James in Brum

31 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

IMHO fridging chocolate is like fridging red wine. The cold kills off the subtle flavours and renders it just a hard lump of sweetness or if dark chocolate just a vaguely chocolate flavoured lump.Not a fan!

If it is soft I can only taste the sweetness 

10 hours ago, dynax said:

Good morning supposed to have a yellow warning for snow here today

The warning is ‘If it yellow do not like eat it”

It’s nicer from the fridge

Take it apart, look at hard disk, buy chassis for it from EBay and then see if your current computer can locate files. You can still disregard them and would have spent about 3 quid to check.

The previous owner of mine installed a thing that beeps loudly and pitchy. It reminds me on the occasions I forget to cancel and it has probably helped me learn to remember to cancel.

Does this compete with the aroyal Enfield @Slowlycatchymonkey? How does it compare price wise?

I have all the ‘listening’ functions on my phone off usually. Recently I have had Siri on on my phone but may turn off again. It all feels like 1984 to me only it’s not the state but private enterprise listening in to our every move and everyone is paying for the privilege. 

I did about forty two miles and thoroughly enjoyed them. 

Catholic Church had a policy of protecting paedophiles and not children. If c of e did to they are no better. 

Welcome Julie B

Ryan at F9 does have support from a camera person sometimes. It is not his blog so muc as he is a paid presenter for Fortnine. I really like the content, well worth watching. 

We have a 2004 Corolla 160000 miles, just went through the mot without advisories again as it has for the 110000 miles and 6 years we have had he car. 
not selling but by crikey I would recommend it. D4d bomb proof engine.

It is cooked, mushed and then dehydrated fruit. Kids like things called Bear YoYos to eat, if you have come across those they are fruit leather. It is a preserving technique. A bit like fruit jerky.

I quietly lean towards the British equivalent of the American phenomena of ‘preppers’. (Not anywhere near as full on bonkers as them).As such I have spent the past couple of years getting an allotment and learning to grow food (still crap at it) and am

moving into how to preserve it for other  use. Going to try jarring some soup later I think.

I like the idea of have some self sufficiency and if the shops run out my family will be fine.

I’m just trying to make apple leather. 

I remember when I was commuting to rugby from Brum the M42 and the a46 being nose to nose the whole way. I saved an hour and a half on a colleague  just filtered.

I do not filter on traffic over 30 miles an hour. Not as a rule but I notice it stops feeling safe around then.

At one time we did not have totally joint finances and paid into an account to cover shared costs. The one of us earning the more money paid more in and the one paid the less paid less in. That worked too.

4 hours ago, onesea said:

3632 nautical miles at about 3 knots so about 50.4 days however the gulf stream will be against you. So you might be better to walk to Spain and swim to the Caribbean as the weather and currents are with you and it would be warmer...

There is no way people average 3 knots in the water. 

Who says you are not supposed to filter through traffic @husoi

Are you feeling particularly anti-women this evening? 

I missed the post where Bender explained it happened off forum. Oh well.

it‘a rare people flounce here for being called out on being twattish.

normally flounces are because people find abusive behaviour unnecessary but protected. 
nice change @Bender

2 hours ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

So did I miss some abuse? Where is xtreme? Did something happen or did he just get fed up?

Before or since this one?

Surely he is just off doing his computermabob thing. It’s not unlike him to vanish. Or has he been given a yellow card? 

I go by bike when I go in, I did earlier this week and if I were going in tomorrow would go on my bike. I travel on the urban/city A roads and motorways to work and it works for me.

We have completely shared finances and accounts. We each get pocket money but to be honest that always gets spent covering communal life anyway. 

I do not know if it pertains to this situation but when a passenger arrests or gets very much worse I understand they have to stop the vehicle to attend to it. 
also sometimes people might be transported whom do not behave well for a variety of reasons.