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So now these two fine looking people are available to date at last, what are the next best power couple combinames they should go for? Bradley - you could do worse than Brandi. (I have no idea if Andi Peters is currently unattached, but give it a go!) Angie - honey, you should totally go for the triple: ChAngeLiam. Now that Liam 1D and Cheryl Tweedy-Cole-Ferrero-Rocher are rumoured to be expecting, it's the perfect time to step into a m?nage ? trois vedettes. Everyone wins: you love babies; they haven't got their own power couple name yet. Oh they are both in other power couple names at the moment though, courtesy of highly improbable internet conspiracy theories, so be prepared for some Twitter abuse from the 'Chim' and 'Larry' shippers! xx

Great to see so many upstanding, law-abiding contributors to this thread. You're so rare to find on the roads round here. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw a car managing to stay below 20mph on the downhill section of that hill. If we're all for upholding the law, we're all for speeding tickets starting from 21 mph, right? If we're all agreed to stick to the rules rigidly, then it's fair enough to penalise a few yards of illicit bus lane occupancy. As it is though, no-one bats an eyelid at 28 mph in a 20 zone, and I don't see why we should get hung up about one minor infraction if not the others. Oddly enough, I've never seen anyone on horseback near Sainsbury's either. I guess people leave their high horses at home when they pop to the supermarket.

njc97 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No mentions for Anderson & Co - I'll mention them - nice food, but I don't like their coffee much! The blend is a bit fruity for my taste. Same is true for the magic* beans I've taken home from the General Store. uncleglen is right, you can't beat a decent single-source Columbian. *magic: euphemism for expensive ;)

macutd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i often move into the bus lane to avoid cars passing very close or cars building up behind me. You have my sympathy here, and a suggestion for an appeal approach: Even on a bike which has no trouble getting to 20mph, you get 'bullied' by cars coming up behind you and passing too close, because the drivers intend to speed (often in excess of 30mph). Riding in the bus lane is sometimes necessary for your own safety. There are two reasons that cars speed here: 1. The 20mph speed limit is not enforced; 2. Regular users of this road know that if turning from Grove Hill Road, you don't have long between the lights turning green at that junction to the lights turning red at Sainsbury's. Every day you will see people 'racing' the lights in order to make progress. The road is therefore dangerous for motorcyclists who intend to abide by the speed limit. On a small, lightweight machine especially, maintaining stability on an often windy hill is enough to concentrate on, without cars rushing past and potentially unbalancing you. The council must accept some responsibility for this dangerous situation, because they set up the speed limit but do not enforce it. To enforce the bus lane but not the speed limit is perverse. Anyway that's how I'd play it. If you decide to appeal, feel free to PM me if you would like a supporting letter saying how dangerous this stretch is for motorcyclists.

Hello OP. It's worth seeing what the experts on the forums at PePiPoo.com have to help you For example, this is one of the things you might find helpful (pasted from one of their forums): The guidelines for enforcement of bus lanes in London (and elsewhere) state that the operator should observe a vehicle travelling along a bus lane for at least 20 metres before he issues a Penalty Charge Notice. We hear of many instances where vehicles receive a penalty charge notice when they have clearly not travelled along a bus lane for 20 meters. For example simply cutting off the end of a bus lane or not able to avoid the first couple of metres or swinging in and out when a car in front suddenly stops. Councils are aware of this guideline but quite often ignore it. If you have received a PCN in these circumstances you should immediately write to the local council and point out that they did not operate within the guidelines. Edited to add: also take a look at buslanes.com

Mopeds. At 50cc's or less, they qualify as tiny enough for this thread. The irrational rage is stoked in my Inner Pedant, when the term moped is used to mean scooter. (Some scooters are mopeds, but most of the ones you see around are too large to qualify.) Venting pendantry here so that I will be better able to resist Grammar Nazi goose-stepping across other threads (and other sites, including to its shame the BBC News website).

You will find good appeal material at PePiPoo.com

So, who is it that you think should pick up the phone bill? 15p per call seems like a relatively small price for individual callers to pay. It's not like anyone needs to call 101 every day. When you consider that something like 40% of 101 calls turn out not to be police matters, it's understandable that the cops want to make a small charge that might make people think twice about complaining about next door's smelly bins or whatever. Otherwise it would be ??? of council tax money going on a phone bill instead of on essentials like bullets and tear gas and whatnot.

Deliveroo has considered your request, and has succinctly captured its response within the new logo: http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn185/idiotboy77/538F4305-2157-41CA-87CB-10AF30135CA3_zpsyxrl4ycz.jpg At least it's not the middle finger!

Local MP Helen Hayes (Dulwich & West Norwood) spoke in Monday's debate on the petition for a second referendum. Sensibly, she is in favour: "Yesterday, the Prime Minister confirmed that there is no commitment to give additional funds to the NHS as a consequence of Brexit?a pledge that toured the country on the side of a bus, and on the basis of which millions of people voted in good faith to leave the EU. The Prime Minister says that Brexit means Brexit, but when such pledges are broken almost immediately, none of us really knows what Brexit will mean. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that lack of clarity further underlines the case for enabling the British people to see the detail of the actual Brexit deal and vote again on whether they would like to proceed on those specific terms, and that that should take place before article 50 is triggered?" Full Hansard is at https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-09-05/debates/1609058000001/EUReferendumRules

tl;dr: croissants are losing their curve across Britain, a cognoscento foretells the dumbing down of our nation.

9.20 pm: no sushi left :-( Consoled myself with a marked down Balanced For You chicken tikka masala. Still, if everyone could stop scoffing all the sushi before I finish at the gym, that would be ideal.

Everyone should have the right to a quiet pint. Even Farridge.

The main thing that has put me off here is the smell in the men's wet-side changing room. It overwhelmingly stank of urinals in there. Has anyone been in the men's side since the change?

At least she wasn't bald.

How do you know he was white? He may have just been an albino ;) Good description. Thanks for the heads up.

The website to check this stuff out at is PePiPoo. I have appealed two parking fines based on there being technical problems with how they were issued. PePiPoo will help you determine if you have grounds to appeal. Best of luck.

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Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The often repeated fatuous remarks you get under > some people's Facebook photos U ok hun? x x >>>>> People pushing trolleys sideways down the supermarket aisles. (There's an epidemic in Sainsbury's today.)

There's a documentary on the BBC iPlayer at the moment, Britain's Most Wanted Motorcycle Gand? Most of the footage and interviews are from the Thamesmead estate. The guys involved seem to think that being part of 'Bike Life' is a healthy outlet for their energies and stress. Better than alternative lifestyles in the estate, like violence and organised crime. Questions like, "Do you have a driving licence?" were sadly unasked.

I saw a parking enforcement chap getting set to ticket a car parked across the dropped kerb in front of my garage door. Explained that the neighbours are fine to park there as I don't need the access, and they've left cars there alone ever since. I'm pretty impressed that they remember, it can't be easy. My neighbour came into the road when I was having the conversation. She gave the fellow a right old ear bashing for the fine she had just been sent for the same thing. Anyway I wrote her a letter and the fine got cancelled, so it's definitely worth appealing if it has happened to you.

Glad you're ok. As Toffee said, this does happen near hospitals, especially one like Maudsley. I've had a similar scenario, when some poor chap thought I was one of the secret agents that he believed were monitoring him. You did the right thing by avoiding.

Worst things is the news reports that this bloody hole is "30cm". It's not exactly an avalanche on the line.

Swapped price label on a He-Man jelly sweet in Woolies, c.1988. Woolies insolvency a mere couple of decades later. Coincidence?

Renting or buying?