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Does anyone know who stocks nursing uniforms in either Sheffield or Rotherham?

Self-employed single parent (one child disabled) looking for daytime classes in keep fit/dancing/martial arts etc in the Rotherham/S9 areas Joining a gym is not viable as I would only be able to spare a couple of hours 1 day a week so joining a gym would be a waste of money. Anything out there? Everything seems to be either in the evening or 'join a gym!'

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The correct phone number for the Yes group is 01633 712 712 I am on the TP service and am getting several calls a day - but all asking for different people! They obviously don't check the TP list.

This - and others - missed my point. I said gay is not normal, not that it is uncommon or restricted to humans. Nature tries many variations - or have you all not heard of evolution? Also saying gays can reproduce through artificial means proves my point - artificial! My point is that on a purely biological basis gay is not normal as the sex drive was originally a means to attract mates and form bonds to ensure the survival of the species. "so ensure the passage of their 'gay' genetic material through safeguarding the genes of those related to them." ??? they are not passing on their 'gay' genetic material. They are passing on the genetic material from their family that wasn't gay. Passing on 'gay' genetic material would - ignoring science as I said before - mean the species would eventually die out. As a social aspect however, I have no problem with people being gay, or having kids, or getting married, or having the same wages etc etc and do not see it as 'wrong'. I view all of these as a right of everyone - regardless of age, sex, religion, sexual orientation etc. So sorry to the people who think I am a homophobe - but I actually agree with the recent law changes and also agree they don't go far enough in ensuring that descrimination due to being gay is stopped once and for all. I am just fed up with the whole 'I should love you 'cos you're gay' thing - no I shouldn't. I should love you because you are a fellow human being - who you fancy doesn't interest me in the slightest. If I want to know I will ask, in the same way that I might be interested in your favourite film.

Sorry - but gay is not normal (read rest before throwing something) Ignoring the last couple of hundred years and latest medical science etc.. A species needs to have babies to survive. Nature gives the equipment, but it wouldn't be much use if you didn't want to use it - which is why nature then came up with all the hormone, coloured feathers, lust thing, to get people to do it. Nature then had to make it pleasureable to ensure the animal kept doing it, when it had evolved enough for the need to be diminished. Sorry, but in human's case same sex sex is never going to produce a baby - it is therefore nothing to do with procreation and is therefore either a conscious decision to ignore 'convention' and seek pleasure wherever, or it is flaw somewhere in the genetic code. Having 6 fingers on one hand is not normal (as someone else pointed out in one of the papers I think). However, is being gay wrong - no. I just wish you'd all shut up about it. Unless, of course, I was looking for a partner, I don't want to know, I don't need to know, and I don't give a ff if you love men, women or vegetables.

I'm not against taking in refugees, per se - I just think we should (the 'we' being united nations) start addressing the real issues of going into these countries, removing the corrupt militia governments or at least stop sending them guns and money and educating the next batch, and stop calling them 'internal matters' and referring to mass slaughters and genosides as 'troubles'. What we should do is start getting rid of the 'grass is greener' syndrome, and I'm sorry but that would need some kicking of ass.

Sorry, have just read through all of page 2 and a few things have me peeved. 1. Cliff, you are clearly off your tree and I picture you running around shouting 'we're all doomed' every 10 seconds! Most people would start growing their own food or banding together to form smallholdings - as in the past - if things ever got that bad, and there is enough land even within cities that hasn't been used for food crops for years, if ever, that would be suitable. I have enough potatoes and carrots in a few patio tubs to last us a couple of months if I was doing it 'for real'. There's also the food that would normally go to waste due to stupid EU 'no bendy bananas' rule and the people who like their strawberries to bounce and their potatoes to be perfectly round. I also agree with the comments about the grain reserves - i don't want a lot of reserves! It costs money to produce and store and will eventually get thrown anyway when it could be feeding other people. 2. on that subject, most third world aid given by governments is a complete waste of time anyway. Most is still used by the receiving governments to pay off their debts to the international banks, despite Mr Geldof. Most of the rest is used for military purposes or to fund a good lifestyle for the politians and militia in power, or as bribes to local 'politians' to keep them loyal. The money given to the large charities is usually not best distributed either - with administration costs, or sat in banks while people argue how to spend it, or in the case of the tsunami there was so much money floating around indonesia that was over and above that needed for rebuilding whilst other areas where completely ignored (and still are). If you want to do your bit for charity then the best bet is by one of those charities where you can sponsor a specific person,family or village - you can then really see where your money is going. Better still get off your backside, do some research and contact local churches/organisation in the actual country, who will gladly refer you to families in need of help and/or accept packages for them. You can then send items direct that they can either use or sell to buy goods locally. Or working the other way instead of going down to House of Fraser and spending £100 on your next rug why not contact the aid agencies in India who might be able to put you in touch with the poor person who makes them in the first place. You might have to wait a week or two, but not only will you probably save money, even with the postage, but the maker would get far more than either selling locally or to House of Fraser's buyers. Just a thought.

