Pook – this should help

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/cycling-and-walking-and-prow/prow/maintaining-paths/construction-details

Are you saying they plan to block a bridleway with a horse hop and a K gate?

I’ve never seen a motorbike on that bridleway. Personally I wish the council would leave well alone with the paths and instead fix the ponds/dams in the porter valley before we lose them forever.

Dunno but it’s pi$$ed it down every day for over 2 weeks now in Sheff so expect it to be less than dry.

Mostly A

but suspect as time goes on becoming more B, as I’m increasingly asking the engineers to consider what colour things should be. Those star goats can be lethal y’know…

To go back to the original question, I’d hope (though I’m not sure it’ll happen) that an eventual upshot of all of this will be a stronger house of commons and a weaker executive. The system recently has got to the point where Downing St has too much power – often people say we’ve become something like a presidential system rather than cabinet government, but this is wrong, presidents have nowhere near as much power as British Prime Ministers have, they are more like elected Kings with everyone in the court desperate to please because of the power of patronage.

PR would be a big improvement also.

The Beatles may have only had three chords, but the Manics only have three notes, none of them good ones. Unlistenable. Why are they popular, I don’t get it.

If you don’t get an answer you could try http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk

There’s a good pub in Fenny Bentley that brews its own beer…

I think it is fair to say that Newcastle are a ‘big’ club by any objective measure.

Other than winning anything, ever.

My company checks everything and you need a receipt. They were running round not knowing what to do last year after I bought an oyster card on a stay in London instead of getting daily travel cards. I saved the company a few quid as it’s cheaper on the tube with an oyster card but they didn’t know what to do without receipts…

mt – I’ll be voting on June 4th, good luck at the polling station today.. you may have a long wait ;-)

“always sort them out manually”
So how do you do it?

Just drag and drop what you want from itunes’ music folder into the ipod’s music folder. It’s a major flaw in the design of itunes that they assume you want to auto sync everything – if you count my work computer and my son’s ipod I have 3 computers (3 instances of itunes) and 3 ipods, plus a backup external hard disk. No I do not want itunes to suddenly wipe one of the ipods ‘cos it’s got music from my son’s computer not mine, or because I want to make a named playlist while at work on a computer that doesn’t have all my music on it. Stop that Apple. Bad Apple.

6 as well.

Money will also be spent on the Mottram bypass

Really? Anyone know anymore about this?

Last I heard this had been kicked into the long grass.

http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/16360.aspx

Not bad going for a road originally planned to be built in 1967 and then restored to the list to be built in 1989.

http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/5515.aspx

Garstang?

Make sure you turn off syncing on itunes on the new computer (at least for the ipod previously synced to the old computer), then it won’t delete stuff from the ipod. Never have syncing on IMHO, always sort them out manually.

You won’t be able to copy from the ipod back into itunes though, unless it’s stuff you bought on the ipod/iphone directly. Somebody will be along to recommend a third party app that will do this no doubt…

Of course Thatcher didn’t have anything to do with rail privatisation, but why let facts get in the way of a good rant?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail

mt – even Tebbit had to clarify that he didn’t support voting Nazi.

I worked for an MP, before he was one. They aren’t ALL thieving bastards.

check his expenses

That all seems above board I guess – but £23k for mortgage interest and upkeep on his London flat for one year?

Do they all get 5 year mortgages and expect to build up a property portfolio if they get elected for several terms or what?

Everything TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR says about Sheff is true, apart from Milburn and The Blunts, who are both equally embarrasing.

5 years but on average only twice a week (more in summer, less in winter)

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I have had to take evasive action more than once though, including banging on the side of the bus that was a few metres longer than its driver thought.

The survey said that it was safer where more people rode bikes, because more people ride bikes.

More people ride bikes in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, than in Bradford and Kirklees, because it a lot flatter there.

Yes but a statistical relationship does not a causal relationship prove. Especially when there are other interacting factors.

Surely it’s also down to rural areas having poorer roads with faster traffic and less folk cycling due to distances?

That doesn’t explain mostly rural areas like Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire doing well and mostly urban areas like Bradford and Kirklees doing badly.

Seems like hilly places are more dangerous than flat places… there will be fewer cyclists in hilly places, but also the roads tend to be narrower with more bends, and cyclists’ speed will be variable – much slower than cars uphill, but possibly faster than cars downhill.

Other areas awarded the A grade and near the top of the safety league include Hull, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, while others given an E rating include Bradford, Blackburn and Kirklees.

Do you mean ceremonial mayors like most cities, or elected novelty ones like Doncaster, Hartlepool and London?

I’ve submitted 82 checkins to our version control system so far this calendar year, if you include branch integrations.

Clegg is my MP (Sheffield Hallam), I’ll be voting for him.

