Users of Uber, can you book a cab well in advance (2-3 weeks) and do they

[Billy Goat Sverige]

show up on time? Need to sort out a cab from Essex to Heathrow.

[Snin]

enjoy helping to destroy a black cabbies summer holiday plans in maldives the poor buggers will have to go to margate soon at this rate

[Ashberto]

I assume you're popping back to Blighty. Though I'm sure 'home' is now over there rather than over here but you know what I mean.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Ashberto]

... oh.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

skyscrapers going up in the city before i left.

[Ashberto]

Cheesegrater is up now though, and there are contantly new blocks going up on the river, it seems.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You will be shocked. London looks like a completely different sity, especially along the river.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

like the shadow they cast over everything down on the ground. I hope it doesn't turn into Manhattan :puke:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

vibrant, growing city, and some, if boot all, of the architecture is quite good, but it still feels like the city I grew up in is changing so rapidly I soon won't know it.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

good she has it :hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[7evens]

https://southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/butlers-tapiaca.jpg?w=500

[Ashberto]

and London can't grow outwards. New tower blocks are being built wherever there is space. Even in the suburbs - and often next to the tube stations. A new metroland in the sky.

[Ashberto]

Hopefully with designs that have learned lessons from the past. I'm optimistic that improved housing will improve the lives of those living in them.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

It's getting harder and harder for a chap to get mugged in Kings Cross nowadays.

I think I might start staying in Spitalfields regularly

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ashberto]

Lunch in Highgate, then a stroll over the heath for tea and cakes in Hampstead, then dinner in Upper Street.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Ashberto]

as the new buildings that were going up.

Someone should write a book about it. It could be called Vanishing London, perhaps.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

[Jake]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

How did you get on?

[Berni]

[Jake]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

He goes to the coffee shop but being northern he asks for tea.

http://www.nexthipstertrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/hipstercoffeeshop.jpg


Tea is probably more ethical anyway.

[Ashberto]

even though it is a bit ... obvious ... touristically.

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mother-of-hipster.jpg

[Jake]

Finished fairly late, went to one of the places you recommended - lots of flowers outside it over the front, name escapes me - had some Irish craft beer which was reasonable, the price less so.

Wandered back to the hotel bar after a few and was questioned by the concierge over my intentions, probably because I looked less like a business-sort and more like unruly student sort. I told him I was the former and he apologised, the c**t.

Prices should seem extortionate, but are largely the same as here.

7/10.

[Luis Anaconda]

Think I went into Kentish Town - I'd not be surprised by anything really

[Ashberto]

for a piss.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You were on a work trip ffs.

Finishing late is for the office.

[Berni]

To be fair, until they held the Olympics there, I wasn't even aware there was a Stratford in London, so I guess in that sense it's been a success.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

years ago. Between the embankment in the south, Park Lane in the west, Kingsway in the east and Oxford St in the north, one had a convenient box which contains one's tailor, hatter and vintner. There are the usual bars (Savoy, Connaught, Claridges) and restaurants.

These truths are unchanging, a. London is essentially unchanging.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

For essentials, of course, Selfridges and Fortnums are still trading.

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=usrinfo&id=293 &rid=173&S=35b48c0dd0283ae3bcffa16dc6cdb984 (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=usrinfo&id=293&rid=173&S=35b48c0dd0283ae3bcffa16dc6cdb984)

[Berni]

refugees from the Battle of Gettysburg wearing drainpipe trousers.

[Supermac1976]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I may undergo hypnotherapy to find out some details. I'll let you know.

How clearly I remember arriving at Victoria on the leave train that last time. That ball at the Ritz - then walking back to Eton Square with young Pamela... Berkeley Square on a spring morning in 1917 was magical.

A nightingale sang, you know. It sang a sweet, sad song of farewell.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

brick ****house and 7ft tall so it looks ok. These dudes look like arseholes.

Having said that, i am quite envious of their ability to grow them.

[Jake]

f**king gob****es.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Offering their unique skills :hehe:



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Elderly Swedes scared by 'slave' UK traders

Published: 22 Apr 2015 14:43 GMT+02:00
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Police are investigating a group of British handymen believed to be preying on pensioners in Orebro in central Sweden and potentially under pressure from "slave" ringmasters themselves.

At least two handymen are camping in the city and tempting the elderly to use their cheap labour, according to police.

Police chief Ted Esplund confirmed initial reports of the scam in regional newspaper Nerikes Allehanda (NA) to The Local on Wednesday.

Esplund said that the rogue tradesmen were offering services in a "very aggressive" way in two areas of Orebro. He said police were investigating one case of fraud and had had several other calls from people who had been visited by the handymen.

"For a number of years we get problems each spring with rogue traders arriving in Sweden. They offer various types of work to be done for private households...They are very aggressive which makes it hard to say no for the persons who get the offer," he explained.

He added that many pensioners could not resist the bargain deals, but warned Swedes against falling for the low prices, telling them to think carefully about whether the tradesmen were operating on the black market and that they risked jobs being of a low quality or not completed at all.

"The presence of the rogue traders in the neighbourhood increases the feeling of unsafety for many people, mainly older people...We also suspect that the workers don't get much of the money from the works carried out. They work under some kind of threats and pressure, almost like a new type of slavery," he added.

Under a Swedish law introduced in 2008, residents can get a 50 percent tax deduction for repairs, maintenance, conversion or extension work carried out on their homes, after declaring this on their annual tax forms. Esplund said that this meant that those seeking these kinds of services could end up paying less by going through official channels, rather than by paying in cash for rogue traders offering low up-front cash prices.

He added to NA that police were taking the issue "very seriously" and wanted to make sure people in the area felt "secure".

However, he said that it would be very difficult to force the Brits – who are EU citizens – to leave Orebro.

Allemansratten – the Swedish freedom to roam – means that it is possible to camp in tents or in a van practically anywhere in the Nordic nation, as long as you are respectful of the country's nature.

"We have our common rights and as long as there is no camping ban or you're staying on private land, you can be here...it is very seldom we evict someone," he told NA.

[Berni]

attention to spelling, you randy young chap.

[Ashberto]

f**k off you 'orrible little c**t :vsign:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Her drawers were of silk. Pink silk edged with white lace.

She is old now, old. There can be no true beauty without decay.

[Berni]

she's very much dead.

Mind you, I assume the Baron got you. Did your mind wander to Pamela's silky underthings for a moment too long and you lost the Hun in the sun? Tragic.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Our lot are over in Britain offering new tarmac driveways and Channel 4 documentaries.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The murdering bitch.

[Berni]

in 1940, would you?

I seem to remember that didn't end well for you, either? :-(

I'm sensing a theme of fiery airborne death developing.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The 'Nam was no barrel of laughs either, I can tell you :-(

http://www.2951clss-gulfwar.com/photo_gallery/var/albums/F-4-697571/697571_crash-youngblood-4.jpg?m=1323082511

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I might as well shoot myself in the face the day war is declared.