Earl Aelfheah

...unless Dave the Cabby is also a proficient amateur Economist. Which he might be of course.

To summarise (apologies, forgot about the paywall): Economists got it wrong about the immediate impact of a vote to leave the EU. The error stemmed from a failure to predict the strength of household consumption following the vote. The assumptions made about household spending were reasonable, but never the less mistaken. Rather than rising, household savings fell throughout 2016. The savings ratio dropped to an extremely low level in the third quarter, as consumers went on a borrowing and spending binge not seen since before the financial crisis. The reasons why this might be should become clearer later in the year. It's worth remembering that any forecast, necessarily involves a degree of guesswork. You have to make assumptions when you're predicting what might happen in the future and sometimes you'll get it wrong. None of this is a reason to think we should stop taking experts seriously, or that an expert forecast has no more to recommend it than Dave the cabby's.

This sums it up pretty well: https://www.ft.com/content/15837254-d272-11e6-b06b-680c49b4b4c0

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rahrah "It's weird that you stripped my comment of > context and then jumped to some imagined scenario > of me posing outside the butchers (as though > avoiding walking around a supermarket with young > kids is some sort of self aggrandising > pretension." > > You've taken offence at something NOT intended for > you. > You've a right to do that of course, but in this > instance it's definitely misplaced. > If anything, only the first couple of words were a > reply to you and after that I was on my own rant > about those on here always complaining about the > cheese/butchers/etc. I can digress sometimes ! Sorry KK - I misunderstood. Tired today and not processing things particularly effectively.

We've not had any issues, so I'm not sure it's a general issue to SE22.

Some of my fondest memories of food shopping was the occasional trip to the fishmongers to buy a live crab. I would then sit with my dad as he'd prepare it and if I was lucky he'd let me keep the claws.

..also, shopping in the local butchers is a weird form of posing, if that's what you think it is KK.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > to be fair rahrah I don't actually go to > supermarkets anymore, especially when buying > cheese. Why breeze arund in 2mins when you can > prevaricate and pose or HOURS outside a trendy > cheese shop, fish shop, butcher, flower shop, > bakery ? I buy from supermarkets, I just do everything online and get stuff delivered. I never managed to 'breeze round' Sainsbury's in 2 minutes, it was always a long and tedious activity which is why I stopped going a few years back. My point was just that I haven't been in Dog kennel Sainsbury's for a long time so don't know whether they still sell packing boxes, but I always found them helpful. It's weird that you stripped my comment of context and then jumped to some imagined scenario of me posing outside the butchers (as though avoiding walking around a supermarket with young kids is some sort of self aggrandising pretension.

... or you could get somthing like this: http://www.argos.co.uk/product/3329661?cmpid=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59157|cid:199887753|agid:17470457553|tid:pla-121788443313|crid:74692316673|nw:g|rnd:4008083277601795953|dvc:c|adp:1o2&gclid=CLnmwdL1qNECFVEo0wodLA4IUQ

I don't go to supermarkets anymore, but Sainsbury's certainly used to have big rectangular plastic packing boxes for sale. you only needed a few and they fitted nicely in the boot (and were stackable).

How hard is it to bag up your own stuff?

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The horizontal 'gappy' fencing is very de rigueur isn't it.

Next weeks strike has been reduced to 3 days, but apparently there is 'more industrial action to come'. It's an absolute shambles.

Of course he's right. He's been hounded out of his post be ideologues, who don't want to be challenged by inconvenient realities. It's an absolute shambles.

This is farcical https://www.ft.com/content/4735fad6-d1c0-11e6-b06b-680c49b4b4c0 We're tired of experts and complexity. We want someone red white and blue, who understands that Brexit means Brexit blah, blah, blah. I always assumed that May's inane rhetoric was based on a total disdain for the intelligence of the general public, that she was just hugely condescending. But now I'm starting to think she may not very bright and that this explains the simplicity of her rhetoric.

Bit early - think they're meant to stay up until Friday? I rather like mine. Might keep it up a couple more weeks.

She is 'posh' though, so there's that.

Perhaps they were out for a walk? Fish have short memories and so woudln't have remembered their inability to breathe out of water. Just be thankful they weren't driving at the time.

Oh this is reassuring: https://www.ft.com/content/88c29514-d1b0-11e6-9341-7393bb2e1b51

This is interesting / infuriating: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/13/taxpayers-foot-50million-bill-southern-rail-strike-chaos-ministers/ Seems that it's in Southern's financial interests for the strikes to continue.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Best just to pretend the Southern trains don't > exist, and find another route. The franchise has > failed. It's failed passengers, not Southern who've seen their profits go up 27%.

Your neighbour sounds thoroughly unpleasant. I think you may have to just stop engaging with them as you say. It's a shame, I really feel for you. We had some problem neighbours in a previous place and it was extremely stressful. Good luck.

I would suggest establishing exactly what the problem is. If it is simply that you didn't consult them, then tough. You've apologised, there is nothing else you can do. If it's specifically the privacy issue, you may want to consider doing something about this. When you say "cedar slatted design" do you mean the thin horizontal, slightly spaced type? If so, it is true that they afford less privacy. Perhaps you should offer put up something on their side to obscure the gaps? I do think you neighbours are being completely unreasonable and the aggression is totally unacceptable. I would establish what their issue is, do what you reasonably can to rectify it and then be very, very clear, that their behaviour needs to be moderated. If it continues, report them to the council's anti-social behaviour unit, or get the police involved. Good luck, it sounds like a horrible situation to find yourself in and I hope you can resolve it soon.

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