Don’t use Computacenter, clueless mob from my experience

Callan, Sapphire and Steel and Land Of The Giants

Can’t see the point of installing cheap pipes that can’t be jetted

Rather pay a bit more for the house than risk having everything dug up to repair a blockage with the ensuing mess and disturbance

Anyone with a new baby in the row?

Been chatting to the drain bloke and apparently its more to do with people especially the old not using as much water because of being on meters
I’m not and would rather not worry, can’t imagine having a slash and not flushing the bog

All clear again now although he did say they will probably need to come back and survey, old earthen ware pipes that are probaly cracked or got roots growing through

Keep on buying them people, my daughter is halfway through an Optometry degree and will need to earn a living

Pentax K-x is worth a look at if you want a small DSLR, just been superceded by the K-R so should be even better value now.

Just had a look and best of the lot is an iRiver T60 2gb, takes one aaa battery

In very good nick, how does 12 quid posted sound including the usb lead for transfering music.

Its this one iRiver T60

Got a couple of those laying about if you are interested for very little cash

Think ones a Sandisk another is definitely an iRiver, might be some others in the drawer too

Canon at Elstree do a fixed fee repair of 153 quid which includes a service and sensor clean.

Just had a new PCB in my 40D, they also removed a few bits on the focus screen which didn’t affect the pictures, but were very annoying in the viewfinder.

Sensor looks nice and clean too, so all in all pleased with their work along with a quick turnround time

Just got to decide if your camera is worth spending that much on or is it a good excuse to get a new one. Although mine has done close on 70,000 clicks would still have been at least double that to buy a similar secondhand one

Best thing in that picture are the champions league placards, thought West Ham had been given it, obviously not.
Perhaps replace them with Johnstons Paint trophy signs

Mixed feelings as i’m a Leyton Orient supporter, think the legal wranglings will last a while
Worst thing for me is to have to keep seeing and hearing the Porn Brothers fat witch, vile woman

I can never work out why in most sci-fi no matter when in the future its set they are still using automatic weapons with bullets

Starship Troopers for instance, takes about five magazines worth to kill off a bug and Aliens is no better, where are the ray guns?

The planets they go to are always shitty too, loads of dust and extreme heat or cold etc, couldn’t these people ever find a nice one for a change

If I get a chance and the garden birds are co-operative will take some pics later using a 400mm with and without a Hoya Pro1 UV filter.

From experience I know it does make a difference and only keep it for odd days when its windy and sand/grit etc is blowing about.

You need to take care selecting which focus point you use, got a feeling that the K-x doesn’t show the active focus point in the viewfinder (very strange because my older K200D did)

The lens hood is worth using, avoids flare and also protects the lens, I don’t use a filter either except from a polariser occasionally

For scenic shots as mentioned above, go for something like f/16 and focus about a third of the way in to get everything with detail

Definitely learn the basics of exposure, also don’t judge your pics on the camera LCD as they will look a lot different when viewed on a monitor.

Don’t forget to back up your pics, memory is dirt cheap and nothing worse than losing a great shot through carelessness

Finally just enjoy, unless you are very good or lucky your first efforts will probably be not that clever, all comes good pretty quick though.

One other thing, buy a decent strap something like an Optech for about fifteen quid, makes for a much more comfortable time than the supplied one.

No idea what’s going on and to be honest don’t care either

Women are a bit rough too, so don’t think I will bother much longer

Still Loving You from the Scorpions is one of my favourites

This is known as a variation of contract,see here for More info

I like Amy

Vocals Dio
Drums Cozy Powell
Bass Paul Gray
Rhythm Ike Turner
Lead Randy Rhoads

Be very careful using the hob to the heat the van, classic way to sleep forever

Ian Gillan, RJD and Meatloaf

They may have been good live at one point, but given that Stuart Adamson died in 2001, hardly their classic lineup

Obviously not, but they played a few gigs around the New Year and apparently Mike Peters does a very good job on vocals
Will be nice to hear that sound again and from what i’ve seen on youtube the crowd seem to be thoroughly enjoying it

My mum liked Rainbow!

