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I've been looking at the map on http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2010/08/18/spitfire-flypast-over-central-london-this-friday/, about today's commemorative flypast by a Hurricane and Spitfire. If he's accurate in his estimate of the flight path between Biggin Hill (take-off 1540h) and the Cabinet War Office (1600h) the path runs along Kirkdale, Sydenham, over the East side of Dulwich Park, passes between North Dulwich and East Dulwich Stations (nearer the former) and then over Ruskin Park. Any confirmations or differing versions anywhere? It would be a shame to miss it.

But the blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad. Oh, very well, under protest ... 1729

For those of you who unfortunately missed out on selecting 1729, I'm now willing to consider offers for shares in it.

I use indoor aerials more or less like this http://www.propertysupplies.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=652_683&products_id=304 for Freeview, without problem (though I don't have HD). This might be useful for comparing Sky and FreeSat. http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/satellitetv.html

I was walking past the medical centre in Townley Road this afternoon when I saw what looked like two small furry dead animals on the pavement. I was just trying to work out what they were when I heard someone say "They've fallen out of the tree", and realised they were young squirrels. I wonder how those deaths came about.

Here's my aide-memoire re the ED->CLJ bit, where BAK=Battersea Park, CLJ=Clapham Jn, JT=Journey Time BAK->CLJ weekday JT 3' ======== 07/10/17/23/37/40/47/53 [so ED->CLJ via Peckham Rye, dep 44/14 arr 10/40, JT 26)] [ ED->CLJ via Streatham Common, dep 00/30 arr 26/56 JT 26)] [ ED->CLJ via West Norwood, dep 15/45 arr 45/15 JT 30)] Peckham Rye->BAK (JT 12) VIC (JT 16) ============================ 20/50

>Anyway, who cares about human ability re random number selection. If "Marshall Mellow" can drive me >back from the dentist, then I'm sure he's perfectly qualified to make the draw on Friday Ah, but will he take the rest of us to the cleaners, Ha ha, LOL, LOL, smiley, etc :). >Ian, have you made your selection yet? 1729

Experiments have demonstrated that human beings are not very good at generating or selecting numbers randomly. What makes you think a guinea pig will be any better?

Marie Lloyd gave me a wink over the fish fingers and frozen pollock in Iceland last week.

>It's ridiculous that the main timetable/journey planner doesn't tell you that the trains aren't running. It does, Jeremy, surely, implicitly at least. I always use the Journey Planner to check a specific journey at the weekend. It shows replacement buses and/or longer or more devious journeys if any of the relevant train services isn't running.

It's bizarre though that they don't seem to do this on their other London sites. Meanwhile, more from the front line:

Breaking news from dulwich.london.myvillage.com/news ( aka www.mydulwich.co.uk/news ):

I see that the minutes of the open part of the Southwark Licensing Sub-Committee meeting of 27 April 2009, when the club's application for variation of licence was considered, are available in a 75 kB PDF document http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=4036. AFAICS it's principally a statement of the additional permitted licensable activities (late night refreshments, etc) and the Environmental Protection Team Noise Conditions, as now incorporated in the full licence details http://app.southwark.gov.uk/licensing/LicPremisesGrantedDetails.asp?systemkey=828551 that DJKQ's already linked to and quoted from. Section 3 does contain: "We have considered all representations, written and aural, and we are satisfied that the conditions imposes by the Metropolitan Police and the Environmental Protection Team, which we have accepted, will alleviate any concerns with the licensing objectives. The Council expects that all terms,conditions and restriction of the premises licence will be complied with at all times that the premises are used under the licence. The failure to comply with terms, conditions and restrictions of the premises of the premises licence is a matter to which the Licensing Sub-Committee may have regard in the event that any request is made for the review of the licence."

So I enter 'pine nut enema' in google ...

Some explicit credits might be in order: Picture by Gareth Jones 6th Feb 10 Everton midfielder Steven Pienaar tries to calm down a heated derby as tempers flare as Liverpool are reduced to ten men. Caption writer: Gareth Jones Copyright Trinity Mirror NWS images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/liverpoolecho/aug2010/9/1/gareth-jones-photo-of-steven-pienaar-68136144.jpg

And again on Sun 23rd, same time.

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,501660,501737#msg-501737

[Marvel is good in the home because ...] Marvel stays in the home and don't go off. (My own non-prize-winning entry to a complete-the-slogan competition)

Compare and contrast this other resignation story going the rounds at the moment for the benefits of a more controlled (display-board presentation via email) mode: http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/ . [Ed] ... now 'revealed as hoax': http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/11/elyse-porterfield/

> Nationwide are great - you take your money out without charge anywhere in the world They've recently announced a change in policy wef 1 November: http://www.nationwide.co.uk/current_account/flexaccount-changes.htm

I could just about eat spam but found it a really good appetite suppressant. Just the thing when I was poor. More recently a cheap sliced chicken roll -- the sort that turns into near tasteless rubbery pulp if you simmer it in boiling water for a few minutes -- reminded me of it.

I looked at the Hansard report http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/100709-0002.htm of that Bill reading that I mentioned on 8 July. The Bill itself seems to me unlikely to get anywhere in the long run (eg: "This Bill needs such an enormous amount of improvement that maybe it should be retired into private life."), but there was, pre-election, a Defra public consultation on dangerous dogs legislation http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/pets/dangerous/index.htm, and I got the impression that the present government is committed to looking at its outcome.

>I don't know if this is just a Hotmail thing or not No, and it's not even necessarily Mrs N's friend's address book that's been poached, just someone in your 'circle'. Once that's happened, any of the addresses in it can be used as a From address in a spoof email. Even someone with a totally secure system is likely to find, some time or other, that for several weeks they'll be receiving non-delivery notifications of spam, phishing, or other ill-intentioned email that has their address in the From field. It's not so difficult to learn how to read full email headers and to work out (at least to ISP or country level) where they've really beeen sent from.

Strange. I've had headaches from board markers being used in a room 30 feet down the corridor.

Looking forward to reading My Signal's Back.