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I came across this in the Daily telegraph when looking for records of actual rainfall (rather than forecast): April-could-break-rainfall-records-but-wont-end-the-drought.html If anyone does find a site routinely recording UK rainfall measurements please do post the URL. [Ed: the best I've found so far are the weekly and monthly water situation reports at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/drought/31749.aspx.]

It sounds eminently sensible to me, given the shortage of hills around here, and the usefulness of fartlek training. I doubt that Sherlock Holmes would have been able to mark you out as a rugby player, but apart from that. ... ;)

> I'm with Bic Basher - damn handy website. Which, with cookies working, very satisfactorily remembers your own stops of interest, at least on a PC. It's much more convenient to know there's a 37 coming in five minutes than to set out from home and then spend twenty minutes standing at a bus stop wondering when the next one will arrive.

> Sure there was something on here a while ago (months) about this. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,644421,873342,page=5

You've still not told us the make and model of the beast. If the tuning you've done involved a couple or so minutes of it reporting scans through 40 or so different possible multiplexes looking for signals, and probably listing stations found, by name or count, as it continued, your set does have a digital tuner. If that's so, have you told the TV, probably via an on-screen menu, to use the signal from its digital tuner rather than the analogue one?

Not one funded by Southwark, according to the Report New Events Programme 2011-2013 [PDF 115 KB] downloadable from http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=2406

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>Wow! Well for a Southwark Circle member I just tried to retune her little >television and even after retuning, with her internal little aerial attached > to the 8 yr old digibox, we couldn't locate ITV3 C4 or C5! If it is an aerial/reception problem, you should find that _all_ of the channels contained within a multiplex are missing. You can see the new Crystal Palace multiplexes listed here. If that's her problem, it looks as if her set's not been able to tune to two of them, PSB2 and COM4. With an indoor aerial, it's probably worth the trouble of having several goes, with the aerial in slightly different positions. Once the TV or freeview box has found them, it will at least know about and remember them. If that's not the problem, I did find, on one freeview box (Medion or Tevion, I think), that a few channels had been inserted at numbers in the 1000+ channel list number range, rather than in the one starting at 1. Once I'd found them, I moved them to their usual places in the sequence.

Have you actually viewed the contents of the drive in Windows Explorer, and checked its Properties? If that definitely shows zero content it's possible that, when the CD was burned, it wasn't finalised. You could see whether your system (I assume you have Windows XP or later) will allow you to add any more files to it. If that's the case, and you're not sure how to finalise it, the simplest way might be to try burning one or more files to it, while choosing the option to finalise.

Were any cats lost?

> But then something unforeseen happened. The young thief removed the cap > from one of the bottles and proceeded to drink from it. The effect was instantaneous - > the master criminal was immediately reinvigorated, it was like a Legend of Zelda game. > He used his new found energy to sprint across the remainder of the green, I lost sight of > him as he ran down Solomon's Passage. Exhausted I made my way back home. Wouldn't have happened to Popeye. Make sure you have your can of spinach on you next time.

>- hoping to get meter removed in June and back to normality! I've just been ploughing through their website and detailed charging leaflets. I think I read that you can switch from metered reading, but that they leave the meter in place and revert to metered charging if there's a new occupier. I'm wondering whether they will be able to install a meter for my flat, one of two in a converted house. The incoming pipe only divides under the small entrance hall, so any meter would presumably have to go there, at floor level, which might be an inconvenience for both flat owners, or else perhaps somewhere (I've no idea where) in my (upper) flat. Has anyone any related experience? TBH, it would be fine if they couldn't, as I could then go on the Assessed Household Charge rate, which would still be substantially cheaper than my current standard rate.

If you registered the name before 16 February 2001, or did so after that date but didn't elect to have it recorded only in the edited version, it will have been available to all and sundry anyway. At one time I think such data was actually included in free CDs that came with monthly computer magazines. I might even have one somewhere. You could even check doing an online search on one of the 'people finder' sites such as 192.com, to see whether anything possibly matching it is publicly available. So maybe not so spooky. If the name was on a public version I think I'd collect the parcel and see what the tat is. [Edited 07:48 pm: I really meant "only in the full version" above. It's the edited version that's commercially available.]

Boring but useful answer. Paste your error message, preferably quoted "This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked" into a Google search, and take your pick of the advice offered.

That's reassuring to hear. I had wondered if it was the wiring. Two dropouts of a second or less this afternoon, early afternoon and about 16:10, in the Grove Vale area. Each enough to cause the computer and phone broadcaster to reboot, but without otherwise affecting the modem-router or freeview box.

I don't think the going black or limp necessarily detract much from their quality, once peeled, at least if eaten raw. In fact, they can be even sweeter. What gets me is the soak-washing of carrots, so much that they absorb lots of water and lose any crisp, sweet nutty flavour that they might once have had. That's compounded by the fact that they're then sold by supermarkets in sealed plastic bags. Even opening them immediately, in the hope that they'll dry out, doesn't always stop the rot setting in.

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And then there's Nancy Mitford's 'Uncle Matthew', based on her father. "Uncle Matthew, an eccentric, bullying patriarch who fills his drawers with scraps of paper bearing the names of those he hopes will die and periodically uses bloodhounds to hunt his children across the Oxfordshire countryside" http://www.enotes.com/topic/The_Pursuit_of_Love

I was shown around the marvellous Sands Films Studio in Rotherhithe this afternoon. Their share offer is proceeding well and they're on target to securing ownership of their own premises and so keeping this small local business in the community. I understand, btw, that the offer will now remain open through April.

reggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Although this thread has been moved from the local gossip section...it is about a very local issue. In that case, provide full details and substantiate your allegation.

"Do I have to have a bell fitted on my bike?" "It is advisable that you have a bell fitted so your can warn others of your approach but, so long as you have some sort of audible warning device (and that can be your voice!), it is not a legal requirement."

What you are seeing is some earthshine.

Aliborg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/65/section/7 > > This should be done Section 3(5) of the same Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 confirms: (5)It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that an order under section 2 of the Dogs Act 1871 (order on complaint that dog is dangerous and not kept under proper control)? (a)may be made whether or not the dog is shown to have injured any person; and (b)may specify the measures to be taken for keeping the dog under proper control, whether by muzzling, keeping on a lead, excluding it from specified places or otherwise. I've not seen anything suggesting that a complaint to magistrates under the Dogs Act 1871 (as mentioned above on p2) can't be made by a lay person; though it would be very advisable to get good advice as to evidence and procedure if thinking of doing so. Would the RSPCA be willing to help? That Act also gives the court power to order destruction. Defra have some useful information sources on the law at http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/pets/dangerous/.

> Put in brown bags or garden bin. Could ask neighbours if you could borrow theirs as well. That's what I did a couple of months ago, and everyone I asked kindly agreed. I checked afterward that their bins had been properly cleared. Note that Southwark say they don't like branches thicker than four inches. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/530/green_and_garden_waste/2117/garden_waste > Not supposed to have bonfires in Southwark. It's do with nuisance factor and smoke. Some of us can get instant headaches from even small, wholly invisible, amounts of smoke in the air.