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Recent events combined with something I've just spotted, and I can see, like a map, 2 paths in front of me. It's bizzarre. One is an easy path, I can just sit and wait, but I don't want to take that path. I won't be happy if that pans out the way it might
The other path is one I've dreamed of for literally years now but it's not easy. There's things in my way, some of these things I cannot control, but I have to at least set the satnav to that destination today, so to speak.... I have to.

I'm literally sitting here shaking and welling up with emotion. It's notthing bad, it's all good, but today it starts, this could be it. I've just put the postcde in.....

Sorry. Very vague I know. Keeping my cards close to my chest, the people that are involved already know. 🙂


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 11:43 am
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hhmmm, I can only assume that this is something Strava related


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 11:45 am
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Good luck.....


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 11:47 am
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take the blue pill and wave kansas bye-bye


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 11:47 am
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Good luck PP,

My experience with making a choice like this, is they tend not to be as bad, or as hard as you first think they might be.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 11:48 am
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Youre a long time dead sir, go go gooooooo. and good luck.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 11:50 am
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[i]I was walking along this narrow mountain pass - so narrow that nobody else could pass you, when I saw a beautiful blonde walking towards me. A beautiful blonde with not a stitch on, yes, not a stitch on, lady. Cor blimey, I didn't know whether to toss myself off or block her passage.[/i]

Max Miller

😀


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 11:50 am
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best of luck to you. take the path on the left.... 😉


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:13 pm
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Cheers guys. I knew someone would rip the pee! 🙂

I just need a bit of luck, sort of unconventional luck, if ya get me?


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:26 pm
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Better to have tried and failed... Etc.

Good luck.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:32 pm
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Cheers guys. I knew someone would rip the pee!

In that case,as jimmy Carr said, if you're at a junction with two choices, that's a T junction not a crossroads 😉

Good luck.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:43 pm
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Good luck, PP! It's good to make life as much of an adventure as it can be!


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:47 pm
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Most likely a Y-junction I'd say.

FFS get your junctions right!


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:50 pm
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Give us the Google Streetview link and let us decide.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:51 pm
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is there a filter lane at this junction? 😉


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 12:55 pm
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I had similar about 2 1/2 years ago. Stay where I was and it all carries on as it had for the previous 9 years.
OR
Change jobs, some risk involved as it was an unknown quanitity at the time. But better money, better prospects much closer to home.

I chose the latter and it turned out to be 100% the right choice.
(The old job was dissolved and the company also moved to a much less convenvient location which would have increased my travelling costs and time by quite a margin).

Think carefully, weight up the odds and go for it!

Doing nothing? Nothing changes!


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:10 pm
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just go to the apple store and buy the ipad mini.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:13 pm
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Do it and do not look back.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:14 pm
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I'd say go for it 😀 unless you're buying a bike shop..then I'd say you're insane...


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:16 pm
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Good luck in all your endeavours dude!


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:18 pm
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I was at exactly the same place........I went with the cheese and onion ones.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:20 pm
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You are watching two frames on ebay..?


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:22 pm
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Are there trafic lights at this junction?


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:22 pm
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You only live once, live it properly.
Best of luck in your new adventure.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:23 pm
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[i]if ya get me?[/i]

Not in the slightest, but I hope it works out!

Hmm... this posted in the Bike Forum... nope, still no idea.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:24 pm
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are you reading this?

[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Warlock-Firetop-Mountain-Anniversary/dp/1840468378/ref=cm_lmf_tit_5 ]warlock[/url]

I would turn right (not left as advised above), but keep a finger in the old page just in case...


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:28 pm
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Go For IT!

Universal response which applies to the following:

-Career Change
-Setting up your own business
-Proposing Marriage
-Proposing Divorce
-Having kids
-Getting the snip
-Buying a house
-Selling your house and traveling the World
-Quitting smoking
-Quitting drinking
-Taking up any drinking challenge (Unless you've just quit)
-Climbing a mountain

DON'T Do IT!

Applies to the following:

-Taking up golf
-Buying an Audi
-Buying any item from a classifieds only users
-starting a "What tyre" thread

Good luck whatever your endevour may be!


