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Having read all of the Dulwich Helpline information I personally do not think that their help is what the East Dulwich Forum members had in mind, they are long term help and the voulunteers have to be vetted as they spend many hours in peoples homes. All persons that are involved are vetted and a period of two weeks notice must be given prior to some of the requests. As I recall it was suggested eleven months ago that an emergency help group could be formed to offer help to a close neighbour in the bad weather and snow, to clear a path or get urgent shopping, or in another unexpected emergency to respond immediatly, Not to have a permanent group available at all times. It is now nearly a year that this was voiced and no definate action has been taken to form a group. Would it be appropreiate to ask interested persons to put forward their names to act in a group to create it, and what position would suit them. If nobody does offer their services then those who voulunteered to clear snow or do shopping should join one of the already existing groups.

To form a Help link it must be run by trusted people who the members have formed the opinion that they are worthy to be trusted with their personal details. One person the Coordinator should have a detailed knowledge of the area having used all the roads in ED, and seen the buildings there, and is available at most times. A list of the members who are willing to give help should be kept off line this would only be members User name & Post code. A form of help that that person is willing to offer. Have they any skills to do a quick but safe mend? The times that it is available. ( some work at night ). A person wanting help would have to give their house number and Post code this would enable the helper to go on Google Maps and see that house and assess the type of house and the layout. Look at a hypothetical message for help. Please can you help me? I live at number 3 Dulwich Rise Gardens, my electric fuse has blown I am very cold Sorry to call you but I am 86 and cant get to the fuse box. My phone number is XXXXXXXXXX. Action taken by Volunteer recipient ; Types 3 Dulwich Rise Gardens into Google Maps Search, Full address comes up as Dulwich Rise Gardens Southwark, London SE22 8LS, cant be seen on road map as it is not on main road, go to satellite mode the house can be seen down passageway through a high iron gate between two houses no?s 190 & 192 Lordship Lane, the style of house is built about 1890 so electric meter will be just inside front door, meter of old type that uses a wire fuse. Post copy of request and findings of this to the nearest Volunteer, ask for reply to be assured that help is on the way. When Problem is solved the request message with callers address be removed from Message Board, but held in records. As Samuel4 attended now resolved; 12. 30 pm 8.12 2010. Until the Volounteers group can be set up it is possible to look at the persons who have said they are availabe in their messages to go to Private messages at top of the page and select that person and send your message. Or if you are volounteering I could start by making a list, if told the service offered.

The actions of some of the Protesters have now caused any sympathy to their support lost. To attack any person going about their own personal pleasure in a place away from the place of protest, is just actions of thugs. These persons that do the damage are seen on closed ciruit TV, that will identify them, and if found guilty could be convicted under laws regarding attemps on the Royal Hair to the Throne that are still in use. Will they object when the verdict is OFF with his head?

There are Cults in East Dulwich but they do not wish to be widely known, so you will have Difficulty finding them.

The Post is now arriving again that includes seven Charities that requests for a donation. The combined basic sum asked for exceeds my whole weekly Pension, take into consideration that I am offered the option of making these a permanent Monthly Direct Debit should I make the donations I would have no money at all. I am not against Charities, but I am one of those who ask how much did it cost to send a request? There is the cost of the stamp / paper / envelope, forty self adhesive printed with your addressed label?s, a Biro pen, a letter that has the actual request and payment details, once all the typing has been done the placing of these items in the envelope and sealing them taking to the post has used some man hours. My own conclusion is that they have already far too much money to waste, to ask near Christmas will find that many will not even consider donating. So mine go in the bin. The eleven catalogues for clothing, Saga household aids, holidays abroad, Garden Plants, Insurance, letter from the Doctors Surgery telling me I had not called yet for the Flu Injection, ( no mention that I had not in fact been to the surgery for eleven years). A Christmas card to my cat from the vet, he will probably add that cost to my next Bill. A Christmas card from the milkman that acts to remind me to leave a two pound coin out for him with his card. Six Christmas cards from my ex army pals these I look forward to, but must remember those who have now lost their wives and not add their names on the cards I design myself and make and send this year. Just bought fifty second class Stamps Sixteen pounds, afraid that will be all I can send this year. All I need now is for the snow chains to come off my zimmer to be back to normal.

