Trav Le Bleu

This is something I just remembered from my visit to Worcester last week and Oxford a few months back They're really nice towns that have retained a lot of their historical features with interesting buildings and stuff everywhere. When we were there we found several nice independent cafés in cosy buildings with great cakes and lovely views. They'd have big leather sofa's to lounge back on, and quiet courtyards where you could sit and watch the world go buy. They were lovely. And not very busy. Why? I can tell you the answer. Costas and Starbucks were rammed. Why? That one I can't answer. I'll never understand why the majority if people won't look much beyond "what everyone else is doing".

Avatar. 8 Bafta nominations? It was a fun film, but seriously? It's just Dances With Wolves in space with fancy graphics.

Midlake at The Musician tomorrow. Looking forward to this. It was over booked and they're doing 2 showings apparently.

Royal Mail

Midnight Run was on the other night and just watched it on Sky+. Seen it several times before, but it's still the best "buddy" movie ever!

Going to see Midlake at The Musician later this month. Should be good.

MMMMM, a thread dedicated to Dandelion and Burdock! :beer:

There's always a silver lining!

I feel the need to get a lot of things out of the way. Vocoders Timing belts Alan Carr Houses with vertical letterboxes Items in the reduced section at supermarkets that you still consider to be too expensive for what it is Slow drivers in fast cars Watermelon Sky (and their complete disdain for customer service) Beggars who earn more in a day than I do in 4 (considering that none of their money is going to be declared earnings) Steak and kidney lock openers Mahmoud Ahmedinejad The B&B I stayed at in Tenby 5 years ago Total War - Medieval (which I faniced replaying on my PC recently and which won't play, even with the latest patchs (yes I know TW-Medieval 2) My really noisy tumble dryer that my (profoundly deaf) wife uses -seemingly whenever I am in The film Final Destination 2 - what next? The Last Samnurai 2? Never-ending Story 2? Oh... All commercial radio stations, but in particular Heart FM which I have to endure at working in the morning and thus... Sam and Amy - thanks for making me want to rip my ears off That'll do for now. Since I mentioned Sam and Amy (Heart FM "DJs") I'm maxed on rage!

That's crap service - specially as they self signed, but consider yourself lucky in one sense, cos if they had just left a slip I think their nearest depot is on the Jubilee Drive industrial estate in Loughboro (that on the far side of Loughboro too!). I was less than impressed at having to travel out there for (funnily enough) an exhaust for my Mini a few years back.

I hope it was the competition. We at Royal Mail would never do such a thing. PS, the item worth over £100 that was left under your car... it wasn't an exhaust pipe by any chance?

YES!

THIS ADVERT! The guy in the car does EVERYTHING by the book bar look over his shoulder. The question is why did the bike try to overtake a car that had clearly indicated he was turning right with plenty of warning? This is nothing against bikers - it's against poorly thought out adverts! It should show that people turn right WITHOUT indicating or looking. Bet they got paid loads for making that too.

A good film, but a much better book. Why they had to Americanise it, I'll never know. What next? Fever Gridiron? (yes, yes, I know before anyone starts!) Just watched Australia on DVD - good film. You gotta love Baz Luhrman's cinematography. He can make the most cliched storyline shine like a diamond!

You should try delivering seven bulging bags of mail (one bag worth of it to flats!) on a day like today! :sweating:

Thracian's was awful! vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Poncy food. Just seen Great British Menu where the cooks are challenged to give a Home Coming Feast to troops returning from Afghanistan. I'm pretty sure that asparagus with crisp hen's egg, smokey duck and fresh truffles would not be what they would expect as the familiar taste of home when they get back.

I think you'll find it's a classic example of post-modern irony!

A few of my own "sun" effected photos This is Snowdon. Some old ruin in Shropshire. River Ness at Sunset. This is a photo I took on my old optical SLR camera that I have scanned - and lost much of the quality in the process, but I like the composition. It's my brother at Botallack Mine. Lastly, another scanned one (hence quality) but the full moon through the branches of the tree opposite my house one winter's night.

Chuck her out of the country! But seriously, is her name REALLY spelt with two zs and one n? If so, do you pronouce it with a slight buzz to the 1st syllable and clip the 2nd? Or is she just weird, like her husband?

At work people who smoke are allowed outside to stand around doing nothing every other hour... so long as they have a fag in their mouth. If you don't smoke, you carry on working! Where's my fresh-air break!?!

Watched Shine last night, good film, seen it before, but did anyone else notice a walk on part for Alan Birchnell towards the end of the film?

"No British people were killed." As in news reports like this, "A plane carrying 167 people crashed in Spain today, no British people were killed." or "A cruise liner sank in the Mediterranean today, with 63 casualties. No British people were killed." or "A bomb detonated in a cafe in central Berlin today killing 8 people and injuring 15 others. No British people were killed." In effect it always sounds to me as if they're saying, "No British people were killed... we'll that's okay then!" I know that's not what they're saying (they're reassuring people who might possibly have relatives/friends in the area), but surely there must be a better way of putting it!

I was told today I'd need to spend an additonal £120 on top of the £55 they were charging for my cars new back box, as they had discovered 2 defective tyres on my car (which I knew about... they were borderline). I told them, "no thanks, just the exhaust please." I then went to a scrapyard, got a new (used) wheel to replace the one that my wife had kerbed badly in the icey weather. The guy took the perfectly good tyre off the kerbed wheel and put it one the new (used) wheel and I then replaced that with the tyre that was slightly low on the outer edge (obviously badly balanced - it was the spare that had gone on to replace the one that had been damaged) so that one went back to being the spare. Then he replaced the almost new tyre that had a chunk missing out of the sidewall (more dangerous in my opinion) and replaced it with an almost new tyre that had come off a scrapped car. The cost? £40. I saved myself £80! :scarf: :scarf: Back of the net!