+3 for Brookmyre, very good.

+1 for Pete mccarthy, however I think McCarthy's Bar is funnier, his trip round Ireland re discovering his childhood.

Dave Lee Roth's autobiography. Read it years ago and made me laugh and wonder how Van Halen ever made it to a gig.

BH9er, you got that location show in one. If only we all had the troubles of these people….'ahhh the 6th bedroom or the triple garage life really is tough'

I closed my eyes all the way round oblivion at Alton Towers last week

What you've failed to mention is you bought his kettle of him and it really should have been you doing the offering…..

MF – I doff my cap to your correct observation.

any other cameo t!t flash movies?

Apart from babs windsor in the carry on's

very funny, cheesy but some of the best one liners

quite true, it didnt even look cold either

did anybody here them on 5live this afternoon, funny arguing about cake, they carried on just like it was an episode.
Been cramming in the 1&2 boxset over the last few nights very funny

Just watched the only bit in the film worth seeing, apparently, could be an urban myth but she got paid$5million just to flash them :lol:

Robson Green, born in Dudley North Tyneside speaks (or trys to) like he came from Windsor (to my northern ears at least)

sorry to bump this topic, but I'm listening to moneybox on radio 4 from yesterday when the bloke made his 'its not my fault' speach.

interviewer: you have 1 million unanswered letters in your offices, thats not really a good deal for the taxpayer, you currently miss 44million calls from taxpayers each year, what are you doing about it?
HMRC: well lets look at the facts, 1 million letters are currently unanswered but that only represents 1 letter per 44 taxpayers in the country. Do we know if those callers rang back and were answered at a later date?

what a cock

'I've stripped a lifetimes worth of donkeys breakfast'

you poor sod

Sorry to hear this, good if you can post pics and let us know which rack your using.

Hate to hear of a days riding spoiled :(

see the other ToB thread, you'll probably find the answer is £

My dad was a semi pro roadie 60/70's and put me on a bike from the off, never looked back.
Can't say I'm really influenced by anybody in particular, but I am mighty impressed with the skill, effort and determination riders show to make it to the top of there field.
Lucky sods, riding all day :wink:

Ernie – I find it deeply relaxing and almost always full asleep during the session

likewise, :-)

not a bad shot of the conditions that, there was a lot of water around from what I could see on tv, couldn't fancy those skinny wheels going over the white lines in the wet! rather tackle a rock garden in the nude

8 sessions last year on my neck and back, felt great. after years of physio trying to deal with the muscle damage I was sick and in lots of pain, can't recommend it enough.
Physios differ, but I like lying down to get my needles and getting the heat lamp on the area. After 20mins I would feel a bit drowsy, but within a day I was on top form. When my physio first suggested it I thought why not what have I got to loose, nothing else was working.

My neighbours doing nothing at the moment, and I've known her to bore the wallpaper off walls with her wonderful stories of how great she is at everything in the world ever.

There is no easy way or shortcut with woodchip

This is very true.

You might get lucky and find the odd role simply peels of but this is rare. Be prepared (if your not already) to have the walls skimmed or filled in places. If its been on the walls a long time it can often bring plaster off with it in big chunks. That and you can sometimes gouge into the walls when scraping.

JCB, sorry cheeky comment :oops:

There's not much worse than aholes at work.

Take it out on the trails next time your on the bike

JCB.

You have my sympathy WCA its horrible stuff, my eyes still water at the feeling of a sliver of wood passing up my finger nail into the soft flesh as I scraped it for days and days at our last house :cry:

I bought a 22" Technica with freeview and DVD and USB storage eary this year for my kitchen/dinnning room. We watch it much more than the new 42" Samsung plasma sat in the living room.
The picture is fine and the sound is ok for a small tv, tunning was easy enough and the menu is simple enough, ives 5 days programme info and can do the pause live tv stuff. 4gb usb memroy comes with the tv.

I guess it depends where you using it, is it your main TV? is it like mine for watching while cooking?
We have the radio on it quite often and because it has a dvd player I can put the daughter and pals in that room and keep em quiet.

Snow falling was a great book, makes you think about the folks who are emmigrating all round the world now following war and famine etc and how they are received when they turn up in a new country.

