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Well, maybe he is a good decent person and has a lot of love to give, gone to the big city and got lost ? There are a lot of really sad stories in the world also too from those of the farming background. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/farmers-wives-paying-a-terrible-price-for-progress-616209.html http://modernfarmer.com/2013/12/farmer-suicide/ http://www.tealeafnation.com/2013/02/for-millions-of-chinese-men-lonely-life-as-bare-branch-looms/ That is why I always also champion local farms too ! Buy local.. and not let the supermarket win. For goodness sake ! Build businesses to keep everyone actually employed. Also, if you truly want to be a proper professional, then find that professional route ! Not everybody is about mediocrity like the Spice Girls... That is why if you want to be a professional, then practice your craft and find those who can actually and literally help you. Go and be trained and fight for your skills and so forth. Look at Gary Barlow, at least he was serious, kept his head down and did his best and continued to fight for his right in the industry that he had chosen.

Exfoliate every day if you could, and then go for a deep soak to open all your pores each week with a deep hot bath with salted bath salt. Just basic deep sea salt, cos from my research I also realised that the salt actually does get absorbed into the skin's deep layer too and salt also does kill bacterias as well. A lot of people actually also have this but they think that this is normal and healthy but it isn't really. Trapped hair under the skin and no exfoliation actually does not increase your skin's circulation and blood flow and not add value to the lower layer's fat. For guys, it is trapped hairs when shaving as well, and even if they shave in the wrong direction and get a cut, not many actually heal the open wound properly to begin with with aspirin and therefore add to the inflammation as well. I showed my bf that and he was surprised. I also realised why some good old barber shops uses extremely hot towels to open the pores to enable the hair to be available before the actual shave, and then the shave can cut much closer and cleaner by pressing on the skin, than your conventional electric shaver. Proper barbers know the direction to shave the hair and not against it and therefore pushes back. Oh, I also found this out lately, which is that any towels that we use, should also be cleaned and the bacterias removed too. I now either use an extremely hot wash, or I also use Dettol to clean the face towels too. Sometimes I am using bleach to soak them and re-rinse them etc. Cos I realised that when I was younger, my face towels used to disintegrate easily than my brothers and I did not know why. It is because I either did not use hot enough water to soak them and to kill off the bacterias or that I did not dry the towels enough and the bacterias remain to breed in the semi-soft wet towel and then I clean my face with it "again". Doh ! I put the germs back on my face basically. Haha... Oh dear. I am also now an anti-bacteria clean freak and uses several ways to kill off bacterias from breeding, so that I do not forget or miss a step just in case it doesn't work in one method. Also, do not be tempted to apply make up and "hide" bad skin areas cos it will just inflamed the skin's condition as well. Use proper treatment to the affected areas asap. cos that was how I damaged the areas above my upper lips as I did not let it heal first before I applied a foundation on top to hide it for work.

