ed_pete

Not any more :)

Went to Morrisons in Peckham this morning. They have sizeable Christmas trees for ?15.

I can't recommend an installer I'm afraid -the two I tried using (both recommended on this forum) were poor. However for a supplier I would recommend Bromley and Ellis on Brixton Water Lane. Steve there runs the show and he's very approachable and knowledgeable.

Loutwo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Foxy, but nothing else matters if the planet we > are living on is dying. The science on this is > clearer than ever. I think this needs to be a > priority. > > Louisa. Says the woman that drives to West Wickham or Sevenoaks to shop at Lidl.

Could you try a freedom of information request to the Council or the School ?

We've used Sainsburys online delivery for a few years and it's worked for us by and large though they have recently shifted the delivery from Bell Green to DKH and as a result more items are out of stock. Never had an issue with the cleanliness of the crates but maybe we're less fussy or observant than others. Years ago, Sainsburys let you buy plastic boxes with handles that you could use when shopping in store. They don't sell these any more but we still have ours and just transfer the shopping from the crates which the delivery people place on our doorstep, to our boxes which we then carry into the kitchen. If they deliver anything in plastic bags then we empty it and hand it back to the delivery person.

Do you live in a flat and is it all on one floor ? If that's the case, your hot water pressure is never going to be great because it's down to the difference in height between the bottom of the header tank that is used to fill the hot tank and the height of the hot tap. If you have a bath then you may notice that the flow is slightly better than a basin tap, which is down to both the diameter of the pipe (usually larger for a bath) and the increased height difference (bath taps are usually lower down than basin taps). With this kind of low pressure system, any kind of blockage from the header tank to the hot taps is going to reduce the flow, this would be exacerbated by a dodgy ball valve that wasn't opening fully (thus filling the header tank slowly). Also if any of the (gate) valves in the system are corroded or stuck then then is not going to help either. The only thing I would try is to flush the system though with using some of the cold water pressure. I'd turn off the boiler, tie up the ballcock on the header tank to stop it from filling then and drain you hot water tank. Then, assuming your cold water pressure is OK I'd connect a hose from the cold tap to the hot tap and force the cold water the wrong-way through the pipework back to the header tank. Eventually the header tank should start to fill and then come out of an overflow pipe (hopefully one is fitted). Or, if accessible you could use a jug and bucket to empty the header - there may be all sorts of debris that gets flushed through that is causing the drop in flow. Good luck.

Loutwo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Absolutely agree. SUV?s have no place in our inner > cities. Usually driven by entitled wealthy > incomers, who drive them recklessly as though > they?re on a racing track. God only knows the > amount of pollution they give off. Makes me laugh > when certain posters on here complain about dog > poo, you might want to look at the toxic smoke > being kicked out by SUv?s as a first priority > towards harming yours and your family?s health. > > Louisa. What's wrong with "incomers" ? Sounds slightly xenophobic to me. I do hope that you're new neighbours in Sidcup (or where ever you move to) are equally welcoming.

I?m guessing that the threaded rusted metal is about 5mm diameter. How about buying a short piece of plastic or brass tubing of the same diameter then cutting it to length and gluing it in place. Piece of tubing on eBay less than ?5.

Jones of Brockley (gourmet food shop) opening on Grove Vale in the old Colour me happy paint shop next to Kwik Fit.

Yet another recommendation for Aaron. Sorted out a dodgy bathroom wall. Easy to arrange, lovely chap, top job. Highly recommended.

Try googling "Check MOT Status"

Anyway, handy for JL click and collect.

You can contact TfL via their website here: https://tfl.gov.uk/help-and-contact/contact-us-about-streets-and-other-road-issues

Louisa - I imagine that you have started this thread because you're banned from the main section where there is already a discussion. I'm taking a wild guess that you're motivation is to re-hash the middle class blow-ins vs working class stalwarts debate. Nuff said. Is b-l-o-w i-n-s banned ?

You think she's just going food shopping ?

Yawn. Rinse and repeat. You moved out to Kent yet ?

Maybe of use... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2019/aug/15/whats-the-best-laptop-for-a-student-for-under-500

OK whole story is that the existing lining has come loose in a few places, it's an old house and the ceiling hasn't been painted in at least 10 years. Options were to skim but this would require stripping existing lining first as plastering on top of lining not a good idea or crosslining over existing lining prior to painting. Plastering not really an option as rest of room now painted. This guy doesn't do papering (wall or lining) at all but I didn't know that beforehand.

The former.

Thanks for confirmation but he "doesn't do lining paper"

Am I being unreasonable to expect a professional decorator to be able to apply lining paper to a ceiling ?

A man of your considerable wealth shouldn't demean himself with work Bob. On the other hand if it stopped your posting offensive, puerile nonsense that would be a good thing.

Actually Sue I still think it's a Word issue rather than a printer issue. Logically Word and Adobe Reader are using the same software to access the printer so I can only assume that Word is sending some information that renders the page as A5 rather than A4.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ed_pete Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I don't know which version of Word you're using > > but a workaround could be to save as PDF and > then > > print the PDF ? > > Thanks that might work but it would mean I'd have > to have a different PDF every time I edited the > Word document, assuming I wanted to print out each > edited version. > > With long documents I find it easier to have a > hard copy rather than scrolling backwards and > forwards on the screen. > > And presumably I'd have to save each page as a > separate PDF so it could get rather unwieldy- I'm > working on a sixty page document at the moment! > > ETA: It's Word 2016 You can save the whole doc as a PDF, just use the Save As function. Suggestion was just a quick workaround until you find a proper solution.