Luxury vs Necessity

[Richard Goodman]

"Iain Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> the move, money for café stops. Radio, I wish - what do
> you use? Are there any small ones available with a
> speaker? I don't like not being able to hear traffic
> coming up behind me.
>

I am generally against the use of extraneous sound-producing
devices while in charge of a vehicle. I usually don't even
have the radio on in the car, and tend not even to talk to
my passengers either, as I like to employ all my sense of
sound and vision, and general capacity for focusing
attention on the task in hand, to what the car and traffic
going on around me is doing. Same when riding of course.
However I must confess that the other day I did ride with a
radio, and a single earpiece in one ear to listen to a
program I didn't want to miss. I could still hear the
traffic and it wasn't too distracting - I survived!

Rich

 

[Daniel Barlow]

Helen Deborah Vecht <[email protected]> writes:

> and I was going to post about s**p being a four-letter
> word to the Great Unwashed™ up there. I don't see it as a
> luxury. ou can keep enough for a week in a 35mm film
> canister.

You can go for a week on a 35mm film canister of soup? Or do
you just keep the stone in the canister and persuade the
villagers to contribute the rest of the ingredients?

(http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/stone_soup.html if
anyone's unfamiliar with the reference)

-dan

--
"please make sure that the person is your friend before
you confirm"

 

[Tony W]

"Richard Bates" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> What items of luxury do folks carry whilst cycling?
>
> Short ride to shops/work = nothing
>
> Day ride alone = radio
>
> 2-3 day tour = radio + palmtop-pc
>
> Long tour = radio + palmtop + espresso pot.
>
> Love and gadgets from Rich x

6 weeks in India

Water filter & mossie net.

:~)

 

[Scrumpyjoe]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:44:15 +0100, Tony W wrote:

>
> "Richard Bates" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> What items of luxury do folks carry whilst cycling?
>>
>> Short ride to shops/work = nothing
>>
>> Day ride alone = radio
>>
>> 2-3 day tour = radio + palmtop-pc
>>
>> Long tour = radio + palmtop + espresso pot.
>>
>> Love and gadgets from Rich x
>
> 6 weeks in India
>
> Water filter & mossie net.
>
> :~)

You'll need that paperback book as well... ;-)

 

[Tony W]

"ScrumpyJoe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:44:15 +0100, Tony W wrote:
>
> > 6 weeks in India
> >
> > Water filter & mossie net.
> >
> > :~)
>
> You'll need that paperback book as well... ;-)

e-books on the PDA did brilliantly for reading matter.

:~)

T

 

[Steph Peters]

"Tony W" <[email protected]> of wrote:

>
>"Richard Bates" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> What items of luxury do folks carry whilst cycling?
>>
>> Short ride to shops/work = nothing
>>
>> Day ride alone = radio
>>
>> 2-3 day tour = radio + palmtop-pc
>>
>> Long tour = radio + palmtop + espresso pot.
>>
>> Love and gadgets from Rich x
>
>6 weeks in India
>
>Water filter & mossie net.

6 months in SE Asia Diving mask with prescription lenses My
embroidery A Malay/Indonesian - English dictionary
--
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if you've got to be good. - John Barrymore
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[Helen Deborah V]

Any trip involving overnight stay:

Travel radio (I don't watch TV and B&Bs can lack
serviceable radios)

12oz plastic mug (I like to drink sensible amounts of
tea/coffee without faffing about refilling the cup)

Box of tricks containing sachets of instant hot chocolate &
soup, coffee, tea, sugar, milk powder and a teaspoon.

Wide variety of miniaturised toiletries + alarm clock all
easily contained in a small pencil case.

--
Helen D. Vecht: [email protected] Edgware.