Paid off my mortgage a couple of years ago – life has been very good since then and it was pretty awesome with a mortgage

Life is what you make it

Oh and I have shagged 5 different canadian chicks in the last week but thats the only downside I can think of.

I married the most beautiful woman I've ever seen

Then she divorced me

For which i will be forever grateful,

Thank you sweetie :-)

This is my first in an ongoing series of stuff I cook and eat in 20 mins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5AHkFW8C-w

very much toward the simple end of things but some people have no idea how to even start.

I just thought it would be great if people on here submitted their how to vids as well

Tastes better than it looks and to be fair Canadian ingredients are shit.

Can't wait to get back to the UK for soome proper food – mmmmmm pork pies

Yes PlumChef

nowt

Ableton Live

or do as most 'dj' seem to do and plug in you premixed ipod and **** about with computers and deck which aren't pluged in. God bless em :-)

I've seen this more times than I care to mention in my 'sound reinforcement days

cough/ lisa lashes /cough – what a piss head

thats the closest vid I've seen of how it actually is in Whistler bike park. and of course the vid makes it seem less steep. I was there a month ago and can only dream of being that good

I have on occasion used 32:18 but mostly 32:16 is fine

doable single speed with a bit of pushing in places – well for me anyway

1 – its not a **** steed
2 – its not going to kill you to wait til tuesday
3 – they don't smile much its true
4 – I have always had great service from Merlin

I'm with samuri on tihs one

Its a bike, its at night, not really a big deal is it?

Unless your mum took you to school in a chelsea tractor then probably you should stay on the sofa

Plum

ballpark=estimate=guesstimate

Canadians say they do but in fact don't :roll:

http://www.backcountry.com/outdoorgear/Burton-AK-2L-LZ-Down-Jacket-Mens/BUR1701M.html – waterproof and down – fine for canadian winters with a t shirt underneath to minus 45 BUT way to much for just trudging around town.

I'm a great fan of primaloft, I have a mountain hardware jacket that I have pretty much lived in for 4 years. It is the one jacket that goes everywhere with me. Most people I know have one now and all really rate them, My brother recently found a primaloft, windstopper which really does look an excellent jacket

Also have one of the alpkit down jackets which is ok but not good in the rain.

Plum

Be warned – my dad picked up a ferret some years ago and now runs a ferret rescue of 30+ at the last count.

They are addictive

Plum

why cobain shot himself.

I don't care why I'm just glad he did

mmmmmm most impressive work

Plum

Went to see them in Calgary a couple of months ago – shocking

Plum

Looks a bit like Nelson, Lancashire…..

I'm not uwhat part of Nelson you are thinking of but it looks nothing like it to me

Ta Like

Plum

Derek,

My apologies if I offended you, I take note of the bar end situation as I did when a bar end nearly went through my face years ago – SFB has a pic of same.

I didn't post a pic of that incident even though I am extremely good looking.

I have learned that some of lifes great comedians occupy themselves on STW forum and I really wouldn't want to be insulted by a lesser calibre of folk nowadays

Plum

For whats its worth I had a date with a lovely lady yesterday who was considerably more robust than your good self. She wanted to suck my cock, whatever next!

Pregnant too?

:-)

Fi – nice but very dim

Plum

I did up to grade 3 years ago, it didn't help me be better but then I didn't really push myself – it was like all exams I have taken – learn the syllabus then gradually forget it all.

Being able to learn something and then apply it to your guitar is much more important and I have had the good fortune to find a great teacher to help me do that in the past. I also find that playing a little bit of keyboard really helped me visualize things as well.

Plum

Samuri is winning so far :-)

I've buried myself a couple of times, its very scary despite being only inches from the surface

I should point out that relative distance is different in Canada.

The trip from Vancouver to Whistler would be considered negliable by most Canadians standards, I'm now in the same mind set and think nothing of driving 2 hours for breakfast on a weekend.

As I've mentioned before, according to one of my friends (who works in imigration) imigration to Canada has really tightened up in the last year.

Personally I'd rather be in the Maritime alps than Whistler/Vancouver – I think the riding that I did with Riviera bike surpasses anything I did in BC with the exception of Squamish which was on a par

Plum

After my recent road trip in BC I can't claim to know that much but I would say that on the face of it Pemberton would appeal to me as a place to live

Squamish is strip mall hell but the riding is ace, Whistler seems like a shit hole to live in. Vancouver seems pretty much like any American urban sprawl I've been to but I willing to bet its a nice place to be when you know your way around.

From listening to the radio there seem to be all sorts of unresolved political issues going on at present in BC and living in Alberta for the last 10 months I can imagine why. And it is seen by locals as a very expensive place to live

I found Nelson a perfect little town to that I would really like to live in for a while however its miles from Whistler.

Good luck with it though

Plum

JC, I never get sick of hearing that story of your heroic rescue.

Neil, I'm glad you and Suz are ok

Endura MT500 inners

Lululemon big chief outers – only svailable in Canada I think but very very good

Rivierabike

Inbred 853 with revs in pink

I loves it I do

totally blown away by that

on ones – have been very good for everything I do

gotta love Barcelona

Plum

(Why did my mum & dad have to buy a house on to of a 1000' hill ?)

Thats still a bitch of a climb to me.

Last time I was there I was surprised to see the 'clarion'? hut still open for T.

I can't wait to get back home. This post has made me very home sick!

Plum

– geared

– SS

oops – double post

nice

Plum

Wide games – man I'd forgotten that,

Trudging up Pendle – yep many times, I had a great view of it from my bedroom window as a kid.

We tramped around that area so much as a kid – biking up pasture lane that was almost Everest like to a 8 year old with a single speed bike. It was the first hill I attempted when I first got my single speed inbred and I made it as a 40 year old – I was so pleased as its the first time I'd ever managed it on a bike.

Also camped at Bowley and went to White Hough? camp school. I count myself very lucky to have had the wild and free upbringing I did. Probably the last generation not to have to be driven to school or not allowed to play footy on the street.

Anyone remember the old witches window in New Church – you could put a coin in the slot and the 3 witches inside would wobble about driven by clock work

Plum

10th Nelson – the memories this post has brought back :-)