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Thanks for posting those photos, Jah Lush.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I once offered some furniture in exchange for > booze. They turned up with a box of dodgy looking > pound-shop chocolates, saying alcohol was against > their religion. :))

Thank you for your kindness, Catherine W.

There were parts of more than one bike, and no number plates. You missed all the excitement earlier, Foxy! Many of us heard the clatter as the bike bits were strewn in the road, but by the time we got outside there was nobody there. The police were called but took a while to come (I think they did eventually come, but I had gone inside by that time. It was cold!) No idea what the outcome was. I was just relieved nobody was hurt, as although there was no engine noise I was worried someone may have come off their bike, and went down the road looking for an injured person :( What I can't understand is why someone would dump bits of bikes down the middle of a street ..... Surely easier ways of doing it?

Yes on single deckers. Don't on double deckers (don't know why) but my grandkids always do when they are in London, which I find quite endearing (don't know what the drivers make of it though!)

That's interesting. Will have to check out the price of sunflower hearts though. Can redpolls and siskins get at the Niger seed easily? The slits in the feeder are very small, presumably so that the tiny seeds don't fall out?

No, I just hoped you were OK.

Hope you are OK now, lavender 27?

Brulysses Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- .they short turn out fine as long as > they are not Ficus, which are a pain in the butt > to look after! In my experience, anyway, the thing with Weeping Figs (and probably other Ficus) is that they don't like changes of conditions. So if they suddenly drop all their leaves it is usually because something has changed, eg a significant temperature change. The leaves do grow back, but it depends whether you want to look at a load of bare twigs for weeks until they do :))

Sadly we can't make this one, have a gig that night :(

How you look after them will depend on what kind of plants they are. Do they have a label with the name on? If not, can you post a picture?

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I agree with ed_pete, why the need to escalate it > off topic baring in mind the situation being > discussed here? Just drop it Sue. > I think it is a great pity when any thread, whatever the topic, descends into unwarranted personal attacks and name-calling. And a great pity when it seems to be a greater forum crime to point this out than to be offensive in the first place. It isn't pedantry and it isn't arguing - it's asking for, and hoping for, courtesy and respect towards other posters on here. Anyway, glad to see that a burglar has recently been caught, and I hope you have recovered from your nasty experience, buddug.

Do you actually know what a troll is, buddug? How is asking whether anybody thought of calling the police, in response to a post about suspicious behaviour where the police were never mentioned, in any way trolling? It seems like an obvious question to me! And it wasn't directed specifically at you. Unfortunately it seems that you are determined to be inflammatory on here by calling people names, not them. Maybe read over your own recent posts and consider who has actually taken the thread off topic?

What previous posts? Please give examples if you are going to accuse people of being trolls.

Sorry but I think you are out of order calling them trolls and judgmental f*cks. They didn't "jump on you". In fact rendelharris specifically said s/he didn't want to be judgmental. Why are you trying to make something out of nothing? They were making a very fair point based on the information which they had. I understand you have had a probably very frightening experience, but maybe don't take it out on people on here? ETA: And "the two of them are always doing this" ?!?! Examples please. I haven't noticed either of them trolling or being judgmental in any way.

Bugdug, to be fair, you didn't mention in your post that you had called the police. I hardly think the people you are criticising were trolling. Both rendelharris and singalto are regular and respected posters on this forum. Good on you for what you did, but how were they supposed to know?

Just keep on drinking alcohol :))

rigbydan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi All > > North Cross Road Market is nominated at this > year's Annual Markets Awards. > > Voting takes just a few seconds, just click on the > link below and put in ?North Cross Road? - it's > easy... > > http://www.nabma.com/britainsfavouritemarket/ > > Hurry, voting closes on the 12th January. I'm getting an Error 404 from these links, saying the page no longer exists. And I can't see anywhere to actually vote, only to submit a nomination, which asks for all sorts of info? http://www.nabma.com/great-british-market-awards/

Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can't just throw random bits of metal in the > blue bin. RTFM! I do! It's always been taken!

It's clearly set up, sadly. No traffic in sight. It must have been the early hours, not "chucking out time". Still mildly amusing though .....

Rosetta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have had delivery people leave items on my front > step, so lobbing it over a back gate seems secure > to me. Years ago I had a parcel left on my front wall. It wasn't there when I got home. It contained a book entitled something like "How to get things for free" :)) Another time I returned home to a delivery slip saying "Your parcel is in the bin." It was. Luckily it wasn't rubbish collection day :))

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >Remember > that you will need to know what carat (purity) > your gold and silver are. > Thanks. I've got absolutely no idea. It's stuff that's been kicking about for years. I assumed they must have some way of telling!

If you bought the house from a relative of the deceased owner, might they not know who Trixie is?

Thanks for the explanation, Foxy!! Glad the dog is OK.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A multitude of solutions here:- > https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=scrap+metal+SE+L > ondon&oq=scrap+metal+SE+London&aqs=chrome..69i57j0 > l5.9632j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#dlnr=1 Do you know if this kind of place also deals in relatively small amounts of gold and silver, or if not where would be a place to take it which will give me a fair price? It's basically old and broken jewellery.