I have a few Breitlings. My favourite is my B1 on a metal strap. However, nobody comments on them, but…….my Suunto Core Black on a Zulu strap gets loads of compliments!

So, save yourselves a few grand and buy a Suunto.

It is not quite so simple to construct a landfill site from an old opencast site. There is quite a lot of engineering or groundworks involved and all at great expense. Then there are the environmental such as groundwater pollution and also the planning issues.

Discussions regarding possible after use can include possible outdoor activity use, however, the landowners do have concerns regarding safety and possible legal action if there was ever an accident. The site above, Shotton, covers a far larger area and is much deeper than Ratho, and the land was intended to be restored back to agriculture on completion of the OCCS. The landowner in this case has also made millions from this mine and the other mines that have been worked on his land.

That’s the Shotton Opencast Coal Site including the Nortumberlandia landform constructed from part of the overburden mound.

The ‘right geography’ that Milky mentioned is actually the high wall ‘steep face’ and the low wall ‘shallow gradient’. The low wall is formed by the waste material or overburden being placed back into the previously worked area as the mine develops.

the working pit needs to be pumped from groundwater ingress and surface water run off, however, surface water runoff can be managed by some extent by adequate surface drainage, (ditches). There is also water from old underground mine workings.

Oh, ok, you are wiling to pay over £200 for a coat, before reading reviews online?

Good luck.

Does she need a 4×4? Is she going to drive off road? Or is this an image thing?

Oh yeah!

Bring it on!

At obvious cost of course, but love the passion of anybody that wants to restore or update a classic.

Keep the forum up to date.

No problem with women drivers…..

Until you sit behind them in traffic and they decide to do their hair…

or make up…

or answer their mobile for their oh so important phone call that they oh so must answer….

or from the times they are late to drop the kids off at school because of any of the above….

apart from that, I have no problem with women drivers.

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‘High school’, sorry, I’m not American, I went to a Comprehensive school,

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Had the same problem, it was the ibackup battery.

Lights became so powerful that they incinerate all life forms in front of them.

Ohhhh, bikes with motors! The latest trend.

tan·gent  (t?n?j?nt)
n.
1. Mathematics
a. A line, curve, or surface meeting another line, curve, or surface at a common point and sharing a common tangent line or tangent plane at that point.
b. Abbr. tan The trigonometric function of an acute angle in a right triangle that is the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle.
2. A sudden digression or change of course: went off on a tangent during his presentation.
3. Music An upright pin in a keyboard instrument, especially in a clavichord, that rises to sound a string when a key is depressed and stops the string at a preset length to set the pitch

As this has now gone off on a tangent and is now discussing boiling lobsters and arable farming, I thought I would quote the definition of a tangent.

If you want to discuss the finer points of vegan, vegetarian, land use, etc, then why not start your own post? ❓ 🙄

Certainly brightens up the day! 8)

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/JusticeForScamp

Makes you wonder what else the sick ba$tards are capable of doing

5 out of 10.

The local communities will benefit to some degree from these wind farms, however, the benefit is not huge. The construction phase is performed by contractors from outside the local areas. These contractors will stay locally so B&Bs etc will benefit during the construction phase.

Once the wind farms are established, there is only the maintenance work, which is also performed by contractors, again not local. The maintenance work is not ongoing, it is not only seasonal work, but carried out over a very short period.

The other way that the local communities benefit is through a fund that the wind farm operators set up. Some see these ‘funds’ as a bribe, others as a way to help the local communities. The funds however, are not huge amounts of money.

Although the turbines have a life span of 30yrs, the concrete bases and access roads are permanent structures. So, it is fairly obvious that these locations will be used again with new turbines.

There are also larger turbines being used now, so it is also quite possible that the replacements could be larger and visible from a greater distance.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

It’s time for some tough brotherly love. You have lent him some money, either from being ‘conned’ or through a genuine reason. This at least gives you a reason/excuse to speak to your brother about your concerns.

I’m just waiting for the cheap Chinese e-bikes to hit the market, they then become trendy with chavs who then act like dicks on the trails.

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Buy a cat or failing that mouse/rat trap???

How dirty is that mat? 🙄

I bet he rides an e-bike! 🙄

Not sure if the cause was from a tree, unless there are also cracks going up the wall from the base.

There are three options;

1:repoint
2:remove all the loose bricks and rebuild
3:knock down the wall and build a new wall

Personally, I wouldn’t repoint that. Wall will never be as strong as it originally was. So that leaves options 2 and 3. But I would still want to know what caused the damage first.

Some bacon and onions in there (and not that crappy margarine from Greggs) and I think you’re onto something there! 8)

Got to agree with Ton on this one, but what’s that weak excuse of a spread/margarine on the bun?

Lived there with my family for 7 years and I think that batting and Quirrel are both correct.

It’s not what you think it’s like when you see it on TV. We actually moved back to the UK because we were simply bored with the place.

Buy her a new washing machine and then tell her it’s an early Christmas present. She’ll be well pleased………..honest 😆

it’s……different 😕

That stupid ‘turning the front wheel while jumping’ look. You know the one, when somebody does a jump on their bike no matter how big or small and they have to turn the front friggin wheel!

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DezB, and what is your expert advice on this situation? 🙄

Although I likes the look of the Solarstorm X8, I decided to buy a Vicmax A8 instead. Not quite happy with those rubber bands for fixing it though, so I might see if I can get a gopro type of mount for it instead. I will also probably change the battery for something more reputable.

Of course he was going to retire. He would have been stripped of his titles anyway.

But, you’re right though, he hasn’t thought it through.

He also says that he is part of this big bike gang called STW?

Apparently they’re a bunch of lunatics from what I’ve heard!

I work in Tanzania for 6 weeks at a time. So if I order anything online then it’s almost certain that I won’t be home for delivery. Just ordered two new lights and some winter gloves so I’ll wait for the normal message next week of ‘now what have you been ordering?’.

Last year I ordered a new weight bench, power cage, Olympic weight set and curling bar. ‘Forgot’ to tell my wife and she wasn’t too happy moving it all into the garage 😆

WTF!

Do you expect people to go uphill without the aid of electric motors using only their own energy and fitness?

What type of sadistic individual are you?

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Only 4% ABV (Actual Bullsh!t Volume) naahhhhhh, can’t be talking about the STW forum then! 😆

It looks like a copy of the fenix bc30, but that’s double the price!

I’m expecting it to perform like the x2, but just in a self contained unit.

Forza, it’s on Aliexpress.

I like the look of the Solarstorm x8. No separate battery packs, no wires. Not too bothered about the batteries that you get with it, I have good quality spares and a good mains charger. The rubber strap looks a lot better than the rubber bands too.