Mad Hatter

Hi all Bit of a stupid question! I was recommended a lady driving instructor in the Lodge Moor area for my daughter. I spoke to her, agreed to book my daughter in, and now stupidly I've lost her details. My daughter has been 17 for a month, so she should have been back in touch 🙁 Can anyone help me out with any suggestions?

Time for a new hearing aid then.

Didn't have my glasses on, but a jet has just flown seriously low and fast down the Don valley - Oughtibridge to Hillsborough and then turned east. Possibly a Typhoon? Anyone get a better view?

Looks like it's time to revive that proposal to build a bridge across the Don at Limestone Cottages, linking into the Abbey Forge Road

That's unpaid "time off work". It's heartening to know that your work colleagues think enough of you that they are sacrificing a day's pay to try and save your job. So why speculate then?

And not-so-major cities either. Perpignan is on the Paris-Barcelona TGV route; TGVs stop at the city-centre railway station. Perpignan has a similar population to Rotherham, though it is the capital city of the Pyrénées-Orientales department.

Eh?? So you buy a new car every time the brake pads wear out??

This will be my fifth winter running winter tyres now - they're DEFINITELY worth it. They perform better whenever the temperature is below around 7ºC, not just when the white stuff (or the icy stuff) is on the ground. As long as you're hanging onto the car for a few years, and you can store & change the wheels yourself, it doesn't work out any more expensive in the long run.

They used to do it, but sadly don't do it any more

Well, they will "maintain a police presence" like they did last weekend - ie just stand around and watch. These days there aren't enough coppers on a regular shift to deal with this sort of thing.

Inkerman Silver, Douglas Road. Carries the "Made in Sheffield" logo

The Labour candidate has put a lot of time and money into unseating Clegg. It's not a Labour marginal - so Labour HQ hasn't devoted resources to Sheffield Hallam. What's interesting is that all the growth in support is down to the candidate and his volunteer base is largely students. Consequently, it's rather outside the national trends. Personally, I'd say Clegg will just squeak back in, but it really is too close to call at the moment.

I'll stick by what I said. The Decathlon Alur 700 is £599, carbon fork, 105 groupset - amazing value! If you're spending £1600 you should be able to do your own basic servicing (or if you've been cycling for 50 years you'll have found someone reliable to suit you). If you still want to spend £1600 there should be a specific reason, and you'll be looking at Planet X and the bigger bike shops. Just don't want you chucking away a grand for no real benefit;-)

If you're asking basic questions like this, you're paying WAY too much for your bike. Take a look at something £500 - £700. After riding that for a year or so you might decide you need to buy something more pricey. Any yes, Decathlon is good value for a £500-ish bike. I can't comment on their servicing, but if you're paying £1600, you should be able to do your own routine maintenance.

Charity shops don't pay rents! They keep the place well-maintained, insured, heated, looking good etc, but the landlord won't be making money out of them. If a tenant came along willing to pay real money, the short-term charity shop lease would be terminated in a flash.

Or even anyone selling them. Nearly £4/kilo in Crookes seemed a bit steep

Does anyone know how to get hold of the judge's Sentencing Report for this case?

Welcome to Yorkshire haven't exactly been complementary (in private) about Sheffield's commitment to the TdF. All rather disappointing, and illustrative of the attitude towards cycling endemic in SCC

So it's a shame that the Penistone Road 'Smart Route' scheme will make life a lot worse for pedestrians and cyclists

Yup - Wasteney's in Grenoside. Home-killed beef at its best

Not too sure - but it was a 4x4. We were just driving past [yes - Jawbone Hill road] and saw the Oughtibridge remake of Deliverance

This, in some way explains why he had parked a 4x4 across the entrance at around 1.30pm this afternoon and was stood with a mate making a good attempt at looking menacing. I'll report this thread to the TPT Office next week.

Now if it was based on something like this: http://gloucesterservicesblog.com/about/ rather than just a scheme for St Pauls to utilise land that no one seems interested in building big grey sheds on, then I might be interested. But no, they're just offering another bog-standard service station. Meh!!

Got ours from Loxley Nurseries last year; already had a crop off this year. It might be a little late for planting a Timperley now this year though...

Thanks for that - yes I was just looking for the bog-standard variety. It's that time of year when you start looking at a plant and thinking it's in desperate need of being divided up (or taken out altogether - the crocosmiums have outstayed their welcome this year!) It looks like they are pretty easy to raise from seed, and you can get them from garden centres, but if someone was digging some out, we would have gratefully taken them. And if anyone wants a clump of traditional orange crocosmium - just say!