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As a current Gosport resident I have nothing further to add here...

Thats lovely!

Nerd Alert! Several heads came up when I played that out loud in the office

I suffer from adult cystic acne whilst simultaneously suffering horribly dry skin so I can't use anything oily or greasy and I can't take the 'normal' acne treatments as they make my skin crack and bleed. So far I've found Dermalogica products AMAZING but I can't afford the expensive moisturisers so I use the Neutrogena oil free face moisturiser. But you could look at some of the Dermalogica range: multivitamin hand and nail treatment - Dermalogica UK active moist - Dermalogica UK barrier repair - Dermalogica UK I love Dermalogica products but they can be pricy... Jersey Beauty Company are an excellent reseller.

There there *Pats* You can always format the disk and reinstall. It's not a total loss...

Yeah, sorry, my bad. I've still got snow in my eyes ;-P Just got back from a ski-ing holiday and still in dipstick holiday mode . I even quoted the right post....

I am A+ certified and it was well worth taking as it is an industry-recognised qualification that shows a minimum level of competency in key areas. I think what @witch might be referring to is the fact that previously (when I took it), once you passed the exam you were qualified for life. Now they have changed it so that it is only valid for 3 years. Well worth doing if you're starting out in IT though as it can mean the difference between getting a job and not getting it based on 'lack of experience'. Although once you have a few years experience under your belt, this will count for more than the CompTIA as it is more relevant and current to roles you are applying for. That being said, it can also mean a massive step up if you want to go from 'support technician' to 'Network management' to get the networking qualification as support technician experience won't necessarily help you make that leap. So ultimately I guess it depends on whether you are wanting to prove existing experience, or prove skills beyond current job role.

I like the reindeer. Hope they aren't 'shopped.

I have a name for that collection of tools too - Simon! I would argue though that you use more Gas and Leccy washing up by hand than you do with a dishwasher - mostly because a dishwasher uses less water and washes more dishes per litre of water used than handwashing. So you are having to heat more water to wash by hand therefore using more gas/leccy. That being said, the quality of the clean is better when done by hand (unless you're my partner), but I guess that is the trade off to the convenience of not having to stand there getting sudsy and soaked...

Indeed, I had forgotton about the distraction. So there is actually a massive set of plot holes... lol

I ADORE Fringe, although towards the end of the last season I felt it had lost the plot a bit. I'm also a bit disappointed that we didn't get to see more of how they all ended up Ambered in the first place following the invasion we saw in Ep1 of the final season. It was a gut wrenching season though with all the twists and turns and the Windmark character was delightfully hateful. I have discovered a plot hole though.... I will put the below text in white so people that don't want to be spoiled can choose not to highlight.

I need this in my life. Now.

It must be something about Black cats - Enzo is quite chunky too and everyone I know that has a black cat says they are larger than their other cats. I'd also like to share two more kitties dear to me: Truffle (RIP) She died last year but she was very dear to me and I miss her immensely Tigga (technically still my cat, but still lives with my parents as she's old and happy there. She always preferred my Dad to me anyway)

I'm never one to pass up an opportunity to share pics of Enzo! He's only 8 months old now and he's bigger than some of the adult cats in the neighbourhood.... There is a joke in our household that he's part Domestic cat, part Panther lol. Enzo on day 1 - He hid on the shelf under our dining room table and fell asleep on the placemats. More of Enzo We're decorating so excuse the state of the stairs. This was a few weeks after we got him. In summer he would flake out on the arm of the chair in the breeze from the windows. He likes watching TV. This is quite recent - he always sits on my lap whenever I sit down on the sofa Chillin' I've given up trying to get him to stop lying on my pillow, drinking out of my water glass (better that than the toilet...) and jumping on the work surfaces. We go through a LOT of dettol in our house....

Indeed and the staff showed no knowledge - they have somehow broken my mums digital camera - she took it in to them because she was having a problem changing the resolution of her images (it was set to maximum) and they fiddled with some settings and now all her photos now come out blurry (I ended up having to do the resolution myself) and when I went in to ask them if they could print portrait-sized prints they wanted £80 EACH for a slightly-smaller-than-A3 print and told me I would need to order a minimum of 6 copies!!!! I contacted a photographer friend who sent the order away with her own portrait orders and 3 copies cost me £30... There was little to no stock in the store and accessories were grossly overpriced. I can't say I'm surprised. I AM surprised about Play.com though - the marketplace has been one of the biggest turnoffs for me to shopping with Play as it doesnt seem as rigorous as EBay in terms of dealing with issues and I would almost always purchase the item that was for sale by Play rather than a marketplace seller. That being said, though, I have managed to find some great items really cheap on the marketplace so it's not all bad.

