It's warm and sunny in Chile

That's exactly it: this green and pleasant land with sufficient
surplus space to do fun stuff like trackdays, flying, horse riding, MX
and so on without clashing unduly would disappear if the population
grew any more.

Personally I reckon it'd be twice the fun at half the population.

 

Hence my 'depends'. The obvious solution is to shoot everyone who sits
in the middle lane on motorways, so they could then all be turned into
dual carriageways, & the reclaimed land could be used for food.

 

took a blunt brush and painted...

Heh. I don't get paid much and not having a clue what you do, well, it might
be interesting

Got relatives in Sidney and the photos they show us look great

 

My map of the UK must be broken. It clearly shows the Cotwolds, Mendips
and Dartmoor as being in the south.

 

Simian@in_valid.semi-evolved.org took a blunt brush and painted...

Stone, stone in the shape of bricks, whatever.

<waves hands vaguely>

 

No, it's because he lives several hundred miles away.

 

If you've not got young kids I suppose it would be OK. What I really
object to is the way friends in their 20s (and 30s in some cases with
banker money jobs) are still house sharing. **** that.

I was surprised at how much of that sort of thing is going on in Bath.
Which reminds me I've not sorted out what lit fest things I'm going to
yet.

Depending where you are.

Pah, that's what I do sometimes when I go visit, though 'day bus' has
been the case a few times. You're never too old to go clubbing.

Richmond is pleasant, by London standards.

 

The building regulations have been considerably stiffened since
"Santa never made it into Darwin". A little bit too much laissez-faire
up until then.

Like that little tornado they had in Brum in 2005?

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You can **** right off.
At least we avoid the worst of the weather down here.

 

The Cotswolds are in the South West?

This map's even more broken than I thought. Oxford must be in Yorkshire!

 

<looks up from screen at stone walls>

Que?

 

Have a look at:

http://www.audacity.org/research.htm

Where to build?

There's very little land *in* Manchester, London, etc. LAs have been
incentivised to turn all urban zoned land into residential/commercial
use (including playing fields) for some time. They (CLG 2008) reckon
25,000 hectares brownfield is left in England (enough for 1m homes), but
really, if it was going to be built on someone would have done it by now.

There's shedloads a few yards from the city limits - the green belts,
agricultural land, and conservation areas/parks. That's the Tory's
target - the planning system. I'd put a small amount of money on it.

Rob

 

Yes, of course for several variants of "palm". Coconut palms not
quite so far south as Byron Bay, but lots of others (including in the
rainforest)[1]. The mis-spelling of "Sydney" is the more egregious error!

[1] I noticed amongst the furore about a rat being killed and eaten on
IACGMOOH that it's now filmed on the North Coast, near Murwillumbah, not
up on Cape York Peninsula, so if you watched that you'll have a bit of an
idea of the flora where I grew up.

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

took a blunt brush and painted...

When I were a lad...

 

It's called 'mud'.

 

It's about 30c in Gordons Bay right now and a walk past the pool shows
that the clouds are just lifting off the top of Table Mountain. Adie's
decided we need to go to a penguin colony this morning and then it'll
be an afternoon of drinking beer and loafing.

Have fun.

 

Heh.

Of all the people that might pick up on that typo, I'd have guessed at
you first.

 

Eh? I don't think so. Notwithstanding current exchange rate issues, at
least.

Yes, and also because the same market tends to focus on a relatively
small range of products to use as price benchmarks. Tins of beans,
loaves of bread and the like, rather than meat, cheese, and the like.

Having said that, it's on those sorts of things that we notice the
biggest difference between France, where they are relatively cheap,
and Switzerland, where as well as protectionist pricing they quality
and preparation (e.g. of meat) is astonishingly and consistently high.

 

I fucking *loved* Melbourne when I was there. But then I got out
before the mid-40C temperatures started, which I'd hate.

 

I had a trip like that back from the IOM one year. '84 or '85, I think.

Still, on the plus side, we docked in Liverpool rather than Heysham as
it should have been, so that saved a bit of time on the ride home.

I wasn't quite right for a lot of the journey, I will admit!