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That's very kind of you to let me know Scribe, though I was thinking that perhaps you should edit it out now to avoid spoiling for others.. I hadn't even noticed such a person as you mention in the first eight hours, so thinking you have to spend most of the 20 hours in telly land before the killer even comes in. Unless you are teasing. Which is not very kind to a flu afflicted person. Your jumper theory quite sound. Possibly even the actress's real mother knitted it or her family has a knitwear business. There's got to be a motive, those kind of jumpers are really itchy apart from anything else.

That's all very well Scribe. But it doesn't answer the enquiry, does it? Strange is the right word for your attraction to a woman who hasn't changed her jumper for 8 days. This jumper is now imbued with the scent of police station (not pleasant); canal water (nasty, doesn't wash out); decomposing human remains (stomach turning, does not wash out); morgue (nasty, lingers). On day 6 she gets on a plane planning to go straight to her chap's housewarming party on arrival still wearing of course, said jumper. What's more her mother, who is prone to making usual motherly type comments, and lives with her, has never mentioned the jumper. That's just not realistic. I think we are supposed to have concluded by now that the teacher didn't do it.

Please, is there someone who could PM me who did it? Only started watching this because sofa-bound with the flu and found out too late that it goes on for 20 hours. I'm too old to waste another 12 hours staring at the telly so would be ever so grateful for a PM with the d?nouement. It would be a big relief too to see a post notifying when the detective finally changes her jumper. I was starting to find the jumper more worrying than the murder.

Are the London stores franchises - like this?:- The Grocer - Southern Co-op to offer franchises

You've lost me a bit at the end there AJM. For me the point is that the opportunity is there for people to become members of the Co-op (every time you go in they ask if you have a membership card) and to influence how it operates. The Co-op bank was revitalised and hasn't asked for any bail outs from the public, so it's obviously well run. So perhaps the food stores and pharmacy could be sparked up a bit too? They're clearly wasting the potential of the supermarket and the chemists on LL at the moment, how anyone could get stock so wrong/waste so much space is pretty hard to understand.

Just that as there are already two Co-op stores and a Co=op chemist in se22, if all the people expressing interest exercised their right to join the existing Co-op, could they not influence it, rather than trying to start all over again? The Co-op movement was founded to defend ordinary people from vicious greedy b******* but having defeated the Greed monster it seems it was consumed by the Vanity monster since as soon as the masses had a bit of cash form the 1960s on they abandoned the Co-op mostly out of snobbery. What was the Co-op building at the bottom of Rye Lane now houses a Pay Day loan company, a bookies and a Tesco. It's quite curious that we are so unconscious of our own history that most people have no idea what the Co-op is or how or where the Co-op movement was founded, and that the source of inspiration quoted here is Brooklyn. I know ED is nothing if it is not pretentious, but honestly....toooo much. I don't suppose anyone here is going to admit to having visited and been impressed by a co-op in Rochdale, for instance?

Isn't there one already, the Co-op? The Co-op Group - Membership

What about May 6th instead? Robespierre's birthday.

Could anyone offer a lift into town over Waterloo or Westminster bridges within the next hour? Can offer standard taxi fare - about ?20 - can't get an actual taxi for love nor money this morning even though they're all charging x1.5.

Living South magazine. Regularly get home in winter to find that their horrible jumped-up keep-up-with-the SE21s glossy tat mag has been jamming my letterbox open all day so the house is freezing. Told three times to desist or I will send them my heating bill. No joy. What can I doooo to these people short of going round to their office and dropping ice cubes down their cashmere sweaters?

The London Assembly Transport Committee is to examine the impact that new cycling schemes have had on the capital

Sent you a PM

It would be make a lovely Peckham Assembly Rooms, like in Bath or Lincoln but more Peckhamish. Would be perfect for language swapping, teaching and learning venue as so many languages are spoken within half a mile of the site. Peckham's rich language resources and talents aren't recognised or exploited. Stop a trader or random shopper along Rye Lane and there's a good chance they will speak three or four languages. In a resident of say, Kensington, this would be applauded as a marker of talent, value and virtue. In SE15, it means they're a dodgy foreigner. Odd. Lots of people living and working here who want/need to improve their English but can't get the practice, and lots of people across London who want/need to learn another language but can't afford the rising fees/find a local or convenient class/ever get enough practice to speak fluently. Should be able to bring them together somehow.

Ta James/Penguin for that. I had now started to wonder why they were lifting drain covers in the middle of the night and as "looking for alligators" was the most sensible suggestion so far I am grateful for your explanation. Perhaps if a couple of people emailed Thames Water to suggest that they add a paragraph somewhere in all the bumph they regularly send out to explain that they do this? I was quite glad that I'd already seen TW at work in another road at 1am so when I heard the sound of blokes directly outside my own window in the small hours a few days later I could happily go back to sleep instead of calling the police.

