Star Fangled Nut (if you live in Findhorn)

I’m not going to suggest ‘Inbred’

Chopper if its a boy. Shopper if its a girl. Or Penny if your surname is Farthing.

she should count her blessings and be thankful that its your own bike you’re spending too much time with, and not the ‘Village Bike’

TJ is right – nobody can call themselves a nurse without due qualifications but anyone can call themselves a nutritionist and anyone can create and hand out ‘qualifications’ and accreditations to nutritionists.

Marathons are now called Snickers, and you can’t get leaded petrol anymore.

When surveyed one fifth of the population admitted to having fiddled their expenses and one third thought that its ok to fiddle your expenses. So proportionally (especially as its starting to look like a lot of these recent accusations might not stick) MPs are a lot more honest than the rest of us.

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Its worth just getting fit, familar and comfortable on the bike first. So I’d put some time and miles in on some of the quieter roads and sustrans routes. The sustrans route from Aberfoyle to Callendar as mentioned above is worth a bash, off-road but you could drive your car along it. Quite hilly for a new cyclist though.

Further from home the Blue Route at Mabie is all fire road (or was when I was last there) and only seems to be graded blue rather than green because its pretty long

Depends a lot on what you’ll actually be doing – as in what your group’s activities are and how you’ll receive and handle money. Will you be receiving donations from the public or do you simply need to have a non-profit structure in order to be able to apply for funding. There are quite a lot of newer non-profit structures you can look at as well as ‘charity’ (which is much more strictly defined these days), such as ‘Community Interest Company’

Only if the valuation they gave you was based on the original tyres/wheels

Although personally I think I’ve managed a Type 8

I think you’ll find us humans have range

Because lithium is the new thing theres lots of good deals around for ‘yesterdays’ NiMH batteried stuff.NiMh is perfectly good, Lithium just weighs a bit less and charges a bit faster. But charge times aren’t that important if you’ve got more than one battery. Theres some very good deals out for Makita stuff, loads cheaper than they were a year or so ago and usually with extra batteries or bodies or gizmos thrown in. Although they are rubbish for almost everything else B&Q prices for power tools are as good as you’ll get anywhere, but choose entry level quality kit over feature-laden cheap stuff. Screwfix’s own brand ‘Site’ drill drivers are makita-built and plenty good enough.

‘The Fall’ by Tarsem Singh. Dead good, very sweet and very gentle. Lots to look at.

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Bread Pakora! I would never even imagined such a thing existed, now I can’t imagine how I’ve managed to live without it.

I’ve got a film/media account with Arnold Clark and one thing they do for film hires is take the rear seats out of minibuses so you have space for six crew and an area for props or gear. They might not offer that the the wider public though, and it needs to be a weeks minimum hire, but turn on the charm and see what they’ll do for you. They’re big vans mind. They also have crewcab 4x4s pickups and crewcab transit pickups – (which are alarmingly long!) but obviously not very secure for gear.

They also do 9 seat vitos, you can take some of the rear seats out and the windows are nicely dark for hiding kit. They’re 7 seat vaneos are incredibly pimp but you would’t get a lot of kit in the back. The vito / vaneos are pricy compared to vans though.

Tesco Value WMD’s?

wanna buy some?

Shouldn’t there be the director’s cut and nothing else?

what you normally get is the accountant’s/distributor’s/test-audience’s cut. The people who fund and sell films are very risk averse.

I think its a great wee film. Made for chuff all money and in chuff all time. I’m not really bothered about where its going its just nice being along for the ride.

People also confuse the sentence – such as a ‘life sentence’ with the jail term. A life sentence is never ‘spent’ even after someone has been released. Its easy to get confused as the press thrives on a misconception of sentencing and punishment. It needs to be believed that no jail term is enough punishment for any crime. And of course prisons are all holiday camps anyway, because the have TV’s.

During the Lewinski case my local paper ran the headline “Clinton Accused of Shirt Lifting”

It was a story about a bloke called Bill Clinton from Pollokshilds who stood accused of stealing two shirts and jacket from Oxfam

It does say on the cotic website that the soul might be the last bike you will ever buy ? thats a bold statement lol

are they really that dangerous?

an improvement of spinning the tape round on a pencil like a football rattle. My first ‘personal stereo’ ran on 4 D Cell batteries and was so big it came with shoulder strap. And still didn’t have the luxury of a rewind, just one button that could be used to play, fast forward and stretch and mangle the tape depending on how hard you pressed it.

