It’s Thursday and no Tuesday Treat (or am I missing it somewhere?)

Tres bien

There are opportunities for individuals to progress from Intermediate Level, to Advanced Level up to Higher Level (degree equivalent). As for duration they can vary from 12 months up to 4 years (usually more technical roles). Pay is an issue, I’ve worked in training for 10 years and always advised employers to pay more and it is up to them what they pay – some do pay the bear minimum but then some do pay a lot more. My nephew is 16 and has just started an Electrical Apprenticeship (with a well known multinational food manufacturer) starting salary £16,000 – not bad for a 16 year old.

Another vote for the Royal Oak at Hurdlow also the Bulls Head at Monyash is ok. The Royal Oak would be my first choice though

218m in the Peak District – does this mean I’ll have to take the MIL in as she is at 115m?

Yes – have you tried to navigate their website?

Black Pudding suitable for vegetarians. Black Pudding scotch eggs are the business

Watch out for Jarah sleepers – they are a swine to cut. Wouldn’t it be easier to get new tanalised timbers from a saw mill cut to right length. Old railway sleepers do have a lot of nasty chemicals in / on them

Can’t you drop a chicken down it (with feathers, not frozen), or do you know a small child that wants to earn some pocket money?

We use a chimney sweep – honest

Yes

I am stepping away from the computer. Thank you for the heads up

You suds look out for your shirts on Gumtree and EBay

18 Bikes or Stanley Fearn’s

There was someone at Calver that did servicing

Thanks for the heads up

The Norweigan weather service seems ok

http://www.yr.no

Sorry – no

I had mine done in December 2013, same as teenrat. Walking same day, driving after two weeks and on the bike at around five weeks. Still get the odd twinge, but the knee does seem a lot freer.

Get an angry terrier

Cheers – good idea Mike

I know, they are still haven’t appeared

DE45

I have lived in Derbyshire all my life and in the Peak District for the last 13 years and the only horse and carriages I have seen were on the A6 near Bakewell never off road

It’s wicked, I can’t lie my back or sit up straight otherwise I get chronic chest pains and pins and needles in my left arm

One of the tests for being employed (where the “employer” believes that you are self employed) is does the employer provide you with all the equipment / leads etc, if they do then it is likely you are employed and eligible for the entitlements of an employed person – holiday pay etc

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/work_e/work_rights_at_work_e/contracts_of_employment.htm

I assume that you are in England. As always take proper advice

Plane finder – is good

The TRO for Chapelgate

http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/444866/1305-Chapel-Gate-Statement-and-Apps.pdf

http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/444869/1405-Chapel-Gate-Order.pdf

If you are in a vehicle approved as an invalid carriage then you are ok to use

Speed awareness course then it is

I wonder how many disabled ramblers on trampers actually use Chapelgate or the Long Causeway?

I got caught 37 mph in a 30 mph zone, I think up to 42 mph you can go on a speed awareness.

Should I ask when the camera was last calibrated or take it on the chin?

We have been to the Al Maha Conservation Reserve in Dubai, middle of the desert own personal plunge pool, another alternative is Zighy Bay in Oman – they have mountain bikes! Mrs W likes the Maldives and we have been Thudufushi and Athuruga. If you go to the Maldives don’t bother with the water bungalows, it is worth having the seaplane transfers
Flew with Emirates for all of these holidays

The TG Patagonia was good but not as good as previous offerings.

We’ve 6 inches at Middleton By Youlgrave, friends at Flagg have a good 8 inches. Sadly the roads are like skating rinks at the moment, it has given it warming up on NYD. Buxton does have its own climate though. Check http://www.buxtonweather.co.uk

I would recommend either of these two books

http://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/categories/e-books/white-peak-mountain-biking.html
http://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/categories/mountain-biking/peak-district-mountain-biking.html

Another vote for Bitter Lemon

Many thanks for the pointers – I think I might go for the Osprey Raptor 10 or the 14

Around 6 inches in the hills above Bakewell

Although DCC don’t think there is a problem

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/transport_roads/roads_traffic/road_maintenance/snow_info/latest_update/default.asp#9/53.1085/-1.5752

Can you let everyone know what happens when the IPad gets delivered?

There is another slight alternative to h4muf route is to continue on the Monsal Trail to the Coombs Road viaduct follow the bridleway through woodland and fields which brings you out onto the A6 north of Haddon Hall head on A6 to Hadon Hall and there is Bridleway near the car park to Youlgrave

There is a cheat (I’ve thought about trying it myself). Start at Bakewell, Monsal Trail South to Haddon Hall, Bridleway to Rowsley. A naughty bit on a concessionary footpath from the Grouse and Claret to Peak Rail at Rowsley South, steam train to Matlock, East Midland Trains Matlock to Duffield, Ecclesbourne Valley Railway Duffield to Wirksworth. Then High Peak Trail to past Hurdlow, over to Monsal Trail at Blackwell Mill then South to Bakewell

I got on briefly then booted me off