Modern Vespa

Cheers. I think she'd like the spa hotel more than the chance to service my bike. Although the thought of her in overalls ......,

Kam, there are decent reviews of a fair selection of London day spas and hotel spas on The Times website.

You'll also find that the Time Out site has somthing like a top 20, and the Telegraph site has a top 5. (Christmas is coming, and I've been looking up possible present options as well).

I think I found all that out by means of a fairly generic google search ("best london spa" or similar. It wouldn't have been anything whizzy - my searching skills are quite poor).

If you find anything that looks really good, I'd like to hear about it.

Fenjal Creame Bath. Always a winner.

You are welcome.

BB - i'll follow up you leads. thanks.

Bill -i'm surprised you didn't recommend a giant toblerone!

Spa day is a great idea - I'd be very pleased with that as a present myself.

Though one of my birthday presents this year was a multi region DVD player - so I can play my collection of British horror films!

You mean when some Kitchen Cleaner and Scouring Pad just won't do ?

No wonder I'm still single.

... or maybe an ironing board cover? a tk maxx gift certificate? foot powder?

....oh, actually - a high-class pedicure. no i'm not kidding - a good pedicure is iike having a full-body makeover, especially if they throw in a reflexology massage. i'd avoid the sanctuary spa in covent garden, it's got some rotten reviews.

it's difficult to recommend things when you don't know someone - and none of us have actually met the lovely mrs. kam. maybe you need to get her some of these and bring her along on the next rideout:

How about a new washing machine ? Seriously she'll love it.

Or slippers ?

Love handles remove all the fun of having a pillion 8)

How bad-er-rider must you be to need one/a pair of those ?

Talk about hanging on for grim death.

Grip with your thighs love.

Bill X

Right with you there, Stuart.

I tell all my male passengers to hold on very tight due to the acceleration of the 300 otherwise they will fall off the back.

For some unaccountable reason I've never given a girl a lift on the pillion. I wonder why?

Wonder I have a very special tactic for staying on the back of a PTW and one was a Suzuki GSX1260 with a turbo bolted on to it and it spent most of it's time on the back wheel and I didn't fly off the back.

And I don't use my hands. Mind you I couldn't walk very straight for about a day or so.

Actually what do the guys think of two girls/women on a scooter ?

I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest it's quite sexy.

2 theories...

Toreador Pants = leather = Good

Momo, high heels, sunglasses and a elegant scarf = good plus the added feeling that nothing is being hidden behind leather for a reason...

I was in traffic on a BMW K100 riding through Geneva many years ago when I saw a young lady riding a blue Kawasaki GPZ 600 in a matching leather jacket, jeans and high heel ankle boots but even with the boots on she couldn't touch the ground properly.

Initially I thought she looked sexy but to see her teeter through the cars being barely able to keep the bike upright was off putting and just a bit scary.

gaaahhhh.... no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.

a momo helmet says 'i'm a pretentious crunt who is afraid of being seen with chipmunk face so i'm going to 'protect' myself with a ridiculous fakey-leather clad logo-plastered glorified twattish salad bowl of a hat.' bah.

i took my friend alessandra as a pillion once and enjoyed it very much. she didn't squirm or fidget and she only weighs about 7 stone so i hardly knew she was there. i wouldn't have thought it was sexy but i wasn't really paying much attention to that aspect of it.

Genie tell us how you really feel. I quite like Momo's because they are pretentious but hey look what I wear.

But would I buy one ? Na.

Would a couple of lady scooterists ride buy my place until I can decide if it's sexy or not ?

Probably not.

And ?

Not the sort of girl i'd talk to for the reasons listed but the question regarded sexyness... Not how ignorant, shallow and appearance orientated someone is.

That's the sort of person that watched the gadget show video and though "wow isn't that S a cute little thing" and climbs board what in their mind is a toy/gadget not a machine and treats it like an accessory. A ride on handbag if you will.

Im still going to look

Bill, i have beer?

Oh the ire of Momo! I had a great instructor who told us not to wear them and did we know why?

Guy put his hand up and "because they are open face?"

Instructor "Nah, its because you'll look like a twat".

This left the Momo wearing groove hound of the group looking quite crestfallen. But he was a twat, so the instructor was right,

I suggest you don't give me any amount of Beer because I turn into the most annoying pillock of all time.

It's for the best.

75p tins of 8.4% cider?

Studenthood is hard

i'm writing a get-well card for your liver right this very moment. at least have a loaf of bread or a pillowcase full of popcorn or something to soak up the worst of it

my bread is in the freezer... I do have some digestive biscuits and 24 rashers of bacon...

Dear mother and father,

Things are bad on the western front please can you send socks, underpants and food, my last 75p went on cider and I don't want to go over the top with cold feet and I'm not brave enough to go commando.

