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The shoes have found a new home with mk one. :)

My knees will no longer allow me to wear shoes with a hard sole, so these Shimano MTB shoes need to find a new home. I’ve given them a clean and they’re in pretty good condition, so there’s plenty of wear left in them. They’re a European size 43, which is supposed to be equivalent to UK size...

Episode 2 is on BBC2 in 22 minutes...

Don't know whether anyone else saw this on Thursday night on BBC2, but it was rather good. The BBC's usual strategy when making a programme about the 1980s is to moan about Margaret Thatcher for an hour. So I wasn't expecting much. But in fact, this was balanced, thoughtful and had a cracking...

Re: Ah, I see that you also watched the documentary about New Zealand, Mullinino. The documentary was good -- but the 10 minutes of "how it was filmed" was just boring filler that gave the film-makers an opportunity to congratulate themselves. I muted the telly to look for the island...

Re: Re: Yes mate, hard not to get choked up after reading that... https://twitter.com/Chris_Boardman

Yeah, I've just seen this on Google News. What a terrible way to lose your mum. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-nort ... s-36819791

Re: Yes, Boris was told "FCO"... ...and George was just told "FO". But I'm pleased to hear that David Davis is Minister for Brexit. He won't take any crap.

Re: Billy Bragg, "Valentine's Day is Over" Fleetwood Mac, "You Can Go Your Own Way" Bros, "I Owe You Nothing" ...Not that I ever listened to Bros, of course... *breaks eye contact, fidgets nervously*

Re: Well, the press have hounded Andrea Leadsom into submission... ...which just leaves You Know Who. P.S. If anyone wants to read the article that Theresa May's campaign team pressured the Telegraph to remove, it's here. And it's scathing... http://order-order.com/2016/07/02/read- ... -campaign/

Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ltWUqu8ck

Hard to say. But I've been keeping an eye on the economies of southern Europe -- and the outlook isn't good. The Independent (which happens to be pro-Remain) published a piece 2 days ago called "Why Italy's Economy is About to Collapse" -- http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why ... 91221.html...

Re: Re: You're right, I stand corrected; it was the ECU (European Currency Unit) that was equivalent to 1 Euro when the currency was introduced. Memory is always the second thing to go. I do seem to remember that in the 1990s, the Bundesbank was making monetary policy decisions in the...

Re: Re: The Germans have the only say in the EU. Time and time again during the Italian/Spanish/Greek debt crisis, members of the European Central Bank's governing board from those countries did not *dare* to outvote Jens Weidmann of the German delegation, even though the decisions that the...

Re: Re: @johnnyboy666, @hamster: Do you guys in the New Forest remember the Transit plant that was shut down in Swaythling and moved to Turkey with the help of an EU loan? http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1002027 ... lose_ours/ Even after that, Nick Clegg was still rabbiting on about how "the...