PeckhamRose

IGNORE THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's an advert or a bot or something.

Satnavs eh? Pahhh I live on the Nunhead side of Peckham Rye and came across a car round the back of Torridge Gardens. The driver asked me where the cafe was in the park as their satnav had told them to come down Torridge Gardens. I said, couldn't you see the park on your right as you drove up here? TYhey said they had. I said, did you not see the road leading IN to the park? They said yes.

In the mid eighties there were no bollards down Peckham Rye East side. No zebra crossing either. But neither was there a traffic lights at the junction with East Dulwich Road. Also also one was able to get from Nunhead to Somerton/Waveney without having to use that busy crossroads, so traffic moved more easily to get where we needed to go. Then the side roads were closed off to traffic so everyone had to get to that junction. It became busier so traffic lights were put in. We begged them at that time to put a right filter light in, but after years and years they are finally asking us if we'd like that right filter light put in. They didn't ask us about all the other stuff done in the past! I do hope lots of you will vote on these forms.

Um, no. "Rose's original supplier wss a shop that sells office equipment. They don't manufacture computers I'm afraid. She had a Toshiba and so it's likely they would have arrived installed with the OEM software. " I originally said on page one, "My current laptop is a Toshiba but was put together by E&M as above; ie 6 month old versions of various bits all put together in one laptop at about half the price (maybe that's why they went out of business!) I think they call it 'reconditioned'?"

Oh well done fellow east-of-the-rye!

And I am mighty grateful acm. To be fair, I use Word, Excel, Outlook Express and that's it. And if I bought something else how would I get everything on THIS to the New one? And E&M did everything legal. probably why they went out of business..... I need face to face not interface) meeting with a specialist but will kill more puppies rather than go to PC World.

Well it's a good discussion but I am not going for election, indeed have just voted myself on my voting forms for the governors. I believe it's every three years, I may be in a better place then to reconsider. including reconsidering whether I could do a better job than those already in post!

The problem is being able to read my older documents, scripts etc, on that Word software. Which reminds me, someone asked to read an old script of mine. I searched on this and my old laptop then realised it was still on 3.5 inch disc!

I am a cat person. And not those fecking MEERCATS either. Anyway, back to that laptop. Can't work out if any come with Office or do I always have to pay an extra ?250 or so for it to be added on.

Ha! I am also planning on fighting re the car park. And I don't have a car! This thread is good for having highlighted the snobbish holier than thou hypocrites than populate the society and needs to be eradicated out via eugenics. Sorry, I mean they need to be "educated".

I would feel ashamed and feel pretty small. But I don't earn much money and can't afford those morals. And nobody dies. I'll sleep tonight. I shall never, however, ever be seen shopping at Primark. Promise.

I did tell John Lewis what I was doing and gave them the opportunity to match the proven price I was buying on line. I reminded them of their Never Knowingly Undersold. They still refused. So their loss.

I had no idea that their salaries was not a matter of public knowledge. I was considering applying to be a governor but the time is not right for me but in the next round I may, and may if I win election try and get this changed. I have accounts with Nationwide Building Society and just got sent voting forms, and the non exec directors salaries were published within the literature. That was scary, given four local branches have been closed down. Anyway, thanks for your time educating us all, Alex K!

acm, your recommended sounds like a better version of what I now have but one still has to buy Office professional which I believe comes in at something like ?250. Yikes! I bought my current Toshiba reconditioned laptop about 8 years ago with it already loaded - for ?400 total and with bluetooth.

Thinking further, I am wondering if I want the same but better (ie a faster better Toshiba laptop) because that is what I am used to, or do I need to be made aware of "excellent/better but different" (ie tablet). I suppose this could refer to many aspects of our lives: partners, environments! I hope this thread could be useful for all of us to hear opinions on different choices. I shall also go to John Lewis as mentioned above. They must realise that people go there for advice then buy on line somewhere else. I did that with my washing machine and even their on line price was a lot more expensive than where I got it from eventually. "Never Knowingly Undersold" is so not true, because I told them I was getting it cheaper elsewhere and they did not care!

Yes it does look rather small. I have contact lenses prescription of +10.75! Don't make it worse!

As a member of Asthma UK, I highly welcome what you are doing. I shall assume you are contacting Asthma UK for their help too. I am on their volunteer list but they also have lots of volunteers who may be able to contribute to this very important research. http://www.asthma.org.uk/index.html I would love to read the finished piece!

I am so grateful for your time and references and ideas. Pink was a JOKE!!!!!!!! Because I spend a lot of time on my laptop I do want something bigger than a notebook but lighter than what I have, and I accept tablets (as someone who has to take 6 tablets a day, having one to carry round with me all the time is quite amusing...) may not be appropriate either. I am checking out acm's references and will think on. I DO, however, need bluetooth facility which my current laptop has, and I need its ability to be able to connect via my BT Internet connection, and thereafter when away from home, through BT Fon when available.

As much as I despise those sorts of papers, chances are the folks who were there 10 years ago are not there now. And anyway, also chances are many people in ED don't read that paper or am I making assumptions? Either way, I don't think it will make any difference. If people did not read those papers, Murdoch et al would not create them.

Grateful to everyone. Not just browsing and email, but certainly don't need it for games. I think a visit to John Lewis is on the cards. Get their thoughts, then buy cheaper on dabs and the like.

Call the police Safer Neighbourhood Team (and it's this reason I hoped my earlier post would be stickied) but if you look in the LOCAL INFO tab above right, you will find the number for your area.

Hi BasemCigar I hope you can add to the discussion. I also hope other folks can talk about them here so we can all share experiences and opinions.

Thank you. BT Vision has iPlayer / playback on all the channels. It's why I love it! But tnanks for all the other hints. I would rather go in to a shop than look on line, actually ask a human specialist. That's why I am asking you lovely lot. But I would go ANYWHERE but PC World for this.

I Do Not Know That.

I was only kidding, ff-hake. :)