Soluble Solpadeine does the trick for me.

Lego rocks!

Who else remembers the year books with loads of pics of layouts/ideas/builds/etc?

And who else was jealous of the kits your mates had? I remember my best mate having the big spaceship (as per image above) on his window sill and I was soooo envious. I had loads of space kits including the other two pictured, but that big ship always eluded me.

While biking along a quiet residential road a few weeks back, I got passed by a RR Sport doing about 50 – and the c&*t was only a few inches off my shoulder. 100 yds later I caught him at a mini-roundabout whereupoin there was a Fiesta ahead of him waiting to turn right. The pompous kn0b in the RR decided he couldn’t be bothered to wait for the Fiesta to navigate out, so he reversed a couple of yards and then floored it so as to cut up the Fiesta (already turning right) and force an oncoming car on the opposite approach to anchor on else get flattened. A completely c&*tish manouvre in my book, and one that sums up a fair few 4×4 owners out there.

Iphone is a jigsaw, it’s very nice to look at but what you see is what you get.

Whoever said that is talking BS. The iPhone is capable of a lot more than any Android device at present.

Depends how bad you’re feeling. Most of my hangover-laden rides have been pretty decent in the end, including a cracking session at Afan after a heavy night in Neath. Heavy legs and generally feeling sh1t aren’t good though.

Based from home (3-4 days a week) … no idea how I pass so much time on here … might have to start referring to it as SingleCrackWorld :D

As others have said already, ask your vet about what to do and what not to do ref exercise. Growth/bone/joint/arthritic issues can be brought on by doing the following too early (or too much);

– climbing up and down stairs
– throwing sticks/balls/etc
– going on long walks

No way should your JR being doing 10 miles at 4 months.

Just made an omelette with ham, mushrooms, tomatoes, courgette, cheddar, feta, olives, marjoram n sage. Proper noms.

I know how you feel OP …

I sold my house in 04 and made a tidy wedge that saw me through a 12 month career break and another 18 months of experimenting with what to do next.

Have been renting a beautiful 400+ yr old cottage with my SO (and dogs, cat and now a 3 wk old son) since 06 – plenty of character, spacious garden, barn, loads of parking, 150m from the road, surrounded by woods, fields and a river – and devoid of any landlady intervention.

There’s no way we could afford this (or any decent 3 bed) on a mortgage (North Downs, Surrey), and are not prepared to buy something affordable (which will still be grossly overpriced) for the sake of it.

On the plus side we have a great quality of life – and from a selfish perspective, I’m only minutes from the trails.

Saving for a deposit is tough, especially now it looks like 25% is the threshold. Having said that, I have kept my endowments going, all of which mature in 10-11yrs – so that will at least pay off a nice chunk of whatever we own at that time.

Right now, quality of life is more important to us, with the expectancy that prices will drop and lenders will become more amenable.

I shortlisted an 03/04 model a few years back, but it bored me sh1tless on the test drive. Performed and handled like a bus, and didn’t really get me going “in the flesh” as much as it did in the pro-mat. Put me well off.

I’m sure they have improved though.

Hmm, does that mean the (oddly cambered and slightly rooty) trail that crosses and then runs parallel with TR is Surfer Rosa?

IIRC you do have the option of continuing back to TR.

Or are you talking about the trail that splits to the right about 3/4 of the way down TR?

Even if you just rock up you’ll find it’s pretty condensed in parts, with trails criss-crossing all over the place. A fair few are mono-directional but even so, there’s plenty to tuck into. Usually plenty of riders to hook up with on a Sat though.

Are you talking about the trail that crosses the beginning (100m in) of TR from left to right, and ends forking left to rejoin TR or right to the hall?

Been using CoPilot for a few weeks and I’m well impressed. Tis very accurate and reliable, and has plenty of proper sat-nav functionality/settings/options.

I think I paid approx £25.

Clubber, I’ve figured that must be the problem too – however, both Google Maps and Co-Pilot work perfectly in terms of sat positioning. I even trialled all three in the car when driving around, but got home and checked the route to find bits had still been chopped off – weird. Have no idea why GM and CP work fine, but the others don’t. PITA.

Looks sweet.

IME +1 for Spesh CS

ok so it looks like an obvious scam to me, spelling ,istakes etc;;.. however i am a studentpid and i AM owed around 450 squids!

Have tried EveryTrail, SportyPal and TrailHead on iPhone 4, but they all lose GPS for several miles (even on normal roads) at a time. Really annoying because SportyPal on Android was excellent and very stable.

Anyone else having this problem?

Will try some of the others mentioned above.

Poor tapas gives Spanish food a bad name and puts people off, regardless of whether they're pi55ed at the time or not.

Great tapas is exactly that: great. However, I've yet to find a tapas bar/restaurant (in the UK) that does every dish very well – often it's a case of half a dozen good dishes and a couple of ropey ones. Paella has always been a let down which really pi55se me off because it's one of my favourites. Tis usually dry, chewy and devoid of any flavour.

