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Just a reality check. I've had almost no mobile connectivity since yesterday morning. Initially a No Signal icon, but it's been mainly showing good or strong signal strength but reporting, on startup or attempts to phone or text: "No service. Selected network (1p) unavailable" and "Not registered on network". Currently also no web access via mobile data. Is anyone else experiencing any of this? And does anyone have a spare adaptor enabling me to try my microsim in another phone that uses standard size sims? I believe the cardboard "three sims in one" container that they're issued in would do the trick, if you still have one spare after having extracted your own microsim. [update 15:40: it seems to be creeping back in stages. 3G+ connection was intermittently displayed, but didn't actually connect. Then H+ connection and call dialling was announced, though without any obvious action. Then web connection was restored. And [at 16:20] lost. And the H+ has gorn too, and we've backtracked functionally to where we were this morning. Presumably they now try another (I hope not randomly selected) path to resolution. I wonder how many there are potentially. Anyone want to open a sweepstake?] [update Mon 13/6: Service was back to normal by 00:30 this morning and remains so. I've not seen anything on the 1pmobile website about it so am not even sure that they were aware of it. They use the EE network, and their Help service only runs Monday to Friday. I think I'm going to have to contact them, just to be sure that my own phone's state didn't contribute at all.]

Gove in the Today 08:10 slot on Thursday 9 June was remarkably and repeatedly ummy on the last topic he was questioned on. Which I erm, can't quite er, remember atm.

Is this you?

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting use of Statistics by the Mayor today That seems to have been one of his briefings of the week. It turned up in the Sophie Raworth TV interview on Sunday too.

Spartacus wrote above on 5 June ------------------------------- > I see the Mayor is whining about > the Met Police once again BBC News > - Metropolitan Police has real > problems, Sadiq Khan says > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61696549 I went, after reading that, to the actual interview. I wouldn't characterise it at all as whining. I've an audio mp3 of it, ~4.5MB, if anyone wants. I do get irritated by his diction though. Both the almost gabbled, quick-fire repeated litanies of the same points that comes across as a bit glib, and the dropped g's in amazin', applyin', etc. I don't know whether he's channelling Peter Wimsey or William Brown.

This thread needs moving to the Lads' Room.

Yes, I missed that one, by putting my trust just in google and not doing a local search too. It's not an uncommon tactic. It didn't take long to find the little creep at it elsewhere too: see attached.

If you just want access to mp3 files to download, and online episode summaries, the programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017tcz/episodes/downloads may be more convenient than the BBC Sounds one.

Spartacus wrote: ---------------- > > Interestingly (or not) he doesn't want to take > responsibility for it, despite being the current > occupant of the Mayor?s Office for Policing and > Crime (MOPAC) and is required by law to produce a > plan that explains how the police, community > safety partners and other criminal justice > agencies will work together to reduce crime. Where is the requirement enacted? [Now found]

FJDGoose wrote: --------------- > Brekko?! Roo steak, prawns, salad, and a couple of tinnies.

Try these recipes. https://feed-the-horde.com/2016/11/26/buzzard-bites/ https://www.ricardocuisine.com/en/recipes/3016-buzzard-stewed-in-its-entrails-chicken-in-a-pumpkin

Bic Basher wrote: ---------------- > I believe the Thameslink trains that run > out of Herne Hill are also declassified. > They were before the new trains were introduced. The page linked to above by OutOfFocus says: "On routes served by Thameslink trains, first class accommodation can be found at the very front of the train. The first class compartment at the rear of Thameslink trains is always declassified." It also includes the Beckenham Junction and London line under the heading "Routes with standard class only operate between;". I take that as authoritative enough indication that no first class fares can or will be sought on that line.

KidKruger wrote: ---------------- > Actually, Sue, it flew over my > garden. Yours view would have been > slightly off to one side 🙄 I thought there was an alternation policy, KK's house one day, Sue's the next.

> Create some differentiating > feature and you will be safe. For some value of (FSVO) 'safe'. It'll probably be a good safeguard against persevering attempts to wrestle penalty charges etc out of you. Agsinst theft or cloning or the issuing of penalty notices, I'm more doubtful. If there were some information-emitter that would provide authoritative indication that an observed car was probably using cloned or stolen plates, things might, possibly, be different.

