civilservant

I like Dirty Dancing and Jackie Brown. The Piano on the other hand was "utter pewk". And I can't stand Woody Allen.

going back to the voting rights of Scottish MPS in Westminster (west Lothian question), the issue becomes a lot simpler and even a non-issue. one consequence of Scotland leaving the UK would be that the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster will disappear or be subsumed into the Scottish Parliament. Its only a question of when that happens

numbers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > what about that hedge fund manager who dodged > paying fares for about 5 years. he had a good > innings. > http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-worst-fare-dodger-revealed-3958165

actually, I've come to appreciate slugs and snails. Because they eat the fox poo, I don't have to clear it out of the garden! They eat weeds and plant cuttings too, so I don't have to work hard to bag garden waste up and then hope that the council takes it away. I've found that if they've got a decent supply of decaying vegetation, they'll generally leave live plants alone.

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was reading an article that made an interesting > point that has been glossed over in all of this. This is the 'West Lothian question' - first posed by the late lamented Tam Dalyell in 1977 The antique table story, although it's a rubbish parable, does make a valid point - why can't England (and Wales) also have a say in whether Scotland stays or goes. But frankly I'm finding it difficult to get excited about it all

from my own experience at age 10, I know that the best way to get your child to read a book is to tell them not to! also from my own experience, I know that if one's not old enough to 'get' it, then one won't 'get' it (having read Lady Chatterley's Lover at a very unsuitable age and then finding a very different book when I returned to it some years later...) One of my problems with Twilight is the passive female role-models, but I have to confess that I haven't read them properly because I find them so impossibly crap. The Hunger Games on the other hand offers girls a template for a positive self-image, besides lessons about friendship, trust, redemption and other good stuff. The violence is designed to reel them in and keeps them wanting more!

see this thread as well http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,1002932,1004168#msg-1004168

barbecues?

... or even just say 'hi!'

my edit cross-posted with PokerTime

seconded and here I was thinking that the climate had changed enough for people to be able to finally come forward with their story and expect to be given a fair hearing - but not, it seems, in parts of ED. As for a focus on celebs, a bit of a red herring, steveo. Many of the oldest men in prison at the moment are serving time for crimes similar to those committed by Rolf, Stuart Hall, Gary Glitter, Jimmy Saville, Cyril Smith... although no doubt on a smaller scale. So why should celebs be exempt from justice? Edited to add - according to a Ministry of Justice publication from 2012, "since 1993 the sentenced population for sexual offences has risen by over 7,000. (...) Following the introduction of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, the numbers sentenced rose by 31% from 2004 to 2011. Over the same period the average custodial sentence length rose by over 13 months (particularly driven by increases in sentence lengths for the most serious sexual offences). Higher volumes being sentenced, and longer average sentence lengths have combined to drive the increase in the prison population for sexual offences."

very sorry to hear this - we often wondered about the funny little Grumpy Cat with the pirate collar that we often encountered on Ulverscroft or Fellbrigg and once shared a table with in Blue Brick Cafe

Sue, found this on RSPB website - posting from 2007 http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/expert/previous/hedges.aspx "We do not recommend cutting or removing hedges or trees between the months of March and August. Light pruning to neaten up a hedge from straggly shoots should not be damaging to nesting birds but the use of power tools and vigorous cutting and can be very destructive. ...The best time cut a hedge is generally autumn or if it is a berry bearing species, early spring but no matter when you do it, always check first. Blackbirds can start breeding as early as February if the weather is favourable. It is normal for a blackbird to have up to three broods in a season, this activity can go on until late summer, sometimes even into autumn. Other species like the robin, song thrush, dunnock and wren are also common hedge nesting birds among many others that may be vulnerable from hedge cutting."

"mentee"

done (pleased to see a well-designed experiment and questionnaire for a change!)

Some stories have happy endings after all - we are very pleased at the good news

see this post about some ferrets whose owner lives near CP Road http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?31,909090,909113#msg-909113 I've tried the phone number listed and it's not accepting calls, though edited to say I've PM-ed the poster in case it's her ferret

This is a long-term solution, and you would need the space to accommodate it, but could you plant a tree to the south of your house? Short of that, I'd second others' suggestions to keep curtains/blinds firmly closed against the sun during the day and to encourage a draught through the house after dark by opening front and back windows - but also think about the security issue!

I don't understand - can someone please explain to me why rats and pigeons in the park are a problem?

Good to know they're still going - DD was an infant scientist 10 years ago! Highly recommended from me too.

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I love cutting through Green Dale on my way to Denmark Hill, but haven't ever seen/heard quite such a variety of birds. Maybe it's the Bank Holiday that brings them all out! Speaking of nests - I leave the combings from our dog in the garden, and by the end of the day, it's all been taken to line nests. It's very funny seeing a tiny blue tit flying off carrying a ball of dog-fluff amost as bit as itself!

if you don't want to buy a ticket every time you travel with him, you need to get him his own child Oyster photocard - I think forms are available in Post offices. The rules on ticketing for children are quite complex, but to summarise - although he will probably need to pay child fare on trains, he will travel free on TfL i.e. Underground, Overground and buses, IF he is travelling with an adult. He will need to pass through the gate with the adult, though, because if he swipes his own Oyster card on a Tube ticket gate, it will assume that he is travelling alone (it won't obv know that he is only 5!) and will deduct a child-travelling-alone-fare from it. When our daughter was little, she wanted to show that she was a big girl and could pass through the gate on her own, and we didn't realise for some time why we needed to top up her Oyster card so frequently! More info on http://visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/help-centre/travelling-with-children.html

John Grant at the Roundhouse earlier this month

another letter on its way to Dame Tessa thanks for the heads-up, DF