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  1. Yes I saw that from the bus a couple of weeks ago. It was rather a narrow frontage though. I 'm not sure what a typical Screwfix is like, but my mental image of them, maybe got from their web presence, is large. OOF is actually sort of right about wiki, btw, though i wouldn't personally rate it rant class. 😉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki. Checking in my History, I see I've recently while googling ended up at each of wikiquote.org, wikidoc.org and wikihow.com (that I find a really useful one). But none of those is the place I go to to start a knowledge seach: that's Wikipedia's unique realm; and if someone uses just "Wiki" I'd be pretty sure they were talking about the pedia.
  2. Has anyone been told it wasn't possible to install a meter on their domestic supply?
  3. The accounts are open annually to inspection for a month at the time of the annual audit, usually in the summer -- a good opportunity to collect and publish your evidence. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/key-documents/statement-of-accounts
  4. What does a hire bike user do if, say, they want to cycle to a store, do some shopping, and then use the bike to go back home? Can the bike be clearly restricted to that user while they've parked it?
  5. Among the six cars most likely to be stolen, according to Met police SE BCU. Advice on checking your faraday pouch here: https://www.mylondon.news/news/met-police-name-6-cars-26558879 (sorry, can't find the original press release)
  6. I don't understand. Are these meters readable, irrespective of whether they are smart or activated? And if so, are the readings, however they're made, used as the basis for billing? A sight of the accompanying leaflet or other published information might be helpful.
  7. If they don't issue a separate one I'm quite happy to use this year's one again for the schedule. The green/blue colour sequence within each month remains correct, and there's only a difference of one (for Jan & Feb) or two (rest of year) in the day-within-month numbers. Put a note at the top to remind me that the day numbers will be one or two less than those shown, just in case I forget, and we're there. For the last three years or so Veiola have already been making my green/blue collections one day before what the schedule says, so I'm already used to that, and it's not caused me any problems so far. And I've already got B conveniently written above all the blue days, as I find the colours not so easy to distinguish if not in bright light.
  8. Where can the original of this be seen?
  9. What was the infringement of, bus lane or yellow lines? If the latter there may be strong case law in his favour: https://www.londontribunals.gov.uk/sites/default/files/keycases/R (Makda) v The Parking Adjudicator.pdf. Had he made representations or appealed, or did he intend to?
  10. > She drives in a different car to come to the market. > she now parks the vehicle So it is definitely a car that you're talking about?
  11. The commercial services forum organisation seems a bit fluid at the moment, and I can't reproduce the search link that I created yesterday, but this one seems currently quite successful in leading to a number of threads about driving instructors. I don't understand all its parameters, but created it via https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/search/, where you can roll your own. https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/search/?&q=driving&type=forums_topic&page=3&nodes=12&search_and_or=and
  12. You can access a list of all nearby NHS GP surgery details, each with a ratings and reviews section, via https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-GP.
  13. An answer to that question -- you can provide the evidence though your own statement in a statutory declaration. They're actually specified as the required method in para 7 of Schedule 1 of the London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2003 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2003/3/schedule/1/enacted. But that's prescribed for submission at the stage where the £195 charge certificate has been unpaid and the enforcing authority has obtained a county court order allowing them to recover the money as a civil debt. That submission can, afaics, if done in time (though you can seek leave to submit late) lead to a cancellation of all actions to date, and allow the authority to issue a fresh PCN. (There's also a readable summary of stages of appeals and enforcement and remedies at https://www.londontribunals.gov.uk/eat/understanding-enforcement-process/parking-penalty-charge-notice-enforcement-process that may be helpful. I don't know why they refer to witness statements rather than SDs or if they mean to distinguish them. There's an example of an SD form designed for use in this context at http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=76504) If you've already paid the £195 I assume, though claim no expert knowledge, that that would leave just the enforcing authority, Southwark or TfL, to petition strongly for remedy. Can they be phoned for advice on useful courses of action? Would an SD help them to act favourably. Do you still have the envelope? It might be worth asking RM if it can provide any information on its location at any time. If it has barcoded stamps I'd press them for all available data on its logging en route. Otherwise, see if they can confirm in writing the length of time it might have been sitting in their office?
