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Yep, I had the same problem very recently and waited five weeks with no sign of my replacement blue bin or any acknowledgement/update about my order. You need to call the main switchboard on 020 7525 5000 and select the options for the Environment section. You'll eventually get through to someone from the "Contact Team" who, in my experience, are very polite and helpful but they don't have access to the online bin ordering system so they won't be able to tell you what's happening with your specific order. What they will do is forward your details on to the appropriate team and they're supposed to then send you an email with an update. In my case I didn't receive an email update but a new bin was delivered the very next day. So, quickly resolved but slightly annoying because, since they didn't provide me with any kind of update, I hadn't left my broken blue bin outside for them to collect at the same time as delivering the new one. So now I'll have to ring them again and they're going to have to make another visit to collect my broken bin. Southwark Council: Rarely get's it right first time; often get's it wrong second time; sometimes (I'm hoping) gets it right third time!

Re. SSL, the site appears to be on shared hosting (i.e. lots of different customers' web sites running on the same server) so the best option is just to get the service provider to do it for you as you need server level access (which you won't, or shouldn't, have) to install the certificate. Nice web site by the way :)

DuncanW who posted here, or Duncan from Macbeth? Probably neither.

Something between "Late Middle" and "Early Modern" English I'd suspect. Lots of spoken examples available on Ye Olde Tube of You :)

Sally Eva Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe they will go back to the idea of continuing > the route to Honor Oak station which seems a > no-brainer to me That idea has some merit but I doubt it would be implemented given that the 63 often doesn't make it even as far as Honor Oak and is often curtailed at Peckham Post Office or Peckham Rye. Well, pre-pandemic anyway. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard the dreaded announcement: "The destination of this bus has been changed"! Also, it might prove difficult to terminate the bus there and turn it around to make the return journey without directing it down residential side streets.

Is it some sort of anti-anti-LTN thing perhaps? The sign appears to have been turned around and, if you look closely, had "Stop Road Closures" written on the front.

Spotted these two this afternoon. Are they looking pretty fed up by being kept awake with the relentless thud thud thud thud from the Gala Festival before having to embark on a busy night shift? ;)

If you ENTERED the red area shown in the attached picture after 0700hrs and before 2200hrs then yes. Otherwise no.

I had one rather forced upon me a few years ago when I changed tariff. Mine's for electricity only. It's quite interesting to see how much electricity various devices and appliances use but it probably won't tell you much that you don't already know. It was nice to see just how little electricity modern computers and flat screen TV's use, but I was alarmed at the obscene amount of electricity the heated towel rail in the bathroom consumed. I also learned that my fridge struggles to cope in the Summer months and runs flat out all day long trying to stay cool. Once you've learned all you can you can put the little remote display away if you don't want to use it anymore. Other advantages are that you should only pay for the energy you use and there's no need for anyone to call to read the meter. It should take only around 40 minutes to fit but the engineer I had took nearly half a day to fit mine because he couldn't get it to connect to the data network. In the end he had to call tech support in India and they connected it remotely.

At the time of the original post 18.7-22.1 degrees C. But I too am lucky enough to catch the sun. Coldest temperature over winter was 14 and this is not a particularly well-insulated house.

By having been previously covered under your insurance policy your son won't have built up any No Claims Discount of his own, hence the expensive quotes. You can bring the price down by increasing the voluntary excess (the amount he's prepared to pay in the event of a claim) or by reducing the mileage he expects to cover. Some insurance companies may also offer a bit of a discount if you pass an advanced driving test. You could also try calling the companies by phone and buttering them up a bit by saying that you really want to buy their insurance but can they do you a better deal than the one you've been offered online.

