Get to grips with these four wheel drive quads

Quad bikes all look pretty much the same to us - they're versatile and agile little All Terrain Vehicles that are great fun to ride around the countryside on, testing your skills with a few banked turns, steep drops and water splashes on the way. But, we've just discovered that most quads are actually two-wheel drive. Of course, they're still great fun, but if you want to be hitting the big stuff off road, you'll be needing a four-wheel drive quad. That's just what is on offer from our new quad biking supplier near Dover not far from the south...

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Another New Year…another load of unkept resolutions

To celebrate the start of the new year and, indeed, the new decade, we promised we weren't going to get ourselves into what our friends officially term as 'pickles'. We also decided to work harder (already out of the window as it was a glorious powder day on the slopes so we snook out for a ski this morning!), we promised to exercise more (hence the morning of skiing!) and finally to eat more healthily, after scoffing pretty much our own bodyweight in Matchmaker chocolates over the festive break. Only problem with the eating healthily bit is that we're no...

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If BA is on strike, why not fly yourself?!

[caption id="attachment_1593" align="alignleft" width="250"] If the airlines like BA are striking, why not learn to fly yourself on holiday?![/caption] Since British Airways cabin crew staff have voted for 12 days of strike action over the Christmas and New Year period, quite possibly to be followed by Eurostar staff who are also threatening to strike over the same period, we've been putting our thinking hats on to work out what can be done. And we've come to the conclusion it's better to learn to fly yourself. Then if you fancy hopping across the Channel for a few turns on the ski...

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