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Duly authorised TfL employees and any police officer, even a PCSO, are among those with some enforcement powers. But the powers exist only in respect of those who are do not have a reasonable excuse for not wearing a mask. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/592/made. I suspect it's open to both TfL and BTP to enquire of any passenger why they're not personally wearing one. But I doubt that either body will consider it useful, politic or justified to exercise that discretion universally. There's no regulation saying you must declare your excuse every time you travel.

> unless you want to plan weeks in > advance as people are just booking > up every slot possible for weeks. According to https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/TennisInSouthwark/bookinginfo ? Bookings can be made 7 days in advance. ? Individuals can book courts for a maximum of 1 hour each day (which can be two 30 minute bookings). If you plan to play a game for longer than an hour then a playing partner will need to make an adjoining booking. Any play/games with the same people must be limited to 2 hours to give fair access to the courts. ? Cancellations: You can cancel via your ClubSpark account up to 24 hours before the booking date. (Not cancelling bookings could stop people playing) Is that not so in practice? If there's such pressure for slots, the 24 hour limit for cancellation seems less helpful than it could be. Is there no vetting or control of number of bookings per week? If the result is some people being effectively locked out, as they presumably could be by a relatively small number of every-day players, that seems to me an argument for increased rationing. Do the administrators have any idea of the numbers of people failing to find slots?

Are books not capable of carrying infection, even for a limited time? I remember when public library books carried a label requiring notification if the book had come into contact with anyone with a notifiable disease; and the legal requirement on the borrower to, in effect, put the book into isolation, still remains: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22/section/25/enacted. It's been questioned, but still retained. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/08/odd-laws-of-the-united-kingdom/. And Covid-19 has itself been added to the list of notifiable diseases. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/coronavirus-covid-19-listed-as-a-notifiable-disease

You're replying to a three year old post btw. More old threads are getting revived now. It's one of the tactics used by forum spammers who are paid to get links to other commercial websites inserted into apparently reputable and credible locations. They may well start with sn innocuous post, and seek to introduce the link(s) later, either by editing or by introducing a subsequent apparently related post under another username. See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_spam; though I'm not inclined to attribute the instances here to bot software, even if some might be used to automate some of the process.

> There's another (earlier) thread on this from "mary123" /forum/read.php?5,2129743

> He's apparently not around much at > present - Cummings running the show What are your information sources?

I saw yesterday that the hedge had been drastically cut, with offcuts apparently all heaped in the garden. Does anyone know if it was the council or the owner who did the work?

> Seems to of gone very quiet > on the subject of a Vaccine.. ?? > Wonder why that is ? No mystery. It of gone very Quiet because there is nothing notably new for the media to Trumpet. Researching and developing and testing vaccines tends to be a long and Tedious process. If I were inclined to betting on the development that occasions the next media Flare-up, I think I'd go for an AV drug, or one of the other types of antibody treatment.

> In theory you could make people wear > them except when they are sitting at > their table. Made practice, plus, in Miami-Dade County: https://www.miamidade.gov/releases/2020-07-02-mayor-covid-measures.asp

Pugwash, thanks for reposting that. It's very helpful. I'd given up looking at the mish mash in the councillors' thread some time ago. The title and contents have some ED specificity, so I hope that stops this thread from being relegated to the 'Lounge'.

> I am pleased to report that the pigeon freed himself! Are we sure of its sex/gender/etc?

Meanwhile ... "Royal Mail fined ?1.5m for missing 2018/19 delivery target" (91.5% < 93%) https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/royal-mail-fined-for-missing-delivery-target

> What makes you think you are > above the government guidelines, > and you can tell others what to do? But I am left not clearly understanding, and wondering, what specifically led you to write that sentence.

> amount of booze cans and bottles my > household was flying through meant > we quickly realised we needed another > green bin for the empties. Green!?

Thanks. I don't know the things, so still don't understand how much she took, or how many items she had to scan, but it sounds as if asking her if she could let you have just one item would by then have been impracticable. You could ask Sainsburys about imposing a limit. I don't go there often, but one of my staples is their 300g dried skimmed milk packets, and their system still only allows me to check out three. Probably like you, I wouldn't take all of the last three anyway.

You can say what you like here, but you gave up any chance of seeing whether you could influence her behaviour then several hours ago. By boxes, do you mean cardboard cartons, each containing a number of individual boxes of wipes?

axaxi wrote on 8 July at 10:44pm --------------------------------- > I've received post this week on Wednesday Where would that have been? Florida, Turkey, Nigeria, ...? ----- Patience rewarded. My Private Eye's just arrived, eight days late.

UnaAllan Wrote: --------------- > It's very expensive, I agree. I would > change the provider if I were you. There > are many inexpensive ones. Welcome to EDF. Is there anything you can say to undo my presumption that you're another username created with a view to earning money by using this forum to promote external websites?

Nigello wrote: -------------- > Is it a trapped nerve/bulging disc > or a muscular problem?

"The Odeon was closed by the Rank Organisation on 21st October 1972 with "The Burglars"(Le Casse) starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 7th June 1973, the building was sold to the Divine Light Mission and became a Palace of Peace Temple to the followers of 15 year old Guju Maharaj-Ji from India.", according to http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/29273. Harry, when I went to Saturday morning pictures in Wimbledon, when it was only 6d, there was always preliminary communuity singing, with organ accompaniment and words on the screen. Seven year olds singing along to Daisy Daisy, A You're Adorable, Lambeth Walk, Tipperary, Old Father Thames, and so on. And sometimes demonstrations and subsequent sales of things like yoyos. It was a different chain though, Gaumont. Did you get that kind of thing at the Odeon?

lameduck, you're an innocent though, as far as these things go. They've been around for many years. You can also get ones touting other stuff, such as dodgy pharmaceuticals. I assume it was similar to the attached example. That was from Usenet, which uses a posting protocol more like email. Ideally it might have been automatically detected and removed by whoever ran the news server, before anyone was able to download it. Monitoring of forums and messageboards isn't usually so nifty.

The London Metropolitan Archives had a good set of hard copies last time I went, and they've a collection of digital images that might be worth searching: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/Pages/search.aspx. Leicester University has an online collection of digital directories: https://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/specialcollections/az/historical-directories. Southwark Local History Collection seems low on directories: https://southwark.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/REFSET/WPAC/BIBENQ/198609518?QRY=SHF%3A%20%27.%20DIRECTORIES%20.%27&SQL=&QRYTEXT=Form%2FGenre%3A%20Directories&QFT=SHF&QFV=Directories.

> And the WHO, of course, colluded > by NOT slapping on an air travel ban What authority would they have to do so?

> You won't see [Chinooks] over ED directly Vey occasionally you will, in which case there's usually a mention here.

Blah Blah wrote on 27 June: > Neuroscience now has research that > suggests we are hardwired as a species > to have aversion to faces we do not > find asymmetrical for example, even > when we are not trying to display > any aversion. Do you have any useful references?