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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Save HOP Recreation Ground!
| [quote]So in the short=medium term what options do councils like Southwark have to bury their dead, say in the next decade.?[/quote]
Take the simple approach. Forbid burial. We're not allowed to do... |
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21-02-2011, 10:18 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Naughty, naughty...
http://goo.gl/maps/Iyx4
Indeed. If you do a 360° from that image of the cyclist, I count at least 5 cars in the foreground who have parked on the rough ground and (almost certa... |
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jollyrog |
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07-06-2011, 08:48 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Naughty, naughty...
http://goo.gl/maps/A3RK
In the follow on image to that, you can see that he's turned his bike to join Dartmouth Road proper from the slip road. Looks to me like he's actually c... |
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07-06-2011, 08:54 PM |
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Thread: Riots in London
Post: RE: Riots in London
| There must be a sound business case for shooting rioters and looters. Future benefits handouts and prison/legal costs can be saved. |
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jollyrog |
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08-08-2011, 01:46 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade
| They're not going to work with plant in close proximity to the track while trains are running and current is on. This will be night time work.
You can see the progress, there are many one ton bags ... |
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jollyrog |
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20-08-2011, 09:06 AM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| Sainsbury's wouldn't turn away the business without good reason.
Many inner London schools are nothing more than zoos. Once the animals are out of the cage, the keepers lose control and aren't real... |
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jollyrog |
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11-12-2015, 10:23 AM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| [quote]I think Sainsbury's should invest more in security and proactively work with schools to bring those found to be shoplifting to account. High definition CCTV cameras that give full coverage to a... |
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jollyrog |
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11-12-2015, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| But it's probably not just about shoplifting. As has been said, even if Sainsburys catch them red handed, it's just a time consuming exercise for their staff to process the event, which will ultimatel... |
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jollyrog |
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11-12-2015, 01:51 PM |
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Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lifts at HOP Station
| > Still, it'll be worth it in the end, won't it?
Indeed. More oversized buggies on the trains, each taking up the space that 4 standing commuters could take, in the most awkward part of the door ve... |
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jollyrog |
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24-10-2014, 09:13 PM |
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Thread: Politically Motivated Teachers
Post: RE: Politically Motivated Teachers
| A few extra hours a day for 13 weeks guaranteed holiday at all the best times of the year, plus all those INSET days (whatever they are), every weekend off and a customer facing day of 0900-1530 seems... |
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jollyrog |
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01-07-2011, 02:01 PM |
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Thread: Politically Motivated Teachers
Post: RE: Politically Motivated Teachers
| [quote]Inset days (used to be called Baker days) are official training days. I expect to[/quote] be training during my working hours. I do not see why teachers should be expected to be trained during ... |
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jollyrog |
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03-07-2011, 09:57 PM |
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Thread: Politically Motivated Teachers
Post: RE: Politically Motivated Teachers
| No information taken from the Daily Mail. Actually, I've taken this information from the NUT web site.
Teachers seem to be contracted for 1,265 hours per year. Of that (if I'm reading this right) t... |
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jollyrog |
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01-07-2011, 09:03 PM |
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Thread: Stanstead Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.
Post: RE: Stansted Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.
| The lights now seem to have pedestrian push buttons. |
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jollyrog |
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25-05-2014, 08:34 AM |
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Thread: Stanstead Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.
Post: RE: Stansted Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.
