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a pub with bugger all else to do but sup,no tv no juke box,no live music after over ten years its getting boring my local is empty on Saturday nights.

Not sure if there are two sentences here. Is this proper pub boring or your local with TVs etc boring? Some pubs in this city are getting things very right for their market i.e. they are packed and others I go in I just despair and wonder why they don;t see why it is empty.

All Siam is great. We went to Juke and Loe a couple of weeks ago and while it was quite good, as noted above we thought it overpriced for what it was. The Ashoka is an old favourite and still as good as ever.

Forgot about Ashoka, no issues there. Only been a couple of time but the food is decent.

All Siam Thai restaurant is the only one I can recommend. In my view there's quite a bit of overpriced, under quality going on for food on that street.

And we all know what Humphrey wants

This could be the demise of the last proper drinking pub in town and the least expensive that sells proper beer, not the likes of Vicars dangly bits and nuns #### at £6 a pint

What makes a pub a "proper drinking pub" please?

Can you only ride them on the pavement?

No, I suspect it is potentially illegal (apparently police use discretion) to ride them on the pavement as with all bikes. They should be used on the road if ridden by an adult and are probably too big for must children anyway.

Will a vegan eat anything cooked in a kitchen that preps meat as well?

It depends on the vegan but most will.

For the OP, try Casa Mia at Nether Edge. Nice new Italian with a page of vegan options on the menu.

Think the very new (opened today) Urbanita288 at 288 Abbeydale Road is meant to do vegan and gluten free stuff.

Hi everyone,

I was walking the dog about 7am onto the old college site and found a lot of music lesson books (about 40 or so) instrument rental books, a pair of sunglasses and pen dumped on the path.

I gathered them up thinking one of the two adjacent schools might have had a break in, but apparently they haven’t. A friend suggested it might be a mobile music teacher who has had their car broke into (with the sunglasses being part of the haul)?

101 weren’t any help, and SYP said they’d inform the local bobbies,but if anyone is missing them, please let me know and I’ll arrange returning them.

Thanks

What area are we talking about here?

I don't think it should be ignored, by the way, I am just not sure what the answer is that doesn't cost money. The mess in my local park was sprayed pink last summer, with some bio-degradable chalk spary paint, and that seemed to highlight the problem literally and reduce it a tad too.

You have to catch people to prosecute people and spending masses of money looking for people seems self defeating. Am sure they could campaign to highlight the problem but anyone who doesn't already know that they should clean up their dog's doings probably isn't going to listen.

Can I suggest the edges of the woods that butt up to Earl Marshall Rd and Grimethorpe Road ,an absolute khazi with litter strewn all over and black backs of rubbish dumped on the footpaths

I won't be there but might be worth mentioning on their Facebook page "Sheffield Litter Pickers".

You've put February whereas title says March.

Thank you. Apologies. Edited.

I've heard very good reports too, it is a shame that, rather weirdly, none of their rice is gluten free. No idea what they do to it.

Why?

We all pay to dispose of our waste.

Households pay through taxes and some also pay for skips, collections etc.

Businesses pay for disposal using private contractors.

 

Criminals fly tip, usually to avoid payment.

It's an inefficient, overly complicated set up.

Trade waste centres.

Skips

Commercial waste collections (you will have seen those big wheeled bins).

Is that not a flaw in the system? If it was controlled by the council then they could charge (maybe not as much as a private contractor), make money and recycle a lot more than they do currently and a reduction in fly tipping would, to soe extent, occur as a consequence.

Do you honestly think that clearing up fly tipping would cost less than letting any and every business use a dumpit site?

 

Fly tipping costs the UK tax payer £58m. That's a national figure not a local one.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42689357

 

How much do you think it would cost to let every small business, just small businesses, get rid of rubbish for free? More or less than £58m.

Where do businesses take their rubbish if they don't take them to the tip?

Bring a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig bag.

There will be lots of separate bags rather than a single big one. I don't think anyone who will be going is under any illusions about the task in hand. Feel free to join in.

If anyone does want to raise the profile of the mess of the city, do a litter pick and some other activities linked to that, then The Sheffield Litter Picker Group is arranging an event for Keep Britain Tidy's Big Clean Up. They will meet at Firth Park Clocktower Pavillion, S5 6WS at 1pm on Saturday the 3rd of March. The first 100 helpers will be given a litter picker for keeps which aims to try and get more people picking where they live. They will proceed from there in various directions with the aim of being visible, tidying a decent sized area and getting some press coverage for their efforts.

Yes it would. Some people just don't care.

 

If you allow large vans into council tips then builders use them. Which means we subsidise their business through our taxes.

 

That's not what I want my council taxes spent on.

I wouldn't consider it subsidising a business. Why should a business have to pay to get rid of rubbish if the council and its contractors ultimately dispose of it anyway. The reasons given above suggest why we should subsidise it even if that was the case.

I'd be interested to see a cost analysis, weighing up revenue from legal business waste disposal against expenditure on clearing up illegal dumping, factoring in the cost of clearing up all the waste that gets dumped but doesn't actually get cleared up, plus the environmental and social costs of living in a (insert swearword) tip.

 

I'm so fed up of the state of our city - rubbish everywhere, it looks like a third world country. The countryside's not a great deal better.

Why don't you ask the council via a freedom of Information request?

If anyone does want to raise the profile of the mess of the city, do a litter pick and some other activities linked to that, then The Sheffield Litter Picker Group is arranging an event for Keep Britain Tidy's Big Clean Up. They will meet at Firth Park Clocktower Pavillion, S5 6WS at 1pm on Saturday the 3rd of February. The first 100 helpers will be given a litter picker for keeps which aims to try and get more people picking where they live.

Interested to know what people's opinions are of the pollution levels within the city, especially those living in the s9 area. Does more need to be done in order to benefit people living in areas such as tinsley?

Yes, more needs to be done. It is one of the main reasons they proposed reducing the M1 to 50mph for the stretch that runs past the area. Not sure of any other proposals.

Yes , I was making an assumption, on the way they were acting. Your post made for very interesting reading. And, no , I don't no them personally, as I don't have any pretentious friends. I still say the place was full of <removed> who were so up their own bum, I'm supprised they can walk. And no, I won't be going in pointing dog, even if do follow me on Instagram . Not if it's like that .

 

Never, ever go to Pointing Dog or Pot, Kettle Black if you think the very unpretentious Cowshed is pretentious. I fear your head might explode.

I went just before Christmas for a comedy gig. There was about 14 of us in there, the comedy wasn't great but the venuw with the weird curtains and old school living room thing was interesting and I thought it worked well. Nice to see them trying to do some a little different even if no one else is quite sure what that is. I think venues can do whatever they want and don't need defining as a gig or comedy etc venue.

The venue is now run as Pot, Kettle, Black. You will barely notice the difference.

From what I know of the incident that got it closed there was very little the venue could have done so don't really see why it ahould be punished. Sadly there are a fair few tools in the world and these things happen.

The carvery was what you'd expect for the price you paid. It was food, it was edible.

I'm not sure if you dislike pretentious people or undesirables or if you consider them to be one in the same. Service staff doing servicing seems like a decent plan to me. I'm lost.