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Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've found this, and I'm very tempted to get a second survey done to see if they say the same thing .... > > http://www.government-grants.co.uk/loft-insulation-grants.shtml They're the people I mentioned in my second para, Internet Marketing Kent. I wish I could make out why/for whom they're providing the site. Are they doing it pro bono!!??? Anyway, their "Government Grant News" page does say "That does NOT however affect the grant funding offered via THIS website, as said funding is not provided by the government, but instead, is provided by various utility companies"; which, until I know more, just makes things even more opaque.

I looked up loft insulation when there was an earlier post about cold-calling. I concluded it was probably a whole set of private outfits all seeking work on the coat tails, as you suggest, of a government grant scheme - I assume Warm Front managed by Eaga plc, who describe themselves as an outsourcing company and appear to engage subcontractors to do the actual work. They do run a complaints system. Some of the outfits advertising do seem to like to look as if they have some official status, using website names incorporating 'government', (eg government-grants.co.uk, registered to Internet Marketing Kent Ltd). Presumably any company offering Warm Front work is subcontracted to Eaga, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Who knows, they might be offering a good and economic service. They are (if that's them) at least a long established company, even if not local. But I do look forward to hearing what you get from them about their stated place within any such scheme. And I'm not clear, from the Warm Front site, just what at all they can offer at the moment apart from maybe the chance of a ?300 rebate if over 60. Actually, I've just looked up British Gas, and even they claim that "British Gas offer free loft and cavity wall insulation to anyone who is 70 or over or on one of the qualifying benefits below", with no mention of any government grants. The over 70s bit, btw, seems, according to another site, to be a grant offered since 2008 under the Government's Carbon Emissions Reduction Target, rather than a Warm Front thing.

While we're at it ... I've recently tried buying (unsalted) butter again for occasional use, in place of the usual margaric mush. A packet I got from Lidl a few months ago was fine. The one I got from more recently from Aldi ('Morning Fresh' brand) sat for two or three weeks in my fridge before I even opened it and has seemed to me semi-rancid from the start. This despite a Best Before date of 18 Feb. and no sign of fridge dysfunction or anything else going off. Has anyone else noticed similar? And, before I take it back, if / when I go to Aldi again, could it conceivably have been affected by other stuff in the fridge -- say lemons or blue cheese? But that said, it was securely wrapped.

HSBC then. The scammers are branching out.

Am I right in believing that the ED trains have cameras and presumably recordings that British Transport Police have access to?

Barclays? Cf http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,602783,602811 and http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,568535,573505.

Welcome to the forum, Andicam2. Any relation to Andicam? Or Betsy Vickers? And any success yet with your other five posts?

I have an Exmoor Wishbone, who got several show best-in-class awards for cow in calf, and second place in Milk Yield Tests at the Royal Show of 1936. That wouldn't be you, would it? I know these messages can get rather garbled sometimes.

That'll be Miller, G.A. (1956) The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

> a logic free directive sadly - apply it to all mammals or @#$%& off. The preamble to the regulation begins: "(1) In the perception of EU citizens, cats and dogs are considered to be pet animals and therefore it is not acceptable to use their fur or products containing such fur."

There seems, on paper, to be a phasing-out schedule. A fair bit of the wasted energy does presumably go toward room heating. The fault really, given that heat rises, is placing them up on the ceiling. I gather that a whole new generation of LED bulbs, of allsorts hues, is a real possibility within a few years.

oilworker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Will you tell us the precise location?" > > yes - at the letter "o "where it says "San Donato" Thanks, I'll have a look next time I'm down the Duomo.

Ah, memory. Pass me a banana.

oilworker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >I went down to look at the road a bit later and once again there was nothing untoward - > perfectly flat and no potholes or anything. Explain that!! Will you tell us the precise location?

Tarot Wrote: > --- > So you,ve been to one of those sessions to Ianr:) A lot more than one. You didn't have much choice, other than to wonder why, when you were seven years old and in school.

>I've been researching cycling courses on his behalf as I think he would benefit from having an >instructor to advise him how to approach busy roundabouts and junctions etc in heavy traffic. I think what's been said about defensive riding hits the mark. To think what might happen if the road-user you can see acts as if they can't see you or are not going to be considerate to you; or if what you can't see contains a possible hazard. What's happened to him could well be very useful experience.

>As Hugonot says"Breathe and relax". And now we're all going to be trees, with our branches waving slowly in the wind. So put your arms up in the air, and when the music starts ...

klikker22 wrote on 12 january: > I was trying to get a FCC train to Farringdon, and the screen said it was delayed by about 5 minutes; I kept waiting for another 10 > minutes (and in the mean time missed a train to LBR) and when I eventually pushed the info button, they told me it was cancelled; I don't travel often on trains, but I've seen enough of this pattern -- progressive extension of the ETA, maybe then a more general 'delayed', followed up by 'Cancelled' -- to actually expect it, once I see more than a single change. And I find it difficult to believe that it accurately reflects real-time events. It seems to me more like clunky information flow and labelling, but I'd be interested to know more details of how it works. Whatever, I think it happens across too many locations and trains to be attributable to any single TOC, though they may well get the flak for it, might be to some extent complicit in it, and will certainly be interested parties. Which entity actually controls the information system?

>The perpetrators have to be stopped and the way is to take joint action with the police in the lead. What sorts of joint action did you have in mind?

>The car hit the frame of his bike a couple of inches from his ankle. Worse than I thought. I'm glad he's ok. The question's going to be asked: did he have a good front light? I see that sunrise today was 07:57, and the collision was at 06:50.

>My son managed to swerve to avoid direct impact and car fortunately narrowly missed his leg ... headlight plastic casing found in road dated 1996. In other words, he managed to avoid riding straight into its side, but still had glancing contact with the front of the car that occasioned the damage to the headlight. That seems the most obvious reading to me. I also take it that MM's son was on CPRd and had right of way.

It sounds possibly like a rerun of this: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,568535,573505 . If so, this particular scam does seem to provide some scope for counter-measures at the time. What time of day was it?

Even if a search for an author returns "This user doesn't exist or has been deactivated", their posts can usually still be seen in the threads where they were posted and be returned as hits in a search by content.

You want more info? Just heard a piece in the World Service Science in Action prog, about an all-electric m/c; 11kWh battery capacity, 184 bhp, from memory (might be wrong) -- it's said to have the power/weight ratio of a petrol-driven 600cc bike -- that got third place in a time trial or summat at a California track.

The Supporters' Trust newsletter was actually right. If you look at the Order Info link on the CH DHPD page, it shows the dissolution on 24/11/09, but then an April 2010 application for restoration.