Any question answered...

you could put an old fish down there, or a dead squirell. Give it a week or so and you won't be able to smell milk?

or along the lines of ... i know an old lady who swallowed a fly

send a thirsty kitten down to lap up the milk

just make sure you can get it back up again though or you'll have to send down a small dog to get it out

Then a child, then a coronation Street actor.

followed by operation yewtree

Just spilt my golden grahams and cheerios all over the bedroom floor, it's proper wood floor with gaps between the planks... Any idea how I can make it so the room doesn't stink of gone off milk? Quite a bit of it sunk into the gaps and I can't get to it....

Biological washing powder (make sure its bio and not non-bio) mixed with some water poured down the cracks - careful to not get it on the boards as it may bleach them

Cheers danb, only have those liquid capsule things of bio but will give it a go.

Is there a cost to appeal? If not then I'd go for it- you had the permit, but were failing (unintentionally) to display it.

I reckon they'll throw it out, but there's no harm trying?

This morning the front windscreen was covered in condensation rendering everything under it invisible - what do they do then? What about when the cars are covered in snow? I bet they don't wipe away the snow so how do they deal with it? They should have a record of the registration. Anyway, revenge is going to be long, slow and sweet whether or not we pay the fine.

I just booked a trip to Dublin for the new wife and me. I'm stupid and just absentmindedly booked using her new, married, name forgetting that her passport is still in her maiden name.

Flying with Ryan Air and it looks like they want £110 to change the name on the ticket (2 flights and hotel for 3 nights was only £220 total)! Am I screwed and have just wound up paying over the odds for a cheap, shoddy city break or is there some thing I can do, or some way around it?

I'm looking into the possibility of updating the passport, but the flight leaves on 23rd and in order to arrange that, we'd probably need to pay extra and get to a passport office (if we could get an appointment) and that's likely to work out to be too much hassle and probably more expensive (though at least part of that expense would need to be incurred at some point anyway when she changes the passport later).

Blue skinwall tyres - do these exist outside of 80's BMX?
ideally 28 x 700c.

They've never, ever had anything I've ever ordered, and they've never told me that whatever it was was out of stock- I've had to email them as the days march past, at which point they say "oh yeah, yeah- we haven't got any of those, we don't know when we will, but we'll send you yours if and when we get any".

Cunts, total cunts.

The order arrived today. They were not willing to give the 20% discount.

I just booked a trip to Dublin for the new wife and me. I'm stupid and just absentmindedly booked using her new, married, name forgetting that her passport is still in her maiden name.

Flying with Ryan Air and it looks like they want £110 to change the name on the ticket (2 flights and hotel for 3 nights was only £220 total)! Am I screwed and have just wound up paying over the odds for a cheap, shoddy city break or is there some thing I can do, or some way around it?

I'm looking into the possibility of updating the passport, but the flight leaves on 23rd and in order to arrange that, we'd probably need to pay extra and get to a passport office (if we could get an appointment) and that's likely to work out to be too much hassle and probably more expensive (though at least part of that expense would need to be incurred at some point anyway when she changes the passport later).

Take marriage certificate to airport with you and also any official docs in her old and new names. Might be worth trying to contact Ryanair ahead of time and trying to get it sorted, too.

Or more likely they'll tell you to go away and use your comletely understandable oversight to prop up their rightly decreasing share price.

Ryanair are awful. You have my sympathies.

I just booked a trip to Dublin for the new wife and me. I'm stupid and just absentmindedly booked using her new, married, name forgetting that her passport is still in her maiden name.

Flying with Ryan Air and it looks like they want £110 to change the name on the ticket (2 flights and hotel for 3 nights was only £220 total)! Am I screwed and have just wound up paying over the odds for a cheap, shoddy city break or is there some thing I can do, or some way around it?

I'm looking into the possibility of updating the passport, but the flight leaves on 23rd and in order to arrange that, we'd probably need to pay extra and get to a passport office (if we could get an appointment) and that's likely to work out to be too much hassle and probably more expensive (though at least part of that expense would need to be incurred at some point anyway when she changes the passport later).

You can apply in advance of the marriage, you have checked she wants to change her name though right?

Not sure how long it all takes or if you need to pay for speediness given your timescale, but anything's got to be better than rewarding Ryanair for being ar$eholes right?

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@travel/documents/digitalasset/dg_175796.pdf

All sorted, thanks.

Managed to get through to Ryan Air. The website says £110 for name change, but it seems I could buy a duplicate ticket from scratch for £45, so was prepared to do that, but amazingly, once I got through to them, they said that because it was a married/maiden name issue rather than complete name change, they'd do it for £10. Perfectly reasonable, given that I was my fuck up in the first place.

Now quite excited to spend a few days in Dublin for the first time with a little extra Guinness money.

Blue skinwall tyres - do these exist outside of 80's BMX?
ideally 28 x 700c.

http://www.pedalon.co.uk/acatalog/bontrager_r3_road_tyre.html?gclid=CKn13IyYtLkCFVDItAodXDcAXg

Also available in 25c, I think.

Edit: 23c only for coloured sidewalls

I'm after something in these colours:

Pretty niche...

Ah, I get you.

25c - http://www.wiggle.co.uk/veloflex-master-25-clincher-folding-road-tyre/

"I just booked a trip to Dublin for the new wife and me. I'm stupid and just absentmindedly booked using her new, married, name forgetting that her passport is still in her maiden name.

Flying with Ryan Air and it looks like they want £110 to change the name on the ticket (2 flights and hotel for 3 nights was only £220 total)! Am I screwed and have just wound up paying over the odds for a cheap, shoddy city break or is there some thing I can do, or some way around it?

I'm looking into the possibility of updating the passport, but the flight leaves on 23rd and in order to arrange that, we'd probably need to pay extra and get to a passport office (if we could get an appointment) and that's likely to work out to be too much hassle and probably more expensive (though at least part of that expense would need to be incurred at some point anyway when she changes the passport later)."

Shouldn't be an issue really when traveling from the UK to Ireland as technically you don't even need a passport, presuming you're both UK citizens. If you must, renew her drivers license; it's much quicker than getting a new passport and presumably something you would need to get done sooner or later anyway. Alternatively leave new wife at home and send her a nice post card.

#killryanairwithfire

That's what I thought, which was why I never gave the name change a thought. But apparently, though it's not a legal necessity to have a passport, the airline can demand whatever ID they like to allow you to fly and they insist on a passport or certain national ID card. Driving licences (which she has in her married name already) are strictly not allowed as valid documents.

Ah, I get you.

25c - http://www.wiggle.co.uk/veloflex-master-25-clincher-folding-road-tyre/

noice cheers.

That's what I thought, which was why I never gave the name change a thought. But apparently, though it's not a legal necessity to have a passport, the airline can demand whatever ID they like to allow you to fly and they insist on a passport or certain national ID card. Driving licences (which she has in her married name already) are strictly not allowed as valid documents.

Bizarre as IIRC there is a MUCH higher incidence of passport fraud than driver's licence fraud.

I've got an amazon voucher to spend and I was thinking of getting a chain whip with it. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've never bought one before so I don't really know if there are different types for different cassettes etc? Also a lock ring removal thingy built in would be ideal!

My rim is really bent (someone booted it, quite a few times it appears).

The hub and spokes seem ok. If I get an identical rim will I be able to rebuild using hub and same spokes?

Cheers

Get new spokes, the hub will be fine to reuse.