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This is what I did, sorted my CBT got myself a little 125, tootled off to meetings on it and it taught me a hell of a lot about the roads, yes its sketchy if you come off but on a 125cc or less you're not exactly going the clappers, just be careful and don't trust the cagers It did the job for me and was a lot cheaper than my car now and it makes things much easier when you go for your car licence. Plus my insurers carried over my no claims from my bike so that was helpful not having insane quotes as a new car driver.

Texans fan here. I had tickets for the Bills vs Jags Wembley game last month but sadly didn't end up going I have been before though and agree watching it live is something special! If you haven't already, I highly recommend watching the Hard Knocks series, really interesting watch.

True. See you later, Moss

We had far more than 15% Seems we are all moaners here! My room is pretty toastie with a server, fire breathing PCs and sticky children with no windows or outside doors. A fair amount of our kids are fasting as well so even though its mostly just unpleasant for staff I did moan it wasn't really suitable for the kids. The solution they gave was to turn off the lights throughout the whole school to make it feel cooler which helped no end thanks to the fact the extractor fan in here runs through the same switch as the lights.

Moved the whole site from a jumble of various makes to all Toshiba last year.

One on the Wirral called 'The Cock and Donkey', seems like an unfair fight to me! No word of a lie it's across from an e-cig shop called 'Suck it and See'

Safari/ Chrome combo for me. Staff have a preference for IE here but the head has began the arduous task of forcing them all over to chrome to line up with our calendars/ drives/ emails etc.

One of our TA's here gets released each Friday morning to make everyone sausage and bacon butties but that suddenly seems so far away

Big fan of cars so spend a lot of time at shows or tracks. Love restoring them too, recently got to work on a Mk1 Escort and a VW splitty that was more rust than..well anything else really. Sadly neither of which are mine but, fingers crossed could soon have a little 71 Austin Mini Shell in my sticky mitts with the completely unrealistic aim to build a show car from the bottom up. Spend far too many hours and far too much money watching Everton lose. Either that or I spend all weekend in bed watching re-runs of pointless and the chase

The amount of staff who lose half a butty over the keyboards here makes this is a daily fear of mine!

Just been given permission to do as we please tomorrow by the head Stocked up on air horns for behind the doors. Got a leek ready to complain to the caretaker about. Squeaky dog toys to stick behind draws. One of the TA's has made a fake person to sit in the staff toilet all day. Signs to hide on some staff cars inviting people to shout their names and wave as they drive past. One member who decorates her room in everything Robbie Williams will have all the faces swapped for her own. Still time to plan a few more, want to get the kids too since everyone gets involved with it here and obviously need to make the most of the techy ideas on here!

We use School Spider here, it's been easy for the staff to use which cut my work down so I would really recommend them.

I have been doing insanity for a while. Very much a love/hate relationship! I love that it keeps me active and the feeling when you've made it through and aren't dead is a nice bonus but I still hate pressing play most days. Once I have finished the whole course I will most likely go back to the begining but mix it up some days with weight training and just other activities to keep things new. I do think for a home workout you can notice the difference in your fitness levels at a much faster pace with insanity than certain dvds where you lift tins of beans for 6 weeks. The fit tests keep me on track if I stop putting as much in to it.

Only just seen this but as an admittedly bitter blue this pleased me

We've been told ours will be for a whole week in the summer term instead which gives us some serious planning time.

Used to work in Switzerland and when I was leaving and moving back to the UK I was given a years ski pass...for a resort in Switzerland. I still got some use out of it so by no means a bad gift but I felt awful not being able to make the most of it since it wasn't cheap. Another job I had was working in a huge power station so even IT staff had to wear hard hats and all that jazz. They gave me my hard hat which presumably was because it had my name plastered across it filled with little bottles of spirits and a company towel. Bit odd but doesn't sound awful except for the fact that people used to stay overnight at this place so there was a bar and gym/pool on site for staff which is clearly where they gathered these things from that morning.

I'm surprised by this. I was told by mine under no circumstances to engage in talks with the other persons insurance and to forward on any communication they sent for them to deal with instead :/

It's so frustrating, I understand there is a lot of steps involved but it gets beyond a joke at times. Had a letter from my insurance who are working on a claim thats now almost 6 months on, stating that I need to fill in a form with some details about what happened which I have done a million times, bikes already been scrapped so details of the damage don't seem too important now but I'll jump through the hoops anyway. Got another letter off them the very next day saying that I haven't been in contact and if I wouldn't assist them with my claim then it would be revoked and I would be marked as at fault despite the other persons admission and police reports saying there was nothing I could have done. Blehhh if it hadn't of been a write off I would of cut my losses just to save the hassle which is wrong given the money payed for their cover. I hope it all gets sorted quickly for you @abillybob

Love the little Groms! Had a test ride on one of these a while back after I saw RoyalJordanian's review and it was a lot of fun.

It's just started here, kids have gone wild!

Lovely to finally put some faces to names Anyone else cracked their millgate rubix cube without cheating yet? Dead laptop and phone on the train home should have given me ample time but alas its just not my calling in life

Due to snow in our neck of the woods later tonight. Keep checking the hourly forecast and its meant to start right before I have to get the train down to BETT fingers crossed they don't go all British over this and cancel all the trains out.

Not a sausage here but I'm keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way

Gutted, thats such unlucky timing! I left trains pretty late for booking, when I first looked they were £12 one way but when they were actually booked they were closer to £130 for the same time, double that and its kinda pricey. Comes under expenses but I don't like to take the mick so I'm heading down tonight after work, worked out a lot cheaper to stay an extra night than pay those prices. Probably be climbing the walls of my room by Saturday though.

This just saved me a whole bunch of time. Many thanks