At my school in Thailand one morning, a pickup truck clipped one of the Thai science teachers motorbikes and pushed her into the ditch.
I stopped checked she was alright and followed the truck that had just turned into the school gates to drop off a kid.

I knocked on the window and told them what had happened, they said they hadn’t touched her and tried to shut the door.. I grabbed the keys out of the ignition and walked off to the principles office, who wasn’t in. I sat in there waiting for her to arrive at work. All the time I had this demented mother screaming at me and trying to get assistant heads to get me to hand the keys back. She even called the police.

When the principle arrived, she was somewhat miffed at my behaviour, and bollocked me for it, but at the same time, when the science teacher came in and said that it was in fact the lady who had clipped her, told the mother that she had pushed her off her bike. The mother then still refused to admit she had done it.
Two or three witness’s (thank god for having not pissed off all my kids parents) all backed up my story and the science teachers story.

Mother eventually admitted she did it and that was it. Paid for the broken wing mirror on the bike.

I got grilled for that, absolutely and utterly grilled. Really lucky my principle and I got on well or I would have been out the door.

I’ve got the bars, but found that once I had upped the supension on my enduro it wouldn’t fit the halfords bike rack anymore.

I was contemplating a new car, but a roof rack that works it significantly cheaper

I used that nylon reenforced sellotape appears to be the same as that rim tape but £3 a roll and three times as long

I can get Geax Barro Mountains to go tubeless ghetto and with stans after one pump of the track pump.

I cannot get my Ignitors, Swampthings, Ardents to go tubeless at all, no matter how hard it try.

^ CHeers – just need to find them at a pallatable price then. Followed them on ebay a few times to see them ending up near shop price plus shipping on top.

How much does the distance my roof bars are apart effect length of the biker racK?

Golf Mk4

next day for me

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I was out riding perving dead early on Sunday morning and my ride slowly takes me through a couple of car parks well frequented by doggers.

Mountain biking and dogging hand in hand.

Not on a Scout camp!!

Best place for them

Yes several times – it hurts, doesn’t it.

Just for maximum pedantry regarding the original question, fish are only in a “school” if they are moving in the same direction in a co-ordinated manner. If they’re just hanging around together, it’s a “shoal”.

They were just sort of hanging around together, so a shoal of oranges.

I found it focused me a lot more on what I was doing.

Plus I got to sing along to Baby D – Let me be your fantasy.

Mosquito ring tone sound on full volume for hours on end. try 16hz

No idea, bu the way CVA is worked out seems to encourage people to get kids to do as many as possible,

Can’t remember how it is worked out overall, but different students have higher or lower cva’s depending on their race, socio-economic class, postcode, fsm and other factors.

You don’t want a chinese or polish female in your class of numpties, because if she fails you will get hammered. HOwever if you have a black, male, on fsm, with unemployed parents, you are onto a winner if you can get him to pass or get higher marks.

THat is the new aluminium wanga – have a look around and see if you can find a steel one – they came in 16″ i’m sure.

EDF are a pain in the arse.

I set my monthly payments at 38 and 49 for electric and gas – I know from previous year that this covered me for the year.

One month into the contract they dropped the direct debit to 22 pounds for electric, I called them up, told them to change it back, they did, next month, back to 22 pounds, called them again, and repeat again and again, eventually gave up – last electric bill comes in, because of the underpayment, they have put it back up to 38 pounds to cover the costs and underpayment.

Gas – bill comes in and they drop my direct debit from 49 to 12, i email them tell them to stop being complete plonkers and realise that come christmas, I will be hammering my gas and would like some credit, gas direct debit then increased to 19, another emial, back to 49.

I imagine next month it will be in a negative number instead.

A senior member of staff like a head or deputy head will enjoy greater protection.

Student will be exculed for a few days and then the teacher will be blamed.

The OP is Surfmat and I claim my £5

Unless they kill someone or assault a senior member of staff that is.

Generally they are given a hug when that happens and the teacher is blamed for it

Do yo not agree Quirrel?

Not at all.

Maybe at some of the ‘better’ schools they are taught thinking skills, but I also know that a lot of teach to the test is the aim of the game. Get the students a minimum of a C and if that means teaching the tests then that is what is done.

It would take years to sort out. Especially when we must keep showing improvement, keep working making higher grades and aim for higher percentages of students passing.

What is more likely to happen – students are taught to think, a few years of them fail as they learn how to apply their knowledge, school CVA is hammered, Offsted come in, etc etc
or
Students are taught to pass test, students keep passing, CVA improves, Offsted are kept at bay until the next inspection and everybody is happy.

I don’t agree with it. I would love to try and develop their thinking skills, but around here they are stuffed from primary school.

The data that the primary schools supply is crap. They make it up to not get in bother, I see students who are L6 at KS3 coming in who can barely read or write, yet they have L6 in English and Maths.

Causes no end of problems.

Also the focus has shifted from knowing facts to learning about how to think and do research and how to relate things to the wider world. So less academic arguably.

Or so you are led to believe, but in reality………

I have an Exposure Super XX at a mates house that I keep meaning to collect, he loves it and uses it everyday, I love it, but was away for years so let people take care of things for me.

Also have a set of B&W 605(?) floor standers with the kevlar cones – lovely they are.

I keep meaning to collect them back in, but they get more use with my mates than they will with me.