It is unlawful for maintained and independent schools to discriminate against a child on the grounds of the child?s religion or belief in school admissions. However, faith schools are exempt and are permitted to use faith-based oversubscription criteria in order to give higher priority in admissions to children who are members of, or who practise, their faith or denomination. This only applies if a school is oversubscribed.https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06972/SN06972.pdf The school's admission policy is set out at http://www.stfrancescacabrini.co.uk/school-information/admissions.

tiddles wrote: -------------- > Yup - direct from Southwark planning > portal - no-one else Well don't stop there. Give us the reference.

THE IDEAL CONVENT SCHOOL, Woodville, OAKLANDS, WOODVILLE MALL, HONOR OAK, LONDON, S.E.23. ---- CONDUCTED BY THE MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. ---- The site of the SACRED HEART SCHOOL is in one of the healthiest suburbs of London. Elevated position. 300ft. above sea level. Extensive grounds. Situation unsurpassed for beauty of rural environment and health advantages. Hockey, net ball, cricket, tennis according to season, The Nuns aim at giving best possible moral, mental and physical training to their pupils. Pupils prepared for the University Locals, London Matriculation and Musics R.A.M. and L.C.M., and drawing public examinations at the R.D.S. Applications to the Rev. Mother Superior will receive immediate attention. --- Nottingham and Midland Catholic News - Saturday 11 October 1924, p.9 MISSIONARY NUN VISITS LONDON. ---- Reception At Convent. ---- PROPOSED SCHOOL FOR HONOR PARK. ---- To celebrate the arrival in London of the Very Rev. Mother General of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a concert was given in her honour by the pupils of the Sacred Heart Convent, Honor Oak, on Saturday. It was stated that the intention of the Rev. Mother General is to build a school in Honor Oak which will be second to none in the South of England...... --- Nottingham and Midland Catholic News - Saturday 25 June 1932, p.1 (Both, courtesy of https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk )

It was included in the Southwark internal audit of schools Apr-July 2021 that was the subject of this thread: /forum/read.php?5,2231610,page=1. The background information given for the school ran: Currently has a ?26,883 deficit which was carried forward into the 2021-22 financial year.  Due to limited finances the school does not have a Business Manager. Budget processes are overseen operationally by the Clerk to the Governors, who is supported by a Finance Assistant.  Will officially become a one form school in September 2021.

KidKruger wrote: ---------------- > I guess this is the basis for those > problems a couple of weeks ago where > previously used trains (of 8 carriages ?) > were suddenly 'too long' and some new > kit on the platform didn't align > properly to the train any more. Not so. The 'new' Class 377 8-car train I saw on 5 May ( /forum/read.php?5,2274773,2275529#msg-2275529 ) coped fine. I suspect the trouble was something like an overlooked small software detail that just needed a tweak. More from Southern about the current service and the newer stock at https://www.southernrailway.com/travel-information/plan-your-journey/latest-on-our-rail-service. "Unlike the old trains, these trains provide air-conditioning, 2X2 seating and accessible toilets. A ?55m upgrade is currently underway to install at-seat power, better information systems and further improve reliability."

"Billystok" is one of the several; hundred usernames used for planting web links here for SEO purposes. All 8 of his previous posts have been deleted but the account remains. This post is made preparatory to the later insertion within it of a payload URL. You can see another such preparatory post at /forum/read.php?25,2277410,2277827#msg-2277827.

Why do you say 'obsessed'?

ken78 wrote: ------------ > ja did say i did not know what i was > talking about first have you not read > the first post? or just assuming. he > don't know what i do for a living You're a butcher. So what?

> They are looking for volunteers to run it I think the need is more substantial than that, starting with new proprietorship.

You can edit that into the subject line of your first post.

> It?s possible I?m wrong & this > nevertheless was the truth? but > would be trillion trillion trillion > to one coincidence wouldn?t it? > (My own opinion - blah blah blah > - personal view - > not the view of the EDF - without > prejudice - disclaimer) 😉 1 chance in 1036 ? No. That's just heedless, self-indulgent and totally unrealistic hyperbole that simply goes to establish your own unreliability. No amount of hedging it with gratuitous qualifications is going to undo that. In its jokiness it's almost a Boris Johnson style of rhetoric.