There were people wearing jackets with high visibility bands going into front gardens in Nunhead in the middle of the night a few months ago. They said they Thames Water staff and they were checking all the drains - they were indeed opening those little drain covers. They were using long thin metal sticks with little hooks on the end to do this and I wonder if these are what the first poster may have perceived as "pincer sticks"? They had a marked van and ID and I spoke to a supervisor who said that doing this in the small hours of the morning was standard practice - though he offered no reason why. My guess is that they must sometimes have had to move bins to get to the drain covers and might have knocked a few over or disturbed rubbish bags. I have subsequently had long hours while stuck in jams on key London roads, eg Camberwell New Road, Old Kent Road, Long Lane, to ponder the question of why, if they can find staff to work at night roaming about people's gardens, they are still claiming it is impossible to carry on with road works outside the hours of 08:00 to 16:00?

It wasn't deleted that long ago. It was started last year but updated with new info (and new messages) every week. Latest update was last Thurs. It makes more sense to keep one thread going than to keep starting new ones. If you start a new one every week when people search they likely get directed to an old one, revive it with a new message...you end up with half a dozen going at once and it gets very messy. Don't really understand why just the What's On section has been purged of the most popular threads. Thread got at least 100 views a week.

Oh no! Deleted, as in deleted, lost, gone?? is there any chance of retrieving so I can copy some bits of info? Is there any chance that would be a quick operation you could kindly manage? Forum is huge boon of course, v much appreciated and v wonderful service but was just noticing, the giant ancient footie thread is still there. And our lovely language thread for our lovely language groups that just happen to be 99% girlie attended, gone. Ha! I bet the book clubs are largely if not entirely non-bloke as well. I say no more. Ha! Blokes and their football. Ha!

No that's just something in the other bit -somebody had been asking for Russian lessons and I couldn't find them either! We always put our stuff in the What's On bit, the thread is quite long now, 6 pages. We offer several languages and there are quite a few people involved now. Where is thread? Help! Have I done something daft with it?

Hello Our Language Lounge thread seems to have disappeared - I can't see it anywhere! It has all our info on it, had about 3700ish views when I last saw it - think I updated on 22nd April? Help!!

Help! The Language Lounge thread seems to have disappeared - can't find it - it was in the What's On Section. It has all our information on it. Surely I can't have somehow wiped it off by mistake? Please advise. Thanks!

Eileen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hi - you quoted from Skyscraper city forum. Can > you give a lead on how to connect with this? I'd > like to find out more. Can't track it down on > Google. Hello Sorry didn't reply earlier - here is linkSkyscraper City Forum A few railway persons seem lurk there. (Tip if you want to find where some quoted text comes from - just cut and paste part of the quote into your web browser and it will probably bring up the source). By the way I do wish you would stand for the council or parliament for Peckham etc (or it is too much to hope for anyone who seems so useful and hardworking to be able to do that? I suppose it would probably drive you bonkers)

Ah yes. Everyone can remember where they were when they were first promised an extension of the Bakerloo line, whether that was in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.. This explanation makes it clear that they don't care a fig about the daily grind of Peckhamites but are only looking at it as a wheeze to make more money from suburban commuters and extend the London megalopolis even further. By the time the trains got to Peckham they would already be full, no change there then. This sounds convincing to me and leads me to believe that I may even see the Bakerloo line extended before I die, or at least around the time of expiry. I hope they will start running funeral trains for those of us who never got to ride on it in life.

Cora Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can you name the schools that are taking part (so > other schools can contact them for info) or do you > know who a school would contact for information - > sounds great... Hi I'm told that Francesca Cabrini (which I think is on the Southwark side of Honor Oak?), William of York and Kilmorie are all taking advantage of it. Also, I was wrong about it being just primary schools - seems it can run in secondary schools too. I have PM'd you an email address for the contact. I wish they would fund Italian for adults, the cost of evening classes is horrendous these days because our govt has withdrawn subsidies and a lot of them seem to be closing.

millie42 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very interseting. I will mention this to my son's > headteacher. He is at St William of York in SE23. Hi Millie I was told that William of York is one of the schools that already does it! Will check again this Thurs with the person who told me.

Just to share something I was told - that the Italian government will fund the teaching of Italian in any UK primary school. [Edited - and secondary schools too]. Apparently they pay the full cost of the teacher so it doesn't cost the UK government anything. I understand there are three local schools taking advantage of the scheme at the moment but it seems to be down to the heads to take it up and I've spoken to a few local parents who hadn't heard about it. Italian might not seem the most widely used language but it can be a real advantage in adult life. Even in the current recession there are employers who can't fill vacancies in London that need Italian/English speakers. Primary age kids (especially little girls) love learning a new language in my experience, it can give them a real boost to their confidence and I'm sure they then find it easier to pick up a third language at senior school. Having Italian helps with learning French, Spanish and Portuguese. Just thought that if there is such a resource on offer, there might be more parents who would like to take advantage.