Those who have done the LOTTO Draw none of them could find my numbers.

It might be brought to the attention of the person accepting a Voluntary offer from the East Dulwich Forum Volunteers that is accepted that any snow cleared from the pavement to the front door, and deposited on other parts of the garden is done so without knowing what lies beneath the lying snow, should any garden ornament or plant or any other item become damaged, the person offering this help will not be held responsible. There is no guarantee that the path that is cleared is safe to use. It might be better to have a list of those who are interested in helping so that help can be asked for rather than us going out seeking potential people to help. It might even help if the contact was Shown at Dulwich helpline

The East Dulwich Forum Community Volunteers. Snow Clearing. A volunteer must live very close to any person they want to help, simply for the reason they themselves will be effected by the snow, so cant expect to get far, it is more likely that the person will know you or at least have seen you about, and trust you. It might be best to confine yourself to just a block between two named roads. What is needed is a list of the things we need to know. What place are you prepared to clear? Answer could be: Lordship Lane between Pellatt Rd & Heber Rd ( I choose this as it is a hill ). Do you have a shovel or hard bass broom. Answer Broom but no shovel. When are you available? Answer Weekend How can you be contacted? Mobile Phone No XXXXXX or EDF Message board. If you cant help clean would you make the clearers a hot drink or allow your toilet to be used by the cleaners? _______________ The East Dulwich Forum Community Volunteers. Emergency Shopping Those who would offer help by getting emergency shopping. How much shopping could you offer to get for them? If you do call on a person before going off to get what they want make sure they have heating and no other problems. Make sure that you have a means of paying for the goods bought, and get a receipt to show how much things did cost. It might be sensible not to take them with you to the shops in the frozen snow. Get their Phone number so that you can arrange another visit later, old people like to know that there is a person ready to help out there just a phone call away. A list of volunteers should be made, to keep your identity private here, I would suggest just giving a Phone number. Should this arrangement work perhaps we could list who was helped for the future.

Jeremy Kyle! Do you think that a real person would sit there and be humiliated like he does to them, if you look at this programme often you will see the same participants in the chair. Lie Detector Test as they are only acting how could a genuine result be obtained? If I were put through his abusive atitude he might find himself wearing my Zimmer as a Vest.

Thank you all for posting all those packets of my favourite sweet Jelly Babies through my letterbox, I can't get the front door open, can somebody poke a walking stick through and push them away a bit. The Blackpool Rock is nice but gets a bit sticky sucking it, it fell on the floor the cat got it's hair stuck to it, that will keep it warm.

Would you take your pet to Paddy of Emmerdale to treat yout pet? Or any of the Mechanics in that garage that don't seem to have had any training to fix your car brakes, then drive out over the hills & sharp bends of the Yorkshire Dales.

From my point of view it should be what New so called Comics would you BAN. and the singers that have only one word or a line repeted over and over. The supposedly Real builders repairing those buildings that were faultly built whose Tradesmen are shown not even holding a saw properly ( with a guide finger )and in close up its another bodge that they have done themselves. Ask Dave? I will need a Six by two box soon, but if I asked him, he would make it triangular.

Had you thought that if you retire all the Old Stars, It would be pitch black on a moonless night.

