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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostLocal councils are now responsible for public health in their area. So it's bloody short sighted charging for Parkrun. Instead they should ask and see if they can put Parkrun on their leaflets for getting people more active.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by eek View PostThat would be the district council. It seems to be the parish council who manages the park
I know SFA about district and parish councils.
All I know is which parks and commons are managed by councils, and which ones are managed by an agency of the UK government as they are Royal Parks.
Also there are other cities that don't have these distinctions e.g. Birmingham. You have one council that runs everything."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostLocal councils are now responsible for public health in their area. So it's bloody short sighted charging for Parkrun. Instead they should ask and see if they can put Parkrun on their leaflets for getting people more active.
And they lock the parks early - so kids have more tendancy to be at home and get fat....Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostI would still test it in the car.
Without attempting to charge it any further from the 12.3V it was reading today, I carted it out to the car. I had some minor inconvenience because the terminal adapters off Amazon (Halfords still haven't come through with their Ford-specific ones) had bolts too thick for the thingies on the end of the car's leads. So I got the bolts out of the old adapters to see if they'd do.
Wiring things up caused a flurry of kerclunking from the central locking, which attempted to lock itself, realised a door was open, and therefore decided to unlock itself instead; that's normal behaviour. The clock also started working.
At this point I checked over the engine, and realised that the coolant was strangely low; tipping about a pint of water in fixed that. The oil also seemed a bit low, so I topped that up.
Then, after moving the Toyota away a bit because of a paranoid fear that the Orion might suddenly catch fire due to neglect, I tried to start it up. The starter cranked away and, after a few seconds, the engine fired up!
I stopped it after a minute or so as I needed to come back up to the flat to get the tools to bolt the battery back in properly. Also, I wanted to see if the battery would start it a second time, or if it had spent its vital force. But next time it started up straight away and ran smoothly. After five minutes or so I had to stop it again, because there's a bolt in the battery fixings that can only be reached with the cables disconnected; but after that was done, it started up for a third time without any problems, and ran smoothly for another fifteen minutes or so.
I decided not to take it out for a run as I'm not sure if it has a coolant leak. But at least it goes, and the short trip up to the garage for its MOT on Thursday should be adequate to, quite literally, blow the cobwebs awayComment
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This evening's Fruits of the Freezer™ offering was bolognese; only a few weeks old, not antediluvian like yesterday's fowl. Though the shape of the pasta I had with it was a kind of weird double-chambered shell that looked a bit like something that might have arisen during the Cambrian Explosion and gone extinct before the dinosaurs happened along. Anyway, all very niceComment
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