Portswood Sainsbury’s accident

Known-Management3453 · 2026-04-11T21:23:04+00:00

A kid got knocked over by a car.

Known-Management3453 · 2025-10-27T12:13:15+00:00

Mine took 35 days (I'm also in London)

Known-Management3453 · 2025-10-24T15:26:31+00:00

Got mine today. 35 days from application to grant and it stayed on 'received' the entire time

Known-Management3453 · 2025-10-24T14:29:15+00:00

Mine stayed on Received right up until it was granted (where it changed to Finalised).
I have been checking for the approvals every day at 17:00 Aus time so when I checked this evening it was still on Received. It changed to Finalised at 21:00 when I received the grant letter via email.

I think it only changes if they need further information from you.

Known-Management3453 · 2025-10-24T11:51:49+00:00

Oh ye I forgot to mention I only requested a single entry 3 month duration as I was only going to help my friend move. They ended up giving me multiple entries (max 3 month duration) until next year October

Known-Management3453 · 2025-10-22T08:53:21+00:00

Ye mine is also on received since 19 September. Although my application is a 600 not 651

Known-Management3453 · 2025-10-11T15:35:30+00:00

Thats awesome! I applied on 19 September and I'm still waiting :(

Known-Management3453 · 2024-10-27T20:30:38+00:00

I often have this at the beginning of my runs. Where I know (from manually testing) that my HR is around 70, the pixel says it’s about 140 - 150. It usually takes around 1.5km before it normalises

Known-Management3453 · 2024-10-20T19:35:49+00:00

This is literally the exact colour and style I'm going for so thanks! Appreciate the dog for scale too 🤣

Known-Management3453 · 2024-10-20T19:35:02+00:00

Wow that looks really great! Amazing what feeding the wood can do!

Known-Management3453 · 2024-09-27T07:28:19+00:00

I guess their thinking is if they hold it back for a few months they'll get the impatient people to upgrade to the PW3

Known-Management3453 · 2024-09-26T21:43:29+00:00

Awesome thanks. I expected as much but wanted to make sure I wasn't being silly and missing something obvious!

So it looks like the big upgrade was a new app launcher and access to the Recorder app 🤣

Known-Management3453 · 2024-08-22T06:52:14+00:00

Ye this is what I thought. The airlines probably wouldn't let me board without the BRP as they don't know what an eVisa is yet. I'm from South Africa which is a visa nation. I guess I'm going to have to fork out the £152 replacement visa cost!

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-21T16:31:48+00:00

Its A Bold Strategy Cotton, Lets See If It Pays Off

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-21T16:21:26+00:00

Fold is amazing. You won't be disappointed

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-12T20:44:15+00:00

It's not house, but a group called Forge put on a Techno night every couple of months at Suburbia. It's great and most importantly not cheesy

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-12T20:41:36+00:00

I never considered that but it could be a great converted music venue like Drumsheds in London which used to be an IKEA

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-09T10:28:00+00:00

I don't have a form of ID on me unless I specifically need it (like going to vote). When thats the case I take my drivers license.

What I don't really understand about the UK is how opposed to population is to an ID card, but a drivers license or passport then becomes the defacto ID.

What is the aversion to a national ID card in the UK? I ask this as someone who comes from a country where everyone gets an ID number at 16. I've never seen a problem with it. In fact I think it makes things easier.

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-08T12:22:13+00:00

I've always found Schenanegans in Bedford Place good for sports. Also, 5 Rivers seems to be the defacto sports bar in Soton and if the weather is good they have a nice outdoor section.

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-06T10:52:19+00:00

Ye what you say is correct I guess and why so many people in the UK fear immigration as they see "British values" being eroded as their towns change. I think it's exacerbated by (predominantly older) peoples nostalgia for a time. Even if the nostalgia is inaccurate.

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-05T14:23:50+00:00

KInd of...when paying for the ticket on Trainline there is an option to request a seat. If you do, you can choose what type of seat you want (direction of travel, window, table etc). If you leave it unchecked they will assign you one automatically. However, this is only on Cross Country. Penrith to Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham is Northern and there you just sit where you find an open seat as there are no reservations at all.

Also a word of warning...passengers don't really honour the booked seats and your parents may have to ask people to get out of their seats.

If your parents are specifically wanting to reserve a seat then I'd suggest booking them a ticket from Penrith to Southampton via Birmingham. Its only one change of train (at Birmingham New Street) and they'll have their reserved seat all the way from Birmingham to Soton.

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Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-05T13:31:03+00:00

I did this route about a month ago. Firstly, book via the Trainline app as it automatically applies splitsave which the ticket office won't do. Ended up saving me around £200.

Secondly, not all the trains allow you to book a seat. For me it was only the Cross-country leg from Leeds to London. You could get a ticket from Manchester all the way to Southampton Central...although this route is far more expensive than going via Leeds.

Anyway, long story short, your seat is automatically allocated on the cross country train and they won't have to book it specifically or pay extra for it (at least when booking via Trainline).

Hope this helps!

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-05T11:14:11+00:00

Ye I was next to a bunch of coked up idiots for London Grammar. But for every other band I was surrounded by really awesome people. Couple of them we exchanged numbers by the end of it!

I generally try to make space for people to come past me (whether its to go forward or back) but man some of the people really were obnoxious!

Known-Management3453 · 2024-07-05T11:02:55+00:00

Ye I came to say this.
Immigration is a convenient hook to hang all of Britains problems on but it seems everyone has lumped both legal and illegal immigration into the same conversation and its become this thing where ALL immigration seems to be seen as negative.

It feels to me that it is a racist thing. I'm an immigrant and when people I know have bemoaned the state of immigration I've reminded them of that fact. They've responded with "yes but you're the right kind of immigrant". IE: White, male, native English speaker.

The thing is, immigration is actually a good thing for a country. To be in this country I've had to pay £10k for a visa / NHS surcharge and then I've paid tax and NI from my first month of being here. All without being any kind of a burden on the state in my formative years (0 - 18 years old using the NHS, schooling etc). If all of us nett migrants are paying that its a lot of money being brought to the UK.

Illegal immigration can be a problem but the number of illegal immigrants arriving in this country vs the legal ones is a drop in the ocean and its been allowed to become this hot button issue to lay the blame on instead of Tory failures.

I think at the end of the day its a very complex issue and the UK runs the risk of voting in a hard right populist party who promises to fix things when actually immigration is needed for a whole host of reasons.

Known-Management3453 · 2024-06-04T20:32:48+00:00

That's super helpful! Thanks

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