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Commiserations, hope you feel a lot better soon. Nasty things going around, it seems, it's an absolute pain when you can't do anything.

Did you phone the actual noise control number? I posted a screenshot of it above on the thread somewhere. If so, they have given you totally wrong information, unless they have recently changed their policy on firework noise. You could complain to the council directly and/or ask your councillor to take it up with them? I was also disturbed by very loud firework noise earlier tonight, and it's over three weeks since 5 November. It is really not acceptable. It was still loud through triple glazing in my bedroom. Poor animals.

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Tom Stoppard. R.I. P. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/29/tom-stoppard-a-brilliant-dramatist-who-always-raised-the-temperature-of-the-room?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

No itching, but I'm still effing laid up in bed. Tenth day. Have deleted the rest of my feeling-sorry-for-myself post. Apologies to anyone who already read it. I am just a pathetic wimp.

Does it wave back? Shouldn't that be U OK Hun?

There have been people fairly recently killed by having apparently healthy trees in parks fall on them. The council tree people like trees. They don't remove trees without a very good reason. To talk about "mutilating the neighbourhood" and "reckless unconcern for the law" seems a bit harsh when you don't know the background. Why don't you find out why these trees have been/will be removed ? It's quite easy. A phone call will probably tell you:

I was just reading a load of lovely posts on Facebook from people saying they were happy to pay more tax if it went towards things like taking more children out of poverty. Heartwarming.

Thank you, Malumbu. I was going to say something similar, but I didn't have the figures.

I think there must have been some changes there. I've always found the reception staff very friendly and helpful, with the exception of one person who I thought had left some time ago. But I've just spoken to someone who sounded very bored, interrupted me and spoke over me as I was trying to ask a question, and was really quite the opposite of helpful. Not great when you are feeling ill. I wonder what training they get, if any.

It always amazes me how unwilling people are to pay tax. On anything. We have an amazing free at the point of use health service. We have other free at the point of use public services. Why should we not pay tax? Where else would the money come from? The Tories promised to reduce income tax (and subsequently did) in order to get elected. It was all downhill from there, in my opinion. Not that I know much about either economics or politics, so do feel free to explain to me the errors in my thinking. Re people living in big houses after their life situation changes, that saying about criticism and walking in someone else's moccasins springs to mind. At least, it would if I could remember exactly what it was 🤣

I went to a girls' public day school in the fifties and sixties. The first school rule was "courtesy and consideration to others are expected at all times". There was quite a high number of Jewish girls, both in the junior and senior school. I don't recall a single incident of anti-Semitism. Is this something confined to boys' schools, or was my school unusual?

"Squander"? "Capricious folly"?

According to that previous thread, there won't be any Christmas tree sellers on Goose Green this year, as the council agreed not to allow it again.

I don't remember that at all! But then my memory is crap these days. Maybe it was the same people who sell trees outside the EDT, if it was at that end of Goose Green? Was it an "official" Winter Wonderland?