We put on extra exam sessions before the exams. An honestly I believe we could take the term off before the exams and just teach them two days before and pass them.

I a school in the North East did just this and showed that they could get their kids to pass without any previous work other than two days using some method they devised.

There is a kona for under a grand with disc brakes

Your wife will be fine.

I would suggest a few weeks in Jak, then get out and about around SEA – go see some orang-outangs, go to Thailand, and get off the tourist route and explore North East Thailand, really get into it. I travelled by locak bus and trains all around the North East when I first went, just hoping on buses and seeing where they went.

From North East THailand head into Laos, up to the North, work her way back down to the south back in to Thailand and a train to BKK and into Jak for your return.

I saw some wierd and wonderful things out in the villages and towns. Met some really nice people and had a laugh, but did it all on my own.
Spent three weeks at one point not speaking to anybody in English, just having to muddle by on phrase book Thai.

Price varies – from about 15 quid on sale up to 100 quid.

they do work really well when setup right – mine was on sale for about 30 quid a few years ago, still working away now.

You need a CIS continous ink system –

http://www.continuous-ink-systems.co.uk/

etc.

Installed correctly they work really well.

I always end up getting it from the airline because it is just as cheap

Screw in the screws at different angles so they can’t just wrench them out.

Where they screw into tray and add some more wood.

My shed has pretty much another structure inside it made of 2×4 and 6×2 with 6″ screws into them. The wood they are pulling at is going to give way long before the screws get pulled out.

I would suggest as well as the bucket of concrete to drill two holes through a paving slab below the shed. Gives you that extra protection of the concrete and the slab when trying to get at the d-lock

I still love my Geax Barro Mountains 2.1 – fast, grippy when needed. A great tyre for me.

Can’t argue at that.

All you need to do is read the description:

All his other adverts are really well written though.

Well if it is the one pictured for 24 quid it seems to be a good deal.

vwhy if they have relabelled it you are going to park there again?

Curious to see if they have spent the money making it clearer or not.

Received a letter when I was away.

Ticket cancelled on review of the evidence and circumstances.

Need to go check the parking bay and see if they have been relabelled.

Pic doesn’t represent a toppeak alien Rx though.

Pic he is using

Which is a 45 quid tool

^

Finished years ago that.

It’s all in with the ticket. DOn’t worry about it.

How long did you stay for it to be £4k??

I was there for just under four weeks

flights were 2400 for the two of us (that was for sensible flights that didn’t have 18 hour layovers)
No hotel costs at all.
Hire car for a week when up country, then I borrowed in-laws cars
Then just daily expenses and shopping.
It would actually be 3.8k or thereabouts because most people don’t amputate a cats leg when out there.

I also go to supermarkets to get food in as well, and the prices there are similar to the UK now.

It really isn’t cheap a to travel there anymore.

Easy example – up country (so cheaper than Bangkok) local popular restaurant.

Food came to about 600B for food for 4. – 600
Beer – was 120 per large bottle of heineken – x4 = 480
Ice + soda and water for whiskey – 200B

1280 B – £26

When I was paid in Baht, that was ok for a night out and the exchange rate back then was good so it never felt pricey.

Look on last minute hotels, or late rooms or similar.

You can pick up nice boutique hotels for 1,500B.

Problem is that it’s not as cheap as it was now, I think all in my holiday caost about 4k+ inc flights, but no hotels as I stayed in the family home and a friends apartment.

If you can justify the money try one night at a luxury hotel – Banyan Tree is nice.

I got taken to the airport in a new Mondeo hatchback which swallowed – three large bags, a pram, three carry on bags with ease. Didn’t even bat an eyelid at all that.

Still in awe of how big the boot was. I imagine you could put a kitchenette in the estate version and camp in it.

Shame you weren’t here a week earlier I would have shown you around a bit, but we are heading off today back to the UK today.

Just realised you are out in the start of cool season. Lovely time to be there

Bangkok – just do the tourist thing if you only have a few days, easiest. Kings Palace, one of the large temples, floating market, look at dirty backpackers on Kao San Road.

But you can do that in a day if you time it right.

Other options are to pop over to Kanchanaburi for the day and see the bridge over the river kwai.

Lumpini Park is nice for a relaxing afternoon/early evening – don’t get off at Lumpini Station, get of at I think Saphan Kwai

Go to Siam Paragon the shopping centre and see how the other half live, fascinating place.

If you want nice Thai food in a a/c place try the Central shopping malls, or any of the larger department store style shops, they generally have nice food courts with good food=, bit more expensive than the street, but if you are nervous about street food they hit the spot.

Travel wise in Bangkok – Skytrain and MRT is ok gets you around. I prefer taxis these days though if I’m off the MRT route/ Skytrain route, not particularly expensive, but can be slow depending on weather and time of day.
I used to travel by bus a lot when I was really needing to get around, but with a baby, never fancied it this time.

It’s really hot and wet just now. So I imagine that the jetlag and the heat/humidty is going to knacker you. Taxis are great when this happens.

If you are up in CHiang Mai and want to explore, hire a car, it might look scary, but you just need to remember that you are going to go where you want to go and push your way in. Always look both ways at a junction or a motorbike might hit you from the wrong direction.

In theory the SRT airport train opens up on Tuesday to take you into central bangkok from the airport, whether or not it does or not is another matter.

Enjoy your trip – if you get stuck or in bother , my email is in my profile.

It’s bloody expensive now there as well.