KidKruger

What's with the girly ribbon BS ? Whether your point is valid or not, getting all anti-men about it is surely a needless sidetrack.

10k will get you a 2007-8 Landrover Discovery with high-end extras and seven seats if needed, indeed why by new ?

"You're way ahead of the curve, KK." Just got pool sucked out. The terminology from the guy who came was fun. The cess pool is 8ft deep and 6ft by 8ft wide, liquid runs off through a hole halfway up one side into a soakaway. Floating at the top of the full cess pool is a 1ft thick 'crust' of 'shit and rag', underneath that are several feet of liquid and underneath that another foot or so of shite, making a 'sandwich'. In pic you can see the huge suction hose being pushed through the 'crust'.

I always thought jam jars were wank until I went calling on Doc Watson a couple of years before he died, he offered apple juice in jam jars no explanation given. Seemed normal at his and other local cabins. Maybe there's a place for jam jars cos it felt correct, but Deep Gap, NC, ain't Peckham I suppose !! Since then though I like jam jars to drink from, probably for nostalgic reasons.

I've been looking very closely at Landrover Defenders, namely models 90 and 110 (particularly the station wagon). The 110 can have 7 seats or, if it's (I think) pre-2009, even a couple of bench seats in the back meaning you can seat potentially 9 (or 10 if the front seat is a bench seat too). Many seats is useful to me. However, I've recently tried a mate's Landrover Discovery 3 circa 2009 (seats 7). Wow. It does everything a Defender does, but with modern technology. No wonder they've stopped making the Defender, it's (as my mate says) "barn-door technology". The comfort is better than my living room and it's a fair bit cheaper than Defenders. I'm fairly practical with cars though and chief reason for wanting a vehicle like this is for use on some land that I've got and to haul separate tools to top fields and haul field shelters etc. without having to borrow tractors. I can fit a winch and it's obviously got enough clearance for rough terrain, which most road cars don't. If I didn't have the acres I would not even think of this kind of vehicle. I am also considering Ford Rangers for same reasons, but of course there I'll be well limited in the seats. I'm in no hurry to purchase as I'm getting by with other means for time being. I believe the longer I think about it the better decision I will make. Having just re-read the OP though, an SUV is not the same as a 4x4 (which is what a chelsea tractor generally is regarded as), nor is it a 4x4 such as I am interested in, but having written this I would be crushed to have to delete it all so here it stays.

"I suppose The Gowlett is a bit of a trudge back home after you have stuffed your face with Pizza. I'm full after 1/2 a 9" thin from Tescos." 1. When a walk ("trudge" ?) of one single mile even figures as a deterrent then the game is basically up anyway, and 2. "Pizza is such a pointless kind of food, basically cheese on toast so why bother (but I get it from Tescos anyway)" LOL ! Laughed? I almost got the round in.

I had a mate 25 years ago and he had a motorbike, it was all shiny and he'd drive up and down on it, well one time he asked me to take some portraits of him and his bike for posterity so I borrowed a mate's 20mm Nikkor lens and did these crazy wide angle shots from the front axle looking up the forks of the front wheel to the handlebars and my mate's head and body were framed by the shape of the handlebars and his arms. It looked really cool. Oh, and the pics were taking really early one morning on the putting green of a golf course. I think it was mid-late summer.

Lavender when you're walking away from a confrontation, with your back to the assailant, there is no reasonable force if someone attacks you from behind because any 'danger' has clearly dissipated. So the cop was talking out of his arse.

IMO the Gowlett pizzas are far and away the best pizzas around SE22. So this thing about "Going to the pub for Pizza.. WTF" is a bit facile. The Gowlett could be a fecking laundrette, I'd still be going there to get pizza like that. (despite people who'd probably moan "Going to the laundrette for Pizza.. WTF" The pub is almost irrelevant (but, now I think about it, a beer with pizza might be a nice combo...)

i have a house with shared boundary on right (looking out to back garden) and the dude on other next door owns the left-hand boundary. all indicated in the title.

flew into a window ?

I strolled up there one Saturday afternoon with a girl mate and the dog, through the woods from Harvester and back when it was well dark. We had a couple of beers and food off the menu, then some shots. The staff were very nice and did I thought more than they needed to to get the job done. Meal was definitely fine absolutely no complaints. The decor ? Dunno didn't really notice, was out for a beer not an ideal homes exhibition. Can't think why I wouldn't go back there. Turns out it was late enough eventually for most younger kids to have gone and it was quite peaceful where we were sat. Dog was given some treats and water too. Hopefully this'll balance some of the posts above.

Wasn't that the terrible genocide ?

Small enough to roll a car like that, much more fun. On a a hill are you ?

i'm obviously generalising RH, nothing personal. I can't do a one-liner that summarises all (however many) 1000s of users !

On EDF yes it's petty, it happens all the time, worn the badge myself a few times (as well as mysoginist, sexist, whatever, yawn). Many people on here generally (like any forum I suppose) flap their gums in a way they wouldn't face to face, because obviously they've anonymity.

"..Time to get out that little black dress?" Fantasies getting the better of you this morning, Jeremy ? (either way I respect you still)

African Kitchen Gallery has for my attention katanita, will be looking that up shortly !

I think a photo will be in order Seabag, complete with Fererro Rocher, on the night.

I'm just about to reduce my Virgin subscription to BB only. The extra you pay for TV channels is a lot for what you actually get, the few times I get a chance to actually scan the channels offered I'm astonishd how much shite is available (let alone why someone would actual think-up, fund and produce that drivel). Haven't used landline for a phone call in 5yrs, don't even have such a device plugged-in. I did talk to Plusnet about BB only, but they want to provide the BB while YOU sort out the phone line separately which to me (having to involve 2x providers) is asking for trouble. To back-up the Virgin BB service being intermittent, I have a high monthly data subscription on my mobile phone to so I can definitely work from home when opportunity arises. So they get you either way.

Adonirum - Well that's one school of thought, another is (and I hear a lot of this in City) "don't wear brown in town" meaning, for business, brown shoes are regarded as semi-casual. Been told this myself by seniors. May look good but looking good isn't what OP is asking (though I'm sure it's a consideration !).

Sue I don't know whether any of them do weekend buffets day or night, I've only been to weekday lunch time buffets in all 3x previously mentioned.

Chutneys is still there, was in there a couple of weeks ago in the evening (none of the above mentioned do buffet in evenings that I'm aware of). The dozen or so South Indians I was with seem to bicker each time over Ravi's versus Chutney's. Can't tell difference myself.

You have to assume suit and tie and shiny shoes to be safe innit. It's all bollox tho.

I'm no expert but try a diferent browser i.e. if you're using Chrome, try Internet Exporer instead. May help to isolate the nature of the problem.