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To answer the ?more than a year? question - almost certainly not. They?re growing so fast at that age that they?ll grow out of any bike in a year to eighteen months. It?s worth looking on the forum for second hand frogs, Islas or Meridas which all do high quality kids bikes. Steer clear of Halfords their stuff is junk and their staff rarely know what they?re talking about. If you are buying new there are plenty of good independent bike stores in the area.

trinidad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just another question, i assume once i have > purchased my bags, I simply just leave them out > during collection time? You are supposed to book the collection online and then just leave them out with your normal collection (they are collected with the food waste and the subscription garden waste bins). I think I?ve seen some people say that they get collected even if you don?t book a collection and others say that they don?t get collected unless you book - so who knows?! I generally do gardening on the weekend, request the collection online on Monday and they are collected with our waste on Wednesday.

gabys1st Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > do you have to pay for collection of brpown bags, > thanks. Oh and do you have a diirect line phone > no for booking collection? Thank you. You don?t pay again for collection, just to purchase them from the council (the collection fee is included). I don?t know if you can arrange collection by phone, I?ve always used the website that Suduhe linked to.

The water feature was switched off very shortly after the park opened as the sand blocked the drainage. I don?t think it?s ever been fixed.

trinidad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hi alex, interesting to learn about the brown > sacks, where do you get these? Suduhe beat me to the answer, and I was wrong it?s ?15 a pack not ?20. For our garden we don?t use more than 10 sacks a year. I think at one point you could also get them at the libraries but I don?t know if that?s the case post-COVID. Booking a collection is very simple and they?re collected on bin day with the food waste.

Parking is a bit better - I can now park outside my house 95% of the time unless people have parked really badly. That said there?s not much enforcement and fewer people going into the office, I don?t think we?ll know the effect until post lockdown. I didn?t find parking particularly bad before though. One big benefit is that we had a plague of semi-abandoned vans and camper vans in the area often sitting unused for months at a time, these seem to have disappeared since the restrictions came in.

We have a small garden and so opted for the brown paper sacks. A single ?20 pack has lasted us more than a year and we still have plenty left. I don?t think ?40 is value for money.

As I understand what you?re saying you turned off Elephant and Castle roundabout onto the A3 and then turned right into Metro Heights, is that correct? If so you crossed the congestion charge signs and painted markings when you turned onto the A3 and so are therefore liable for the congestion zone. Whether the cameras spotted you, that I don?t know. Personally I?d pay the charge for the day just in case.

I?ve used Green Umbrella as a social media agency for my old business. Not convinced it was worth it, we brought it back in house in the end. A couple of big firms I?ve worked with used Oktopost for scheduling social media.

Didn?t the Woodman have a play area?

The conception rate in 1971 was 54.9/1000 15-17 year olds, by 1999 it had fallen to 45.1/1000 by 2018 it had fallen to 16.8/1000 (ONS data). While you may ?feel? that your generation turned out better than the kids today the evidence doesn?t bear you out. Also this thread (not your post but the original posts) have a strongly homophobic tone. You might want to consider whether the original poster is being entirely genuine in their presentation of the curriculum before criticising it.

Shockingly I mostly agree with TheCat. I do think that it might be ?the beginning of the end? if it moves the Tories towards regicide (as they are brutally effective at) that?s why I though who Cummings didn?t criticise was as interesting as who he did. However for the moment the Telegraph is siding with Johnson so I guess it won?t be meaningful. Fully agree 90% of the public couldn?t give a toss.

It may or may not have been true, but it was certainly self-serving and I believe deliberately chosen to also serve to advance the interests of Cummings?s allies. For instance Sunak and Gove got away without criticism but Johnson and Hancock got it in the neck. I find it hard to believe that the Cabinet Office and Treasury were not central to the dysfunction of the pandemic response. Cummings also has absolutely immunity for what he?s said in Parliament (see Rebekah Brookes and her parliamentary evidence of payments to police officers that couldn?t be used at her trial). If he lied he could be held in contempt of Parliament but that?s happened to him before and he didn?t care.

On the 119 point, this seems fairly necessary for the subcontractor to do their job of booking the vaccine and making sure the record is updated. I don?t understand the concern here.

When I was living overseas and travelling a lot I had newspaper and magazine subscriptions on my kindle but once I stopped travelling so much I cancelled them. The reading experience of magazines and newspapers on a kindle is distinctly suboptimal for a couple of reasons: The kindle is optimised for reading linearly not for jumping between articles. Also magazines and newspapers use far more images and diagrams which eInk technology isn?t great for. Finally I get the feeling that for many publishers their kindle editions are an afterthought which compounds the first two problems. Overall the kindle is optimised for books and does that brilliantly. I?d rather read news content either on screen or in print.

We also bought a kindle kids in the sale late last year, with the rate our son goes through books the subscription service (and not needing more storage for books) is great. Plus he can?t do anything else on it.

Don?t forget that medical professionals have been wearing masks for extended periods of time for decades without reported ill effects. Mask wearing by the public in Asia was commonplace even pre-pandemic - again without ill effects.

As a long term kindle and tablet owner I think there are significant benefits to reading on the kindle. The eInk technology is much easier on the eyes, the battery life is great, and the form factor is easier to hold for extended periods. I also think they?re less of a target for thieves so I?m much more comfortable reading on by the pool or on a beach (when that becomes an issue again).

Wouldn?t the carbon cost of demolition and new build outweigh any reduction in energy use?

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We are both over 50 and not had the option to get > vaccinated at the Tessa Jowell centre for either > first or second jab. We had to go a bit further > afield (plenty of choices). We live in SE22. All a > bit of a mystery! I got sent two links one directly from the NHS that only had the hospital sites and later the same day a link via my GP which had Tessa Jowell and the Lister available. So I think it depends how you?re invited to participate.

James - I believe Southwark are on the list of councils who have not yet given landowner permission for parkruns to resume (at Dulwich and Peckham Rye Parks). Do you know why this is?

Thanks for sharing. The sensible advice is always hang up and call the supplier on a number you know is correct. Minor correction Openreach don?t supply Virgin (who have their own network) but do supply everyone else.

Any UK bank with a banking licence is covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme which protects deposits up to ?85k per banking licence (so deposits in Coop and Smile would count together) https://www.fscs.org.uk/globalassets/badge-assets/shared/fscs_thb_online_aug2020.pdf. Deposits in National Savings and Investments is protected up to unlimited amounts by the Government. Where you chose to put it will depend on how long you?re prepared to tie up you money. The money saving expert link above or savings champions site are both good for recommendations. If you haven?t used your ISA limit this year that might be helpful depending on your tax situation.

I use Squarespace. Really high quality and well managed. I?ve also used Wix in the past for work sites, it?s cheaper but I think it?s harder to use and lower quality.

Would you appeal a speeding fine based on an argument that everyone else was speeding too? I?m sure getting a fine is frustrating but I feel drivers should take responsibility for their actions - especially as you say you saw the sign and understood you needed to turn around.