Been over ours in Poole last 3 days. Presumably going to and from Yoevilton show

A big lump of ‘Ampshire Hog :D

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Second hand.
Bought this frame and fork a cheap replacement for my Lynskey as I needed the money.
£150 for an Italian made alu/carbon frame that rides better than a £1k Ti job.
:-)
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DrP has one and rides it much faster than most people I know ride their posh road bikes. Quick lad.

Also if you are trying to move your kids from a set of friends, have you asked their parents if they are doing the same? :?

They might be moving with you!

Yep, couple of the desired schools over-subscribed from in catchment here too.

Apparently some of the parents who have moved to the area then don’t get in don’t take the news very well. Ooops. Better take your kids to the nice parks to meet your desired friends instead.

Feel sorry for the families who have lived in these areas for years and are then ‘gazumped’ by moneyed new comers taking up the places they’d thought they had all these years.

Also don’t rule out the baby boom years. Our next door neighbours got into the posh out of catchment school on a quiet year whereas our other neighbours weren’t even close to getting in 2 years later when you look at the figures.

By all means try and go for the best option, but don’t make it your only option.

Having seen the OFSTED process first hand I can honestly say don’t bother reading too much into it. Much of it is a paper exercise and bears little reflection on what you actually get.
Some schools are obviously in desperate trouble or needing serious improvement, but they are unlikely to be at a good rating so i’m pretty sure that won’t be the case here. If a school is ‘that bad’ i’m sure you’ll know all about it.
We weren’t in a financial position to even contemplate this option, so went with the ‘help improve the local school’ choice instead.
Wife is a governor of our local Primary now as well as working in the Education Dept at the council and being heavily involved in the parents association.
She gets to write the councils press releases and much of the information the school puts out which is hopefully addressing some of the image problems a school on an estate has had over the years.
We have a local issue where parents have opted to try and get kids into an outstanding school in a posher bordering area. This was always claimed to be to get them into a ‘better’ school, but since the last round of OFSTEDS our school is now Good with Outstanding features and improving while the posher school has dropped to good.
The continuation of parents to go towards the other school is showing what was fairly obvious before. It wasn’t the quality of teaching or provision they were chasing, but the company of ‘nicer’ children with richer ‘nicer’ parents.
No real problem with this if this was their aim, but don’t hide behind the school report to do it.
I’m the first to say some of the parents at our school are less than interested in their kids education and some of the sights and sounds you see at the school gates could be drastically improved, but the actual teaching and learning our little one gets has been excellent and she really enjoys her days there.
Yes a few of her friends parents wouldn’t be people we’d normally be mates with, but it’s not really about us is it?
Also heard some pretty interesting tales from friends in nicer areas of some of the pressure put on teachers from pushy parents along the lines of Q. “Why hasn’t my child learnt to read yet?” A. ‘Do you read them many books?’ Q. “No, that’s YOUR job!” A. ‘Well let me do it then!’.
Would I think these things if we DID have the money to move? Not sure, it was never an option…unlike the grammar school choice we may have to make in a couple of years time.

This the other day. Knocked a little rust off the trowel :-)

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Good work. I could only just break the hour this time last year and can go sub 45 mins now, so stick at it (and train with a club).

Slightly OT, but i’m in charge of the Sumo suits at our schools fete this Saturday if anyone wants a rumble! :-)

These with a bit of luck.
Best part of £200’s worth of treaders for £15 on eBay :-)

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With the amount of single mums at our school, i may win by default :?

Joe Munroes work looks amazing Anna. I’m sure yours will be great. Not on the face like most of his portfolio I hope :?

Typed 99 not 89 then. Older than I think :(

Blimey, Salisbury talk. Haven’t spent much time there since I left college in 1989!

Under arm, inside of elbow and toes have hurt the most so far, although ribs are supposed to be particularly ‘interesting’.

Maybe stepping back into the marketplace for some new stuff soon. It’s been 12 years or so since I’ve had anything done. (Colours all intact thanks to factor 50 whenever the sun shines).

Blimey Houns, if your penis looks like that can we have a thread about it?!

:mrgreen: DrP can’t handle the manliness of a builders bum in the face post ride, poor lad :wink:

C_G worse than the darkside, i’ve turned into a runner! …who only owns bikes with drop handlebars and doesn’t even own an MTB anymore.

I’m good C_G, you? You still living down there with the sheep botherers?

Not that often as i dont have to, but on occasion yes. Try to avoid them though, too much dog crap.

None, because skinheads are like tattoos, common and fashionable :wink: ….said the bloke with a skinhead covered in tattoos.

I think mine are Wahl, but to be fair they’re probably all much the same.

I would C_G, but then i’ve known him 30 years :D

Most important question is what you having done next?

Funny how a load of people come across all tough and shouty slagging people off for having tattoos yet no one’s ever said that to my face.
Although to be fair, that wouldn’t bother me either.

I know why the OP has had this done and the significance of it to his family, but to be honest if he’d had it done to look cool/hard/trendy or just because he liked fish and flowers it’s not really any relevance to anyone but him.

He was showing a nice tattoo to people who may be interested and had the courtesy to ask those who obviously don’t like them to refrain from the snarky comments and from dragging the thread into a slanging match like usual. Shame some couldn’t resist.

Screw the haters Steve, it looks ace! :-)…but not as ace as my lot :wink:

105s on both my road bikes. A definite step up in shape and secureness from the 540s I had before.

Head above parapet…YES!

40’s/50’s Jive. Not for a while but used to do it fairly regularly when we lived nearer London and could get to decent Rock n Roll nights.

For training/leisure:
Basic Cateye strada wireless computer
Polar HRM
Strava on phone if i remember to turn it on.

Don’t bother with any when racing cx, but use HRM during most running events to pace myself.

Running 1/2 marathons it never really goes below 160, 10k at the weekend was all above 165 and peaking at 190ish and cx races are pretty much all out (165-190) for 45 minutes.
Intervals and hill training i do with the running club are bonkers, but i don’t wear a HRM when doing them so god knows what i’m doing during those :?
I’m 43, 13 stone and don’t really worry about it. I’d rather use it than not.

Budget racer ebay special.
Weigh frame, ITM forks, Campag 1×10, Shimano CX50 brakes.
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Yep, driving up from Poole shortly.
I’ll be blowing snot everywhere at the back of the pack in a HereComeTheBelgians skinsuit :-)

Jeff Hannemann RIP
Scott Ian
Johnny Marr
Angus Young
Josh Homme

Take your bib shorts off and wave them under the wifes nose….Now who’d do that Dr? :-)

38 single, 13/29 cassette

Some of us do, just not on here.

See some of my experiences and thoughts on my long term fight with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder such as this http://compulsivflyer.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/going-public-with-your-ocd/ at my blog or on Twitter @compulsivflyer

The couple of times i have entered threads on this commonly misunderstood and ‘joked about’ illness on here i have been shouted down for not having a sense of humour! From where i sit, some things just aren’t funny.

As for medication, although this is anxiety not depression related, the treatment is similar. SSRIs and CBT exposure therapy.

‘cough’ 2.5TDi T4 with 102k miles for sale here ‘cough’ :wink:

What’s wrong with the tandem and trailor you lazy git?

It’s a 38t stronglight chainring with a 12-27 cassette.
BBG bashguard online from the states and an n-stop chain catcher.

A bit like this?
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..or second hand at that budget as low end groupsets feel terrible.