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uncleglen

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  1. (BTW I don't fly because I am happy to holiday in the UK.)However, the noise of aircraft is unnoticeable these days for all the reasons Ron stated AND the constant noise of power tools from building works, and the dust and pollution the building works create, and the awful carbuncles appearing on many dwellings in ED- not to mention the increased pollution from vehicles as each house is transformed into 3 rabbit hutches.... which is affecting the health of ,especially, school children according to Southwark today.
  2. Michael Dibdin is a good read. He wrote the Aurelio Zen detective books- set in Italy. Good stories and atmosphere
  3. David cameron wanted to do the boundary changes when in coalition with Nick Clegg...Nick Clegg blocked it.
  4. the Keep Clear must apply to the whole length of the white line
  5. Her arms are good but that dress is horrible
  6. Laila Morse is Gary Oldman's sister, and Tom Brooke (son of Paul Brooke) went to Alleyn's
  7. I had this problem with slugs years ago in the front downstairs room where there was a bay window, also a Victorian house. We were renting. 3 months after we moved out the whole front bay window fell out. There were no cracks, no sign that anything was amiss until it fell out.
  8. I went to grammar school in a very poor area of London where they had never returned anything other than a Labour MP. My mates were the offspring of jailbirds, drunks, dentists, university lecturers, doctors, etc. Grammar schools were everywhere and if you were a borderline fail you had an interview and got to go to a technical college or the grammar. There was a second opportunity at 13 to sit the 13+ and enter the grammar school (probably with a teacher's recommendation). Our parents had to sign to say we would stay on and do the 'O' levels as the leaving age was 15 at the time. The expectation was 'A' levels and university....most of our teachers were Welsh. Today there is an inflation of house prices near grammar schools- but if they were ubiquitous- which they should be- after all there are schools that select for Music, Sport etc...why not academic prowess- the whole country would benefit from it and we probably would not have had to strip the developing world of its brightest in order to fill our skills gap at the higher levels. I will NEVER be convinced that grammar schools were bad
  9. As far as I'm concerned it is a choice of how you spend your money.If you have an environmental conscience, then instead of buying a massive -engined gas guzzling car and flying half way around the world twice a year- you might choose to spend the money on education.
  10. Yes OP, unfortunately you have only fulfilled the first half of Oscar Wilde's definition of sarcasm....
  11. You people are as bad as Anjem Choudary, and trying to negate the democratic process is not measured and reasonable Loz
  12. pets at home also have rescue piglets
  13. I went past there at 11.10 this morning and there was a grey car wedged into the side of a French plate 4x4 outside the surgery by the kerb. There were blue lights flashing-ambulance I think- so it got worse.
  14. Is that the one with the ladybird with a full set of human teeth?
  15. you could be a complete hypocrite and do a Harriet Harman and my totally dyed- in -the -wool red sister -in -law and use a grammar school in Kent..
  16. there was this a few years ago http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,643734,page=1
  17. this thread reminded me of the Agnes Cunninham song that Ry Cooder recorded- How can you keep on moving (unless you migrate too) ......especially this verse 'Now if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway The board of sanitation says, "sorry, you can't stay" Come on, come on, get moving it's their everlasting cry Can't stay, can't go back, can't migrate, so where in the hell am i'...
  18. this happened to us some years ago and Thames water put massive bowsers on the corner of some roads- it coincided with the construction of the flats on the TA site and the water operative explained that the extra pressure needed to pump the mains to each flat, and it being uphill, caused the old pipes to fracture-it was also at the the start of the school year so it was very inconvenient. Apparently when all the houses are being turned into 2 or 3 flats, and when there are large developments, they do not think about the infra-structure.
  19. and yet another rant against the people who voted out...imvho Politicians are useless in the main- they are power crazy and who needs 750 more of them at a cost of ?63 million a week - especially the likes of European ones that are even more self-serving and short sighted than the pile of crap in the UK
  20. set up by an investment banker- not expecting any basic humanity there then!
  21. my daughter used chips away- it was great but weekends may be more expensive
  22. the bit about doubting my own sanity- I THOUGHT I was becoming forgetful because of the library (I came to the conclusion that they had probably booked someone else's book out on my ticket)
  23. you only need to go to Putney to realise how much worse it gets as you go west
  24. apart from the noise factor e.g. mine goes on at 5.30 am for hot water, or both in the winter, and as long as the safety precautions are in place- which as it's housing association they will be bang up to date and serviced every year,...there should not be a problem.
  25. I didn't borrow a book from the library in 1998 and they insisted I had and even after we moved house and cleared EVERYTHING out the book had not turned up.....I was beginning to doubt my own sanity but it was a book I would never have borrowed in the first place, and my card had never left my possession... and they just stood there and said 'computer says you had the book, you must pay ?7.00'. Never been back since...
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