I clicked through to the deal page and saw the range like hg has posted. tbh more style than cycling glasses but mau float some people’s boats!

Your car speedo are specced to read between 10% over and 0% under by law that is why your GPS could show you going 55 when your speedo shows 50. I guess its to prevent the manufacturers being liable for your speeding fine….

This is my one from this year

Hopefully it is still outside!

Not a personal recommendation but read about TLX Gold used in a project. May work….

Laughter here to….

£148.9/litre!!!!!! Where do you get your fuel from?

Except the M5 services… Answered my own question, awesome!

I just did that route but starting a bit further up in Weybridge. We stopped at the Partridge Pub, Partridge Green which was really nice. Good ales and nice food. Its approx 26 miles from Guildford.

It is largely flat except two hills I remember of note. The last one (Beeding Hill of the South Downs) can be avoided if you run out of steam at the end by following the River Adur into Shoreham from Bamber.

We aimed to get a good proportion of the cycling out of the way before lunch to break the back of it. Nice knowing when you get back on the bike you’re more than halfway already!

ta!

I’ve organised a works ride for this Sat starting a little ahead of the crowd at Weybridge, just so happened best weekend for us was same as BHF one.

Look out for a mixed group of English and Germans making slow progress to the sea.

And the guy who was invited to participate in documentary and wanted the wisdom of the STW might be interested too….

Can’t remember who he was though!

I couldn’t make a stag do in Biarritz although we had plenty of notice. I didn’t really fancy the trip to Paplona and getting gored by a bull, plus the flights were getting mucho pricey by the time I started looking. Was a good friend from school so I felt a bit guilty about not going but he understood. I took it upon myself to organise a mini stag do at his place with some old schoolfriends to make up for it. That was much appreciated and we had a good time.

Cheers Hobster, looks worth a look!

Thanks Anjs

I expect it to be busier than normal but with a limit of 800 riders spread over the course it shouldn’t be to busy.

That pubs looks ace, just what I want. Just thinking would like somewhere perhaps more than halfway from guildford so we break the back in the morning.

If you’re not happy open a dispute. I know when I start a no reserve auction I have to accept less than I might like/expect. I do it to entice people to bid. If I don’t honour that then I would feel like I’ve decieved people.

Go for it!

I returned recently after a few years out. I would advise trying to take it easy and at your own pace. A good club should do this whilst gently encouraging physical progression. IME it takes a while for the body (flexibility and conditioning) to catch up with the mind (knowledge of techniques). This gets worse as I get older.

I would advise looking watching the club first. I walk away when the instructor slags other instructors of.

Good luck!

Our washing machine that we acquired when we moved in 9 months ago started to leave clothes really humming and wasn’t always running through the spin cycle. Was recommended by chaps at work to search for filter, usually somewhere on panel front of machine. Found ours, totally gummed up by some foul smelling black gunk that I cleaned up. Washed clothes now smell washed. Would recommend checking that filter occasionally!

thanks forthe quick reply! had a look at the drivers and didn;t see anything standing out as the driver controller.

I unpluggged the memory card reader as I saw this as a recommendation somewhere.

Actually, doing this seems to have worked, its running now!!!!!!

They should ease you into it gently, otherwise like another poster said they won’t get much repeat business.

Getting bendy will come with time!

Best advice would be to try and relax, not to panic as that is where mistakes will come in.

Beat me to it! Brilliant idea though!

Ju Jitsu and Snowboarding – would try and increase JJ to 3 times week if time was on my side and boarding to a month a year every year.

One thing I wouldn’t mind trying is kite surfing – looks like fun but would squeeze my other hobbies to much!

I’m contracting and have recently got life assurance as we bought a house. Got it for the value of the mortgage.

Thought about income protection but decided against it in the end – to costly for me.

+1 for the toasted cheese and and peanut butter mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I’ve never done a dodgy dump. However, friend at uni was going out with a girl for a while but not getting anywhere in baseball so he decided to dump her. He knocks at her door and when she invites him he says “I’m afraid I’m not coming in because you’re dumped!” promptly walking off. He’s the type of guy who can’t really afford to be too fussy though so quite a surprising action on his part….

Craigxxl – your story put a smile to my face, you’re very trusting!

omitn – if chaucer used aksed then he can jog on with the rest of them

31 – though about to age by at least a decade come October when the first spore of mine develop.

