Alex K

Does a dog or cat live with you? Its sheddings are a banquet for moth larvae. Hoover vigorously and often.

No improvement yet. Green light, bus lane; no bus anywhere around; and non-bus car-park all the way up Dog Kennel Hill.

Mason Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is really sad that someone wishes to in fact > ruin a business that has been so good within the > community and surrounding areas over one bad > experience. Problems happen, and it happens to the > best of us. What used to happen before the days of > the forums would be to deal with this at source, > to complain and maybe view at some recompense it > might be more fruitful. If nothing happens then > and you receive no help at this stage, then > possible complaints could be made to these sort of > forums, but not as a blatant defamation of a > company. I am so happy that Hamish has so many > loyal followers, and think posters like the OP > just are spiteful. How many times has one waited > for an engineer or a delivery from a larger > company to come and have wasted a day. Well suck > it up it happens. So go through the procedure, > phone your gripe through, and deal with it in a > civil manner rather as an agressive business > hating poster. Mason -- no wish to ruin a business. A wish, instead, to spare others annoyance and frustration. "Suck it up", the mustn't-grumble attitude that leaves things no better than they were? Not my way. "Defamation"? No. My experience, factually reported. And, you'll note if you scroll through the postings, acknowledged as factually reported by Hamish Lodge. Glad for Hamish Lodge and others who have employed him that their interactions have been different. Good luck to them, and to him.

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > AlexK has been posting on the forum in February > and hasn't deigned to respond to all of the > rebuttals on here > > Speaks badly of him/her ... Sorry, StraferJack. I didn't flag this thread as one for which I was to be apprised of follow-up posts. Hence the silence. I had a remarkably bad experience with Hamish Lodge. I reported my experience. Others' experience seems to have differed. Good for them, and, I'm sure, for Hamish Lodge. To recap: Although he had several routes through which he might have made contact with me to say, "I can't make our appointment today," he used none of them. Instead: I took a day off work, since I'd never seen him at work and wanted to ensure that errors in communication didn't lead to mutilation of the tree to be trimmed -- and was left cooling my heels awaiting him; he never showed up. And although Hamish Lodge writes above -- "I apologise again to Alex for the inconvenience caused. As explained I was ill in bed for three days and lost my voice. Despite this I should have informed you in advance as I did for a majority of my customers but you were unfortunately missed." -- losing his voice shouldn't have kept him from sending an e-mail. Has he pulled up his socks since, is he dealing better with others after I voiced my unhappiness? Perhaps. But the Hamish Lodge with whom I had dealings is a man whose word is not good. It's all water, or blood, under the bridge. Good luck to Mr Lodge and to those who hire him.

Semi-ginger, bird's-nest beard? Bit different from the OP's description. But. One never knows. I've never harvested more than a "God bless you" from the ED station bloke after a "Sorry, no". TD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's a guy outside East Dulwich station > everyday at about 6pm. He sits outside the bike > lockers. He starts off with a polite request but > if you don't give anything he becomes abusive. Not > sure if it's the same guy

Shell, we've been here for fourteen years. We like it. Nothing like having Sainsbury's DKH Superstore as your corner shop. The houses indeed are small. So are the gardens. But perhaps for a woman in middle age -- you write that your mother might be interested in settling here -- less carpet to hoover, less lawn to trim. When we arrived, the owners around us were a mix of buy-to-let landlords, older downsizers, and young folks starting up their families. Some of the last have moved on to gain space, some have built out their lofts. A few of the downsizers have said, Time to sell up and head for a bungalow on the coast... the knees aren't what they used to be. Among the houses that are tenanted rather than owned, most are well-kept-up, to judge by exterior paint and trimness of plantings. More trig, certainly, than many a terraced street off Lordship Lane. The renters are family-starters or young professional couples scraping together a deposit for somewhere else. I truly like having the children about, scootering their way off to school and back. It's quiet here. The 8DJ postal code, backing onto the railway line and the patch of "amenity land", may hear the trains. We on the other side of Abbotswood, in 8DL, hardly notice them. Road traffic isn't a bother. Downside? Most houses have off-street parking, so finding a spot for your car is not an issue. Some weekends to negotiate the enfilade of visitors to the boot sale on the playing fields has been tedious. Now and again the football club makes a bit of a racket. Also: No telling what things will be like if the profiteers who have bought it succeed in knocking it down and packing more houses into the area. Have a look around. The houses are built to several different plans -- check Zoopla listings to acquaint yourself with the options. One of them surely will suit. Good luck!

?75 asked; came when promised, affable, efficient. Will use again. 0788 264 2799, based in Bermondsey. Thank you, Garry!

