chrisp65

My old man is in his 70's and still goes over with his BSA's to give them a run out. Fine in a 'controlled' environment, but not something I can understand with your average biker who appears to think he knows what's around the next corner on public roads. We've a 5 mile lane close to me where with depressing regularlity bikers choose to put themselves and others in hospital. Roughly one a month for the last four years.

I'd suggest the vast majority of cars are fast enough and agile enough to cope with the driving ability of the average Brit on the average British road. Anybody driving their car anywhere near it's limits, their limits or the limits of the road is being a bit of a penis. By the same token, it's really quite rare that somebody genuinely has a car and an ability that warrants a 'track day' or true private road experience. Although I have noticed that quite a few people that clearly are exceptional drivers on the verge of an F1 career that have been so impressive at the Nurburgring that they won a sticker, tend to drive a Corsa or Clio.

Absolutely this. Spent anywhere other than my parents' house seems weird to me. I have a few mates who go travelling or skiing at this timeof year and I've never understood it. It's the most family orientated time of the year! Depends on your family I guess Actually with my Brother being in the Maldives and us in Mauritius that's pretty damn close compared to usual We do Easter in Hungary with Mrs H's family and all my family come so its a huge family affair but Christmas has always been a get away affair ... Though we did have a family Christmas in Djibouti a few years back , like you do Sheikh Djibouti

I'm not really a 6 foot 99.

glad to see my silky 'shopping skills have suckered another one

that's me, next to the big flake

ah, if only there was someone to reference on banging relatives

aye, having kids is great, from then I declared Christmas day was in my house with my gang open door policy, stacks of food and drink, all welcome for 10 minutes or 10 hours but my house love it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig4jQrofnBI I'm supposed to be making mince pies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFB4WL-pHg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB3hYQ8AFyA from the Cerys Matthews show earlier, everyone's gone out and now the stereo is obscenely loud

one clearly from a different time - they call me backdoor Santa! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMj4Q6EVOW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgjmrQRfMmE

funnily enough I did actually go back and do that, most of them were content with the money spinning angsty toons, but this one guy said he felt they'd never cross that bridge into commercialism

Christmas Miracles

Big fanbase in Surrey, so I believe. wasn't their big comeback tour Surrey, Hungary, Surrey with a secret warm up gig just west of Kent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXEG42HGRc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXov-rZE18k&feature=youtu.be

when the engine on my Golf packed up* they gave me a Lupo Gti as a courtesy car day 1 I was insulted day 2 I never wanted to give it back and asked if I could just trade it * last VW I ever owned as they chose to try and lie to me not knowing I already had copies of their internal e-mails

see, if my office received a fax like that we wouldn't even know until Monday 6th January, and even then only if somebody had loaded it with paper

death cab? maybe? suitably obscure

would there be a need for an actual war? having seen the most mundane items of kit lately being controlled remotely, i.e. buildings that are running BMS remotely etc., I think the Chinese or whoever could simply turn everything off but don't worry, we'd never be so suicidal as to let the Chinese be in charge of power stations or mobile communications so we'll be fine

didn't see this version at the Apollo, but I did get to be in the crowd for this version at the Brixton Academy, techno lovely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmF33nxMRdc oh, about 10'30" minute mark is where I lost my shoes!

glad you said Saxo.......my missus had a 1400 turbo Citroen AX with lightweight plastic body panels and a straight thro non-cat exhaust - and it was mental