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edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Without bad design, bad commissioning, bad project > management, and bad implementation there would be > no remedial contracts. > > John K xxxxxxx How cynical! But I'm sure you're right.

Bidding is much easier if you use a sniping website like JustSnipe. It's free if you don't use it too often. I've almost always won stuff I've bid for using it - the only time I didn't, my maximum bid was far too low, but I didn't want to pay the price the item finally went for anyway. I've generally got things much cheaper than I would have done if I'd bid openly (and therefore pushed the price up). I know it seems unfair, but it's allowed by eBay.

ratty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the nuns head has live music tonight xxxxxx Yes it has. Starts 9pm. Don't know what the rest is but Filthy Boy who are headlining are excellent, from what I've seen of them on YouTube. We're going. It's free.

There's a good band headlining at The Old Nun's Head tonight - Filthy Boy. I think the live music starts at 9pm and Filthy Boy are on at 10.45pm I think. It's upstairs. No idea what the other music will be like though. Good food and drink at the Nun, too :)

otter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sorry but I think you are missing the point xxxxxxx It isn't clear who you are saying is missing the point? Not me I hope as your post follows mine?

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OK - just pure speculation here, to make a point - > but, what if he had been crying for help because > he wanted another drink, or another fix, or > someone to give him a job, or a home, or his wife > back? There are so many reasons to cry for help - > that's why I suggested that if someone who had had > the time could listen to him it might help. But > until you know the cause, you have no way of > knowing the cure, and in some instances a cure > isn't in anyone's gift. The proximate and > immediate help you (society) can give someone in > acute clinical depression (assuming that's what > was the matter) is medical - once that's > refused... xxxxxxx According to a post above the man is schizophrenic, not depressed. They're completely different illnesses. And to "speculate" that he was "crying for help" because he "wanted another drink, or another fix" is just rude. ETA: To the best of my knowledge, which admittedly is somewhat out of date, schizophrenia is not helped by "listening". It is helped by medication. If the person refuses medication then there is little anybody can do, unless he were to be sectioned.

I live a few streets away from Crawthew Grove, off North Cross Road, and I definitely don't want a residents' parking scheme. If memory serves I was consulted about it at the time, and said the same thing then - as I presume did most other people, otherwise we'd have one.

I found this book (What Color Is Your Parachute?) very helpful many moons ago, although the author is American as you can tell by the spelling, and I don't know whether these days there are English references as well. No idea if it still is helpful, but it seems to have good reviews on Amazon judging by the star rating (I haven't read them). http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2013/dp/1607741474

Katy Tonbridge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just saw a couple of trees with lots of dead > leaves on Dog Kennel Hill (towards the top). A > reminder that trees need water too - do water your > local tree, especially if it's young. xxxxxx Sadly some trees have dead leaves because they are diseased :( Horse Chestnut is one where there have been problems in the UK over the last few years :(

gedwina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi everybody - very happy as just spotted a frog / > toad in my new half barrell pond! Can anybody help > I'd this? Thought I hadn't seen as many slugs this > year xxxxxx Great picture! Congrats on your frog!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Will need to be sorted out especially if the new > business (I hear it's McDonalds) attracts lots of > pedestrians. xxxxx McDonalds? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Where did you hear that, KK??

They will if you put it in a bin bag, tie up the top and put it in your green bin :))

They're late for their supper.

If it bothers you why don't you speak to the people who you think are feeding your cat, ask them to stop and explain why? Is your cat just greedy, or is it possible that you are underfeeding him? Or are people forcing food on him? Surely the person who catnapped him can't have realised he was your cat? That would be theft! Surely she must have thought he was a stray? I've twice "rescued" cats who turned out not to be strays at all, much to my embarrassment. In the first case I saw a poster and immediately went to tell the owner that I had her cat, upon which she accused me of stealing him!!! If I was a thief I would hardly have let her know about it!!!. I feed/look after a few cats in this area when their owners are on holiday, and recently fed a couple of beautiful Burmese cats for a week (in their own home). They live a few doors down from me, and now they have taken to coming into my house (if the back door is open) and mewing loudly at the back door (if it is closed). I have only ever fed them in their own home, so I'm unsure whether they are after food or attention - I do chuck them out of the house each time, but I then give them a cuddle in the garden :) I think it's nice that so many people like cats :)

buddug Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- They and us should be rioting in the > streets xxxxxx The relatively recent riots showed how quickly things can spread once the touchpaper has been lit. I wasn't joking when I talked about a revolution. There's a limit to how much people can take, and a limit to how long people can ignore what's going on/turn a blind eye. The cutbacks to basic services for vulnerable people are happening at the same time as others are lining their pockets at our expense. Actually I think what we're seeing is the collapse of this civilisation, and what's happening in this country is a manifestation of that. Hopefully I shan't be around to see the worst of it :(

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Putting aside the broader points for a moment, but > when did this government cut taxes? xxxxxxx I wasn't talking about this government. I was talking about a previous Tory government who cut income tax. Can't remember exactly when but it must have been either late eighties or early nineties?

