I'm with Ton (and probably CFH) on this one:

A pair of Northampton made Goodyear welted shoes for any occasion…

What's that Sooty?

There appears to be a pair of Nike Cameltoes on the end…

Well at least they're made of tweed!

We've got a Croozer 737 single trailer, and a Burley d'Lite double trailer; and although the Burley feels "better" made – there's nothing wrong with the Croozer at all – and as Stoner said – it's complete; whereby we had to buy a separate stroller wheel for our Burley

Here's proof:

Ladies, the queue starts here *looks at shoes, watches tumbleweed blow past*…

Although, possibly, the haircut ISN'T helping :-(

You think you've got problems…

Blimey, it's a small world *possibly* oldgit – I think I know you :-)

Are you, for instance, planning a ride this Thursday night?

Oof… like all right-thinking people, it’s got to be:

Sufjan Stevens with Come On Feel The Illinoise!

Ha ha!

I’d forgotten about that god-awful takeaway next to Arc Taxis, it was always either there, or Food on Fire around the back of B’s Nightclub.

I LOVED Sands, it’s the only nightclub that I’ve ever visited that had a fully functioning tea shop next door that was open through the night – so at about 1 o’clock in the morning, when I’d had enough beer and dancing for a few minutes, I could go next door for a pot of tea and some scones!

So you were TSW? I was being posted to TCW, which is why I put my PVR in 1998 – I thought it might be good fun, but I didn’t think the long stints away each year would do my married life much good :-(

Yay – RAF Locking!

I spent a couple of years trade training there – I met my wife whilst we were both drunk in Stars nightclub in Weston super Mare (oh the glamour of it all!).

But being a ground trade, we always took great pride in not knowing or caring which plane was which; which can be embarrasing even to this day when people ask: “you were in the RAF, what sort of plane is that?”… “Umm, a green one?”. :-(

Since Locking was closed, someone has bought the old water tower to convert to a fancy bachelor pad; unfortunately he hadn’t bought access rights, and so he can potentially only go home in a helicopter…

Sorry…

Mine’s in my other trousers ;-)

How are you planning to use the Airport Express?

Do you have a current WiFi network that you are trying to hang off, or will it be standalone?

We’ve got 3 Airport Expresses and a Time Capsule, and when I was setting them up with the different room names, they didn’t always appear in the Airport Utility.

However, if you connect the Airport Express to your iMac with a Cat5 cable then it should appear; then you can follow the simple setup steps, and then disconnect the cable permanently.

The Touch is only a remote – the music is actually streamed from your iMac, and so size doesn’t matter.

I’m with JohnB on this – I live in Germany, and although it is typically a few degrees colder here than the UK in general, it’s perhaps comparable with the Borders.

We’ve got two cars: an 8 year old Honda Civic with winter tyres, and a new Honda FRV with summer tyres.

To be honest, I’d previously thought that the whole winter tyre industry was an elaborate scheme to extricate money from people’s wallets; but, although both cars are fine on the main gritted roads, I wouldn’t dream of driving the FRV if we were going anywhere more remote – the Civic behaves as though there is no ice, whilst the FRV is skittish.

Anyway, if you have an accident here, and you are the only party without winter tyres, then the accident is your legally your fault – regardless of circumstances…

It’s not that bad really – I’ve got a dead-butch rufty-tufty work backpack with a Leatherman in it too – it’s made by Rapha (digs self further into deeeep hole)

Oh… And, of course, I assume most us have some cuticle scissors and cuticle oil in their desk draw too!

I have got lovely nails though ;-)

This is on my desk…

I am all too aware how bad this looks – not least because it all lives in a little dove-grey leather Molton Brown bag :-(

Oh, and there’s some Clarins lipbalm in my coat pocket, some Molton Brown showergel in the office shower (continues in this vein for some time…)

Second hand might be your best bet – I’ve got a Nikon D100, that I bought for £200.
It had cost £1800 when new; and whilst technically “obsolete”, it’s all the DSLR that I am ever likely to need, given my very limited skillset.
As an example – looking on eBay just now, a D100 body goes for £200ish, whilst a D200 costs £600ish – and they’re very similar; obviously the D200 is a bit whizzier feature-wise and has 10MP as compared to 6MP – but for a double improvement in picture quality, you must times the MP count by 4 (as it is X x Y after all).

When we moved here a couple of years ago we used Baxters, and they packed our entire house and loaded it into a lorry in about five or six hours; drove to Germany the next day, and unpacked on the third.
A year ago we moved to a bigger house in the same town, and because this wasn’t a work move I had to organise it myself and it took a fortnight of relentless bloody van trips, and I broke masses of stuff.
We’re moving back to Hemel Hempstead in about a month, and I wouldn’t dream of packing myself – as mentioned above though, it’s probably worth unpacking yourself, as the movers won’t know where you want things to go.

