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I've just been offered a job interview, but the recruitment agency insists that I have to supply them with a copy of my passport main pages for id purposes .

They tell me that this is a DTI directive aimed at stopping illegal immigrants getting...

Can anyone recommend a good company to hire a motorhome in France? Preferably picking up somewhere near Paris, we want to tour France for a week or two in the summer, and seemed like a good idea

This is intended as a holiday for the 'non- flyers',...

This morning I had three close shaves with women driving 4x4s, in as many minutes.

I was following the first one up a narrow road with cars parked on one side. She came head to head with another car and started reversing without a glance in her...

Off to Bordeaux for the weekend..... never been! has any one any tips on :

where to eat ?

what to see?

where not to go?

is it worth hiring a car?

etc etc !

EL :)

DOCUMENTARY: The Airships

Channel: Channel 4 104

Date: Sunday 15th May 2005

Time: 17:30 to 18:30

Duration: 1 hour.

Following the complete triumph of the German-built Los Angeles airship and its acceptance by the US Navy, the German Zeppelin...

Spectators cheered as entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against African Lion
Tickets had been sold-out three weeks before the much anticipated fight, which took place in the city of Kâmpóng Chhnãng.

The fight was slated when an...

This has to be the perfect antidote to the management moticational posters I remember from my earthly days.

I had a fun half hour putting forumite names to some of them...

I had been hearing for years what a seminal film this was, ground-breaking and a truly great piece of art.

Having failed to see it for many, many years, I finally took my £9.99 to HMV and got the DVD.

I sat and watched it yesterday and was...

Over the weekend I heard on the radio that the governement is issuing instructions (advice) and on how to deal with a heatwave. OK so far, but then someone has decided that not only are we in for one this summer, but that it will be 104F on -wait...

So there I was today, having a quiet lunch in a my local pub :D when the whole place started to shake. My companion and I rushed outside to see a Lancaster flying directly overhead, and very low. (It came back from the opposite direction about 10...

Ok without getting into the PC v MAC battle I would like to know if anyone has any experience with garden design packages?

I expect them to be a version of CAD but which one? and what processor do the need to run, memory, disk space etc?...

I have had to rebuild my PC and have tried to reinstall Skybound. I get an exclamation mark on the PCMCIA card, with the explanation:

This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)

If you want to use this device, you...

Thinking of going to Florida at the end of the summer so a few questions for you...

- What's the cheapest way to go? Fly-drive / Flight+Hotel / Flight only and sort it out when I get there?

- Can anyone recommend a hotel chain? (something...

I knew there were hidden depths :lol:

Rob

I was sitting in a traffic queue in Aylesbury this evening and saw what I considered an odd sight.

There was a largeish bird of prey - some kind of hawk I suppose - circling the way they do, and in close formation was a much smaller...

Do we have any publishers amongst our esteemed ranks?

I have a friend in Denmark who has translated a book from English to Danish. We are contemplating getting his translation published. However he wants to use the original pictures (it was first...

Despite Gerard's aversion to threads about kneeboards, a quick search of the site reveals that Gerard was the first to reply in this thread. Is there any thruth in the rumour that he is really a closet kneeboard collector? Can he fly a circuit...

..said my friend just now.

What if, say, I had a Harrier and took off, say 25 miles from central London in one of the home counties and headed into London. The plane would have no weapons and all I wanted to do was perform a VTOL landing in...

Wow. I've just installed this, instead if IE6, and it seems to load pages about twice as fast. Does it speed up internet browsing this much for everyone. I must say, I'm stunned by how much difference it seems to make

I wasn't sure if this should go in the magazine section, but anyway:

Today my reminder arrived to renew my subscription for Flyer . I was surprised to see at the bottom of the form the words:

Part of the Seager Publishing empire

I don't...

My old 'work' laptop (a Thinkpad, running Win2000) I handed on to No.1 daughter when I aquired my latest 'work' laptop. It's quite old, and when she goes to vet college in September we'll get her a new one, but in the meantime she finds the Thinkpad...

Foam, gnash, writhe, spume, froth, rant, etc.

I have been biting my tongue all weekend, but I've finally lost it. Any carpet that comes near my gnashers is history.

Have a shufty at this:-

This is a spoof, right? Right?

No,...

You may recall the problem I had trying to load a driver for my new digital camera. :roll: Well following advice from several people I have just got myself a card reader 8) Guess what? Exactly the same problem :(

The bloody laptop says it's...