May I ask you a very very silly question, do YOU yourself believe that you have an "illness" ? Can there truly be just a simple switch, a pill, or something to take away everything ? I would maybe actually consider something like meditation and also journalling too. Sometimes, it is not just a "mental" illness, or whatever, but a "spiritual" one. I read something very true recently. http://personalitycafe.com/education-career-talk/172663-5-ways-distinguish-your-calling-your-ego-shelley-prevost.html You may "think" that you are the worst, or that there is something deep inside of you that you cannot get out of. Sometimes it is okay to write them down too, and actually abuse and put down bad words associated to those experiences, and in doing so, it will actually come out one day, what exactly you felt that brought you down too. Maybe you need to forgive the person who did harm to you when you were young, or maybe you needed to let go of this bad experience. Or maybe that you have dwelled on this bad experience for such a long time that you continued to turn it into something else and more something else ? Maybe inside each one of us we have an evil side as well as an angelic side and it is okay to also be human too ? You said that you wished you could talk.... maybe it is okay to get aggressive about the situation and actually throw verbal abuse at it. For goodness sake, we ladies are human too ! It is also okay to get angry at your kids too if they do not follow your orders etc. Just do not bottle everything and be this super woman, cos humans are not robots. In our lifetime, we need to burn through our egos, or our "darkness" so to speak, in order to comprehend and appreciate and actively choose light. Would it help you if you actually stop taking anti-depressants, and stop believing in the idea of a mental illness, and actually even choose to do something more wholesome, than just sit, talk and take a pill each day ? I would that would truly annoy me. I rather rant it out and be listened to by family and friends about the injustice of the world, than to bottle the emotions inside of me thinking that I need to keep calm, and pretend that the other person has not harmed me in any way shape or form. Cos I have been a doormat long enough. Being strong is actually also telling the other person that they have harmed you too. It is actually saying it out loud.. to their face, in a fair way. Just do not bottle things up.. and let it explode to a high level. Seriously. It is also okay to laugh at bad situation and circumstances if it relieves some pain and some bad karmas too. Avoidance is also not the answer as well. Even seeing a psychologist and not actually facing those who did harm to you is also NOT a good solution too. In a life time, we are supposed to fight for what we love. If y ou love your children too, then admit openly to them what had happened to you too and that you are also coming to terms with it. Get an understanding from your loved ones is also a way to cope also too. Just do not bottle things up and not let it come towards a resolution. I read a book recently called "The Accidental Wife". I know that people read in order to get inspiration and to get ideas so that they do not have to deal with the people who harmed them themselves. But when I was reading it, it allowed me to get a lot of ideas, and it also allowed me to get to a kind of closure somewhat too on many issues which I normally face each day. Try to also avoid bad things in your daily life too. If continually to dwell and to think about this "illness" is not adding you any value, then stop going to see the doctor, and stop even focusing on this issue now. Also own up to the part which you did not do when you experienced that something. Admitting something to yourself is the hardest hurdle. I wish I was more vocal too and was more expressive than being a doormat when I was young.

Mm... I would opt for a more natural product if you must, but do not go just for the chemically made ones either. Plus also, I do not know about you, but I come to realise that moisturising isn't an absolute way to get great skin and that youthful look. It is also about your emotional health too, and reduce stress levels etc. Plus cleaning those dead skin cells. I started scrubbing like crazy recently. I almost bought this gadget, but for now, I opted for a body brush and facial brush, and I started to use dettol in my baths and also more "antibacterial" shower gels and bath gels which helps and it advances the cleaning process, rather than just because it smells nice. If you want to use good skin products which is more au naturel, either opt for Elemis, Clarins, Decleors or Shseido. Cos a lot of these have actual essential oil which melts the actual fatty layers, and then more active ingredients to heal the inflamed sub-layer of the skin, and some of them have aspirin to heal the skin too in a more slow way. I have tried Nivea recently and I am not impressed because the list of ingredients showed me are actually more chemically derived. Plus, it leave a sticky "residual" on your hands on the top layer. Whereas essential oils actually is absorbed into the lower layer. Even if you cannot afford these products, just buy some basic essential oils from your local health food shop and use that as a base and it should still enhance your skin any way. Plus to continue scrubbing away the dead skin cells so that your pores can open, and that it is not blocked by moisturisers. Or make up. http://www.philips.co.uk/e/skincare/#par_scrollsection_1 - Read the whole skin cleansing section. It really helps to see the difference and understand how the skin works too. They also have a laser product but I don't think I am likely to buy one, but there is a section to show you visibly how skin ages and why. How age spots came about, and how skins' collagen do not reproduce any more, but straightening them or protecting them helps the appearance of aging. Later on, I think I will also get one of these ! http://www.clarisonic.co.uk/ Every day you get a lot of body oil and your skin also will generate more too, so effective cleaning is more essential to be honest.

How could he become SO lost ?!?!? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/bartender-confessions-10-things-they-hate_n_2719789.html ---- The true and the ones that really do not take any BS. Rich or not, do not put people down. Do not be arrogant. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/bartender-makes-96k-video_n_2599227.html --- The ones who knows and doesn't want to go back there but is smart not to sell her soul though ! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/9584882/The-gastronauts-Londons-new-breed-of-restaurant-goer.html ---- The young and the earning, but they want to be able to "eat well " ????.. But they are unrealistic about the world too. OMG ! They spend an average mortgage payment on food alone ? Are they naive ???

