Sue

About time a joyful thread was resurrected, so - My Pikachu watch arrived this morning and makes me smile whenever I look at it. Best fiver I've spent for a while, even if it doesn't appear to have any way to change the time, so it will only be right half the year (assuming the battery lasts of course :)) )

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > As far as I understand it (which is not far) the > doctors' contention is that in keeping Charlie on > life support they are keeping him alive in pain I think this is an important part of it. Because of his state, he cannot signal that he is in pain, but as I understand it the doctors think he is. If it was certain that he wasn't in pain, that might somewhat alter the situation.

Does he do cookers, or just things that spin? My expensive (for me) cooker develped a fault just after the guarantee ran out and just after I had decided not to pay an arm and a leg for their effing extended warranty which they kept sending me letters urging me to buy, grammar. It's not stopping it working, just noisy. I know what's probably wrong as it appears to be a common fault, but I don't want to attempt to fix it myself. It just (just! It's only two years old!!) needs a part replacing.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You did stir anti-clockwise wise didn't you? > > I have a spoon from Rajasthan specially for my > cooking, it makes all the difference. :))

jacks09 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am coming from quite an uninformed position > here, and have been lucky enough to recently > become a father to a healthy boy. > > What sits uncomfortably for me is that anyone > apart from the parents can have the final say on > issues relating to the child. It just doesn't sit > right with me that a hospital/judge/state can > determine a course of action that the parents > don't agree with. > > Really interested to hear others thoughts on this. I think that's a huge moral/ethical can of worms. If parents should always have the final say on anything relating to a child, many children would lead horrendous lives of mental and physical pain. As indeed some already do. I'm not pretending to know the answer or where lines should be drawn, however. Suicide used to be illegal in this country. Euthanasia still is. We don't even have a say in whether we can stay alive if we feel our lives are not worth living.

Partriguez Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Don't get me started on other people's cats pooing > in my garden and not their own... Cats poo on bare soil or gravel, so if you cover your bare space with actual plants, they should go elsewhere. Can't help with the dog poo, I share your pain.

God help us? Or words to that effect? :))

teddyboy23 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue can I bring the old banger back now! :))

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Worse would be if the vehilce was nicked when > uninsured. I think that's probably one thing I don't need to worry about, as it's coming up to its nineteenth birthday next month :)) Though having said that, I did once have an old banger stolen from a tiny carpark where I worked. A student (I am assuming) took the keys from my coat pocket where I had stupidly left them. It never turned up, not even burned out somewhere. However I got much more for it than I was expecting, as it was a couple of weeks before Christmas and I think the insurance company took pity on me :))

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I rarely cook with fresh tomatoes, as I've never > found any good enough in the UK, even in markets. > Even the plum tomatoes here are a bit rubbish. So, > I usually use tinned. So do I, but the baby plum tomnatoes in M&S at the moment are the best I've ever tasted from a UK shop. Don't know what they'd be like in a curry though.

I may be wrong but I believe FIrst Direct are giving some kind of cash incentive to new customers?

They still had a shop in Covent Garden at that time, but evidently that has now closed as well and they are only selling their sweets wholesale.

Apparently he now has US citizenship and will go to the States. From what I have read the American doctor who thinks he can help is not a quack but a bona fide physician. I don't have any strong feelings about the case one way or the other but I would hate to be in either the parents' shoes or the shoes of the GOSH doctors and nurses. I think it's a sad situation which has had far too much publicity. I

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Alan Medic Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Sometimes when I get the same flyer in > > triplicate, > > > I'm tempted to phone the establishment and > let > > > them know that whoever is doing their > > distribution > > > is cheating. > > > > > > To be fair, some houses have two bells and one > > letterbox, or two letterboxes but one bell, and > > it's hard to know whether to leave one thing or > > two. > > > > Dulwich Fox, have you ever thought that if you > > widened your horizons a bit you might actually > > enjoy it? > > You said that about my eating habits.. > > For someone that spends most of their social life > at the Ivy House and only likes Curry from > Ganapati > That's pretty rich. > > > I see you have managed to take yet another thread > off target. > Fox Erm, let's see, Fox. I don't think it is me who has "taken yet another thread off target" (a thread I started, btw). I didn't introduce the subject of junk mail. I just asked how it was defined, after other people had mentioned it. You then went into considerable detail about what you define as junk mail, which appears to be everything apart from Indian restaurant takeaway menus. My reference to expanding your horizons was because you said you throw away both SE22 and the Dulwich Festival programme, both of which contain a lot of information about things going on locally. You seem to know laughably little about either my social life or my "curry" eating habits :)) :)) :))

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're mad Sue? I'd never have guessed. You seem > so sensible. Well obviously I didn't literally mean literally, but you knew that, didn't you? :))

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sometimes when I get the same flyer in triplicate, > I'm tempted to phone the establishment and let > them know that whoever is doing their distribution > is cheating. To be fair, some houses have two bells and one letterbox, or two letterboxes but one bell, and it's hard to know whether to leave one thing or two. Dulwich Fox, have you ever thought that if you widened your horizons a bit you might actually enjoy it?

Literally. The recent use of it literally drives me mad. That.

Turmeric has recently been much recommended for its apparently miraculous healing properties. Maybe that recipe was medicinal :)) So how did the meal turn out, Louisa?

Phew, glad I didn't risk it then, sod's law I would have been clamped. I presume as well as a fine it would have upped my future insurance premiums?

Ah, junk mail. I'm never sure how that is defined. I deliver the booklets for the Dulwich Festival to some local streets. I take the view that people would probably like to know about it so it isn't junk mail. Same in the past with info about street parties (to houses in the relevant streets, obviously). Am I wrong?

So do I.

sorchamr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was told by a very helpful person in Southwark > that if a fox is in your garden you have to pay > for disposal or if it happen to have enough life > left in it and moves on to the public highway then > it is for the council to remove. Needless to say > the fox at in our back garden managed to get out > on to the street......very helpful advice :))

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Now renamed to "The Monty Bojangles Company Ltd". > > ?? What, Hope and Greenwood or Sugar Mountain? M&S currently fulfils my tooth rotting requirements, though admittedly you don't get the thrill of choosing extremely expensive chocs one by one and having them put in a pretty little box and tied up with a red ribbon. ETA: But hey! If Hope and Greenwood hadn't gone, we would never have had Maison Dog. Every cloud, etc ...

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You would probably be breaking the law for that > day as it was on the street. Who is to know you > weren't insured for a day and didn't have your car > off street? I'm assuming there are shared records between insurance companies, police etc and that therefore it could at some time have come to light. I think if a car is uninsured and off the road you have to make an official declaration now to that effect (SORN??) What I wasn't sure about is whether the one day would have affected anything in the future. I did consider just taking the risk but I am too easily stressed and would have worried about it ever after!! Luckily in the end it was sorted in time.

I have also been with First Direct for years. I still use them as my main bank and their "regular saver" is still reasonable though interest rates have come down quite a lot since it was introduced. Very good customer service (though if you phone them the waiting time is a lot longer than it used to be) and easy online banking. Less convenient if you need to pay in cash or cheques as HSBC closed in ED, but you can use the Post Office. I have other current accounts as well now and move money back and forth between them to fulfil their requirements, plus some direct debits go from them. But it's becoming increasingly difficult to get good deals and they keep changing ie getting worse. The Money Saving Expert website is good for impartial advice and making comparisons.