El Pibe

"He?s trying to hide behind the KKK to further his political career." only in america....

Breaking Bad(en baden) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hitler-was-a-regular-user-of-crystal-meth-american-military-intelligence-dossier-reveals-9789711.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sam-wallace-tottenham-are-mired-in-mediocrity-created-by-daniel-levy-and-franco-baldini--but-mauricio-pochettino-is-the-one-who-could-pay-9852411.html "Garth Crooks memorably described the sale of Bale and the acquisition of the seven new players as Spurs having ?sold Elvis Presley and bought The Beatles? ? a metaphor that will never grow old as long as the seven are at the club. Spurs had hoped for the White Album. What they ended up with is something that appears to be more like ?We All Stand Together?."

anyone catch the seaon finale of love/hate? anyone, bueller?

oh you bastards made me watch it. I can see why the sex trafficking parallels now!!

Minecraft!!!

A desperately terrible week for me in the predictions partially rescued by getting that one spot on :-D

baah, teletext!!!

Malware?

Apparently Wikipedia outperformed brittanica for encyclopaedic accuracy.

Forums. Full of self appointed experts, arseholes and cliques. Wankers the lot of them

I've been to Santiago too. I did really like it, but i didn't get the same sense I wanted to live there. In a weird way it reminded me of London, busy in a "I need to get from a to b" sort of way. Lee, (oh we uaually call him quids btw, but nice idea) Argentina is basically run by kleptocrats that make our shower look like saints, so probably stretching that point a bit far. None of whic will put me off in the slightest as we won't go before we've basically got enough finances to shore ourselves up for the two years, so work will be a brucey bonus really.

There will be no libel case coming your way D_C, I grant you.

feckin' feezing in the winter though!!! If Pickle thinks NZ is the land that central heating forgot...

i gather it was expensive to run, but imo this is precisel the worng way to go. Alot of people will end up in a&e which is significantly more expensive. It was a lifesaver on occasion, quite literally in my case when my GP kept sending me away as some sort of malingerer and the lister diagnosed me with pleurisy!!!

Just we've half a mind to spend a couple of years in BA when the kids are a couple of yaers older, probably in about 4 years. Give them Spanish, a dose of broader horizons and different culture, plus it's a fantastic place. Big, bustling, sophisticated, incredibly friendly, cosmpolitan, great food and yes a very European feeling to it indeed. Flaky economy mind ;)

Marvellous, man paints onto cheap paintings http://twistedsifter.com/2014/07/thrift-store-painting-remixes-by-david-irvine/

Buenos Aires

>> Jeez - where do you live! Santa's grotto!!

Intereting pickle. we also have solar thermal, which meant we barely swtiched the gas on during the summer when you don't need to anyway, but of course in the winter means it probably won't be much use, though even with little sunlight it's probably enough for the underfloor. It's looking like we use about a third of a tank of gas a year on current experience, that's about ?650 for heating, hot water and cooking. That's cheaper than it was in london which was a about a quarter of the size this place, (the london flat, not london, a quarter of the size of rosbercon would probably be an MP's duck house) but hard to say as we only caught the tail end of a mild winter.

I can see in that case it being a bit pointles to turn it off. To be honest ours takes about half an hour from cold to take the edge off and within 2 it's nice and toasty. I reckon we'll be fine on thermostats then.

that's basically me at my desk steveo

haven't got the wood burner in that room yet, the other one is not going to add enough. Granted when the sun is shining it gets roasting even if the outside temp is cold, but it can go months at a time without sun in the winter. I'm not convinced the other things will provide enough heat as it's a vaulted ceiling and double heighted in the hall so we;re talking alot of air to heat with one telly. I reckon thermostats may have to be the way forward then, at least until we get the burner installed. Cheers for the feedback D_C, I knew the forum wouldn't let me down.

La Piba and I are trying to work out if underfloor heating should be left on the whole time or controlled by thermostat. I've scoured on line only to find all advice utterly contradictory, often in the same piece of advice, so hoping the brainy bods of the forum are better than that. It's only in the open plan area of the house, kitchen/living room/hall, about 1600 sq ft. with 3 statted control zones. Floor is well insulated and surface is limestone tile, heats up nice and quick and conducts well. probably too much glass, but all triple glazed, and no draughts at all (airtight house). Someone said this being the case keep your heating on 24 hours at 16 degrees. But does that heat up the room to more than that, is it somehow cumulative, as 16 degrees sounds bloody chilly to me?

ok predictions in. Teach me to have 4 bottles of wine with my bruv on a thursday night last week. Last night a cup of hot cocoa and 3 episodes of Walking Dead (which is what i was last friday!!!)