I like the ones in this link. It is what I expect, the quality and the pricing too... http://www.greatsmallhotels.com/united-kingdom/west-yorkshire/boutique-hotels Look at the Manchester ones ? < 80 pounds http://vermilion.uk.com/offers/ -- < 20 pounds per person on some of the offers. http://vermilion.uk.com/gallery/ I have no idea why this standard and calibre of restaurant exists in Manchester, but it is definitely more Hollywood and Las Vegas than old mancunian for sure... Something is definitely going on in Manchester, and there are a lot of investments there too. Whether it is the fact that Manchester United has brought some of the fame there to boost the tourism and its economy, I do not know. Good luck in finding something. I was also looking at these kind of things too with my bf. Lol...

Hey... there is actually such a store no in the new market at the bottom of the moor. Come on down ! The price is right. I was actually marvelling at their cake making items...

There is actually a chippy opposite the bus stops at the bottom of The Moor. I hope that BOTH businesses will stay active and be buoyant for both of their sakes too. I actually hope that one of them will do something different like maybe fresh scampies or actual home made pies (that you can get from the market's pie stores as well as selling to direct customers, than they can also sample them too) ?? I was surprised that I can actually have a decent full meal which is also around a fiver, and is the same price as McDonald !

What exactly do you expect ? Cos some people are so laidback and against businesses such that we have been gazumped, and actually selfishly been pushed back to the background. London being a capital will always get investments any way, this is a given. But what Yorkshire has got, the locals do not appreciate and do not champion, and we have indeed been pigeon-holed into an area where we are now truly stuck. It should never been a call centre city to begin with, and we definitely been gazumped and lost that all important infrastructure piece on the airport. How the heck Robinhood got there first, but now it has become some kind of laidback piece to satisfy locals is beyond me ? How the heck we even lost that all important deal of the Stadium and let London build ANOTHER stadium to satisfy their local businesses is ALSO beyond me. Seriously now. How can there be TWO Olympic size stadium in the same country the size of a small pea, with the population size of 70 million whereas other countries do not even have that to begin with, and our supposed athletes do not have to pay anything to compete in games but gets sponsorships etc and yet earn a very decent earning then in sports endorsements etc ? Major airlines like KLM flew to Sheffield, and nobody capitalised this and brought in business from Europe to here at all. They never worked with those suppliers and build up this European supply chain. They should have done so. In order to bring some equilibrium. But everybody just want to be capitalising on the money aspect and in doing so squash a lot of people's livelihoods and so forth. Yes, it is actually great living here in the city, and actually people can afford to go out, drink, and LIVE on a benefit, whereas in other areas of this country, most people cannot even enjoy this kind of luxury, which is absolutely crazy. Most people value the food they put in their mouth down South. I noticed this too. Most people do not con their neighbours and overinflate. Most people work together to build a future together. For themselves and for the next generation too. There is now a big push for commercialisation to kick in and there is now a lot of sustainable businesses and tourism is the only way to bring back some form of commerce. It can never be a centralised hub like London is. Most British companies that has a HQ resides in London and be closed to the business hubs. You cannot complain and moan about this. Surely you noticed this pattern too ? Why are people here so arrogant to think that we can have such buildings at the drop of a hat is beyond my understanding. No money invested in the city = no nice buildings. Simple. To say Sheffield has nothing going for it, is an understatement, cos frankly, there is no a lot more push for sustainable businesses and a push for some kind of commerce in a global scale... it is just that people who live in the village do not appreciate or to understand how they are seen, or actually is in the context of a global world. Did you also noticed that, out of so many global companies, only a handful of them are British ? BP, Tesco... we lost the rest...why? Cos as British people, we live so much to our own values and our own integrity that, well.. we now no longer have the next generation at all, cos we continued to fight amongst ourselves so much. We can only but complain now... Cadburies, sold out. Royal Doulton...gone. What exactly IS "British" ??? I am actually pretty surprised that Thortons is still standing, and now it is trying to globalise like Tesco had 10 years ago... by first championing IT systems to build their global supply-chain and therefore beat many companies in the running to get where they are now. Last year, I found out that Tesco is a very smart company that, the money they were able to earn from their profits is ploughed back into their business and loaned out as a bank, so therefore they will now always exist and is never truly affected by the various global fluctuation in commerce. They are a mini-country and global brand in the making. ---------- Post added 05-01-2014 at 16:26 ---------- Where are you getting the money from ? Your bank account ? Sorry to sound so rude but you seem to think that you can "grow" a building out of nothing. Most major building are either built based on a loan from a bank to begin with, or that it will benefit someone, somewhere... and hence it was built. I look at the development of Cambridge, and how 10 years ago, their infrastructure was all aligned and came to a centralised point. They have research from the uni, and the graduate finish their study and go into work into these research centres and is employed, and sustaining the knowledgebase. The Stansted airport is small, which is true, but it allowed more people to visit these research centres and do businesses or collaboration with these research centres. It all worked in a fluid way... People Infrastructure Jobs Commercial value More people coming to a single place to live and work therefore will increase their every day needs. Food, amenities, healthcare, gyms, and therefore bring in more jobs, and benefit all... That is how it goes normally. To say that Sheffield was once famous for cutleries, I have no idea why we never actually capitalised on keeping some form of cutleries design, manufacturing even in a localised and specialist scale is way beyond me. I have also no idea why these design companies like Conran and so forth never ploughed back THEIR money in order to sustain the future of this aspect and area, but instead, they went to go and chase that money making machine and continue to begin with than to plough back and give back to the communities and the people and therefore money to create more jobs and continue expansion.... Cadburies had humble beginnings, and it built itself and continued.... Even in terms of fashion.. it is the same too. Now it is a different areas too. Even Thorntons make chocolates for local supermarkets and so forth but we like to pay higher prices for them just cos we believe in the hype and we believe in giving more money away than to keep it low and eat the same thing cos we mentally believe we are more well off.... Riiiiight ! By the way, only businesses can take out loans to build new buildings, and champion them as well. For the Stansted airport, when it was built, it was both championing the architect's skills, as well as being a public well used building to bring in people from Europe, and it fought for the different commercial link for BUSINESS use. Not necessarily for leisure around that time, in doing so, it began to open routes for tourism... and it expanded from there. It brought employees from Europe to work in the UK, and vice versa.... Why were Yorkshire cheese NOT sold in Europe ?? Why was British cutleries not sold in Paris ? Why was British clothing not championed and "markets" with a stamp on it and sold in Europe too ? Why was British Jam not made in Yorkshire, and then sold onto Europe ?? Why was Yorkshire ham not valued, loved, and sold literally into European market ? But let other supermarkets get any piece of old ham and labelled it "Yorkshire Ham". What the heck... Wallace and Gromit did a lot more for Yorkshire cheese than local Yorkshire people I have to say that...