It’s like TV crack in our house!

Every night me, my Mum, and my brother madly text each other, bitching about how rotten they all are.

Semi final tonight; that’s my evening sorted!

Also, we aren’t told how many Janes there are, and so, potentially, Janes’ could be correct.

I may have inadvertently taught our two year old the rules involved for a “pile on”; I’m not entirely convinced that our one year old, who spends a LOT of time laying on the floor, is all that pleased :-(

Struwwelpeter is your friend…

Poor little suck-a-thumb!

The Germans are aces at massively violent and cruel children’s stories, just look at the Grimms…

I’m down to two now:

Carbon Focus Race HT – used for XC racing and winter commuting.

Carbon Junker Roadbike – used for road-racing and summer commuting.

Neither are particularly practical commuters, but I only have space for two bikes, so at least I don’t have to compromise; and at work, the bikes live in the building, so they shouldn’t be pinched (touch wood).

I’m in Germany too; and after 2 years there’s not much I don’t like – I even like German food and can now cook proper Spätzle, Reibekuchen etc. etc.

But, and it’s quite a petty but, we travel by train a lot (mostly because they’re cheap and aces), and nobody lets us off with a pram at a stop before barging on and blocking the aisle; and NOBODY understands queueing! Grrr.

That apart, all good. I even find some German comedians funny, although a lot of the humour seems to be of the: “why can’t men tidy up after themselves”, “why does it take women so long to get ready” observational type bobbins.

Early 90s Tag Formula One. It was a present for my 21st – just a couple of weeks 16 years ago. It’s been worn daily, had five straps and I love it.
My mother was appalled that I could spend (relatively, compared to some of the ones on here) such a lot of money on a plastic watch!

So it has only really cost a tenner a year or so – dead cheap really :-)

Brilliant :-)
Thank you.

I’m in Germany, but only for another couple of months :-(

As I’m being transferred back to our UK office – boo! I love German cyclepaths…

Another vote for excellent service – I got my Marmot softshell from them.

That’s not fair Stoner – it’s very cold outside *looks sheepish, orders baggies*

I might be able to do better than that – I’ve got a iBook G4 that came with Panther; but we wanted to use the automatic iPhoto Facebook updater, which only worked with Tiger and above, and so I bought a proper boxed copy of Tiger.

However, in the meantime, I bought my wife a MacBook as a present, which came with Leopard. Now, because Leopard has the aces Time Machine app, which syncs with our 500GB Time Capsule, I’ve bought another legit copy of Leopard for my old but much loved iBook.

So, I’ve got a proper licenced, boxed copy of OS X10.4, that’s sat upon a shelf, collecting dust. And as far as I understand, legally, as long as it is not installed on a current machine (which it isn’t) – it can be installed on another machine (there’s no matching serial numbers to licence numbers).

Since it’s a previous operating system generation, I don’t suppose it has any second hand value whatsoever, so you can have it if you want.

If you cam email me at hunstantonsmith ( at ) me.com, I can get your address and post it tomorrow (I’m stuck in the studio, and it’s at home) :-)

Broadcast Engineer for a combined Radio/TV station in Germany; although I’m moving back to England in the spring. Which will make the drive to MM, D2D etc. a LOT shorter ;-)

If you get an Apple Universal Dock, and the special Apple Component Cable (outrageously expensive), you can play telly and films from your iPod into your TV (quite useful on holiday); and you get a diddy white remote.

I’ve got a 1st generation, and my wife’s got a 2nd generation, and the speaker although tinny is quite useful sometimes, and the 2nd generation is definitely nicer in your hand.

Oh yeah… I test drove the 1.8 automatic too before we bought the 2.2 diesel manual (I think the automatic only comes in a 1.8L flavour) and it was rubbish – properly gutless.

We’ve got the 2.2 diesel and we love it. Although there are only me, my wife and my two sons, because we live in a foreign country, we are always fetching and delivering friends and family from airports.
I would agree with some of the above comments though – the middle front seat IS a squeeze if you’ve got wide shoulders, and a drive to the Alps might be pushing it.
What is also useful are the plethora of hidden boxes, cup-holders, picnic trays etc.
And, if you take the two outside front seat headrests off, then the seats fold almost flat to the back seats, or at least flat enough to be properly comfy with a Thermarest – which was a godsave during D2D last year in the middle of the night :-)
Neverfastenuff is right -they’re not very sexy, but that’s not what they’re for really.