A problem for councils trying to resist Tesco planning applications is that Tesco has very deep pockets and can keep re applying and appealing, so do you want our council tax spent on fighting of endless Tesco planning applications.

The easiest way to stop Tesco is don't shop there, which is a little of what is happening these days with the help of the internet and savvy shoppers, the power has shifted a little way towards the consumer.   


I think Tesco is suffering from shoppers like me, I use mysupermarket.co.uk and put together my shopping list, and then I do one of 2 things depending where I might be during the week, I
1 Buy all my shopping from the cheapest store
2 Pick and chose the cheapest products from the various stores.

Option 2 I take fuel into consideration that's why I try and work out where I might be in the week as it's not worth a trip to Morrison up Brampton to save  50p on the other hand Aldi Tesco ASDA and Sainsbury are all close together.

I also only buy stuff on offer where I can, I stock up on the on offer stuff, then stop buying until its on offer again if I can last long enough on my stock pile.

According to a TV program I am a little behind the curve as some people have mysupermarket.co.uk App on their phone and check the prices.

I also heard that it costs the super markets about £15.00 to prepare and delivery a online shopping basket order which has to be eating into profits.

I suppose when u are the biggest the little guys will always be nimble enough to take bites out of you.

Well I feel for you not having fibre, I have had fibre for about a couple of years now and I would be very unhappy to lose it, if I were moving house I would be looking for a house where fibre was available.

Found this reply to a question about why fibre was not coming to a cabinet in London

Thank you for your enquiry about fibre broadband at Lords exchange cabinet WE/WLOR 47. Our deployment is based on the commercial criteria for each cabinet and your cabinet fails to meet the commercial criteria. This is because the cabinet has too few premise connected to it, rendering it too small to provide a return on the investment based on the costs for the construction and on-going running costs of providing a new FTTC cabinet. When calculating the commercial viability of cabinet areas we take many factors into account. These include ensuring that we locate the cabinets in accordance with all national and local planning laws, ensuring that the cabinet does not obstruct pedestrians or provide a danger to all road-users. We must ensure that the DSLAM is located within 100m of its associated telephony connection cabinet and that there is adequate access to power and existing telephony infrastructure. To further enable the location of the DSLAM, we must accurately survey for underground structure and obstacles etc.
We do look at the demographic nature of the potential customers within a cabinets working area, however, we focus on the amount of connected lines at the time and not the potential expansion within a cabinet area as this is not guaranteed - this is the most efficient way to deploy fibre broadband whilst keeping within our finite budget. As such we look at the potential return for our investment over quite a number of years, with the prospective number of take up of the service being a large percentage of households.

Where cabinets are not in our footprint, or are not commercially viable, it is worth contacting your London Assembly Member or local council to register your interest in case any government funding becomes available to help fund deployment.

You may also wish to lobby your Assembly Member or local councillor on progress gaining funding for such deployment from the Government. You can also register your interest on the Openreach website at;  http://www.openreachfibrebroadband.co.uk/expression-gen.aspx

Please note, the telephony network over which fibre broadband is bespoke, as such, all premise are served from dedicated distribution points which are connected via their own underground duct network either directly to the exchange or to telephony cabinets. There are no interconnections that can be utilised to give fibre broadband services between cabinets, therefore, I’m afraid we technically can’t move your service. In addition, it is not Openreach policy to rearrange the network to enable services where they are not currently available, which is what would occur if your service was moved.

Well reading this post I was thinking I was the most senior license holder on here, but Gerty Gumdrop beats me for that honour by 3 years, had mine for 44 years.

Various phasing of traffic lights has been tried.

Well I never noticed

Hi

Regarding back ups I am rather paranoid as in the past having lost valuable data on a couple of occasions it makes me very carful of backing up.

I do the following, my desktop pc (don't own a laptop) is backed up to my server in real time so any changes on my pc are immediately backed up to the server, then overnight the server backs up to a NAS Drive.

I migrated my win7 to a SSD and it works fine, if you are doing a fresh install of Win7 then pretty much everything is taken care of, if you google win7 and SSD there a few tweaks that can be made to win7.

I use my SSD for Win7 and program files and then I have mapped My Docs to a Non SSD 500gb data drive.

After having installed the SSD my win7 was noticeably faster on boot up and in use, but not as fast as I was expecting

I might be wrong, but don't they advise 'not' installing Windows on an SSD because of the read right issues  :?

SDD Drives have a limited write life.
Before windows 7, windows was not designed to work on SDD's and XP and Vista did a shed load of read write caching to the hard drive that the user never even noticed, as if that was not bad enough XP and Vista did not position the start sector on a SSD drive in the correct place, an SDD start sector is in a different place to normal spinning drives, and this is a problem because if the start sector on a SSD drive is set as if it were a spinning hard drive, it causes the SSD to move any data that is written to it.
In effect that means that every time data is written to the SDD it's like writing the same data twice, and as SSD have a limited write life the combination of double writing and the read write caching, cause the SSD's to have a shortened life.

The reason I know all this is because I could not face reinstalling Windows 7 and all my program files, so I did loads of research on what I needed to do to Migrate windows 7 to a SSD, and found out the issues I needed to address

Me old bones 

Hi

After being a patient on and of over the last 40 years, it's not something I welcome all day visiting.

It has been tried in the past and I have been as seriously ill patient when it was in force last time, and I found it very tiring trying to keep up a conversation and trying to make my visitors think I was glad to see them, well I was but by the time 6 or so of my family members turned up over the day I was utterly exhausted this took up about 5 hours of the day.

My visitors no doubt felt they should stay for a least 30 mins or so, I did not feel I could ask they to leave after they had taken the time and trouble to visit me.

The last I was in hospital I was glad of the restricted visiting, what I have found if I am sort of not really ill it's just something minor then all day visiting is fine, but the last time I was in the staff had the tape measure on stand by to measure up for a pine box, and the last thing I wanted was a steady stream of visitors I simply would not have bee able to handle it.

Any way that's my take on all day visiting