Record Store Day:
American Beauty, Bruce Springsteen, plus a couple of old Stones ep’s.
Cd’s:
Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris. Deluxe edition with disc of outakes & DVD. Remastered and expanded version of a long time favourite.
The Unbroken Promise, Bruce Springsteen. 6 CD box set of unreleased and alternative versions from the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions. Cos the original album is still, after 36 years,still listened to by myself at least once every week. Fav LP bar none.

I have that copy of Razzle too!

Pre other half went on couple of trekking holidays with Exodus on my own. Really enjoyed them, met some good people, though if you are unlucky you may end up sharing a tent with the group tw*t – every group seems to have one. Wait a minute, maybe . . . . .

Had to pull over…….
Made me very unhappy.

Vi-Spring here too. Mrs took some persuading, but both now agree money well spent.

Orange used to do a custom colour: sparkle blue, which looks great on a steel hard tail. I know this because I have a P7 in the garage finished in it, but sadly no pics to hand. It’s a pale silvery blue, with silver decals.
No pics doesn’t help, does it?
Sorry.

Disgusting hypocrites, the lot of them. None are worthy of my vote.

I pass thru Hinton Waldrist to get to Kingston Bagpuize.

Osprey Talon 22?

5D -The Byrds
Paradise Hotel – Eliza Gilkyson
Christic Night – Bruce Springsteen

It’s a comedy programme, made by idiots, for idiots. What did you expect?

Ideal Standard sanitary wear – we went for Studio which has clean, simple lines. Taps from same source. Tiles from Fired Earth – huge discount on discontinued mosaics used for feature band, remainder large rectangular matte white with 20% off in their regular sale. Plain glass Roman door, again with a hefty sale reduction. Aqualisa Quartz shower via a mate at trade price – all pipe work/mixer exposed with pump in attic above to minimise access issues should we have any subsequent problems with leaks etc.

Do we share the same wife, or am I you?
Invested in Miele washer & 2 months in same thing happened. Ended up getting Miele engineer in. From memory it was approaching £150. Ouch!
Great machine, not so great wife.

Textures in Summertown

B&W 805’s with CDX/82/250/hi-cap. And I also have an LP12 in the loft…….

Closed backs for isolation (in both directions if you see what I mean).
I’m currently looking at:
B&W P7’s (like, nicely open and detailed tho’ perhaps not suited to bass heavy listening – very comfy).
Senn Momentum over ears (uncomfy due to my big lugs, also bass biased but relatively uncontrolled to my ears)
Still to audition B&O H6’s.
Depending on source may be worth looking at a headphone amp. ifi iCAN seems very well regarded, waiting on demo.
Forget Skullcandy, Beats etc if quality is concern, IMHO.
Above are either side of £300, with iCAN a shade over £200, so we are talking mid-price.

Depends where you are.
Scotland=Scotland Gas Networks
Wales & West for errr Wales & West Country
South & south east means Southern Gas Networks
United Utilities in north west
Everywhere else is National Grid.
They are gas transporters, as distinct from gas suppliers. The former own & operate the pipe network up to valve at the inlet to your meter.
Standard ‘alter meter position’ charges are used by some if not all transporters. If you have a plastic service to your property it is often a quick, and therefore apparently expensive job. The figures quoted above are of the right order. If you have a steel service pipe from the gas main out in the road to the meter position then this should be replaced in its entirety with a plastic pipe to current specification. This might therefore be seen as a reasonable days work for the cost.
If your meter is against an outside wall then I would suggest taking it outside in either a surface mounted white box, a brown box at ground level (the most discrete) or a white box let into the outer skin of your external wall. Installation of the latter is by the customer. Also budget for the copper work from the new position to the existing copper. If your existing and proposed meter positions are internal I.e. remote from an external wall then you will have problem, and a survey will probably be required.
Used to work for Transco, who incidentally don’t exist anymore.

Oxford Boots dreadful.
Independent.

2 x WTB SSTi’s & 1 Rocket V

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 23 from Mrs – to add to the previous 22 years editions. Tradition requires me to spend Boxing Day leafing thru it, with a large G’n’T to hand.

Thoroughly recommend Silva Trail Runner 2. 140 lumens. £54 from Above & Beyond. A USB charging version is also available for a bit more. Very stable, light and nicely balanced.

There are other radio stations available? Been listening for 30 years or so. What I particularly enjoy are those programmes you wouldn’t have turned on to listen to, but end up unexpectedly being drawn in to.

Lamy Studio rollerball in imperial blue. Approx. £40.

They deserve each other.

Went thru similar decision process last spring and opted for Olympus XZ2, being predisposed to Oly’s via my E620, but not wanting the complication of interchangeable lenses with a PEN. Very happy with results over the summer.

Your current situation sounds very similar to where I was over the summer……
After many years managing mood by exercise I ended up doing 13-14 hour days, and completely unable to switch my head off outside work. Enough to tip me over. Probably not uncommonly, I was maintaining a facade at work while starting to fall apart at home.
Usually averse to medication of any sort, I could see that not only was my work/life balance unsustainable, but my relationships with partner & children were likely to be sacrificed too. Hard as it was initially, I accepted I couldn’t handle this unsupported.
Started with 10mg, upped to 20 after a week. Apart from a rather strange, but not unpleasant feeling of disconnection while exercising, and the above noted libido issue, side effects have been minimal and seem to pretty much disappear after a couple of weeks.
Mood transformed – haven’t felt so good mentally for a helluva long time. I now realise I’ve been on a downward trend for way longer than the more recent problems, which only brought it to a head. Mrs actually enjoys my company again(!) and really connecting with the kids. GP is advising stay with it over winter to get back on the straight and narrow, then reduce dosage progressively into spring and re-assess.

Try it – you’ve nothing to lose, and if it doesn’t suit then explore alternatives with your GP.

After many years loyal service I replaced a pair of Endura 3/4 bibs with what I thought were the same again. Wrong. Binned them and went for Pearl Izumi PRO 3/4’s. Dunno if they’re ‘amfib’, but they have a ‘thermal’ logo on the hip. Wore them under baggies last winter and, like all of their cycling kit I’ve previously bought, they have been superb. Size-wise they came up as expected in large.
Incidentally, their running shorts are also worth tracking down. Sensible, comfortable cut and last for ages.

Recently moved to Snow Leopard, as per above posts, for the same reason. Painless.

I was born male but have now been living in the south of England for over 25 years, so am now displaying clear female characteristics.

I have a shower.

Try this one:
http://www.taksimsquarehotel.com.tr/english/
Apparently lots of action.

I’m with stumpy & grum. DSLR rarely used since I bought an Oly XZ-2 earlier this year.
Just so much more convenient 95% of the time.

1999 DeKerf Team SL, Pace RC36’s.
God, I loved that bike.

Old Endura 3/4 bibs gave up the ghost last year – so I replaced with newer version of the same. Mistake – terrible. Replaced with Pearl Izumi PRO’s which are superb.

Had one as a courtesy car for a couple of weeks after someone rearranged the front of my Golf. 1.6 unleaded. Shockingly bad.

What you need to do is get yourself down to the National Gallery of Scotland cafe in Edinburgh and have yourself a full Scottish breakfast while gazing out over Princes Street gardens.

Springsteen @ Wembley, Coventry & Cardiff.

In Oxford this week.
Blackbirds have already stripped the rowan in our front garden so we won’t be having a repeat of 2 or 3 years ago. Spent an afternoon photographing them from our upstairs window. Delightful birds.

Nothing later than Tattoo You.

+1 for Cole & Mason. We’ve a pair of their ‘upside down’ mills, which have been excellent.