I was a Carpenter and was called a Chippy. I have always written down my memories, here is one from many moons ago. I did not live on a Housing Estate but here is my veiw of how thing were. Memories of a carpenter I had just joined the Housing Maintenance Department of the Borough Council, as a carpenter, I realise that in any job, the new man gets the less attractive jobs, and my first job was to replace a door that had been forced off, and I was left by the foreman until lunchtime to complete the job. I was let into the house by a woman with a crippled arm, who led me to the back kitchen. A lad was lounging in a chair leaning back against the door. The woman told the lad to move, he did so and the door fell into the room! The woman and lad left. An elderly man wearing a flat cap and smoking a cigarette sat at a table laden with empty milk bottles, lidless jars of sauce and jam, and countless items of crockery and an ash tray filled with cigarette ends, the room was filled with a thick haze of smoke. The gas cooker was sited beside the door. All four gas rings were alight to give heat to the room as it had no door to the garden, I put the new door to the frame to pencil mark it, in order to cut it to size, and singed the hair off of my arm as I reached above the uncovered gas jets. The heat in the upper part of the room was unbearable. I cut the door to fit, put the hinges onto the door and positioned the door to fix it to the frame. But a large deposit of grease from the cooker covered the floor which would have to be removed or the door would never open. I selected a large chisel, and began to dig away at the grease. Once on the chisel the grease would not come off. I said to the man that the grease made it impossible to fit the door. The man did not reply to my remark, just an extra glow on his cigarette! I was getting fed up , My arm with the burnt hair was sore. I decided that I would not remove the grease, but cut an arch in the bottom of the door to pass over the inch of grease to allow the door to open. This I did and hung the door. It fitted perfectly, but for the large gap under the bottom. To remedy this I used the piece of wood I had cut from the door, scraping the grease from my chisel onto it and placing it in the position of the closed door, under the carpet,. It stuck solid, I closed the door. A perfect fit! When the foreman came to pick me up, I told him of the problem, and what I had done. He laughed and said that none of the other carpenters would work in that house! Some of the tenants would never be at home, when I called to do a job. The key would be left in a certain place for me. I would find a note saying ?make yourself some tea and toast, the milk and butter are in the fridge?. Come to think of it, in all the years I worked there, some of them I never did meet, to thank them. People are kind. I was putting on a new door one day , the lady of the house was cooking . She gave me a cup of tea, and asked if I liked bread pudding, I said I did and she gave me a large piece of newly cooked pudding. I took a bite out of it, it tasted a bit fishy so I did not eat it, and when she was not looking I threw it out onto the grass area in front of the house. The dog chased after it and brought it back, and dropped it at my feet just as the lady returned, I had to say that I had dropped it in the dirt. I was to fit a new back door for her the next day, so I asked her if I could look at the old one to make sure that I brought the right type with me in the morning. As I passed through the kitchen, on the table were the remains of kippers and half eaten crusts from the bread. Perhaps this was the fishy taste to my bread pudding? The next day as I worked, at ten o?clock, there was a cup of tea, and Yes, a black piece of bread pudding with shiny glass currants! How could I get out of eating this? If I threw it the dog might bring it back, if I buried it, he might dig it up. When I left the house I wondered whether the birds would have eaten it, or would it become exposed in the Autumn as the leaves fell revealing that piece of bread pudding nailed to the tree in the garden! My next job was to renew a bath panel, on entering the bathroom I saw a dismantled motor cycle in the bath soaking in paraffin. The surface of the bath had been discoloured be the cleaning agents used on the motor cycle. I renewed the panel, but left with oil stained overalls. I think the most unexpected item was a donkey in the living room of a house in Ferry View Rushenden, with a bedroom full of doves. Instead of a door, there was a wire mesh cover to the room, It was covered in feathers, as if there had been a pillow fight. November the sixth, was always a busy time, remaking the wooden gates for the whole estate. The front garden gates had been lifted off from their hinge pins, and burnt ,with the effigies of Guy Faulks, on the bonfires. I would have to measure each space between the gate posts, as nearby tree roots had moved the posts, and make gates to hang on the left or right side posts, I would make a dozen in the workshop, ( we were timed to make one in thirty five minutes, or no bonus). I would take them, to the site and, work my way along each road replacing, a gate at each house. If the powers that be, supplied Garnet hinges this time instead of Strap and pin hinges , these gates could not be lifted off next November fifth.I was kneeling down screwing one of the hinges on, when a man stopped behind me and told me I was wasting my time , as they would be taken and burnt next Guy Faulks night, I said that this was my fifth year replacing these gates. He moved on with his dog, who had just had time to cause rust to my tools in my open tool box. It could be a distressing time to be detailed to change the locks at evictions. At one a woman and a child were removed for rent arrears, the bailiff put out the belongings, furniture, bedding, food, toys, everything, into a heap in the front garden, the clothing lying on the wet grass. The woman left with the crying child to seek accommodation from the Department of Social Services. As I changed the lock on the back door, the rabbit in its hutch was waiting for its food. Who would care for it now? The washing on the line flapped in the breeze. Who would retrieve it for the woman? I changed the front door lock. Before I came away I put the cat out. At least it could be fed outside. I packed up my tools, patted the cat which was sitting beside the new pint of milk on the doorstep. I closed the gate, leaving the abandoned belongings falling to the ground. My foreman collected me, I climbed into the van with a lump in my throat. A tenant of one of the flats that shared a passageway through the block, complained that people were taking a short cut through the corridors, to get to the bus stop, letting the doors slam. I found that during the day somebody would wedge the door open causing the mechanism in the self-closing buffers to strain. When the wedge was removed the doors would slam, causing a nuisance to tenants. A tenant had nailed a rubber heel to the door to silence the impact. I removed the heel and adjusted the door closure mechanism to close silently. On my return to the depot I was told to report to the Housing Officer. A garbled phone message had been received from a tenant, that a carpenter had stolen the sole from his boots. I explained that I removed the rubber heel , which to my mind should not have been placed there as this was Borough Council property. I did have the heel in my tool box, as there being nowhere to dispose of it I brought it back with me. As for me stealing it, there being no boot fixed to the heel, and no person wearing the boot? how could I know who the owner was? I placed the heel on his desk for the Housing Officer to reunite it with its lawful owner, who could then renail it to the door! A call to the toilets at the main road, someone had made holes in the half inch partitions dividing the cubicles, creating peep holes. I had a piece of formica with me and a tin of quick drying glue, so I cut some one inch squares of formica, then moving from cubicle to cubicle, I glued a square over each hole. The last six kept falling off and dropped to the floor, as I refitted one, I saw a pencil come through the hole.A look under the partition revealed a school?s bag and books, and small shoes, and being assured that it was not a very big Docker in the cubicle, in my deepest voice I said ?What do you think you are doing?? No reply, and he didn?t come out. I looked at the tin of quick drying glue, and the door between us, and was tempted. The next day the foreman, who had to inspect my work, had been to town , and asked me why I had not repaired those holes in the partitions, I said had, ?well go and do them again, and take those black Formica squares off of the W.C.pans?. I returned to Town, this time I was going to screw a patch over the holes, outside the toilets on the other side of the road, waited lots of children for their school bus, they seemed to have a secret joke, I looked at their shoes but they were all alike, my pencil pusher was there, but who? The bus pulled away a head popped out of the window, a boy shouted ?It was me HA HA?. I now knew that I had time to let the glue dry, before they came back.

