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I'm impressed with the lack of noise in the sky in this photo. Must be doing something right!

There's been some cracking sunsets down here this week. I had a walk up by Huntshaw where we have some bloody large turbines to capture these on Wednesday. This was an 0.5 second exposure - I'd been playing around with the speeds and anything slower than that was losing the rotation of the turbines (it was quite windy) and over exposing. I'll try again on another night when there is less wind. I'd like to get the three turbines motionless...

I've only just got into this season's riding over the last couple of weeks. I'm in training now to ride London to Paris in August with a group of friends, which should be remarkably easy if I continue the way I'm going. After not cycling for nearly six months I've put in close to 200km in the last fortnight, and I should be adding another 40-50 to that tomorrow. I managed to break the saddle on my bike last weekend though, after bedding it in for two years and making it extremely comfortable. Standard Cannondale seat that came with the bike - one of the metal bars for the clamp broke, forcing me to ride about 5km with a wonky seat. Picked up a nice Fizik seat the same day for the rest of the ride and it's pretty good. Cost nearly a third of what my entire car cost, but it's doing it's job...

Quoted before it's edited/deleted. This is a ridiculous post.

Prednisolone. Takes away the pain but a side effect is massive weight gain.

Mrs MMFy is setting up a website through Weebly (for a village hall) and wants to register a URL to point at it. When she went through ukreg it redirected to fasthosts.com. Does anyone know if this is expected, and is this a decent way to register a domain? Also, if you've paid for the domain name for two years, is it going to cost the same to renew it at the end of that period? Any help will be appreciated. Cheers.

I read this with interest the other day. I found it to be an incredibly ignorant article, of the type which could only be written by a hipster. I've been to America a few times and I love the place, but I especially love the proper beers out there. Since my first visit years ago, Belgian-style beers, wheat beers and IPAs have been regularly and widely available in every bar I have been into. Colorado favourites are Sawtooth, Fat Tire, Avalanche, etc; and while in New York at the back end of last year I managed to sample a couple of amazing Brooklyn ales - the Pennant '55 and Winter ales being particularly fantastic. The new 'craft beer' scene has been going since the British originally introduced IPAs over a hundred years ago. The BBC article smacks of some word removed who deep-throated and swallowed every last drop of the 'American beer is all piss weak' diatribe spouted by every xenophobic ale aficionado or loud, bawdy ignorant lager-tard in the country. It reads like a word removed who has slated American beer without ever trying a single drop of it. The sort of person that would straight to the bar and order a PBR, and would be unlikely to switch brands for fear of looking like they might have been wrong all along. Then, when they eventually try one of these 'new' beers and enjoy it, they have to try and claim it is a new phenomenon and that they are not just ignorant xenophobic fucktard who lives in a bubble. I would wholeheartedly recommend going out to America and drinking the proper beers to anyone who is fond of the odd tipple, regardless of their regular tastes. I should add I was a lager drinker for years, but now rarely drink anything other than ale on these shores.

If they publish them, they'll do it in the close season, after all relegations/promotions have been decided.. Which would be a sham.

Whenever I go wash my car there's always some clearing in the woods who has to make a comment: "You can do mine after if you like". Every **** time...

While I would love to see this happen, I doubt them figures are going to come out any time soon. How are they getting away with what other clubs have received points deductions for?

Yes i remember some using those stats to suggest we'd be just as good with Nzogbia and albrighton. I just don't think he's up to this level. Time for others to get their chance over him now. Try reading the rest of the post.

For all those slating Albrighton, remember in the last season with Young and Downing here he was pretty much a match for them both in terms of goals/assists per minutes on the pitch. He has some ability, but he has been affected by injuries. I'd send him out on loan for the first half of next season to an upper championship side and see how he does. If he shines, we can recall him for January. And after reading KHV's post on the previous page, I'm convinced the poster is Mark Lawrenson.

No it isn't.

Westward Ho! this evening: I'm quite enjoying my new ND filter...

Apple are more popular than Windows? You've been sold and absorbed the myth. Try to list things an Apple device can do that much cheaper alternatives can't.

Is Martin O'Neill a Nazi? What the **** is going on in this thread?

However, despite all the hype, his record is barely any better than Alex McLeish.

Dunno - all he has to do is match villa's results over the next seven games and he's a hero. What I mean he could be very average and still keep them up....................I will go a bit further......as long as they don't implode they will stay up. Given that they have taken 8 points from the last 24 available, an implosion would probably mean not picking up another point all season. They've just lost two heavily influential players for the rest of the season - one of which has provided 1/3 of all their league goals. They've scored 6 goals in their last 8 games (3 of which were penalties), and are looking at fixtures against Chelsea, a derby AWAY at Newcastle and Everton next up. Sunderland are currently in just as much of a funk as we were when we were on that run following the Chelsea defeat. Make no mistake, we are in much better shape than them at present, and should realistically be above them in the league wen we play them at the end of the month.

£200m? Really? I'd like to see the source for that.

Don't start this shit again...

Hearing the MON news last night has given me a spring in my step this morning. It's going to be amusing watching his media friends commentary on how it was not his fault, how the restrictions put in place by Ellis Short's communist regime prevented him from doing his job, and all the other inevitable bullshit that will follow, bar actually reporting that he has done a pretty lousy job up at Sunderland. MON is a cheque book manager who has paid over the odds for players and, with the assistance of John Robertson, has managed to get the best out of them. John Robertson goes, MON is very average. Buying players and not playing them was odd, but not as odd as hoarding wingers and playing them all across your midfield. It's been suggested on here that the making of Milner into a central midfielder could have been a fluke - I strongly agree with this. He has played wingers all over the team at Sunderland as well. However, I believe, and I've said this many times before, Martin O'Neill's downfall is that he can't manage a squad. He can't manage tactical substitutions. With the assistance of John Robertson, he could set up 11 players and a pretty good team, but with the physical demand of today's game, they will always burn out around February/March. Which is incredibly coincidental, as MON's only real credentials is winning League Cups. In February. If those cup finals were in April/May, he would never have had a sniff at them...

Nice birthday present from me to me then...

Great job, Guardian. I never realised Chris Hughton was a big fat headed caucasian shyster...

When you fill your team with wingers, it's inevitable that one of them will eventually have to move into the middle. It's happening at Sunderland as well.