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Does anyone know why Malawi is such a popular destination for school trips?

. Still going strong after about 8 years of daily use and abuse…

How do you create so much dirt that you need to vacuum everyday?

The trick with Bangernomics is to find cars that have been looked after and maintained well. That MOT history does not show a well maintained car. I’d run for the hills!

A4 is much smaller. A6 is 70 litres bigger with the seats up but same size with seats down.

Depends how they do it. Not so keen on the ones that jam a tree branch in the door when you open it so that you can’t close it. Tree branch gets removed once you’ve given them enough money.

dragon – Member
I have more compatibility issues with Work still running Office 2000
How can a modern organisation be running something so old (nearly 17 years!) in a critical productive environment, what kind of dark ages organisation do you work for!

Because the people that hold the purse strings ask questions like :-

What does Office 2016 do that Office 2000 doesn’t do?
How many of my employees are complaining that Office 2000 prevents them doing their job?
Do we need the extra functionality of Office 2016?
How much?

90% of the people use 10% of the features
No one spends any money on MS Office training so never progress beyond typing, copying, pasting, some basic formatting and using excel as a very expensive calculator.

Museum on Chamber Street is free so stay until the kids get bored

Walk up Arthurs Seat

Ghost Walks

Camera Obscura

Ortlieb generally regarded as the mutts nuts of dry bags but you pay for it.

I’ve got Sealline and Overboard dry bags which have given good service.

Watershed have a good reputation too.

We have a free press. How on earth can the insurance companies keep it out of the media?

The only person able to keep it out of the press would be the judge and they’d need some very good reasons to do that.

Never heard of Marmaray. Maybe you mean Marmara? Marmara isn’t a place. It’s a hotel brand name used by TUI /Thomson. Only ones in ski resorts seem to be Valfrejus (don’t know anything about this) and Monetier Les bains (is this part of Serre Chevalier?)

Do you know which one it is?

It’ll be an experience for both you And your 5 year old. The experiences will be different!!

Does your wife have a named personal tutor who she can talk to. If your university has them then they won’t have had anything to do with your wife academically but will be in the same school / dept and are there to help when things have gone wrong between the student and the academic staff they do have contact with.

Bent over to get shoes out of wardrobe. Did something to my back and spent a month shuffling and hobbling around in agony. Don’t know what I did but docs advice was to take up swimming – never did.

Can get a full set of SLX from Ribble for £74.

Café Truva has outlets on the royal mile, in Leith and I think they’ve opened another near the grass market.

Wellington coffee on George St is also nice.

Has she got the Facebook app on it. It sometimes goes a bit wrong and expands to take the space available. Uninstall and reinstall will fix it for a time until it does it again.

Otherwise try a factory reset.

By Eck. It’s gorgeous

Geraway wi ye bother

What to me? Mi father’s a bobby.

Willie Eckerslike

Pass us mi giglamps

Alternatively the plumbers been called out to a broken boiler which he can’t touch because it’s under warranty and a non existent / intermittent drain fault which he couldn’t smell / replicate or doesn’t do drain work so has given the customer the smallest bill possible.

That’ll be his standard call out fee so not much you can do about that. He came and gave you his advice. How’s the warranty claim progressing. If he’s a domestic plumber may well not do external drains. Get a drainage firm to jet or rod your drains or do a camera survey to identify any problems or buy a set of rods yourself if you think it’s something that will need doing regularly.

Maybe I’m a bit old fashioned and over cautious but I don’t order from websites without a bricks and mortar address. Maybe it’s there and I couldn’t find it but if it’s not you may need to consider how many Luddites like me there are in the world who are potential customers.

Staffies are good family dogs.

Just be careful with rescue staffies as they may not come from the best background but the rescue centre should guide you to ones that are suitable for your family.

vehiclerescuedirect do the same cover for £38!!

or if you want homestart as well use autoaid for £42ish

I’d ask your university rather than a MTB forum

first ones trn up just after 8 ( gates are locked until then) school closes for kids at 3.15 and i v never seen anyone there post 4.30. school holidays no one shows except for the last day of the holidays when about half the teachers carpark is full.

Entirely possible if the school’s been PPI’d. School is charged if teachers are there outside core hours.

Current preptime in most schools is between 2 and 3 periods off per week.

Could anybody manage to do prepare 30 interactive, engaging activities to keep 30 office workers amused for 30 hours per week with only 120 minutes of preparation time, bearing in mind that all learners need to be catered for in that class.

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scotroutes – Member
If it’s not possible then do as many as you can and tell your head there wasn’t enough time to do them all. Is there some special process with teachers that has the word ‘no’ expunged from their vocabulary?

It doesn’t really work like that. If you haven’t prepped a lesson you’re the one with 20-30 kids in front of you trying to invent a lesson on the hoof.

Owls produce pellets and poo.

Is that the same cheap blue stuff that hauliers and farmers use to secure loads to trailers. They don’t often lose the load.

Are you doing a proper knot or just randomly tangling the rope up and thinking you’ve created a knot?

Lesson planning can take ages. The outsider thinks it’s 1 lesson; in reality it could be up to 30 different lessons depending on the ability spread of that class. If you’ve got 5-7 lessons per day that’s quite a lot of work. Add on marking time, report writing and sorting out random stuff which crops up during the day and the time soon adds up

My 9 year old Logitech wireless mouse has only just died although it was ambidextrous rather than LH.

How are you expecting the driver to remember where he left a parcel a week ago? They’ll have delivered hundreds of parcels since then and there’s nothing to make yours more memorable than anyone elses.

Do O2 have an app which lets you do phone calls and texts over your WiFi. I know 3 do which works really well for me. I’m in Scotland too. Don’t know what we build houses out of up here as I have full 4G outside my front door and naff all inside.

Dahab is amazing but you can’t go at the moment as it’s in the foreign offices “essential travel only” zone. Sharm is safe but you can’t get there as the UK gov has banned all flights to Sharm!!

Must be unbelievably crap for all the people in that area who relied on diving / tourists for their livelihoods.

Gobuchul

My point was that it’s a bit pointless to write “clubs can provide superior training” as it’s equally likely that “commercial operators can provide superior training”

Good clubs and good commercial operations with good instructors will provide superior training to bad clubs and bad commercial operators with poor instructors.

What evidence have you got that clubs provide superior training to commercial operations?

It’s all down to the instructor in both situations and you can find **** instructors in either.

Good commercial outfits will get rid of poor instructors pdq. Often a bit harder in clubs to get shot of poor instructors.

Not sure those images are representative of open water assessment dives!!

There’s a variety of ways you can do the PADI Open Water.

I’d try and do the classroom sessions and swimming pool dives in the UK then go abroad for the assessed open water dives. You could do the open water dives in the UK (probably in the local flooded quarry!) but you might enjoy somewhere warmer!

If you do the whole learn to dive process abroad you may get annoyed at spending 2 days of your holiday in a classroom / swimming pool.

A few years ago I would have recommended Dahab in Egypt but no idea what it’s like now thanks to the changed politics of the middle East.

All I’ve noticed is that kayaks on the roof affect the fuel economy less than bikes do.

Depends on how you intend to use your roof bars as to whether it’s worth the expense of going aero. My old car had roof rails so I only ever had the bars on when I needed them as it’s so quick to put them on and off. Current car has fixpoint and I use the roof bars multiple times per week so not worth the hassle to keep removing them. My 20 year old square bars are still going strong so refuse to change them for aero but they are bloody noisy which does make converting to aero tempting.