I’m at work until 3pm tomorrow :(

No worries Mrs Tacopowell says she’s officially moving it to the 15th!
Winning!

Oh! And enough with the tree stumps everywhere!

Well I finally manged to get over and ride both Follow the Dog and Monkey trails, dry and sunny…ish, I’ve gotta say I really enjoyed myself, particularly the Monkey trail, some great climb switchbacks and great decents, not quite Wales but a damned sight better than Sherwood pines!

All done in under 2 hours,
As I had to be at work in Nottingham by 3, I missed out the black sections, no doubt I’ll be back!
Worth a go?

Most resourceful website I’ve used

His GP advised him to go on holiday, stress can be a serious thing, I see him doing no harm here.

I find the beans are pretty good, too.

Tis all about the new Heinz five beans!

johnhe – Member
Thanks for the condescending, narrow minded, preaching original post.

I’m genuinely sorry you read it that way?!
Read it over a few times and am struggling to see your points, maybe a little preachy,
Non the less, your issue, not mine :-)

Here’s a thought…

7.You’re just going to have to trust me!

Tried some of the coffee before, really nice but can I trust him on basis that he says we’re gonna have to trust him!

I buy almost all of my coffee from a local place who source the beans direct from the countries of origin from selected estates. They tell me the farms are selected to not exploit the people working there but I only have their word for it.

Short of getting on a plane, I think I’ve done what I can.

Its a long shot but atleast theres a chance that your doing the right thing,

Hows the quality/cost?

HTFU

Really though?!

I drink instant too.

I would too but it goes straight through me :|

McDonalds coffee is ok, as are all those others you mention.

I was thinking the same thing, nothing at all wrong with McDonalds Coffee.
And although I don’t use the others mentioned often, they all seem pretty good to me.

Really? Putting ethics and your opinion aside ;) this threads getting out of hand!
Starbucks coffee – “ok” & “pretty good”??
I can accept McDonald’s been ok, on the rare occasion (stopped taking the chance after too many bad cups, along side a change in attitude), Costa & Nero not inspiring me much either but Starbucks?

Nope you’ve both clearly drunk too much and got coffee delirium, verbal diarrhoea, taste buds are knacked. Check with your GP!

Nope Mech hanger is fine.

I do however suspect and embarrassingly so believe it could be that the whole outer cable had shifted an inch or two towards the rear, leaving no slack at the front end, pulling this back up towards the shifter has loosened it all up, just re indexing.

I’ll get back to if I’ve not sorted the issue! :oops:

I refuse to drink fairly traded, sustainable, ecologically sourced, local coffee bought direct from the farmer.
Because I don’t like the taste of coffee.

Best answer yet!

Yes, Fair Trade becomes the new middlemen but this time they are in the developed world and much more powerful.

So who were the middlemen that have been replaced?

Traders in the country the coffee originates?

Or these guys?

Not seen Blood Diamonds, I assume there’s more to it than just diamonds?

Might watch it tonight.

Coffee farmers don’t need the middlemen to undervalue them, they need to value their coffee fairly between the farmers and consumers, simples, it’s these middlemen that are getting richer and richer at the expense of the farmers who are getting poorer and poorer, there’s no fairness in that!

As far as defining rich? I would consider the middlemen, exploiting more than what is rightfully theirs as been rich, of course I’m sure a coffee farmer would look at a tube drivers wages and regard him as been rich but this doesn’t change the middlemans injustice.

And so the rich keep getting richer

Kinda why I don’t buy Kenco!

I very much doubt, even before the major decline in manufacturing in the UK, that there was capacity to produce the wants and needs of all 60m Brits without importing from China.

Yeah probably, was just making an oversized point.

Poly,

Fair points and that’s why I specifically mentioned “fairly traded” over “fair trade”

Many cooperative farmers get a much better deal over “fair trade”

The simple fact is global export/import will continue, let’s support the poor folk from been pissed on.

Also agree on buying local, if everyone in the country purchased the British equivalent from this, I’m sure we’d be in a much better situation, economically & ecologically

I’ve found McDonald’s to be hit & miss, when’s good, it’s okay, when its bad, it’s really bad.

Your choice, that’s why I mention the documentary, anyone with an ounce of decent morals (morals are opinions, again your choice!) would reconsider their choice.

Just trying to spread the word to help fellow humans getting from getting shat on!

Globalti sounds like a curry, hang on a minute… :?

Agree on Staffs but I live in the wrong area for one.

You live in suburbia and a staffie won’t keep up the Jones’s Pack of Dalmatians?!

Your criteria has described a Stafford perfectly

Staffordshire?
+1

In a similar position to the original post, although have 2 cats but kids planned within the next year,

I had a staffie X rescue as I was growing up, great dogs that have a terrible rap due too misguided fools who believe they’re dog is a hardened Guard dog, truth is you can wind a poodle up enough and it’ll snap, angers me! (Rant over!)

Seriously, look into a rescue dog, so many dogs need rehoming and people still buy from breeders, if you look around you’ll come across a staffie puppie or two… or three…..or four

Small – ish
Healthy – very
Minimal malting – yarp
Good with children – very
Characterful – absolutely!

Well said, been 3rd year motherless, slight jealousy towards everyone else!

Make the most of it.

Far too xenophobic, homophobic for my liking, shame as I like some of their policies.

Just watching premium rush, proper naff movie but its got bikes so its watchable!

What’s your smaller ring?

I may pay someone to teach me it’s bugging me that much.

My thinking too!

I can’t bunny hop :oops:

FTFY. (And you mean ‘cue’)

:wink:

I missed out “you” in the Header of the OP, Que Grammar police!

I just want to be outside more

Me too, just I lack the motivation to do so :oops:

Plenty of Sim City fans are boycotting the new version because it has always-on DRM. It is essentially a way for EA to ensure they can sell the next version because they’ll just turn off the servers like they do with stuff after a couple of years.

I’m willing to wait, to be honest I’m not my laptop could handle it anyway :?

*Googles “Gaming PC’s”

Follow up your complaint and write to the local paper, If it happens again, take photos and details.

Your in the right, **** the ignorance of the few and make a stand! :D

Jeff Buckley’s version of hallelujah was played at my old ladies funeral, I never liked the song and because of that I find it hard to cry, instead I smile!

Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt is a tear jerker, particularly the video but I think this song has more to it, remorse is Johnny’s thing!

fibre- :o Awesome job! Pretty much my thought on how to do it, I’d love to go all out and redo the frame yellow and have a cartoon of Uncle Albert’s face made up for the steerer tube.

Would check with Mike @dialledbikes first, however I’m not sure when I’ll ever get the cash to justify customizing the frame when I could be buying better kit,

I reckon a full powder coat and to have the decals made up would cost £100? That’s a half a new brake!

Good Job Though!

Thoughts?

My name ain’t Uncle Albert, does this make me self indulgent? Or just a fan of only fools n horses?

Is this a “show your custom decals” thread??

That was my hope, but….. :roll:

2-1 Madrid,

Is RvP back? I’d like to see him get a season long injury, maybe the little boy inside him will explode from his stomach, alien style.