I was lying in bed and woke at around 5pm (nightshft)with the radio alarm clock ging off, thinking to myself CIA. Then I woke up a bit and saw the tv, still can't get my head around it.
Spent the next few weeks waiting to get called up, having not long left forces

missed the tickets for the wembley game this year, looking forward to another season, anybody tried the fantasy games?

I was watching that Location etc etc on C4 years ago when the girl who had more money than sense was stood in the very nice back garden of a house and declared……'OMG it's semi detached at one end' it was a rather plesant semi, which she declined as it hard dark paint on the walls :roll:

The other on the same subject, was that place in the sun show when Jermaine Defoe's girlfrend (since then she's been out with a number of other equally dim footie players) declared 'ooh look its got that funny wallpaper again'
To which the shows host Amanda Lamb replied 'yes its called marble'

+1 for the choices of 3fish & loddrik

cool lotus – check
nice pic of you riding – check
long overgrown front lawn – you disgust me!

I have roof rails, roof rack and bike racks ontop of my Mondeo est. I've got the Halfords Advanced ones, same as the Thules, £75 last year for 2 racks and about 50 for the roof rack, was fairly crapping it the first few times I drove with a couple of grand worth of bikes up there. But there good for 80mph on the motorway.

its them ConDem fruit cutbacks TJ warned you about

and here was me worried about some screwball pastor in Florida, here's the real problem grown men who can't remember who they are, where they live or what year it is. Usually I generally see them at around midnight stumbling from my local.
George Bush clearly made it possible for any fool to succeed in the rotten game of politics

Can't agree that there horrible things, half the population of Europe can't be wrong can they??
To me they seem very practical, serve a purpose and keep most of Italy & Spain on the move.

No car license, so CBT it is. Roads are all 30mph max round her work/home area. She won't look at a motorbike! Looks like a few quid investment is needed here, so we will have to sit down and see how serious she is about this.

Cheers all.

+2 for American Tabloid, liked cold 6000 as well.
I like Ian Rankin as well, met him once in Gateshead, there's a photo of the back of my head on his website!
Read a couple of Mo Hayder recently, quite enjoyed her style and stories.
Anybody tried Christopher Brookmyre?? worth a read, mans a nutter and writes a good tale.

When I was a kid my grandad used to get books from readers digest, so I never really read kids books always ended up reading whatever he was reading. Always made sure I had books around the house when my daughter was younger and she would pick up the bug of reading.

no riding for me just had op on foot, at least 3 weeks before getting back in the saddle :cry:

Until recently I rarely took my full holiday allowance either

mad mad mad

Raleigh Montana fully rigid, steel, king of the road. Got it in around 92 from a mate who bought it out of his mothers catalgoue to ride to work on, he never did ride it, though he did go on to win £5m on the lottery so I doubt he needs it now. But I took it upto Scotland with me when I joined the Navy and it did many a mile. Gave it to a mate to look after when I went off to sea for 3 months and came back to find it minus a saddle and front wheel. Searched for photos everywhere but can't find any :cry:

Enjoying my brand new rockhopper, which I thought was the greatest thing since sliced bread, V brakes! 63mm travel! I was a king among men.

Sliced bread is now very bad for me and I can't eat it, however the rocky is still going strong, had more re-incarnations than Dr Who.

I agree with the planning comments, unfortunatley some towns are owned by the supermarkets who inhabit them. I'm sure we are all aware that some of the biggest land owners in the UK are Tesco's Asda etc etc and they exploit the planning laws.
I live away from the towncentre (thank god) of Gateshead, for the last 10 years the council have been going to pull down a carpark, 60's concrete monstrosity famous for Get Carter 40 bloody years ago, however the council have sat on their hands whilst Tesco decide what they are going to do. The redevelopment of the town centre is being managed by Spenhill and they are 'working with'/leading by the hand the council into getting what they want from the town centre for their client Tesco (Spenhill are the development arm of Tesco)
Every year at the council elections the same old lines get trotted out by labour councillors, 'look what we've done on the quayside, look at the Angel of the North'..yeah that's fine thanks but the towncentre looks like Basra on a bad day.