Lol some good suggestions there :-D

Thanks Peterfile, I think that may be “just the dab” :-D

I spent a day with a pro photographer teaching me about lighting, and his most memorable comment to me was, “cameras are all sh*te, it’s the lens that makes the difference”.
He went on to say that most low end DSLRs will do the job unless you want really low ISO, or really high resolution because you are blowing your images up massively. Also the more expensive pro slr bodies are made of alloy rather than plastic, and are totally sealed against weather. So get a second hand pro body would be a better option IMHO

We are in this situation with our wee one, although with us it’s a good primary school. Trying to work out how to get into the catchment area, as its an expensive area

Muddodger, was it not called a splicer bar, like someone had melted a pack of opel fruits and swirled them into a bar? :-)

Just to check, can you use normal fascia boards as the Barge boarding, or is there a seperate product specifically for the barge boarding?

Excellent cheers ill give them a try

Lol thought this was going to be a choicer thread :-)

LOL you may be right Cranberry! Its good fun in our office, on one side of our bank of desks is all Apple, and the other all Android, and the banter is comical :-)

Me too! (Sorry) mail in profile :-)

My Dad, (and me on summer holidays) worked in his own garage, blowing asbestos brake dust out of drum brakes every day during services! 40 years and he has had no troubles at all…..

I would just use find my iphone on apple. A mate got his missus phone back using it :-)

Cheers guys, ill toddle down the local high street at lunch and see what’s what.

By default W7 writes 75% of your total RAM to disk on hibernation. You can change this down to 50% mnimum by typing

PowerCfg -HIBERNATE -SIZE 50

This might help a little?

Why would you want to bounce the traffic? All traffic is good traffic! Its like saying you want to divert all people who walk past a shop front away to another street unless they are looking for you specifically?

I worked for First Choice Ski in Alpe d’Huez in 96/97, and my job title was Ski Explorer, which was half Ski guiding, half Ski Tech, as they had their own hire pool.
We were issued with full goretex uniforms in Company Colours (blue, turqoise and Pink) but were told at the time not to wear uniform when guiding as people were starting to get arrested at that point.

We had a good relationship withe ESF guys, as we put a lot of ski school trade their way, as we did a lot of school groups. We also did torchlit descents from a mountain restaurant, and we needed to have 1 ESF guide for every 10 people. The way the guys explained it was that they felt that to be safe in the mountains, you needed to have lived there and be able to read the conditions etc. I could see the point of some of what they were saying, and although we did a weeks training with an English ski school from Courchevel teaching us about keeping safe on the mountain etc., I can see that we were still very inexperienced.

I suppose that the mountains are more dangerous places in the winter, as the snow and freezing conditions bring their own risks, which need to be understood.

Hi MG,
I have been looking for the same thing and tried the Google drive upgrade but found it to be unuseably slow! I have lots of RAW files and videos, as well as work docs, and I use free dropbox for my work docs, and now use Amazon S3 for the 90GB of images etc. They have also now brought out Amazon Glacier, which is slower to retrieve in the event you ever need to, but is crazy cheap. I think Ill be about $3 a month or something. Glacier was limited initially, because you had limited support of clients that could move the data from S3 to Glacier, it was more just published APIs. But now a lot seem to support it, and it seems easier. Once transfered from S3 to Glacier, just delete the S3 files and you are down to Glacier storage only. I think they will be allowing direct Glacier upload soon also which should make it easier.

+1 Handbrake

+1 Specialized, our wee one had hers at 7 months I think

Ayr Pavillion Streetrave nights ( pre hanger 13)
Prestwick Airport Streetrave new year parties. (Yes they took over a whole airport terminal and we were dancing on the Avis car hire desk lol!)
Also the Pleasuredome in Irvine circa 1986ish was awesome. My first bar job and had some amazing times.
Also sub club and Tin Pan Alley in Glasgow :-)

Aha that site for the seiko looks good. Might do a bit of research and check them out. Other than that have been looking at ebay UK sellers. Im not sure of the value, the repair shop is going to give me an appraisal with the watch when I pick it up. That should give me a rough idea to start from.