Its not really the crew thats being ransomed its the threat of damaging/sinking the ship and the subsequent environmental outcomes that are being played for, of course you could carry out that threat without getting on board. Boarding the ship is just a means to the dialogue.

crumpets

use it to power a fan and use the fan to power a turbine and use the turbine to charge cordless drill batteries.

put a cotton bud in the chuck and have the cleanest ears on your street

We use one in my workshop to power a coffee grinder.

Socca – nyum nyum nyum

Here in Ayrshire it the Killie Pie I’d guess. One time winner of the best pie in football. Unbelievable uproar in Kilmarnock when the crown was taken off them by a pie made in Yeovil, first reaction being ‘where the **** is Yeovil’ followed by ‘and its a chicken pie FFS!, its doesn’t even have any meat in it!’

And as for Glasgow, wake up everyone! its Mortons Rolls (or McGees now they’ve been bought up)

there is an argument about us lot mtbing and falling off etc, but imo the health benefits of doing sports like this far outweigh the costs.

Not if you factor WCA into the equation 🙂

It was in interesting programme but the blond doctor started to grate on me a bit. She obviously needed an opportunity to blow off some steam, but, you know, enough! I’m not comfortable with the idea of doctors feeling that one persons circumstances are more deserving than anothers, and if those are your feelings its going to creep through into the care you give whether you want them to or not. I can understand how it can be frustrating, but accidents are accidents no matter what the circumstances. If the common causes of accidents have changed over the years then so be it.

It would help if the greater public could be a better patient and it would help if we didn’t read pretty much everyday that the NHS is failing and incompetent (even if thats in clear contravention of the the facts – theres never, ever, been a better time to be ill), but the idea that things aren’t what they used to be is nonsense, not one of those stories would have been atypical 30 years ago.

Theres a world record for the advanced-ness of bicycles?

Which of the three licenses will you use for your perjury trial?

This made me laugh in The Daily Mail

Its April Fools Day every day in the Daily Mail

I used to work in a museum and art gallery and one of the galleries was unstaffed, but there was a one way mirror through to the admin office and the staff who would field the phone calls for the building would just be able to keep half an eye on the gallery while they worked. One April 1st, during lunch, there was a lassie working the phones on her own and through the one way mirror she sees a bloke come into the gallery, drop his pants and lay a big turd in the middle of the carpet. For real, not a wind up of any sort.

She’s obviously quite distressed, but every one she calls thinks its a prank, more so because she’s exactly the person you’d expect to play a prank. So everyone she calls is just laughing at her, and with it being passed mid day laughing at her even more, and the more upset she gets the more convinced everybody is that she’s pulling their leg.

I think the behavior of our MPs is irrelevant. The press and media sees to that. They, and as a result we, and as a result government ministers are driven by stories at the expense of news and opinion at the expense of fact. So regardless of what system of voting or representation you put in place, without universal access to truth then we don’t have a democracy anyway.

We just have Jeremy Vine’s phone-in, but on a much larger scale.

However I’d prefer to see the abolition of Party Politics. MPs and Councillors forget (or aim to help us forget) that they are ‘Committees’. A committee is a person, not a group, and a committee is nominated to impartially represent on behalf the group that nominates them. They should gather and represent opinion on every day, not just polling day. And it should be their job to represent that group fully and honestly – their vote on an issue shouldn’t be swayed by the party line, or by the crap they read in the paper this morning. Its not their job to have or express an opinion on anything, and yet whenever they have the opportunity they fill the air around them with what-they-think.

I’ve got some Caterpillar safety trainers. I don’t think the style I have is available anymore as I picked them up in TK MAXX a while back so were prob end of line. However they are light, my ones are very breathable and from day one they’ve been wear-all-day comfortable. After 6 months as the shoes I wear most often they are wearing well too.

I live in the village of Sorn, Ayrshire, home to the UK’s first convicted and jail-sentenced Internet Stalker. According to a bloke I was talking to the other day.

It would be interesting to see if anyone does get into bother for being seen somewhere / doing something they shouldn’t. Being caught, by whatever means, would be their fault, not google’s though.

It reminds me of that famous picture of some GI snogging some lass at the celebrations in Time Square at the end of the war. For decades he maintained that it wasn’t a picture of him snogging some floozy at the celebrations at the end of WWII. But after his wife died he confessed that the picture was him, just not at the celebrations at the end of WWII, because in order to hit the press deadlines the pic had actually been taken the day before.