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My sister has a cat with a leg missing due to a fox, so conflict is possible. However I'd say the chances of anything like that happening are very small, so I wouldn't worry about it. We have foxes and cubs in the fields by us

I don't think servicemen should be immune. Being a soldier doesn't give you carte blanche to murder and I don't think the passage of time makes any difference. I think this is a populist move on his part.

I wouldn't be able to as I use the tram to get to work - no dogs allowed on the tram!!

If I'm going to be charged for the toilet (which I don't actually mind if they're well kept and clean), I'd MUCH rather it was a card payment. I always have my card, but practically never have any coins. Less fiddly to wave a card than put coins in to a machine that'll spit them back out half the time as well!

Surely autism rates have increased due to better diagnosis. I remember my mum telling me about some great uncle (or some other old relative) who was, in hindsight, very clearly autistic. Apparently he was just like Rain Man, but back then people generally didn't have a clue about autism so he was just accepted as being 'odd'. As I understand it, vaccinations occur children around the same time that autism starts to be able to be diagnosed which is why some people mistake it as the cause. In answer to the question at the start of the thread, I'm definitely pro vaccination but I'm also slightly uncomfortable with the idea of compulsory vaccination. I think other avenues to increase rates should be pursued first.

We were away over Easter week an had our dog walker in to see to our cats. He was excellent as usual - my tom cat had been out and had a fight so the dog walker took him to the vet for us, administered medication for the rest of the week and doubled his visits from once to twice a day to make sure all was ok. Anyone needs details for a reliable, trustworthy person (NW Shef), let me know!

I've got two nest boxes, both used (blue tits), two well frequented feeding areas with multiple species, and at least two other nests (long tailed tit and wren) in my garden.... and two cats! Yes they have occasionally brought down a bird but that's life. They also kill rats, mice and rabbits. The RSPB's stance seems very balanced and sensible to me. The real problem is habitat loss. Moaning about a predator killing likely weak/sickly prey whilst sitting in your lovely new estate house built all over an area where lapwings used to breed and now can't (this example based on a real planning application that's trying to go through now) seems a bit daft, imo.

I had brilliant success using nematoad worms last year. You can buy them from Amazon amongst other places. Just mix the powder up with water and spray it over your soil. Before doing this everything I planted was eaten instantly, after everything was fine!

Just remembered another one! Ip dip dip my blue ship sailing on the water like a cup and saucer you are not it!

Was always a tiger for us as kids and I'm 34 now so it's presumably been thus for quite some time! It was actually only relatively recently I heard that the original version was, errrm, somewhat different.

eeney meany miney mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if it squeals let it go, eeney meany miney mo!

What a horrible situation, I hope you manage to get your costs covered at the very least from this awful person! It beggars belief that someone could dice with pets lives like that. I had a bad experience with a Barnsley based dog home boarder once. Our dog sadly got attacked by another dog just before our holiday, and so had staples in her leg. We contacted the boarder and asked if she could still be accommodated as she would need 24/7 supervision. We were ready to cancel our holiday but she assured us this was no problem. A few days later we got a call from our friend who was down as an emergency contact saying he was taking her to the vets as she'd been left to pull every single staple out of her leg! Luckily the friend kept her the rest of the week, but she was left with a large scar and we'd paid for care we hadn't received. The woman hadn't even had the decency to call us and apologise herself!To be honest we wrote the money off - we were too upset at the time to pursue this woman for it. Now our dog stays with our friend if we go away without her, we're very lucky. On the other hand we have a dog walker who comes to let our dog out if we're both out for the day, as well as feeding/cleaning for our cats if we're on holiday and he's spot on - totally trustworthy and reliable. Used him for years and years now. Mark from Impawtant Friends if anyone needs a recommendation for someone good

Thanks for the replies everyone. Unfortunately there were literally only seats available up at the back of the balcony, and I was thinking of taking my parents, who are in their 70s, and my partner, who is 6'2. I've decided not to bother, we'll check out what's on at the cinema instead and pay the little extra for the nice seats, still be loads cheaper than the theatre!

Quick question about seating in the lyceum theatre, are the balcony seats worth it? I'm a bit put off buying expensive tickets when I'm being warned about a restricted view and legroom!

Do you have contact details please? I'm finding my usual supplier very expensive at the moment

Yes almost certainly, not because I'd think 'I want to buy a hybrid now' but because I think hybrid will become the norm eventually.

I think that's the one at the junction of Cockshutts/Horsecroft? If so I think it's to raise money for the local guides/scouts. Sometimes there's other things in there such as plants, with an honesty box. From memory there's something similar at Green Moor.

Ahh I was thinking under patio/gravel you'd have weed matting but yeah I guess without that you could still move it about easily enough. I have stepping stones across the lawn past our line anyway as I have to cross the lawn to get to my washing machine, which isn't much fun through winter!! We have to have a lawn anyway as our dog won't pee on anything hard at all and much prefers grass, she's a bit odd

Yeah I meant leave a space for washing, we have a large rotary drier and I personally think lawn under is more attractive than paving or whatever. Also easy enough to move it if you want, just dig a new hole, fill in the old one and let the grass grow over.

For children/pets to play on, for sitting/laying out on a blanket, somewhere to put up a washing line They're good for wildlife as well, lots of worms/insects that are accessible for blackbirds as an example.

I'm going to start planting seeds soon, starting with peppers ASAP! I tried growing them last year (first year of growing anything at all) and I think I started them too late as they weren't very successful. Fingers crossed for better luck this year!

Yes we've been with Pine for just over a year now, although we're in S35. We use them as it's basically our only option, the speeds we could get via the landline are not worth bothering with. They are pretty good I think. We had a few teething troubles as we were one of the first customers to use a new implementation of theirs, but they were ok at sorting it out and we had a lot of contact with the head guy (forgotten his name now), although did need a bit of prodding some times! I'd say having to contact a local bloke is better than ending up in Indian call centre hell, any day. Things have been stable for a long while now with no issues and decent speeds. We also don't bother with a landline and just use mobiles. You need to have a small dish installed on the outside of your house (there was a charge for this, I think it was somewhere around £100/£150 from memory) and you need to have line of sight with one of their installations to be able to use it.

In decades to come they'll have more than enough horrible selfies all over instagram and wherever to look back on and thing 'oh god why!' At least when I went through a goth phase, selfies and facebook weren't a thing so I can quietly forget about it!

What a stupid question. If you can afford to feed and insure a dog, then why not just put that amount of money aside for a few months and pay the rescue fee with it? No one (no one with any sense anyway) is going to randomly give you a free dog.

There will probably be loads of litters of kittens available in the shelters soon enough. They might not appear on websites as they'll get homed quickly. Why not phone a few and see if you can register your interest and get a call back when kittens come in? I got my two as kittens (they're 10 now!) from the Sheffield Cats Shelter, they had loads to choose from in the summer months. The fee included microchipping, neutering etc so it worked out much cheaper than getting a kitten from some random person. Would definitely recommend!