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My BT's just gone down from 1.2Mb/sec to 750 now 250 (That's megabits, not megabytes)

They usually tip the boxes into a small section of the wagon which doesn't have a bin lift. Maybe today they brought a wagon with a bin lift and were using a wheelie bin as you describe, which I mistook for a normal wheelie bin. That would also explain why another bin wagon came down nearer lunchtime and emptied the grey (black) bins. I had this vision of this 2nd wagon emptying loads of bins, without the binmen realising they were already empty

Faded black then.

Exactly that.

Thanks Haley. It was a bit of a faff handling those silly boxes, and it's got to be better to have only one bin wagon doing the rounds.

This morning the bin men were putting the paper into the grey wheeliebins, and the wagon had two compartments, one for normal rubbish and one for glass/tins. This means there was only one wagon instead of two operating. Is this permanent?

Thanks - the first link didn't work - just took me to "Page timed out", looked like it was part of the tax-disc application routine. There's always the MID database for insurance http://www.askmid.com/

Oh dear, next a couple of untaxed, untested, uninsured Transits overloaded with scrap metal (obtained with the owner's permission of course).

Is that the one on Dutton Rd? Behind the leisure centre, past Bassets old Place? Haven't been there for a year or two, it was more of a Landrover repair business, run by a very knowledgeable chap called Tony. He used to be on Tanfield Place, backing on to Dutton Rd, near European Radiators.

They're slagging Paddocks off (again) on LR4x4, seems like an annual event.

I'm glad he's still going, I haven't seen him for years - my Landrover hasn't seen the road for years either! Does he have an email address? Roger

I'm learning to play at 58! If I had a sense of rythmn I'd be pretty good if I wasn't tone deaf. The bad thing is that I've been learning for the last 45 years I am learning to read from the stave, I don't get on with tabs and have managed to get past the stage of writing the string & fret numbers on the sheet music. Since I discovered Noteworthy composer my playing has been coming on quite well, it will play a backing track and never shouts when I get it wrong. I've got a Burns Marquee which is pretty well worn out now.

It's the same firm, one surgery on Holme Lane, Hillsborough and the other on Crookes.

Hopefully they don't blow bubble gum in your face which has happened to me twice at another local cut-price store. Brilliant when you're shopping for food!

Too true, have you seen some of the price increases in Netto recently

I agree 100%. But it's human nature, be offerred an item for £1.00 or £1.50 which would most people buy? Then these same people wring their hands over the demise of local shops. Everybody complains about rural Post Offices closing. May parents retired to the country and shopped at the local Store & Post Office whenever they could, but the locals all drove into the nearest town and they were the first complain about the Post Office's closure! Just look how the Walkley Shopping area has gone downhill over the last 30 years, I used to use the local butcher, local fishmonger, local post office, local bank, local building society agency.

I'd welcome it. I prefer to walk to the shops for exercise and currently use Netto on South Road. If Tesco causes that awful place to close down then all well and good. As for Jacksons and the new shop opposite, you need a mortgage to shop there. I agree with the traffic considerations, but I suspect parking will be so bad that people who want to go shopping in their cars will go to a more accessible store anyway. I know a few people who drive to Morrissons from Walkley, maybe somewhere decent to shop closer by will encourage them to walk? And it's certainly convenient for buses. As said previuosly, if it gets built and there isn't a need for it then it will close down.

As a matter of interest, why did they block Industry Street like they did? It seems to cause more problems than it solves.

AFAIK it's illegal to work on a car in the street except in an emergency, so if a garage is doing routine work on the roadside he could be prosecuted by the police. Parking a car accross a driveway is obstruction and the police will have it shifted if you complain to them. Does anyone remember all those years ago when that Thatcher woman was invited to the Cutlers' Feast? The police were complaining about funding so one brave copper went round the streets of Walkley at 1 am issuing parking tickets on all the vehicles that were parked on the wrong side of the road.