  14. If the last two were posted via Royal Mail and have evidence of the posting date, why not look into claiming compensation from them? CAB: If your post has been damaged, lost or delayed by Royal Mail - Citizens Advice Royal Mail Retail Compensation https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/webforms/claim
  15. Jazzer, do you mean the south side? That's where I think I saw them yesterday, facing the clothes and Habitat stuff (which I did actually do a cursory exploratory pass through - why do all the saucepans and frying pans seem to have teflon coatings now?). But I thought of it as the left, taking orientations from the way I'm facing when I enter.
  16. On Monday 16/10/23 I got an email update from serviceinfo.royalmail.com saying Today we're not on their problematic deliveries list https://www.royalmail.com/service-update. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
  17. The London Environment and Traffic Adjudicators "key cases" for "Loading exemptions" https://www.londontribunals.gov.uk/eat/key-cases?field_subjects_value=Loading%2FUnloading+exemptions&combine= lists several cases, the most recent of which, Bosworth et al, is the product of a special panel of adudicators deciding seven cases after reviewing the current judicial authorities and coming to some general conclusions, including: "g. The process of shopping is not loading. Most supermarket shoppers undertaking their weekly shop have heavy and bulky items to carry from the shop - normally because a large number of individual small items are heavy in total. In our view, such a motorist would not be entitled to use a loading bay while the items were selected and then paid for. Were it otherwise yellow lines and loading bays would effectively be turned into shoppers’ car parks - something which, in the Panel’s judgement, was not what the bays and lines were intended for. However, once the goods have been selected and paid for, it would, in our view, be within the purposes of the bay or the exemption for a vehicle to be brought round and parked whilst moving the purchased items into the vehicle." I see I've actually been here before: PS I wanted simply to provide the URL but I couldn't find any way of circumventing the wretched system's inclination. What have I missed?
  18. "King's" for "King's College" is common, so for those who want to use a short, familiar form, I think its use for the hospital too would come fairly easily. I can't remember what I use myself, but in informal conversation, with people who shared the local knowledge, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find myself choosing it rather than the didactic and formal full form, or to hear it from those I was speaking with. Cf too this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_College_Hospital: "King's College Hospital is a major teaching hospital and major trauma centre in Denmark Hill, Camberwell in the London Borough of Lambeth, referred to locally and by staff simply as "King's"" PS I'd scrolled back just as far as the message so hadn't noticed the title's "King's Hospital", which I'm not keen on but not aghast at: I'm not sure that it demonstrates an ignorance of the full name. Plain "King's" might have done, or "King's (Hospital) at a pinch". "KCH" might be an acceptable blend of familiarity and exactness. Otherwise I think the writer is lumbered with having to use the fuil three word form, which is itself perhaps rather overserious and clunky. The title "Problems with King's ...", with its hint of possibly serious institutional faults, is another matter. The message itelf unexceptionably asks whether there are any patients who may have recently had "problems with referrals or appointments". Copying the "problems with" into the title was not, I think, a good idea.
  19. > (remember the ill-fated envelope code tied to each street). I don't know what this was. What was the date of the committee meeting?
  20. ianr

    swytch

    I see there's both a bike electric conversion kit and a Logitech comms hub that go by that name. There was an interesting Radio 4 programme last week about the former, featuring the Swytch's creator and CEO, Oliver Montague, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r1wb.
  21. Source: Press release: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/ofgem-explores-options-amid-rising-consumer-debt "A consultation on options to protect the energy market and consumers from the risk of rising debt has been launched today by Ofgem. "
  22. (That was according to TFL online https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490006334W/dulwich-hospital) routes.
  23. The earliest update returned by https://web.archive.org/, that of 22 June 2020, has just the same six points. The one before that was in 2015.
  24. And here, following OOF's more skilful example, is my graphic version (orange line) of the 42 diversion., my understanding being that south of King's College Hospital, it uses Dog Kennel Hill in both directions. It's superimposed on TFL's own map of the usual route (red line). No mention here yet of normality restored, so I hope I'm not out-of-date.
  25. EAST DULWICH GROVE, SE22: Route 42 is on diversion in both directions via Champion Lane and Dog kennel Hill due to Thames Water works. Buses towards Appold Street will not serve stops ‘Quorn Road’(L) to ‘Champion Hill’(Q). Buses towards East Dulwich Sainsburys will not serve stops ‘Champion Hill’(K) to ‘East Dulwich Station’(D). Please allow extra time for your journey. says https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/status/?input=42&lineIds=42&&direction=outbound PS: I think they must mean "via Champion Park, Grove Lane and Dog Kennel Hill".
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