2010/1/6 Oaklegs <lcpmhall@...>:
> Having just borrowed a DVD with 7 shows from 'Only fools and Horses' on it I
am inclined to agree with you.

I'm afraid you're wrong there - it is sporadically on cable and
satellite channel 'UKTV'.

The ABC (Australia's equivalent to the BBC) sells DVDs of it through
their ABC Shop retail arm, suggesting that it has been shown by the
ABC at some point.

> This show has not been shown in Australia and I personally think it is
hiarious. However it would probably have to be sub-titled for the majority to
understand it.

That's stretching it a bit given the amount of British programming
currently on the ABC and the general familiarity of British accents -
even regional ones - to the Australian populace. Considering that
things like Brookside weren't subtitled when it was shown in
Australia, I can't see the need to subtitle OF&H.

Jason.

Having just borrowed a DVD with 7 shows from 'Only fools and Horses' on it I am
inclined to agree with you.
This show has not been shown in Australia and I personally think it is hiarious.
However it would probably have to be sub-titled for the majority to understand
it.

  I think people confuse Walthamstow/Essex with Cockney. As speaking standards on
both Radio and TV have declined, it must be difficult for youngsters to learn
English as they only get to hear the Queen maybe once a year.
The Queen's English is very beautiful to listen to.

your wish is granted try this link Mwa Lass

http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/geordie-translator.asp  

> Hmmm - I am an Essex girl living in Walthamstow WITH a Northerner....I need one to translate HIM. Anyone got one for Boro boys? (Or Geordies, which he gets SO upset that I call him for some peculiar reason)

This came to me from a branch of Essex Social Services! 

This is an invaluable guide......for those of you that are planning to venture into darkest depths of Essex  . 

alma chizzit - A request to find the cost of an item 

amant - Quantity; sum total ("Thez a yuge amant of mud in Saffend") 

assband - Unable to leave the house because of illness, disability etc 

awss - A four legged animal, on which money is won, or more likely lost ("That awss ya tipped cost me a fiver t'day") 

branna - More brown than on a previous occasion ("Ere, Trace, ya look branna today, ave you been on sunbed?") 

cort a panda - A rather large hamburger 

Dan in the maff - Unhappy ("Wossmatta, Trace, ya look a bit Dan in the maff") 

eye-eels - Women's shoes 

Furrock - The location of Lakeside Shopping Centre 

garrij - A building where a car is kept or repaired(Trace: "Oi, Darren, I fink the motah needs at go in the garrij cos it aint working proper") 

Ibeefa - Balaeric holiday island 

lafarjik - Lacking in energy ("I feel all lafarjik") 

OI OI! - Traditional greeting. Often heard from the doorway of pubs or during banging dance tunes at clubs 

paipa - The Sun, The Mirror or The Sport 

reband - The period of recovery and emotional turmoil after rejection by a lover ("I couldn't elp it, I wuz on the reband from Craig") 

Saffend - Essex coastal resort boasting the longest pleasure pier in the world. The place where the characters from TV's, popular soap opera, Eastenders go on holiday 

tan - The city of  London  , the big smoke 

webbats - Querying the location something or someone is. ("Webbats is me dole card Trace? I've gotta sign on in arf hour") 

wonnid - 1. Desired, needed. 2. Wanted by the police 

zaggerate - To suggest that something is bigger or better than it actually is. ("I told ya a fazzand times already") 

Has anyone else taken a good look at the claims made on the council website. It
is astonishing in that it claims to be taking precautions on main roads - Route
Plan on pdf, and also Hilly Routes another pdf (which I provide below)

Here that is.  http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/beta/hilly_beat.pdf

Note it is encrypted which means you can't print it or edit it. But you can
still read it and study it in depth and make notes. Then you could contact your
local councillors to ask why it gives false information about how accurate it
is. Why not also cntact the CEO Andrew Kilburn, as he seems to be on our(public)
side and is very concerned about wrong-doing in the corridors of power.


You can however, download a full list of the council's Grit Bin locations. Mind
you they ASK US to tell THEM when they need re-filling. Makes you wonder what on
earth the highway enforcement officers - on 25-35k per annum do to earn that
salary?

After the recent fiasco which proved this gritting plan WAS NOT undertaken - I
personally witnessed buses skidding all over the place across Hoe Street bridge
(Hill Gritting claimed by council map!), local residential roads Hurst
Road,Aubrey Road,Tower Hamlets Road also are claimed to be on the Hill Gritting
route!

