TJ those guys are young, you aren’t. You won’t get away with it without looking like either a prog-rocker without a clear idea of the year, or someone who loves himself just a teeny bit too much.

Would quite like to see someone like Charlie Brooker drafted in to write a Sherlock script or two…

this.

Over-reacting may only push the two of them more together. The odds otherwise are that they will move on in time to other people.

As above, make sure he understands contraception, consent and consequences, but also that sex can be fun, and you don’t need to do it only with people you are going to marry,and people who your parents like. Better shagging in your house.

RKK – is the problem really how to handle your wife?

Yep – staying in Chueca for a weekend in May and looking forward to it :)

The Raina Sofia museum is great and has more interesting funky modern art than the Prado or Thyssen, and is open in the evening.

The food stools in the mercado de san miguel off Calle Mayor also worth it, if a bit of a yuppy tourist place…

He’s totally chewing the scenery. Nothing to do with Holmes at all.

Lucca is a great call. Cortona less to do but good

He is indeed.

Well, I never use the top power settings on my Miele. It was cheaper than a Dyson, and came with two powered rotating heads. The woman who comes and does 2 hours cleaning for me once a week says she doesn’t rate Henrys, and there is always a stack of bust Dysons at my local tip.

Owned 3 mieles, all still going in different places.

There is absolutely huge controversy about vitamin D. There is a very good recent BMJ debate which is worth digging out.

Here is some of it

The vast majority of people who present with symptoms which might be due to vitamin D deficiency feel absolutely no better after they have received it and do not have altered health outcomes.

There are some exceptions to this, people with recent fractures, osteoporosis and renal problems.

The studies on which recommendations are based are poor. And some things which seem intuitively sensible, like increasing calcium intake with supplements actually increase cardiac risk

So, please, don’t everyone flock to your GP seeking a vitamin D test.

Nice one. Being a dad is great.

Have a full set of Máxime Giraud Sabatiers, including some carbon steel ones. Nice but work keeping the edge on them.

Then had a set of globals which the ex now has. Probably better but buggers to sharpen.

So the knives I use mainly now are Ikea 365s, especially the santuko shaped one… :oops:

More than happy to dishwash those…

Sounds pretty bang on to me. Even as an average.

Usual costs of food/clothes/child0-minding nursery
Larger house,
Opportunity loss on wife’s income.

Rather understates it in the case of me and my ex. And we don’t pay School Fees.

Better – but poor still. Poor quality implasuble sub-Saville villain role. They proved they can all act – now they just need a script.

Genius from start to finish.

Leon fast vegetarian is rather good too

The Thug guys seem to like food. I’m not convinced Ella does.

The John Lewis 70 quid deal for a nespresso machine and frother, with 3 x £25 vouchers and including about £5 of samples is so worth it that I’ve just bought one just for the vouchers and the spare frother and gave the machine to my partners dad.

Makes decent coffee, certainly better than the stuff I had from a proper espresso machine in a cafe yesterday.

No doubt coffee can be better, but this is a good compromise.

Weak plotting. Tremendous overacting. Nice reference to the original Six Napoleons story. THe US Sherlock Holmes program Elemental is better.

56 (today) with not enough skills, only started 10 years ago, and poor at learning them.
Been there after hurting myself again.
I have stopped doing any jumps or anything risky about 3 months ago, now more pootling in the woods gently.
Adjusting has been difficult. I might end up walking away from 2 wheels totally, and get my views and camaraderie walking.

THM. Liking the wine choices.

At my partner’s house, her brother doing the cooking, her daughter cleaning the place. I’m low profiling it.

The beef is going to be cremated so her mum likes it, and I am going to have to sit at the same table as sprouts and parsnips and two brexiteers… but could be worse.

My mum in a home and doesn’t know the year let alone the day. My dad seems off the radar, again. Kids with their mum. I too prefer skiing xmases.

Funny how injectable steroids seem to be the answer to some medical problems in cycling, but not in real medicine though…

Some of the TUE stuff just beggars belief and has no link to medicine as it would be practiced on civilians.

Sky talked a good talk but this stuff makes me feel the same way that the Simeoni affair made me feel about Armstrong.

I hate the Mail, but they aren’t always wrong.

