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BigED

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  1. Does anyone have a phone number for Jeff the fish van man from North Cross Road market? If so, please send me it in a DM. It used to be on this site somewhere but I can't find it now. Lost the number when my old phone keeled over. Thanks BigED
  2. if it's any consolation, food waste bins went uncollected in our street in Forest Hill last week. The bin now seems to be a fly factory. Which is nice.
  3. If you can travel further afield you will get better food... Water House, Albion St, Rotherhithe (not as good as it used to be, but decent Hunanese menu) Sichuan Restaurant, Busby's Way, North Greenwich (next to Odeon cinema) Sichuan Grand, Gerry Raffles Square, Stratford (opposite Theatre Royal) Master Wei Xi'An, Cosmo Place, Bloombsbury (nr Russell Sq) - Shaanxi cuisine, lots of biang biang noodle dishes I've had mixed experiences of Wuli Wuli - very good and a bit rubbish, for the same dishes on different occasions. The only time i went to Silk Road, their only seafood option wasn't available and the non-meat dishes amounted to noodles, with a few fried onions. As I was there with a non-meat eater it didn't rate highly. My meat dishes were forgettable. And Dragon Castle near Elephant was mainly memorable for a Chinese customer racing to the door and vomiting copiously in the entrance. No idea if that was the food but that memory and the mediocre plates we ordered didn't warrant a second trip. One other place that is good is KaoSarn, Brixton Lane (in Brixton Market) - good and cheap Thai food. Excellent green papaya salad.
  4. They are building flats and/or town houses. I think they are only retaining the front on Silvester Road. A quick check of the Southwark Planning pages should give you all the details you need. Or at least, all that are available. The garage/workshop between the sorting office and what was an old corner shop is a separate property and belongs to neither the sorting office nor to the properties on the corner.
  5. The big drivers for pizza's world takeover: 1 - children love it (well, lots of them do) 2 - you can get away with poor table manners - seriously, who eats a whole pizza with a knife and fork 3 - the profit margins are huge - it's very cheap to produce so, provided you get enough customers, you can make a canny profit for relatively little outlay. (Ignoring set-up costs, refurbs, etc).
  6. I think you can still see the old name in the tiling over the awning - The Victory. It was SE22 Bar at the end of the 90s with good, affordable bar snacks. And then it became Franklin's and, though good, the prices pushed it well outside the casual cheap lunch option that I thought I was signing up for when I moved to ED. Little did I realise then how much more of this stuff there would be coming down the line. (I do like Franklin's bar nd still go there, but it is a bit pricey. Go on, admit it.)
  7. People living in LB Lewisham have had to pay for a brown bin garden waste collection for a couple of years now. Can't remember exactly how much- ?60-70, but it is only collected for part of the year (not much call from Nov to Feb, for example). People with low need for this service seem to: hide their garden waste in among their household waste / acquire Southwark paper garden waste bags and leave them in the street / use normal bin bags and dump it in the street / or, like our near neighbours, throw it over the fence into the alley - presumably on the basis that if THEY can't see their garden waste then it doesn't exist. Oh, and very occasionally, people load up their car and go to the tip. Lewisham council tip is more restrictive than Southwark - no rubble, no soil, no DIY waste - so it's a wonder they still take garden clippings. Christmas trees - if you live in LB Lewisham, there is no collection from homes - you have to drag your sorry tree to the nearest municipal park where they are eventually collected. But of course, some people find it easier to just dump them in the street. And others have a bonfire with them (in their gardens, not the street, though that wouldn't surprise me either). Bulky waste collections - ?15 for three items (quite a restrictive list) in Lewisham (fridges are ?30, mattresses free, though people still dump them in the street); ?16 for 10 items in Southwark. When Southwark is as bad at refuse and recycling as Lewisham, you'll have my sympathy. Until then, I shall continue to dream of Southwark's waste and recycling paradise...
  8. Wasn't the Cherry Tree (in an earlier incarnation) where the great train robbers finally met up for a celebration drink having pulled off the big heist (and maimed the British Rail driver in the process)?
  9. Excellent news - booked my tickets. I've seen Otway a number of times over the years, both solo and with Wild Willy Barrett and he is great entertainment - and great songs too. Looking forward to this.
  10. Boiler/heating engineer recommendation We recently had a new boiler installed by Billy Hunter of Hunter Heating Solutions (who we found via recommendations on the EDF). It was a big piece of work - they had to remove the old back-boiler and gas fire in the living room and install a new combi-boiler in another room in a way that accommodates building work happening next year. They took out the old immersion heater and water tank in the roof too, ran new pipes hither and thither, cleaned up after themselves... And following some remedial work by Transco (the pressure from the gas mains was too low - nothing to do with Billy's work), we now have a fully working boiler and a house that's warm. Billy responded quickly to emails and came round to talk us through options a second time when we decided we wanted to change the location for the incoming boiler. He may not be the cheapest on the market, but we got three contractors to visit, one never gave us a quote at all and another gave a higher quote, so Billy's quote was the lowest in our case and we are very happy with the work he and his colleagues have done. Happy to answer PMs if you want more information. Billy's contact details: [email protected] 07986 296453
  11. Looks great. Are you doing wreath-making sessions this year, or have I missed them?
  12. There is the Parkhall business centre in West Dulwich. May not be close enough to suit and it is geared to people who want to rent an office space, rather than a desk. Not sure about what constitutes expensive but some prices of available spaces in this link. https://www.workspace.co.uk/workspaces/parkhall/spaces/pe-d119
  13. Thanks to all who have replied. I have a few tradespeople who have put themselves forward. If anyone has had someone in to do similar work then I would be happy to hear their recommendations. Otherwise, I will work my way through the list, especially where I can see other recommendations for the tradespeople on EDF, checkatrade or similar forums. (For info, the work would probably need to be carried out sometime in July). BigED
  14. Hello, We will need a qualified electrician to install an armoured cable running from the house to the site of a new shed at the end of the garden. Total length likely to be 12-13 metres. If you have had someone do something similar for you, or know someone who does that kind of thing, please let me know. Thanks, BigED
  15. Hello We need a couple of quotes for some basic demolition and concreting. The job will involve: - breaking up and removing a concrete path base (probably 9m x 0.5m) - breaking up and removing an existing concrete base (for a concrete slab shed we are demolishing ourselves)- approx 2m x 2.5m (depth not known) - skip hire for disposal of concrete - laying a new concrete base in a new position, about 3.5m x 3m x 0.1m (10cm) deep If you have had someone do something similar and were happy with their work, or you know of somebody good who does this sort of thing, please let me know. I am putting in a separate post for laying an armoured cable to run electrics from the house to the back of the garden. It is a separate job requiring a qualified electrician, but it is part of the same project. If you (or someone you know) can do both then just let me know. Thanks very much, BigED
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