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Yet, despite all that, they DO have Championship standard floodlights! Wasn't the hat eating referring to last season when they didn't get promoted or does it just carry over the same way the lottery does?

Surely a famous festive tune can be altered to : "...and the boos were ringing out at Fratton Park..."

So, users experiencing problems connecting to the internet after updating Windows are advised by Microsoft to visit their web page. Seems logical! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38301548

https://www.strava.com/activities/792138639 That hurt! A nice 25-30mph North Easterly blowing this morning which meant I was heading into it, non stop, for 12 miles all the way up the A38. Even better was the only 'hilly' bit of my ride came in the last four miles of that 12 mile slog! I lost my legs at 40 miles and the last five miles were horrendous. My natural cadence - i.e. how fast my legs spin without any though being put in to it! - is around 80-82 rpm. For the last five miles I had to make a conscious effort just to get the legs spinning over 70 rpm and even then they couldn't reach 80! I'm guessing that despite the fact that I had my thermal tights on, the legs just never got warm enough to cope with the effort. Encouragingly, I did exactly the same route last Saturday and the wind was similar - it was NE but probably 5mph lighter - and I did the ride about 10 minutes faster, although as it had been dry all week, I took the summer bike out for a spin. Nice to know that it should be a fair bit faster when the weather gets nicer than the winter bike!

Err no. 'Bestest', not 'worst'. You're obviously mistaken.

What has happened to their latest takeover? It's all gone a bit quiet, but I guess that's because they are busy ironing out the finer details in the background?

Judging by the last four seasons they can't afford to get promoted to League 1 let alone the championship

Any advice from you knowledgeable people? We have two cars in our household - one for me and one for the wife. Initially we had one, which was registered in my name and insured in my name. Then we bought the second car which was registered and insured in the wife's name. However, she was driving the car in my name and vice versa. This week we bought a new car - which I will be driving - and got rid of the car in her name. To make things make more sense - and to keep the insurance companies happy! - I changed the insurance so the car she drives is insured in her name and the new one is insured and registered in my name. I also sent the V5 in to DVLA changing the registered keeper details to her name for the car she drives. All sorted I thought and all the cars, keeper details and insurances are in the right names - I appreciate it doesn't make a huge difference but I have more no claims than she does so it makes sense to change the insurances around as it saves money.... However, the DVLA have thrown a spanner in the works! In the olden days, when there was a paper tax disc, you could choose whether the new owner / registered keeper got to keep the tax by taking the disc out of the car or leaving it in. Now we don't have a tax disc, the 'system' automatically cancels the tax once they receive the keeper change request. This means the car is no longer taxed, instantly, but the refund is not applied until the next full month - December in this case - although the person I spoke to at DVLA said if they don't bother to process the change of keeper details, which can take four weeks, until December, then the refund won't be applied until January, which sounds pretty vague to me and I'm not sure if it's legal! When calling DVLA today they have INSISTED that I tax the vehicle again straight away. Since it is the 17th November, this means I HAVE to tax the car again from the beginning of November. I have argued with them that whilst I have no reservations about paying the required tax and have done so for many, many years, I do object to paying the tax TWICE for the same month - definitely November and possibly even December as well! Not only that, but is it legal for them to DEMAND that I pay tax twice for the same vehicle? Basically, DVLA have said tough! As far as I'm concerned, the car is taxed and will remain so until they process the refund for it - i.e. if they refund from the beginning of December then it is taxed until the end of November. I've registered a complaint with the DVLA regarding this, but frankly not expecting much from them. I've heard that their system runs a check every month to see if cars are taxed, but have no idea when this is run. My intention is to pay the tax, but not until December on their online system - unless anyone knows if you can do it online and set the date for it to start as a future date? Any suggestions?

I don't know anything about smart trainers! I did find this though that suggests doing an 'advanced' spindown - whatever that is! - also lots of info from other people meeting resistance : https://support.zwift.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/204586643-Erg-mode-problems-Kickr-Snap

Looking at their stadium, I'd say 'progress', 'modernisation' and 'change' aren't words that are used that frequently.

So, I started my ride this morning and then realised the Garmin was in the wrong profile following an update as it presumably went back to a default rather than the last profile used. I had to stop the ride on the fly to get the right profile on the screen which got me thinking, what do you guys use - looks like most people have a Garmin - in terms of apps / customisable screens? Any recommendations? I downloaded this one a couple of weeks ago and can thoroughly recommend : https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/fb5782dc-9e31-4631-b372-30ff75721fb7

Oh ye of little faith! This is clearly the start of their unbeaten run between now and the end of the season, especially since they don't have any more cup distractions to worry about. Cook will be a hero again by Christmas.

