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Don Pearson

Don Pearson's Posts

I get all of my meat, fish, bread, pasties and vegetables from local shops and I hardly buy tinned or frozen food. Milk, breakfast cereals, pasta, cat food and chocolate is all I buy at supermarkets Your shopping habits are pretty similar to mine - therefore, the question. Is your preference for Sainsbury's based on your being resigned to a supermarket being built or on a real desire to have one ...

23 Mar 2010

I realise that it will be more convenient than travelling to Newton Abbot to a supermarket. However, surely having either Tesco or Sainsbury so close must adversely affect local shops, many of which are struggling already?

The conundrum could be solved by asking him, politely, of course.

Isle of Wight Sand!!
22 Mar 2010

Thankyou, absolutely fascinating although I am not familiar with the terminology used. I also like the tone of the Safety and Risk Assessment near the beginning.

20 Mar 2010

Thanks for that. don

19 Mar 2010

A mate of mine in the waste business used to say, "To you it may be just a pile of sand. To me it's money." I have wondered why the sand around the warren is yellow rather than red. Was it shipped in previously?

Wheelie Bins
18 Mar 2010

As I understand it, but not having read the legislation, they are not allowed to park on footpaths or pavements, at least if they cause an obstruction. On the wheelie bin topic, I have wondered for some time who is legally responsible for damage to, or loss of, wheelie bins that belong to the council and are placed on public property at the council's insistence. Whatever the legal position, I have ...

Food from Skips
13 Mar 2010

I am interested to know people's reaction to the raiding of skips containing food thrown away by shops. I know some of those who do this in D***i*h.

Dawlish Man, I would not want to give the impression that the current use of Google Street is high on my list of concerns. The proliferation of cctv would be much higher and I know that we have different views on that. However, I believe that the raw images from Google Street and its successors, which may then contain live photographs and video, could be published and misused by state or ...

12 Mar 2010

You can take it for granted that I do understand Dawlish Man's posts.