The Fratellis are splendid live and do lots of smaller summer festivals

Stoner – I quick cook in olive or coconut oil.

What mr whyte said – spiralize them and sub them for pasta

What did you use on him? Fleas now have an immunity to the common ‘high street’ treatments. A vet prescribed treatment like prinovox is he answer. Expensive but good.

I agree with teamhurtmore

I put the equivalent payments in an ISA.

It puts me back in control with the vets as I often thought previously that my dogs had been given unnecessary tests as the vets ‘go to town’ when they know insurance will cover the costs. This obviously depends a lot on the quality and scruples of the vets.

That said a 12k bill would obviously lead to be being in deficit. But with three dogs the isa builds up quickly.

Protein powders are especially productive for me

Oh great – we can look forward to state sponsored homeopathy from Mr Hunt

Pathetic, egotistic nonsense. He could have allowed himself one smug moment if he really had to. But that was awful.

Liam Fox – urghhh

I know a guy called Two Sh**s Shane, cos if you’ve just had a sh** he’s had two.

Why don’t we all try to make the very best of what the country has voted for? There isn’t a call for a re-vote straight after every general election.

Protein bars, low carb. Myprotein do good ones but there’s stacks of choice.

I’m going rat. Remarkably strong. Unlikely to be a badger in a garden and they dig bigger than that.

Note IANAD

This sounds like Ischiogluteal Bursitis – my cycling buddy had it. Needs proper looking at.

Yunki, bails – yes indeed. Small amounts of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen. That article you’ve both linked to is really bad science though. It is based on modelling and estimates and dresses up a conclusion based on assumptions.

I’m not trying to say that burning fossil fuels at altitude is good. I’m just trying to point out that Chem trails and the global dimming theory are urban myths and ‘science’ to prove the theories is bad science.

@fasthaggis – you can’t taste chemtrails because there is no such thing.

@yunki – CO2 and water vapour. The hot water vapour hitting the cold air aloft causes condensation in some atmospheric circumstances.

@psycie this is a common urban myth and demonstrably false. Google is your friend here.

@bentandbroken – please tell me you’re joking?

I’ve been using a Hitatchi straight shaft for about 3 years. It gets used for hours at a time several times a week. Can run a disc too and it swaps over easily. Was about £100 cheaper than the stihl/husky equivalent powered machine. Got it from the big online place that’s based in Gloucester mowers.co.uk or something. Can recommend.

The model I have is CG40EJ

It’s a great time to get into commercial aviation. I have flown with many younger chaps over the last 5 years who took the cadetship EasyJet route and not a single one of them regret it despite the debt.

I’d tell your son to 1) get a PPL and 2)get a subscription to Flight Intl, it’s the trade rag.

The ppl will cost c.5k. The instructor and school will know within a few lessons if he has the aptitude for commercial training. It’s fairly crazy imho to embark on commercial flying training having never operated an aircraft of some sort.

Also would advise finishing the degree. Nothing is a certain in aviation.

Fingers crossed for you chap

Oh alot of contracts for new crew (apart from ba & Virgin) are temporary. You will get 7 or 8 months work from Easter until September/October.

I’m on t’other side of the door & married to ex-crew. Very different life doing long haul or short haul. Monarch/TCX/Thomson/Easy jet hard work but home most nights. Virgin is a nice life. Mixed fleet with BA quite good I think, mix offing haul & short haul with quite a lot of control over your rosters. Don’t join Ryanair.

Mark.

Don’t send that letter. Read the contract you signed with the agent before you re-write it. The length of sole agent and the terms of the fee will be in it.

You are selling the house – it’s a business deal. I know it’s your home but you have to see it as a business transaction and not personal. Take the emotion out of your letter.

You need to state the issue at the beginning of your letter and suggest the solution you want at the end.

Also don’t understand why you ‘have to go into rental’ – why don’t you stay in this house or buy another one?

Hi Kenny. Well done so far mate, and a great thread. Am on a similar journey, started the year at 270lbs. 248lbs this morning. Weight coming off using MFP and cycling/gym. And no beer. Goodness I miss beer.

My only tip is protein bars for lunch. I’ve managed to convince myself that a 200ish cal protein bar does for lunch. Any good tips you’ve discovered?

Skids – some brands of sin-applied treatments absorb into the bloodstream to work.

Buy 2 sheep.

I’m afraid I have only the same as above to say about the place. I’ve been once a month or so for the last few months with work and it’s definitely not for toddlers. To the extent that smoking is allowed in reception and restaurants (certainly is in the hotel we get put up,in).

Slam69 for mtb and fat bike in Gloucester. Really good.

My work doesn’t respect weekends so I find it very frustrating that the shops are closed at 4pm on a Sunday as I can’t get groceries after work on a Sunday.

I wonder the proportion of the UK workforce who work a ‘standard’ mon-fri 9-5. Having always done shift work I’ve always found the weekend-centric thing odd. Or is that just I’m annoyed at 20 years of missing parties, sports events etc etc

The spotify £10 allows you to download to use the music offline. So if you buy more than one album/10 songs a month from iTunes you’re winning. As mikewsmith says it depends what you want from it, I used the basic service at home for a year or so. There are a few years and you have limited capacity to choose which songs you listen to when you select an album/playlist. You can’t use the music offline with basic either. For me – I spend a lot of time away from home often without decent wifi so it’s good to be able to use the music when offline.

But for the £0.99 trial it’s almost a ‘no brainier’ to give it a go and see if you like it.

Spotify has a trial of premium for £0.99/month for 3 months (normally £9.99) – total,game changer for me. Well worth trying it for a quid a month to see if it suits you. Basic spotify isn’t really worth it imho.

The north waves are good at the job and hardy.

The Aygo really is small. But great if that’s what you want.

Great choice of boot, I really like mine. Game changers.

I’d suggest a thin overshoe! Saves getting yer best boots mucky and wet. I use grip grab ones.

Ambleside is my pick of the lakes’ villages. Accommodation and food to suit every and all budgets. Thoroughly lovely place to base yourself for a long weekend.

Frontline is losing its effectiveness I think. We have had success with Advocate from the vets. Expensive but worth it.

Vacuum a lot. Wash dog bedding and yours mats alot. Do the treatment on the cat monthly and it will act as a magnet for the remaining fleas and kill them.

I think bombs are largely useless. Spray around the edges of rooms seemed effective.

A turbo and half an hour of intervals in the evenings on the weeks when family/work etc mean you can’t ride. Doesn’t help with holidays obvs.

Anther muckboot fan here. Game changers.