Brett

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Was in the Red Lion on Friday night when the mass onslaught of snow came down. Was parked outside of Moby !*!@#'s and when I came to leave could not get the car out at all. Had to reverse down towards Bedlington Motor Company to take a bit of a run up. Unfortunately at the bottom I also got stuck. A stranger, whom I can only presume lived in the houses on Glebe Road, came out of nowhere and offered to drive the car out. What a splendid job he did and got me out of the dead end and on to the main road. Thank you to whoever you are, you made our night....despite the small bump later on going round the corner past the police station! Oops. Kind of restores your faith in humanity a little.

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In response to your post Merlin, ashington leisure centre is a dive and needs knocking down and starting afresh. I can't imagine it is an excuse to get a new leisure centre but merely the truth. Can't say I've taken much notice of Blyth market place or how much they spent on it but to say that Bedlington's market place is a joke just because other funding is allocated elsewhere. Imagine the state the place would have been in without the regeneration. Only good things can happen and as more properties and building are becoming occupied it will change soon enough. On that note seen two !*!@# looking young'uns taking the roof off of Elliott's at the weekend. No van outside and no safety gear. Weren't even using a hammer or dus masks. Sub-contracted for ease by the looks of things. The cycle path not just another metro line that is getting extended? The cycle track will be used frequently I would imagine. You'd still get the pesky road race up and down the spine road though. Can't they build them a smooth path to ride on? I would like to nominate Jimmy Millne also.

Back on topic, maybe they are planning a Tuesday night revivial of the Red Lion at the grand opening of Spoons. I wouldn't say that I would frequent it when it is open but I can see me attending on occasions. Certainly more than the Rohan 'Canny' up next to mine.

I would imagine that it would just be earth samples to see what is below the ground. If there are flats on the cards then some founds are going to need laying and they will need to check for soil erosion etc. More information. Surely all development is better than an asbestos clad ford garage which looks awful. I think there should be some consideration taken when selecting the building materials if flats are approved. As for Asda selling Netto's. We have boycotted Asda for the past few months and it is remarkable how much money we have saved!! Can't see us going back other than when the other shops are shut and we are in dire need for something (wine )

Nothing wrong with being arty farty Well I am going to be over there for three weeks so it would be with the intention of getting it charged up and running whilst I was over there so it would just look like I had taken it with me. I don't know how thorough the checks are leaving the US. Best have a shave so I dont get stopped for looking slightly middle eastern Yeah like I said we've already got a point and shoot which goes around with us and the camera on my phone but for the more glamorous shot I want something a bit better with good video capture.

Okay here goes.... Narrowly missed out on a second hand Nikon D60 body with kit lens the start of this year for £260 as the guy was upgrading to the D90. Anyway spent the money elsewhere. Now Im torn between a few things and a bit if advice is on the cards. I'm definitely going DSLR as I already have a point and shoot which gets taken out and about most places. I was offered the second hand body of the Canon 500D but not sure what is happening on this. We have since booked a holiday to Florida and we're not sure what the prices are like for electronics over there. We want a camera for going away but would like to know if it is worth getting one before we go or take the money and get it over there and more for our money?? Been looking at the D60's, D90's a bit steep for our price range and been looking at the same spec alternatives but not too sure what to go for.

Like the war all over again. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jun/24/england-germany-rivalry-world-cup-2010

Like the war all over again. France duck out early, the Americans arrive late and we are left to face the Germans....

Doesn't matter anyway, the girlfriend totally forgets about the use of tabs and ends up with hundreds of windows open all on google anyway..

Get Jo Hart in, he was world class for a young'in for Brum all season. Give him the chance, not gonna do any worse really!!

The main thing that put me off having an iPod for so long was the fact that I had to use iTunes with it. Cant stand it is an application and the only thing I remotely liked about it was the 'visualizations'. Now got an iPod but only due to the fact I can use WinAmp or Foobar to transfer media.. Like I have said, I was going to invest an an Apple Macbook Pro not so long back and even though I intended on getting one whilst in the store I just couldn't justify spending the money on a mediocre setup when I could get something quicker and better for less money with a Windooze computer. Still on my old laptop now as the money I was going to spend went on other things

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Maybe if they can cheat their way to the semi's like they did in the Euro's the economy could benefit from people spending some of their worthless cash...

http://www.roveit.com/products/ Fourgee may as well get some use out of his overpriced, overzealous, fan-boy piece of rubbish!! Means he can work whilst working. Probably still won't be able to get in touch with him though Was only looking for something to setup some sort of LAN with the laptop for sharing over Wi-fi in the house. The BB browser doesn't appear to suppor the '\' function....

ThreeGee. Do you have shares with Nokia?

24400 Sofia was the worst one for me, the further east you go the worse I get apparently.

http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/07062010/389/tab-napping-new-online-scam.html What will they think of next. Using the internet is gonna have people paranoid about doing anything secure soon.

I laugh at the government instantly finding a scapegoat, something must be done. Is it not a rational explanation that, just possibly, one of the 58,789,194 people that live in the UK over 13 years could just lose it and go a little bit mental? After all Dunblane was the last event close to this. They have to govern something or blame someone!! There is no possible way that legislating something into an unworkable state can be good for anything. If they pulled there heads out of their arses and thought the initial legislation through, discounting the fact that you can't tell if someone is going to have a mental stint so many years down the line, then there is no need to change anything. I personally wouldn't say there was a huge problem with gun crime, in the lakes especially. The only difference betweek the shootings in the lakes and a shooting in the south londong boroughs is the media coverage. People don't care if gangs are wiping each other out but when Joe Bloggs gets it something has to be done.

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Whats Andy's take on this, he owns an iPhone?

ooooh you apple haters you

Sounds like Brooker is just looking for something to write about if you ask me.... What else would the majority of people use a laptop for? Personally without too much investigation into the matter it looks like that would be the primary target audience. Can't see them being functional for photo/video editing as a mouse has to come into play anyway. Well known that its a stance rather than an opinion that brooker has taken.