Sometimes I come online here and I read wonderful gems like this too. I never knew that supermarket is so unethical and "burn" their food rather than to resell at lower value onto someone else etc. I find it actually immoral, cos it meant that they incubated this kind of "value" onto their customers and make profits for themselves in a fake way. i.e. bumped up food prices. I also once read an article somewhere about people scrounging for food in new york from bins of restaurants cos some of the food that they throw away are so nutritious than what they can get at a local McD. That is such crazy talk. I just think that if people take good care then why should bureacracies come into play? I used to think that people were cynical and so forth for the sake of it, but when I have grown up and realised what is what, I would say that they should indeed be championed and indeed challenged too. It's like when I was growing up, my parents were also ignorant too of the 9-5 jobs, but in hindsight, there is a lot of satisfaction and pride also too in being a farmer etc. ---------- Post added 05-01-2014 at 15:53 ---------- I like the sound of that. I once met a local guy here in Sheffield who is from the Newcastle area and he used to fish for a living too and knows so much about the sea. He told me that he hire boats out to sea to fish for the joy of it, and once time he brought some back to Sheffield to sell and to share his joy, and nobody in the pub took up his offer at all. I was SHELLSHOCKED. It was so fresh, and he went way out to fish it. In the end, he had to ask if anybody would want them for free, and lots of people thought that he had lost his plot, or they wondered where he got the fish from. I listened to him, and I found that story extremely sad... Really really sad. Cos people seem to have their priorities pretty wrong imho.

