KidKruger

Give them 3 weeks notice. Disengage. Write a letter and be clear about areas where you are dissapointed. Engage other agents after 3 weeks. If the first agent is so sure of their contract they can go through the lengthy, expensive, drawn-out procedure of taking legal action against you (but they won't, there's no money to do that). You're not happy with their service, so you're not obliged to stay with them.

boys did best thing - best outcome is no-one hurt. all the talk of training in fighting etc. sounds great, but it can take years to be guaranteed an improvement in your chances of winning.

I am commencing battle on the JKW in my front garden tomorrow, wish me luck. Gulp.

Foxy - if only it was that easy (with the Councils). If it's your land/property being shafted by their tree, you have a huge financial outlay before they will concede their tree caused the damage. I took photos of the tree blowing-out the pavement on our street and council said it wasn't necessarily the tree. they relaid the pavement, couple of years layer same thing, as tree grew the pavement blew-out again, council said not necessarily the tree. They recommended we dig our front walls up and get a surveyor to explore the contents of the hole and he sees tree roots down there, they will consider killing the tree. It's ridiculous how such huge plants have been stuck in the gorund so close to houses.

If the council cut a treed down with a view to terminating it then I think they put some chem pellets in the stump. I've seen that elsewhere in ED.

This brings me onto the thread I started a few months ago about WHY the council will plant a tree 6 feet from the front window of a house KNOWING it will grow 40-50 feet tall, or bigger. The root footprint will obviously undermine the house. The council don't have the courtesy to request permission/inform in advance the householders affected. My neighbour has been screwed this way. If he destroyed the tree, I'd think it's out of order to kill a big living thing, but from his side why should his house which he's renovated be damaged because some tit with a clipboard painted a green 'X' on the pavement outside his house 10 years ago ? If everyone had a CHOICE of a 50ft tree growing 6 ft in front of their house, they'd say no. Green is great - that's what back gardens are for.

only other thing I can imagine is the file type - when you look at SD card through the computer do the files in the folder all have same file extension as the pic you transferred onto the card ?

maybe you dropped the photo into wrong folder on SD card. The (cheap) digicams I've owned have (when you look at the SD photos on a computer) been stored in a folder - sometimes withing another folder.

yes it's arguable too many weight divisions. Also a delight to watch this weekend (BoxNation catch-up) were: 1. Frankie Gavin v Denton Vassell. (WW). FG broke Vassell's jaw and closed the show. Denton's physique was spectacular, he's always in prime form, but I never was that enamoured with his abilities even though he's in with the best domestically. Frankie is surely future world champ, even though he's only 15-0, his timing is best I've seen, almost supernatural. The doctor's didn't want Vassell to take any more hits gto the jaw and risk major injuries. Vassell was saying he was fine ! 2. Paul Butler v A Late Replacement (Ali). (SBW). Ali (surname) was only given 48 ours notice to fight Butler and gave a good account of himself, going for Paul from the start and getting some successes. However, Paul has incredible reflexes and clipped Ali in R1, knocking him down brielfy for a 10-8 round. A good body shot in R2. Fnished it in R3/4 with the body shot thing again.

I got home from weekend away and watched the youtube clip last night. Jeez. The pundits are talking about him facing Ward, Froch and other SMWs. Why ? Because the other MW belt-holders/ top brass, Peter Quillin, Sergio Martinez and Daniel Geale are not interested. Quillin (Kid Chocolate) makes noises, but no overt challenge. This is a perfect example of how boxing fans are shafted by the multi-belt situation. there's no definitive 'best' because it's all split into parallel groups of boxers, with fighters subscribed with one organisation to be a contender for that belt only. It allows boxers to hide and face 'their' mandatories/selected opponents. Complete farce (if you want to see best fight best).

Do a search on this site. I'm sure some time ago a beekeeper was looking for new wasps.

upgrade your microwave, mine heats up even a chilled (from fridge) meal in 2 mins. A luke warm meal to heat-up would take like 1 min.

taper - fell the sycamore, it's not fair on your neighbours to have to dig-out this invasive weed year after year.