I’m hoping for a hung parliament and a bit of a realignment of UK politics, but it’s more likely that we’ll just get the normal pattern – current lot have been in years and run out of ideas, everything’s going bad and people want a change, ‘the other lot’ don’t look as useless or scary as they did a few years ago, so they’ll get in. And repeat…

This obsession some folk have with Thatcher is just crazy. She’s gone, get over it. Brown has run the economy up a blind alley in the last 12 years, it’s his fault, not Thatcher’s. He was the one in charge when it all went crazy over the last decade, 1987 had nothing to do with it.

London based journo amazed to discover that the rest of the world doesn’t want to live there shocker.

snowdonia is very near , bonus!

Well in the same sense that London is near the Cotswolds or the New Forest, or that Oxford is near the Peak District, or that Newcastle is near the Lake District…

When we bought a bunch of bikes, mine was a pretty sensible hardtail and I do cycle to work on it on average once or twice a week… however a couple of other people were rather ‘overbiked’ for a short commute to work (full sus and one downhill bike), plus of course “cycle equipment” (full face helmets, off road lights, Garmins, etc.)

Then again on the old even more abused computer scheme one guy got a GPS unit that he uses for paragliding…

aP – why?

Given that your company directors will attempt to screw the inland revenue every way they can, why is it so bad when a lowly employee tries to take advantage of one of the few tax breaks open to the regular person?

Sufr – read it again – fits the criteria exactly.

Besides which, who would know or care how many times he used it “for leisure”.

aP – why? Because you’d worry about the revenue poking their nose in?

As far as I can tell the only issue is the bit in IR176 about being mostly used for travel to work (which is of course unprovable). The computers scheme had no such caveats as far as I can remember and so people were claiming for any old computer equipment, GPS units, PDAs, etc.

A tax dodge is a tax dodge, you claim for what you can. At least these dodges give something back to regular people unlike, say, the capital gains allowance.

If it was the revenue who wanted a chat you might want to worry. If it’s your HR department they’ll just say “please don’t do that” won’t they?

I spent my placement year at BNFL in Risley business park close by; I chose to live in Chester as hated the place!

I worked near there for two years and lived in Manchester for similar reasons! No traffic problems going out of Manchester in the mornings… ;-)

Warrington is mostly a suburb of Manchester/Liverpool. It’s grown quite a lot in the last 20 years and the centre of town is much better than it used to be. Best areas are south of the Mersey and ship canal – Stockton Heath feels like a nicer part of a larger northern city, the rest of the south is suburban, and parts of the north of the town are semi-grim (though it’s still only a little town, not a big city so not too bad).

Traffic can be bad because Warrington is boxed in by motorways and any problems people drive through the town (and there aren’t many bridges).

Pubs in town centre used to be full of blokes with taches and no neck (because of rugby league) but might be less scary these days, though I doubt it.

If you live in Warrington (ask binners hes from there) you will have to support liverpool.

Or Man U, which is actually pretty close to the east of Warrington. Perhaps depends on which bit of Warrington you live in – you can certainly buy both the Liverpool Echo and the Manchester Evening News in most shops, depending on which estate you were shipped out of in the 70s.

ck – yeah, but I try and flip them over so I’m ‘in’. Got sufficiently good at it it’s not a problem. One day though, I really must try the spds out ;-) (I just know I will fall off sideways in slow motion though)

Ok does this mean that I am the only person left in the UK still using toe clips?

Nope – bought some SPDs but can’t get the old pedals off so still got the old toeclips. Removed the cage though, just use the front bit to help pull up on the pedals climbing, and I can flip the pedal over for full flat behaviour when I feel like it (e.g., descents where I suspect I may need to part company with the bike at some point!). Learnt to keep feet level when descending a long time ago after a couple of slippages…

Clearly then RudeBoy, before Porton Down was set up to create viruses in order to sell vaccines (which clearly implies Glaxo or someone secretly funds Porton Down and not the tax payer after all), no-one at all died on a regular basis from any infectious disease whatsoever, and especially not plaugue (2 sorts), TB, cholera, various flu pandemics, yellow fever, smallpox, etc. etc.

Paging Mr. Occam, will Mr. Occam please bring his razor to the front please…

Prices are already going up because of the weak pound, have a look at car prices for example. Everyone seemed surprised that CPI remained high whilst they were panicing about negative RPI. I think the low RPI figure will work itself out after a while (variable rate mortgages are as low as they are going to go) and the underlying real inflation is going to go up, if anything.

The radiator in our office is turned off all year, the computers keep it warm enough in winter.

In summer it can be anything up to thirty degrees when you first walk in in the morning before you open the windows.

And checking in code every night is a sign you need better version control software…