From CNN:

An apparent airspace violation over Washington on Wednesday prompted evacuations of the White House and the U.S. Capitol as military fighter jets scrambled to intercept an unidentified aircraft.

Run, this is no joke, leave the...

Came across this which has kept me amused for a few minutes....

Enable your Pop Up Blocker first!!

Can any kind soul tell this IT challenged idiot how to automatically insert a date into an excel workbook?

Must've missed that bit. Turned it off after the finish.

Commentary has gone downhill since you-know-who retired (I enjoyed his goofs).

This video shows a bike like mine (BMW 1150 GS) reeling in all the sports bikes on the IOM TT circuit. Rob P - watch and weep. And enjoy a good helping of humble pie. :lol:

How can I capture it as a file to keep on my PC?

Vince

I had an idea that this would be fun and give me some respite from the onslaught of project management inneptitude at work by my current contracting company.

However in the last 15 minutes of trying to get a blogspot url that means somthing and...

31.86 :?

I known nothing about it! :shock:

I have an odd problem which I am hoping one of our various techie types can help me with.

I have a machine behind my firewall acting as a file server to my local laptops. The server is running LINUX (FEDORA) with Samba software making certain...

I have been having great difficulties getting any response from:

TEL: +33 479 00 20 64

MOBILE : +33 662 24 82 35

FAX : +33 479 08 22 96

Aero-Club des Trois Vallees.

These are the contact details on the web site.

Anyone with any info?...

No. 1 daugher has a 2001 model, which today exhibited some misfiring (for mthe first time ever) untill it warmed up. Seems OK now, but someting must have caused it.

But while I was checking it over, I heard a loud 'click' when I revved the engine...

Mrs S is about to cook some of this and asked me to find out how you do it - before I Google (God it's a verb already) anyone know how you do it? Looks like you boil it to me - yes?

Rob S

Golly Gosh.....The other place is getting so boring. It's like a dead fish covered in flies. Expect to hear more from me.....if you can take it ;-))) :D For those of you who don't know me.....remember Baden Powell's motto...... Be Prepared . For...

....Overhaed Northwich for the annual motorcycle 'Thundersprint' event. Super display by a BBMF Spitfire in the blue spaces between the cu (and occasional cu-nim). Probaly because of winds approaching 30 knots at local fields, I (who was watching...

Any economists outs there?

My flying club has just put up its prices, in some cases by 25%. I feel they're either getting ready for trouble, possibly to finance Mode S or whatever, or this will create trouble for them.

It's no surprise that...

A fourteen year old (girl) friend of my youngest was telling him today (quite seriously) that there are two kinds of HIV, HIV Positive and HIV Negative. HIV Positive is the more dangerous of the two :roll: :lol:

Bimbling up to Leicester last w/e with my new half mil I was struck by how helpful i is of the CAA to print all those yellow blobs on it, very useful.

Just one question - will I have to purchase a new chart once the rape has been harvested?

This is for the computer wizards out there which I'm not. What's happened is the computer has picked up a bug that makes my dialler call an international number and also change my user name and I can't get rid of it. I think its something to do with...

I may well have a spare ticket for the election recording of HIGNFY on Friday morning. It is at the South Bank, doors open at 10.00 but it is a very good idea to get there well before.

If anyone is interested, an eMail please. Everyone I owe a...

Are we allowed to do smutty jokes on here?.....Oh good, here's a few of the old but gold 'essex girl' jokes. (I was just having a clearout and found an old sheet with loads of them....still made me snigger, so here'e a few)

Q How do you make an...

Just a little straw poll to see the depth of feeling within the aviation community.

Then it's off to the bar to see Stella and Johnny canvassing for the Raving Looney Party :D

should help

Someone just sent me this as a video attachment, so I thought I'd post a link to an online copy (Google's great):

I must remember not to watch joke videos when I'm in the office. I nearly had to leave the room. :lol:

Does anyone know where I could get hold of a waypoint database for the UK, in a computer-readable or at least fairly regular format with lat and long co-ordinates?

I need some or all of the following: airfields, VORs, NDBs, DMEs, towns, VRPs. I'd...

Been to Alton towers today, for all you thrill seekers out there this new ride is a must!!! 0-60 in 2.5 seconds!!! Only broke down twice!!! it makes you think how much pressure is on a caterpult off aircraft carriers!!

Longest Queue there today...