Sue

Absolute pain. I got stuck in this yesterday whilst delivering some boxes of stuff to The Old Nun's Head. It took me as long to drive back home as it did to then walk back to The Old Nun's Head!

You can get electronic devices to deter foxes. No idea if they work though. Some people seem to think they do, some people seem to think they don't. I don't mind the foxes on the whole as I like the idea of wild-ish animals living in Sarf Lahndon, and the sound doesn't really bother me now I know what it is. However I do curse them when they dig large holes in my very small garden, generally around the roots of treasured plants. GRRRRR. It was nice when one year I had a couple of young foxes sleeping where I could see them from the kitchen window :) Coming home late at night we once saw a fox making its way along the roofs of parked cars in Ulverscroft Road :)

jobby1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi all, > Thanks for your suggestions but this was back in > November I was looking and no longer need a > handyman :) xxx Who did you use? Sadly I made the mistake of recommending a very good handyman on here, with the result that he became too busy to come back :)) ETA: I don't mean he'd never have come back, I mean he was booked up for months ahead :(

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How many did you get PaulK? xxxxx I hope a lot telling him to f*** o** (and no, I didn't send one). northlondoner, I agree. I've had several friends over the years with bipolar disorder, but I didn't feel there was anything I could add to the discussion here. But Lady D (and other people who've constructively contributed to the thread), thanks. Maybe you've opened a few people's minds.

Sorted in about a millisecond, thanks so much. I'm blushing profusely.

OMG I've been retired so long I'd forgotten all about PowerPoint! I must have repressed it :)) Yes I do have it on my laptop. Thanks guys!

Not sure whether it's all worth the hassle, but basically I want to project the attached logo onto a (white) screen via my laptop. However I want the logo only, not menus etc, and also it has to be quite large on the screen or it will look ridiculous (it's to replace a backdrop which can't be used in the particular location in the room). When I tried it full screen on my laptop it got distorted to an oval :( Anyone got any ideas? I've also got a psd version of it, but I'm not sure that's any help .... I know how to connect the laptop to the projector, that's not the issue, it's getting a reasonable size logo onto the screen with no distortion and no other stuff appearing as well as the logo..... I'm not too bothered if you can see the lines of the square around the edges ....

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nice beer though. xxxxxx Not if you don't like Youngs :))

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > j5nn Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Thanks guys, > > > > What would you say makes it different to > Brixton? > > > Grass (of the green kind you play football on) xxxxxx Eh? The lovely Brockwell Park is just up the road, as is the park with the windmill in (Blenheim Gardens I think)!

PHILLY Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > looking forward to the hair salon opening , will > save us busy ladies have to go to the West end, or > chelsea to get a decent haircut xxxxxxx You can get an excellent haircut at Kuki, in Bellenden Road - no need to go to the West End or Chelsea :)

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - sarcasm detector a bit rusty, perhaps. xxxxxx Quite likely, especially as I have no idea what you're talking about :)) ETA: KK, there were two daughters, the poor things had to stay down there in the half-light during half term, looking extremely bored and occasionally playing their recorders ..... ETA: Oh DUH I just looked up disco biscuits. What a sheltered upbringing I have had :))

No more proper Nitromors? End of an era!

In theory this is an absolutely brilliant idea. In practice there are all sorts of potential drawbacks, as discussed on the other thread a while ago. Probably better to find an existing scheme like the one Clive_P mentions than try to start another one up.

BeccaL, if they're like the ones I've been to in Oxford, basically everybody takes unwanted stuff to a room (give) and takes what they want to from the room (take). In Oxford they weigh stuff as you leave, then total it all up at the end. That's the amount which has been saved from going to landfill. The ones I've been to, they had all sorts of stuff from furniture via clothes, books, toys etc to a new and unwrapped bog seat! Mostly it was quite good quality. I don't know where the ads are, but I've seen them in the past for the ones at the community centre. ETA: It's not a "swap shop" as such, ie you don't necessarily have to give anything in order to take. I once went to one where they even had things like kids' bikes! It didn't look to me like people were "taking advantage" of the free stuff (ie nobody looked like a dealer).

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I quite like their pies. xxxxxx I once had some nice "liver and bacon" there - except there was no bacon :))

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The Clockhouse keeps getting little face lifts, > but never really changes much. It's a pub that > I've just never really taken to over the years, > and I can't really put my finger on why. xxxxxxx Same here. I want to like it - but I just don't. But then I don't like Young's, which doesn't help ...... ETA: Jimbo 1964 - :))

GIG CB are brilliant. But I thought some of them had moved to France? Is the band still going then? ETA: Actually, Chris Shaw of Gig CB would probably be able to put you in touch with other ceilidh bands even if Gig CB aren't available - I think he did once before when somebody was asking on here. PM me if you want his contact details.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - fact or fiction !!0 xxxxxx Crikey, I had to go back pages to see what you were talking about. Did you mean this? Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm thinking perhaps one unit could be reserved > for a collective that pays an unspecified amount a > month for rent/ membership and swaps records, > other gear, and has all gigs and that. xxxxxx and I wrote Like The Dream Machine used to ..... R.I.P. sad smiley ?? If so - well, reading it again I suppose they weren't a collective, though the same people always seemed to be there and it felt like one!! And people including Nyge and I did contribute to the rent when they were short of money towards the end..... They certainly bought and sold records, music-related books and stuff, and I guess would have swapped things if you'd asked, they were so laid-back as to be horizontal. And they definitely had the occasional gig, not that you could fit many people into such a tiny space. Oh the many happy hours sitting swigging Stella from Boss Man (or if feeling flush a pint from the Palmerston) and listening to interesting music :) I miss just being able to drop in and always see people I knew, it was like being a student again .....

Sorted!

Anybody who refers to a "cheeky" anything. Unless it's a cheek, obviously.

The No Frills Band are very good. They're based around Brixton. They do all sorts of lively folkie stuff. Not really a ceilidh band though. PM me if you want their contact details. If it's specifically a ceilidh band you're after, you could try contacting Cecil Sharp House? Although they're the the ENGLISH folk dance and song society, I'm sure they would be able to point you in the right direction ..... http://www.efdss.org/

Very sorry to hear this. How did they get in?

Blimey, this was an old thread! The person who painted the outside of my house managed to get most of the paint off. Sadly another person who subsequently painted the outside of my neighbour's house then spattered white paint all over the path, my rope tiles next to the path and the plants in pots next to the path ...... C'est la vie ......

Will do. Thanks Net. ETA: Have done. Looks just the kind of style I'm after. Will pursue :)

polla2256 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > they dont always win but its fire and forget. xxxxxx Do you mean they don't always win because they don't get your bid in quickly enough and somebody gets the item cheaper than your maximum bid? Or do you mean they don't always win because somebody else bid more than your maximum bid, in which case that's always a possibility!