^ Otta -- some years ago I came back disgusted from a Gourmet Burger Kitchen evening and reported on the Forum that they wouldn't cook my burger rare. "Health and safety." As I wrote then, that policy makes sense if you're plating up abattoir floor-sweepings. With avocado and pineapple. A little later that bloke with the van who did pop-ups at the Rye, and went on to establish MeatLiquor, emerged onto the scene, and any temptation to give GBK another try vanished utterly.

And again this afternoon, their shouts of raucous joy calling all of us to the garden windows. My partner stepped outdoors, holding up a walnut meat. One of the parakeets hopped a few branches lower to inspect the offering, and the offerer. After a moment or two of sceptical conversation, reports sent and responses received, away they went.

Thanks to Seemster / RWellman. Much appreciated. The assets DO include real property, not just financial instruments. A bit of a slog ahead -- but with your help, I'm forewarned... and I trust forearmed.

Green and blue and gold, two of them, acrobatics on the walnut-tree branches, nibbling away the mespil buds. So lovely.

Turn up tomorrow and ask him.

Sacrilegious. "Religious" always creeps in.

Blah Blah, you surprise me. No "crash cart" at a GP surgery? "Little a GP can do in case of a deterioration" -- intubate the airway, start a drip for administration of inotropes, surely? Can it be that a GP surgery is not equipped with a laryngoscope, endotracheal tube, manual-ventilation equipment...? Minor surgery is undertaken at GPs' hands routinely. GPs would be sorely remiss not to be able to intervene in case of an adverse reaction to an anaesthetic (even a topical anaesthetic). If DMC have no such equipment on hand, all the more reason to stay away from them.

In early 2014 Jan PERROTT did a lovely job -- posts and a few panels -- with our fence. Silver Fern Landscapes - professional landscaping services - Jan Perrott 5 Oakview Road SE6 3QF Phone 07905-950-686 Email [email protected] Website www.silverfernlondon.co.uk If you want to see his work, PM me and we'll set up a time for you to pop by.

Various legacies have given us assets in the US and in Europe -- and of course in the UK. How can we find solicitors able to advise us on tax avoidance as we make our wills? I know: Jammy b*stards. (Yes. Not our doing, though, we just chose our aunts and uncles well.) Tax-dodgers. (No. Avoiders.) All that out of the way, has any Forum reader had good help in a similar situation? If so, what was the help? Or -- how did you go about finding that help?

Perhaps to re-file your comment is in order?

Shuffle on up to Dragon Castle, the 40 stops outside its door, just before the railway overpass at Elephant 'n' Castle. Don't bother looking for a place to park in the vicinity. But that's why we have the 40, innit?

Thanks for this. MiniViking, any photographs to share? MiniViking Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I had some bedroom furniture made recently by > Rafal Lubecki of RWL Carpentry (07749443569) and > as I found him via a recommendation on this forum > I thought I'd pass on the recommendation for > anyone else looking. I have been really pleased > with the end result - solid, well-made furniture > at a reasonable price and delivered on time and to > the design I requested. > > I wouldn't hesistate to recommend him to others.

chazzle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are no new public comments shown since > Thursday. I guess that means the comments are > moderated and will appear after they've been > checked. How odd! I received an e-mail acknowledging my comment...

That photo: A "jolie ? pied" in which everyone can take pleasure. Good news.

I do wonder if Louisa has lived on both sides of the parent / child divide. Each of us will have been a child. Not all of us will have been parents. Easier to recommend that someone practise tough-love than to practise it oneself, I suspect. As I moved into my twenties my parents hovered, and clucked, and attempted over and over again to put in their oar... and however bothersome that all seemed at the time, I do very much wish that they were still here to pester me. It was love.

Comment submitted, text as below: I question the claim that the cottages to be destroyed are not of architectural or historical merit. In their present context, I contend, they are very much worth preserving as a unit. The railway station is an important entry into East Dulwich. The three cottages along Railway Rise, viewed from the down-train platform and walkway, are a charming reminder of our local history. Perhaps that view will be lost as what was once the garden centre's yard is occupied by a modern building. Even after that loss, however, to demolish two of the cottages and to set in their place a disproportionately large and certainly clashing structure is, I believe, to squander a valuable asset. Our goal should be to conserve rather than to discard, and with that in mind I hope that the proposal to tear down those cottages will be DENIED.

Might the OP simply have been trolling? She might be serious -- but so might an OP asking, "Should I teach my children about evolution?" Vaccinate them? Yes. Also, regardless of appearances, the Earth DOES go around the Sun, not the Sun around the Earth -- neither of which, by the way, is flat.

I suppose that we shall never know.