| I wrote/spoke to TfL several times about those lights. There wasn't a phase that allowed pedestrians to cross Brockley Rise in one go, which I thought was dangerous, especially considering the proximi... |
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jollyrog |
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26-05-2014, 07:21 AM |
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Thread: Recent increase in aircraft noise
Post: RE: Recent increase in aircraft noise
| It's not really the Heathrow traffic that passes overhead here, it's mostly London City landing traffic, when they're on runway 09 (East). |
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jollyrog |
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11-07-2015, 12:16 PM |
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Thread: Recent increase in aircraft noise
Post: RE: Recent increase in aircraft noise
| London City is closed from noon Saturday to noon Sunday. There are flights on Sunday afternoons. |
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jollyrog |
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14-07-2015, 10:00 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 35 Sunderland Road
Post: RE: Planning Application: 35 Sunderland Road
| The Transport statement in the planning pack says that the majority of users will be attending on foot and only a few will use cars. |
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jollyrog |
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12-04-2010, 08:03 PM |
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Thread: Secondary schools
Post: RE: Secondary schools
| Have you tried Cator Park? |
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jollyrog |
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05-08-2011, 08:15 AM |
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Thread: Secondary schools
Post: RE: Secondary schools
| Of course they have vacancies. It's a zoo. At open evening, they seemed proud that they had a police presence in the mornings. Also, on the BBC news website this year, it was listed as the 84th worst ... |
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jollyrog |
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04-08-2011, 11:33 PM |
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Thread: Secondary schools
Post: RE: Secondary schools
| All grotty schools. The only places with space are the ones that nobody wants, for good reason. |
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05-08-2011, 07:02 AM |
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Thread: Secondary schools
Post: RE: Secondary schools
| One very good, one dire. One trading on the good name of the other. |
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05-08-2011, 03:31 PM |
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Thread: Secondary schools
Post: RE: Secondary schools
| [quote]Whether or not these allegations prove to be true, it is undoubtedly the case that there is more to a school than its place on a league table. [/quote]
I agree, which is why I directed the O... |
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jollyrog |
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05-08-2011, 06:30 PM |
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Thread: Secondary schools
Post: RE: Secondary schools
| Ladywell Fields is unlikely to improve, unless it changes its intake. Hilly Fields' distance criteria is actually working in their favour, I think they're down to 800m (ish) for 1A girls. Nice well to... |
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jollyrog |
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05-08-2011, 06:10 PM |
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Thread: Jumping the ticket barriers
Post: RE: Jumping the ticket barriers at HOP station
| The fare dodger has jumped the gate and is now on the public (street) side of the barrier. No longer in the compulsory ticket area.
What do you propose that the Station Assistant, who from your des... |
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jollyrog |
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06-11-2011, 06:28 PM |
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Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
| The delay in posting Lewisham's results is a bit third world.
Tower Hamlets is corrupt. They are probably counting each vote five times, just to be sure. Explains their delay. |
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jollyrog |
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23-05-2014, 08:50 PM |
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Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
| The one party state. We're paying for 51 Councillors that we don't need. |
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jollyrog |
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24-05-2014, 09:37 AM |
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Thread: People's Day
Post: RE: People's Day
| It should be fine. The Council have set the rules:
[url=http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/BD00CF63-AA48-4DE6-86C1-7805A4745FD7/0/ConditionsofEntryPeoplesDay2011.pdf]People's Day Rules[/url]
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jollyrog |
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05-07-2011, 05:52 PM |
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Thread: People's Day
Post: RE: People's Day
| I saw them a few years ago (with my own eyes) having a running battle with police in riot gear on Brownhill Road.
I also worked the event for two years with a local group I was involved with. It's ... |
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jollyrog |
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05-07-2011, 07:25 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Honor Oak?
Post: RE: Incident in Honor Oak?
| The Honor Oak end is closer to Peckham. |
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jollyrog |
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23-10-2011, 11:54 AM |
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Thread: Flight Path
Post: RE: Flight Path
| The low ones annoying you are probably London City Airport inbounds, they overfly SE6/SE23 at 2,000 feet.
We do have others joining the Heathrow approaches from the Biggin Hill stack, but they tend... |
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jollyrog |
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16-05-2014, 06:02 PM |
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Thread: Flight Path
Post: RE: Flight Path
| 2,700+ metres of unused runway now available at Manston, ILSs both ends, East-West runway with published (currently suspended) over-sea instrument approaches and departures and plenty of land availabl... |
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jollyrog |
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21-05-2014, 07:14 PM |
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Thread: Watch the sky
Post: RE: Watch the sky
| It's on again tomorrow night, in case you want to watch a second time. |
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jollyrog |
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18-04-2012, 10:13 PM |
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Thread: Watch the sky
Post: RE: Watch the sky
| [quote]The analogue signal is being switched off and replaced with a higher power digital one[/quote]
The improved digital signal will still be much lower power than the old analogue.
The old anal... |
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jollyrog |
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18-04-2012, 08:25 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Prestige Autos Codrington Hill
Post: RE: Planning Application: Prestige Autos Codringto...
| There's no planning application such as the one you describe available to view on Lewisham's web site at the moment.
