PeckhamRose

Ditto re Carl! @Sue - do you think that just maybe there is more than one black lady who works there?

It's crazy on a motorcycle because it's designed like the shared use areas (like the bit outside Sloane Square tube) - if that is the one you're talking about. The other bit where you have to hang almost a hairpin bend left now, is - I hope - yet to be finished, because there are double yellow lines out in to the middle of the road so it looks like you're not technically allowed up there yet! I think I found another main road in SE15 the other day that had yet to have a speed bump in it, but I'm keeping that to myself in case they ruin it and put one in. Traffic calming my arse!

And ask for Carl I think his name is, the black guy with the very friendly manner. He not only didn't hurt at all but treated me as if I was the only person he had seen that day, with plenty of eye contact (not scarily so) and asking about me in a truly friendly manner. His colleague, middle aged black woman, was so rude and took a personal call on her mobile without apology before she had finished with me! And it hurt and she said "Of course it hurts, I just put a needle in you!" Definitely avoid early morning and as above, I went about 11 and waited 5 mins.

I agree, so I ticked the scary man in the second picture then wrote that actually neither of them are scary.

I agree with all you say - we have been going there for aboyt the last 7 of ten years. Last night for a change went to Tower Bridge. Thoroughly exciting!

What do you mean a proper keyboard. They're tablets. I have a laptop. Keep up!

I echo the posts above - I never met him but his posts were a joy to read. Our thoughts are with you and I hope you can take some comfort from how many of us thought so well of him.

Well as a result of the discussion I think I may wait till iPad3 comes out, then 1) either read everyone saying how it's crap and not as good, and so I will buy a cheaper iPad2, or 2) People may say it is much better and I will buy the new iPad3. Or by THAT time the money I currently have will have gone on something else!

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So you like iPod but not iPad? Unless the last word "the" was superfluous!

OK - I am on Pay As You Go, so I haven't a hope, really!

Thanks!!

I have to keep my own number though! I am sick of their little games and they are being accused of not paying taxes. Oh - and my phone can't always get a signal in my own flat even though vodafone told me they were installing a new mast on or near my side of Peckham Rye. Thanks for any input!

Thanks. I do not get this 'tethering' and naively thought there would be rules against that anticompetitiveness! I do not have a smartphone, and sort of feel that if I have an iPad I would not need one. I use my phone as a phone and little else. It does connect to the internet but it will not allow me to connect to BTYahoo for my emails. "This service does not support BTYahoo" is what I get when I try and get my mail. Indeed I will start another thread asking for people's opinions on my alternatives to vodafone. But anyway, BTYahoo have a free app so I could connect to their Fon service which I often do with my laptop when I travel around.

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--- act as satnavs if you can download a satnav App? --- do they easily find wifi connections if you can't be arsed to pay more for the tethered 3G version? I'm earning some decent money at the moment for a change and I am sooooooo tempted! All thoughts please!

Sue, please move on. Looking forward to more information teresar.

So sorry to hear this but yes all of the above. Also worth investing in a webcam device, and a movement sensitive light?

I probably got mine from someone who insisted on being in the waiting room at the surgery rather than taking their advice AND STAYING AT HOME! And those martyrs who insist on going to work when they are clearly infectious and insist on sharing it with everyone on crowded busses and tubes, oh well done! Whinge over.

Done. As Marilyn Monroe said, "I love finding new places to wear diamonds". I don't want mine on me undies thanks!

I agree with MM, it's common in Ireland. Mr PR went in to one such establishment one time and it was in a tiny village miles from everywhere and the Post Office Man said, "Oim so sorry Sor, We're roight out of stsmps - let me buy you a drink to make up for it." Perfectly civilised if you ask me. We can't keep blaming other things/people for the fact people get drunk. The Card Shop and Thorntons Chocolates share a shop in various places which I think highly odd, since who wants chocolate sticky fingermarks all over their cards?! So a post office in a pub, which maybe also sells milk and maybe with a petrol pump outside would be bliss.

It's bizarre. When Extras was on it was a Huge Deal that De Niro appeared, but now it's no surprise when someone comes on. I thought Helena Bonham Carter was fabulous (in anything she does), but when Ricky Gervais writes jokes against himself that a lot of people are thinking but then they come out of the beautifully shaped mouth of Johnny Depp, you still think, genius. Life's Too Short for me is getting boring because Warwick Davis is just playing a short Gervais. The lines are the same, the reactions, the cut-ins and interruptions etc.

No no no. Teabag in mug before the water, and with sugar as necessary - and I find it necessary to put in 2 teaspoons of Demerara in it. Boiling water in mug. Stir the lot. Add semi-skimmed. Biscuit also a necessary extra.

I was at home, Officer, but I don't have an alibi.

Similar to Dryxster I also had a parking ticket from Westminster and the guy had made the Y of my vehicle to look like an X. They must have found my address by using the correct reg no but still accused me of parking a vehicle with X in the reg no. I wrote back and said I would be happy to go to court and affirm that I do not own a vehicle with that reg no (with the X in). Result. Letter arrived saying due to a technical error your case is closed.