Funny enough the Selborne Walk Mall piazza area seemed to get a truck load when
none of the hilly roads got any.  Is this a fault of lack of supervision or are
managers' scared of the union?

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Simon Snell <shsnell@...> wrote:

> ...just how do the artic truckloads get from the A406 into Hale End Road?
>
>
> There is a link from the Billet roundabout along the old north circular road
> (Wadham Rd)

I doubt if there would be room for an 'artic', the parked cars and two-way
traffic along that section of humped road. I wonder if they're thinking of
using the route via the A104 and Oak Hill to get to Hale End Road?

John L.

Not sure where it went but I was mid way through telling you about Anne Mustoe
(round the world cyclist)when it dissapeared.

Anyway the old girl passed away in Syria and the Telegraph group posted an
obituary and our Daily paper 'The West Australian' published it today.

Very inspiring and as I am a keen cyclist it caught my eye.

I wonder how many others have noticed the impossible route description in the
assorted plans?
Surprisingly it didn't get any comment from the Chair or Vice-Chair of the
Transport Liasion Committee: Midge Broadley & Bob Wheatley.
Appendix B, Part 26 states: "Service Vehicle Routeing is  A406, Hale End Road is
the assigned route for service vehicles to the site. Swept path analysis shows
service vehicles will not encounter difficulties in Hale End Road despite recent
traffic-calming".

Since this particular route doesn't join up; ie there is no link between A406 &
Hale End Road, just how do the artic truckloads get from the A406 into Hale End
Road? Are they more likely to come off the A406 at Waterworks and use Forest
Road to Hale End Road? Mind you they would have one hell of a job negotiating
the pinch-point climbing the Hale End Road bridge over the A406. Perhaps council
are going to remove the traffic island?
This is of essential interest to all the local community, particularly the
parents of children to Thorpe Hall School.

--- In walthamstow@yahoogroups.com, "keith122275" <kefo.44@...> wrote:
>
> I checked out 2 near me, Kenilworth Avenue/Forest Road and the Town
Hall(lefthand side of main building) on 27th: both empty. The Town Hall one was
totally clean as if brand new! with no traces there had been any in it
whatsoever. The other bore evidence it had had some.
>


I have had a similar complaint from my relies in West Sussex and apparently the
reason there is that they simply don't have enough money to see that the bins
are full and in fact used.

Would you consider paying a higher rate to get more things done?

It is a bit like housekeeping really and sometimes there isn't enough money to
provide luxuries.

I checked out 2 near me, Kenilworth Avenue/Forest Road and the Town
Hall(lefthand side of main building) on 27th: both empty. The Town Hall one was
totally clean as if brand new! with no traces there had been any in it
whatsoever. The other bore evidence it had had some.

Ah! those photos brought back some wonderful memories of Epping Forest but alas
I had to do some research to find Jack Hill which was ok as it stirred up my
memory.
I do recall Claypitts and Lippits hill from my bicycle racing days as we used
that pair of gradients for competition rides.

Londoners are so lucky to still have Epping Forest and such icons as Queen
Elizabeths hunting lodge and The Owl Inn to visit, is the 'Water Otter' still
there in that tank waiting to catch the unwary?

I even saw a small herd of deer crossing the A11 road, once near the Robin Hood
roundabout. It was a bit like the kangaroos we have here and just as hazarddous
so take care at night as I am sure they are still around.

And to Norma, yes we can and do often get UK TV programmes in Perth and during
the non rating period they are the only stuff worth switching on for.

The separated twins was a event that was well publiced here and over there too
it seems and quite rightly too as the medical team performed a minor miracle so
they say.

I have just had my first hard bike ride since my own surgery last october and
although not as enjoyable as riding through Epping forest it is still rural
where I live but one has to get out early to avoid the heat as it gets hot
rather quickly, Monday is going to be 40 degrees C. we are told.

--- In walthamstow@yahoogroups.com, "John" <john@...> wrote:

And a happy Christmas from me, too. I've put a few photos of the Forest in the
snow in the photos section of this group. They were taken in February of this
year, and not during the recent snow.
Perhaps someone could send a photo of a bit of Epping Forest-in-the-snow to this
Midlands Exile please?

And a happy Christmas from me, too. I've put a few photos of the Forest in the
snow in the photos section of this group. They were taken in February of this
year, and not during the recent snow.

