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Great call Wombling; sure beats getting on a bus and having to drink on my tod. Watched the first half and delighted with the broadcast quality. I'm hoping BT do it for the Premier League next season.

Which pubs in ED are showing the match tomorrow?

OK, taking your input into consideration, I would start by looking at https://www.exchangeandmart.co.uk/ and do a search within 1 mile of your postcode. Set the sort order to lowest first. There's quite a selection and quite a few from recognised dealers which will have done all the checks about ownership, o/s finance, MOT etc plus they will have checked them. PIck a few and do some research on that make/model for known problems. Check out https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/ for knowledge. When you have narrowed down your choice get someone knowledgeable to go with you and check the actual car. There are lots of indicators for the trained eye e.g . is the wear on the pedal rubbers consistent with the mileage. Are the door gaps even etc etc. . Is there any paint overspray. There's lots of sharp operators out there! Go prepared, have all your questions ready in advance.

If you can be more specific about what you want to do with the car and your budget then we all can help you. Do you want it for.... 1. Daily commute 2. Occasional long journeys 3. Carry more than 3 passengers 4. Carry items rather than other passengers Most of the cars I have bought in the last 30 years have been between 6 months and 3 years old from Car Giant in West London. They have fair prices and they check their cars thoroughly. The best one I bought from them had done 9,000 miles in six months - which is high. But I guessed it was a hire car that spent all its time on motorways. Motorway usage is easy going for cars no corners, no stop/start. no braking etc etc. I still have it after 20 years and all it has cost me is one rear light bulb! Less desirable are cars used on frequent short (commuting) journeys where every start is with a cold engine.

I guess somebody has a grudge about traffic lights.

Tina - "The Best"

For the determined amongst us.......... Nothing is impossible Never give up

Mock if you so desire but regardless, the Penny is mightier than the sword.

.... the recent Tory leadership contest happened today, then we would have had Penny Mordaunt instead of Liz Truss or Rishy Sunak as PM. At both QE's funeral and the coronation she showed the qualities that all leaders should aspire to.

Make my day! Bet you lose. Out of date.

Check this out. My Neighbour has Japanese Knotweed - What do I do? (japaneseknotweedexpert.co.uk)

Sounds reasonable. I asked our Sainsbury's delivery driver this morning as to how many drivers there were working out of DKH and he said 40. So that's quite a quantity but not enough to account for the lack of availability on the shelves.

Perhaps someone can advise which rights the trans people are being denied. That aside, the filming shows just how useless the Met Police are. Poorly trained and ignorant of the law. Not fit for purpose. They failed to respond to the fact that Alexander was physically assaulted. In fact he was treated as though he was at fault.

Have been advised by a reliable source that the angled traffic bays opposite the shopping parade in DV village do not conform to the highways regulations because vehicles have to reverse out blind in to passing traffic. If the bays were converted to parallel parking then they would conform . OK, this would mean a little fewer bays but many are now not used since Southwark made it a controlled parking area to generate more revenue. Whilst on the subject of parking there, now that our Councillors, in their wisdom, blocked off the entrance to Calton Avenue so that they could create the infamous "Village Square". As that is now fait a complit, it would make sense to create a loading bay there so that the multitude of delivery vans servicing the Post Office and shops could park there briefly rather than distrupt the tyraffic as they do now.

I am looking for someone to add two lines of curved text within a circular logo. The text is the word "GENUINE" and is to go at the top and bottom where the roughly drawn curved lines appear on the attached image. The word "Brand" is there for indicative purposes and the actual brand name will be provided later. Someone with graphics ability might recommend playing around with size/colour/proportions etc to give more authenticity but it's a small job and pays in the form of a bottle of red.

I would recommend Lloyds in Sainsbury DKH now that Oscar has moved there from Rumseys in the Village

Was it fizzy or flat when you opened it?

Went out in the garden yesterday and inadvertently disturbed a grey heron that was perching above

@DKH, Kindly don't re-work my words and then present them within quotation marks just to fit your argument.

The right to strike is fine but intimidating fellow workers by forming a picket line to harass fellow workers who want to work is abhorrent. Any form of harassment should be condemned. And any attempt to re-inforce the picket with 3rd parties should be deeply condemned.

Yes, the OP is trying to reinforce picket lines with added numbers from outside the teaching staff. This is simply multiplying the intimidation that picket lines exhibit. Stopping other teachers going to work through intimidation is a primitive and unacceptable practice. We live in a free society and there is simply no justification for intimidation for someone who wants to enter their workplace. Picketing by teachers outside schools is a shameful practice and one would think that the teachers organising this should be condemned unreservedly. Our kids education should be their prime consideration. If they don't like the teacher's salary then they should get a job elsewhere. There's plenty other jobs going at present. I can tell you first-first hand as I have a nephew who is a teacher, He has set up his own business, on the side, working out of rented premises where he offers courses and products. He has a very nice little earner there, which is also on-line, because he is innovative and willing to work hard. By comparison the picket lines , in my view, are populated by those who are only willing to sit back, take the salary and whinge.

I find picket lines lines highly offensive because they are designed to intimidate workers who want to get to work and get paid. Picketing is a relic going back to a more primitive era . Today's social media is a better way of getting one's views across. In terms of progress, just think if the Tolpuddle Martyrs has been able to maintain the status quo.

Two weeks ago they resurfaced EDG between Townley Rd and the Village. Two days ago Thames Water dug it up to fix a leak. This is on the section outside JAGs where the crest of the hill is and where the mains water pipe has suffered repeated failures for several decades whenever there is a particularly dry summer or wet winter. Movement in the underlying clay soil means the rigid the 100 year old cast iron pipes get stress and fracture. Why does the Council not pressurise TW water to replace that section with the more flexible polythene pipes that can withstand flexing? It's a continual process of --- dig, temp fix, reseal then repeat, and repeat, ad infinitum. Meanwhile traffic is all backed up yet again on what has become an even busier road since the brought in LTNs!

I recommend you visit UK Business Forum. It's for small businesses and a place where people float their ideas and get answers to questions. I have benefitted form it greatly in the past and visit it weekly to get fresh ideas and gain from other peoples experiences. https://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/ Good luck.