I have an older SAmsung Note, 10.1 ” model. The advantage of a Note is that you can draw on it easily. I can sync documents either via MS Office or Google Docs, both work well on it.

You haven’t joined the chain with a half-link, have you? That would stop meshing after a complete circuit of the chain

Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights / Golden Compass series, some Jo Nesbo (Redbreast for instance) , and my multi-ethnic comfort read: Kim, by Kipling. Especially if you’re in northern Asia.

It’s not the pitch, it’s the width. The fat teeth are probably too big to go into the gaps for a narrow chain – unless you’ve got the NW out of sync

I put an XT chainset on my CdF, 42/28. It works well with the same FD, Sora in this case.

There are thousands on EdX and Coursera, most from highly respected universities

Some good stories. Recommended B&B s in Lviv etc. Philthy fotos.

Apologies- there’s only a couple of trains a day between Rzeszow and Lvov. Coaches are faster anyway in PL, or you could hire a car.

How about Bristol/Rzeszow and then train – it’s about 100 miles.
There are frequent buses, too.
Ryanair fly Mondays, Fridays.

I replaced a 9sp road 50/34 with an XT 42/28 chainset on my CdF. It works fine.

Yes, with Mrs Moses. It’s a pleasant little city, lovely river walks, castle nearby. Food, wine beer all more than OK. No idea about the potential for choke & tippers.

There was a similar thread about a week ago. Have a search.

Here’s my own special conspiracy theory for you:

Retaining the Falklands has cost the UK and the world untold billions. My belief is that we signed a secret agreement with the US which means that we would support them militarily whenever requested, in order to get their logistic and satellite support during the Falklands war. Initially the US was strongly on the Argentinian side, with (?) Madeleine Albright making very anti-British noises, but something happened for them to switch.
Since then, we have become US poodles. Before 1982, our support for US foreign policy was lukewarm – we stayed out of Vietnam, did not provide much in Korea, etc.
Whey else would we keep Trident, or have gone into Iraq?

I’ve had this hypothesis semi-confirmed three times, once by a security man who was attached to a junior minister of defence, once it was hinted at by a very senior civil servant from the MoD, and once by a high-ranking UK officer who spent time seconded to the Pentagon.

Work out what you mean by “quieter”. What do you really need from your move?
A more rural life isn’t necessarily quieter if you need to get in the car/lorry and drive 5 miles through twisty lanes whenever you need a pint of milk.

Not me but my grandfather in 1914.
He was allocated sentry duty at Hartlepool docks, then a major coal port, but swapped watch with another soldier so that he could see his then girlfriend.
The man he swapped with was the first soldier killed on British soil by enemy action in WW1, when the German fleet shelled the port. There’s a monument there to my Grandad’s mate.

Does bike crap and parts that “will come in useful one day” count?
How should I get rid of all that with minimum effort?

TV off when guests are in. We only watch an hour a night os so, if that.
When we’re round at other peoples’ houses, I will ask to turn it off. We’re there to talk, not watch the damn thing. Pubs with the box on annoy me too – unless there’s a specific event on, TV is a real conversation-killer.

Yes, & if someone has a small 26″ FS frame in good nick, I’m interested.

I’ve never been but a couple of friends live there and their visitors like it.
To be precise they live in Sopot, just along the coast, the equivalent of Brighton or Deauville. Lots to see, lots to do, good clubbing, food, sightseeing. Together with Gdynia the area is called the Tri-City as they run into each other like Brighton/Hove, Blackpool/Lytham.

I was on the brother-in-law’s sheep farm this weekend. We watched an out of control dog worry a small flock from one end of a field to the other. Three ewes dropped from stress, I don’t know if any aborted. THere was no dog owner to be seen, & the dog cleared off after the first warning shot.
The thing was a lurcher cross, & could run faster than we could so couldn’t be caught on foot.
Anyone who thinks that Fido could never be naughty, needs to know that they should always be on a lead near livestock.

