Robert Poste's Child

First poster and a perennial troll-bait topic. Hm.

If you go to Herne Hill you can see a toucan crossing.

If you're a Southwark resident you can swim for free on Friday all day and Saturday and Sunday afternoons (and I believe you can use the card at Peckham Pulse as well). Say you want to swim four days a week, you could just pay for say two weekdays and it would probably work out cheaper than membership, as NewWave said.

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I was thinking of making a wish when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake and when you catch a dandelion clock seed in the air. I always hoped to meet a genie or fairy who would grant me three wishes but it never happened. I would have gone for the self-replenishing bag of sweets from an E Blyton story, a puppy and an endless supply of interesting books. Actually that still sounds about right.

Make a wish.

jaywalker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- its ok, I use words loosely, you are right to police everything. But I guess the sense was clear nonetheless? It was not an arbitrary choice of words. Oh dear, now I've offended you. The thing is when you 'use words loosely' but not arbitrarily that can make it a bit tricky to understand what you actually do mean - so not sure I did get it at the time, but water under the bridge and we're on another page now. Lies

Use by 25 March? OM holy G.

Do you already have an accountant? When I had a ltd co I used Ray Coman's business address as my registered office for a small fee. It was a couple of years ago though.

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No worries. Progress (I tried to walk away but I just can't... Chairman isn't a portmanteau word.)

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Brand new summer skirt caught on rear brake block of bike and shredded - infuriating. Just don't understand material sometimes - got a pair of tights I've worn regularly for five years, which have survived cycling, tights-eating zips on boots, getting caught up in a bracelet and even falling over.

Jaywalker, don't mean to be critical but your last two don't really work and are blocking people from following you! It's one word you associate with the previous one, often one that often appears in a phrase with it. So going back to Chairman: Mao

So the same organisation has the right to influence your spending on more than one level - preventing you from getting a mortgage, loan or even a job and at the same time identifying areas where they think you could be persuaded to spend more and selling your information to business that might be interested - potentially encouraging debt among people who their records show are vulnerable. Seems highly questionable to me. ETA that it's not consistent with DP laws, as far as I understand it, to pass on someone's contact details and profile in this way without their prior consent. They may position this from your point of view rather than theirs in an effort to make you buy in, eg 'we would like to send you offers from carefully chosen partners' etc, but the principle is that you have to opt in, or at least not opt out, before they do it. Basically any business that requires you to set up an account before you can make a purchase seems to be trying to do this. Another one that does it heavy-handedly is the JD Williams group, where even if you tell them as you order that you don't want to receive any marketing you automatically get about 15 pieces before it stops. Drives me nuts.

They gather your data anyway - you don't have to sign up with them. My only contact with them was getting a credit report several years ago to check the information they had was correct (it wasn't).

Just discovered that the source of some junk mail I've been receiving is Experian. Feel rather shocked to realise that they're exploiting information presumably gathered in relation to your credit rating by selling it to third parties for direct marketing purposes without your knowledge or consent. How is that ethical? Are banks doing this as well? Sharing this in case anyone else thinks they might be affected. The clothing company that told me this (after I called as repeatedly returning mail had no effect) advises emailing [email protected].

Might help, ianr. 'There you are, Jeremy.' Smack. Edited to add hastily, not our Jeremy: the other one.

Not a surprise in Hastings as they hate her.

According to R4 exit polls suggest Cons losing majority though still with largest number of seats, and distribution of seats making it difficult to see how a coalition could be formed. Not sure where that would leave us. That said, my memory of the last election and the Brexit referendum is that the final result was the opposite of how it looked at this stage, so who knows.

If it's moving slowly couldn't you trap it (or frankly just whack it) with a saucepan? Not nice I realise but kinder in the end than poison.

Maybe she really is ill? Not all health problems are as easy to spot as a broken leg. Given the timing it's natural that Labour's head of comms would be under pressure to package it into a neat statement that can be made to fit in with the bigger story. Cockup rather than conspiracy, perhaps. Also natural for other parties and the media to jump all over it, if distasteful.

Hideous, wretched and tragic as it all is, it's great also to be able to celebrate the spirit of everyone who fought back, defended and protected others or just showed defiance and carried on - the diners who threw tables and glasses, the waiters who barricaded doors and everyone who stopped to help someone who was injured. I'm slightly in love with Roy Larner from Peckham.

Can only repeat that it worked for me when mine was lost. You could call the helpline when it opens to clarify: Passport Adviceline Telephone: 0300 222 0000 From outside the UK: +44 (0)300 222 0000 Textphone: 18001 0300 222 0222 Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm Weekends and bank holidays, 9am to 5:30pm Good advice from Ruffers re going straight to the Govt site and avoid third parties.

You should be able to get a new passport in one day using the premium service. It means visiting the passport office next to Victoria Station and you have to book an appointment in advance. I did it a few years ago after losing my passport while working abroad so couldn't wait. https://www.gov.uk/get-a-passport-urgently