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My post was removed by admin when I suggested the same thing earlier, on the grounds that I was being unfriendly to a first time poster :)) ETA: Oh, it seems to have been reinstated :)

That's amazing - but there only seems to be one available so better be quick if you want it :)

Strange first post. Why don't you just ask them if they're closing, instead of referring to something a "little bird" told you?

If there was an ambulance there as well that doesn't sound too good :( Well done wmac for going to see what was going on rather than just ignoring a cry for help.

puwetter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They are the Chinese lanterns when I saw it first > time I thought the same:) xxxxx Same here! Was convinced it was a UFO :))

AmiRobertson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Regarding looking for a gardener called Richard!! > It's an emergency they have deadlocked a door to a > house I need to get into to feed the owners snake > and give it water!! xxxxxxx If you can't track down the gardener, can you not ask a locksmith for a duplicate key? The one which used to be in Lordship Lane has moved to Melbourne Grove (I think). But surely the house should be deadlocked anyway for security when it is empty?

Yes it's a frog. That's why I edited my post above to say it's a frog :) Sadly I gave it a fright today when I went to say hello. Maybe it was my bright orange tee shirt :( Anyway, it leaped off its perch and disappeared into the depths of the tub :(

Dopamine1979 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not sure if it's a frog or toad but I do > reckon your bathtub needs a good cleaning. > > :) xxxxxx It certainly does, but even I would draw the line at keeping taddies and a frog in it :))

Anyone know if this is a frog or a toad? He (or she) suddenly appeared in my tub today, and I don't want to pick him up in case I frighten him. Or possibly one of my toadpoles has eaten all the rest of them and has suddenly become very large ..... :)) ETA: Apparently it's a frog ....

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > :-O are you physic? xxxxxx Very scientific :))

Poor bees :(

Shouldn't the police be asking questions of the people who buy platinum scrap? Or am I just naive? ETA: Sorry about your car.

Fox, you can often get a quite expensive phone on a relatively cheap contract, but if you then lose the phone you still have to continue the contract and so you have to replace the phone (though obviously you could replace it with a cheaper phone).

jgray923 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy > > "once you see a knife unfortunately you have no > real choice but to hand your stuff over" > > That could not be more true, people say why didn't > you do this and that, but when a knife is being > thrust at you it is very much just do what you > need to do! xxxxxxx Absolutely. Many years ago my sister was mugged in Kennington in broad daylight. She hung onto her bag and was slashed across the hand with a knife (and then let the bag go). Bad enought, but she was lucky it wasn't very much worse. But the trouble is, in a situation like that you act from instinct and instinct may not lead you to do the safest thing :( I can't remember whether she was aware that the guy had a knife, though :(

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Amusement Arcade? When was the last time you saw > one of those open on a high street? > xxxxxxx There was one open in Lordship Lane until not so long ago. I can't remember the exact location, but it was in the row of shops somewhere between HSBC and Goose Green. Where the new French cafe is now, perhaps? ETA: Sorry Jeremy, just saw your post ....

When I renewed my home insurance I made sure I had cover for my mobile included on that. I got a new phone recently, and the contract came with "free one month insurance" - and, of course, then twenty three months of extortionate payments which they were hoping I wouldn't notice. They just hope people won't cancel (which I did - earlier today). As with many things, if you can try to put aside a certain amount a month yourself, it's a better bet than insurance because if you don't need to use it for what you've put it aside for, you've still got the money - whereas with insurance, the money is just lining somebody else's pockets. But I can understand that if you've got a very expensive phone and you lose it after a short time, that may not work if you've not built up enough money to replace it and don't have any other money you can use.

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Once you had all the contacts on your phone, the > 2000 or whatever, just let them be (if you do it > again). Better too many surely. xxxxxxxx No was total overload, people I had never heard of, people I had totally forgotten and a load of rubbish. I feel a lot better now I have clutter cleared the contacts :)) Now I've got another problem - my emails are arriving with links which I can't click on. Any suggestions for sorting?

