Hi NZCol, another scot stuck in paradise here, just thowing in my 2 cents, I moved here 11 years ago and love the country, ok i'm in auckland which is just like any other city but even here i think i'm better off than bakc in scotland. The wife and i flew back for xmas this year with the 18 month old slimtubling and within days it became apparent why nz will be a better environment fro her to grow up in. my brother in law mentioned that it was great when IT HAD NOT RAINED FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS and the lawn was dry enough for his kid to go out and play on. that really struck me how much i take this climate for granted now, My wee one is out in the garden every day, we got her outside 3 times in our month long stay in scotland.
If you're thinking of having kids their life will be infinately better here in nz. (imho)
my wife misses her family terribly and would return to sunny greenock tomorrow given the chance but she knows how much i love it here and at age 40 neither of us really relish the prospect of trying to rebuild the kind of social network we have here.
hope you find a solution to the issue until then, enjoy yourself here and just compare an average day in welly with for example glenrothes. no contest pal :-)
Ps my pb for the karapoti was 4.12 and as fat biffer i was pretty stoked with that!! christ knows how the whippets do it in under 3 hours.

Don't know the above lyrics but loved:
"I guess you heard my head turned brown,
I lost several pounds and juuuuust felt terrible….

couldn't agree more.
Tina Fey is a goddess of mirth.

Jeezus, I recognise you from when I lived in Windermere! 96-98. I claim my 5 pounds!
It was the Super Vee that got me looking closer.
Funny old world eh?

the support characters are almost worth their own spin off.

Tassie: that is all you need.

Sweet. Still waiting for NZ dates, hoping early next year :lol:

Love: Mrstubing & the slimtubling
Hate: Abusive people
Not sure: Mussels.

are you allowed leki poles? if so take two and punt your way to victory.

We have just recently tranferred our considerable credit card (NZ$6000) debt to a low interest card as we were struggling to dent the sum borrowed, a week after we had done this the bank wiped the debt off our new card. we fessed up and got a very humble apology from our manager. (who is a top bloke for a banker)
they will laways find out sooner or later.

i once caught sight of Chris Waddle and Stan Colleymore in a services on the M4 or M40, Can't remeber which, however I was a scungy hairy cloggy type and cared little for their exploits, I did however meet the glance of another fella who mouthed the words "Chrissy Waddell?" in a questioning Channel 9 style. I lol'd.

My Bloody Valentine- especially Loveless
NoMeansNo – 0+2=1
The Mint Chicks -F*ck the golden youth.

04 Coiler Deelux.

Not mine slod on behalf of a friend for buttons when i was too poor to hold on to it;

There's some strange shit going on here Cole-man.
Eddie Murphy- Trading places.

good man I did the same 3.5 years ago and am just about to start my last semester of BPlanning, I've had a blast, its flown by and once the builiding trade picks up i'll be getting twice a week what i used to earn. enjoy it, 4 years goes very quickly.

A local cash converters had a polished frame joshua with spin wheels and long travel judys with price tag of $450 a local in my pub bought it. not a pretty machine at all.

Talking of Mantra's there's a fella must be in his mid forties lives in my suburb has an immaculate yellow and black mantra, stock as a rock except for a ludicrously steep shonky silver stem. He looks like he's never even thought of riding it off road, leaves it unlocked outside a cafe and bimbles along the pavement with shopping bags hanging off the handlebars.

i had everything From SDC's eponymously titled album up to and including Firewoman.Sadly my entire record collection was thrown out by my dad sometime in the last 10 years. :(
Saw them on the eve of my 18th birthday at glasgow barrowlands on their electric tour.would definately go to see Love live.

words flung around a stained glass workshop by my workmates & myself:
Jazzeroon, Dooligan.
as in pass me one of those dooligans.
or it just needs aone or two of those jazzeroons and its ready to be polished.

i like.

quatsch!

Young Guns & Roses.

Anything by Carl Hiassen, a very entertaining novelist who bases most of his tales in the florida everglades with an eco conscious bent, very funny with some great recurring characters. My pick ‘Skinny dip’.

OMG WTF I’m Such a NOOOOOB!!!!!1!!!1!!!

still have a red sky coven vest from their 1989 german tour, it fits too.I also have a pair of Blundstone boots which I bought in tasmania in 1993, wore them today actually.

Sparky’s Dream Teenage Fanclub
Riverman Nick Drake

come in the water’s lovley (so’s my little tubling)

Close but no cigar DezB think naughty dancing pills rather than badges.

I’m a sweet kinda person when you get to know me but my immediate thought upon reading the OP was “what are you hoping to acheive by bringing this up?” you are not going to alter the mindset of a coupla hundred bored bikegeeks by admonishing them for being mean. The current climate does not lend itself well to flowers and kittens type points of view, people are holding grimly onto jobs and houses by the skin of their teeth and some numpty posts a clearly poorly thought through statement(not meaning you here OP)- you’re gonna get the brunt of their collective frustrations. deal with it or at least don’t bleat on that you don’t like what you hear.

djglover is my new god!

Melonfarmer
frickin’
jeepers (for the odd christian chum who gets a bit miffed with all the name in vain malarky)

Sounds like a song from Beck!
only on a bikegeek site like this would that arrangement of words make any sense.

also be aware of the dangers of ” a blister on your little finger, maybe a blister on your thumb”.
OSH have leaflets for the above.

I’m finding all this intolerance is really making my life dull. :-)

there’s plenty out there would give their left tit for a job, me included.
not flaming at all, just showing that the alternative to work ain’t much fun either.

She sells Sanctuary -the cult.
Smoke on the water -Deep purple
The Faith healer -SAHB.
more recently, seven nation army -White stripes

with on a diet tyres. now with Weirwolf up front and Nokian NBX on’t back.

sun damaged scanned photo apologies for quality.

She turned me into a newt :evil:……………………………….I got better :oops: