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Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.
 
Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.

Congrats Tom. Great effort <applause>
 
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Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.
Well done Tom, that is a fantastic achievement.
 
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Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.
Well done, Tom. You all should be very proud of yourselves.
 
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Just a quick cameo for me (I know it's closed season but needs must).

Our daughter's college keeps all their notes and revision information online, so she needs a laptop to be able to access them while revising.

Her laptop has had a fatal fit of the vapours and will need extensive (and likely expensive) repairs.

If you're within ten miles of Southampton (or so) and have a laptop that you'd be prepared to lend for a fortnight while hers is rebuilt, you would help to save her exams and prevent her being branded a failure then ending up a broken shell living off government handouts for the rest of her existence (that's how she currently views the matter).

Any spec would do - I know we all have odds and sods mouldering in corners but chez Vin there are no laptops. Hopefully there's one lurking somewhere in someone's attic.

Please let me know if you can help.

Vin
 
Some misguided twit in the village where my daughter is living has started putting out meat for the kites and now there are literally hundreds of them. So, people are beginning to complain and I reckon it won’t be long until someone starts talking about shooting them as pests again :emoticon-0121-angry

Honestly - why can’t people just leave nature alone and let them find their own food? <doh>
Just a quick cameo for me (I know it's closed season but needs must).

Our daughter's college keeps all their notes and revision information online, so she needs a laptop to be able to access them while revising.

Her laptop has had a fatal fit of the vapours and will need extensive (and likely expensive) repairs.

If you're within ten miles of Southampton (or so) and have a laptop that you'd be prepared to lend for a fortnight while hers is rebuilt, you would help to save her exams and prevent her being branded a failure then ending up a broken shell living off government handouts for the rest of her existence (that's how she currently views the matter).

Any spec would do - I know we all have odds and sods mouldering in corners but chez Vin there are no laptops. Hopefully there's one lurking somewhere in someone's attic.

Please let me know if you can help.

Vin

Don't they have them in library's that she could use,trying to help not be a smart arse.
 
Just a quick cameo for me (I know it's closed season but needs must).

Our daughter's college keeps all their notes and revision information online, so she needs a laptop to be able to access them while revising.

Her laptop has had a fatal fit of the vapours and will need extensive (and likely expensive) repairs.

If you're within ten miles of Southampton (or so) and have a laptop that you'd be prepared to lend for a fortnight while hers is rebuilt, you would help to save her exams and prevent her being branded a failure then ending up a broken shell living off government handouts for the rest of her existence (that's how she currently views the matter).

Any spec would do - I know we all have odds and sods mouldering in corners but chez Vin there are no laptops. Hopefully there's one lurking somewhere in someone's attic.

Please let me know if you can help.

Vin
Try Freecycle or Freegle. If I lived nearer she could borrow mine...
 
Don't they have them in library's that she could use,trying to help not be a smart arse.

They do but they're generally restricted to an hour - she just needs something she can use anywhere she is. She can use the PC I'm using here at home but she'll be in various libraries and study groups up until her exams so she needs something portable.

Bloody kids. What's wrong with an Adidas bag full of folders and textbooks? Worked for me.

Vin
 
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There was a successful Red Kite reintroduction project in the Chilterns in the late 1980's and now the numbers are up to 1000 breeding pairs. It's quite likely what you saw were Kites. They have moved south (and elsewhere) from the Chilterns and it's common to see them along the A34 and M4. We see them now and again where I live near near Marwell Zoo.

http://www.chilternsaonb.org/about-chilterns/red-kites.html



They've been feeding Kites at Gigrin Farm in Wales for well over 25 years and I've seen "feeding stations" at other sites, some official and some not.
http://www.gigrin.co.uk/about-gigrin-farm/

I'm not too sure how I feel about it but lean towards it being ok, afterall most of us put food out for garden birds to help them through the winter. The problem is that the birds become dependant on human intervention and their population is condensed into a relatively small area.
You are right about people talking about controlling numbers of what were endangered birds as more than once I've heard people say there are too many buzzards nowadays. Country folk eh? Any thing that gets well established and they want to shoot it.


I saw that Kite farm on the television once, where they had buzzards too. One scavenges and the other preys, so they went well together.
 
Just finished my London to Brighton walk. Walked 100km over 25 hours in a 34 hour period. Absolutely knackered but my mum, my sister and I raised over £2500 for Cancer Research so totally worth it. Very emotional as my cousin passed away from cancer last week so we were doing the walk in her memory.

Brilliantly done, Tom. Fantastic achievement!
 
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Just a quick cameo for me (I know it's closed season but needs must).

Our daughter's college keeps all their notes and revision information online, so she needs a laptop to be able to access them while revising.

Her laptop has had a fatal fit of the vapours and will need extensive (and likely expensive) repairs.

If you're within ten miles of Southampton (or so) and have a laptop that you'd be prepared to lend for a fortnight while hers is rebuilt, you would help to save her exams and prevent her being branded a failure then ending up a broken shell living off government handouts for the rest of her existence (that's how she currently views the matter).

Any spec would do - I know we all have odds and sods mouldering in corners but chez Vin there are no laptops. Hopefully there's one lurking somewhere in someone's attic.

Please let me know if you can help.

Vin

I’ve got a spare, Vin. Let me know.