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Are we copying and pasting threads from 2007? Where is Louisa?

Every year we hold back sweetie goodies for those kids whose good adults were delayed and couldn't make it back in time to escort the little ones around for terrorising duties. This year has been quiet, but if you have a tyke who would like a motherload of tooth-rotting sweeties dropped on their doorstep, we have plenty. PM me or drop by Scutari Rd/Mundania Crossroads for goodies in plenty. We only demand second-born blood or your souls in return. td lr left over sweets available

We've been doing the sweetie thing for the last fifteen years, and we've always kept a bonus bag back for those kids who had to wait for their overworked parents to return and take them out when the party had faded. Breaks my heart. Anyway, if you missed getting home tonight in time, I have a sweet bumper overload I can deliver. PM me, and I will see if I can deliver to you before wake-up time. Peckham Common South, e.g. Colyton and surrounds only.

Is anyone else surprised that the stationary shop has moved?

Our Wickes kitchen is excellent

Yes, makes me sick to the stomach. Posts like this.

yes, I don't use those routes anymore. I bought an electric car, so I'm now on the south circular. Happy days.

Just a heads up that there are NO PUBS OPEN ON FOREST HILL ROAD this Thursday 21 April. Watsons is closed for emergency Maintenance, The Herne for Staff Training, the Clockhouse for maintenance, and Mary's Smack and Crack SpeakEasy for a cleanup operation. We tried to sneak out for a swift half earlier and ended up walking about a mile all in vain. I expect Boris lied about this, as usual.

I'm struggling to understand who these policies are aimed at pleasing. Is it a set of voters, a clique in the conservative party, or party doners? The first I think is diminishing (I hope), the second is already dug in, and the third, well, why?

What the AF? What have we become?

"In addition, building a new bridge further along the track and creating a new footpath from it would necessitate the removal of a significant number of trees. A new footbridge and the associated footpath would be well in excess of ?500,000." Give me strength. Half a million? We are talking dog walkers and a 20-foot gap over 15 feet of bramble and mud. There isn't an active railway or road. It is merely a crossing from one footpath to another. I know I have the experience of decades, but I can now walk around trees rather than, as I did in my youth, walking straight into them, causing myself untold damage and stressing the NHS.

Ours is scheduled for Wednesdays, but Thursday last time. Every year we produce more recycling, and the delivery of packages in cardboard is a huge part of it now. I hate it. Yet there are no local collection points left. When we moved here in 2006 there were big bins all over. They have gone, and it is just blue bins now. Old Kent Road Recycling is still Book in Advance from COVID days. I'd love to have something more like the poubelle concept favoured in mainland Europe. We make different amounts of rubbish each week as households. Why do we need huge bins (3 wheelies here) that might be empty one week, and overflowing the next? I'm getting red in the face and have LBC on speed dial.

I really can't see it. Can someone zoom and screenshot?

It is Rye Bread. Dough!

VotethemoutMay22 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good morning, EDF. Just a reminder about who we > are, which is on our website: > http://votethemoutmay22.org.uk/faqs/ We are a > group of people living on different roads across > the Dulwich area who are fed up with our current > Labour councillors because they are not > representing the needs of the whole community. As > individuals, we support different political > parties at national level, and have voted in the > past for different parties at local level. We have > come together now because we want to get rid of > our Labour-led council, which has pushed through > road closures against the wishes of local people. > Everything we have written about the candidates > comes from information we can find in the public > domain, and we have declared our sources. > When we started the website, we thought we would > know by now who was standing in each ward, and who > would be likely to overturn Labour. Unfortunately, > information is still patchy - we haven't heard yet > who all the candidates are for each party (for > example, in Goose Green). According to Southwark's > website, the last day for people to declare > they're standing for election is 5 April. We will > update our website as soon as we can. Our aim is > to recommend for each ward the candidates most > likely to overturn Labour, whichever party they > represent. > Thank you. I can't find anything about the Moutmay Party, so I'm undecided.

I refused to let my builders start til 16:66. Came home and the place was on fire.

In the 40 years that I've lived in London, I've seen most roads become traffic-free. At the same time, I've seen it become horribly congested. Take a walk, most roads are parked cars, while some roads are barely moving. I've come to the conclusion artificially reducing the permeability isn't right. Get rid of parked cars by making it pointless to store a depreciating asset on the roads, and open all roads again so transport by road is efficient. Funnelling only congests the remaining routes we have, making journeys longer for everyone. A few years ago black cabies would be applauded, by my friends and me, for particularly ingenious routes home. I can't see that happening now unless it is using a bus route. Back then, when roads were shuttered, it was under the guise of safety and stopping rat runs, as all the children had drawn hopscotch in the asphalt and would be mown down. It isn't now. I find cycling any distance now much more frightening than I did in 1990, as I will always need to use the main road, and that main road is the only road. I would be so much happier if we concentrated on reducing car ownership than reducing the available space that those vehicles have to move about. Obviously, I have ALL the answers to these problems and contradictions, but since absolutely no one listens to me I shall go to bed.

It's about twice the size of Zippos. It isn't massive.

I'm so sorry, I think the issue could be down to my small dog, or otherwise, me. He is a black terrier cross, and I'm blonde and about 5'7". He has a constipation problem and walks like a gunslinger while I have the opposite and shuffle like I'm trying to post letters on the Generation Game. If you recognise our description approach with caution, as by Underhill Road anything could blow at any time.

I spotted a glitch that has caused us to book the wrong date on a number of occasions. The site automatically selects the first day with available slots (I think). Last week when I was booking it selected Thursday when I was booking on Tuesday. I then clicked Wednesday and luckily noticed that the date was set to Wednesday the following week. So beware, double-check the booking date.

We've just used Wickes and our fitter said they are the most robust units on the market. The quality is great.

The important thing is to take on board that you will be bullied, even if your client doesn't realise they are doing it. You must set boundaries and refuse to cross them. Don't do endless reworkings, nor should you do any free preliminary sketches on spec. You will only have your own demon, who insists on criticising everything you do, making you do more work to perfect it. Show the client your portfolio, and agree on a budget for the one piece only (not the letterhead and business cards to match the menu). State your revision policy. "I can make x revisions within budget, thereafter I shall charge my rate of x per hour". State firmly your terms of payment. 50% up from (at least), 30% on delivery of final artwork, remainder before production. IF you can do better than this, do so. Do not release any copyright if not necessary. Do not give rights to your artworks away. As to the bottom line, try to aim for a starting price of ?300 a day. [i would pay a really good designer double or more, and I'm in the SME market]. You don't get paid holidays, you don't work when you are looking for work or negotiating, and no one is contributing to your pension. Going any lower screws it for everyone, self-employed or otherwise. Keep calm and professional. If you are a lovely meek soul, try to see if a friend can do the money part for you (chasing payments etc.) If you can keep the crap money monster satisfied in the back office you can let your creative bunnies loose and enjoy what you do, and everyone (even the bill payer) will be happy. I'm not a designer, but have been doing the same sort of stuff for 30 years. Johnie

"the economic and political opportunities of Brexit ? making sure the policy, laws and regulations are helping to boost growth, drive forward innovation and increase competition in the UK." So the opportunities of Brexit are laws and regulations? Who'd have guessed?

Seabag has it

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > An eco chamber for the hard of thinking I thought an eco chamber was a wicker coffin. If so, spot on age demographics, if not funeral planning.