How’s about that, then?

Lisbon. Early March last year was mid 20’s. Enough to keep you occupied for 3 or 4 days, great food and reasonably cheap flights/accommodation. (We stayed at Cristiano Renaldo’s gaff, Pestana CR7.)

Silva Trailrunner 2, as previously recommended.

Directional?

Thought it was another Audi thread. Sorry, can’t help.

Pearl Izumi PRO 3/4 thermal bibs for £60.

Dealt with them a few times, albeit some time ago, and didn’t have any issues. Probably best to ask them?

Not a lot of real news over the festive period.

5 pairs of Howies undercrackers.
2 X 250g boxes of coffee beans from the roasters in Witney
Southside Johnny lp
Springsteen book ‘Like a Killer in the Sun’

Mrs happy with her gifts, and boy has his new headphones on so peace reigns. Time to crack open a beer.

Well played Graham! Looks for ‘like’ button.

Capitol Theatre, Passiac, NJ. 20/09/78. Two & a half hours of epic!

Got a bottle of Cotswold Gin ready as the main tipple and will be picking up a few beers later today.

It’s exploitation, and it’s par for the course in the sector I work in – until I played the (genuine) stress card. As most above have said, get out.

Yup, my custard is 30.

After 90 minutes in sleety rain watching my lads team taking a 4-1 drubbing, it has to be heated car seats.

Some lads I knew at Uni also knew Jobson. Had a very similar view of him as McMoonters post. Personally his vocals got on my t!ts, but what a guitar sound. Unmistakable.

So, any recipes for polar bears?

Where I come from, Cremola Foam was an after school treat, l’ll have you know. Can still get it too, in the same little tins.

Stans
Shimano shifting
Middleburn cranks
Odi grips
WTB saddles
Hope braking & bb’s
KMC chains
Thomson posts & stems
Salsa QR’s

All bikes in a state of convergent evolution!

5 pack of Howies undercrackers
Like A Killer In The Sun: book for Springsteen obsessives
Southside Johnny’s LP of Billie Holiday covers

If you like the look of a useless box have a look at

https://msraynsford.blogspot.co.uk/

No connection other than I made one with the lad a couple of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Sits on the side and still makes me smile.

I thought there was a minimum age, though I guess they certainly wouldn’t be a 5 minute wonder.
Or LEGO.

In the grand ‘recommend what you’ve got/getting’ a Howies boxers multipack.

Vinyl is too expensive to ruin on one of the £100 jobbies. Do your ears and your records a favour and go for a Rega or Project and hitch it up to suitable amp/speaker combo.

No indication of £, but if you can stretch to it I’d be looking at Raurk R4 for an unobtrusive, conventionally styled 1 box solution.
Without the CD player, if your quick, John Lewis & Sevenoaks HiFi have £150 of the Naim Qb as a Black Friday promotion.
HTH

Boy & I have Talon 22’s for alpine day-packs, as well as carry on. Can’t recommend them highly enough.

Lamb chops, dal & rice
G&T
RSDUK Black Friday releases:
Harvest Moon, Neil Young
El Corazon, Steve Earle
Greatest Hits, Janis Joplin

I’ll let you know after ‘enders has finished.

Saw the Pretenders a few weeks ago and yes, Chrissie has still got it.
Haven’t looked through all the above, so apologies if they’re in there somewhere:
Garbage
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Slits
And at the moment Lu Williams is fronting an astonishingly good 3-piece. Maybe not hard rock but boy do they do a great southern rock groove.

Single speed at 47. Still love it 10 years later.

Silva Trailrunner 2

Hmmmmm, hard enough to get lad to listen to what I say without positively encouraging him to ignore me……

Was in JL with the lad trying various headphones to replace his now dead Beats (Solo 2?) Budget of around £150, as part of his Christmas. HD4.50BTNC’s seemed to be his preferred option, but unclear whether they are essentially the same as the cheaper HD4.40BT’s, with noise cancelling. Former essential in a heaving JL, but for moping in his bedroom perhaps not so much.

Vile man. I presume shame is an emotion he does not feel.

Had a great W*nk experience when in Garmisch last summer…….

P9s on the B&W outlet site. Must resist…….

Most LP’s I buy nowadays come with download cards so the USB requirement is irrelevant unless you are trawling the 2nd hand bins. Agre with the ‘ritual’ comments above.
My recollection of mid-eighties CD players is that they were shrill and fatiguing to listen to, though I shared the frustration of declining vinyl quality through that decade. Eventually gave in to digital around 93, but now buying LP’s again. For what it’s worth black vinyl. Not paying a fiver extra for a pretty colour – the music is the thing. They’re for listening to, not looking at.
A Rega at an appropriate price point would be my suggestion.

Mrs insisted on matching Dualit kettle & toaster when we had the kitchen redone. Toaster still toasting, kettle started leaking after around 2 years. Gone cheap ever since and they’ve all lasted longer.

+1 for HP Envy. Endless problems with 2 preceding Epsons.

Should have asked a local. Plenty Weegies kipping down in doorways.

Was in Glagow Tuesday for a gig. 1st time I’d been back in over thirty years. Left thinking it’s still a shit-hole. Wish this thread had started a few days earlier, at least I might have had something decent to eat.