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  1. For testing you can improvise an aerial by sticking a length of two-core electrical cable in the socket[*]. Secure one bare core in each of the socket holes. Ideally, separate the two parts of the other end of the cable and make a T-shape with each arm roughly 75cm long. Orientation (horizontal or vertical, probably the former iirc) of the T-arms may have a significant effect. I used to bluetack them to the wall. But I think we're close enough to Crystal Palace for you to get a good idea of whether you just need an aerial or whether work on the innards is also needed. [*] This is making the conventional assumption that the radio hasn't been interfered with by a deranged person who has made the aerial socket live. If in doubt test first, or get Chick in to do the frontline stuff.
  2. I've just been there to hand in some found property, to find it closed and an undated notice on the door saying that the station office was closed until further notice. The MPS Southwark web page still says "Opening Hours: 06:00-22:00 Mon - Sun." I've no idea how recent or temporary the current state is, or how widespread the disparity. [Mon 25/7 09:50] There is someone there today.
  3. Indeed. Which is the place that advertises hand reared pork pies?
  4. ianr

    Treacle.

    Time for a treacle and pate de foie buttie.
  5. Now showing in Glasgow...
  6. > Some of the long shots, particularly of Peckham Rye, are very good indeed. That did get me thinking that it was a pity that our visual systems don't come with a variable aspect ratio and framing widget. Seeing something 16:9, or even narrower, sometimes has its advantages. I think I might fashion something out of a cereal packet before my next walk there. Were they definitely parakeets to be heard after the tree incident? Incomers and incomer.
  7. FWIW, which is evidentially exceedingly little, and in this context very probably of very limited relevance, I do recall seeing on the box, a long time ago, a clip of a French farmer's wife personally bulk feeding a goose, and I don't remember reacting as if there had been disturbing distress on the part of the goose, and I do remember thinking of her attitude as caring.
  8. ianr

    Treacle.

    katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > (apologies in advance) > > my treacle thread> your treacle thread > > katie Jnr But neither has yet been awarded a sticky tag.
  9. Tom> surely you agree with protesting where people see injustice Why are you protesting, if that's what it is, specifically now?
  10. > although the electoral register is publicly available. There are two versions, the full and the edited. People can choose not to be included in the edited one. Notwithstanding the full register's availability for public inspection, there are strict conditions attached. The 2001 regulations as amended include, for example: "A person who inspects the full register and makes a copy of it or records any particulars included in it otherwise than by means of hand-written notes shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale."
  11. I've just seen a film that mixes up bits shot in SE1, SE5, SE15, SE17, SE22, SE24, and maybe others. Some themes that will be familiar to forum readers too -- lost and dead cats, fierce dogs in parks, muggings and beatings-up, prostitution and sex in cemeteries, fraudulent use of plastic card, noise pollution, door-to-door work, cafes, having a dream, A&E departments, making do, personal generosity, and the attractiveness of kittens; and it was good to see cat allergy taken seriously. Otherwise, I'm afraid, I found it awfully inconsequential, whatever good intentions the screenplay might have had. It's not on any more locally anyway.
  12. > Yep, now on Bellenden Road! Looks as if it might be a pincer movement. I hope they pack up for the night soon. I'm running out of coloured pins to go on the wall chart.
  13. Dulwich College is a charity. I don't think that would have gone down well with the Commission. I have memory of talk at the time of a gift, but the great preponderance of opinion is that it was sold to her by a Mr Pretty of Barratt, who later went on to become its CEO.
  14. >We have had one chap object to the last five years accounts. Each of these objections has cost the >council MANY tens of thousands of pounds for the audit commission to investigate. Well, looking at just the Annual Audit and Inspection latter of March 2009, I see there were two objections noted: "31 Two electors have given notices of objection to the Council?s 2007/08 financial statement in respect of: - a query as to whether the cost of a street sign has been correctly charged to the HRA or the general fund; and - an enquiry regarding how the Council has computed claims for the award of costs for summons and liability order applications in respect of council tax demands. The audit cannot be formally concluded, and an audit certificate issued, until these issues and legality matters arising from the audit have been resolved." I'm not an accountant, but those questions don't on the face of it look to me necessarily difficult to answer. Could it be possible for even a vexatious objector to occasion great expense, if the accounting systems and procedures are in good shape? Whereas, on the council's side, the auditor wrote: "28 The financial statements were presented for audit on 25 June 2008 in accordance with the statutory deadline. Not all supporting working papers were available from the outset of our audit. The quality of the working papers and supporting audit trails, and the arrangements for providing responses to audit queries, require improvement. Consequently there were significant delays in the completion of our audit work. The audit team worked with your officers to resolve the issues arising from the above and to agree a revised audit timetable. However, as reported to the Audit and Governance Committee on 25 September 2008, the Council could not respond to the audit queries in sufficient time to enable the team to complete the audit by 30 September 2008."
  15. James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Searching for Section 52 returns the latest I could find were for financial year 08_09 i.e. two years ago. > Local Authorities are always slow to produce annual accounts as the Audit Commission has to sign them of and they > don't work to the Gregorian calendar but something very other worldly. But I would expect FY 09_10. They should be available now to anyone who wants to go to Tooley Street. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,699353
  16. The online public review has no specified closing date.
  17. Has anyone made use of this inspection facility?
  18. It's largely a categorisation problem, isn't it? FWIW, here's an artist's impression of my thinking when I decided to add to the old thread yesterday. Is there a previous thread? Well, yes, I contributed to it, though I can't remember when. Never mind, a precautionary search will find it and any other thread in less than thirty seconds. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/search.php?4,search=treacle,page=1,match_type=ALL,match_dates=30,match_forum=ALL Ah, it's been lounged. Do I want to override the principle of not multiplying threads unnecessarily by starting another thread in the main ED section? Well, personally no, as I don't think it's substantively much more about East Dulwich than, say, the vanity threads about which purportedly notable people are seen in the local shops, bars or caffs. But subsequently there have been two threads started in the ED section, one of them now lounged. So there are clearly folk who think of it as an ED-interest topic. If that's the case, I wonder if the best resolution would be to keep one thread here, including a clear reference and link to the original one at http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,541742,706211.
  19. ianr

    Treacle Jnr

    It was featured in the first third of today's R4 Film Programme (repeated Sunday 23:00, and I expect it'll be available on iPlayer as well). The bit I heard was an interview with Jamie Thraves.
  20. ianr

    Treacle Jnr

    It's showing at the Clapham and Greenwich Picturehouses for the next week. lizzeee> Treacle Jnr has just won at the Dinard film festival, beating Made in Dagenham and Mr Nice. No. It shared the Grand Jury Hitchcock d'Or prize with Made in Dagenham.
  21. >>does some dancing etc. >DOES SOME DANCING???? etc.????
  22. Oh dear. I was planning to see TTOL tomorrow, then saw the above two comments and provisionally changed my mind. Then a look at the Wikipedia article, and changed my mind again. But it was David Cox's review in the Guardian that's decided me that I can wait until I'm in a truly curious and disinterested frame of mind, or it turns up on the box, or I find out who Jennifer Aniston is and that I like her work, before seeing it.
  23. Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Did you see that idiot ex-journo on newsnight the other night, when Steve Coogan laid into him? He > actually tried to defend hacking into people's phones. Do read Hugh Grant's NS article about him (as mentioned in my 26 April post on this page) if you've not already done so.
  24. > Thanks Medley. The Peckham Rye to Clapham High st train comes twice an hour so am screwed if I miss it! > Peckham Rye to Clapham J will be better so might have to just hold on until then. Bear in mind that if you miss the 20/50 to Clapham High St, you can still get to Clapham Junction from Peckham Rye in 30 min via Sreatham Common, at 27/57.
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