Our working lives are so long that a change of career is inevitable; you probably have another 30 years to work before retirement (sorry). Use your maturity and cunning to look for something new.
Can you refresh your building and construction skills in such a way that you can build marinas or how construction affects the marine environment?
[Third sector employee too; publishing mostly. Surviving but dwindling options for the future.]

Welsh 3s is good. Tough on the knees possibly?
If you are NE, have you done the route up to Edinburgh? Or the many available coast to coasts: in fact do all of them. Which bike though!

There always 100 days of sex …

Education price: son or daughter? Adobe in junior schools!

We are still waiting on Insight coming back with a five user site license price on 3x Design and 2x Web. I am not sure if adding an extra seat would be a problem or may speed things along …

Clearing soil from briar root stock for rose buds to be grafted on to them. I got a good tan, on my back. Wrists looked like I was self harming. The radio on my belt loop with Test Match Special kept me sane, when there was a Test. Insane the rest of the time listening to R1.

Si
Which version you after?
Adobe, official site has it for download. This will only be CS5.5
You could try:
http://charities.pugh.co.uk/
http://www.charityexpressware.co.uk/gbu0-display/splash.html
We are a charity so get education/charity discount.
Otherwise Ebuyer may have some CS5 versions still.
New versions of CS5.5 probably starts at £1k+!

But have all the tickets been allocated? Maybe it is just the UK’s share and other agents around have some? Thomas Cook may be worth looking at.

97 runs in one hour!
Declaration bowling?

I was there on Saturday. Broad hat-trick.
You don’t see that very often, unbelievable turnaround in fortunes.
Plenty of batting left in that pitch though so I would go for 450 lead before declaring. Weather settled and Swann and Trott may have their bowling to some extent affected by injury so it may be three bowlers plus KP. Could be a long slog between the effects of the new balls.

What’s been keeping you so busy? Is it interesting, diverting, tragic or humorous?
Write pen sketches of the various characters on STW, build up a style, try and find a consistent “voice”.
Fiction, non-fiction…

THE SHEFFIELD TAP at the train station!
The Botanical Gardens, quite nice in itself, has Pride and Prejudice on next week.
Parks and parks and parks, it’s a wonder there’s room for people to live.
Transpennine Trail for a coast to coast or Leeds to Chesterfield cycle.
Rother Valley Country park is on the Chesterfield leg.
Showroom Cinema, Star Wars film quiz night at the start of September.

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Saw a Renault Belingo with hub cap spinners on the way in this morning!

I used to live in Stratford when I went to QMC, nearly 30 years ago. My brother still lives in the area.
Stratford looks a damned lot better now and it will soon have a John Lewis! Utterly amazing, I hope they employ some local people. The thought that Stratford would one day attract such investment is hard to believe.

Economy bumping along the bottom, nothing more than we could expect. I do think Quantitative Easing money should be spent on infrastructure investment rather than giving it to banks to shuffle about.

News International in various guises had exhibition space at Labour and Conservative Party conferences. Up until last year it might scrape a junior reporter from the barrel bottom and send them to the Lib-Dem conference. Pity Vince Cable blabbed about the Lib-Dem war against NI/Digger and got neutered for it, I guess they have been bought by now.

The brown noses of the current and last two PMs, Rupe one of the first in the door.

This thread will of course be tracked by his minions, listen out for the “click” echo on your land line and check your mobile answer phone PIN.

Got one, nice phone, great value, experienced most of the positives above.
T-Mobile UK slow in getting 2.2 through though.
I get a good two days + from a charge with some GPS tracking of my commute and a bit of wireless. Usually these are turned off.
It falls and doesn’t break up into it’s component parts unlike daughter’s Galaxy S.

Cravendale milk lasts ages, no problem leaving it in the fridge over the weekend.

At the right time on Friday I would pop in with a tea towel I had to add to the ones she is taking home, “Here’s one I forgot to put in the kitchen. No problem if I put it in with the others? Oh, look there’s a pint of milk slipped in there too. Better put it back in the fridge before it gets warm, eh.”

Two cats being walked, one on a lead.

Old workplace, 2 1/2 miles, work clothes no problems.
New workplace, 11 miles, suitable gear. No shower accessible, so wipe down and change.
I could see 4 miles would be my threshold and may depend on the day ahead at work, if there was a meeting I may not push as hard as one of those quiet days where no visitors expected. Wear the gear if there was opportunity to expand on route home.

