Bristol trails today; popped out for a quick ride and ended up staying out for almost 4 hours. Beautiful afternoon with the sunshine coming through the trees & trails not as bad as I expected following yesterday’s downpour.

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On his current form, i wouldn’t sign him on a free.

his current form is surely a result of whatever is happening off the pitch to lead to him making this announcement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/oct/17/wayne-rooney-manchester-united

didn’t they come as part of the MW2 “collectors edition”, which sold out on pre-order?

How much you after for one?

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The Hopes are better than a bell!

I’ve got a genesis altitude & love it; great fun to ride. No experience of the Core, but as others have said, they get good reviews in the mags.

You’ll need to replace the tyres though; the MKs are rubbish in the mud.

I bought mine from THIS chap. It’s the 0.36mm stuff and at £8 for 100cm x 10cm, is pretty cheap.

Clean & thoroughly dry the bike, heat the frame with a hair dryer before application.

I find it better to try and do stuff around the house and keep moving, rather than lying flat on my back for days.

This is what the docs will tell you and is my experience too. Staying still is the worst thing for it; you’ll be able to get in a position where there’s some respite from the pain but it’ll be worse when you try to move again. Take some ibuprofen to get the inflammation down and try to move around. I feel for you though – it’s a horrible thing to go through.

Long-term solution to stop it happening again is to regularly do core exercises – crunches, plank, sit-ups etc.

the cheese in lasagne isn’t the problem; it’s the milk used to make the white sauce. LW – I’ll try it using goat’s milk; for some reason this has never occurred to me.

I’m lactose intolerant; gives me really bad IBS. Took ages to work out what it was that was causing it & was annoying cutting out lactose to start with, but don’t really miss it now.

Goat’s & Sheep’s milk are both fine, as is double or clotted cream (all fat, no sugar), most hard cheeses are fine in moderation, as is yoghurt & I use whey isolate powder at the gym rather than whey concentrate. I drink black tea, eat dark chocolate, religiously check ingredients if out for a meal & really miss lasagne.

Not experienced it stunting growth though. I’m 5’11” & my sister (who also has it) is 6′

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thepurist – jerry walsh seems to have an interesting approach to people hotlinking images from his website. Perhaps you could edit your post to remove the ladyboy?

Not for my camera… Not if you want AF.

Manual focus then! I did with my fifty on the D40 and it's a good skill to learn (rather than relying on focus points). THE sharpest lens I've ever used.

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OT – favourite DSLR feature would be variable ISO, rather than having to use different rolls of film.

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Might be in the wrong place + a bit cold this time of year, but you get your own fire pit with each pitch. VERY secluded.

if you right click on the pivot table (cell A3 if you've inserted into a new sheet), select pivot table options, select display & check the "classic pivot table layout", you might find it a little easier.

I have all that kit and I wouldn't dream of shooting anyone's wedding.

So do I and neither would I; far too much responsibility.

There was a piece in a photography magazine about this recently where they said that in this day where any bloke on the street could cobble together the kit and call himself a "wedding photographer", by spending the extra on a professional wedding photographer you got experience, insurance and piece of mind. They also pointed out that the amateur wedding photographers were giving the industry bad name with lacklustre results and were being shut down by reporting them to HMRC.

The choice is either pay for a pro and get guaranteed results or save some cash by going amateur/semi-pro and take a risk that they might be shite.

We went for a girl that was a professional photographer but not a wedding photographer and paid £400 for her services. She was shooting with a D300, nikkor 17-55 f/2.8, nikkor 70-200 f/2.8, nikkor 12-24mm and a couple of primes, which was enough for me to know she was serious about photography.

She processed the ones she thought were best and gave us the jpegs, then 3 DVDs full of the nef files for me to reprocess as i saw fit. The shots were as good as the ones friends of ours paid £1500 for, albeit that they got a fancy album + prints thrown into the deal. They didn't get the digital negs though.

I moved mine down when I fitted a bash. Depends if you're planning on putting the big ring back on any time soon.

And you probably have already, but don't forget to set the limit screw so you can't shift into the non-existent big ring.

Slightly OT, but what size e-thirteen bash would you need to use with a 34t chainring? The 32t is oversize for a 32t chainring, but is it big enough for a 34t?

What you seem to have misunderstood is the difference between your gross and net salary. The £720 that you have paid was from your gross salary, i.e. you haven't paid any tax or NI on it. If you think about it in terms of how much of that £720 you would have received if you hadn't bought the bike on the C2W scheme which would be £576, assuming no NI and 20% tax. This what it has actually cost you.

Original post reading fail.

He's pointed out that the bike cost £999 originally. His gross salary has been reduced by £999 over 12 months. The net salary difference to him should be around £690, taking 20% tax and 11% NIC into consideration. Together with the FMV of £249.75 (£293.45 is wrong as they are failing to deduct VAT from the original price of the bike before adding VAT to the FMV), the total cost to him of purchasing the bike will be £939.75; a 6% saving.

The red route in 50 acre woods is more technical than the AC's timberland trail, but quite short and still fairly flat. The best trails in that area are in Leigh Woods, but ideally you need someone to show you where to go as there's no "official" routes. Plenty of different trails going up & down the gorge, but it hasn't stopped raining since monday and it was a mudfest & very slippy on sunday when I was up there.

Commuting on the roads through Bristol in rush hour isn't too bad, as most of the cars are stationary. But the pedestrians in cycle-lanes are effing infuriating (Queen's Square is especially bad). Oblivious to everything in their ipod-muted morning bubble.

Bought for me by my now wife as a "man-gagement" present. One of the many reasons I married her.

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To anyone asking if this will be applied retrospecively, I'd be almost certain it will. If you are still in your hire period, your company are unable to specify how much the final payment would be, as this would form a contractual agreement and be seen as a benefit in kind (and therefore taxable). Any agreement to buy the bicycle can only be made once the hire period comes to an end and must be separate from the hire agreement.

If you're buying an SLR camera body 2nd hand, make sure you find out the number of shutter actuations; it's like the mileage on a car. Lower end SLR shutters have a life span of 50,000; semi-pro/pro SLR shutters are around 150,000. There are examples of shutters lasting longer, but the price should reflect how high the count is.

It's the Harbour Festival tonight, so the centre (especially the waterfront) will be heaving – although probably not as lairy as it can be on a normal weekend night given the number of families that will be around.

The Ostrich, The Cottage & The Nova Scotia all serve good beer (thatchers Cheddar Valley at the nova), are by the water & far enough away from the festival to be not too busy.

Or go to Queen Square & watch DJ Derek do his thang.

Been for a drive round the 'mead to look for it? Have you put it on http://www.stolenbristolbikes.com/?

My girlfriend's company operate an extended hire period; the loan is paid back over a 12 month period, but the lease period runs for 36 months. It should mean the assessment of "fair market value" will be significantly lower than that of a 12 month lease agreement. Hopefully.

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