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Obviously I can't speak for them, but they have been a forum member for some years, and none of their other posts imply a connection with the council.

Yes, Greene King doesn't bode well, does it. Unless their ale has significantly improved from what I remember. It used to be like dishwater.

To be fair, a pot of tea for one in a department store is a small pot, and you only get one cup or mug!

I know - we have been here lots of times since it first opened, which is why we were disappointed that it was closed at a time it was supposed to be open, but with no notice to say why! I guess we will just have to ask the reason at our next visit, but I'm not sure we will risk Saturday lunchtime again unless we find the closure was an unavoidable one off ....

There is far too much of it to go back and read it again. Because you haven't quoted my post, your post doesn't make it clear that you haven't answered my questions. Are you not able to answer them?

"Continued obfuscation"? By who? What was it, exactly? These assertions which were "questioned and countered " - did the questioning and countering actually demonstrate that the assertions were wrong?

I'm getting "document unavailable" when I click on that link?

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Do you know if they had been open at lunchtime? I didn't think they had closed down, just wondered why they hadn't been open at a time when they still had Saturday lunchtime opening included on the opening times in their window.

Thank you. I've signed. Good luck. It does seem very sensible. I had no idea the buses involved even existed!

This is tonight! If you love singing but don't (yet) have the confidence to sing alone in front of other (friendly!) people, we also have a session for "shy singers", also Upstairs at the Castle, at 6pm before the main Singaround starts. We won't be asking you to sing by yourself (unless you feel ready to). This is free, but if you would like to come to the main Singaround afterwards, that is £5 (see the post above for more details). If you would like more information about this, please message me on here or via our website https://www.thegooseisout.com

I said "descriptions/insults". Whether you think an insult can never be warranted depends on your viewpoint, I suppose. Sticks and stones etc etc. You said they were "accusations", which so far as I can see they weren't. The apparent misinformation you have posted has been well documented and responded to already on the thread, so I don't see any point at all in repeating it. I'm not sure quite what territory you think I am straying into? I'm definitely in the territory of being quite tired of an argument going round in seemingly never ending circles. And yes, I know I don't have to read it, and yes, I have many better things to do and yes, I am regretting ever having got involved 🤣

Signed, and I will share it elsewhere, thank you for posting this. It's got nearly 70,000 signatures at present, and apparently runs till February.

Those aren't "accusations", are they? They are descriptions/insults. Which may or may not be warranted. You might not like them, but they aren't relevant to the subject of the thread, and bringing them up now is just deflecting attention from the actual fact that you have knowingly or unknowingly apparently posted misinformation on here. Before anybody else says it first, no I don't know either why I'm posting like the self-appointed forum police. I will try to stop 😀

Please could you make the website a link?

I'd have thought they could use some of their income from hiring out a large part of Brockwell Park in the summer (therefore, as I understand it, preventing local residents from using much of it) to put on a firework display there in the autumn which might somewhat make up to those residents for the previous loss of use of the park. And also generate goodwill.

Clicking on your name, I see you've made seven posts on here since you joined around four years ago, and they've all been about local libraries. And none of the posts are very pleasant. Care to share with the rest of us where your particular interest in libraries comes from? Do you work in one of them?

Not sure what you mean by "involved with firework enjoyment"? I'm all for others enjoying themselves, and I like fireworks, but if they were limited to public displays then people could still enjoy them? Having said that, I see that tickets for the London New Year fireworks start at £20 (Dawson's Heights it is, then!) The fireworks in Brockwell Park used to be free. I don't know why those don't happen any more?

I think the only way to sort this is to ban loud fireworks for private sale (and preferably ban fireworks altogether except for public displays). I don't know whether that has implications I'm not aware of eg I have no idea how many people are involved in firework manufacture.

I can see my post fell on totally deaf ears then. Hey ho. I tried. I genuinely think it is a real shame that there are people - possibly a lot of people, but obviously I have no way of knowing - who won't post on this forum because of the toxicity of some of the threads, and by implication some of the posters. There is a difference between having a discussion based on proven facts (or based on opinion clearly stated as opinion), and a ding dong argument based on unproven "facts" which one of the protagonists would like to believe are true (or knows/suspects they are not true but cites them anyway because they "back up" his side of the argument). And appears to think that this is amusing. It isn't. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that it brings this forum into disrepute. I also think that some posters seem quite unaware that they are accusing people of things that they themselves are doing. Or of being what they themselves are. It's called projection, if memory serves.

Sorry, which ones are the good lads? Kwik Fit?

I agree with all that apart from the "long may it continue" bit 🤣 "Many of us"? How many? And your evidence for that is ....?

Closing down completely. The lovely people there are all retiring. Thanks, but Deptford is a long way to go to make two journeys to take and collect a car! Do they not do even relatively minor repairs if it fails its MOT first time? Then that would require four journeys 😭 Wondering if there's already a thread on here for garage recommendations? People on my road WhatsApp group have recommended some local ones. I'm particularly gutted because apart from the lovely people who worked there, Dell was a five minute walk for me!

I did think that might be the reason, but five years out of seven it's going to be a weekday (I think. Not sure how leap years might affect things!)

Why do you think he should be toast? All these problems with the prison service apparently go way back, long before Labour took over.