Bike tat. Mostly obsolete parts which I don’t get around to either building, using or selling. Changing standards mean that most of the spare room is taken up with stuff of no current value but which was once expensive.

Scaffolding pole is more than strong enough.
It might be easier & cheaper to use the narrow-gauge tubing that hand-rails and kids climbing frames are made of, for that and the uprights. I can’t remember the trade names offhand.

Some people may have made money, but that analysis is just plain wrong.
You may have ended up with more shares, but they’re worth the same money as you started with.
If you’d bought competitors’ shares which increased, you might have made some, (can’t be bothered to check)

I’ve used one, much neater and easier than a hacksaw. I only paid a few quid for mine, nothing like £45.

Beating them and then dragging them out is even worse.

No-one called Louise.

But I’d have examined a parcel bomb left by the IRA about 5 mins before it blew, if I hadn’t taken off an evening shift in order to take Mrs M to an expensive resto. She was just the girlfriend, then.

I also had an appointment cancelled which should have seen me at the site of a 7/7 bomb at just the wrong time.

Just pack less, you should be OK (difficult with a baby, I know)
Easyjet are generally fair.

For reference, Mrs M and I have just had a holiday flight with Thomson, where the hand baggage limit is 5kg. They weigh it, too. We got away with 11.2kg between us, and no checked baggage.

I reckon that the show was better this year than last, with more variety of exhibitors. Las year seemed to be 95% fast road bikes; this year there were a few more MTBs, a couple of fatties and lots of gravel/CX+ / road bikies with fatter tyres.
There was beauty and engineeering skill in excess. And I don’t just mean SON’s CEO’s daughter.
I particularly liked Snowdon’s flat-barred roadbike, and Mercredi’s Belgian crossers.

Charity shops. £1 a time.

BoA to Bath is rammed on weekend afternoons. Be prepared for a slow ride. Dog walkers with headphones and long dog-leads are a speciality.

Paint it Black, the Rolling Stones (it’s about a child’s death anyway)
Don’t Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult
Wish me Luck as you wave me Goodbye, Gracie Fields ?

OK 3 years ago to Cochin.

Talk to management, & check your contract. In many industries, inventors get their name on the patent & a share of licence money.

Mike inspired me, his stamina was amazing. I followed him online throughout the last Tour Divide, wondering how he kept going. RIP.

Well, Mrs M and I did go to Belize, which turned out to be the best holiday we’ve had for years. We saved money by flying Thomson to Cancun then bussing down to Orange Walk, which didn’t take much longer than flying into Belize City via the USA.
So – a trip to Laminae Mayan ruins from Orange Walk via a wildlife river cruise
– a beach holiday in Hopkins, with hired motorbike to Coxcomb, swimming in jungle waterfalls but not seeing jaguars.
– hitching in the back of a pick-up truck, being dropped off for a cave walk and swim in a cenote
– 4 days in San Ignacio, with a trip to Xunantunich (more Mayan ruins, fabulaous), canoe trip down hte Mopan river, cave canoes at Bartons Creek,
– a couple of days at the Cayes, watching the fat Americans. Not my thing, the swimming isn’t great unless you like snorkelling which I don’t.
– birdwatching everywhere and especially at Crooked Tree for Mrs M.

It was great. More expensive than I’d hoped, but we spent money on having fun.

Then the little girl went into her local shop – run by a bloke called Raj.

Dilemma: do I do his voice?

I volunteer as a reading helper at a local primary school with a very mixed intake. There’s an 8-year old girl of Indian extraction who normally has a wonderfully strong Bristol accent, but puts on a great Indian one when reading a story with Indian characters.

Jet, vampires, goths, fish & chips, ace steam railway.

How about an Escher print?
or for purity of line and real art, look at Ian Mitchell’s work.

Essel, Porton still has the written records of the experiments they did in WW1, live testing of chorine & other gases on soldiers. They don’t do that these days.

I bodged a no-name rear rack to my CdF using the drop-out mounting points, the steerer tube bolt point and a piece of drilled bent aluminium strip