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Thanks Ladymuck, that's the message I've had a few times, and as you say only since the upgrade - does seem to be a problem at the server end rather than at our end then.

Eh? I hope that's not a virus (6)

I ventured out today, a bit dizzy and weak but not needing to lie down. Wonder if it is a variant of flu and hit me less hard because I had a flu jab? I usually get these things harder and longer than everyone else, much to my embarrassment when I was working .....

Yeh about to start on the wine :))

Three days sounds better than weeks - though having taken to my bed yesterday I am still bundled up in a duvet on the sofa scarcely able to make a cup of tea (pause for noises of sympathy) :D

Well there's Lacon Road, or there's a Macon Court in Crewe according to Google. You could try Southwark Council's website or the Royal Mail postcode finder?

OMG! WEEKS?!?!?!NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I've only just got over sinusitis, why do I always get things at bloody CHRISTMAS?!?!?!?!?! When the spinning started yesterday I couldn't even make it downstairs because I felt so dizzy and sick I thought I might fall downstairs :-S

Just got a message again unable to connect to EDF server, and connection timed out. This hasn't happened with any other websites? It reconnected quickly this time, but it's a bit worrying.

In bed in South Norwood, about to get up to go to work, heard it on the news :-S Went to work and repeated a sick joke about it and my boss nearly killed me .....

I get all my bird food online. Fat balls, peanuts and seed in bulk. Delivered to the door. Only downside is having to store it in mouseproof containers under my kitchen table, as nowhere else to put it

jaybee82 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seconded for Kebab and Wine. I've heard there is > an 'even further back' bar where that sort of > caper goes on... xxxxxx You must mean that hideous toilet at the bottom of the stairs?? :))

Pandemonium. Jah Lush, :))

Starts off as if you're getting a cold (sore throat for a couple of days, slight runny nose) then sudden onset of dizziness/nausea/having to lie down? I'm hoping it's a bug going round and not some other hideous illness.......

mlteenie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Train to London Bridge 12 mins - train from London > Bridge to Brighton 1 hour. xxxxxx This is what I do - less hassle. May depend on where abouts in ED you are, eg whether at the Forest Hill end. I have a shortish walk to ED station. Coming back from Brighton via a change at Croydon has always been an absolute nightmare in my experience. ETA: And yes, hanging about cold deserted stations when changing trains at night is not my idea of fun either. Also, the less (fewer?) changes you have, the less chance of things going wrong or cancelled trains. ETA: It may seem odd to go South via going North, but if the journey is easier it makes sense to me. Also may be slightly more expensive but I think not much.

This all seems to be getting quite complex now :-S Perhaps it might be better to let people help their neighbours on an ad hoc basis rather than to put it on such a formal footing?

Saffron Wrote: > there is a genuine project for providing this kind > of work for recently released prisoners. xxxxxxx Seems a strange kind of work to give to ex-offenders, depending on what their offence was of course. Let's hope not breaking and entering. What are they selling/hoping to sell? Not teatowels again, surely??

Dorothy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I moved here in 1996 and am certain that the > black-fronted shop with the long lace net curtains > was there on North Cross Road even then. xxxxxxx I moved here in 1991 and I don't remember that shop/house, though admittedly my memory is crap :)) I remember a butcher, a newsagent, a cobbler and a Greek deli in North Cross Road, all of which have long gone.

tallulah71 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good for you. xxxxxx I'd have said it was more Good for Them, but then that would have been too nice for you to post, I guess :)

I was out of London last weekend, but wasn't Santa's Grotto at the indoor market in Zenoria Street (?) off Lordship Lane supposed to be having live reindeer? Did it??

tallulah71 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > they're not the friendliest of people. xxxxxxx I've always found them helpful and friendly, and they went to enormous lengths to track something down for me to replace something I'd bought there and lost, which their supplier no longer made. And I wasn't even buying it from them.

Thanks both, that's useful. Seems I can't expect to get more than 6 so I suppose 5.5 ish isn't too bad :-S

Where is the exchange located exactly? Which bit of Lordship Lane? Thanks.

amyw Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > is that really nx road? whereabouts on it? xxxxxxx At the beginning of the video, I think the row of shops on the right is around about where the pet shop is. Bear in mind this was filmed a long time ago :)

louisiana Wrote: > > Presumably you're wondering about a reduction in > number of years required? xxxxxxxx No, I'm wondering whether, having already reached pension age (as it is at the moment for women ie 60), I am likely to be eligible for this future proposed massive state pension which future pensioners are going to get, or whether I am stuck with what I'm due at the moment (6)

A green paper on the proposed future of state pensions was supposed to be published in November. Anybody know anything about this? I've deferred claiming my state pension pro tem (much good though I'm sure that's going to do me) in case there's a miniscule chance I might end up better off, and I need to know what the latest is - though I suspect there will be a two-tier system and people my age will just be told "tough, you're still on the old system". Before anyone tells me, yes I know I will get a bigger monthly pension anyway by deferring it, but it will still be lower than it should be because I was a student for too long :-$ and nobody ever told me there was a cap on the number of years your NI payments were waived, or whatever the technical term is, whilst you are a student :-$