It is never about racial diversity. It is about GOOD food ! It is strange that some people say that we have great bread, but in actual fact, if you notice that even Fletchers bread has decline in standard slowly over the years. That is what I mean. I can also say with hands on my heart, a McDonald's burger when I was a child was made from REAL meat. Not your prepackaged nutritionally removed junk crap that is made mass bulk from a factory from god knows where and fed to my mouth. Then with added "flavourings" on top to mimic real meat and real burnt flavoured meat. THIS is why I would definitely challenge the market to exist. I want it to exist. I know how big corporate works now. If they indeed produce good food, then I do not mind, but if I know that they are feeding me less than nutritionally good value food, then why should I not complain about this ? I know that not all chains work like this but those who started en-mass and bulk up have got their priorities wrong. If those employees do not feed their own children McDonalds and that they work in McDonalds, then don't support such entities. Sometimes I like to think that I am healthy, but no, I ate worst than a man in one of those tribes in Africa. Cos at least they are getting proper REAL protein and none of this fake crap and regurgitated goods which we call "healthy". Why are we like this and have become like this kind of people? Cos we believe in the crap and actually is not even mindful of what we are doing any more. We are so detached from what we feed into our own stomach. Call me stingy, I do not see class system into play at all... It is funny how "artisan" bread is now considered as "snobbish" bread. Sorry, but bread when I was growing up came from an actual baker who knows how to bake and is decent about his craft and not the bottomline. I am championing for myself and also for the next generation as well. My mother worked in blue collar jobs and she ate well and was great in health. Whereas by now in my generation, I can earn more, but I eat so badly ? Where is the world coming to ??? No way ! I definitely will challenge stereotypes and those who pigeon hole me for being snobbish on real food. Sorry there, I know you did not mean to pick this bone with me, but.... I read some of the comments here on this thread and it is going about things the wrong way round. Seriously now.

I have also become one of these "Just eat" people too. I really dislike this technology, cos I think it is not the owners and take away owners that I am dealing with, and there is no continuity... I work in IT, and I can say that this kind of "technology" which is supposed to help business owners are truly not working, and it sucks big time ! It is adding another middle man into the equation which do not work to be honest, especially when the technology falls over. Or that business owners do not understand how the technology work as well. Welcome to social media which do not add true value cos they do not even understand the business processes and important key points to what a local business requires... but they are earning big commissions ! But that is okay too, cos it is bad technology which adds no value, but it keeps people in jobs... and it affect the supply-chain...

A friend wanted a stall for her Mexican food but then got rejected. I have no idea who she contacted and what "criteria" were set up then. It is obvious that SCC wants diversity... and it is not that every meat, fruit and veg stall owners were taken up either. That is the thing ! To me, the council work for the citizens, and not the citizens working for the council. So they should explain the rationale behind their decisions. Plus also, if they know that a lot of people prefer certain stalls, and that they are making use of the stalls, then they should listen to the local constituents on what they want from their own city cos afterall, it is their tax that is contributing to the wealth of this city ! I am also like my friends too, we are 9-5 workers, and we want to cook from fresh and we want to cook from scratch. I do not want prepacked and reshipped and resold junk. Stop that ! Give me FRESH goods. Give me LOCAL goods. From the Peak District. From the local rivers in the Peak. From the great sustainable environments that we have. Work with local landowners, turn them into farms. Turn them into a source for create good food. People can have cats and dogs and they love them, but why don't they also love cows, sheeps, and look after farm animals that one day, it can also contribute to the health of a child, or a family, and give something back to the community ??

She is a great example of someone who actually uses and manipulate the media "career" for her own purpose but actually removes from actual real life, and have no empathy whatsoever ! She lives in a bubble... she does. Or maybe she just do not care... That is it. Or if you like, she definitely "debates" her way through life, than to share, be humble, show humility and actually say things with substance... My friends and myself is truly annoyed with her... and she scares children with some of the things that she say publically. No, that is just so wrong !