What makes you think that you'll be compelled to give them access to/via your ga... |
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jollyrog |
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26-11-2009, 10:33 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Prestige Autos Codrington Hill
Post: RE: Planning Application: Prestige Autos Codringto...
| [quote]There is no application at present as Lewisham have turned it down for various reasons. However they are coming to visit and take pictures etc.[/quote]
The online planning database shows all... |
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jollyrog |
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26-11-2009, 11:01 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Prestige Autos Codrington Hill
Post: RE: Planning Application: Prestige Autos Codringto...
| [quote]Its very strange as 3 people from Lewisham Council turned up on my door step and mentioned that I wouldn't be able to see the application as yet as it had been declined on many counts. But they... |
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jollyrog |
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26-11-2009, 09:51 PM |
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Thread: low-flying jumbos
Post: RE: low-flying jumbos
| [quote]To stick on thread - anyone flying over Forest Hill whether on a private, or commercial pilot's licence has to be under the control of Heathrow Radar (although they could be over Crystal Palace... |
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jollyrog |
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04-08-2011, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: low-flying jumbos
Post: RE: low-flying jumbos
| [img]http://jollyrog.com/Flying/South_London_500k.jpg[/img] |
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jollyrog |
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04-08-2011, 08:25 PM |
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Thread: Armed Robbery in Barclays Bank
Post: RE: Armed Robbery in Barclays Bank
| [quote]Its true what it says in the article that the bank is in such a conspicuous position that it would be hard to make a swift getaway unnoticed.[/quote]
I though it was a pretty good location. The... |
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jollyrog |
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Thread: Another stabbing , this time Brockley
Post: RE: Another stabbing , this time Brockley
| It is fortunate for the media that the Metropolitan Police mostly have photographs of the victims when alive and can quickly supply them after the event. |
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jollyrog |
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07-09-2015, 12:56 PM |
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Thread: Planning application to convert Forest Hill Co-op to a hotel
Post: RE: Planning application to convert Forest Hill Co...
| He doesn't own the Harvester at Dulwich, he owns the site in Forest Hill.
There is probably sufficient demand for cheap hotel accommodation in the area, which the council will pay.
The guests th... |
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jollyrog |
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13-02-2018, 09:35 PM |
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Thread: Lamppost misplacement
Post: RE: Lamppost misplacement
| Are you absolutely sure that it's 100% on your property?
If so, the solution is a letter of intent, giving them a fixed timescale to remove their property, then an angle grinder. |
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jollyrog |
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08-08-2013, 07:35 AM |
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Thread: How to give away an old sofa bed
Post: RE: How to give away an old sofa bed
| I wonder if the people who would like/need the free items don't have cars, so they don't respond because they wonder how they would transport it. |
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17-12-2013, 08:06 PM |
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Thread: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
Post: RE: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
| Wow, thank you BarCar. Based on that response, I have to withdraw my comment that none of the Traffic Planners have identified the problems.
Perhaps I am in the wrong job... maybe I could be a Traffi... |
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jollyrog |
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04-12-2015, 10:02 PM |
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Thread: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
Post: RE: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
| Some real traffic planning failures cause most of those jams, unfortunately no traffic planner seems to have spotted them.
St.Dunstans - never used to allow cars to drop on its access road. About 1... |
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23-11-2015, 08:00 AM |
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Thread: Noisy neighbours on Kilgour Road
Post: RE: Noisy neighbours on Kilgour Road
| Just had a look on Google streetview and none of the houses on Kilgour Road have stone cladding. |
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jollyrog |
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25-04-2012, 06:20 PM |
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Thread: Shopping bag security searches
Post: RE: Shopping bag security searches
| If you don't want to be searched, don't consent to the search.
If you were stopped randomly as opposed to the security officer having a genuine belief that you've stolen something, I'd say it's gam... |
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12-03-2013, 08:22 AM |
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Thread: Shopping bag security searches
Post: RE: Shopping bag security searches
| That's a cop out. The real way to deal with it is to front the Security bunny, say "no" to the search and threaten all sorts of complaints of harassment to both Sainsburys and the police.
Just say ... |
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jollyrog |
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14-03-2013, 12:17 AM |
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Thread: Kids on motorbikes on blythe hill fields
Post: RE: Kids on motorbikes on blythe hill fields
| Antisocial behaviour in Blythe Hill Fields has been a problem for at least the 21 years I've lived here and probably long before.
My garden backs onto the fields, close to the playground. As the li... |
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jollyrog |
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28-02-2013, 08:10 PM |
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Thread: Sainsbury's Car Park "recycling"
Post: RE: Sainsbury's Car Park "recycling"
| Currys/PC World will accept any electrical item for recycling, any size, whether you bought it from them or not. I often take them stuff.
[url]http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/recycle-1042-theme.html[/... |
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jollyrog |
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