Compliments to your mum for her excellent musical taste
Parents weren’t always old you know, perhaps she was a rock chick in the seventies

I’m off to see Big Country with my twenty year old daughter in April and really looking forward to it
Now speaking of a good band, they were pretty good especially live

Scorpions were excellent too, saw them at Redaing in 79 when they replaced Thin Lizzy, great set and The Tokyo Tapes is one of the very best live albums.

Rainbow of the Rising and Onstage era, Dio was at his best and Blackmore never played better either

Not for much longer, morgage is paid in two years and when I asked about another fixed rate deal they just laughed, don’t think they were desperate for my business.

Going to take my pension early at 52, pay the house off and go do a degree, just didn’t think of that sort of thing when I was a youngster, it was for the wealthy which we were definitely not

So will have a student loan, great if I ever get a part time job that pays enough to give some back, but if not its written off at 65 so not too worried about that debt

Second footy ground looks like Accrington Stanley, no idea of the first one though, guessing it could be a scottish team with that sort of crowd.

My lot sent Oxford down when Accrington got back in the league, complete reversal of fortunes I believe from about 1963

Spot on there mefty or the Matchroom Stadium as its been renamed (but no one uses that name)

Couldn’t make it down there tonight, but bought a ticket anyway and got my mate to pick it up. Need the stub from tonight and next tuesday to get a ticket for the Arsenal cup game

How about a quiet word mentioning how distracting his typing is, maybe discuss it over a cuppa or perhaps If that doesn’t work, my next step would be

Amble over to his workstation and in a soothing voice explain that if he doesn’t go easy you will lay his hands on the desk and break all the fingers on one hand with a club hammer

No point going mad about these things, just stay calm and collected

Is it always the same four old bags?

All this nostalgia made me quite emotional, so here’s my favourite place from years gone by with my estate in the background
Any guesses where it is?

Tunisia had seen constant increases in the price of food and fuel and the decline in peoples living standards

That sounds rather familiar, have they got a coalition government too

I’m on the Cambridge diet, its so bloody expensive to live there that you can no longer afford to eat

Only park and ride who charge per person not by car and the city centre car parks charge more for a day than our car is worth

No surprise really when we have to pay £160 million for the guided bus which is now two years late and who knows if it will ever open

Also WTF is a student haircut? Cambridge barbers advertise them for a tenner. Most students I see look like they have had their barnet cut by Stevie Wonder with a strimmer

We would have been a lot better at penalties

More seriously now,Germany would have probably got the A bomb and rocket technology. The US certainly wouldn’t have developed the latter without the aid of ex-Nazi scientists

is that oxford then

No, its Cambridge

Good win for us today

Just got be West Ham or Tottenham in the next round

Our county council is cutting everything, worst thing of all is the 160 million they wasted on a guided bus that is two years and counting overdue opening.

Can’t agree that Ms Brady is charming,more like the porn brothers evil witch

Could you not use it hand held then?

Bit shaky in my old age and the macro aspect just accentuates camera movement.

Ok when using my birding lens with a beanbag or high shutter speed for birds in flight, but if I ever got the urge for another macro lens it would have to be the IS version

I had a Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro, seemed like a good idea, but hardly ever used it and when I did it wasn’t for macro shots.

Too much messing about and being honest its hard to beat a decent compact for macro stuff especially with the inbuilt IS. Not about to get a tripod set up for insects, odds on they would have flown away too

if you died tonight , what do you think your workmates would say about you next day and for the next few weeks.

Daresay they would be well chuffed, can’t stand me and the feeling is mutual
Don’t suppose they will have to worry too much more once the discipline case is sorted and I have gone

Listened to all of Big Country’s “Crossing” today and have a few albums that get the completely played treatment