winger’s lot

come on now, they are only small and they need protecting 😉

The only positive I got from last night’s game is that Adam Johnson looks quite promising – having said that a lot of young England players have looked quite promising but have never lived up to potential.

my dad is very much into this – each time I go and see him we go and do a fair few. You get to see a lot of places you might not think of going to otherwise. If anyone comes across caches set by ‘Rockley’ in Lyon and the surrounds they are his.

geobikecache

I like the idea but can we call it velocaching instead?

level of personal development before starting smoking makes a difference

more than likely.

Let’s say I share Warton’s experience above. I though have never suffered the paranoia etc which has made it more difficult for me to stop. The biggest problem I have now is sleeping, or lack of, I just can’t get to sleep and when I do I spend the whole night dreaming – I suppose I have half a life time’s dreaming to catch up upon.

Legalising it. Not sure. Trying to criminalise it seems pointless and there maybe a large amount of money for the country in it. At the same time would we as a country end up in the same position we are with alcohol (which has caused me much much more ‘immediate’ harm than the weed).

rock epicness

goose bump inducing drums and bass

working for me

you really need to listen to the whole album for full on maximum hanuted epicness but here’s a taste

Good thread

A17 sounds fun if you have the right car

if I remember correctly it’s full of cameras so not fun at all unfortunately.

I’m thinking a procession

me too unfortunately.

A Vettel Alonso incident in the first corner would be welcomed.

…does watching the grand prix count. That’s todays’ activities. I may tinker with the commuter to find out what the strange knocking is but that’s me. Is it beer time yet?

What kind of rural disadvantage do/did this team look into?
Was it housing for keyworkers/decendants of locals or something else?

yep, that’s the kind of thing they look at. Housing, access to services, economic development, education – all social aspects are considered. The CRCs role as far as I can make out is to influence policy. They almost act as a lobby group for rural social affairs. This is important because rural areas are often overlooked. To me it is a way of coordinating local authorities into action, much in the same way the regional development agencies were intended to do.

Their worth. It’s difficult. There is no money to be made as such so these jobs wont happen without public initiative. That said I think their value comes from helping people and business in what areas they account for. Whether quangos are justified are not is difficult to measure. To do properly would need longer than most of them are given to operate in.

So, in conclusion…do you have any vodka left

yep, another vote for second hand here

someone must want to stick up for a specific Quango after having had dealings with them

i’ve worked with the Commission for Rural Communities since they have been about which is only a few years. They look into rural disadvantage and rural social needs in general. I think the work they do is very valuable and I think it is good that they have a dedicated organisation doing this. It is to become part of Defra which I believe is where it was created in the first place. Whether this a good thing or not I don’t know but I fear that becoming part of the beast that is defra may slow such work down or lose its impetus altogether as defra will have to deal with many different priorities. If this is not the case well I suppose it’s not a bad thing, although the costs or reorganising could be interesting – I assume someone somewhere is working this out. Time will tell.

Do it. Do it tonight 8)

Fu Manchu
Black Angels

….both best loud

…or some big Police Aware stickers to slap on their windscreens, the ones that make a big mess when you try and remove them.

…and dancing too. Nice moves 🙂

mikertroid – I need some of those 935 wheels on my Volvo

not sure if they are that obvious. My dad had groin complaints recently, they had lasted a while so he finally went to the docs. Turned out he had a double hernia.

Level of education is missing from all this. Unfortunately so called 'moral' people to go around mis-educating, telling people that condoms are ineffective to people who know no better is disgraceful. Only the other day (monday or tuesday) on Newsnight or something similar a Catholic woman was going on about how condoms are porous so let HIV through! However people here, inlcuding the Catholics would probably have thought WTF.

SE Racing Lager. I got mine second hand and it's ace.

I too dreamt that my bike got stolen the other night. The odd part was there was baby stuck in the chain of said bike.

It's hard to see what it is but whatever it is it doesn't look right.

It's a washer for two bolts (is that called a washer tab uplink?)

Another vote her for Something Happened – Joseph Heller

Should have been called 'Nothing Happened'! Catch 22 was good, though.

My thinking once I'd read it was that must have been why he called it that. Something did happen, it's just he couldn't remember what it was.

My first mtb was a luminous pink Peugeot Raider. It seemed to be forever broken. I then saved my paper round money for a Kona Lavadome, and discovered mountain biking 😀

nice video – made me want to go back up there

what was the music?

rig one of the posts up to an alarm and a cunning booby trap with a hidden camera to capture it all (and him)

i'm with you real man. I think it looks ace. Not pretty by any stretch but neither was the countach or the stealth fighter or a helicopter gunship. You get my drift, it's menacing – I reckon it has guns and everything (that may justify the cost).

i don't do facebook but that made me chuckle

Does make laugh at all the 'what tyre' threads on here now…he was riding a hardtail in DH events, and doing the Kamikaze without body armour.Now that's the true spirit of mountain biking!

here here

if i flip the stem the bars will be lower, I certainly don't want that. That photo makes the bars look more tilted up than they actually are but I will try and rotate them forward a little bit.

nice.

I too picked up my first road bike yesterday. An 8 year old cannondale off ebay although it's practically brand new, it seems to have had very little use.

I've just come back from my first nervous spin on it, using the drops is going to take some getting used to. A road bike seems a good way to show how unfit you are (or me anyway)! Really enjoyed it though.

mefty got there first but if smoking and trying to give up smoking were sports I'd be a pro

BK over McDs. If there was a wendy's here I'd definitely be larger.

they seem to be going back up again Elf, round here they are anyway

after work good

i moved to London with a couple of bikes a few years back. I found a nice georgian house share in Camden, the room was huge so I kept them in there. Newer builds are more difficult so would need understanding flatmates.

i'm in

not long left to get a team in people

You can get to Chicksands (not a trail centre as such but a fun day out) from Arlesey station with a short ride through Shefford.

y'know what they say captain, it's grim up north 😉

new (done up) pub near me is very good indeed. Guest ales, cider and perry only. They may have a token lager somewhere. Home made pork pies and scotch eggs which are proper tasty. They'll sell you a flagon to take for a picnic too if you want. Southampton Arms on Highgate Road recommended (it is quite small though).