Earl Aelfheah

It sounds as though your employer has considered your request and offered you some options. There is no right to flexible working in law (only a requirement on employers to reasonably consider requests). Clearly I don't know the full circumstances, but it sounds as though they may have fulfilled their legal obligations. Tribunals rarely second guess an employers conclusions, merely that they have acted in good faith and followed a procedure. I have to say that suing a local authority (AKA local tax payers), would in myopinion, only be justifiable in a case were there was a blatant and quite extreme abuse of your rights.

Admin- Please create a new section for crimes. Then those who want to read it can.

Maybe you should take a stool and easel when you go out. That way you may create a watercolour of any suspicious characters.

Big up the dub

All up for replacing Foxtons with something useful.

iceicebaby Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was merely remarking how pointless the theft of > the daffs was given their low monetary value. Am > surprised some read it the other way. No matter > who steals the daffs, ruining a perfectly good > community display is remarkably selfish. It shows > what value some have placed on others' hard work. Apologies iceicebaby... I read your post in haste and took the wrong message from it.

hellosailor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep, no worries you had me at 'a study by two > science professors...' I don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that a scientifc paper must be published under more than two names in order to be valid?

Here's a brief outline of the existing evidence (with links to specific papers): http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ncor/summaries/Osteopathy%20in%20the%20Cranial%20Field.pdf

iceicebaby Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The price of daffs this time of year is > practically free! It's like stealing penny sweets. So as their resale value is nominal, it's OK to ransack a flowerbed and ruin a public display. As for the other parallel you draw - would anyone think it was Ok for a parent to encourage their child to steal a handful of sweets either?

Perhaps it's more than one person? A pee crime syndicate.

Full fat, or semi-skimmed?

Let's hope that the thoughtless don't catch on too quickly to the fact that they can make as much noise as they like post midnight, without any hassle.

Although the noise team knock off at 1.30, in reality, they stop dealing with complaints much earlier (becuase of the time it takes them to get to the location and actually deal with the issue). Effectively, they don't deal with noise issues during the night (which is surely the only time most people need them).

That could alienate as many as it attracts Chippy Minton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seems like a no brainer for the pub...get a > massive HD telly and show as much footy as > possible = kerching!! > > There are not enough options in ED to watch > football so this is a surefire winner.

I think that someone who appears to be trying a little too hard to be alternative may in fact be just that -trying too hard. It's not necessarily the case, as I already said- but by the time you get to middle age, most people have realised that it's not as important to scream your specialness, your unique quirkiness as maybe they thought in their youth.

... I should add however, that I've no problem with a 'parlour' opening in ED. Good luck to anyone looking to set up a new business (and to anyone wishing to get a tat for that matter).

I can get the appeal of a tattoo when you are young. There is something rebellious about a tattoo don?t you think? The fact that some people dislike them, that they mark you apart somehow. Getting one when you?re older though - it just seems a bit try hard to me. As with any overt fashion statement born from a desire to be cool / rebellious there is something implicitly adolescent and incoherent in the message ? ?look at me, I don?t care what you think... but do look at me?. That?s forgivable in the young, but a bit sad when you?re a 40 year old. Sure, a middle aged man with green hair and a goatee could be a really fun and interesting character, but I bet it?s more likely that they?re just a bit of a dick. Having said this however, there is something in the argument that the old perceptions of tattoos are out of date. They?ve become so ubiquitous as to be barely remarkable, certainly no longer very dangerous or rebellious. Personally I think this may be the worst thing about them for me. They?ve lost any power they may have once claimed. Tattoos are ?trendy?, merely another adjunct to the ultimately vacuous world of fashion. Just more ?stuff? that?s been coopted into the mainstream, sanitised and repackaged for a mass market (with Robbie Williams and David Beckham as sponsors). The fact that people have already been discussing it?s monetary value, how this may be what gives (or takes away) from it?s meaning, says a lot. Consumerism :(

I don't understand why unsolicted door to door sales aren't simply outlawed. Does anyone at all appreciate this type of 'service'?

Blimey Pugwash, sorry to hear this. Hope you're not too spooked by what happened.

It's a bit of a conspicuous way to sell drugs I'd have thought.

It may not be crack exactly but those magnums are pretty moreish.

Was just watching these from the bus. Lovely.

Explain?

Interesting article in today's Guardian, re. faith schools

At my previous surgery in camberwell, the group of receptionists would stand around chatting with a queue formed in front of them. If you timidly attempted an "excuse me" they would mace you. There were some rough types attending the surgery, but if you politely spoke to them in a gentle voice they'd have a security guard rugby tackle you to the ground then continue talking about who got off with who at the club last night, to a chorus of "is it".