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Have you actually viewed the contents of the drive in Windows Explorer, and checked its Properties? If that definitely shows zero content it's possible that, when the CD was burned, it wasn't finalised. You could see whether your system (I assume you have Windows XP or later) will allow you to add any more files to it. If that's the case, and you're not sure how to finalise it, the simplest way might be to try burning one or more files to it, while choosing the option to finalise.

Were any cats lost?

> But then something unforeseen happened. The young thief removed the cap > from one of the bottles and proceeded to drink from it. The effect was instantaneous - > the master criminal was immediately reinvigorated, it was like a Legend of Zelda game. > He used his new found energy to sprint across the remainder of the green, I lost sight of > him as he ran down Solomon's Passage. Exhausted I made my way back home. Wouldn't have happened to Popeye. Make sure you have your can of spinach on you next time.

>- hoping to get meter removed in June and back to normality! I've just been ploughing through their website and detailed charging leaflets. I think I read that you can switch from metered reading, but that they leave the meter in place and revert to metered charging if there's a new occupier. I'm wondering whether they will be able to install a meter for my flat, one of two in a converted house. The incoming pipe only divides under the small entrance hall, so any meter would presumably have to go there, at floor level, which might be an inconvenience for both flat owners, or else perhaps somewhere (I've no idea where) in my (upper) flat. Has anyone any related experience? TBH, it would be fine if they couldn't, as I could then go on the Assessed Household Charge rate, which would still be substantially cheaper than my current standard rate.

If you registered the name before 16 February 2001, or did so after that date but didn't elect to have it recorded only in the edited version, it will have been available to all and sundry anyway. At one time I think such data was actually included in free CDs that came with monthly computer magazines. I might even have one somewhere. You could even check doing an online search on one of the 'people finder' sites such as 192.com, to see whether anything possibly matching it is publicly available. So maybe not so spooky. If the name was on a public version I think I'd collect the parcel and see what the tat is. [Edited 07:48 pm: I really meant "only in the full version" above. It's the edited version that's commercially available.]

Boring but useful answer. Paste your error message, preferably quoted "This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked" into a Google search, and take your pick of the advice offered.

That's reassuring to hear. I had wondered if it was the wiring. Two dropouts of a second or less this afternoon, early afternoon and about 16:10, in the Grove Vale area. Each enough to cause the computer and phone broadcaster to reboot, but without otherwise affecting the modem-router or freeview box.

I don't think the going black or limp necessarily detract much from their quality, once peeled, at least if eaten raw. In fact, they can be even sweeter. What gets me is the soak-washing of carrots, so much that they absorb lots of water and lose any crisp, sweet nutty flavour that they might once have had. That's compounded by the fact that they're then sold by supermarkets in sealed plastic bags. Even opening them immediately, in the hope that they'll dry out, doesn't always stop the rot setting in.

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And then there's Nancy Mitford's 'Uncle Matthew', based on her father. "Uncle Matthew, an eccentric, bullying patriarch who fills his drawers with scraps of paper bearing the names of those he hopes will die and periodically uses bloodhounds to hunt his children across the Oxfordshire countryside" http://www.enotes.com/topic/The_Pursuit_of_Love

I was shown around the marvellous Sands Films Studio in Rotherhithe this afternoon. Their share offer is proceeding well and they're on target to securing ownership of their own premises and so keeping this small local business in the community. I understand, btw, that the offer will now remain open through April.

reggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Although this thread has been moved from the local gossip section...it is about a very local issue. In that case, provide full details and substantiate your allegation.

"Do I have to have a bell fitted on my bike?" "It is advisable that you have a bell fitted so your can warn others of your approach but, so long as you have some sort of audible warning device (and that can be your voice!), it is not a legal requirement."

What you are seeing is some earthshine.

Aliborg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/65/section/7 > > This should be done Section 3(5) of the same Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 confirms: (5)It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that an order under section 2 of the Dogs Act 1871 (order on complaint that dog is dangerous and not kept under proper control)? (a)may be made whether or not the dog is shown to have injured any person; and (b)may specify the measures to be taken for keeping the dog under proper control, whether by muzzling, keeping on a lead, excluding it from specified places or otherwise. I've not seen anything suggesting that a complaint to magistrates under the Dogs Act 1871 (as mentioned above on p2) can't be made by a lay person; though it would be very advisable to get good advice as to evidence and procedure if thinking of doing so. Would the RSPCA be willing to help? That Act also gives the court power to order destruction. Defra have some useful information sources on the law at http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/pets/dangerous/.

> Put in brown bags or garden bin. Could ask neighbours if you could borrow theirs as well. That's what I did a couple of months ago, and everyone I asked kindly agreed. I checked afterward that their bins had been properly cleared. Note that Southwark say they don't like branches thicker than four inches. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/530/green_and_garden_waste/2117/garden_waste > Not supposed to have bonfires in Southwark. It's do with nuisance factor and smoke. Some of us can get instant headaches from even small, wholly invisible, amounts of smoke in the air.

The Battersea Park train also stops at Peckham Rye, usually at 20/50 mins, which makes it convenient to connect with via the 14/44 from ED.

Trains from Clapham Junction to Putney only take 5 minutes. http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/CLJ/PUT/today/1800/dep

> "Spelling" is the gerund of a verb. You can, if you wish, use it as a verbal noun, such as in > "her spelling is poor"; that is what gerunds are for. But to claim a gerund as a countable noun, > and then to pluralize it, is a manifest error that would once have warranted corporal punishment. Cf entry 2b below. From the OED Second edition, 1989; online version March 2012: spelling, n.2 1. a. The action, practice, or art of naming the letters of words, of reading letter by letter, or of expressing words by letters. [... eg] 1809?10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 343 There is one branch of learning without which learning itself cannot be railed at with common decency, namely, spelling. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue ii. 121 That which we call a settled orthography is a habit of spelling which admits only of rare modification. ... 2. a. Manner of expressing or writing words with letters; orthography. Also fig. [... eg] 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 112 By some unusual Spelling of some words. 1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. i. ?12 However natural it may appear for the Romans to have adopted Greek spelling. ... b. A particular instance of this; a special collocation of letters representing a word. [...eg] 1738 Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. l, Of these Spellings the Publick will meet with many Examples. 1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 18 An Author seems reduced to great Extremities, who flies to new Spellings to distinguish himself. 1811 Scott Let. Sept. (1932) II. 543 All the licenses of using obsolete words and uncommon spellings. 1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. i. ?8 The dates at which these spellings are first found on inscriptions.

I'd be glad of feedback of experience of any of the different modes of managing a shared freehold -- eg, via a company, dormant or otherwise, or through a trust deed. Mine would be as owner/occupier of one of two leasehold flats in a converted house. Anything about specific problem areas would be of particular interest.

There was a radio programme, based on a night on the helicopter, on R4 this morning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cwvp1

> You can always close your eyes and pretend its a radio. Not such a bad idea actually. Quite a large part of my TV consumption is listening to it via a Freeview box whicle doing something else. It's not nearly as information-dense in the speech department as radio is. Dodo1, my first quick cheap guess would be that you need to change a menu setting, to switch from DVD to digital TV input. I won't indulge in any more, as there's no real substitute for a precise account of all signs and symptoms and the beast's reactions to your actions.

http://www.cambridgemosqueismoving.org.uk/2011/08/02/brick-by-brick-ramadan-appeal-2011/

woodrot, you've published, both here and at http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,800517,808961#msg-808961, copyright images from each of the following. Do you have their permission? topveg.com www.cambridgemosqueismoving.org.uk Moore Village community website www.moore-online.org.uk