The new bike has been mothballed until we get better / drier weather! It's only done 300 miles so a little difficult to tell what it's like! Initially there was an issue with the Di2 and it had to be sent back. Then the rear wheel - Mavic Aksium - turned into an egg with loose spokes all over the place, wobbling laterally as well as vertically. Unfortunately, Ribble are not really switched on in the same way that Wiggle are. Wiggle would have said to take the wheel to the local bike shop to get re-trued and they would refund the cost. Ribble ordered me to send the wheel back to them which I did, stating that I wanted it replaced. A week later they got back to me to say they didn't have any Mavic Aksium's in stock to replace it with but not to worry as they had been in touch with Mavic and they had said it would be fine to increase the spoke tension. I insisted that I wanted the wheel replaced - as is my right - as a wheel that could be so out of shape after 300 miles was clearly faulty and that I did not want to risk having it sent back to me only to have to send it back to them again when the issue re-appeared! Another week later, having told them if they couldn't replace like for like then they should replace for a wheel of similar value / quality, they finally agreed but only if I sent the front wheel back to them! I duly obliged. Another 3 or 4 days later and still nothing from them so I had to write to them again - phoning is not an option as you will sit on hold waiting for your call to be answered for at least 30 minutes - I had to threaten to take them to the small claims court before I finally got a resolution. 3 and a half weeks after the issue happened, I finally received a pair of wheels from them - Fulcrum Racing Quattro LG - which have had tyres fitted and new inner tubes as the valve on the ones I had were too small for the deeper section and everything has been fitted to the bike. Unfortunately it's been too wet since then to use the bike and I'm still using the old one which has been fully 'winterised'! Fundamentally, I think the bike is great, it's just had a few little niggles which have been compounded by Ribble's ineptitude! To put Ribble's poor service in to perspective, the rear wheel on the other bike threw a spoke on a Sunday morning - it was a cheap wheel [shimano R501] and had done about 3.5k miles so not a great surprise. I decided not to mess around with the wheel in terms of a repair as it would not have been economical, so ordered a new one from Wiggle on the Sunday afternoon which was delivered on the Tuesday morning, fitted to the bike the same day and out on the road on the Tuesday afternoon! Pretty sure which online retailer will be getting my money from now on - although I've not tried Evans or any others yet so any recommendations???

Wohooo! The 'Takeover saga' continues once more to be a 'saga'

A hard slog today! 30mph NW wind which was great for the first 14.5 miles where I headed East so the wind was at my back, unfortunately, those first 15 miles were predominantly uphill! Then I turned round and headed West for the next 17 miles straight in to the wind. Even coming down Cheddar I was pedalling at 80rpm down the top slopes and the wind was so strong I was only hitting about 14.5mph, normally that section would be about 20-25mph with minimal effort. No chance of breaking records today! Good news though, I only need to do another 13 miles to hit my 4,000 mile target for the year

That's inconvenient, beating Rovers in the cup. The template must be really confused. Only a couple of days ago 'cup runs' were a distraction. How can the template now claim an historic, plucky, battling victory which will see them march defiantly on to the next round? Or is it just 'selective' cups that are a distraction?

Hhmmmm. Yesterday was still fine for shorts, a little chilly to start with but I soon warmed up. I went with the shorts again this morning. Mistake! That Northerly weather system had moved down as far as me and it was monkeys! One of the signs I road past had about half an inch of ice on it! I couldn't feel my legs after about 10 minutes and for some strange reason I decided to put my summer shoes on with all the ventilation they have. Toes went completely numb. I tried out a couple of hills once I got back to town to see if I could warm up but with freezing cold muscles the hills just hurt more than they usually do. I gave up and went home for a hot shower! This is a pic I took of the orchard behind Thatchers cider factory - hopefully shows the cold!

Not THAT close to be fair : Probably closer to Reading than Washington

I'd love to have a power socket in my garage I have to put up with a basic run of the mill resistance roller because my garage is not attached to my house and is not close enough to run a power lead to it! As a result, I tend to go out in the wind and the rain far more often than using the trainer.

Two things this winter for me... SKS raceblades are like heaven attached to a wheel. Yesterdays ride was 'drizzling' the whole way round which meant the road was wet, but the raceblades did their job well and kept me dry. I remember riding on wet roads last winter with no mud guards and came home dripping wet with mud all up my back, soaked socks and three days for the shoes to dry out! Best money I've ever spent. Vredestein Fortezza are superb winter tyres. Very good puncture protection - over 600 miles done on them now through all sorts of crap on the road, especially the 'back of beyond' country roads - and no sign of a puncture. Grip is very good on the wet roads - even those covered with cow dung! They're not the sprightliest of tyres and are a bit sluggish from a standing start but they roll very well once they get going. For 40 odd quid they are also pretty well priced.

A Luton is about as big as you can get Not much harder to drive than a transit or a minibus to be fair, you just need to remember it's bigger!

I suspect the reason why [some] rape victims are not believed is probably because proving 'rape' can sometimes be very difficult. In the majority of cases it will come down to he said, she said with only two people present - one of which will obviously be lying. Doesn't make it right, doesn't make it legal but also doesn't make it mysogynistic.

And yet, in English law, a person is 'innocent' until proven guilty. Therefore, as I'm sure you are aware, the onus is to prove the guilt and not the innocence! Therefore, in English law, there is technically no way / need to prove innocence....

DO you think Jessica Ennis Hill will be offering up an apology?

What a short memory you have! How can you forget the magnificent Portakabin he had installed at the training ground that they rent, the enormous fence that they put up there, the fact that he got the academy players to pick up all the dog turds and syringes and the crowning glory of the Sports Direct table tennis table. You need to give this giant amongst men a little more credit!