BoSM Accommodation?

Yes, we can get some photocopies done and put them up on lamp posts.

 

OFFS. Look, I'll sling Fr Jack's Chimay tent in the chair and you can use
that, okay?

 

"Last seen underneath a builder's hat"

 

http://www.porkpieclub.com/

 

Bear emerged from their own little world to say

I don't think so. Even if I had more hp I don't think I'd stay with
Champ for longer than the time he was being charitable. On a faster bike
I might be able to pull away from Verds as I *can* ride fast and keep up
with or outrun most people for short spells. He'd soon catch up because,
IMO, as I'm fat & unfit I start to change things as I tire. Usually what
I start doing first is dispense with changing gear. The GS happily chugs
around the corners but a lot slower. It's one of the characteristics of
the bike that I like.

<eulogy to the GS>
I foresaw being made redundant in 2002 and squirrelled away quite a bit
of cash. Plus I had the equivalent of 2 years salary as a redundancy
payout. So, despite giving the impression of an impoverished student[1],
I could quite easily buy whatever bike I wanted. It's a testament to the
general all round good egg nature of the GS that I have not changed it.
I've been riding bikes for 12 years and I've never had a bike longer
than 2 years. I bought the GS in April 2001.

[1] it's in the T&Cs

 

Cute. Mad, but cute.

 

He looks like the bastard offspring of Ginge and Shirley Temple.

 

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ukrmplatypus/detail?.dir=fabc&.dnm=d716.jpg&.src=ph

 

Steve McQueen meets Rolf Harris.

 

I hadn't heard them referred to as daps before I lived in Bristol. In
school, they were referred to as guttees.

I have heard the word dap used as a verb...

I don't.

 

Bear emerged from their own little world to say

That pretty much sums it up. I ride very smoothly in normal mode. When
dapping on a bit it all becomes a bit ragged but rarely life threatening.
In the unlikely event that I get a much faster bike then some proper
training would probably be in order.

 

You did see number 3 in that sequence?

Is there something you want to tell me?

 

platypus emerged from their own little world to say

I used it as a verb in a post a few minutes ago - "dapping on a bit" i.e.
GLF. It is in common useage amongst those that speak English in the Forest
of Dean.

 

*chortle*

 

Bear emerged from their own little world to say

It's been on the list of things to organise. However time constraints [0]
and logistics[1] mean that I have not got around to it.

I have an option to share a house with a garage should I get funding for a
postgrad course. This will mean that I can have access to the bike more
often and maybe fit some training around my academic timetable. The other
*wince* bonus is that this house is 4 miles from the university so I could
get that bicycle from the back of mum's garage and actually use the journey
to improve my fitness.

[0] 14 year old son, mother with mild Alzheimer's, doing a degree and
maintaining an unhealthy alcohol intake
[1] for security the bike is in my mum's garage 30 miles from Cardiff

 

Champ says...

I probably beat you up for your dinner money at some point.

 

Champ says...

Ummm, nor did I. We lived in a 4 bed detached in Kendal Road, the posh
bit.

 

Are you attempting to out me?

 

Yeah, I spotted that.

I've also heard it used in a "run up the stairs with" context. Like, "Could
you dap this up to the cash office?"

 

You're fucking psychic, you are.

I mean, I know you wrote that earlier, but I only just read it.