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Yesterday the NPCC and the College of Policing issued guidance for police on ?what?s allowed?. It?s very helpful and probably worth a quick read not least before you are tempted to send an email denouncing someone for say, I don?t know, working their allotment. Would be great if the local police teams could also have a quick scan. https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

As part of Tete a Tete's annual opera festival they're heading south and putting on an event in a house in Tollgate Drive. Fresh from its sell-out Tokyo run, this site-specific, Anglo-Japanese work invites audiences to become voyeurs as they move freely around a private residence to eavesdrop on small ensembles of singers, a dancer, and Japanese and Western instruments as this intimate drama unfolds? https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/the%E9%8D%B5key/ 14:00-15:15 & 18:00-19:15, Saturday 3rd August 2019 14:00-15:15 & 18:00-19:15, Sunday 4th August 2019 Music: Francesca Le Loh? Words: Francesca Le Loh? with excerpts from Junichiro Tanizaki?s ?The Key? in the original Japanese. ?20 years of marriage yet I can?t speak with my wife? But the husband is desperate to communicate with his wife about one subject in particular ? their mutually unfulfilling sex life.Inspired by the novella of the same name by renowned Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki, ?The Key? peers in on a secretive family and newcomer Kimura, as their lives take a dramatic turn following the husband?s new year resolution. Produced by The Kagi Project 10 Tollgate Drive, SE21 7LS Twitter: @Kagi_TheKey

Nothing I;ve tried has worked entirely. I have watched slugs glide over coffee grounds, wept at the devastation beyond the wool pellets and backed away as crows fight for the eggshells. Nematodes will only kill the slugs underground apparently. I'd second planting things they like less (though they even ate my onions and I found several on the leaves). The other thing that has made a difference for me is picking them and scissoring them. (If you're squeamish you could relocate them to the park). On my allotment I picked 185 one day and then more than 200 the next. After that I still find them but usually only about 40 or 50 a time. Try and find them at dusk or at night using a torch, and / or put out some lures... half a grapefruit, a plank or two, a wet newspaper or carboard box. You'll then be able to find them and snip, snip snip.

Hi Angelina - sorry - that wasn't a criticism (or necessarily) directed at you. Really glad they had a good time and it all went well.

Really glad it went well. Broadly speaking, depending on how old the "teens" are, if you are intending to provide alcohol at a party (or to "allow" it), I think you ought to discuss it with the parents of the children you're planning on inviting and giving it to. What you might think is ok for your child might not be ok for other people. I was horrified when I found out parents of year 9 children (aged 13 - 14) were blithely "allowing" alcohol at house parties not only because of the damage that alcohol can do to young brains, the dubious message that it sends about the "correct" way to socialise, but also that those parents felt they had the right to decide things for my children.

We were expecting Rome to be very expensive (eating wise) but found it surprisingly cheap. The ice-cream's lovely and v cheap and you can get very good meals for not a great deal. We stayed in Trastevere and found some lovely restaurants including a place to get pizza by weight (you can sit down and there;s drinks too). It was incredibly delicious and incredibly cheap (fed a family of 4 for 20 euros) http://www.pizzerialaboccaccia.it/ This was a nice eat-in pizza placehttp://darpoeta.com/ This place was good value and delicious https://www.lonelyplanet.com/italy/rome/restaurants/trattoria-da-lucia/a/poi-eat/389059/359975 If you're looking for something quite extraordinary - one of the best evenings we had was in a restaurant where the waiters perform a ribald kind of cabaret... hard to explain really but def worth a look. Went there by accident. Cencio La Parolaccia: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187791-d1049551-Reviews-Cencio_La_Parolaccia-Rome_Lazio.html

This place was lovely and not very busy - layers and layers of Rome https://www.lonelyplanet.com/italy/rome/attractions/basilica-di-san-clemente/a/poi-sig/389439/359975 Of the touristy places: The Capitoline Museum(s) was spectacular and VERY quiet (really recommend this) The Galleria Borghese was absolutely worth it and worth booking in advance The Vatican museums were hideously busy, St Peter's not so bad.

I wonder if the kitchen in the pilot would count as "awesome"?