John L.


--- In walthamstow@yahoogroups.com, Norma Cotton <normacotton@...> wrote:
>
> To all you E17-ers.  Wish you a very Happy Christmas and a wonderful 2010,
think positive,
> think health, wealth, peace and happiness and dreams coming true, ban the
words Credit Crunch and Bankers' Bonuses from your conversations and thoughts
and make your own dreams come true.  Bless you all and a big Hug to Keith -
Peace!
> Perhaps someone could send a photo of a bit of Epping Forest-in-the-snow to
this Midlands Exile please?

Keith you will never beat them so why don't you just give up or move to Norfolk
or Cornwall where I am informed by friends that because there is no work in
those areas there are no yobs or muslims or other persons that obviously get
under your skin.

Better still come to Perth where we have another sunny 36 Degrees C forecast for
Christmas day, on 2nd thoughts don't come here as I do enough whinging for both
of us already.

What about that Leytonstone toilet block being used as a prayer meeting place. I
have prayed in front of a few WC's in my youth after a drinking session but that
is rediculous.

Wishing you all a happy Christmas or whatever you are permitted to say over
there now and a Healthy New Year.

--- In walthamstow@yahoogroups.com, "keith122275" <kefo.44@...> wrote:
>
> Here's another winter's tale of woe. Last Christmas & New Year the
neighbouring allotments with a gate adjacent off the car park, was broken open 4
times during the centre's holiday closure period.

Here's another winter's tale of woe. Last Christmas & New Year the neighbouring
allotments with a gate adjacent off the car park, was broken open 4 times during
the centre's holiday closure period.

At that time, 2 fixed 'tin-can' cctvs in the car park were un-operable and half
the car park's lights were out of order, thus making the allotments' boundary
fence pitch dark.

Twelve months later that is still the status quo.

Have GLL staff done anything? Do they venture out beyond their front door except
to rush to their cars and drive off home?

The town hall is less than 400 metres away in a straight line - possible because
they have keys to open a gate into Chestnut Fields at the rear.

During the daytimes when the college is open, yobs visit the car park with
deafening inboard sound systems (bangra music always to the fore), and if they
are not giving girlfriends' driving lessons (no 'L' plates), then private
driving lessons are given by the "RED" company driving lesson franchisees.
The local SNT do come and check but cannot stay for long.

Is it not time, before the site is demolished, to enforce parking restrictions
to non authorised users? ie Pool & Track users & allotment holders only.

As of 3pm this afternoon, these foolish mandarins in charge of the Highway's
section (Low Hall Depot) had 'authorised' some poor erks to, now maintain the
sections of packed ice pavements along Forest Road.

What ensued less than 6 hours later? Higher temperatures & rain, each long since
forecast as was the icy blasts from the eastern seaboard last Thursday.

The ice and slippery conditions had virtually disappeared by 11pm the area
around The Bell, and I would have no doubt much of the rest of the parts in the
borough getting the rain.

Time I think for one, or more than one, of the highly paid managers in Highways
also to disappear.

I trust people will put their tough questions to the panels at the earliest
community council meetings in 2010.

Just look what suggestions are contained within this document

http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/nofconsult-july09-ch5c.pdf

http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/beta/nofconsult-july09-ch7.pdf

Don't remember the Guardian publishing any details.

this is what I've managed to find
http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/nofconsult-july09-ch5c.pdf

http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/beta/nofconsult-july09-ch7.pdf

http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/250607-minutes.pdf
page 10 of 13

http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/responses-250607.pdf
Answer given Query no 7