I'm not sure, but we ski in the Grandvalira in Andorra and the Ski School there 'Grade' you - there are even level grading tests you can take, so I assume on some level this must be an established system. You are assessed on day 1 (if you've bought tuition) and put into groups based on 'level' and 'sub level' so Low level 2, high level 2, low level 3, high level 3 and your level will determine your 'proficiency' which gives you a guide as to what runs you should aim for and what routes the instructor takes and what skills they need to teach you - if you're still snow ploughing they can't take you on a black run can they? It roughly goes something like this in the Grandvalira: Low Level 1/Beginner - Green slopes High Level 1 - Greens and easy blues Low Level 2 - Easy to moderate blues High Level 2 - All Blues Low Level 3 - Hard Blues, Easy Reds High level 3 - Moderate to Hard Reds Level 4 - Black runs and Off-piste There are some overlaps and places where the instructors challenge you, but generally if you are a level 2 proficient you should be sticking to blue runs. This is a rough guide and not 'absolute' but it's pretty much how it works in Andorra.

I saw a boarder the other year with leather hand-chaps (thats the best way I can describe them) that was basically a chunk of leather that hooked over the palm and stopped the shredded gloves issue. No idea what it was called or how to get one, but it seems like a genius idea as you unhook it off your fingers when you want the use the grip on your gloves. It might have been bespoke but either way it'd solve the issue.

What level are you? Do you need/want to spend a lot of money on them when they are likely to be shredded by the rope pulls? I'm a level 3 ski-er and I have a £20 pair of Salomon gloves and they are great - they keep my hands warm and have a fake-leathery grip. Job done. Nothing special. If you're really advanced you might want something expensive, but for an average ski-er/boarder that goes one or twice a year I don't think it's worth having pricy gloves as they get more use scraping ice off the car than they do on-piste.

People have got some brass neck! I couldn't bring myself morally to make money like this... Guess this is why the rich are rich and the poor stay poor...

You'll probably need to migrate your account to a Battle.net account. You should be able to do this without having active game time.

I'm Az-nub, I could SoR you. I've been enjoying the fact that you earn VP for quests so you can get into the raid groups. Yeah the dailies are kinda tedious (well, a lot tedious) but that little 'Grand commendation' reward at 'Revered' makes it worth it. I've been rep grinding on my main toon to make it easier for all the rest of my toons to get the decent patterns etc. I have so many alts with all the available professions that I want to be able to access pretty much every faction at exalted so it's worth it to me. I'm also enjoying the Raid finder. Yeah it's full of people that don't do what they should, but its a lot better than standing in Dalaran with raid leaders dissing your achievements so you can never get a raid.

That's a good point although you do see good service from some young people, and in certain restaurants, where tips are paid on a per-person basis (rather than all put in a pot and divided up), there is incentive for a waitperson to encourage generosity by giving good service. Although I have to question now whether or not many young people even know HOW to give good service. You are right in saying that good service is the responsibility of the management, and you are right that you get what you pay for, but staff turnover in chain restaurants is so high that tbh quality and customer service is probably not high on the agenda when recruitment is taking place. It's all about the money now.

The problem is not the resturant per se, but the calibre of staff. There may also be some correllation to age/experience. It is my experience in general (and as usual there are always exceptions) that young people are poorly educated in etiquette, often fail to grasp the basic meaning of 'polite' and 'helpful'. You will find that often your waiting staff in these establishments are young people either on a gap year, doing a weekend/evening job while at college/Uni or the 'drop-outs' that left school without qualifications and needed to get a job pronto. Most of these young people don't care about service. They don't give a flying fig about their customers. They are more interested in sneaking food out of the kitchen or booze out of the bar than they are about whether or not their customers are happy. If you have good wait staff in these places it is either because they are trying to do an in-house promotion scheme to advance their career or there are some financial or other incentives. They want to do as little work as possible so naturally they will find other things to be doing rather than risk meeting the eye of a customer who may want them to do something more taxing than folding napkins. You will always find this in the 'high street' resturants because they are probably the largest employers of young people with little requirement for qualification or experience. The failure here is our failure as a society to instill the basic values of customer service into our young people. There will be some you encounter that have the right attitude, but for every one that does, there are 50 that don't. Higher end resturants tend to want experience, although then we get into the snobbery aspect but thats another thread entirely.

If passwords are ***-ed out, you could always reset it to 14mAnID10T or L4yer8issue

The bottle of Advocaat won't last long once I get in the mood for Snowballs.... Nor will the Cherry Brandy or any unsuspecting bowls of Pistachio nuts...