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Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People with fur on their bobble hats or on the > trim on their hoods. This is London - not the > arctic and fur is just impossibly cruel. And you > should know better. > > So you're either ignorant - which is > unforgiveable, or you know exactly what cruelty is > involved and don't care - which is worse. I suspect 95% of it is fake fur these days, isn't it?

How interesting! Looks a very likely candidate, thanks for the info.

skylorikeet Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Love this, thanks for posting! > > Edited to add: was there really still a dairy farm > in Camberwell in 1963? Does anyone know where it > was? Don't know if it's related but there's a "Dairy Farm Place" on the north side of Queens Road, just after the station, did that have anything to do with it? Not Camberwell but close...

Bloody Clangers, always knew they were up to no good.

Zebedee Tring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Another way to get to West Brompton - Overground > from Denmark Hill to Clapham Junction and then > another Overground to West Brompton. Yep that was her route for the last four years, but she says with the strikes etc the Overground has become staggeringly crowded. Thought the bus route might be of more interest to those needing to get to Victoria and environs, rather than West Brompton specifically.

Signed RRR, thanks. Don't know if this helps anyone, but Mrs.H works in West Brompton, sick of the trains she's started taking the 185 to Victoria about 6.45 then a tube - according to her it's just as fast as getting the train and she always gets a seat (on the bus).

Oh for goodness' sake, first the OP gets criticised for calling the incident (perfectly correctly) a mugging, now his/her choice of nomenclature is being policed. Give it a rest.

I wasn't suggesting that the OP wouldn't want a fence, just suggesting that it could be pointed out to the neighbours that s/he has no obligation to provide one so they should be glad s/he's put anything up there. Not that it sounds as though s/he'd get a reasonable response to that, or indeed anything else...

Think you need to do some research DD - days do get lighter from the winter solstice, as the length of daylight hours increases. It's not lighter earlier in the mornings until (this year) January 3rd, but the total amount of light hours in the day has been increasing since the solstice - and sunset has been getting later since then too. All explained here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30549149 ETA example: December 21st Sunrise 8.04 Sunset 15.54 Total daylight hours 7.49.40 December 22nd Sunrise 8.04 Sunset 15.54 Total daylight hours 7.49.44 December 23rd Sunrise 8.05 Sunset 15.55 Total daylight hours 7.49.54 and so on...

Indeed - Harold Macmillan also, who suffered terribly in WW1 (fought at the Somme, wounded three times and suffered pain and incapacity for the rest of his life), recognised the dangers of being isolated from Europe and fought hard to get the UK into the EEC (the French vetoed us, hmm...). It's a truism that as time passes and we move further away from the appalling horrors of pan-European warfare successive generations grow more and more blas? about policies which could lead us back down that awful path. Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are condemned to repeat them...that's why even Churchill, as above, hardly a pacifist, recognised that European unity was the best way to ward off the awful nightmare, and by and large it worked for seventy years. As to whether the fragmented Europe so earnestly desired by leavers from all nations will be as lucky as our generations...

I believe I'm right in saying that there's actually no general legal obligation to place a fence along your boundary unless there are specific circumstances which require it - abutting a railway line, keeping livestock in etc. So in that case your neighbour should be grateful there's any fence at all! Can some clever person confirm if that's right? It may fall into the "things a bloke in a pub told me once" category but sure I've heard it several times...

Don't be silly, fish don't drive, they use feminists' bicycles. Or something. I've not thought this through.

Hickory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just never wanted to be one of those families > who doesn't get on with their neighbours :( You're not, they are, by the sound of it!

It really hasn't (70 years since end of WWII by the way), or at least not since the Romans - check out the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe#21st_century. (Of course it's arguable - were the Troubles in Ireland a war or an insurrection, for example - but no nation states have gone to war) No, peace was hardly mentioned during the campaign which is another black mark against the incompetence of the Remain side, it being one of the strongest pro-Europe points, surely? I recall that Helmut Kohl was once asked why he was so keen for the EU to succeed: "We need it to stop Germany starting another war," he replied. An extraordinary thing for a leader to say about his own country, but revealing.

The longest period of peace in Western Europe's history would tend to argue that something was built right.

Phlox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks, that is very useful. Still not sure why > the ticket was issued. Looking it up - and I didn't know this and will now know to be careful when taking my blue badge holding sister anywhere - apparently the blue badge holder can be ticketed if they park without intending to leave the car, e.g as in your case another person nips into the shop/vet etc on their behalf. Which seems utterly absurd but there you are. https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/parking-driving-transport/parking-driving-transport/help-for-disabled-travellers/using-your-blue-badge/ ETA sorry, Lewisham - should still be able to pay online or over the phone: https://www.lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/parking/parking-enforcement/Pages/Paying-penalty-charge-notices.aspx

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Angela Merkel (and Adolf Hitler) would be proud > that the EDF is so supportive of the United States > of Europe. Yeah, and same goes for the trendy lefty limpwristed yellow-bellied surrender monkey tosser who said this: ?We must build a kind of United States of Europe.. The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be such as to make the material strength of a single state less important.. If at first all the States of Europe are not willing or able to join the Union, we must nevertheless proceed to assemble and combine those who will and those who can.? What was his name? It's on the tip of my tongue...oh yes, Sir Winston Churchill.

No judgement implied, as you were obviously doing the blue badge holder a favour and thought you were within the rules, but were they with you? The badge goes with the person, not the vehicle, so if they weren't with you then the badge is invalid - if you said in your appeal that it was just you and not the holder, that'll be the reason it was declined, even though obviously you were using it in good faith to help out the badge holder. ETA if you've decided to pay without further appeal, you should be able to pay online if you have the ticket number and car registration: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/parking/ways-to-pay-a-parking-ticket

That's a fascinating and pretty positive take on things, thanks for sharing. It would be great to look back on 2016 not as the year it all started to go wrong but the year we got on the rebound.

turtle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Singalto, Laura Trott said something on those > lines the other day. Doesn't seem to have stopped her accepting a CBE this year though!

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Next year we'll have not one, but two cheese > outlets. Mons & The Cheese Block Wow. Charles de Gaulle famously complained that it was impossible to govern a country that had 246 different types of cheese, how will unity be maintained in ED with two cheese shops? Already just one cheese shop has provoked four pages of internecine warfare, we'll need UN peacekeepers on Lordship Lane before the year's out...

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sounds like you both had a really joyful > > Christmas, Fox and Louisa. > > > > Did you spend it together? > > No, having no family, I spent it alone like I do > every year. > > Hope that makes you feel better in yourself. > > Foxy Come on Foxy, you know that Sue was having a gentle dig at the fact that you and Louisa seem so often in agreement and clearly wasn't trying to be hurtful in any way, there's no need to try to make her feel bad when she wasn't trying to do that to you.

singalto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He appears to have killed several foxes over the > past few days. 😰 This is what slightly confuses me about this whole story: I absolutely believe that some freak is going round doing something very nasty to these poor animals, but I can't imagine any way one could catch an urban fox, they generally run like blazes at the sound of a footfall. Am I remembering wrongly, or was there a suggestion from the RSPCA that some pervert was going around taking "trophies" from animals which had already been run down by cars? No disparagement of the pain suffered by those who've lost their pets intended, just wondering what's really going on.

charlieking16 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > AH great, thanks, so just one share per flat > regardless of flat size? Yep one share in the company per flat, then when you set up the company in its Articles of Association you will agree on who pays what share of service charges, repairs etc.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Wake up sober and get your arse > into gear At this time of year? That ship has well and truly sailed...