*Productivity soars* *Snr Mgt baffled by this weekly surge in KPIs being met*

DC - Not sure, just checked BoxNation channel (which I have) but not showing there fot this weekend. So probably YouTube.

My fave boxer at moment (at least, in my top 3-4 anyway) is fighting one of our lads on Saturday. Gennady Golovkin 26(23)-0 fights UK fighter Matthew Macklin 29(20)-4(2)-0 (who beat Felix Sturm 2 years ago in Germany for the world title, but wasn't given the win. Everyone knows Macklin won it though.) in Conneticut. Gennady looks like he doesn't DO much, looks like he doesn't move or have good footwork, looks like a plodder. However, he seems to knock everyone one after hunting them down and weakening them with extremely hard shots. He must be a nightmare to face, cuts you off in the ring and just beats you down, very patiently, very methodically. Does not waste punches, very good accuracy. Macklin - on paper, is arguably Golvkin's sternest test to date, having been in at least 2x world title bouts against Sturm (see above) and Sergio Martinez (back and forth contest but Mack got TKO'd in R11). Mack has performed at top level, and made a darned good account of himself, against better opposition (last 2 years) than Golovkin has faced. Golovkin, though he hasn't fought at the same level, has never been battered, never even been dropped. In 300+ amateur fights he lost very few. He's from a higher pedigree I believe, and this Saturday is his 'step-up' fight. He is avoided in the MW division worse than the plague, Daniel Geale vacated his world title in favour of fighting Mundine in a domestic bust-up in Australia. Offers have been made to the dozen or so best possible MW/SMW champs and #2s, no-one has accepted the opportunity to take Golovkin's WBA (I think !) belt. If you had a MW strap, why wouldn't you try and unify with Golovkin ? If GG beats Macklin earlier and more conclusively than Sergio Martinez did, that puts the gauntlett down for Martinez (who's already turned-down offers from GG's team). Because Macklin is top-10, if GG gets the win the other top-tier MWs will be running-out of places to hide. Either GG is overrated but somehow not found out, or he is what he appears, one of the best of this era. Problem is, at 31 he's not got a huge term ahead of him, unless his skills and lack of punishment have extended his longevity. I think Mack could catch Golvokin and turn the fight around, it's possible. But Golvokin for me has too much nouse, Mack's come-forward style will suit Golovkin because he is a great counter-puncher. If Mack chooses to run, Golovkin will march after him and close the ring down, before letting his hands go, slowly and methodically. I think the result is predictable but as for when Macklin gets KO'd, that depends on how Macklin fights the fight - he may need a Plan B/C depending on how his initial approach succeeds. It's possible it goes to points, but that'd be first time in 3 years for GG. Macklin has a good punch so he could in theory KO GG, but the class of GG makes this unlikely. Could be a great contest, I won't see it until YouTube does the honours on Sunday unfortunately. Amazed this is not mentioned on the BBC Sport boxing page. Do I sound excited about this one, or what !

people being racist and violent is definitely unnerving.

UK Govt are obliged to warn of things that happen, I think the robberies etc. on foreigners have been mainly way out of town / fairly remote areas. So I'd guess you're safe in popular / populated areas.

Wow that's some story and a very sad thing to have witnessed.

Is it a grand to line ? Jeez - to drop a liner down a chimney and secure it at each end. I'm in the wrong trade.

This thread's about noise forom planes, right ? Perhaps a separate thread is required to debate whether cress is flown in or shipped ? From fl0wer's post it seemed to start-off complaining about the noise of planes overhead in ED, then unsubtely morphed into a "food comes by air, this is wrong" ticket.

Really ? Are jumbo jets used to fly-in vegetables and meat for UK consumption ? I'd like more detail on which of my groceries arrive by jet.

IMO as long as your chimney stack brickwork doesn't leak you shouldn't have to have a liner.

For study / research and a bit of a trip I go to Barbican sometimes, loads of places to sit and get on with stuff. Take headphones if you are worried about background noise. If public areas are busy, sometimes I go to one of the cinema foyers (just after the film has started, so it's empty and silent).

Opium in those days wasn't it ?