KidKruger

Oh, come on. I think people are just displaying distaste for thieves rather than actually wishing death / maiming on them and you very well know that.

I was really surprised on my course to be working with people from the fire service, military, health services, charities, craft specialists, besides the usual suspects. Yes you can progress your money aspirations, but efficiencies and man-management skills are required in all sectors.

I think any notion of 'value' is obviously based on what you want to get out of it.

What Loz says about the effort. I did part-time for 3 years, with late-night feeds for kids on my lap while studying to the early hours. Not a single week was there a break in coursework. I've seen people fold-up under the pressure - it's brutal !! I admire people who can put that much effort in just to look good on paper.

The investment I saw it as was being able to carry my position in a way better for the organisation. It'll increase your experience over time, don't rush that. If you've not got several years work at mgt level already under your belt then you'll end up with loads of theory with nothing from your past to relate ths study to, which negates the benefits of an MBA, IMO. People can always see the guy with the jargon but no practical application to what he's learnt. Knowledge-wise yes it was a good investment for me ! Financially - perhaps, but only as a result of what I do based on my experience, not as a result of the medal itself.

I did OU, never been an issue. You can use it as a medal based on where you did it, or use what you learn to strengthen your involvement in your roles and increase your confidence. The kind of jobs/institutions where your chosen MBA school is all that matters you better make sure your accent, creed, public school is also the right one.

Run 'em over, just deserts.

Roscoe my cat would insist on crossing main roads, he was a crazy mofo, but the guy that ran him over and didn't stop surely wasn't a bastad - it was late and cats don't make much of a bump when you run them over, given the state of the roads it would surely be taken as yet another bump or pothole.

Talk to Nunhead cemetary, they ensure woodpiles are maintained as habitat for stags so I'd expect if you understand the seasons and how that affects stags' behaviours you should be able to set-up some visits with their representatives.

Exactly Pugwash it's an ill thought-out scheme operated by unqualified people with little factual research on the end outcomes, despite there being centuries of examples to look at for guidance. Incompetence in the extreme.

I worked with Noble on Thrust I/II on the IOW (it was built in Fishbourne) when I was an apprentice photographer and while I found the whole "Oooh I'm faster than you" thing a bit dull, the dedication and sheer effort in man hours the team put into it was bewildering. Absolutely obsessed.

Paint ball. Pretending to shoot people with guns, the one thing we all claim to want to stop in the world - and doing it for fun. Abhorrent along with paedo-ball and rape-ball.

Foreign jargon is not applicable to sossi rolls, clever clogs.

Bought a couple more at WR today. ?1.25 a pop.

sycamores you can to dig out. I dug out 30ft trees a few years ago, the pit for each tree root was 6ft wide x 3ft deep and I poisoned the root which I left there and sealed with plastic.

I posted a whole ago about a tree outside my neighbours, planted by council 8ft from his front door. It's grown to 50ft and his front yard wall leaned increasingly as the pavement resembled something from the Kyoto 'quake. The council were adamant it was nothing to do with the tree. Digging out the foundations under the wall showed roots as thick as your arm going towards the houses nearest - as if the roots were seriously expected to avoid the house. It was cut down 3 weeks ago and I've a ton of firewood. No-one with half a brain plants a tree with so much potential to grow so close to a house, unless it's the council who don't give a flying feck and will do this to other people's houses, with no consultation.

You seriously expect Southwark to put up signs so you know what the restrictions are ? If they did that, you be able to avoid fines/tickets.

The council still plant trees that will develop large root systems too close to existing houses, never learn it seems, just perpetuate the stupidity.

"Obsessive compulsive behaviour from a local obsessive compulsive. C and O must signify something for her and that's why those letters are Covered Over." I was thinking just this. Perhaps something to do with filling-in the circles (though the OC in me says what about the gaps in each 'a', too).

They do sausage rolls and always have, no gap - unless the ones I've been buying regularly for years are really salads masquerading as pink meat in a flaky pastry. Perhaps they'd sold out on the occasion you tried.

9.15am is not ok to park there as far as I know. Early morning, after 7am, there's loads of trade vehicles parked there (scaffolding, builders) who're probably aware they're breaching the rules. Sounds like there's a bit of a clamp-down.

If there's a consistency in the placing if stickers then its a code - either for questionable reasons or because the person is nuts.

Sounds like casing. If it was official why would torn-up bits if label be used ? Was there any consistency in the bins being 'marked' ?

WR butchers doesn't do a bad sossi roll.

We have a recently (2 mths) arrived 4yr old lurcher cross and he's getting his head around the fact that the 2 cats are not food, but household members just like him.