to push the appropriate content to whoever.

It may be anathema to one so fit and fast as yourself, but have you considered a singlespeed? I find that the lack of wrong gears and the simplicity of the things make them more calming than 27-geared full-sus wonderbikes. It’s easier to justify taking it easy, and also to concentrate on the ride rather than the bike.
But I know what you mean about those days when it all goes wrong and you end up not having enjoyed yourslef.

Dunno, but my mate Ed now has a very nice 48 ft ketch in the Floating Harbour. God know where he found the money.

Wiggle’s flogging 2009 Focus Meres for £700 this week, a cross bike but looks interesting

Ta, Coffee

In a sarong

Not the one on the right. If you drop it at night or weekends, someone will park a car on it.

They may not pop up, but – 1. The timer works so the bread doesn’t burn.
2. They toast nice and evenly.

But yes, they are stupidly expensive

Lick toads, that is.
Cos of their poisonous secretions

..she’s much better looking in the flesh than in the piccy. Or perhaps it’s cos she wasn’t wearing make-up, and I’d had a drink or two. My hangover’s gone now, thanks, but I still think her voice is ace.