If it is true that they are Foundation Coaches then you might try contacting the person who manages them. In the past, when I had cause to complain about the coaches parking outside Dulwich Prep, blocking the cycle lane feeder and parking on double yellow lines they were really very helpful. Contact Mr Leslie Okyne Transport Manager Foundation Schools' Coach Service Dulwich College London SE21 7LD Phone: 020 8299 9262 Mobile: 07712 924999 email: [email protected] Mrs Sharah Hutchinson Transport Administrator email: [email protected] Mrs Shirley Hardy Customer Services email: [email protected] Edited to say that the transport manager appears to have changed. Here's a link to contact details http://www.dulwich.org.uk/foundation-schools-coach-service/contact

One of the problems you'll encounter is the attitude of other parents who have decided that alcohol is ok for teens - theirs and, surprisingly often, other people's children. Alcohol at 15 is dangerous. Young people's bodies and brains are still developing as is, of course, their sense of risk and responsibility. Not drinking alcohol is best but keeping them safe and encouraging them to try and keep themselves safe has to be the ultimate aim. Picking them up from parties, talking to them about their plans, getting them to check in with you, knowing who they are with; talking to them about drugs and sex and how to get help; having a plan for it things go wrong; letting them know that you and their friends parents talk about what they're up to, sharing facts http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/alcohol, letting them (and their friend's parents) know the legal situation, etc all help. I know some parents who buy their 13 and 14-year-olds "lower alcohol" drinks (alcopops basically) which I won't do. Their reasoning is that ot means they are less likely to experiment with spirits. I say, hmmmmmmmmm. Good luck!

page 80 refers to the "Hidden Economy". The Taylor report uses the ?6.2 billon figure from the HMRC report I linked to above but then asserts that the "hidden economy" is the largely the "self-employed" whereas the HMRC report says that it is largely the employed who are the cause of the "hidden economy" shortfall.

Dear Knick Knack etc ... I replied specifically to you because you wrote that the self-employed have been "getting away with it" and that the ?6.2 billion related to them. It doesn't. I think it's important, when it comes to besmirching, to be accurate. I quite agree that people should pay their taxes.

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > window cleaner, gardener, hairdresser, cleaner > (house), oven cleaner - what other jobs are cash > in hand?? Most cleaning firms that offer services aren't cash in hand, never been to a hairdressers where I've been asked to pay cash that hasn't gone through a till, the only time I;ve used a gardener they gave me a receipt ... (hardly ever) clean my own windows and oven. The only thing I've paid cash for, aside from tips, is babysitting and that usually to a "young person". When I used a "professional" babysitter or flexible nanny on an ad hoc basis I had to run their weekly pay through PAYE and register as an employer.

Mick Mac wrote: The report quotes ?6bn - that's a lot of babysitting. Relatively low earners in the employed sector pay their share of tax - Just because one is self employed doesn't mean one can defraud the government. Aren't you missing the point? The article you quote Nigello doesn't mention 6.2 billion. Other news articles do and indeed the Taylor report does. The figure comes from an HMRC report which you can read in full here. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160618143921/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470540/HMRC-measuring-tax-gaps-2015-1.pdf#page=11 The figure of ?6.2 billion relates to the "Hidden Economy" and is an "illustrative" estimate produced from estimated figures for 2013-14 (?4.1 billion). The estimates are, they stress, "experimental". The Hidden Economy is described as being related to: "Undeclared economic activity that involves what we call ?ghosts? ? whose entire income is unknown to HMRC, and ?moonlighters? ? who are known to us in relation to part of their income, but have other sources of income that HMRC does not know about. According to the report: "The direct tax hidden economy estimate is ?4.1 billion in 2013-14. This consists of ghosts (?1.2 billion), moonlighters (?1.9 billion) and Pay As You Earn individuals not in Self Assessment (?1.0 billion). So by HMRC's own reckoning approximately a quarter of the "Hidden Economy" are in fact, employees (in PAYE) who don't declare additional income through SA, and another half are "moonlighters" which HMRC describes thus: ?Moonlighters? are individuals who pay tax on their main job through PAYE, but who fail to declare earnings from a second job or additional income from self-employment. Just over another quarter are people who simply don't declare any income at all. The "ghosts". These people don't have the status of being "self-employed". So, in fact. Mick Mack, according to the source document from HMRC the problem is not with the self-employed it is with the employed. It is those already within PAYE that are being referred to when that figure of ?6.2 billion is bandied about. As you say, "Just because one is employed one can't defraud the government"

yeah those low paid self-employed people with their no sick pay, holiday pay, pension rights, job security, non-equitable access to benefits, practically impossible to get mortgages they've had it far too good for way too long. Obviously, it's the self-employed rather than the corporate tax evaders who are causing the most problems. I don't know of any regular acceptable "cash in hand" jobs aside from babysitting jobs for teens.