A Soprano is normally the size to start with. Tenor and concert tend to be more expensive and for when you are beyond playing for your own entertainment!

Price is really a case of you get what you pay for, look for some special deals. £40 is the ballpark price for a nice beginner uke.

After fumbling about and thinking about an CSS for a long time I reckon an Olympus one is a good idea. They have the the IS in the body, and work with the Panasonic MFT lenses too.

Didn’t BT have something like this years ago? Your mobile worked through your landline when you were at home, but turned into a mobile when you left the house. But it was universally pants, and didn’t work at all well.

Geordie Snore – NE lads and lasses go to bed..
Doctor Ho – This time he’s chinese
Moose – Large antlered ungulate solves crimes

My three year old phone is a bit old now. Oh dear…

If you don’t want to spend silly money, then the performance isn’t going to be stellar, but that said most of the cheaper ones (£60-100) are still really good.

If it’s for long haul then it’s comfort that’s going to be to overriding factor. I’ve got some sony ones like ps44^^. Very nice and not too pricey.

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Hand manipulated food excavator. One of many.

Mrs Seadog tends to get anything she needs/wants when the need/want arises. Pressies are a nightmare.

Do it, you won’t regret it.

I’ve worked, more or less, month on month off for the last 10 years, Offshore Oil. I was in the RN before, so spent much longer trips away then.

The kids have known nothing else, so this is the norm for them. Yours are still young, so maybe it won’t bother them too much either. The time off will fly, but it does when you are having fun!

Your tax situation will need careful handling, use an accountant who is a specialist in foreign earnings deductions. Look here:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxtreaties/

Scots bloke goes to New York to help with the Hurricane Sandy clean up effort.

American guy asks him “Where are you from?”
Scotsman “Glasgow”
American “What states that in?”
Scotsman “Pretty much the same as here”

It’s completely irrational

Hardly irrational – fear of falling down a long way and hurting yourself?

Irrational would be something like: Omphalophobia – fear of bellybuttons
More here: Wiki phobias

Why not insist on them doing their shopping while confined to a wheelchair? or on crutches, or blindfolded. Make them think twice about abusing the spaces.

Maybe not the blindfolded bit, that would be a bit dodgy when they drove away…

‘Things that go bump in the night
Should not really give one a fright
It’s the hole in each ear
Which lets in the fear
That, and the absence if light’

Spike Milligan

Well, it’s only the pub/leave it in town/fret not about it bike, so…on it goes!

Suffering a technical in the middle of nowhere and nothing to fix it with – Uncool
Fixing said technical with twigs, bracken, sheep doings and guts – cool

kiwijohn – Member
If? It’s Isis. Bin it.

Explain please O Mighty BB type guru??

JoeG – Member
Make it a Strava segment! I’ll bet that you can figure out when the range was being used based on the ride times!

http://app.strava.com/segments/2647672
There you go Joe!

As for the right of way issue, yep it’s a BW that cuts through the area that’s clearly marked on the OS map as ‘Danger Area’ – Red triangles on the boundry. And there are signs and flags and everything, just it’s a bit miffing when I’ve got all the way there and have to detour the ‘long way round’ which I don’t like.

When we lived in Oman, daughter (about 3 at the time) would look at locals, point and politely mention their ‘Mucky Face!’.

Now and then I’ll buy a proper copy, but as a digital sub I get to read it on the ‘pooter.

Actually, I buy the real paper version for the pictures. Which are ace. Sometimes, like a teenager, I cut out the best ones and decorate the mancave with them.

Thank jmason, Yep it’s close to that one, a W215, but I found a Youtube video for it too. I’d read somewhere else about the nasty capacitor.

A Moat. With Piranahs.

Dare I say offshore oil and gas?

Good money, ex-forces fit in well, 1 for 1 leave (or better!). Everyone is included on the whole safety side of things, it’s the way of life out here, not just a gesture by the company to keep HSE happy. Follow up the OSH qualifications with the BOSIET and offshore qual’s.

OK, so you have to go to work in a helicopter, but you’d be used that surely?

davesagoodnameforadog – Member
Anyone on here been on? I like the program and fancy giving it a bash for a laugh…

Good god man, have some dignity!!!!!

:o

Chelsea boots, splash out on a good quality pair. They will out live you and all fasion trends.

Wife and duaghter went to see Dry The River at Fibbers in York last night. Would have loved to have gone too, but I’m stuck away at work. Dang.

Thanks Macavity, I did try the Army and the MOD websites, but got nowhere near the links you sent. Cheers for the Range Officers number.

Grand advice, especially the Gumtree bit.

Always done the paper in the seat tube thing. Such a simple way to prove to the police that it’s yours. And in the bars too, won’t be seen as easily if the crim’ starts to strip it down for selling in bits.

Must be so great for the police, and their stats, when you’ve got something so solid to go on.

It Snowed here today:

http://goo.gl/maps/fTI6o

Hooted loudly..

Sorry, but no support from me.

There’s so many good tracks I know of, FP and BW, that ae used regularly by farm vehicles. Grren laners would ditribute their activities much more evenly if they were allowed on these routes too.

I have no idea what this tread is about; apart from word ‘telephone’ that keeps being used????

All in all, as far as I read/heard/seen, there’s far more benefits to keeing fit in old age than not. Gosh? is that so?

My Dad, now 71, still rides his road bike regularly. A few weeks ago, he managed a 100miles across the Pennines, taking in all the steepest and scariest hills around our way. 8O

He’s now starting to ‘feel his knees’ more, and has a long term problem with frozen shoulder. He’s probably going to out live all of us.

How pushy and middle class to you want to be?

Sorry Junkyard, but wanting, hoping or expecting kids to do well at school isn’t middle class. Just shows that you actually care. To quote the head at my lads school ‘I wish more parents would come and raise their concerns’.

Top results news is always fantastic.

When you say backwards writing do you mean back to front? That was one of Da Vinci’s tricks – Bodes Well!

Fire Starter – Prodigy
True Faith – New Order

New – Nikon D3100 is a good bet. Recetly got one myself and it’s doing great work.

Second hand might be tricky if you don’t know what you’re doing. I was so baffled and confused when I was looking. I realised that I had an equal chance of picking up some old junk as something fab. So stuck to buying froma shop and having the fall back of the warranty etc..

In the end I know I will upgrade, just as long as soon as I figured out what all the buttons and knobs do!

Once spent two days on a ‘crew boat’ (ie, old PSV that was good for nothing else – offshorey types will know what I mean). We were heading up to join our ship working in northern Saudi Waters.

Crewed by Indian blokes:

Breakfast – Mild Curry with a chapati
Lunch – Medium Curry with a popadom
Dinner – Hot curry with rice
Can of coke and one piece of fruit per day.

The AC was none existant, so headed out on to the deck and slept on a very large coil of rope.

I you’re allowed to, try freezing them. Stick them in a well sealed heavy duty plastic bag and leave them there for a couple of days.

Then wash them again

Then freeze again.

If you can ID any sets which are Limited or special edition, then the mini-figs will sell well on their own. I suspect that the boxes are long gone? If not then getting the whole set back in one piece (so to speak..) is a winner

A sign that a mini-fig came from a special ed’ set is printing on the legs, not a 100% reliable, but a good indicator. See if you can get it united with any of it’s accessories, or buddies from the same set. Team building for plastic folk!

PS there are 7 mini-figs for every person on earth… be warned. Most of them are in our house.

No no no, you’re all well of the mark. It’s a CD rack if anything.