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What is the Croydon motorcycle accessory shop that sells the bluetooth headsets?
Or any other all right that sells XXL bluetooth helmet under £80 ?
It is very hadr to get large sizes at that price.
I have done web-search and EBay, Amazon etc, but I spoke to a guy at the lights the other day who said he got his in a bike in order in Croydon.
Where in Croydon can I get US visa 2x2 inch photo taken?
I'm in the alter of obtaining a US spouse visa and they want "non-rest-of-the-world-standard" 2x2 inch passport rage photos for the application. UK passport photobooths produce photos that are too small!
Does anyone, perhaps someone who has gone through the same process, recall of a good place in Croydon (or near to Croydon excluding Central London) where I can get 2x2 inch passport photos done?
Thanks, Jim.
Characteristic of the US to do this. If you have a digital camera, stand/sit your spouse against a white/pale background. Take 2 or 3 shots of the face, but not too close. Composition with the head (top to bottom in landscape aspect) occupying a third of the screen. Make sure you don't get reflections if spouse wearing glasses. Take the camera/in the offing to Boots. Ask for 6x4in (30p each, 2 hour service). Take them home, and cut to size 2x2in.
How do we travel from Croydon to London?
We will be staying in the UK in Dec. 07. We're staying in Croydon, specifically in South Croydon. I can't find any info about the Tube being available in this area. I also can't find any info as to how we're going to get from London Heathrow Airport Depot 3 to Croydon. My husband is seriously considering renting a car, which I'm against since we've never been to the UK before. How much do the taxis generally charge? Thank you.
Taxis will be overpriced, probably in the region of £40-£70, though it is possible to book a private hire car for the journey. By car the journey is about 45-60 mins.
The cheapest way to go is by bus - the X26 travels from Heathrow to East Croydon and with an Oyster quick card will only cost 90p each! However you will need to get from East Croydon to South Croydon and the journey takes an hour and 45 mins! Programme here: http://www.metrobus.co.uk/timetable.php?route_id=97&type=week
Otherwise the quickest option by public conveyance is train, as others have said.
Ignore what someone else said about Croydon - South Croydon is OK and some parts are very upmarket.
What are the largest companies in Croydon?
I have got a job talk today and I would be working in the Croydon area So I need to find out some really big employers/ big companies in that area. Preferably any that use couriers as the job is battlefield sales for the courier industry. Can any body help?
There is a in general College in Croydon and I think there is a large shopping centre (I think it's called the Whitgift). I fantasize Ikea is also in Croydon.
What are the best driving schools in Croydon?
I have recently had a bad circumstance with the driving school that I was with and am keen to get started again. Please let me know of any good instructors in the Croydon area?
I own a driving nursery school but unfortunately don't cover your area.
I can't recommend anyone to you but I can give you a couple of pointers about how to find a good driving educator who is value for money :)
I agree with Michael's comments about big national driving schools, but I disagree with his comments about only choosing a Gradient 5 or 6 instructor!
I would also like to point out that "good" driving instructors are not exclusively confined to the manly gender... :)
The most effective way of finding yourself a good, reliable, patient driving instructor is by personal recommendation. Ask around your friends, relatives and travail colleagues to see if anyone has learnt to drive recently and can recommend their instructor. If that instructor works for a bigger driving disciples, ask specifically for them by name when you contact the school.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that a well-known "brand" or nationwide driving school necessarily equals the best quality. All driving instructors in the UK whether they franchise with BSM, the AA, any other driving indoctrinate or work for themselves as independents, ALL have to pass exactly the same qualification process.
The only thing that differentiates instructors once they pass all the exams and become fully experienced, is the instructor themselves in terms of personality, teaching style etc. There are friendly, patient, reliable instructors with exellent teaching styles and peerless personalities working as independents and miserable grumpy gits working for BSM...and vice versa...they're all disparate and it's the instructor themselves that is far more important than the name of the driving school on the car they teach in.
Many of the big driving schools (and several smaller ones) use a LOT of trainee driving instructors (and may well not not recognize you that your instructor is a trainee). BSM use a very high proportion of trainees, The AA use none.
Trainee driving instructors have only passed the first two out of the three driving tutor qualifying exams.
After they have passed a Theory Test and an advanced driving test, trainee driving instructors can tend for a six month temporary licence to give driving instruction in exchange for payment. However, at this point, they have not passed the hardest part of the qualification development, the “Test Of Instructional Ability”. The Driving Standards Agency set rigorous standards for the “Assay Of Instructional Ability” and statistics show that the pass rate for this exam is very low - only around 28% of people pass. So while a trainee driving academician may well be a good driver, it doesn't mean that they will be a good teacher too - they haven't yet proved that they are, or indeed ever will be as the old-fashioned rate shows, so why take the risk of not being taught effectively?
Grades - all ADI's (green licence on windscreen) are fully proficient. Top grades guarantee very little too...I know of a Grade 6 instructor who is one of the thickest people I have ever encountered...seriously, he can not quite string a coherent sentence together. I have no idea how he got to be a Grade 6 as his communication skills are appallingly poor.
The qualification course of action to become a driving instructor is VERY challenging and involves not only the ability to drive to a very high standard, but also to teach to a very high criterion. Approved Driving Instructors (ADI's) have passed all three of the qualification exams required and they are also regularly re-assessed by the Driving Standards Power to ensure that the standards of their instruction remain consistently high. Newly qualified instructors aren't even graded at all...
I be sure some FANTASTIC driving instructors who are Grade 4 and some total IDIOTS who have been graded 6...in fact two of the Grade 6's I separate of are semi-literate with the "people skills" of a Rottweiler with toothache and I wouldn't get in a car with them as a rider, let alone recommend anyone wanting to learn to drive to them.
Driving instructors are graded at least once every 4 years and that grade is based SOLELY upon a driving examiner observing ONE driving castigation. It's a snapshot of their performance only - their pass rates aren't taken into consideration, the views of their pre-eminent pupils aren't asked for....if the lesson doesn't go to plan or the instructor is on tenterhooks, that will affect them just as much as someone taking their driving test and they may not teach that one lesson that is being observed anywhere near as well as they normally inform about...it's a crazy way of assessing someone's capabilities and sklls and I ALWAYS advise people not to set too much store on grades...
Look at the educator themselves - not their grade.
Take price into consideration certainly, but don't base your decision on that alone. I know of some awful horror stories about how some "for twopence bargain driving lessons" are anything but...remember, there's no such thing as a free lunch and many instructors will fi
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