ianr

Sez you. Others might say quite otherwise. http://www.magnasweet.com/index.php/en/licorice-extracts/127 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15878225

I'm glad no-one got achance to try smoking it.

Jacqui254> So, I was shocked to receive my 'annual statement', thanking me Jacqui254>for my contribution which, over the last year had raised ....drum Jacqui254> roll....?13.81 [net of commission and VAT]. ?13.81!!! No mention from you or Sue of individual items, so I assume they don't appear on the statement. If there's any serious concern or interest I'd suggest that one person could apply for an itemised statement. Better still, for one showing all information about all the items which they had donated under the Gift Aid scheme. If the acounting system is up to scratch it should entail very little extra work for them. As well as being personal information, which one has a right to see, it can also be a very reasonable request. If your gift aid contributions in any tax year exceed your taxable income, you're going to be liable to pay the corresponding gift aid refunds yourself. Donors who've taken their gift aid contributions close to that limit might well want to be aware of their current potential liabilities for this, and maybe future, tax years. Ideally the information provided would show the current status (eg sold - gift aid claimed, in stock, no record, ...) of each gift aid item donated. Other web information-seeking possibilities: (1) Has this information already been sought from any charity? (2) What does the HMRC guidance for charities require of their bookkeeping?

> Looks like it's in the Lounge This one will also probably shortly be disappeared, either there or to About This Forum. (It's presently in the General ED issues.) You can always check your own posts by clicking on your name link, twinhunters.

emu> That looks like Tar used for a flat roof, so best off emu> looking for someone that's got some roofing work happening. Just in case someone searches online for the stuff, let's throw a few more keywords into the mix: Misdelivered Underhill East Dulwich SE22 5663 CROMAR Oxidised bitumen slab grade 9525 23kg keg 5 September 2017

I'm not sure I believe the bit about the sirens blaring. "No more time wasted trying to access those awkward places where objects seem to be able to find with ease, just grab your Grab and Grip Reaching Tool, one of the most useful gadgets to have around the home.This handy lightweight and durable tool has a whole multitude of purposes from picking up litter to retrieving lost objects from behind cupboards with one simple motion." https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALUMINIUM-REACHING-MOBILITY-ASSISTANCE-GREEN/dp/B002R0005Q/ref=pd_sim_201_1

Discuss it with them? Start off with a position paper perhaps, and take it from there. If you don't get close to agreement within a month or two, consider setting a deadline and default position.

[Rethunk and removed thoughts on dial-up access] ... unless it _is_ possible to connect a phone modem to a dedicated broadband cable socket that's still providing a working phone service. Would a USB connection to your smartphone acting as modem be any better than wifi? Ask neighbours to share wireless access?

ianr wrote: ---------- > " ... He exposes how the terrorist group relies on encrypted messages and the dark web..."

Inside Out(Documentary) Monday, September 4th, 2017 on BBC 1 London from 7:30pm to 8:00pm "In a special investigation, terrorism expert Raffaello Pantucci reveals how Isis used social media to plan and plot attacks on Westminster and London Bridge. He exposes how the terrorist group relies on encrypted messages and the dark web to coerce British Muslims to stage atrocities across the UK."

> I think that Boris Johnson is the one man in Govt who it is absolutely > impossible to underestimate, unless we're talking about how stupid/pointless he is. Is that a helpful assessment?

The council is charged ?600 for provision and installation of a ground anchor.

