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  1. https://mobile.twitter.com/WaxwingsUK/status/527581958294208512 They're here!
  2. There isn't a tube between London and Croydon, it is only a National Rail train. To clarify, travelcards and Oyster cards are valid on all of London's public transport network. Here is some information that will hopefully clear things up for you: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/46575.aspx Assuming your partner will be using East Croydon station then she should be able to get her travelcard or tickets from there - it's a proper railway station. Make sure she ensures she does get on the quick train (stopping at only Clapham Junction between East Croydon and Victoria). There's also a not-so-fast one that stops at eeeevery stop.
  3. £12.50 seems too much. The Croydon stations are in zone 5 and with a daily travel card should only be £8.90 - have a look here: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/oyster/using-oyster/price-capping#on-this-page-3 I travel between central London and Croydon everyday everytime I go and stay with my brother, and I know on my Oyster it is never more than £8.50 per day (that's my train journey to and from central London and all the underground journeys I want to make). I would have suggested getting an Oyster card but the travel card only seems to be 40p more.
  4. Wish I'd remembered this place when I was down there last weekend! I was stuck for something a bit different to do. I second the Hunterian though, very, very interesting place if you're not squeamish about deformed genitals and dead babies in jars. Greenwich and the Royal Observatory is worth a visit, with great views over The City. The museum at the Observatory is mostly free but you do have to pay to stand on the meridian line if you wish to do so. There is also the Cutty Sark and the National Maritime Museum there.
  5. I can't get them to come to either of my niger seed feeders! I hear them and see them flying around but they just won't come to feed. The blue tits will sometimes have a go at the niger seeds but other than that it's been a bit of a waste. Even the woodpigeons won't touch them if I scatter them on the ground.
  6. The problem is that the further west you are, the more likely you'll hit clouds. East is forecast to be clearer, and east is where I hope to head (I have no idea where to).
  7. Mary Anning is who I wanted on there too. It's disgusting the way Caroline Criado Perez has been treated. Rape threats are a criminal offence, they (hopefully) wouldn't be tolerated in real life and they shouldn't be tolerated online. Laura Bates who runs the Everyday Sexism Project receives similar threats. There are some utterly vile people around and the internet has made it all too easy for them. I find it worrying and unsettling how a threat to dehumanise someone in the worst way possible gets thrown about so casually, like it means nothing.
  8. I had this a little over a month ago. I also got the agonising ear pain (which, the GP told me, was my ear drum bursting) and had to have antibiotics for the first time ever for the infection. It's about 5 or 6 weeks on and my hearing isn't 100% but far, far better than it was. Your hearing will improve, it just takes time.
  9. I did my hour at 8:30 this morning (because our tits, for example, only seem to visit in the morning). Please go here, everyone, and tell them what you've seen.
  10. Why concern yourself with something so trivial? Chill out, proper haggis will continue to exist. And give over telling people what they should eat.
  11. No. From LeMaquis' post I took it to mean that his friend is no longer sexually attracted to men, therefore he's now heterosexual. Not everyone's sexual preferences are fixed.
  12. A clear night and no significant geomagnetic activity. A few days ago the activity was pretty strong for two nights running but there was far too much cloud to see anything.
  13. Renishaw Hall has a vineyard. I haven't sampled any of their wine but it's been going for 40 years so I don't see why Whirlow can't have some success aswell. So Whirlow will be the highest vineyard in the country; I wonder where the most northerly one is?
  14. I've never taken sugar in my tea, it's foul. I've always liked it strongly brewed with a little milk but I tend to drink mostly rooibos tea now which I drink black. Today I had a 'normal' cup of tea with milk for the first time in a month or so and it tasted horrible. Guess I need to get used to it again.
  15. I'm pretty sure John Lewis sell them in their sewing section, alternatively (and no doubt cheaper) you could try the haberdashery stall in the markets, as long as you're not wanting them today (closed I assume?).
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