I don’t ride through as many low hanging trees as the above, so mine are still good after four years. Agree with the mottle with rain effect. They were my only pair of specs for about 10 months, good in daily use and almost contact lens like field of vision in the wrap compared to regular glasses.

Money for football at Coventry taken out of my account by the look of things. Two games for £20, for a family of four, great value.
Anyone know if the money is taken out in one lump or just when they are allocated? Otherwise looks like we missed out on BMX qualifiers at the Olympic park, I thought going up in price from the cheapest was a reasonable tactic.

Jeez, David Jason has done enough on the Discworld.
Pete Postlethwaite would have been amazing as Vimes.

Going Postal had:
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal … Sergeant Angua

Kris Marshall could be an irritatingly shiny Captain Carrot.

Hah, Robert Linsay as Vimes, stretch him from his sitcom stasis. Trevor Eve may have the build but probably not interested in copper work.

A bicycle Snape now?
Snapes on a plane is more serious[/url]

Well said nicko, add to it his acting distractions/nice earners and the amazing running enterprise.
You can see a sort of Robin Williams pathway, sort of the same route but different outcomes so far.

We have a tin of Roses here in work. The change of ownership to Kraft has seen a reduction in choices and some confusion over colours and varieties. I quite liked the coconut one but that has been dropped.
All the wrappers say “contains soya” in really big letters too, I thought the cheapness was our little secret but they just blab it, sheesh!

Spoke too soon, huge flakes falling out of the sky. Workers getting restless!

Sleet in valley bottom Sheffield, reports of sticking up t’hills.

As a student, I lived for one year in rooms on the staircase next to the great hall in Durham Castle.

Stayed there too during a conference in 2002. Huuuuuge long bath with no plug up some stairs on its own landing. Nice pub down the hill to the left of the exit and a Woolworth’s where I got a universal bath plug.
Hogwarts dining room in the same building?

Needed a moment or two to gather myself at the end of Field of Dreams.
Up pulled the strings, I was prepared for the sad bits in Toy Story 3.
My daughter was bawling when Dobby died, I thought it was done very well.

AIR, if you don’t use it delete it. Adobe are becoming just a little too “all inclusive” in their trustworthiness. Flash is enough.
SMS messages are only text so very low volume when you probably have a gigabyte of memory.
Cache/saved web pages/graphics? Good areas to look at cleaning up.

Work colleague has two dual tuners to make sure they can record multiple channels while watching.

Verses: how many megs of data was that?
You can see DAB or its alternatives being dropped if 3G data was unlimited.

All “classroom” based for mine in Sheffield. We had one chap, a sort of super advanced motorist, taken every test there was, who went through speed awareness prompts. Must have been 40 people there in total, and you do some group work deciding what is the correct speed for a particular picture you were given.
Much better than getting three points on the licence.

Ninja/samurai retractable function, most useful.
Were you listening to “Kung Fu fighting” on the iPod?

Lego DS/DSi/Wii games are good.
Getting my 16 yr old SuperMario Galaxy 2 for the Wii, Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook and the last Tiffany Aching novel.
16 the week before so money spent on that.

A friend with young son and local cat problem sealed their garden up with good chicken wire around the perimeter. This stopped the regulars from using the easy route. This disruption meant new paths had to be adopted. They are now someone else’s problem.
This may help with the back garden, front drive sounds like you ought to try the garden centre for a repellent.

Is Ben Kinetics still around?
http://www.kinetics.org.uk/
Used to post here a lot…

I am 75% of the way through Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland. Quality.
Got his Grandville from the library as an actioneer.
Sheffield Library is great for ordering the graphic novel you want rather than buying and being let down. Huge number of Manga to try too.

80:20 rule.
Run it on battery once over 80% charge point and charge back up when down to 20%.
Laptops are designed to use battery so unplug it, but don’t run it down to extremely low.
Should be able to get a replacement battery but they do take the mickey on prices.

Not much in the print version of the Grauniad this morning, but one for Rand in Cambridge and University of Liverpool may be of interest.
Rand http://www.rand.org/randeurope

As and aside, NZ drivers may be the worst in the western world, imo. Handing out licences at 15, making insurance optional and cheap fast imports from Japan don’t help.

Insurance optional! How can you have financial controls, which is what insurance mostly is, to deter careless driving?

Rather than having a black box in the car why not give a bicycle away with every insurance policy with the proviso insurance is valid for 50/52 weeks and sample how the world through other road users eyes for 2/52.

Jedi: the kitchen extension has been built around it! Nose on the end of the face some folk.
Nice bike.