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by chrisj1948
20 Feb 2013 14:24
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: photographs of foxes
Replies: 5
Views: 4657

Re: photographs of foxes

I sent the OP some prime pictures taken by the Foxcam in our back garden. I have just been to ask Foxcam how it feels about images it has taken being available without remuneration.

It did not deign to respond.

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
9 Feb 2013 08:42
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: 5 year anniversary
Replies: 30
Views: 17044

Re: 5 year anniversary

Jarrow, Welwyn Garden City, Jarrow, Perivale, Ealing, Manchester, Croydon, Salisbury, Nyköping, Stockholm, Chigwell and finally, from Feb 2007, Sydenham.

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
29 Jan 2013 19:50
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: 20mph zone proposed for 'Thorpes' area of Sydenham
Replies: 20
Views: 12763

Re: 20mph zone proposed for 'Thorpes' area of Sydenham

If we leave aside Bishopsthorpe for a moment, and assume that speeds are now reduced on Queensthorpe, we find that 'the problem' is people driving an average of 22mph on Earlsthorpe and Dukesthorpe. Is it right to criminalise these people driving 2mph faster than the proposed speed limit? I think s...
by chrisj1948
1 Jan 2013 13:37
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Happy 20 13 to all.
Replies: 14
Views: 7782

Re: Happy 20 13 to all.

Eagle wrote:Where does CE come from. I call in AD, as I assumed was correct, I assume you have made a mistake.
Common Era. To avoid offending the sensibilities of non-Christian folk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
21 Nov 2012 14:12
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: SYDENHAM ON WIKIPEDIA
Replies: 6
Views: 3227

Re: SYDENHAM ON WIKIPEDIA

If so, I've been trying for ages to get the blogs for Home Park, Mayor Park and Sydenham Library added to them. whenever I put them on there, some bugger removes them. Your latest effort was reverted by XLinkBot, which does not like links to blogging sites. No idea why it may work for some people; ...
by chrisj1948
12 Nov 2012 18:15
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Fouling dogs
Replies: 41
Views: 20466

Re: Fouling dogs

Yes there is Chris, its because people put it into other people's bins! Thanks, Annie! I had a small bet with myself that you would respond thus. I think I was a comedy duo straight man in a previous incarnation. Personally I would always carry the bag of excrement home with me, but then I spent a ...
by chrisj1948
12 Nov 2012 18:05
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Fouling dogs
Replies: 41
Views: 20466

Re: Fouling dogs

Incidentally, although as an aged codger fixated on the good old days I hate to have to say it, there is a lot less dogshit around on the pavements now than when I was a lad.

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
19 Oct 2012 07:24
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Freeview reception problems last night?
Replies: 7
Views: 6610

Re: Freeview reception problems last night?

Changed channel allocation on Freeview does not affect the quality of a received channel. Was it raining at the time? I find bad weather can have a negative effect on the signal strength for some channels.

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
4 Oct 2012 21:01
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Two tone lifts
Replies: 7
Views: 3876

Re: Two tone lifts

Tim, lifts that go ping are out, speaking ones are in. I guess that means that lifts in local authority buildings will have to make the announcement in seventeen different languages, including Urdu and Punjabi. It would at least encourage people in a hurry to use the stairs :twisted: Regards Chris
by chrisj1948
4 Oct 2012 15:47
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Two tone lifts
Replies: 7
Views: 3876

Re: Two tone lifts

Would this work if you only heard one ping? What would your context be for knowing it was higher or lower? No, what you need is three notes, either rising or falling. That was what occurred to me as I read Tim's suggestion. I thought of a two note sequence but your triple would be much better! Rega...
by chrisj1948
4 Oct 2012 08:55
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: The two half's is under offer
Replies: 39
Views: 20414

Re: The two half's is under offer

When I walked past on Monday evening they seemed to be having a great time...one was having a p1ss against the wall, a woman (in the loosest sense of the term) was smoking a spliff, tattooed face man (Spider is his name apparently) was having an argument with another gentlemen, while another was sh...
by chrisj1948
2 Oct 2012 14:17
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: BT super-fast broadband, Sydenham gets a look in
Replies: 19
Views: 11155

Re: BT super-fast broadband, Sydenham gets a look in

Sydenham definitely has fibre-to-cabinet broadband now, because I was switched to BT Infinity an hour ago. Up and download are now about twenty times faster than before. Happy Bunny!

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
27 Sep 2012 07:56
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Penge Homebase parking scam
Replies: 6
Views: 8141

Re: Penge Homebase parking scam

My wife rang the shop manager who wanted me to go to the shop so CCTV could auto recognise me and they could find me on their tapes. Why should I be made to go to the shop, have my mug shot taken like a criminal to prove I didn't park outside their time limit. Intriguing. I would have guessed they ...
by chrisj1948
26 Sep 2012 16:10
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Housing Fraud in Lewisham
Replies: 25
Views: 24243

Re: Housing Fraud in Lewisham

Admin

Thanks for posting the Anne Anderson illustration. It really took me back to the pictures in the books I used to read at my grandparents house an awfully long time ago!

Regards
Chris

PS The Beast is probably the safer choice.
by chrisj1948
26 Sep 2012 09:59
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Can anyone format a text for Kindle?
Replies: 4
Views: 3038

Re: Can anyone format a text for Kindle?

I think all Kindles can use the mobi format. The following link allows free online conversion of text to mobi:

http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-mobi

I have not tried it myself. My Kindle 3 can also read PDFs.

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
13 Sep 2012 16:04
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Cobbs Corner Roundabout
Replies: 61
Views: 33848

Re: Cobbs Corner Roundabout

I just hope that the up and down ramps are sufficiently gentle that you don't ruin your suspension going over at a perfectly legal 30mph. From memory of the first exhibition concerning the improvements, which was a while ago now. The pedestrian crossings are intended to be stepless (for pedestrians...
by chrisj1948
13 Sep 2012 08:33
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Cobbs Corner Roundabout
Replies: 61
Views: 33848

Re: Cobbs Corner Roundabout

Excuse my ignorance but not clear from the plans whether there is at last a crossing or lights to aid pedestrians crossing Newlands Park. This is a very difficult place top cross. They have started marking up for the crossing there. The plans state that: Signal junction completely redsigned to incu...
by chrisj1948
12 Sep 2012 13:31
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Newlands Park excitement
Replies: 3
Views: 2002

Re: Newlands Park excitement

Tim Lund wrote: One way you can detect a mathematician is by this spelling mistake:D
:oops: A spelling indiscretion :wink:

Regards
Chris
by chrisj1948
12 Sep 2012 13:19
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Newlands Park excitement
Replies: 3
Views: 2002

Newlands Park excitement

At about 07:45 today there was a smell of burning, and by 08:15 there were three enormous ambulances and some police cars congregating at the Homecroft Road junction. They stopped our younger daughter getting her car out for work; something she seemed not unhappy about ;-) About midday I had a discr...