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thanks for all the mouse advice, after catching 2 big mice yesterday, havent heard or seen a peep our of any of them,

even left a piece of cheese out to see if they would go for it but its still there!

I also bought some body filler back from work and i'm gonna go block up the gaps - see what the landlord makes of that!

surely if you live in a rented house/flat, then this is the landlord's responsibility? ask them to call in proper pest removal types, and then you won't have to worry about whole nests of the little buggers flourishing in some forgotten corner.

awesome, didn't know about that
learn something new every day

how do you google when you only have a picture to go by?
i must be being really thick?
thanks for the link

where can i find this as a plain picture without the desktop stuff? thanks

i really like this! dews are great frames too. much too small for me tho, hope it goes to a loving home

£2k-6k a week for a gang elder shoting crack. Just saying...

but what is the life expectancy of a gang elder shotting crack?

Im talking after tax.

If £26k is the average, it means the average person has £500 per week. Which seems absurdly high, dont think I know anyone with that much money. Perhaps I associate with too many poor people. Or perhaps there is a massive split, with 'most' people getting closer to 10k (like minimum wage) and lots of other people getting 50k in management jobs. It also seems like statistics are ignoring part timers.

average UK pre-tax income of full-time employees is £26k. note that this excludes self-employed and part-time, as well as obviously the unemployed (not just people on jsa but also full-time mums etc). £26k annual income (ie before tax) equates to £385 or thereabouts after tax, and less than that if you have a student loan.

so the average figure for just a uk person (not full time employee) will be considerably less than £385 net a week. and yes also the average is skewed because there is a minimum that a full-time employee can earn, which is roughly half of the average, whereas large numbers of people are paid two or three times the average, and a few earn ten times it or more.

also there are massive regional variations - which makes sense because of even greater regional variations in the cost of living, in particular price of housing/rent. there are also massive variations by age - so if you are in your 20s and most of the people you know are too, or if you live in the north-east, then you will probably just know people that are poorer than average.

£20k a month?
i must be doing it wrong

if you want it to be good quality, don't buy it in tea bag form, buy it loose. on this site you can buy really excellent loose tea for a good price, and also personal tea bags to put it in if you desperately need it to be in bags.

bags here:
http://www.nbtea.co.uk/shop/product.php?xProd=900

green tea here:
http://www.nbtea.co.uk/shop/section.php?xSec=11&xPage=1

Just began to walk a little after many years which is not good for my SPDs and is slippy and noisy. In fact I haven't owned any cleatless shoes that you can walk in for a decade...

are you trying to say that you have literally not walked or worn a pair of non-cycling shoes in a decade? bloody hell that's dedication.

a good place to start might be if you try going to a shoe shop and asking for 'trainers'

My karrimor rucksack came with a rain cover that seems like a simpler version of the hump (plain black). It probably wouldn't stand up to hours of persistent downpour as the rain could still seep down your back or along the straps and slowly soak the bag, but i've found it works pretty well for keeping things dry when cycling in the rain.

The advantage over putting waterproofing inside is that you don't arrive with a soggy rucksack.

humm interesting. might end up biting the bullet and getting a hump. maybe i'll start undertaking too, could be fun

What the fucking fuck?!

solvents innit

No experience of Humps but if it's waterproofing you need just buy a cheap dry sack from a camping shop and stick that in your rucksack (you can go full on rubber but they are bulky or you can get one of the thinner more 'nylon' ones). I get the impression the Hump covers are all about visability rather than protection from water.

this sort of thing?

http://www.kathmandu.co.uk/Packs_&_Luggage/Organisers_&_Accessories/Protective_Covers,_Cases_&_Dry_Bags/40417/Dry_Sac.html

interesting, cheers for the advice. yeah interested mostly for waterproofing although hi viz is probably a slight plus too. when i'm driving i find hi viz stuff more visible on cyclists than lights. the dry sacks are cheaper as well though so thanks for the tip - will check one out in store.

here's a much less naff way

i like the thrifty style, but that's surely not gonna keep the water from getting through into my laptop when it's raining hard though. does anybody dare own up to having a hump one? if so, how is it?

I know they are the target of anti-nodder ridicule, but does anybody know if the Hump rucksack covers actually a good or bad bit of kit? Seems like a decent way of adding waterproofness to a rucksack without having to buy a proper messenger bag, which are not cheap at all.

Portsmouth is really, really bad as well. And I've not been there but I'm told Plymouth is horrendous.

I confess that my bike is super-ugly, but I love it. Yet when I look at vastly better and sexier bikes I always think something like 'eurgh non-matching bar tape - revolting'. Also I confess that when I got absolutely spanked at silly commuter racing by a guy on a fancy road bike going round regents park yesterday, I was actually trying my very hardest whilst trying to make it seem like I wasn't trying. Feels good to get that off my chest.

Nearly forgot Dudley. Seriously awful place.

Mansfield. Derby. Coventry.
Most English towns are pretty shite actually.

is it possible the scarf in the one ^^^ up there is wrapped around a chain or something, to stop it scratching the bike? if not, i don't understand how the owner of that bike can possibly be intelligent enough to live in a complex modern society - how can they work or fill out forms etc if they think a scarf is an adequate bicycle lock??? gosh

Could somebody please explain to me 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James? I just read it and I don't have any idea at all what the hell it's about. Then I read the Spark Notes (which brought back memories!) online and it was all fence-sitting and ambiguous and didn't say anything useful. Mdcc tester, does your extraordinary knowledge and helpfulness extend to literature?

Lesson of the day is use lubricant/ anti seize on the threads of the new pedals you have fitted.

yeah i had used lubricant on the one i had managed to fit but the dudes at evans took it off again and put anti-seize on it and on the other one. obviously some arse hadn't done thatt when they fitted the previous set

not true that nothing happened. a near miss happened.

if anyone is interested, evans fixed the pedal situation for free this morning (thanks evans!) and they couldnt do it with their regular spanner, they had to go downstairs and get a massive one, and even them it took them a little while and some grunting. so at least i wasn't just being an idiot. lesson of the day is buy massive tools, small ones are too puny.