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Great gig, great sets from Erin and Phil too. Thanks to the enthusiastic audience! Our November concert with Andy Irvine is sold out, but WeGotTickets is running a waiting list.

£30-40 for M&S Christmas food for two seems very low! And only £60 for food and drink for 8-10 people? We have had M&S food at Christmas in the past, and it came to a lot more than that. I suppose it depends exactly what you are buying. We left it late to book a Christmas Day meal out last year, so there weren't many options left. The Cherry Tree menu looked very nice. That was our first mistake. We also overlooked the fact that it was a Young's pub, with all that implies about the food. That was our second mistake. We don't have shedloads of money. We took the view that we deserved a nice meal out after working bloody hard all year. So it was doubly disappointing to basically waste a lot of money which could have been very much better spent elsewhere.

Welcome back. What have voting intentions got to do with this thread? And much as you may hate the present incarnation of so-called Labour, as do I, I don't think it is true that they have "not done a single positive thing for working class people", is it? And how exactly are you defining "working class people", anyway?

It is just a witch hunt. The estate agent has taken responsibility. FFS leave the poor woman alone. ETA: And please stop calling her Rachel. You don't call Starmer Keir.

I stand by what I said. There are rules, and Southwark is perfectly entitled to enforce those rules, regardless of what anybody else does. If it "makes money" from the fines, that might be a useful by product for it, but that is completely irrelevant. If people break a rule, they can't complain if they then suffer the consequences. If there were extenuating circumstances (like going into a bus lane to avoid hitting a pedestrian who suddenly ran across the road) then that's different, but that must be extremely rare.

Thanks, I just generally prefer to read things than watch videos, but it's not important enough to ask the cathedral.

Does it still contain a working phone? If not, no reason to be there. If so, does anybody ever use it? If not, no reason to be there. But some people (eg homeless people) may not have a mobile and might need access to a phone in an emergency if there was nobody else around? I can't think of any other reason. Maybe Oru can shed some light? Or BT, if that still exists?

Is there a transcript of this?

The thing is, who cares?

I don't understand this. Either a driver is in a bus lane or they aren't. If you are in a bus lane you are liable to get fined. I've had a fine myself. I was in an unfamiliar area and obviously wasn't deliberately in a bus lane, but that's absolutely no excuse. I don't believe Southwark is "chasing down every possible opportunity to find the driver whatever the apparent motivation." It's a bit like saying you should let a thief off because they were a bit short of money.

Tonight!!!

Years ago I had a sparrowhawk in my very small garden. I heard a terrible noise, looked out of the window and saw a starling being held down. I went out, and the sparrowhawk flew off with the starling 😥 I used to get loads of starlings in my garden, and after that incident not one of them ever came back.

When did today start? Midnight? I'm not aware of having "reacted" any more than usual! I've never had this message before! I don't count! I never knew this limit existed! I blame the short days! Too much darkness! Too much opportunity to scroll aimlessly on my mobile!

Something to do with the press, perhaps?