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DirtyBox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I didn't think this forum could get more middle > class.....I was wrong I don't think eating croissants is a sign of being middle class when you can buy them at Lidl, Aldi and every petrol station convenience store.

I got a really nice Zara shirt in perfect condition for peanuts in there recently.

Well said mate Now if you can just PM me your address I'll be around tomorrow morning to practice my latest musical tribute to London outside your bedroom window. It's called "WorldCityLife" and features me on bagpipes, 25 steel drummers, a Tuvan throat singer and a pair of duelling didgeridoos. You're gonna love it!

A lot of outraged people who apparently don't own coffee shops, don't say anything to coffee shop workers and don't say anything to the people outraging them...

thehomme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw that this morning. What's going on... is it > legal and who has the right to move them on? I'd imagine they're travellers, the cops have decided it's a civil matter and none of their business (and tbf that's usually accurate at law), and somewhere a landlord is trying to get a court order to regain possession of the land.

They were around earlier in the week too. Interestingly (!) they seem to have clamped one old shed for having no tax, then come back, removed the DVLA clamp, and allowed the council to stick one of its "abandoned car, will be removed in 14 days" stickers on it

Ratty: do you have any links on that? I'm supposed to be doing something in electricity in a similar vein soon. Cheers

The one in the Village next to the stocks was a Jet service station. Petrol stations closed because the margins on fuel retail are minimal - ISTR it was about 1p per litre at some point. And consumers are so price-obsessed - I can't think of any other commodity about which people care about price right down to a tenth of a penny! The petrol stations that survive now do so are really just convenience stores - the petrol is just a way to get people through the doors.