I can so relate to this.
They are so hopeless and then they get annoyed when they can't find the broken cordless drill and the extension cord that trips the safety switch.
@j*oono wrote:I really hope people aren't breaking there stuff just to get a vote
i broke the cup ...always hated that cup 
and i ate the tim tam !
@am*3 wrote:Annie - how did these glasses get mangled?
well thats another story ..$2 readers ..stomped and jumped on them..nothing !
so tried to break the with my hands ...twisted and twisted ..still didnt break
they just went like that !
yet miss 3 hardly sat on my $300 perscription glasses and smashed them to bits
not happy jan !
Trying out a £10,000 Tour de France dream machine
Can any bike – even a space-age, carbon fibre one like the Colnago C59 – really be worth that much money?
My first reaction was almost mild intimidation: I'm not worthy to ride this bike. Next came a thought perhaps even more absurd – what if I'm mugged?
All I was doing was preparing to leave the office for my usual seven or so mile ride home. This time, however, it would be aboard a machine which costs comfortably more than any material possession I've ever owned, property excepted.
I was being lent for the weekend a Colnago C59, depending on your reckoning somewhere between £8,000 and £10,000 of absurdly light and precise carbon fibre sleekness.
It's not even on sale in the UK till later this year, although it is being tried out by a few professional racing teams. By happy coincidence, on the day I returned the C59, another model was being ridden – much, much faster – across the Pyrenees by France's Thomas Voeckler en route to a dramatic Tour de France solo stage win.
This was, of course, part of my worry. Would I feel like an imposter, even an idiot, pootling along on such a specialist, space age bike through the back streets of south London?
Not really. This being London, the overwhelming response was blank indifference, although a couple of roadies couldn't help sneaking a crafty glance as we waited at red lights.
My fears of being dragged from the bike by a gang of young cycling-obsessed ruffians in matching Bouygues Telecom jerseys were, of course, equally absurd.
Now for the two questions everyone who heard about the bike asked me: how can it cost so much? And what's it like to ride?
The first is quite simple – it's so expensive because it's been deliberately made that way. The frame, which combines carbon fibre tubes with traditional-style lugged joins, supposedly for extra stiffness, will set you back £3,300 alone. Chuck on some carbon wheels and a fewCampagnolo Record bits and pieces and everything soon mounts.
The PR company who loaned me the bike are, in fact, deliberately touting it as "the Ferrari of the bike world", a pricey totem for the Colnago brand. It was they who came up with the £10,000 figure, though someone else conceded that £8,000 would be more realistic when it eventually hits the shops.
All this money gives you a bike which is astonishing fun to ride. Far from the C59 being intimidating – metaphorically sneering in disdain when a relative snail like me gets aboard – on the open road it instead whispers sweetly into your ear. "Come one, you can go a bit faster," it says. "Why not climb out of the saddle for this hill? It'll be fun."
And of course it is. But is it £10,000-worth of fun? This is where the difficulty comes in.
My own road bike, if I'd bought it new, would have cost a shade over £1,000, and it's no real surprise that the C59 is a faster, lighter, more responsive, ride. But once you get above, say, £2,000 or £3,000 the "extra performance" axis of the graph flattens out considerably. I'm nowhere near quick enough a rider to make such a relatively vast outlay worth it.
That's not to say I'd laugh at anyone else for buying one. It's a lot of money for a bike, but more or less commonplace for a car or motorbike, and they won't be a hand-built collectors' item.
I still wouldn't recommend they lock it up on the street, though.
Hi Deb. Yep, it is the blue tongued one. I usually manage to get one in every week 
This photo is a few year old, back when planking was the fad.
Still have the chair, its great for spinning on the spot and shooting across the room 