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:34 pm
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1 fish n chips

2 steak pudding, chips, peas & gravy

3 chip barm

4 all of the above

??


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:34 pm
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I think Robert Frost is telling you what to do:

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:38 pm
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Most likely a Y-junction I'd say.

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Posted : 07/11/2012 1:39 pm
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Does this mean a new login ?

PertPatricia ?


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:46 pm
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If you don't choose soon the traffic behind will be annoyed.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 1:46 pm
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What does the satnav say?

One is an easy path, I can just sit and wait, but I don't want to take that path. I won't be happy if that pans out the way it might
The other path is one I've dreamed of for literally years now but it's not easy.

Seriously it sounds like you've already made the choice and the question is simply are you brave enough to follow through on it.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 2:06 pm
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Njee, I've made my choice. I made it years ago. I just need the planets to converge and a favourable wind. 🙂

Does this mean a new login ?
PertPatricia ?

LOL!
Er, no. For sure.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

That's it. Whichever way it goes.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 3:40 pm
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Good luck Peter, whatever it is. So long as you still have the occasional time for Speshes Big and Little 😉


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 4:12 pm
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I think we have talked about this .
If I'm right , go with it as you will never know if you don't try ( and do not play at it , give it 100% from the get go ) and it will always be a niggle in the back of your mind if you dont.

If Im wrong , Go with the custard creams .


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 4:59 pm
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better to have tried than to regret not


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 5:02 pm
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Easier to ask forgiveness than permission.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 5:08 pm
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Better to have loved and lost than not loved at all.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 5:15 pm
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Better to have loved and lost than not loved at all.

This thread is begining to sound like the facebook wall of an emotionaly insecure teenage girl.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 5:18 pm
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You only live once but can die a thousand different ways.

The trick is to choose an obscure, niche way of dying so it is less likely to happen.

It is what I have done and I appear to be immortal (so far).

I just need to avoid juggling dwarves on yaks and I should be safe for a few more years.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 5:23 pm
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[i]
Better to have loved and lost than not loved at all.

This thread is begining to sound like the facebook wall of an emotionaly insecure teenage girl. [/i]

Sorry, I thought we were quoting common sayings and poetry 🙂


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 5:26 pm
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It's better to have loved and lost than to have listened to an album by Olivia Newton John.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 5:55 pm
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Except perhaps a stroke


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 6:01 pm
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Nobody else picked up on the fact that thisisnotaspoon has teenage girls on his Facebook?


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 8:36 pm
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This thread is begining to sound like the facebook wall of an emotionaly insecure teenage girl.

Yup, very high maintenance.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 8:38 pm
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It doesn't involve potential financial reimbursements does it.....


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 8:46 pm
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Keeping my cards close to my chest

are you going to be a magician?


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 8:50 pm
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life is not a dress rehearsal


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 8:57 pm
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What's for you won't go by you. 🙂

I'm sitting watching Crossroads too.


 
Posted : 07/11/2012 9:31 pm
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Perhaps he is going to sell those wheels?


 
Posted : 08/11/2012 9:32 am
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I was just going to cc the bold lines, but the whole thing seemed appropriate...

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
[b]The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. [/b]

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

I'm crap at this sort of thing 😐

There's stuff I'd like to do. The boldnesss is in there, somewhere, but the secure wins out every time


 
Posted : 08/11/2012 10:03 am
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Surely if you are at a crossroads you are going to have [b][i]Three[/b][/i] options. Straight on, left or right. Don't you mean that you are sitting at a T-junction?

Only trying to help.


 
Posted : 08/11/2012 10:22 am
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The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

I write this on the birthday cards that get passed round the office.


 
Posted : 08/11/2012 10:24 am
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Nobody else picked up on the fact that thisisnotaspoon has teenage girls on his Facebook?

I was about to deny it, then remembered that I do.

:dirty old man smiley':

Surely if you are at a crossroads you are going to have Three options. Straight on, left or right. Don't you mean that you are sitting at a T-junction?

Only trying to help.

The last crossroads you arrived at clearly had the option of repating pedantry from the first page.


 
Posted : 08/11/2012 1:08 pm

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