Once the rivet is inplace, i need to be able to pass some 4mm cord through it.

Sounds more like an eyelet.

Does it need to be a rivet? Sounds like the sort of thing you could do with ‘sex bolts’ (as they were termed in my skateboarding days when they were used to attach grab rails and other dayglow plastic niknaks). Similar to chainring bolts – the nut and bolt sleeve inside each other and sit quite flush to the surface.

Whats the actual material you’re fixing these to, and do you need the rivet/grommet/eyelet to actually hold two materials together or are you looking to dress/protect the hole that the cord passes through.

If it was the latter then a couple of ’banjo shelf support sockets’ pressed into either side of your hole would achieve that. Press them through a washer to get the outer diameter you want.

I’m on the edge of my seat with anticipation – will Eric Clapton finally get the recognition he deserves for the pivotal role in inspiring the Rock Against Racism movement 😆

For beans go with Illy or Lavazza as above, you can fart around with fancy stuff too if you happen to live somewhere where you can buy them easily but its difficult to decide what to look for if you don’t have a benchmark for what you like, so get some Illy – its middle of the road but its good middle of the road – , get some practice at making a cuppa you like (play around with the dosage – chuck a splash of hot water in after you’ve brewed it to see what happens maybe) then buy other stuff and see how it compares, if you’re experimenting try to buy new/different beans before you’ve finished the old ones otherwise its hard to put your finger on why you like one more than the other.

places like bradford is called Bradforth…Halifax called Halyfax
in the middle of the map its named ( The West Ridinge of Yorkeshyre.

sheffield =sheaffield
leeds =ledes

Mark Datz was a proof reader in an earlier incarnation then?

So that’s a fair amount of steel and aluminium, one ti, and no carbon bikes?

Why are ti bikes “for life”?

To be fair there weren’t a lot of carbon bikes to choose from back in the day and they were megabucks. Same goes for moderately affordable Ti. Very old MTBs were almost all steel so the oldest bikes still around are pretty much bound to be steel.

Ti is ‘for life’ because of its exceptional carbon footprint, equivalent to ten steel frames, which for most humans is more than a lifetimes supply 🙂

they said if i dont like it then they will refund my flight (but not the taxes, fuel surcharge etc)

Well thats a bit naughty as the tax isn’t due until you take off so theres no reason for them to refuse to refund it. Even if you miss a flight (and still have to pay the fare) the tax should still be refunded to you.

What are they frightened of?

That bloke up there ^

Looks like he’s taken his balls hostage

I like you (I am one of those many that do)

And Edward Woodward is the only man with three wooden heads.

“Edward Woodward? Sounds like a fart in the bath”
John Gielgud

Tell me something fun to do in london tomrow night!

Break into a goth nightclub and switch all the UV lights for tanning tubes

Just some transport work, bringing a bunch of exhibitors work to the show then taking them all away afterwards, so I might not actually see the fair itself at all if I go to YSP on the Sunday.

Not to be confused with the Roger Moore Gardens, quite a different experience.

bit wooden?

skidartist – I saw one of David Nash’s exhibitions when I was doing my foundation course

When I was a student I was driving through Wales, passed an old chapel and thought ‘that looks like David Nash’s studio’ (i’d seen a picture in a catalogue – the picture looks like a freeze frame of a church about to be engulfed by an avalanche of slate and thats how it looks in life, there is this huge slate spoil heap that seems to spring straight from the back door of the church and looks too steep to possibly be stable) so I went and knocked on the door… and it was. For some baffling reason (to him as much as me) he let us in – a big old church literally packed wall to wall with his work (bits even poking through the roof) with just a narrow isle to squeeze down the middle between them. He makes a nice cuppa.

Haven’t had a chance to see anything of his for years and years though. I’ve got a wee bit of work to do at the Great Northern Craft Fair in Manc next week so I might try go see it on the way there or way back.

Its the october break in some parts the uk this week (Gloucester and Cheshire for instance, perhaps Wensleydale) and he might be on holiday, that curd some whey towards explains whey he’s not responding to his emails.

