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  1. >This one certainly looks like a bit of a monster! >Attachments: Slug hedge front.jpg (46KB) Remind it to audition if they ever do a remake of The Shining including the hedge animals.
  2. > Could we have some good drama instead? Just google "assaulted neighbour hedge". :)
  3. That sounds a good idea.
  4. >keep your eyes on gumtree.. ... and this compendium of recent bike ads (as mentioned by mlteenie here).
  5. James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Southwark Council has a consultation about introducing Dog Control Orders. > > The consultation is rather leading - no questions about whether you agree SOuthwakr has a problem or > not, where any problems might be. This is the statutorily prescribed way of consulting about a specific proposed order: Procedures before and after making, or amending, a dog control order 3. ? (1) Before making a dog control order under section 55 of the Act, an Authority shall? (a) consult upon its proposal to make the order by publishing a notice of that proposal in a local newspaper circulating in the area in which the land in respect of which the order would apply is situated; (b) consult every other Authority having power under section 55 of the Act to make a dog control order in respect of all or part of the land in respect of which the proposed order would apply; and © where all or part of the land in respect of which the proposed order would apply is access land, consult? (i) the access authority for that access land, and (ii) the local access forum for that access land, and, in respect of any of that access land that is not situated in a National Park, the Countryside Agency. (2) The notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a) shall? (a) identify the land in respect of which the order is to apply, and, if any of the land is access land, state that this is the case; (b) summarise the order; © where the order refers to a map, state where the map may be inspected at an address within the Authority's area, and that any inspection shall be free of charge at all reasonable hours during the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (d); (d) state the period within which representations may be made in writing or by e-mail, such period being not less than 28 days after the publication of the notice; and (e) state the address and e-mail address to which representations may be sent. (The Dog Control Orders (Procedures) Regulations 2006) It's unclear to me whether the council's consultation is intended as such a consultation, or is simply a general consultation as to whether specific proposals for Dog Control Orders would be generally welcome if made (in which case they would then have to go through the formal procedure, as above, if they wanted to make any). I suspect, and hope for their sake, that it's the latter. But I think it might be sensible to get some clarification.
  6. There are 'explanations' of traceroute about. This one is pretty basic. But next time you're stuck, just run the prog and paste the results. :) There's also the more basic ping www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk , if you want to check just connectability and speed.
  7. If it's really bad, another useful diagnostic might be to run tracert: tracert www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk If running Windows, you can run it in a Dos[-like] command (cmd) window. It reports the times spent on individual hops from node to node by packets in three trials. It's taking twenty hops for me, at present, half of those at my ISP's end!, but always getting through. One server en route, te1-7.mpd01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com, currently seems to be a consistently weak link from where I am (not all test packets getting through), though I don't know whether that necessarily indicates it as a significant increaser of perceived latency. The test is likely to be more informative in cases where your browser does time-out.
  8. >does seem to be a problem at the server end rather than at our end then. Or anywhere en route. I came across http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com on a Virgin forum today. Can't vouch for its accuracy, but probably worth trying. Just replace google.com with the relevant URL.
  9. ianr

    Credit Card Scam

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=This+one+is+pretty+slick+since+they+provide+YOU+with+all+the+information&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
  10. > Where is the exchange located exactly? Which bit of Lordship Lane? Thanks. This checker shows it on a map, and gives your distance from it. http://kitz.co.uk/adsl/adslchecker.php
  11. >It's safe to assume that the brief was to show that interparcel.com offers a web-based door to >door parcel delivery service which is more convenient than going to the post office. >So they film a bloke going to the post office in the rain. Then they cut to a bloke in the warm >indoors who does the same job with his laptop using interparcel.com. If they'll give me a consultancy fee -- I assume a few thousand will be the norm -- I'll tell them not to be so daft as to force potential customers to go through several passes of a quotation-getting routine to get any idea of their price structure.
  12. >then he starts talking about Southern Electric, Did he get a chance to say he was the area manager?
  13. binary_star Wrote: > I actually emailed The Tree of Hope because I thought the flyer looked a bit DIY (the logos were > badly pixellated), no bags were provided, and the web address provided for SOS Clothes Ltd (who are > collecting the clothes on behalf of the charity) didn't check out. But a contact at the Charity > confirmed this is a legitimate collection. Good job as we've donated clothes to them! Just to provide a link to a post I've just made to the lounge about a similar kind of arrangement: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,558283,584479#msg-584479 where A.N.Y.A.Ltd say they are collecting for a Lithuanian charity. It is interesting, btw, that as one delves into the different companies and arrangements, one does notice some recurring names. I suppose the acid test is to look at the collecting companies' accounts and to find out from the charities what they received.