My sticker just arrived so I can confirm that they're being sent out now.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any help re the rasping bird would be gratefully > received. Thanks I can't think of anything pigeon-sized that makes the noise you describe. The only other pigeon-like bird that I can think of that vaguely fits the bill (beak?) is a collared dove but they don't "rasp" so far as I know. I had a Garden Warbler in (fittingly) the garden today. Don't see them very often here but they've been on the up for a couple of years now. Might have to declare a "Buzzard Free Zone"!

jimmah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Previous weeks I was treated to some long tailed > tits who were even friendlier than robins coming > right up to the window to peer in at me and my > cat. It's funny that you should mention that. Despite several decades of bird watching I'd never seen LTT's doing this until last year. Since then I find they often perch, somewhat precariously, on my kitchen window sill and appear to be looking in. I presume they've learned that window sills often harbour juicy insects and that they're simply looking for their next meal. They also seem to be fascinated by the outlet from my kitchen extractor fan. I just hope they're not planning on building a nest there! There are several youtube videos that illustrate similar behaviour. One commenter suggests that they're also looking for spider webs as nest building material. Who knows?

Shouldn't your back garden micro-habitat also include a predatory factor? It's just nature after all and the cats are just doing what they do. Let it and them get on with it. You can choose to intervene if you happen to witness the imminent kill of something you'd rather didn't get eaten. Pure conjecture, but I'd imagine that Bill Oddie dung would repel just about everything. Not easy to come by though unless you know the right people.

Yes, I think that's correct. I had the same trouble with the vaccination centres available in the link from my first general invitation (sent via text message) being miles away and/or quite difficult to reach. I waited a few days and then received a second text message from "Improving Health Ltd" using the "accurx" system. This is used by local GP Surgeries to refer patients for their vaccinations. The centres available to me via this second, personalised, invite were TJC and Lister.

Bird bath etiquette is also fun to observe. When one bird takes a bath it seems to trigger a frenzy and suddenly they all want a go. Some species appear happy bathing together like the Blue Tit, multiple Long Tailed Tits and Black Cap I saw last week, whilst others, like Blackbirds, insist on bathing alone and will chase away other birds that try and hop in alongside.

Sorry to hear about your car. I'm worried about mine for the same reason. As you were planning to sell your car by October, is it worth getting some quotes on what its resale value would have been prior to the catalytic converter theft so you can compare these to what the Insurance company offer? If the Insurance company valuation is significantly lower you might be able to use the quotes to argue that they should increase their offer.

The idea is to achieve NET zero carbon emissions, not to prevent such emissions at all. i.e. to not pump what some consider to be too much CO2 into the atmosphere, not to prevent it entirely.

You can't really have a viable "exit plan" without the other side, in this case a biological virus, being agreeable and cooperative, which of course it isn't. An "exit plan" in this case would be about as useful as the experts of the time declaring that WW1 would all be over by Christmas.

There was a recent similar thread here that might help: /forum/read.php?20,2177427,2178068 I'd imagine that Insurance companies are among the first to take note when what was once considered extremely unlikely is flagged as perhaps being less unlikely.

I'm not a geologist, amateur or otherwise, but from what I read a few years ago when Cuadrilla and fracking were very much the news items of the day, it's basically all about the rock. In the case of Shale rock, it's made of sedimentary silts through which water flows, so there's your aquifer. It's also very good at trapping pockets of gas and contains compounds that can be converted into shale oil. Thus aquifers, shale gas/oil might well be found in proximity. Can't comment on your hopes for there being Gold in these here hills though :)

I didn't do it this year but in the past rather than do one contiguous hour I've done four sessions of 15 minutes each: Early morning, mid-morning, mid-afternoon, early evening. Not sure if that counts as cheating :)

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Love to know what binoculars people use, these > ones seem decent mid range at about ?140 > https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/binoculars/rspb-avoce > t-8-x-32-binoculars-2020.html 30+ year-old Leica BCA 8x20. For bird watching I find keeping the objective lens diameter to a minimum is advantageous. Traditional binoculars with large objective lenses seem to scare the birds as they perceive two enormous predatory eyes staring at them. But as you reduce the objective lens size it helps to go for the best quality within your budget to keep the light-gathering capability as high as possible. The RSPB ones look pretty decent, as you say.

Or, if you can't wait, you can find them on the "London Districts" YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LondonDistricts/videos Not sure if they're the full-length versions though.