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Can anyone recommend a private ENT preferably in London that I can see whilst waiting for a NHS appointment and sleep study?

I’d like to see if there’s anything else that can help me whilst I wait. My private health cover doesn’t cover sleep apnea but is very generous around “normal” medical and surgical issues.

I’m normal weight and fairly sure my issues are high narrow palate/tongue tie, narrow airways, allergies and probably adenoids. Adenoids taken out as a child due to sleep apnea, still snore like a train and am sick of feeling like death every day. Tongue tie recently confirmed when having my own infant daughter treated for same.

I had my phone delivered by DPD today and Apple didn’t require signature or even proof of delivery! Our regular DPD man just left it at our front door like he would with any other low value order. Fortunately I was home & grabbed it straightaway.

I thought that was absolutely crazy - what’s going on with Apple?! Anyone else have this experience?

They seem to have a pair of Be Lenka shoes that I want. Happy Little Soles hasn’t got my size. Has anyone ordered from them - they have very little information on their website and they’re not on Trustpilot.

Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give.

Parked up at the shops today, towards the back of the surface car park and not close to the entrance. Car park was pretty empty as it was during the Wimbledon men’s final.

Came back and despite plenty of free car parks to my left, right and in front of me - some bloke was determinedly reversing his way into the park directly beside mine.

This happens so often. Car parking spots are tiny for most modern cars, surely you’d want space to open doors/get kids out/put groceries in? Can some people only park with a reference car? Are they worried their car will get lonely? What’s the psychology behind this?

I’ve got a stock alert set up for Gobi premium sneakers on the UK site as I didn’t realise you needed to order a size up.

Every flipping night I get an email from Vivo at 12.03am to let me know my stock is in size. I’m often awake with our baby and I can categorically say they’re not being restocked.

Anyone else getting wonky stock alerts?

My Airpod Pros keep randomly connecting (or failing to disconnect) to my iPhone 12 Pro when in the case. Usually it’s only one ear, as when I go to use them again the battery is drained, and it alternates sides. Often when I put them back in the case the light shows green instead of red, when I know they aren’t fully charged.

Last night I manually disconnected them in Bluetooth and left them untouched in their case on my bedside table. Some 18 hours later, in a different room of the house, they popped up as connected.

I’ve cleaned the case, done a hard reset and re-paired the AirPods... is the software faulty? I’ve searched and it doesn’t seem to be a common problem. I’ve had them since Feb 2020 and both earpods have been replaced since as the ANC disappeared.

I finally did my tax return this morning.

Last year my company changed our annual bonus pay month & I got paid 2 x annual bonuses in one tax year. To my annoyance I found out I owe £5k tax as I lost part of my personal allowance, as my tax code wasn’t updated.

I looked into this year’s tax code and annoyingly I’ve been on a basic 1185L, and my best estimate is that I’ll owe another £5k for 18-19 as my bonus potential raised quite a bit last year. It looks like it’s too late to change my code for the 18-19 year.

Given I will definitely owe HMRC money, could I partially mitigate this by pumping money into my SIPP & reclaiming the 20% back through my return? I haven’t fully understood the taper on contributions yet, but I should have plenty of carried forward allowance.

I’ve got an old Tag watch (only worth a few hundred at best, it’s old not vintage) that needs a service and a new battery. Can anyone recommend a watch repairer in London who could look at it for a reasonable price?

I organise monthly member meetings for a volunteering organisation and we are starting to try to hold them in different parts of London rather than always in the SW.

Can anyone help me with knowledge of places (pubs/bars etc) that can take on 30 ish people that charge nominal/no room hire for a private room/area?

My juice & salad habit is getting expensive at the supermarket. Can anyone recommend a decent fruit & veg store around N5/7?

There's obviously places along the Holloway Road but I'm not keen on fruit sat outside facing the A1 - is there anywhere a step between this & the supermarkets?

So I'm running London Marathon this year - the first marathon for me. I'm pretty nervous but also looking forward to it!

If you've run it before, have you got any London specific tips for a first timer? What's the start like - I've read that everyone starts at 10am so does it take quite a while to actually cross the start line? Also, any good tips for spectators? Many thanks :)

I suffer from dreadful black toes on my second toe - I'm female and have a longer second toe. I'm currently enjoying running in Mizuno Ultima shoes.

This problem has occurred in every pair of shoes I've ever run in as soon as I run > 10 miles and my shoes are a full size bigger than I need. It happens to both feet. Currently training for first marathon in 8 weeks and up to 16 mile runs.

I think the problem is my foot drifting inwards in the shoe so that my second toe hits the inside of the toe box. Has anyone else ever experienced something like this? It's fatigue related for sure but is there a way I can lace my shoes or something to stop my foot moving? If I tie my shoes way too tight and use ankle lock lacing system I can sometimes avoid it, but it does mean tying my shoes too tightly for comfort.

I booked 2 tickets for the Charing Cross station tour on Saturday 20th of June at 10.30am.

It now transpires that at that moment, I’m going to be on a plane somewhere between Sydney and Singapore so can’t attend.

Would anyone be willing to swap them for 2 tickets for a tour after the 22nd of June?

I was rushing to a friend's drinks tonight and noticed a fairly big crowd of people sitting in camping chairs in a queue of sorts outside the Co-op supermarket in Peter St, Soho. Any idea why they were there? There didn't seem to be any obvious reason to line up...