portlyone – Member
I can’t help but feel both elated and depressed when watching him ride!

^^ My sentiments exactly.

Great vid though!

Divided United is in.

Going to adopt my usual tactics – 2months of intense interest studying form etc followed by 8 months of leaving well alone having lost enthusiasm.

^ Sportsperson

And I would say an athlete is a sportsman.

Not all sportsmen are athletes.

Athlete = someone involved in athletics?

I’d say he’s a judo player. 😉

Are there even any horses on today?

Just caught a glimpse of the thrones…I need knew my lounge at home was missing something 8)

Coyote – Member
Oh the ironing

😆

😮

mrblobby – Member
Team GB may want to stay away from the flame in those suits.

Italians – Georgio Armani
USA – Ralph Lauren
GB – Jimmy Saville?

Have to say I now cant wait to start watching the Olympics – had been non-plussed until now.

Night night STW……….

julioflo – Member
MrBen100 – Spinione’s rock! And I love the fact there is one doing a poo in the background of your picture.

I think you’ll find there’s a couple ‘relieving’ themselves in the photo – all in all there were about 40 Spinone in total that day.

Leonard agrees – Spinone’s rock! 🙂

None new, and already been posted numerous times, but any excuse. 🙂

😀

Brilliant! Well Found.

As above photos?

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_ADH_2004_NEW.pdf

None specifically – but used Under the Thatch website recently which was quite good.

<edit> also they allow pets which is good – we stayed here http://www.underthethatch.co.uk/tysinc

Oh yes, took it from £39 to £120 – I was so happy.

Volvo V50 here – one of the bulbs to the rear number plate was out, turned out to be the holder unit thing-a-me-bob.

Either way = fail.

toby1 – Member
Cooks in professional kitchens use gas, I know what I’m sticking with

What, eating out at restaurants? 😉

Oh i did the, and your right, it wasn’t very interest but it was for chardiee and 25miles so was a good couple of hours ride.

But was after the route as I can’t answer his questions like ‘did you go past Wiggleepunches Bridge?’ or some such bollox 😆

meehaja – Member
“I’ve really had it with my dog: he’ll chase anyone on a bicycle.”

“So what are you going to do? Have him put down?”

“No, nothing that drastic. I think I’ll just confiscate his bike.”

V. Good 😆

Is it a leap year? 😉

Yeah – purina beta was one of the ones we had trouble with.

anagallis_arvensis – Member

We pay about £70 a month on food

**** me are the tins gold plated or did someone sell you a grizzly bear as a dog?. Our lurchercosts about £25 a month to insure and about £35 a month to feed including treats.

Of course that involes the silver cutlery we get him to use 😉

Yep we spend a ship load on food but its to do with the quality not quantity. We buy this stuff as there’s not as much grain/filler/unknown origin oils etc… then all the other food we’d tried.

http://www.championpetfoods.com/acana/products.php

All the other foods, no matter what we tried, had adverse effects on our dogs behaviour and er ‘movements’ – never healthy. Spoke to a local highly recommended pet store, had big discussion with one of their ‘experts’ and they advised the above.

As soon as we moved to the acana stuff, completely different dog in every aspect – happier and apparently healthier as far as I can tell.

I baulked at the price to begin with but has been much better.

(and yes we did gradually introduced each dietary change before I’m flamed for that one!)

We pay about £70 a month on food.

£40 a month on insurance.

Numerous vets bills for minor things seem to be about £20-30 a pop – though I understand vets tend to own border terriers as they are so robust so probably not an issue.

During first year far too much wasted on numerous toys that last 5 minutes.

Additional dog treats for training.

We both bought new cars so the dog would fit.

You can prob guess we haven’t got a border terrier 😉

Why did the broccolli keep swearing………..he had florets.

The Mummy – yep always watch. Usually with the comment to the other half – ‘oh I don’t know if I’ve seen this’ – much to her annoyance.

The one for me however is National Treasure with Nicholas Cage – always like films with a tenuous link to factual events.

This is helped by my embarrassing lack of knowledge of history and what is fact/fiction.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Only just back.

Cheers for the feedback.

I had my suspicions DrP and yes sharkbait you’ve caught me out!

Higgo – so what you’re saying is it will be brilliant but ultimately explode and kill me without warning! Noted, I will be extra careful.

Embarrassingly I’m supposed to be sorting this out for my Dad who’s in his 70’s – I ‘only’ in my 30’s but haven’t got a clue. (hnags head in shame)

Chairs.

OP – If you like DJ Shadow, you may also like RJD2.

cr500dom – change a couple of the words there and you could almost be describing ArchiCAD.

Maybe my ignorance or fear, but I would always tend towards an Architecture focused program. (I apprececiate that autodesk was/is originally for engineering).

I had probably better add, because we used ADT previuously wihich uses ‘intelligent’ objects it probably was not such a massive shift to ArchiCAD than if we soley been using AutoCAD (I think there is a difference).

Honestly not sure yet – but it certainly impresses the ‘lay’ client when you can hand over a disk with a walkthrough of their house/building and they can control it like a computer game and go where they like (as long as its been drawn!) Then as the project goes on adding the real materials etc.

The biggest benefit I have found is that everything is linked – because you are building a model – you change something on plan and it automatically updates the plans/elevations/sections – no need to swap between programs/reliant on ‘remembering’ to update all the drawings.

It is by no means perfect, probably because we are all ingrained to the Autodesk way of the thinking, but the longer we are using it the more we like it.

I’m not partuclarly good at photoshop/3DSmax and all the ‘pretty’ software, but the other guys reliably inform me that the standard out-of-the-box rendering is pretty good.

Check out ArchiCAD.

We’ve just transferred over in the last 6 months.

Before that we used ADT (Architectural Desktop – Autodesk) and sketch-up for 3d renderings etc, always the issue though that when you amend anything in your CAD package you have to independantly amend the sketch-up file.

ArchiCAD you are pretty much drawing the whole building in 3D, we can create 3D walkthroughs and even an executable file that you can send to a client and they can walk through waht you have drawn completely independatly like a computer game. Known as BIM software – Autodesk has revit.

Not sure on costs here as not my department – bit of a shift from ‘traditional’ CAD but we’re getting used to it.

EDIT: oh yeah, we’re an office of 4 so not exactly a massive company with huge budget.

Drive a 2litre Volvo V50 RDesign Diesel.

Consistently get between 50-55mpg combined – obviously bit more if a doing a long motorway drive.

Make of that what you will.

<edit> but then of course it is a Volvo so can’t have it all ways 😉

Watched the episodes that were shown on terrestrial tv. Has been nowt since – all on satellite.

So I think only series 1 & 2 – t’was bloody good.

^ Isn’t it shingles the second time round?

I’d do it. I had them at 16 and was terrible, spots/sores everywhere (I mean everywhere!), a week off at least then another 3 weeks building back strength etc.

+1 for engineered wood floor here in all seriousness if your budget can stretch.

^^^ presumably that means you ‘supervised’ whilst your dad di all the work 😉

I do believe this is in the wrong thread

Perhaps?

I try to be friendly but I find social interaction awkward so I think it comes across differently.