Should you get a frozen pipe that might burst. Do you know where the interior stopcock is situated most are at the entry to the property if you have a cellar it would be there, or most are under a main sink unit. Be ready with buckets and cloths to mop up, move anything away from near the frozen pipe as it will get damaged. Be preparted to keep warm by other ways Gas, or open fire, fill several containers with water as you wont be able to flush toilet or make tea by electric. If you do get a burst remove anything that is moveable off of the floor as water will travel under a carpet and you might not notice until it gets soggy.

Regarding loss of Electricity there has been in the past times when the needs of electric is greater that the supply so a Rota of two hour cuts are announced in advance, if you are grouped with a supply for a Hospital you are less likely to get a cut. So many took the precaution of buying a Paraffin lamp and two litres of Paraffin Oil, and a small Gaz ring and a couple of Gaz cartridges. Now that these will probably be needed, by elderly persons, can they get to them? Are they in the garden shed, down in the cellar, or in the loft. Do they need help to get them? This applies to food many old people have problems bending down or reaching up, they do have tins of food stored away as they have experienced being unable to go shopping in the past, but these items have been stored at the back of the bottom kitchen units, or on high shelves, I now don't keep anything on the bottom or high shelves. Could you help move these to an accessible place? Getting shopping for a neighbour, they might ask you to get some tea, if you asked them to give you just a part of the packet of their tea you will know what make if bags or leaves and how many they buy at a time. So you can buy Yorkshire Tea Gold Blend 160 Bags. If you get them to do this with all the containers they only need hand to you these bits of card or cap off of a bottle. If you are taking someone with you they will only walk slowly, looking at the goods on the shelves in the Super Market the lower cost items are always on the bottom or top shelf both awkward for a rheumatic pensioner. A Pensioner has only limited resources to spend don't encourage them to buy more than they intend. I can only give a list of things that we don't want to run out of: Bread Milk Butter Sugar Tea Bacon Eggs Cooking oil Toilet Rolls Washing up liquid. Baked Beans Spaghetti Peas Potato?s Biscuits Pet food Postage Stamps. When you offer help make it clear that you are helping others and must not be delayed as others are hoping that you can also help them, I know from experience that you might get asked to cut the grass clean windows take the dog for a walk, anyone who is alone likes to have somebody to talk to, but one might take over and you cant share your time. Remember that an old person still thinks in old money most likely the value of money when they went to work about ten years ago, so if they offer you fifty pence it seems a lot to them but not to you. As you are doing it for the person and not to expect payment, I have a way of not refusing their offer, I say can you instead buy me a packet of my favourite sweets Jelly Babies. They are happy to think that they can give you something you like. Regarding any cardboard notice if placed in a window it can only be put down low as they might not be able to reach to the upper window ledge. So you might have to look around any bush or bin.

