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Siduhe

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  1. Wax or silicon earplugs - only thing that worked for me.
  2. Sadly - the attachment to my post from 2021 didn't survive the forum move, but the original post is here - Others have posted the response from councillors above, to the effect that the report had been issued in error and CPZs would not be introduced without local agreement. Part of the reason I'm particularly irked is that I put in an FOI request at the time, which was eventually turned down on the grounds that the document was a draft and not Council policy. I did get a copy of the attached document which refers to a "recommendation" to introduce a borough-wide CPZ, so this has been policy formulated since at least then. Public reports pack 09032021 1830 Environment Scrutiny Commission.pdf
  3. I remember that. It wasn’t consulted on but was referred to in an internal Southwark report attached to some Council minutes. I posted the timetable for introducing the borough wide CPZ from the report on here but then the Southwark report which mentioned it was withdrawn, with councillors saying it was not formal policy and had been issued in error. Let me see if I can find the post.
  4. I read that as saying that the cost of the entire Southwark events team, which organises and puts on all the Southwark events that are publicly available for us to attend was £244k which was entirely met by income from commercial events with £22k left over. So the commercial events are paying for Southwark to put on all the other events which we would otherwise either pay for from council tax or simply not have available to residents.
  5. Lime in particular do seem to have upped their game recently. They now have a review of the photos that you have to take when parking - and they send follow up warning emails and are starting to fine users who persistently park badly. I got a warning email last week - not for a ride I had taken mind (and when I got in touch they acknowledged it wasn’t my photo or my ride they were following up on) but it seems to be a “one warning email and then we start fining you” process. Not sure what happens if you don’t take a proper photo of your parking…
  6. Well, I've stumbled on a solution...extreme but it works. Mr Hurtlepuss and I have moved up North for a bit for work reasons, so I've had to put a post redirection in place from ED. To be fair, it's a much more automatic system than it used to be (so your post is diverted before it gets to your local sorting office, rather than the sorting office collecting it and batching it up to forward on) but the difference is astonishing. We get post diverted from ED regularly and it arrives just a day or two after it was sent. It's like having a proper postal service. I don't know if we are just very lucky to have moved to an area where there is a good postal service, but it's like night and day in terms of regular and timely deliveries. Which does tend to suggest this is still an ED/Peckham Sorting office issue at heart.
  7. Southwark has been pressing for the site to be redeveloped as a community centre and affordable housing for over five years. It’s the Dulwich Estate who is holding out for a high-end residential development. I criticise Southwark a lot but on this, they are being proactive and community minded. But with no actual power to make it happen.
  8. Siduhe

    Air fryer

    I’ve looked at getting one several times and I think it really depends on a) how much you will use it and b) how much space you have in your kitchen. They take up a fair amount of room and need regular cleaning if you want to use them for different types of dishes and not have leftover taste in the next dish. If you have space to store easily and think you would use it for more than chips (!) then lots of people I know absolutely love theirs. I have limited counter top and cupboard space, and I use my slow cooker/pressure cooker/all in one type machine a lot, so I’m sticking with that as my one bit of kitchen real estate for the moment.
  9. Marks and Spencer on the Walworth road? They definitely have some suits. Not sure how big the selection is post-pandemic but right price point.
  10. I think there's a difference between expecting some flexibility during the period when the room was offered (Monday to Friday) and/or agreed to be rented (Monday to Wednesday) vs. expecting the room to be kept for his exclusive use when he wants it, including outside those periods, which is what it sounds like he is saying. I think you're on strong grounds to say that you can be flexible Monday to Friday as advertised but not at weekends and any agreement for him to stay on a Sunday needs to be specifically agreed in advance at the start of the week. Just because he isn't there one night doesn't mean he's entitled to a different night of his choosing unless it works for you.
  11. The road part of Wood Vale is definitely managed by Southwark. I have been on a one woman mission to get the crossing points on Wood Vale reopened after Conway did all the pavement work in March/April and put up barriers across them, but didn't remove the barriers when the pavement works finished. Various residents moved the barriers aside assuming this was an oversight, but they mysteriously kept being replaced. After god knows how many enquiries and Fix My Street complaints, finally got to the bottom of the issue. The new crossing points were installed in anticipation of the road being immediately resurfaced. Southwark put the timetable back for resurfacing to end 2022, and H&S at Southwark determined that the crossing points weren't safe to use until the road was resurfaced - due to the height difference between the pavement and (un-resurfaced road). I suggested maybe, just maybe, they could put some temporary tarmac ramps to bridge the gap between road and pavement and let everyone use the crossings until the road was resurfaced - which didn't appear to have occurred to anyone as a solution. Of course, as soon as they did that and opened the crossings, Southwark managed to bring the resurfacing and other works forward to August. As part of all that, Lewisham confirmed they didn't have responsibility for decisions relating to the road and crossings which was the main point of this email. Thank you for listening to my rant though... ;-)
  12. Does your phone support a virtual SIM? If so, I use YeSim pay as you go esim for overseas travel. It’s an app/virtual sim that you can use travelling anywhere in the world - tonnes cheaper than paying roaming and data charges in a lot of countries (outside Europe). It can be a bit fiddly to set up and you need to remember to switch the YeSim line on for data and your usual data provider off when you land but once it’s set up you can use it anywhere. There are lots of other providers who can do similar, esp for Australia.
  13. It's a variation on a theme but we have a neighbour who walks with his dog past most days and drops his poo bags into our neighbours' green bins - it's a small block of flats so there are 3 green bins. But add two bags a day for 14 days and the bin absolutely stinks, esp in hot weather. It's incredibly frustrating as he's been asked not to several times, but carries on doing it. If you go out and eyeball him as he walks past, he crosses the road and drops it someone else's green bin but it's the same sort of theme - leave it for anyone else to deal with...
  14. Siduhe

    Gas bill

    As far as I can see, all the earlier readings were estimated and it's only recently that your meter has been read. So there's a chance that your earlier bills were based on wildly inaccurate (low) estimated readings and you've been underpaying for your previous two quarters, which is why this bill is so high - it's not that you are using more gas, it's just that you haven't paid for the gas you were using in the prior two quarters. That said, even if you average out the cost over the three quarters (you are using the equivalent of £69 per month averaged out over the year), it still looks a bit high usage to me for a 1 bed flat.
  15. Same for ours - regularly picked up a day later than scheduled at the moment. It does mean we need to keep our bin out and accessible for an extra day, as we don't know when it will get picked up.
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