Sorry Cliff but don't agree with you! Whilst we are doing a lot of things to damage the planet it does have it's own defences, such as the algae bloom in the oceans when the co2 gets too high. There's already oil eating bugs, so I am sure that left fallow for a while it will encourage some bacteria to mutate to the new conditions and regenerate the soil. Not to mention all the mad scientists who are coming up with more resilient strains of grain etc that don't need fertilisers and pesticides. In the meantime, if things get 2 drastic I have a perfectly serviceable back garden that I currently use to grow a couple of things each year - to teach my son where food comes from - and I know I haven't been putting any fertilisers on there, oil or otherwise. Perhaps things would also get better in the third world if we made them trade back all their guns and ammo in return for our aid or stopped dealing with the governments and militia's alltogether.

Further to my first post, I will write down some of specific ones. I'll just state the facts and let you make up your minds yourself! My Dad and my first car. My dad died when I was 15 just after we moved to a new area of Sheffield. I passed my driving test when I was just 18, and the people I was hanging around back then were new friends I made after my dad died who had never met him. They knew he was dead but had never seen any pictures of him as they never went to my mums house. Shortly after I bought my first car I started driving places without ever remembering how I got there - mostly this can be explained as the usual 'phasing out' when you drive over familiar routes. However, on occassions I would put the key in the ignition, then take it out again very clearly think 'why am I doing that', then look up to find I was already home. And, no, I have never drunk and driven and in fact don't drink at all even now. My mother, the first time I drove her anywhere, commented that it was wierd that I drove exactly how my dad did - my posture being the same. Other things happened, like the radio would be detuned or tuned to other stations overnight, and my rear view mirror would be tilted up to face the ceiling, doors would be unlocked and windows opened. One day I decided to try and teach a friend of mine to drive, so we went out to some quite tracks near Fox House. As he was going round a bend he lost control and left the road, going over heather and rocks for about 50 yards. When we had stopped and got out to walk off the shock we retraced the route of the car which was clearly marked in the heather. The odd thing was that while there was no break in the tracks, meaning that the car had never left the ground, about 20ft back was a very large boulder squarly between the tracks and about 18" high. Doesn't sound a lot - but was a lot higher than the clearance on the car and we should have hit it, and at the speed he was driving it would have done a great deal of damage. However, there wasn't a scratch on the car. On another occassion myself, my flatmate and 2 others went to Bakewell. On the way home we were all chatting and pretty rowdy when the 2 in the back suddenly went quiet. I noticed that my rear view mirror was tilted up but as I was used to this just reset it without thinking. They said they were just tired so we dropped them off home. About a week later when we met up again they asked me if anything 'funny' was wrong with the car, when I pressed them they said that while we were driving home they both watched the mirror tilt up very slowly of it's own accord and felt someone sat between them. They had been trying for the last week to convince themselves that it didn't happen until they eventually told me. After this had been going on for about 6 months I had 3 people, independently and on different occassions, say that when I was driving off they could see someone sat behind me. One got a good luck and described him - a "fat, balding man who was laughing back at him" I had never, and didn't ever, see anyone in the car, so as a check I took the person a selection of photographs - some uncles, my dad and some non-related people, all alive, who could all be described as 'fat and balding' - he picked out my dad first time - the only one who was dead, and who, when alive, was known for his sense of humour and for doing practical jokes. Was dad looking out for me when I was a rookie driver? I got rid of the car after 8 months and have never experienced anything like this in any other car. However, Dad did make an appearance at the first house I lived in after leaving home, but that's another story...

I used to be open-minded not believing one way or the other, until I hit my late teens and then starting seeing and hearing stuf all over the place. Every house I have lived in has had either objects moving, voices or people. Also people around me have seen the same things that they've only mentioned later, and not because I have told them anything. My sister is 10 years older than me so we never really talked when I was young. However in my late 20s the conversation turned to wierd stuff and when I jokingly said I thought I saw my dad at his funeral she admitted she had to, in the same place at the same time. When I lived at home I would hear noises in my bedroom at night and things would get moved around. My mother is also convinced that when she is alone she can hear someone walking around in my old room and the sound of breathing. When I got my first car my friends mentioned they kept seeing someone sat in the back behind me. 2 seperate people described the person, which was a perfect description of my dad even though he had died 3 years before I'd even met these people at college. Years later I went to a medium who straight off said that not only was my dad was with me, but another old woman who she named and described. She also said my dad goes back to visit my mum and that is who she can hear in the house. Again, it was only a few years ago when I started tracing my family tree that I found an old photo of the woman the medium descibed, inlcuding getting the right name, who is my father's grandma who died in 1932. It's not a name that could be guessed and different to mine. I also found out from my sister that I had an imaginary friend. My son, who is 3 1/2, sits in his room talking to someone else - he is not just 'talking', it is like listening to one side of a phone conversation. When he was a baby he would also stare at one spot in the living room and laugh to himself. I lived in an old shared house when I left home that creeps me out even when I think about it now because of the 'poltergeist' activity and old lady who popped up behind you - things that were witnessed by numerous people over the 6 months I lived there. I've had other experiences at boyfriend's houses and there are some buildings I go into and immediately need to get out. I did A level psychology, and whilst I do not rule out it being all the in mind there are numerous occassions when several people have seen or heard the same things at the same time, and without having prior knowledge. At the end of the day, explaining to electricity or tv/radio waves to someone a few hundred years ago would have seemed impossible so I just remain open-minded and think that some day we may get an answer!