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Just another shout out for Dan at Top Signal. Responded quickly, diagnosed the issue and gave good advice and all for a fair price. Recommended.

I posted the Missing Cat thread yesterday but he turned up this morning so its been removed. I'm not an expert but seems highly unlikely that foxes would be to blame - I've seen our older cat face-off multiple foxes in the garden and road in recent years. Now speeding cars is another matter......

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > XTC were deeply unfashionable? Really? Er yes - amongst my peer group at least but completely accept that "deeply unfashionable" is only an opinion and not an exact science. I'd question the earlier references to the Cure / Sisters of Mercy etc and I'm sure you could probably find a demographic that still worship the Wurzels. In evidence however I submit - We're Only Making Plans For Nigel....

Gary Numan - nerdy pilot rock god! XTC - definitely improves with age. Del Amitri / Aztec Camera / Big Country at a push? & another for the prog rock sub-group - Spirit

Hi Lynne, The tip has now moved to Devon Street just off Old Kent Road (by the gasworks). Details here....... http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/10070/recycling/1364/recycling_and_reuse_centre

I say good luck to them - anybody that takes on a down at heel, back-street pub in these challenging times deserves some support. I've been a regular for years and am amazed it's kept going when you can usually count the number of customers on one hand (two when it's busy). As long as you don't look too closely at the electrics, carpets, ceiling, decoration or bogs it's a great local pub and I look forward to seeing what they do with it.......shall stand a pint for all the cynics as well.....

Close call on who is more bonkers - Greengod for believing the Daily Mail or Penguin68 for thinking that dumping bags of used nappies and food scraps into the Channel as a sea defence will rebalance the ice age thaw! Most of Southwark's plastics actually get sent to a recycling plant in (not very) far-away Dagenham (www.closedlooprecycling.co.uk). Metals (and glass) don't degrade when recycled - they retain the same properties as if produced from virgin materials (but require far less energy to process). The fibre strength of paper does reduce each time it is recycled (eg from office paper to newspaper to tissue paper or the inner layer of cardboard boxes) but still takes massively less energy than creating paper from a tree.

About ?35K per year to maintain good relationships with the unions and wider workforce in such a large and complex organisation as a council sounds like good value to me. Daily Mail reader alert?

Yep - me too.

Fabian Capello rings Wayne Bridge at home. "Hi Wayne. John Terry's lost the England captain's armband. Can you have a look under your bed he thinks it might be there?" Sorry! Still in shock JT got discussed on Newsnight. Sad times.

Hi Sam, They've got a lot of stuff on YouTube if you want to sample more.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilions defo my fave album of the moment (can seem a bit 'chanty' on first listen but will take you places if you stick with it (PM me for sampler). If you like Beta Band / Polyphonic Spree la la la where's this going? vibe this is for you. Otherwise mostly old and 'selective taste' dodgy Krautrock and Prog stuff but love Holy F*ck (youtube lovely allen), BlackMoth Super Rainbow and Wooden Shjips. Who else? - finding new music gets harder as you get older! Enough - [hangs head in shame from realisation of dad-rock tastes]