Exactly ! Plus anyway, in every cuisine, there is a fundamental basic linked to the cuisine itself and that the recipe should enhance the recipe and not to degrade it. More often than not, there is an AWFUL lot of mediocrities at play when it comes to food... There is really the amateur level, and then the professional level and the extreme foodie level. When I read the articles written on food sometimes, you can always check where the level is at... and then to criticise someone when you yourself do not have the background and doesn't know whether you are a professional cooking something to whether you are an actual foodie... is just cringing ! Not everybody is that self aware unfortunately. I have just come back from a trip to the US as well, around the North Carolina and the South Carolina area. I was also surprised at how heavily salted most of the food is out there. There is also the same issues which people have out there. There is great foodie people, and then there is the mediocrity level. Some of the great tasting recipes literally care about the moisture in the barbequed meat as well. It just falls off the bone. I came to the realisation that smoked meat is as the same kind of "way of life" and as it is their heritage in the US as Ale is in the UK. In the UK, especially in the Yorkshire area, we are still a strong group of people who drinks real ale, and that is a heritage in itself. Just that not many people want to take pride in this any more, or even care... Which is a shame too. In the US, smoked meat is really a representation of how the mass migration of the "new world" were. To have cattles move with you and to be able to cook in the wild and to sustain a way of life whilst surviving in the wilderness. This is where smoking is really a true representation of American heritage. To say and "mimic" smoked cuisine to the same level as that where the local cuisine came from is kind of hard, especially if you were not brought up with this kind of cuisine to begin with any way ! Anything else is just not as authentic to be honest... I used to like Damon's ribs too the first time I tried ribs. Then I realised years later on that, they actually source prepacked ribs, and they also source local "Whitby" prepacked scampies too... In its early days, I swear that they were cooked fresh. I still remember this great dining experience. Commercialisation ? Yep ! Marinading meat before barbecuing or cooking actually comes from SE Asia... it is to tenderise the meat before consumption. This ties in with the way of holistic health in historical times as it reduces the production of acid in your stomach, and hence pre-tenderising meat is a way to also preserve your health too. Whereas dry barbecuing meat with species in a high temperature open fire spit is more American cos that is how people cook raw meat over centuries...

What kind of IT course are you looking for ? I can also provide some online tutorials and links too. That was also how I learnt as well. Just start with basic tutorials, and use what you need until your confidence build up. It may help if you explain a little bit more in detail as to what the person's learning background is already and what it is that they want to achieve. Cos sometimes, the context is misinterpreted and the level is misunderstood if you do not explain what the person wants out of the course.

If it is a genuine piece of antique furniture, you can actually ask for online expertise and send in photos for inquiries. Try Christie's. Seriously.

Just a brainstorming idea. Wouldn't it be cool if there is also wi fi in the market? So that it invites more people to sit in those cafe places in the market, and actually also invite a mixture of various different people and cater for all too. Cos there are quite a lot of nice cafes there and so forth. I mean, call it sustainabilities... Lots of coffee shops have folded already in the city centre, and having another one really caters for the other end of town as well. I also noticed that many pubs and Wetherspoons are also changing too from hardcore drinking places to a more genteel coffee place. We said that this would happen, and people wanted this for the city any way instead of binge drinking til you die and bw absolutely rowdy, and now there are more choices than your typical Starbucks chain. This is a good sign ! It would be nice to have people who are true foodies though and not give mediocre things. It gives it that bit of credibilities as well...