LOL, not for a wedding unfortunately. I bought the watch from a friend who was upgrading to a newer rolex way back then, and bought it with money my Granny had left me when she died :-( Hence the sentimental value….
As for the reason I need the money, we have a bit of a financial lull at the moment, and we have a very limited time window to have our next IVF cycle. A bit personal I suppose but hey ho. Our first cycle gave us our beautiful daughter, and we feel we would like another to complete the family, and have to go private unfortunately as the first was private so no other option.
I sound like a sado, but this is more important to me than a watch, my priorities have changed as I got older! lol

Got my eye on a Seiko SNZG15J1 with a tan leather strap as a consolation prize :-)

Cheers guys, might go back to him and ask him to be clearer about what he is replacing on the bezel. Tritium marker was missing, and the bezel wouldnt rotate. All good with the price then. I looked around and someone else I knew had used this company before. Its here[/url] and the owner Martin seems like a very nice guy.

Thanks for all the advice guys, and I know its a first world problem, but finances dictate that I need to get rid. Gutted as it has sentimental value :-(

I too have put on a lot of weight and have had similar thoughts. I went back to riding a hard tail as I felt my full suss was struggling.
I ride alone most of the time as I dont want to hold people back, but also I enjoy the freedom to do what I want.
In terms of trails, I head off into the country parks etc, not really done a trail centre for ages, so the tracks tend to be flatter and there is noone around. Think I may be turning into a hermit in my old age lol.

Started running at lunchtimes as with the little one, I dont get any time at night to do anything.

Nothing in Central Scotland

I still like “follow me”

I went on Match and had a couple of strange dates, and a really nice girl who I saw for a few months. I eventually started chatting to someone who seemed perfect, and we were due to finally meet up after a lot of chatting, but the night before we met up, I hooked up with my missus at our xmas party. After having worked with her for 5 years and always admired her from afar! Had to call off the meet up with the other girl, but I’d recommend it for anyone. As others have said, there are some genuine people on there and its easy to spot the butters before you arrange a meet up :-)

I hate it when people take the high ground about how people should take a pay cut and work near home! I do an 11 hour day 5 days a week including 2.5 hours commute by road as there is no financially viable rail route to take. I work in quite a niche area of IT and if I wasn’t in my current job I would be contracting somewhere far from home where I wouldnt see my baby daughter or missus all week. So I commute and suck it up, cos its a better option for me than being away. Yes I could ditch it all and go work at McDonalds, but I am also trying to provide for my family and I would love to live close to work. I used to have a 3 mile bike commute each way to work and loved it, but things change and you need to go where work is.

Dolcelatte and oatcakes :-)

War Games,
Weird Science,
Breakfast Club,
Silent Running,
E.T.

I was in TKmaxx the other day and they had a large selection of softshells at great prices, check them out.

I actually quite liked The Social Network, but war games was where it all started for me!

One of my favourite series from recent years was the shield. Awesome story and characters, and packed full of action.
Homeland and Walking Dead are also amazing.

I have had a 2009 MB Pro since new and have used it every day at work since then as we’ll as all my personal stuff at home. Battery showed a service alert recently so took it to apple and they swapped it for free. Also just bought my missus a 2006 white MacBook which runs Lion but not mountain lion, but only cost me £250 and is like new as the palm rest and keyboard have just been replaced under warranty. I’d never buy another non apple laptop again. have a brand new all singing windows one at work and the bloody thing can’t stay on its feet for more than a day without it either crashing or becoming so slow its unusable!

Thanks for everyone’s suggestions! Now going as a vampire (original I know!) lol cheers again :-)

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I am a Contact Centre Systems designer / systems intergation specialist…… “press one for this, press two for that” :-) I love my job, like a massive train set to play with every day :-D

I use wix.com and redirect my domain to the wix page. Very easy to use and have done the same for a few mates.

porn after anything usually just indicates quality entertainment level. For good bike stuff…Bike Porn etc etc.

So Robot Dinosaurs that are great?

When do they normally announce the dates?

Yeah just note that reasoned discussion has to now be replaced by “What blah for this blah”. From what I can see, you are not allowed to discuss anything topical from that there news or such :-D