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just out of interest Food Banks are:- > > (a) staffed by volunteers > (b) resourced (i.e materials handed out) through > donations > > Which are both quite positive things to say about > our society and > > © substantially exist to help out those who have > been caught-out by unforseen circumstances - > either through a sudden large non-discretionary > expenditure or because they are in a transition > status waiting for benefits to be paid. That is to > say that they exist as a safetly net to catch > those who are not being helped 'in the normal > manner'. However good the welfare and benefits > system is, there will always be anomalies and > sudden emergencies. > > Efficient food banks are a valuable addition to > the welfare and benefits system - and those who > staff them (and who fund them through donations in > cash and in kind) deserve thanks and praise. They > are, in many ways, a symptom of a healthy, not a > sick society. > > By all means rant on from the comfort of your > internet mediated lives, but for those of us who > have lived through 4 major down-turns - one of > which, in the 1970s - was substantially worse than > anything we have now, your fears of revolution are > misplaced. > > What funds the welfare state is effective > capitalism, of course there are examples where > this has gone off the rails (and the market > economy works on a long-run basis, with many > short-term hiccups) and of course the 'too big to > fail' banks need re-structuring - but remember > that where a bank does really fail - there are a > lot of little people (both those whose pension > funds have invested, those who themselves have > deposits and those who work in the banks) who > would have been terminally burned by such a > failure. It is the mark of a 'welfare state' > economy that the hardships of the many can be > shared (through taxation) across an even greater > number to lessen their impact. > > Or would you have been happy to be paying less tax > so that those whose pension funds had invested in > RBS and BoS and those who had deposits with BoS > and RBS should be beggarised and now be looking > forward to a life of penury, and those who work in > those banks would be unemployed and ditto? Bit of > a run on food banks then, I would guess. xxxxxx I guess you voted Tory then, Penguin68? Yes things may have been bad for some people in the 70s. There was high unemployment and in fact when I graduated - how lucky was I to be a student then, btw - I wasn't able to get a job in my field, but if memory serves (and I'm in my sixties so I remember the time well) the welfare state was not being steadily dismantled in the way that appears to be happening now. In your haste to defend capitalism you appear to have missed my point. Can we take it that you are OK with rich people getting ever richer and those at the bottom of the heap getting ever poorer? I would be only too happy to be pay more tax as it happens, if I thought it was going to be spent in a decent way. I didn't vote for the bloody party who got elected on the basis of promising income tax cuts. What did people think was going to pay for schools and the NHS, and look what's happening now. But nobody can put tax up again now because it would be electoral disaster. I'm going out now, GRRRRRR. ETA: And if you think it's POSITIVE that food banks are staffed by volunteers and sourced by donations, you must be barking. People shouldn't be put in such dire straits that food banks have to exist at all, and if they do have to exist then the bloody government should be funding and staffing them. We'll have Lady Bountifuls going among the poor handing out crusts next.

mfcjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > How far have we sunk in this country that we > now > > need foodbanks? > > > > And meanwhile there are the fat pigs raking in > > millions for heading up failing organisations, > and > > a frenzy over a newborn privileged royal. > > > > Next it will be the return of the Poor House. > I'm > > ashamed to be English. xxxx > > This is so true, this governbent should be > ashamed, alas they don't give a toss, the tories > won't be happy until the > NHS is gone and everything is sold to their rich > pal's, this Country is F****D. xxxxxx I genuinely think that if things carry on like this, there will be some kind of revolution. The poor are being trodden on harder and harder to shore up financially the mistakes of the rich, who don't give a s***. The Olympics brought back a bit of hope, but it feels like that's long gone, and the government isn't even building on the good feeling generated by the Olympics by supporting sport (not that I'm particularly into sport, but it feels symbolic somehow). Sorry I know this isn't directly about food banks, but this makes me so angry. There are also tubs in some shops now where - after you have done your shopping - you can put in cans of food to be distributed to people in need. This is supposed to be a welfare state. Where are my taxes going? To help out some bloody bank whose CEO has f****d it up and gone off with a platinum handshake, that's where. GRRRRRRRR.

How far have we sunk in this country that we now need foodbanks? And meanwhile there are the fat pigs raking in millions for heading up failing organisations, and a frenzy over a newborn privileged royal. Next it will be the return of the Poor House. I'm ashamed to be English.

I can't believe the fuss about this f****** baby.

That's truly disgraceful. Would it be worth getting a councillor or MP onto the case? And/or Southwark News?

Power steering makes three point turns rather easier these days than when I learned to drive in the sixties :))

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Watch out its not people practicing for the test > :) > > I had to do them hundreds of times - usually same > road. > xxxxxx Surely your driving instructor didn't have you doing three point turns on a main road?!?!?!?

I have noticed more and more lately drivers doing three point turns on main roads or in dangerous places. In almost every case they could just drive a little way further on, take a right and either turn in a side road or depending on the road layout get back onto the main road without having to do a three point turn at all. I realise that's not the case here, but the Champion Park drivers seem to be part of a wider trend :(

Gossip :)