The Garmin Etrex 10 is basic and not too expensive (approx. £75). Gives you OS Grid Reference, compass and odometer so useful as a backup to paper maps, plus good battery life.

EDIT: and not overly complicated! May be bigger than you’re hoping for though; watch based units are generally much more expensive – and more complicated ;-)

Have you considered getting a wheel built up with a Whites Industries Eccentric Rear Hub (I’m assuming single speed use).

Heard this being discussed overnight on the radio. Not heard of it before, a tragic incident.
One of the tales to come out of it was of a kit-bag being washed ashore with the name of a soldier that didn’t survive but the bag contained, amongst other things, 4 oranges which were subsequently passed on one to each of his 4 brothers (or sons, sorry, don’t recall); quite a touching story.

Not sure who is more confused – me reading your post or you?
My being colourblind possibly doesn’t help.

Gotcha

Simon_Semtex

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**** hell! Bloody Snowflakes. Now they need help learning how to breathe. I’m sure there will be an App for that soon. (and probably a shop in Shoreditch selling Breatherite products made out of some kinda sustainable mexican hardwood.)
Do i now have to put up with beardy types wearing floppy hats in my local pub all claiming that they were into breathing before it became cool?

Selling breatherite products you say? Well, already available…
Optimal Breathing Self Mastery Kit

It was always a nightmare trying to find a girlfriend with equal breasts, had to check so many and keep going back to check them again. And again.
p.s. Happy New Year to you Stu and Amanda

Well, that’s spoilt my Christmas; I thought they were real…

Annual bath, get the pulling pants on and out on the razzle. Local pub, live band, fireworks.

Now the dogs seem to be sorted and away from the house the next task would possibly be to get the house cleaned up? Thankless task maybe and not pleasant certainly but would put MIL in a better environment for a while.

:-)

/// whoooosh >>>

kelvin

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I liked his aged take on him. The flashbacks to Belgium felt completely separate from the story… are they from the book?

No. In the book Poirot works with Japp (although the inspector in this adaptaion is introduced as Japp’s assistant in the book) and Capt.Hastings features as well – and actually contributes to solving the crimes, so there are several variations. Christie never really goes into Poirot’s past other than him being a Belgian refugee but there are a number of references to him being a policeman and Head of Belgian Police and even having worked with Japp in Belgium whilst in the Belgian police before coming to England.

Northwind

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I enjoyed the first episode, haven’t seen any more-

and…

The letters thing… What are the odds that he goes to Bermondsey and just happens to bump into a waitress who pinches his stockings and just happens to be called Belinda Bertingale (or whatever the **** the names are, you get the point). I could buy him hunting these people down, somehow, though in her case how? But that didn’t make sense.

You should probably watch the subsequent episodes then! It’s surprising how Christie’s murder mysteries develop, often with a few twists along the way….

It was quite a dark production, good attempt to bring a new angle into the Poirot character and certainly, IMO, one that needed to be watched until the final credits.

They’re all “the best” if they do the job properly!

Only (possibly) useful thing I can add is that they are a temporary fix. When you get back to base expel the gas from tyre and pump up with air again. They’ll go down on you otherwise…

Just tell them a hug is so much more than a present.

Stocktaking.
Set up your financial year to do stocktaking on Christmas Day. You’ll know exactly where and what you’ll be doing every year and have the perfect get-out excuse for anyone else trying to plan your Christmas Day! Then a good ride on Boxing Day.
(Also frees up a day some other time of year ;-) )

Don’t know the real answer Mark but hope it all passes well.

I was reading a thing about data from an activity app. Turns out 52% of UK folk with that app walked less than 850m a day.

That would be me. I cycle 11 miles to work, walk less than 50m to my work station; repeat in the reverse direction going home. Not many days during the week that I walk 850m.

Great news about Lee though; even if it only makes a small difference and improves the lifestyle of just a few people it will have been worth it.