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Waxer

Let me see if I have it right. A circular from Nextdoor was delivered to your house (addressed to whom?). It purported to be an invitation from Nextdoor, signed by yourself, asking recipients to join. That looks to me, if anyone else has received that specific invitation (as anyone would normally assume would be the case) to be a breach of the Data Protection Act, unless you've given permission. And of Nextdoor's own privacy policy, in which they enjoin members not to share their Nextdoor neighbour's information without their permission. Do you have any confirmation that any other household received the invitation bearing your name? They also say: "If you decide to invite new members to join Nextdoor, you might share their residential or email address with us, or share your contacts (or social-media friends list) with us, so we can send an invitation and reminders on your behalf." That's in the "How do we use the information we collect?" section of the privacy policy, https://nextdoor.co.uk/privacy_policy/. Is there any possibility that you could have, maybe inadvertently or unknowingly, issued such an invitation or shared any such information? Unless I was convinced it was all my own responsibility, I think I'd write to Nextdoor senior management: - enclosing a copy of the invitation; - complaining of their use of your name in it without your permission; - requesting the following "personal information": a) all information and evidence they have that led them to believe that the use of your name in the invitation was authorised by you; b) full details of all mail distributions they or their agents have made of invitations bearing your name. The last two items are actually a Subject Access Request. You have a legal right to any such information as they have: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/personal-information/. If they want to act ungraciously they can write back requesting a fee of up to ?10, though I doubt they would.

In fact, after a mixed response to the consultation (even pedlars wanted the retention of regulation) only some minor procedural proposals were retained as far as pedlars go, and the Pedlars Act 1871 carries on substantially the same. See paras 6-13 of the government response downloadable at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/street-trading-and-pedlary-laws-a-joint-consultation-on-draft-regulations-to-repeal-the-pedlars-acts-uk-wide-and-make-changes-to-the-street-trading-legislation-in-england-wales-and-northern-ireland. AIUI, anyone wanting to sell door-to-door, with a few exceptions such as foodstuffs, still requires an annual certificate, costing ?12.50, issued by the police. Peddling without one or using another person's certificate or a fake one are technically offences, as is refusal to show the certficate on request to a person you're trying to sell to, or on whose private land you are. I don't believe that includes promotional calls, roundsmen, or travelling salesmen. So, you can at least be fairly sure that anyone carrying tat for sale door-to-door without a certificate may not be wholly reliable. There are some explanatory pages available, such as https://www.police.uk/forms/pedlars-certificate/. Keep a few spare copies by the door? ;)

The South London Press of 13/3/1897 has a report of an inquest of a young woman found drowned in a pond in the Crystal Palace gardens. She was identified as one of the lady attendants at Fentum's ivory-turning department in the Exhibition, which had an ivory room. And in the 5/9/1891 issue, a report of an inquest into the death of "Martin Fentum, aged 65, an ivory turner, late of Norville, Alleyn-Road, Dulwich." He had been thrown from the dog-cart he was driving when the horse was pulled up sharply and slipped. An accidental death. On the properties side, nothing more found in the Dulwich area, but there is an account in the Evening Standard in 1865 of his being removed from a Mayfair district voters list. As well as having the Norville, Dulwich residence he said that he also occupied two houses in central London, at both of which he was registered and had voted. Did he also live in the Fulham area in 1853? There was a Martin Fentum assaulted on a Putney omnibus, after having taken the seat which another passenger had routinely 'reserved' for a consideration. The magistrates took some time deciding what seemed to them the main question, in what the press deemed "a case of considerable importance to omnibus passengers": whether seats on a public omnibus could indeed be reserved. Having decided in the negative, they then went on to find the other passenger guilty of assault and gave him a nominal fine of a shilling, with two shillings costs. A couple of other minor references, including the 1872 marriage announcement of the eldest son of Mr MF of London and Gipsy Hill. If you'd like images, PM me with an email address. Or you could subscribe to http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/.

Fowls

Interesting. Their website suggests to me integrity and decency, and I see that they say they don't "sell your personal information to third-party advertisers". So I'd surmised possibilities such as database theft and spoofing. My best bet now, though, would be that someone could have made an error in using mailing software, and has inadvertently specified Addressee's name in a Sender's field, and then not checked the output. That's enough to cause alarm, but at least wouldn't be any actual breach of confidence. I think I'd now be checking with others in my Nextdoor neighbourhood, to find out what form their received versions looked like.

Endowed

No more rowing to Croydon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croydon_Canal

Is there any possibility that Next Door's name has also been usurped?

How discriminating are they in the value of phones they steal?