I'll be home for christmas.

Frozen bread goes right in the toaster just fine, 558, as long as it was sliced before you froze it. Might need two runs right enough. Your innards would totally appreciate it if they were capable of such a sentiment.*

Hope you've managed to resist the "allure" of Frosty Jack this far.

*Hmmm, bacon sannies. In fact, I would appreciate it now that I think about it. We've got eggs. If you set off now you should make it in time for me leaving for work...

Get on with it Stuart - your liver is in the best shape of its life. And so as you don't completely abuse it, it will stay that way. I recommend milk thistle for a clean, shineh liver. It has been making mine happy for years.

But just say no to drinking games - they are for fools.

I hope you have balled all your washing into a mountain and are currently wondering if it will fit under the cargo net.

Frosty Jacks is the single greatest invention since the motorcycle.

I have been lucky in the drinking game stakes so far. And I feel for anyone playing a game that involves a communal (dirty?) pint as i am usually drinking Guinness and that resulting cocktail is indescribable in appearance.

Not only would taking my washing home be cheaper and more convenient but I do too much sport to leave my washing lying around... if you catch my drift.

Yes, ignore the dirty pint game at all costs! That is some literally disgusting shit.

*shudders*

It's too late for this one, I fear. SAVE YOURSELVES!

I'm probably a bit jealous really. Batter in and best of luck.

Gaymers' K cider is better, stronger and cheaper.

And let it never be said that students can't cook, my gravy was called soup, my meals have no vegetables but this is one fine bacon sandwich.

I was told that you only have to get 40% in year one and that year one has no bearing on the final degree so party away 59% of the available marks, get through on 41% and do all the work in years 2 and 3. Doesn't sound sustainable but does sound fun... 8)

I may have a spare ticket to see Eddie Izzard at the O2 next Thursday the 3rd of December.

I have a waiverer so I'm hedging my bets and offering it up to anyone nice who would be interested in coming along with me.

I'll know by this evening if it's available. £40.

Bill X

Despite being 30 mins late on stage, despite the 11.20pm train being cancelled, despite getting in bed at 2.15am and only having 4 hours sleep......The Specials was f*****g great! Absolutely brilliant!

I will put up a few videos on youtube later for anyone that's interested.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepy27

um .... technically that is true but it isn't really sustainable, given that what you actually learn in year 1 (i know, i know, it's difficult to believe but actual learning does go on in year 1, most of it by osmosis - leave the book open under your pillow the night before the exam) is occasionally relevant to what you learn in years 2 and 3.

many of my students try the year 1 'yahoo it doesn't count' party trick only to wind up in my office in year 2 weeping into their half-pint of tesco's cider because they a) are broke and b) haven't got a clue what's going on.

i'm sounding like somebody's mum aren't i?

I found out on Monday that it's a mistake to try and do serious drinking at the ICA because everything's so expensive.

The most cost-effective way to get mildly hammered was Aspall cyder at 5.5% and £3.80 a pint.

Stuart, how wankered you end up in your first year is entirely up to you - I certainly can't remember anything of my first year except being late for my final exams.

I was protected by the fact that history doesn't build on itself - all you need is a fresh brain and some chunky opinions and you can beat the exams. I had no coursework but I did write several essays a week. Exam time was a bit different - whole term spent without anything intoxicating except coffee.

Mr Wonder might recall that his course was different because his was science based - but his courses were a lot better than mine inasmuch as some years later in Amsterdam, he was able to provide an inspired lecture on the nature of hallucinations from memory while tripping on a hotel room floor.

Oh, and HMG paid us to be there. This now seems like ancient history, to get paid to go to university.

Some one needs to fill in for me mam, I'm the first of our lot to manage to evade entering the workforce.

She's not daft though, tried to convince her I'm doing work... Unsuccessfully. Seem to do nothing but wash up, shop, go out and play sport.

Being here does seem pretty pointless at them moment though. Had to be in a computer room to prove i can handle numbers and use a computer at 9.30 this morning. Was still in bed at 9.25 and still finished inside the hour.

I just hope the misplaced feeling of superiority can turn itself into actual superiority, not hopeful though

I do like the sound of the halucinations on the floor lecture. It would be more relevant - unfortunately i have a room with a view over the lake, meaning i hear all the animals and have "awoken" to find a fox in the middle of my room looking at me. Don't remember anything else of that night.

I interrupted one of Bromley's many urban foxes - quite a young and stupid one - as it was hanging round outside a pub trying to mooch crisps. It wandered over and bit my shoe to see if it was edible.

Was at the kennington oval for "fox-stopped-play".

Cheeky bugger running on the pitch to rapturous applause and laughter from the stand and a look of disdain from the umpires.

Dappy police tried to chase it.

Ah you're a cricket man.

Between that and the beer universtiy should fly by....