Lots of people mentioning what the ave speed cameras might do. I haven’t noticed anyone post it before but here’s the site with as much info on it as they seem to have published about the basis for the decision.
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I use the A9 lots for work and am not looking forward to it as I suspect there will be lots more convoys with frustration overtaking going on a-plenty.

Context – as a tweet, there wasn’t any

Which is the problem. I suspect you had to be able to link it to Richard Hammond’s head injury after the dragster crash and his recovery from that.

Not sure… don’t think so. Can I prove I wasn’t asked?

If I was to answer that question, i’d have said something like a “bicycle part”.

Is there not an angle here that for their T&Cs to apply you need to have been notified of them when you handed the goods in for delivery. Can they prove that you were notified of their T&Cs?

Just got the Kids the GoPad Appi based on a friend’s recommendation. 9″ for £100. Just arrived so I haven’t payed with it yet.

Well, born NI but living Scotland for nearly 30 years. Voting NO for reasons mentioned in other threads.
Wife Scottish, voting NO, mainly because of what her cousin in the SNP has told her about the party and Alex Salmond

This evening, my wife phoned up to say she was walking home from work and would I mind putting some dinner on for her.

She drove to work this morning. So had to turn round half way home and retrieve the car she’d forgotten about.

Same as OP, but the wife is worse than the kids with multiple small ambient lights in every room. When we re-wired the house, I stuck lighting circuits in as well as the 13 amp ones so they can all go on and off with one switch at the door.

So often had trouble on that path commuting in the days before the internet and Strava. Barriers on the path, things chucked at bikes, dogs set on you, broken glass.

There’s a reason for going through there at speed…

but as a ltd company it doesn’t have shares does it?

if it is a normal private limited company it will – that’s what limited Liability is – limited to the share capital of the company.

isn’t the business considered an asset?

His shareholding in it would be.

You say the debt is against him, not the company. The brutal legal way would be to start the process to have him declared bankrupt. With a CCJ you have the proof of the debt. Anyone who has any assets and is trying to run a business will settle sharpish. I’ve had to use this approach in the past on occasion as a last resort.

I have the estate, so can’t advise on the boot, but the number of things that have gone wrong make me suggest almost any alternative would be better. On 3rd DMF, broken springs, manifold replacement etc. I wish I’d never bought it.

Absolutely keep biking. The nature of it will change but it preserves what’s left of my hips and knees after years of fell running. Couldn’t do without it and its also something the whole family enjoys doing.

Already done similar with canoeing. Got too injured to keep at slalom years ago so just sea touring now.

If that’s where you want to go Northwind, ferry to Belfast would be best. If you went via Larne, the road between Larne & Belfast you’d use to go south is largely roadworks and will be for a while as it is being dualled.

Doesn’t seem to be running to Larne just now (summer service maybe?) Haven’t looked too deeply though!

Yup – seasonal service. Cairnryan it is over winter and the Belfast & Larne options are only a couple of miles apart there.

My wife did this, and just as I was about to get it fixed, she smacked the same bit of the car again. So I moved the wall to avoid the problem and waited until that was done before fixing the car.

As I was about to do so, she managed to smack the same bit of the car, but not at our house. I’ve since never got round to fixing the damage as she couldn’t say when she could do without the car for a couple of days. She seems to live with the scrapes quite happily.

If you have to get newer to keep the allowance, how about swap the BMW for a newer BMW with a private / non dating plate and just tell them it is newer than it actually is? If all the options are going to cost you something, why not spend the money on something you actually want?

Is this why Alonso didn’t end up buying Euskaltel Euskadi then? Team strip might have been a tad too dangerous to participate.

I’ve already told my wife we’re visiting my parents that weekend as stage 2 goes past their house.

I dream of the day I can afford a new bike without having funds diverted to DIY, new stoves, decorating, holidays, childcare. How do people do it??!

scarily familiar – house buying to accommodate family, DIY to make it habitable etc. 1st new bike in 9 years came when elder kid went to school and childcare costs dropped. I suspect the new one will have to outlast the last one.

We used the Mercure Bowden this summer. My wife tends to be a bit fussy, but she thought the room was ok, the breakfast great and the pool a nice benefit for some exercise before the flight.

Could I suggest that reading a post is sensible before commenting on it? What I said was that the Tories have done a number on convincing people that THE DEBT is coming down

This is a “number” I’m unaware of and certainly no-one I know thinks it is currently coming down. They’ve referred to addressing the debt, which is not the same as reducing it. I can’t find any reference to bringing it down yet.
Official tory words

This seems pretty clear that the deficit removal is (4 years) in the future, meaning debt carries on rising until that date.

I care little for politics, but I’m pretty interested in the maths being talked about properly.

I wonder where the national debt would be under labours policy?