I've been in there today. It's nice and airy. The high ceiling does make it more spacious in feeling. I like it ! There are still some smells from the fish and meat stalls. But overall, I do like how the market really is, and it kind of complements the other few stalls outside too. Let's put it this way, I was able to do my weekly shop, and check out some DIY bits and bobs, all in a central location, so I'm happy about that. The price of the fish is still a bit expensive though.. salmon is at 12 pounds/kg ? Mmm..... I got 2 big potatoes for 40p ! I had to stop and think for a moment, how much I normally spend on a measly bag of potatoes, or carrots from Tesco, M&S or Waitrose. When I think back to how much I used to spend, I am shocked at how great the pricing is for fruit and veg. I will definitely go there more often. Also, I got 30 eggs for 2 pounds ! Bargain. Looking forward to baking with them. Yumm..... I really like the egg stall, as it also give you choices of speciality eggs and so forth. It's quite nice to see this kind of artisan choice really. There is also a specialist tea shop too ! I've also checked out these too. TJ Hughes, Poundland & Iceland. TJ Hughes is going to compete with Atkinson's on their cosmetics. I was very very impressed by their cosmetic counters and the products that they are selling. I know that TJ Hughes is actually an American chain, and that is why they are able to source some of the American products for sale at a lower price. Atkinson always had decent pricing on their cosmetics, Bodycare and so forth, and this was before Bodycare appeared in the Moor, beating Boots in pricing and some choices too. Poundland, I always liked Poundland for those mundane items which is charged very high in supermarkets, but in actual fact, its value and worth is very low. They are good for items like micro-fibre cloths, dish washer sponges, and so forth. I'm not keen on Iceland. It is trying to be another Poundland offering all their items to be around a pound or so. What is the point of this place when the fresh food market is next door ? It would be nice to see more of like artisan places popping up. Whether it is a decent baker with artisan bread, or a wine specialist. Or a cloth alteration place or other? Where people can drop off shirts or trousers or skirts to be shortened or lengthened etc. The quality of some of the stuff is okay, but the pricing is a little bit high. For example, the fish prices I know is more or less average supermarket prices, but won't they get more business if they just undercut them a little bit, and actually have a kind of "specials" each week or other? So that it attracts people to come and check what is on offer. I thought that the whole point of a market is to get things at actual trade price, or buy what is available and on supply only. It would be nice if there is also a kind of auction too like in Birmingham market, where they sell off stock which they cannot keep over the weekend or other, and therefore they auction it off, but still kind of make the trade price. I am sure that this kind of trading fun makes the market more vibrant. I mean, as silly as it sounds, but I wouldn't mind buying bulk chicken wing for cheap.

I've grown to like this veg too. It tastes sweet, so it adds a different flavour to the dish. Most vegetables are bitter in taste, so this is a nice twist to add to anything really. Yum...

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I doubt that this was put into place for me. I will check. Thank you everyone for responding to this thread, and thank you for clarifying. I am the only house holder who has Spanish tiles in a street full of slates... (Not a happy bunny.) So I doubt that the builder at the time did this at all.

You would think that this is the case. I also had my roof done by a FMB, and I thought that it would be guaranteed, but 10 years on, I can see that the clay tiles swapped the slate tiles, is now causing me structural damage. I am now also considering seeking legal advice on this. This guy is still trading ! He took away my slates, gave my Spanish tiles, and I am sure that the slates can be resold. He made money out of me, I'm sure. Sometimes the paperwork does not come through, or just a "verbal" agreement and the work is done and carried out without actual agreement and contracts signed ! I learnt from my mistake. I now seriously do not listen to verbal persuasion or to go for work without paperwork etc. Definitely has to be legitimate. To the OP, I hope that you get appropriate compensation.

I just like to throw this question out to other home owners too. Do you require a planning permission if you want to re-roof your house ? Or if to give some kind of notice to the local council ? Plus also, do you require to let your home insurance know if you wish to do anything to the building ? Any decent answers are welcomed.

I've had repointing done before by a couple of cowboys too and now I realised why I still have damp problems, and why my walls look like it is about to fall off ! I would say, go for proper traders who knows what mix they are to use on the buildings and why. As much as one likes to support local builders and traders, they really have to be decent and have trade integrity and really give the best solution to preserve a building from them falling off. As a home owner, one does not expect what they pay for actually will affect the house years on. I rather they charge me the full amount and I pay over a course of number of years or other to get it correct and right. I had repointing done around 10 years or so ago, and it did not last around 50 years as most articles say online. Now I still have structural problems and damp too. I have to research into why, and to be honest, I should not need to do so. http://www.heritage-house.org/pages/examples-of-strap-pointing.html http://www.independent.co.uk/property/house-and-home/repointed-walls-arent-all-theyre-cracked-up-to-be-1137993.html In hindsight, I am way too polite to sue those builder's ass off ! But their bad workmanship passes on the bad karmas and people actually lose their house as it disintegrates, that's not right.

Hey, am glad someone wants them ! They are: 1998 - 5 copies 2000 - 8 copies 2001 - 12 copies - whole year 2002 - 10 copies 2003 - 7 copies 2004 - 10 copies 2005 - 9 copies 2006 - 7 copies 2007 - 1 copy I am in S2. Can PM me to confirm, and then I can let you know the address etc.