This kind of thing gives me nightmares

I fancy checking out the David Nash[/url] exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

act a bit simple and a prim englisher and the nutters that he spends his time in front of the camera with are put off their guard and open up more than if he went in all

Its called Socratic Irony. And Thoreux is very good at it. (so was Socrates but he’s not on telly so much these days)

will have the van so travel not a problem. Of half a mind to even kip in the van if I find a nice locale

🙂

Actually, although the work is in Lerwick theres no need to stay there for the evening – anywhere other/better than the bustling capital for an evenings food / swally?

I think T&G floorboards is a no, I’m having to screw it into 50mm box section steel, that would be a lot of drilling and screwing!

or you could use self drilling timbadeck screws

Moving is unfortunately not an option. Although we have enough cash to pay for their education, we have a piss poor credit rating so cant get a mortgage.

Whats a mortgage got to do with where you choose to live?

I bought a dog of my local blacksmith, but when I took him home he made a bolt for the door.

In the early days of the lottery a friend of mine had 5 of the 6 numbers come up. Its when more people were playing and the jackpots were pretty big. He knew he hadn’t won millions but 5 numbers was obviously going to be what Noel Edmunds likes to call a ‘life changing amount’ so he splashed on buying drinks for everyone in the pub. The next morning he presented his ticket and discovered that he’d won a life changing £40.

I was at the supermarket and the checkout girl was scanning my shopping: A Fray Bentos pie, a small tin of beans, a portion of microwave chips and a half pint of milk.

“Let me guess” she says “I bet you’re single”

“How can you tell” I reply

“Because you’re ugly and you stink”

well…. i didn’t die

Working the day after an all night booze-a-thon – I had to organise the strike of a big exhibition structure and getting it moved across town into storage. There were four of us and a flat bed truck with three seats so I had the bright idea that I’d cycle between the venues chasing truck and the rest of the crew with each load.

Trying keep up with the truck and keep my breakfast and the nights/mornings booze down was interesting enough, but on arrival at the store I did the banksman thing and guided the truck as it reversed into the bay, still holding onto my bike I stepped back, trip over it, and wound up sandwiched between the bike and the underside of the truck

Not if you live!

basspine you can still play – make a note of your numbers then shred the ticket!

If I win I’ll share half my nothing with all of yous

did you not realise something was slightly wrong?

not until the relief of not being seen falling over wore off, it was as the began to think ‘that could have been embarrassing’ that it dawned on me that something was not quite right. I forgot to add that after I ‘dusted myself off’ I then put my hands in my pockets. So my wallet got it too and I think its the only occasion in my life where I’ve had to throughly scrub my keys.

I think theres a different word for that

B45TARDS!

Have we found ourselves back in the cherished numberplate thread again?

You’re not getting it Yeti et al (so to speak)
Your all Gay[/url]

Spiderman isn’t[/url]

Suit is a good idea, but only wear a topper if your car has a sunroof (or you are a short arse), otherwise its a bowler hat.

Shitzkrieg?

I don’t think anybody is going to top that!

I once jumped over a gate, slipped as I landed and fell on my arse, quickly got up and dusted myself down, and checking around that nobody had seen what a fool I’d just made of myself, continued on my way.

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then realised that what I had actually done is

jumped over a gate, slipped IN A MASSIVE DOG TURD as I landed and fell on my arse IN THE SAME MASSIVE DOG TURD, quickly got up BY PUTTING MY HAND IN THE SAME MASSIVE DOG TURD and dusted myself BY WIPING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DOG TURD ON ANYTHING THAT WASN’T ALREADY COVERED IN TURD before checking around that nobody had seen what a fool I’d just made of myself continuing on my way.

So once we’ve worked out what this word should be, I have an application for it

I’m actually grateful for feckless nutters on bikes. If drivers think we’re all like that maybe they’ll give us a bit more room.

Is it worth checking the speed of your internet connection? Those grey rectangles are images that are waiting to load.

ignore me…. if your wife’s lappy is working fine maybe the two computers aren’t getting a fair share of the connection

Gruts

here

I was going to say the Palnackie Grande Internationale World Flounder Tramping Championships but apparently its cancelled this year due to ‘a number of reasons’.