  14. The latest one through the door, collecting this Friday "in support of the STOP INDIFFERENCE project of the Lithuanian Orphan Fellowship", says they're a company called A.N.Y.A. Ltd. A quick check at Companies House shows that the company was dissolved in March 2010, and had not filed any accounts since its incorporation in March 2007. The address shown on the leaflet hasn't been the company's registered address since November 2007. The website they name in connection with the project, www.stopindifference.org is not to be found, and the domain stopindifference.org is not currently registered to anyone. A search on the phone number given, 07902213700, brings up this site, a compendium of similar clothing collections: http://www.charitybags.org.uk/clothing_collectors_selection.shtml . There the company is said, in a January 2008 leaflet, to be associated with www.lithuanianorphanfellowship.org. That domain too is currently available to buy. The current leaflet says that "the company will donate 100% of our monthly profits (after the deduction of salaries and operating costs) to this charity [Lithuanian Orphan Fellowship]"). In the absence of any accounts, it's difficult to know if there were any profits.
  15. I've been in there a few times since the re-opening, mainly for books. Haven't found it uncomfortable, so ignore what I said above. Have you seen the Mind Christmas cards? I don't think I remember cats on them before, but there seem to be as many now as there are robins. Real cats, too, that is, and out in the snow (but not afaics assaulting robins). Is this a trend, and what does it mean?
  16. >The festive season is hotting up as it took 20 minutes to send a recorded envelope, It took twenty minutes to queue for a certificate of posting at about 3pm on November 1. When I walked past the PO half an hour ago, the queue went right out onto the street; six to eight places before you even got inside the place. And they shut down the Melbourne Grove sub-office.
  17. The three bike signs have now been close to erased. I don't know what that signifies, but I think it at least removes any worry that Southwark might find themselves having to pay a million or two in damages to an injured cyclist.
  18. >Yes, the /tmp folder on the server was full up again which stopped the search from working. Should be fine now. If it's going to be a recurring problem, run a cron job to regularly purge it of all but the freshest stuff and email the admins of any impending space problems.
  19. I'm on what Virgin National (which is what they now call their ADSL phone-line broadband). I wouldn't advise switching to it. If anyone is thinking of doing so, have a look at the forum page http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Broadband-down-your-phone-line/bd-p/national. At present it seems fairly typical, with a fair proportion of gripes about low speeds. No saying how representative this is, I suppose: happy bunnies don't gripe. Nevertheless, not all bunnies appear happy.
  20. I've seen a northbound train at 11.44, and a southbound one at 11.55, which was in accord with the NR live departures page (though that was a bit slow in upddating the latter from 5 min late to 10 min late). It's currently, in its window to 13.45, showing departures at 14/15 and 44/45 min past the thour, all 'On time'.
  21. Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks - I'm getting 8Mb today Over the BT telephone line, from Virgin?
  22. > Handy way to get rid of things that are too good to throw away but that you don't want (and if you have no luck with Freecycle). Don't forget Freegle.
  23. From the letters page of the latest Private Eye (No.1276): "PPS The police have just issued pictures of the most wanted students in the UK in connection with the riot. Unfortunately, two of them are architects from our office which was under siege at the time in 30 Millbank. We have had a great deal of fun today at their expense. One of them was heard to comment, "How can I be a violent student? I'm wearing a pullover"." (If anyone would like to discuss the propriety of clue 12 across in the PE crossword, please PM me.) Cf also, re vigilantism
  24. > They have also worked out that SpaceyCat, sitting at the window watching them, is completely harmless. Or they're playing chicken? It's always blue tits, innit. I think I heard something on the radio last week about ?blackbirds learning new behaviours so as to use the feeders. Any pioneers sighted locally?
  25. Heard on Radio 4 this morning -- an allegation of corruption against Fifa officials, an allegation of perjury against the main prosecution witness in the Ali Dizaei case, all against people who've not been convicted. Why don't the BBC just stop this vigilantism and witch-hunting, respect people's human rights, and leave this stuff to the police to deal with?
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