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I've had screws/tacks removed fom my tyres at Kwik Fit City Road and Ecclesall Road and they did it for free. Be prepared though - they may try persuading you to buy a new set for some other reason found when checking your tyres (especially at Eccy Road).

...And there is a bottle and plastic collection point 10 minute's walk away.

If you can't get to a recycling centre, how on earth can you recycle glass and plastic?

I agree - but the neighbours I am referring to have a large 4x4 truck and a car.

i need some cardboard boxes for a project at a special school where i run a group for children with emotional and behavioural disorders. i want them to decorate an 'all about me' box, i have plenty of pictures etc. The box will become a memory box containing all the stuff they will be making/doing while they are with the group, also a small photo album. I've had a lot of success running these groups and we usually create memory books but i have two children who were in the last group and i don't want to repeat activities.

In the past I did something similar (but on a smaller scale) and used unwanted shoe boxes from local shops.

It amazes me how much waste some people make. I sometimes don't take my wheely bin out for 3 weeks because there is hardly anything in it. But some of my neighbours have their bins spilling over with junk food packaging every single week.

Same here - my household doesn't need a weekly collection, but a neighbour puts out two full bins every week and, judging by what is often sticking out of the top, doesn't recycle glass or plastic.

Allan King Pianos 355 London Road do tuning (had mine done) so perhaps they also sell the hammers. Very helpful bloke runs the shop. A pleasure to go in there.

Friend of mine from Barcelona just can't believe how courteous Sheffield drivers are ...mind you, she wasn't in car when that black bimmer nearly forced me onto the pavement going up East Bank Road t'other week.

A long way from Shiregreen I know, but I've seen (and heard) a Greater Spotted woodpecker in our back garden in Heeley - just 30 feet away from kitchen window.

...Had a similar embarassment when using the expression "Chuff" around Southeners. Apparently to them it means the same as Gash does to the OP, but I've alway heard it used as a term used to describe someone/something in relation to our great city of Sheffield. As in "Radio Chuff" as Rony Robinson often refers to Radio Sheffield on his show.

Often heard 'chuff' used in an affectionately chiding way - as in 'you daft chuff'. And of course, there was the legendary all-women cabaret act from Sheffield, the Chuffinelles.

Welcome to Sheffield, sputnitchka. Lots of good suggestions for you so far in this thread - I can't add anymore.

...I got a Magnum of shampers for £1.99.

I bet that wasn't Bolinger.

i quite like sex maybe i should ask the council to provide me some basement where i can **** as many prostitutes as i can

Now you're just being silly. I think you'll find that such places already exist and don't need a council subsidy.

Buy a place where you can erect a wall, or already has one

That would be one solution, I agree, if you had the resources, but using that logic one could say that anyone who wanted to indulge in rock climbing should buy a large artificial rock, but the council has provided a couple of those - so why not a few old walls too?

Or you could always construct a wall on your own premises for your art

And if the artists live in a flat?

but why should they ?

But why shouldn't they?

It wouldn't hurt the city council or cost a fortune to provide a couple of old walls for graffiti artists to practise their art. I imagine it would be rather cost-effective in the broader picture.

What that area of Sheffield didn't need was more concrete IMO. What was wrong with the grass?

I remember doing an experiment at school where us kids had to blow down a capillary tube into a beaker of ether - we did this outside in the school grounds in broad daylight. For some reason that escapes me, I sucked instead of blowing but fortunately didn't spontaneously combust.

No, it doesn't - I'm still pondering that.

More than one owl in the Heeley/Meersbrook valley. Hear them often. Think they might be tawny owls.

Really nice thread this. Good luck liam.

They are called 'Inside Out' and provide activities for children and young people somewhere around Devonshire Green.

Anyone got any information?

Wonder if this is related:

http://www.worthylinks.com/view/4141

Btw, Bloomdido - completely off-topic - are you a Gong fan by any chance?

I think one hit wonders would probably be more appropriate for the Zombies.

Uk, yes, Perhaps 3-hit wonders in the USA though?

A bead curtain for the door - more stylish than a net. And such a nice sound when you walk though it. Easy (if a tad expensive) to make yourself.

Meadow Hell, I saw the film.

I'm sure there have been zombies in Meadowhell from day one?

My experience is that fare 'changes' [usually rises] are inadequately notified. No point in issuing leaflets if nobody reads them. No good using advertising methods that people ignore and then blame the passengers. Perhaps if fare changes - and bus fares generally - were shown at all bus stops, where us passengers are standing around with not much else to do? Might even prompt us to sort out the correct change before we get on the bus. Or how about advertising the changes in very large posters on the sides of the buses?

To be fair to the drivers, I have usually found them very understanding and polite when I've been unaware of a fare change - altho that usually dissipates after a few months