Get to Johnsons on Chatsworth Rd....they have everything!!

Not so sure its impatience as just folk driving badly. My current bug bear is folk at junctions like the one just after the police station near the job centre where there is a big keep clear box but what folk coming out of the side road onto Markham Rd seem to think is its keep clear for cars already on Markham Rd so they can pull out and block the keep clear box. Sometimes you just end up having to block it yourself in order to stop cars just pulling out and you sitting there all day.

To be honest however the one thing worse than driving is peoples attitude to parking. This ranges from covering multiple spaces in car parks to basically abandoning cars at the side of the road. I also have an ongoing argument with a family member who has a disabled badge for their partner about the fact that just because the badge means they can park on things like double yellow lines doesnt mean they should. See it in and around town as well and in fact numerous places around the town in general where its double yellow lines so not safe to park but people with disabled badges basically treating it as the double yellow lines just mean its reserved for us! We had horrendous issues with it at the Chatsworth Rd end of Heaton Street. They extended the double yellows as the junction would get badly clogged at busy times due to parked cars and it just led to more folk with disabled badges parking right on the junction instead.

The BT thing has been there for a while but thats gone up since the last time i used them. I had an issue with my line that was affecting my broadband that was with Sky. Did loads of tests with them and they said they were more or less certain it was the line coming into the house not something in the house but had to tell me that BT could charge me £90 at the time if it was find to be a fault in the house. As it turned out the line from the pole to the corner of the house was frayed at one end and barely attached hence the issue so no charge and then a second time it was from the corner of the house to the main point in the house that was the issue so neither time was i charged.

There are tests you can do to pretty much be certain its not something in the house thats causing the issue and have BT out without worrying about getting charged. I assume its there to stop people just calling them out to houses for any time a phone line isnt working when it could be something else attached to the line in the house thats nothing to do with BT and wasting their time.

If you take the front of the main phone socket there is a test socket inside. If you plug a phone or broadband router into that and you still have an issue then you can be pretty sure its a BT fault outside the house and you wont be charged. Using that test socket eliminates any other connections to the phone line inside the house like extensions into other rooms etc.

Live coverage of the last minute announced vulcan flight happening today....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcKqkq27ffk

Apparently announced with barely any notice to try and stop any problems at the airport.

Just a quick one to ask if people are offered or see for sale any power tools if they could let me know on here. A friend who lives Tupton way had a load stolen out of his van last night.

Thanks

We need vehicles which register the speed limits and cut back automatically - now that would frustrate some!!

Until it does it pulling out of a junction and leaves you stuck in the middle of the road with a truck coming! 

If they are speeding around ignoring 30mph limit signs why would changing them to read 20mph make any difference...surely they will just continue to ignore them no matter what they say and lowering the limit just impacts on those that do obey the 30mph limits.

Those "racing around" need to be dealt with properly before they hurt someone else or themselves really rather than changing limits they are already ignoring.