Mac at home, PC at work, no problems. But got a cheap Lenovo laptop for another place and after a few months I just gave up. Mac keep some of their kudos by just not letting shit like that out of the factory door.

But MacBooks with no legacy USB or SD card? I think, like the iPhone 7 headphone jack issue this is an own goal, not a paradigm shift…

In that case – I’d go and listen to him – ask him what he would do if the situations were reversed – ask him how he thinks this makes his family feel – try and assess if he does know where/who/when he is (it is very easy to assume people do) – look for odd speech/behaviour which might make you think he was experiencing some kind of hallucination/delusion. Gather information for speaking to Social Services – and contact them if he won’t engage. They will usually have a single direct call number for anyone with any concerns.

If I am his GP and you ring me up and tell me this story, and your friend says he won’t come and see me, that is probably the end of what I can do.

Difficult

Some good advice from Scud… but… and this is something I get to deal with, but usually in older people.

Some of this depends on his age, and his mental capacity. People have the right to make bizarre and poor decisions, providing they have mental capacity and aren’t harming others. This can be very very difficult. Making choices like he has is not automatically a sign of mental illness, and even if it is, until the moment he lacks legal/mental capacity he gets to choose.

If he won’t engage with you/family/healthcare and you feel this is more than him being a bit odd, I would contact Social Services and perhaps say you think he may be a “vulnerable Adult” – the key words to get thinks moving…

Google “Diogenes Syndrome” for an extreme end of this sort of behaviour.

my partner is a digital media professional…

…and still uses it… 8O

hope this persuades her

which is sort of when the exchange rate changed… I think… ;)

TJ and Ernie – Someone with no connection to any train operators in the South – who was watching with wry amusement and no financial or self-interest at all.

It is the last gasp of old-time unionism.

The word I heard from someone in the industry is that the RMT don’t want to lose at least some of their members having “safety-critical” jobs which can be used as a strike tool.

The TV screens are in the cabs already, lots of operators do Drivers shutting the doors. Southern is a particurly bad franchise, worse than SE or SW – and I use all three regularly, but this time this one is fair and square on the RMT.

DrJ – yes – those are good… not sure they really are Mince pies though

Aldi – had some pies but not the well reviewd ones.
Iceland luxury ones well reviewed and rather good… but what a place…
Best so far from Bachmann’s , Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton.

Might try to make my own though… a bit of cream cheese under the top really helps…

Your nose is almost certainly basically addicted to it… and the spray is causing the problems… I really don’t understand why they still sell it. Probably the non-painkiller drug we see absued the most. Good luck.

good call – sterimar is much the same with less faffage

Sudafed and other sprays like it can cause a significant nasal problem if used for more than a few days. Google rhinitis medicamentosa…. sounds like we have a few addicts here. I’d avoid. Also they are basically adrenaline .

Dymista or Sterimar.

Dealing with some people navigating along the gender and personal pronoun changing process, and having seen some of the devastating things that can happen to them, I have sympathy with Rachel’s viewpoint, I also think a blanket change in everyone’s personal pronoun would be strongly counterproductive to the cause of gender identity issues.

I think we all – in general – need to get better at asking and accepting what people’s preferred personal pronoun is, and they perhaps, sometimes need to get better at articulating it, and should be allowed to do so without fear and prejudice.

It mentions a students union leaflet. Maybe things have changed… but… in my day…

At Oxford there is the Oxford Union where real debating is done and would-be politicians hang out, then there are the JCRs of the individual colleges where local college decisions and social stuff happens, then there are societies, political and otherwise, across the university…

And lastly there is the NUS about whom no one, except a very few disorientated muppets who think they are somewhere else, gives a shit. So if someone says it is from a “student union leaflet”, I suspect it is from some twit from the NUS, stranded in Corbyntopia….

Don’t tell me you live outside the Ocado catchment area… 8O

I am so sorry…

total hero – again – time to read/watch the right stuff again. :(

Selfish git.

I was a launch day subscriber to Sky digital. If you have decent broadband, sky is so last year… I think their business model is dead.

You can get cheaper better combos of most Sky things via NOW tv, and pause/access for upto a month.
You can get tons of films via Netflix, Amazon, Now etc etc.

Stopped subscribing 2 years ago – pleased and quids in…
Got two spare sky HD boxes… :)