Years ago when old neighbours needed help, they would put a cardboard with written a ? H ? visibly in a front window. If you could contact these people by calling at their home with something written in large letters to show then through a half open door, it could be on these lines: I am Fred your neighbour from just down the road, I am going shopping would you like me to get you anything, or even come with me. I am willing to get things for you if you need help put a large H in your front window. If you would like your Prescription got from the chemist put a C in window or to post a letter put P. M for milk B for bread. My Phone number is XXXXXXXXX. This worked many times when people trusted one another, possibly they are more cautious now. I have lots of foot prints in the snow up to my front door, but nobody knocked, no Milk or Post and Bin not emptied for two days. No worry I stock up in advance. Only one thing worries me Electricity if that goes I cant keep warm or cook.

I am trying to fit a Gritter to my Zimmer.

It's not me!

Unless you use East Dulwich Station, it?s best not to make it a habit, there might be a smell like a hutch, or at least from a Rampant Rabbit. Perhaps the cleaning arrangements need a little bit more of a reform, not very nice waiting there with a smell lingering along the platform. There is no bin to place items in, deposited left here like dog pooh, walking along mind that you don't find the source whatever you do. It might be sickening to have to put up with a smell similar to cats, though it could be more harmful to trip over the scampering rats. The solution to your problem could be to wear a WII gas mask, you can borrow one from me, as I still have mine, please just ask. Mind how you go and look when you are climbing up the stairs, the unsuspecting could quickly be caught out here unawares. Don?t wait until the last minute to purchase here your Ticket, or you are standing where the smell is at its highest limit. If you really cant put up with the pungent smell that ejects, you could always buy a disinfecting spray from the Vets.

Where did you find a rabbit hutch that hasn't been cleaned out for ages to compare this with? Could it have been left by a Teddy Boy?

They made me one.

Chelsea Hospital Chapel. Bring a little cheer to the Old Pensioners. They could even sing your favorite hymns. All for the price of a drink for each (that's only about 350 In Pensioners ) TEN OLD Soldiers ( Chelsea Pensioners)? Ten Old Soldiers Parading for inspection in a line, one forgot to put his boots on and then there were Nine. Nine Old Soldiers sitting up talking very late, one dropped off to sleep and then there were Eight. Eight Old Soldiers went on a holiday to Devon, one said he'd stay there and then there were Seven. Seven Old Soldiers sparing with swordsticks, one sliced himself in halves and then there were Six. Six Old Soldiers dancing and twisting in the jive one tied himself in knots and then there were Five. Five Old Soldiers leaving through a revolving door, one kept going back and then there were Four. Four Old Soldiers went out on a shopping spree, one did not get there in time and then there were Three. Three Old Soldiers catching the train at Waterloo, one could not get his kitbag in so now there is Two. Two Old Soldiers sitting on the beach in the sun, one got chatted up by a Dolly Bird and then there was One. Just one Old Soldier left thinking what could be done, he went and joined up again and there was none.

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Sometimes the radio is not fitted corretly bypassing the main ignition, when turned to very low tone or silent you might think it is off but it remains on draining your battery, also a door left ajar will leave an interior light on. The heater uses a lot of the energy from the battery is that used a lot?