We had to call in the rat man a few months ago because the little blighters were gnawing through all sorts of things.

He put down conventional traps in the kitchen/store-room and a "box" with red poison pellets in the shed. Traps worked a treat when loaded with peanut butter and Nutella – so much so that I caught a pair at exactly the same time followed by another minutes later.

Pellets also worked on the others because they disappeared (most likely returned to their lair and died quickly and pretty humanely – certainly away from other animals).

Definitely get professional advice/speak with council/rat man, etc.

Exxon Mobil – he's some kind of project/engineering manager. One month on, one month off. TBH I don't know much about what he does out there, except he gets choppered on and off and was shot at a few months ago!

smogmonster – if you're an offshore medic, do you ever get out to people on the platforms? One of my in-laws works on one somewhere between Bonny Island and Eket.

I hear the 'anti-scam' jab is kinda useful when travelling anywhere in the proximity of Nigeria.

I was putting that for others benefit

Coolio :-)

@ Space – the HD2 is windows based not android!

Do you honestly think I didn't know that?

I included a reference to the HD2 because it's possibly the best example of another platform's phone in terms of power, UI, and customisation (see Cookies Home Tab etc).

Having had a Hero for a year, plus an HD2 and now an iPhone 4, I'd say the latter wins hands down for me in every key department;

– speed (super fast and lag-free)
– functionality (running 60+ apps and 25 games)
– multi-app/platform integration (social networking/sharing/etc)

Sure, it's locked down (non-JB) in terms of basic tweaking, but who in the real world really gives a sh1t about that? Not me. That's why the all-round performance and functionality of the app store makes it a winner IMO.

EDIT: Oh yeah, syncing and file management is a PITA, as is emailing attachments etc.

Bear in mind that the 16Gb only has about 14Gb of usable storage – so if you're gonna dump 10Gb of tunes followed by a bunch of pics/movies and apps, then I'd say go the hog and get the 32Gb.

As has been mentioned, some of the apps, especially a few games (Nova, Asphalt, etc) are 500Mb+.

Movie recording is IMO very good quality so it's easy to just pick up and snap – thus you'll soon find that spare capacity being eaten into.

Bimbler, I like the idea of RISI, but I could never find a match, i.e. I wanted something but they didn't, or they wanted something but I didn't.

Must worked for other people though.

Android was kind of okay when I was using it – better than Apple's version anyway.

But WinMo (on my HD2) was brilliant because 1) you could manage folders and files pretty much the same as in Windows Explorer, and 2) music was easy to sync too.

I have iTunes on my PC and MBP, but only sync using the latter because using both seemed to encourage issues.

IMO the whole iPhone/iTunes syncing thing is a sack of sh1t anyway.

EDIT: using iTunes to back up your phone is useful, but file/picture/movie management is pants

Not sure myself.

I'm trying to use Kindle and iBooks on my iJesus but can't really get into either of them. I like the fact you can download a preview, but even then that can sometimes be a random load of b0ll0cks that doesn't give you any kind of sighter.

I used to buy loads of books but have really only read about 20% of them – hence loads of cash just thrown away. So, like you, I use the local library a lot more and swap/share.

I once tried to read "7 Habits of Highly Effective People". Utterly unreadable – literally gibberish.

I read that about 4-5 years ago and it was perfectly readable – so much so that I used a fair amount of it in a course I was developing. Not sure why you think it's such hard work?

Worst book I've tried reading is some inanely weird Will Self b0llocks about 10 years ago – complete sh1t. Can't remember the name.

suggested parking near the Plough Inn in Coldharbour,

I wouldn't advise parking there, especially on a Sunday morning/afternoon, because there are only a few spaces available and really they should be for the pub-goers. Best to head 2 miles west or so to Starvael CP > unload > head over the "footbridge' at the back of the CP and explore the trails beyond.

On the left hand side below Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items etc.

Mine were stored in one of the 'labels' – probably called something like SMS.

But the Rotak mowers are great aren't they

Absolutely (in the mower-scheme of things that is) – takes me half the time to do our lawn these days.

Coolio – good enough me for. Ta.

1. There is no wife – he just wants pictures he can bang one out to

2. Are they really your girlfriend's shoes?

I've no idea how you control the situation but any dog that looks like a rottweiler / ___ bull terrier should be confiscated on sight and killed regardless of the owner

Pr1ck. You should've stopped after "I've no idea" because you clearly haven't.

Had a pint with the lovely Alice Roberts.

Lucky ba5tard!

Met Lesley Crowther at Crawley train station c 1990. Very decent chap.

Bumped into Savo Milosevic and Arthur Daley at Heathrow in 1997/98.

Had a pint with Craig Charles at Euston in 2001-ish.

Most recently saw Chris Tarrant drinking in a pub (can't remember the name, but it had a slightly gothic interior) near the west end. Was in a very dour mood, so much so that we all figured he'd been on the end of some bad news.

A mate sold a copy of Encyclopaedia Britannica to Paul Daniels in 97.