Jammie

Try owzat cricket; its at Alfreton though They will have some last season season cricket bats on sale. https://www.owzat-cricket.co.uk/ Is the website; but you are better off getting a feel of the bat before buying. The indoor nets place at Petre street also sell reasonable cricket bats

I can recommend my dentist Mr Priyadarshan Gaitonde at the Porter Brook Dental Centre. He does orthodontic work using FastBraces with quicker results. I think the first consultation is free but you might want to call and check. Their number is 01142799894.

Laurajill, have you considered a day out to Leicester. Belgrave road has multiple lovely restaurants run by owners of Indian origin and serve non halal food. (though most of them are vegetarian restaurants..)

You need to look for an curry house run by an Indian (Hindu/ Sikh), rather than a Pakistani or Bangladeshi owner. Many Indian especially Sikh's wont eat Halal meat. Try Dosanj or perhaps ask at Nirmals or Vijays ..Hope this helps and enjoy Mothers day!

just used Steve from SRS to repair some roof tiles that had been blown off in the recent bad weather. He is on 07877626347. He is quite busy but seems to have done a good job.

Thanks guys, Yes, it is a shame to see the tree go, but its roots are damaging the boundry wall and neigbours drain system. Yep bench definately seems a great idea. Just remembered i know some one who is a talented wood artist and had done a fine job at the endcliffe park festival. He might be able to put the wood to good use!

We have an old oak tree in the back garden which unfortunately has to go as it is too close to our and the neighbours house and have got planning permission for the same. Can any one recommend a reasonably priced tree surgeon for the job? Also does any one know if you can use the oak wood in any way or sell it to a saw mill or something as it is a fine tree and seems a shame to see it just turn into mulch.

Wow, that link(http://www.e-budo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6554) is definately shocking! Wouldnt want to get invovled in a system which esentially is a scam from the looks of it. They were doing door to door rounds in Brincliffe-Netheredge area. But they had a brochure which suggested they had a lot of local centres. Glad i didnt get roped in! Thanks everyone!

We had some people coming door to door enquiring if anyone wanted to learn karate in Go-Kan-Ru style in our area. They were charging 5.50 per hour session and also there was a registration fee. What put me off was that according to them the registration fee is normally £80 and it would cost me £22 only if i signed up straight away. Had not yet seen any hard sell for any sports activity till this and makes me wonder if they are really genuine....or is it worth it.