CPR Dave

These are the smokeless fuels you can burn on a open fireplace in Southwark: https://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/fuels-php/england/ https://www.southwark.gov.uk/planning-environment-and-building-control/environment/air-quality/reduce-air-pollution/reduce-smoke

The lower / no bang noise fireworks sound great. Is there anywhere local selling those?

What a bunch of ignorant nimbies. Their own tweet conspicuously ignores the actual content of their own article FFS. Immediately after the incorrect paragraph quoted about it being unlawful to burn coal wood etc they sit out the actual position: "However, the use of authorised smokeless fuels in an open fireplace is allowed, as well as burning smoke-generating fuels in an approved stove or burner." leaving that out is as thick as flying into the amazon rainforest on a private jet to attend Cop 31 thus week.

Are there any other executors? Is the solicitor a soke practioner or part of a firm? Are you and your fellow beneficiaries behaving well? You will want to take proper legal advice (which this is not) but you can have an executor removed by the court if they are refusing to communicate with you. I would just do that. Tell him you are doing it, tell him you have reported him to the Law Society (if you have) and tell him you will be challenging his fees with the legal services ombudsman. This all sounds outrageous to me and this solicitor doesn't sound fit to practice. Three years sounds far too long for a low value estate comprising mostly of a house. He should have sold that or rented it out whilst he was waiting to administer the estate. Sounds like he has cost you all a lot of money.

I've actually met Luke Johnson and he's actually a very amicable, witty and extremely clever man. He's also created thousands of jobs and generated millions and millions of pounds of tax revenue for the government, offering goods and hospitality that countless millions of people have enjoyed over the decades. I'm not a fan of Gail's but I'm also not a fan of people who knock down good guys that have contributed a huge amount to this country. Anyway, French Patisseries and southern hemisphere coffee don't belong on Farmer's markets.

Probably will be mandatory once Digital ID comes in. They can then use the cameras on the tills too to bring all sorts of other useful ancillary controls, such as limiting how much alcohol you buy each week, or monitoring and limiting the carbon footprint of the food you buy (some foods now are already showing the CO2 emissions consumed in producing them).

What a great story. I love Monkatsu.

Well done Sue and all attendees. There can be a bit if back and forth on here but it's nice to know that you can all meet up in real life and have a good time together.

The people supporting Hamas today are the ones who need to take a look at themselves.

It's a strange kind of genocide when the civilian population actually increases.

There was long term peace on 6 October 2023.

If this Tesco drives the final nail in the coffin of the co op, Waitrose might fill that space. I doubt they would do it in the current economic climate though. It’s a terrible time to be opening a business and it’s only going to worse when the November budget hammers the economy even more.

Not less than four months ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98wjzj4jlpo

Excel hosts fairs for various businesses selling all sorts of things week in, week out. For example, next week it is "Salon Interntional". No doubt there will be UK businesses exhibiting there who donate tax receipts to the UK government from sales of shampoo to people who live in Israel. Does that cause you outrage?

They aren't really relevant. This protest is purportedly against our government's involvement arming Israel. Our government doesn't sellweapons and Israel is no longer at war with Hamas. So the protest is pointless. The only reason to attend now is to intimidate / antagonise / express hatred towards Jews.