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Eastern Counties Newspapers Clippings

Eastern Counties Newspapers Clippings 07 Oct 2006

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Expensive Sofa

House and Home 07 Oct 2006

It needed a new home, without rough and careless children in it, so we had to sell Julii's Mom's couch. Hopefully it will have a more genteel ...

Norwich ABC '10 (B10/44)

Time Trialling 07 Oct 2006

Conditions were sunny and mild (around 16°C), but a brisk westerly breeze took the edge off the times.

Couple of Good Jokes

Time Trialling 07 Oct 2006

Saturday morning time trial, Fred's going balls out - it's obvious he's on to smash the club record. Suddenly a funeral procession appears ...

Windsave Price Reduction

Wind Turbines 07 Oct 2006

Here is an email sent today, from Windsave: Windsave are delighted to announce that we will be reducing the original price quoted to you for ...

B10/43 Results

Time Trialling 30 Sep 2006

This was my first '10 in over eight years, and I struggled round on an over-geared (52x13) fixed wheel. I managed a 23:05, which is well off ...

Carbon Monoxide Detector

House and Home 23 Sep 2006

After the horrendous news today of five people being taken to hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisining, we decided to buy a carbon monoxide ...

Distributed Generation Systems 2006

Sustainable Living 10 Sep 2006

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The UK Government aspires to generate 20% of UK electricity from renewable energy sources by the year 2020. In practice, ...

New Bits for Time Trialling

Time Trialling 07 Sep 2006

I've just received my order from Ribble Cycles. I ordered it on Sunday, so a 4-day turnaround isn't bad. DescriptionPrice EachQuantityTotal ...

Watch your skewer!

Child Trailers 02 Sep 2006

We had a real problem with the chariot hitch on this mountain bike. The bike has forward-facing dropouts, and the wheel would frequently pop ...

Explorer misbehaving

Windows Vista 30 Aug 2006

I like to use the folder view to move around the drives and folders, so I'm always opening one folder on the left, closing it, opening another ...

Used to Alt-Tabbing? Good luck!

Windows Vista 30 Aug 2006

If you regularly use Alt-Tab to switch between Windows, you're in for a shock with Vista. The display of windows is actually much improved ...

Adding a Window to your Garage

House and Home 09 Aug 2006

This isn't necessarily as straightforward as it seems. We'd like to put a window in right next to our oil tank. Our local Building Control ...

Eastern Country Time Trials

Time Trialling 04 Aug 2006

The list of Time Trial Open events is at the RTTC site. CC Breckland is hosting the National 12-Hour event on 6 August, and after that it's ...

Order with Wiggle.co.uk

Sports Gear: Under Test 26 Jul 2006

This is an order from Wiggle. They gave me a 5% discount, plus a £5 voucher. Watch out for their premium delivery - it's added on automatically ...