Speaking of age and people old enough to be dad/mum/grandad etc and having the phrase ‘… so tough he wakes up before he goes to sleep’ pop into my mind I reckon we can coin a new phrase along the lines:

He’s so tough he’s old enough to be his own dad!

Double tough would be grandad. Adjust for gender. Open for refinement.

Anyone who says aksed. WTF.

On a personal level I hate wet socks and sand in my shoes.

AVforums may be able to help. They have people who tune their TV settings away from the factory settings.

Ta mathew. Now back to work on enlightenment….

1. selfish – win euromillions 120 million rollover
2. bike – be able to do unlimited wheelie
3. aob – an age of enlightenment that solved religous/resource confilcts and protected the environment all in one go.

@Hansrey – quite like the tar ice cream. usually have it when i go back. Had salmiakki liquor a few times – it makes for an interesting change but would only drink it on special occasions. As for beer, not tried that yet, must look out for it next time and give it a blast….

I had a similar moral quandary when I graduated. 6 months searching and first offer was in nuclear industry. Quandary didn’t last long; I needed the job and saw it as a way to build experience to get me in the industry I wanted, automotive. It helped it was the clean-up side of things as well.

Perhaps write pros and cons list, if the money and residency allow you to realise long term goal then it might be worth doing for a few years. Jobs are like women, you’ve got to be with some wrong uns so you appreciate when the right un comes along.

I can’t give advice on doing a PhD so good luck with that but perhaps some survival tips in Finland.

Finns – good bunch, love being in the country and forest, like their booze, sauna, liqourice and berries. Generally considered quiet but most I’ve met love the opportunity to practise their high standard of english; I learnt about grammar in Finland.

Sauna – don’t be surprised if you get invited mid party to get out of your kecks and into a Sauna, all perfectly normal and it will help build relations!

Liquorice – They love liquorice. As a liquer (must try Salmiakki), ice cream, chewing gum and sweets. It’s quite staggering the range they have.

Finnish inventions – you’ll get kudos for knowing finland invented the following, Sauna, Xylitol (sweetener thats good for teeth), Benecol (cholesterol reducing product), GSM900/1800 Mobile phone network, etc.

Forest – most have summer houses in the country where they like to spend a lot of time. Thats where they can forage the forest floor for wild strawberries and blueberries. Luvly jubbly.

Bonjour!

It’s my own amateur level – 8 years it’s done me good. Better make sure my inflatable hammer and acme saw aren’t in any further photos!

ebygomm – ta very much – i’d only ever inserted one or two pics before and couldn’t remember how to do it. What did i do wrong?

FM – It’s a Stanley plastic spirit level I’ll have you know! I’ll check the parallel line once I’ve taken the plastic paint sheets of.

BS – Your last point, would have been bloody useful to have a tiler on the ball who’d notice it wasn’t right along the way and not several days after!

Measured pairs of diagonals for three tiles at random (not with the plastic spirit level but a metal metre rule!) and they’re within a mm of each other so we can be reasonably confident they’re square.

Lipping – is that the tilers term for tiles being flush with one another?

Hi,

Images as promised:

Not bad from a distance…..

but on closer inspection dissimilar grout lines….

and on other side of tile….

And grout run showing rustic effect.

Tiler says he has 16 years experience. Didn’t feel like he used any of it.

That chart is nothing – don’t know if you’ve seen this before, it’ll make your eyes boggle….

US Debt Clock

Thanks STW’s.

Blazing Saddles – thanks for your insight. You describe the preparation (re the thickness and getting floor level) I expected but that was missed out by my tiler. He admitted to me pretty much he just laid the tiles as they came from the pack without any checks on thickness or even look. I was a short one slate for the floor – he phoned me up to let me know so he could get another one but never mentioned the product being out of tolerance.

He said he was planning to put a screed down first for the undefloor heating – don’t know if that happened.

Also, I see what you say with slate being a nutural product to expect variations but wouldn’t the fact I’ve chosen honed tiles thats meant to take out the variation in surface mean that any chips would stand out and look unsightly?

As for materials – slates was from Topps and Travertine from Travertine Direct. Don’t know how these compare to others for quality…. Certainly wasn’t expecting to but twice!

Pictures are a work in progress…..

Sounds like he’s a right bungling amatuer. I’d withhold rent or pay a reduced amount. There’s no way you should put up with that.

Maybe you could offer to fix stuff and knock it of the rent?

Completed infamous – not a bad game but can get a bit repetitive. Dead nation – fiddly controls and can’t find out how to multiplayer so not my favourite.