Not sure that really the point. The point is that they have been busy convincing the great unwashed that they are dealing with it and bringing it down

I don’t particularly like to defend the Govt., but they never said that. They said they’d bring the deficit down and we’ve done the debt vs deficit thing to death on other threads previously. Both parties were looking at National Debt peaking above £1.6Tn several years hence.

The stairs between the kitchen and office are a bit steep for a bike. But the kids went to school on them, like normal.

I dont like Massa much, i thought he had a few good races but was flattered by a better car and then shown up by better drivers.

I don’t get this. He was beaten to the championship by Lewis Hamilton at the last bend of the last race one year. Until his head injury, he was up there, but it is clear he now isn’t the driver he was. It is sad that the latter part of his career is being remembered more than the early part.

Read and process your emails in batches, e.g when you first start work in the morning … then 11am … then 1pm … and so on. This way you prevent yourself from being knocked out of your flow every time an email arrives.

+1, but let colleagues know you do this
And turn the phone off for an hour every now and again.

Delete button is really handy.

Finish every day knowing what you’re going to focus on next morning.

BBC linky maybe worth reading

Fortunately caught it before it got that bad & trying to change the routines around it.

As well as webcore’s suggestion of properly set up raised monitor, I’ve also raised my desk about 4″ which has made a major difference.

On the OP’s issue with drops on the road bike, I haven’t been able to manage those for years since neck damage, so I use Profile Airwing bars which seems to stretch me out enough that I have to keep the right posture to ride. Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m not fussed about how the bike looks.

Yes. Although there’s a bit of pushing, there’s more riding than I expected. Not the most exciting route in the world, but if you really want to ride over those two hills, it is a pleasant enough day out.

I used to use that path commuting Edinburgh to Rosyth and Dunfermline and in c. 2001 it was great. But by the time I stopped working there end 2009, the greenery had started to grow in a bit, but it was still preferable to the road.

As timidwheeler, I had to send my Reverb back under warranty (twice!) and Canyon refunded postage once I sent them proof of cost – gave bank details and refunded straight to the account.

apparently the will had been seen by the treasury solicitors and the attorney generals office

besides which youd think that upon receiving half a million quid someone might think to check that it was all above board

That sounds like they did check and took it after that guidance. That they felt the need to do that rather than take the ambiguity as a signal to pass it straight to the Treasury is the grubby part.

They’ll have accepted funds from the Executors having been told it was a bequest without necessarily seeing the will. Will seen, funds handed to Treasury. Storm in teacup over execution over poorly worded will over.

Pretty much a non story.

All this imaginative hiding of cost must take a lot of time and memory to handle. When I last bought a bike it was a case of pointing out it cost less annually than her golf club and that as she got a lot of pleasure from that I presumed she’d be pleased I had something equivalent to enjoy.

I helped her out with something earlier this year to which her reaction was “thanks – I guess you’ve earned a new bike for that”. That’s banked…

There’s a bit of a history of fraud via fake travellers cheques. Don’t know the value of what you’re selling, but would have to wonder why anyone would have enough of these to buy anything major, particularly if they’re meant to be UK based but away only briefly in which case they’d have UK payment options.

That said, once they’ve cleared, they’ve cleared.

Had one for just over two years and love it. The spec then was a bit different, so the problems b45her had I’ve not had, but at 6’2″ I’ve found the large to be just right and the geometry sorted. I’ve done big and long mountain trips in it and the fact it can go up pretty well as well as being more fun on the way down has been great.

If space becomes tight, how about one of these:
Boot rack
My Dad used to use them in preference to a roof rack on ancient Triumph saloons.

On and off, c. 12 years of commuting anything from 6 to 28 miles daily.
Taken out by a car once and one self inflicted road rash wipe out.
I found the closer I rode to the speed of the traffic the safer it was.

Aneurin Bevan 9 Feb 1948, House of Commons

And how did he change their minds?

By, “stuffing their mouths with gold.” Bevan again

He didn’t stuff their mouths with gold. My grandfather had his practice compulsorily purchased for less than his outstanding purchase loan on it. He died in his early 60s having worked himself to death to repay that loan from NHS earnings.

My father followed him as a GP and worked as an (almost) non earning partner with his father to help his father pay those debts. My father only started earning once he was past 40.

Best bet is to get yourself to a decent running shop with a range to try on.

I used to run sockless in Walsh racers, but these days run Adidas Swoop because socks fit better in them for me. Shoe performance isn’t as good, but fit is everything as the miles rack up.

Unfortunately, yes.

55 plate TiD 150 with the hirsch chip which takes it to 175bhp which I had from 6 monhts old / 10 k miles. The engine is ok, but everything it is attached to is a disaster. More spent on warranties & repair in the first 38k miles than on fuel. On its third DMF. Springs made of cheese. When it works it is really quite nice. Unfortunately it spends too much time not working properly.