--- In walthamstow@yahoogroups.com, "keith122275" <kefo.44@...> wrote:
>
> I saw recently whilst trawling the council website - a mention about 'legacy'
in some minutes for the Lea Bridge & Whipps Cross community council, or at least
i think that's where i happened upon "Responses to questions" section.
>
> I'm pretty certain that whoever it was making the 'response' uttered that
there was NO funds in existence for the relocation of the Manor Gardens
Allotments Society out of Waltham Forest: ie Back to Hackney from Marsh Lane
p/fields.
> Katy I will endeavour to find it again. But it was definetly in some community
council minutes.
>
> --- In walthamstow@yahoogroups.com, Katy Andrews <katyandrews2012@> wrote:
> >
> > I was rung up on the 14th December by someone saying his neighbour has had a
leaflet through her door telling residents that Marsh Lane Fields is being
earmarked for hockey pitches (er, fine, I s'pose) and a swimming pool (eh?) when
the allotments move (we'll believe it when we see it) after the Olympic Circus
has left town.
> >   We thought the Northern Olympic Legacy Fringe plan was to put in several
roads linking Perth and Seymour Road to the Freight Road (so-called "Orient
Way") and build a large amount of five-storey high-density housing over Seymour
Fields (Lammas Land covenanted as open space supposedly in perpetuity) behind
Clementina Road - too contaminated to grow food in the gardens so maybe they
think you may as well block out all the daylight anyway?
> >   Is this hockey puitch idea as well as, or instead of the new high-rise
housing that's being planned?
> >
> >   Now the developers at Essex Wharf have come out with another scheme even
worse thanthe one they lost on Appeal in  January this year - for four 9-storey
housing blocks between Millfields and the Ice Centre - Planning Application
2009/1515 - closing date for objections Wednesday 23rd December - send to Jon
Price at Planning Dept, WF Town Hall (Jon has agreed that non-Statutory
objectors can write in up to the 8th January).  Please do write - the
application fills a large box, so possibly best to go up there (Sycamore House)
unless you have a very fast, modern computer!
> >
> >   Please show that you do still care or they might think we have all given
up!  Though even I do wonder sometimes are we perhaps all just wasting our time
trying to preserve our Lea Valley as London's precious "Green Lung," when the
Regional Park itself that was set up supposedly to preserve it is planning to 
double the size of its Riding Centre at Lea Bridge Road and take over the rest
of Porter's Field (permission granted by LBWF earlier this year) for paddocking
and equestrian events for the moneyed few, and doesn't even consult with or even
inform its own so-called "Users' Forum" about this?
> >
> >  Please pass this on - any information about the Marsh Lane proposals would
be very welcome!
> >
> > Katy.
> >
>

I saw recently whilst trawling the council website - a mention about 'legacy' in
some minutes for the Lea Bridge & Whipps Cross community council, or at least i
think that's where i happened upon "Responses to questions" section.

I'm pretty certain that whoever it was making the 'response' uttered that there
was NO funds in existence for the relocation of the Manor Gardens Allotments
Society out of Waltham Forest: ie Back to Hackney from Marsh Lane p/fields.
Katy I will endeavour to find it again. But it was definetly in some community
council minutes.

--- In walthamstow@yahoogroups.com, Katy Andrews <katyandrews2012@...> wrote:
>
> I was rung up on the 14th December by someone saying his neighbour has had a
leaflet through her door telling residents that Marsh Lane Fields is being
earmarked for hockey pitches (er, fine, I s'pose) and a swimming pool (eh?) when
the allotments move (we'll believe it when we see it) after the Olympic Circus
has left town.
>   We thought the Northern Olympic Legacy Fringe plan was to put in several
roads linking Perth and Seymour Road to the Freight Road (so-called "Orient
Way") and build a large amount of five-storey high-density housing over Seymour
Fields (Lammas Land covenanted as open space supposedly in perpetuity) behind
Clementina Road - too contaminated to grow food in the gardens so maybe they
think you may as well block out all the daylight anyway?
>   Is this hockey puitch idea as well as, or instead of the new high-rise
housing that's being planned?
>
>   Now the developers at Essex Wharf have come out with another scheme even
worse thanthe one they lost on Appeal in  January this year - for four 9-storey
housing blocks between Millfields and the Ice Centre - Planning Application
2009/1515 - closing date for objections Wednesday 23rd December - send to Jon
Price at Planning Dept, WF Town Hall (Jon has agreed that non-Statutory
objectors can write in up to the 8th January).  Please do write - the
application fills a large box, so possibly best to go up there (Sycamore House)
unless you have a very fast, modern computer!
>
>   Please show that you do still care or they might think we have all given up!
Though even I do wonder sometimes are we perhaps all just wasting our time
trying to preserve our Lea Valley as London's precious "Green Lung," when the
Regional Park itself that was set up supposedly to preserve it is planning to 
double the size of its Riding Centre at Lea Bridge Road and take over the rest
of Porter's Field (permission granted by LBWF earlier this year) for paddocking
and equestrian events for the moneyed few, and doesn't even consult with or even
inform its own so-called "Users' Forum" about this?
>
>  Please pass this on - any information about the Marsh Lane proposals would be
very welcome!
>
> Katy.
>