Looks like you’ve had a great year on the bike Rich. It’s great to see people like you and Luke (munrobiker) making the most of what’s out there. Here’s to 2019 bringing more big days out :-)

Great to see someone getting out there and enjoying every moment Luke, whether riding, walking, sailing, whatever! I’ll raise a glass to 2019 bringing more big days out :-)

Agree with IHN, 22/40 would be a nightmare. You’d need to put ballast in your front paniers to keep the front wheel down! Changing chainset first seems the way to go, see how you get on.

I knew those automatic speed cameras on the IoM would cause problems…

Paddy Ashdown? ex Marine and SBS

Had mine out a few years ago. Affects different people differently of course but general rule is not too much high fat (greasy food, processed cheese, etc.), not too much spicey food, not too much alcohol (for me that means no spirits, beer/cider OK in moderation).
He may find he needs to pop to the loo soon after eating. He may get abdominal pain after eating/drinking the wrong things (to excess).

He’ll be glad to have it out though. They say the pain is as close as a bloke gets to childbirth. Don’t know about that but gall stones was the most severe pain I have ever experienced (and I have quite a high pain threshold)

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rOcKeTdOg

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he won’t get that trophy home in a jiffy

Let’s hope he can hang on to this one….

“Sports personality? If they had a personality they would not need to do sports”
A quote from my wife

Mmmm, hope you don’t do any sports. If you do, you need to have a word… ;-)

Mike drop?

Spoiler alert…

Caher

Subscriber
But annoyed really as I cycled to France this year and did not get a mention.

Fortunately, everyone that has had a mention has shown great humility.

He’s a big lad, isn’t he. Talking about depression and mental illness in sport is hardly pantomime though.

Golden Boot at the World Cup, it’s actually quite an achievement.

This is true. Our ability to take penalties has certainly improved and become an achievement ;-)

What Mike said.
@ others. No, they didn’t win the World cup. But they played well, they enthused a large part of the nation in a way they’ve failed to do for about the last 20 years, in a sport that is still the most popular sport in the country, with a group of players and a coach that deserve recognition.
The 3 Lions and Baddiel and Skinner might have been rather cringeworthy, but the sentiment is genuine. Don’t diss it, it makes you look right churlish.

I too agree with what Mike said.

With regard to your other comment, I was referring to a person, Harry Kane, in my post, not a team. By comparison to the usual criteria of having won something (OK, I know it’s called Sports personality…) he has won nothing, either at club level or international level. When you consider all the other sports people that have won at the highest level and don’t even get mainstream media recognition I churlishly believe it to be slightly skewed.

Good Ms Yarnold getting a mention in for 5 time World Champion Rachel Atherton and others who don’t get full recognition on mainstream media.

So a list of contenders who are all winners at the highest level in 2018. Plus one bloke who hasn’t won anything in 2018, who plays for a club team that haven’t won anything in 2018 and for an International team that… well, haven’t won anything in 2018.

Bring it on.

Ask yourself
Was it a cat I saw?
I did, did I?
mmmm

Don’t nod

oN

Seeing that vest it reminds me that my mother used to crochet string tee shirts for me to wear out hill walking, etc.. Worn under a normal base layer they were as warm as, well.. a warm thing. Back in the early seventies though – do mums still crochet?!?

Yes, things do happen for a reason in the spiritual sense :-) Maybe not in a wooo, wooo parallel universe kind of way but your brain can work at a sub-conscious level and at a level beyond your own comprehension; this can affect or influence things that occur seemingly beyond your understanding or without reasonable explanation.

Except Scotch whisky is universally spelled as such.
Which is irrelevant because the two spellings are synonymous.

Unless it is produced by a member of the Scotch Whisky Association in which case it is Whisky and Whisky only. Produced by anyone else it could be whisky or whiskey as long as it has been aged for 3 years. If churned out quicker it is merely a Spirit Drink.
Or so I understand.

I have this year received a bottle of Glenmorangie plus a few bottles of wine so far. Biscuits and chocolates have been responsible for a weight gain of about 7lbs in the last couple of weeks…

Who has priority here? The definite answer is the cyclist in the cycle lane who has priority over both sets of turning traffic. Which actually scares the sh1t out of me because the cyclist is probably the last thing that turning drivers from either direction will see as they try to work out who goes first whilst looking only at each other.