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IanMSpencer wrote:
I think one oddity is that back in the 50s through to the 70s, there was a lot of derelict land.I have the same perception: of parts of London and of the big northern cities. Real, or is it what movie and documentary film makers like to show us?
Lots of horror stories about
Lots of horror stories about energy bills for pubs and tenants giving up. I’m no caterer or pubbie, but…
You have to reduce your exposure to electricity costs and similarly with gas. Cut back on the myriad Freezers and chillers that run all the time. Use LED lighting. Gas-fired hobs and ovens where mains gas is available. I welcome all day opening, but even that has got to wash its face.
You simplify – on the food front, the 40 item menu is gone. It’s 2 or 3 menu items and it is all pre-booked and paid-for and done in a single batch. This is what happens on Christmas Day. You have a just-in-time order from your wholesaler for what you need.
white wine and soft drinks will come out in bottles from an unheated room. You can have sauces as they don’t use power, but you can’t have ice because that does. I think with economies of scale you could provide a nice evening for about the same as it would cost households to do for themselves. Keep the plating simple and get people to re-use glasses to save on the washing up.
Fireman Sam, you’re a
Fireman Sam, you’re a disgrace to your uniform. Seriously, what a waste of everyone’s time this sort of incident is.
Cornwall triple bill
Cornwall triple bill
Lorry gets stuck on scaffolding after colliding with property
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/lorry-gets-stuck-scaffolding-after-7525614Reversing car careers into Cancer Research charity shop in Cornwall
A witness said the driver reversed out a parking space too quickly before smashing into the front of the shop
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/reversing-car-careers-cancer-research-7527151
Camborne woman arrested after three crashes in one night
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/camborne-woman-arrested-after-three-7525017
Tyneside children playing
Tyneside children playing outdoors – 10 photographs from the 1960s to 1990s
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/gallery/tyneside-children-playing-outdoors-10-2467805
A few pictures of what seems to be a lost world now, all looking a bit Get Carter to my southern eye.
Can you man-handle an empty
Can you man-handle an empty skip along the ground? I suppose the lorry could pull it out, which might have been what was being attempted here as the door frame has been pulled away. Seems like a lot of trouble for builders to go to?
Not everyone can use buses.
Not everyone can use buses. Now go and copy out 100 pages of the Mavic Tech manual.
Another mystery – the
Another mystery – the pictures indicate two skips. Not sure how this one came to be here.
Audi driver leaves cars and
Audi driver leaves cars and garden wall wrecked after ‘losing it’ in residential street
Horrified neighbours say the driver was travelling at up to 70mph along the residential road
“The driver got up and walked away, it’s horrendous, they just fly up and down.”
“We’re on the phone to insurance now and they’re saying we’re going to have to pay the excess because there were no tags on the Audi, and it belonged to no-one. It’s likely that they’ll never find the person.”
Cancer patient slapped with
Cancer patient slapped with ‘unfair’ parking fine ‘spoiling’ Commonwealth Games T20 Cricket experience
Several drivers were hit with fines but claimed signage was inadequate near Edgbaston Stadium
There’s some missing information here. Starting to get a bit Conan Doyle here, but “Watson, look up 7 August 2022 on that calendar. What day was it?”
“Upon my soul, Holmes, it was a Sunday”
“And what do we already know from Google Maps About the single yellows on the west side of Amesbury Road?”
“They only operate Monday to Friday, you can see it on every lamp post”
“And the eastern side?”
“The article doesn’t say anything about which side of the road.”
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/cancer-patient-slapped-unfair-parking-24859748
“That’ll have some gammons
“That’ll have some gammons gasping, red faced, with indignation.” – I hope ‘GPs – behind closed doors’ are filming.
“yes, Mr Redman, I can give you something for that…”
You’re remembering the Fare’s
You’re remembering the Fare’s Fair initiative of Ken Livingstone’s GLC, successfully challenged in court by LBC Bromley.
I’m wanging on about about my childhood years because as I see it barring a miracle it is to those conditions we are heading in the next few months. Maybe a bit like 2020 lockdown – for younger viewers.
Things like leisure centres, B&Q etc open 12 hours a day, take aways and food serving pubs doing evenings and Sundays, any enterprise or concern exposed to energy costs is going to need to re-think its offer and/or close for the duration.
Although the government sound like they are going to do something for households, Every school and hospital has a fuel bill.
Would prefer some kind of
Would prefer some kind of intelligence/fitness test at the pumps.
We were all hanging on
We were all hanging on scientists’ every word in 2020. How was it spreading, where? How fast? How do you catch it? how ill does it make you, what’s the treatment?
It was obvious in February ’20 that this virus was spreading, fast and there was nothing standing in the way of it. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but as has been said, we could in the UK have avoided the worst of lockdown had we acted sooner. We could also have delayed Brexit by 2 years, but we chose to plough on.
In early 2021, the first large scale testing and the vaccines came – not a silver bullet for Covid, but a high degree of protection for people. Tell me where and when the vaccines are being done and I will be there, sleeve rolled up.
non-story/ much ado about
non-story/ much ado about nothing klaxon, but always curious how anything car-related escalates so very quickly…
Lincolnshire pensioner ‘ready to risk criminal record’ in parking row over minor typo
She said she was fined for typing ‘0’ instead of ‘O’
council are passing ’round the pipe of peace here: “Once the individual contacts the council, we will be able to cancel the penalty charge notice and apologise for failure to carry out our usual process on this occasion.”