Thank you all for the info :-) Kind of what i expected. Got 2 kids so school is a consideration and have around £250k to spend on a house so maybe looking good.

what are the train/bus/cycle connections like to other towns/brizzle etc?

I work in FE/HE (not academic staff) and it seems that most teachers f-cking hate teaching, whinge constantly about how much they get paid, take loads of sickleave and have no idea how to live in the real world that exists outside of the education sector.

if it still appeals to you then go for it, but don’t be surprised by the negative bollocks that will grind you down and make you half as happy as you are today.

The pencil was invented by a swiss man, Albert Pencil, in 1835.

How hard is it to make something look a little bit nice without degrading its performance?

££££££££££

whoop!

i like mud and water

good aesthetics and good design are not necessarily the same thing.

yep, its entirely subjective. Do you think that the spitfire was designed to look cool or be agile/fast/effective? Sometimes looking great and working great combine, other times they don’t.

The treatment of the Gurkhas is beyond belief. How complicit have the MOD been in all this?

Apparently the NHS have been giving those infected with Swine flu a special diet of kippers and pancakes. There is no nutriational reason, they are just the only things that the nurses can get under the door.

move to the netherlands

my wife only has one saddle (fizik aliante carbon jobbie) and swaps it between bikes.

then turn her round and pretend you are playing the double bass….

:-) classic

do you have any scan pics of your twins?

if so make a really nice card with a picture of them on the front wishing happy birthday to their lovely mummy, can’t wait to see her etc etc

you will be in the good books for at least a week :-)

i like the black angels too, passover was a great album – is anything else in the pipeline?

Brain Donor

I think that a lot of people lack the knowledge and confidence to intervene. In my experience when one intervenes more will follow.

My wife did CPR on a guy that collapsed in a corner shop (he didn’t make it) and the women behind her in the queue, a serving nurse, refused to get involved “cos I’m not at work”

I am doing a 2 day paediatric first aid course in a couple of weeks time, hopefully never have to use it but would not be able to walk past someone like Ambrose and his lad without helping!

yossarian: is regretting drinking so much beer and wine last night

1. I had a lovely ride in this morning and will have a lovely ride home tonight

2. Both my kids are happy, healthy and almost always laughing and smiling

3. Its pay day

4. My wife is happy

5. My garden is a mass of cherry, apple and pear blossom at the minute – you wanna know where all the bees have gone? They are buzzing round excitedly outside my house :-)

6. I live 5 minutes from the beach which is a massive bonus in the summer (its pretty good in the winter but in the summer its like every weekend is a holiday)

7. Its friday

All the best to all on STW, may the sun shine on you and the wind be at your back whatever you are doing. 8)

All human babies. **** horrific some of them. Especially Caucasian ones. Like boiled beetroots. And the proud mother waves it in your face and you can hardly point out the resemblance to Winston Churchill so you have to lie and say ‘Beautiful’. And yes, I include my own child in that categorisation. I almost had to be physically restrained from asking if there was something wrong with him when he was born. ‘Is he supposed to look like he’s churning out the worlds largest number 2, constantly?’

lol, yep my youngest looked like phil mitchell having a shit for the first couple of months of his life. :-)

hawkwind – master of the universe
toots & the maytals – pressure drop
happy mondays – kuff dam
the stooges – i wanna be your dog
D.O.A feat Jello Biafra – full metal jackoff

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/very-big-terror-plot-not-very-big-or-terrifying-or-a-plot%2c-admit-police-200904221718/

sums things up quite well

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=490986

yum

Bearings rarely make creaking noises.

its a clicking noise not a creak apparently :-)

sounds like pedal bearings to me

i really want to avoid calling the post office because I know that I will shout and swear and its such a nice day :D

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/leo-conceived-after-i-wore-a-bag-on-my-head%2c-reveals-cherie-20080513946/

yes dad :-)

So presumably you are donating the wheels and other bits to your employer which they are then leasing back to you?

no, if asked i am donating them to the lbs who will in turn donate them back to me as part of the overall build

load of old bollocks in my opinion, a knee jerk reaction to g20 i think.

i will be buying a frame/fork and getting all the bits from one of my existing bikes swapped over.

Nothing in the rules that prohibit that, the LBS will supply me with a complete bike when i go to pick it up.

no-one can make you ride in. either you want to or you don’t

I seem to remember owning and playing this, I wasn’t overly impressed.

Freespace 2 however…

Its the european neolithic for me. The introduction of agriculture, the errection of massive temple sites, the beginnings of long distance trade routes and the tracking of the seasons and heavenly bodies by people who were true pioneers. I have long suspected that they had an inate connection to the land and its other inhabitants that we have long since relinquished in favour of 3 piece suites and turkey twizzlers.

ver are your papers?

mudhoney at the astoria in 1990(ish). they were flippin loud, flippin fast and well up for it. amazing gig. Remember seeing some crazy man jump up on stage, have a brilliant fight with a couple of bouncer types, chuck them into the crowd and then dive in after them!

never did get to see husker du : (

brain donor are/were pretty mad live.

didn’t the police said that they had not come into any contact with him? then they said that they had and had come under attack whilst tried to help him?

70 odd complaints of excessive force received by the IPCC yesterday.

Lottery Bike Garage – Whats in yours?

you sad lot

in my bike HANGAR would be a selection of hundreds of bikes that i bought on the internet on a whim, dwarves with trays of cocaine and bikini clad birds

when you are rich details are unimportant.

i think all the bumping around just loosens any pockest of gas that might accumalate.

I spent quite a few years living there in the 70s and it has improved immeasurably in the last decade.

I would also consider Tring and Princes Risborough area too.

darrell has it right. Have used this bodge a number of times to get home – works just fine.

order a large skip to be delivered to her parking bay