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I've looked up previous media coverage and gather that the school warned pupils of the risk of police 'fines' for assembly under the extant Covid regulations. Don't you think they might have felt it a duty, to both pupils and parents, to do so?

I'm glad that Barry's have posted. Their mention of the merger soon led me to (a) bushy-tailed PR guff about the new member joining the inpost 'family' and promising a bright happy world of lockers etc ahead. and (b) clear signs that the same problems related here seem to have been current and widespread even three months ago. That's just from looking at one thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/vinted/comments/1nlv3u2/yodelinpost_merger_issues/

How much space was available there, and how does it compare with what they have at Highshore Road? Are RM Parcels also having local difficulties with the size of the Christmas parcel stream?

An example or two would I think help.

Farage, like most of its pupils, wasn't a boarder.

The minutes of the licensing sub-committee meeting of 24 July are at https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/g8329/Printed minutes Thursday 24-Jul-2025 10.00 Licensing Sub-Committee.pdf?T=1. The application was granted. Incidentally, the attached covering letter of 7 May does name Tesco as the applicant in all three of the planning applications I listed above in my 30 October post. 25_AP_1351-COVERING_LETTER-4061593.docx

> Was the penguin there? I like the penguin. I like the way he clacks his beak No, none of the others. Peregrine was in fact the only one I had time for. Maybe something about him of a proto-Victor Meldrew, or maybe a hint of Gilbert Harding? The only other one of whom I remember anything is the iirc rather tiresome Katy the Kangaroo. The Annette Mills WikiP article I found interesting. If you branch out from there you may eventually get to the 'official site' https://www.muffinthemule.co . Your browser might provide a small frisson if you take the necessary Advanced entry route to the latter, with warnings of possible danger if you proceed further. In fact apparently nothing more than an expired certificate.

Indeed. Evening News & Star 21 May 1965:

"High Value Council Tax Surcharge – The government will introduce the High Value Council Tax Surcharge a new charge on owners of residential property in England worth £2 million or more, starting in 2028-29. Local authorities will collect this revenue on behalf of central government. Revenue will be used to support funding for local government services, with further detail to be set out at the next spending review. The government will consult on implementation of HVCTS in the new year." https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2025-document/budget-2025-html#policy-decisions, which shows (Section 5.1, item 54) a projected revenue of £400m in the first year.

Very well. I have too an even dimmer memory of being made to represent the 'Muffin Man' in some kind of engineered entertainment at infant school. Afair, my role was to remain hidden - even then, my preternatural talent for remaining still and quiet had been recognised - behind a circle of my colleagues, who sang the song. At some stage in the proceedings the circle opened, to reveal me, with what I presume would have been my tray of muffins. God knows what they were. From that production it was an obvious natural progression to my most notable appearance, in another class production: 'the guy' (as in 'Penny for the ...').

I have met Muffin, and his keeper. Was in fact on stage with them, in Wimbledon. I remember being perturbed by the amount of powder on his keeper's face, and the possible damage that might be done to the grand piano's gleaming polished surface by his prancing about on top of it. My reward for the appearance, afair, was a book or two, and a jam tart.

The Wayback machine https://web.archive.org/ picked it up on 2 October.

A website operator does have a defence available to them personally, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26/section/5, against a complaint of a defamation posted by someone else on their website. They're required to deal with the alleged defamation by acting in accordance with the regulations at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111104620/pdfs/ukdsi_9780111104620_en.pdf. There's an Explanatory Note at the end of the regulations, that provides a plainer language summary of them.

>> As in the famous Monty Perl sketch? > That rings no bells! Do you have a link? D'oh!. Sorry. So many programming languages... > Did you mean Monty Python? [.....] That's the fellow! 🙂 Same mode perhaps, but a different commodity. https://www.google.com/search?q=python+spam

I suspect NewWave may be thinking of Honor Oak Park rather than Crofton. That's the route I used to take when walking to East Forest Hill. If you're starting from near SE23 I don't in my old A-Z see any non-A205 route crossing the railway line other than HOP. I'd then fairly soon turn east from Brockley Rise and try cutting across Blythe Hill Fields, which seems directly en route.