AM, I think it was my fault. I had never edited my google contacts, and yes the phone automatically synched/synced? but there were nearly 2000 of them and then when I deleted them from the phone the phone couldn't cope for some reason. It would be far too long to go into all the ins and outs of what I did after that, but I'm pretty sure it was my fault and not the phone's. I went into some of it in the OP :)) :)) :)) I think part of the problem is I now have a motorola ID which is automatically recognised even after a factory reset, so I no longer have the option to transfer my old phone contacts directly via motorola migrate because the ID is automatically synching with gmail when I set the phone up. That would happen even if I got a new handset. Anyway, I'm reasonably happy with the situation at the moment. The phone is very much better than the old one, in fact it's faster than my ancient laptop :))

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If that was a short story Sue what would a long > one be? I couldn't read it all. How did you get > on? xxxxxxxx Yeh, sorry, a long one would have been much longer :) I've done a workaround. Not ideal. The Motorola helpline has suggested another solution but it would involve yet another visit to an EE shop so I'm sticking with what I've got for the moment. Now I've just got to reinstall all my apps one by one to find out which one was preventing me sending or receiving any texts, GRRRRRRR.

I have found another (sort of) workaround which is to copy over all my text threads, and where just a mobile number is shown, look on my old phone to see who it was (if it's not obvious), then create a new contact on the new phone. A pain but possibly less of a pain :( ETA: Sort of sorted it now ...... sort of .....

This is driving me mad. I was on a live help thing for five and a half hours (sic) yesterday, then visited an EE shop, both ended by concluding there was a software glitch and I should send the handset back (which I have one more day to do) but I think it's a gmail thing and a new phone would have exactly the same problem. The old phone is an Orange San Diego, the new one is a Moto G LTE (4G). I set the new one up when I got it and migrated the contacts, texts etc from my old phone using Motorola Migrate, which appeared to work perfectly. However at some point I must have accidentally checked a box to sync my contacts with my gmail contacts, resulting in nearly two thousand gmail contacts appearing on my phone :( which appear to be everybody I have ever emailed or who has emailed me :( I deleted all those from my phone, but then all the boxes in my gmail account on the phone where I could tick or untick sync with gmail disappeared. Then after first going onto the helpline, I moved contacts by moving sim cards about from the old phone to the new phone and doing the importing/exporting thing. Very long story short, I then got a notification on my phone saying that my deletion limit had been exceeded. So last night I deleted all except 300 of my gmail contacts (on my laptop) and this morning I started again and did a factory reset on the new phone. But there now seems no option on Motorola Migrate to do anything except sync my contacts via gmail again, rather than getting them off the old phone. I tried to put the old phone sim in again and export the contacts from there, but now there seem to be all the thousands of original gmail contacts on the ******* old phone sim, plus duplicated contacts from the phone itself. Irritatingly, the old phone is showing perfectly all the contacts I want transferred. A workaround (which will take a very long time) is to delete virtually all my gmail contacts on my laptop, then input manually all the contacts presently on my old phone. Is there some other way? I can't see how a new handset would be any better than the factory reset I've now done twice :( I just seem to have made matters worse over and over again :( I'm going away now to have a quiet scream in a corner :( ETA: I've googled deleting contacts from a Sim card (the old one), and it seems there is no way to do it. Also, apparently this new phone will not save contacts to its sim card because they are all saved in the ether somewhere. So I can't put the new sim card into the old phone and transfer the contacts that way. ETA: I've also toyed with the idea of buying the cheapest pay as you go sim card I can find, and starting again with exporting the contacts from my old phone to it, and then importing them to the new phone from that sim card. But it would probably take me longer to go and get the new sim card than just to type them all in manually, AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH ETA: Actually, I need a new sim card for an old phone I use purely for a voicemail for Goose purposes, as the old one seems to have stopped working probably due to disuse, so maybe that is the answer unless anybody can suggest an easier way which I have overlooked? God I hate gmail sometimes.

PennyDreadful Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah yes, just seen your newsletter giving this > project a mention - fantastic! xxxxxxx Newsletter goes out to over a thousand people, and goes on Twitter too, and it was retweeted by Shirley Collins! (and by Martin Simpson, though I think that was more because he's headlining our next concert ... :) ) Hope they make their target .... ETA: Less than ?2000 to make now, with six days to go.

Thanks for reminding me about this, I'll mention it in a Goose newsletter :) http://www.thegooseisout.com

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you want to boycott them because they don't pay > their staff enough then great, but I hope you've > done your homework about every other business you > use. xxxxxx Yep.

Mattsoper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I order online > instead from Crocus or Beth Chatto - which can > work out a fair amount more expensive, but they > have a much better range of plants. xxxxxxx Crocus are excellent - very wide choice, the plants arrive very well packaged and in good condition, and the customer service is excellent too. They are not cheap, but they are worth the money in my opinion. They've got a sale on at the moment: http://www.crocus.co.uk/ I didn't know Beth Chatto did online sales, but I've been to her garden/nursery and the plants on sale there were very good too.