Sue

By post? - Not if you're served by the ED DO (in Peckham) - you could be waiting weeks - just because the post has most recently improved (as it has for me) that is no guarantee that the improvement will hold. I pick my meds from the Day Lewis Pharmacist in Forest Hill Road - they text me when the meds are ready and I just pick them up. Normally within 3 days (or fewer) of putting in the electronic request to the practice. It's true that if the postal service deteriorates again Lloyds Direct wouldn't be the ideal option! I'll cross that bridge when/if I come to it! But Lloyds NCR is my nearest pharmacy, and to the best of my knowledge they don't text when meds are ready.

I still can't understand why people would go to a pharmacy and hang around while a prescription is made up, unless obviously it is urgently needed that day. By post is so much more convenient, unless you are going in the direction of the pharmacy anyway and have other things to do while the prescription is being prepared!

Do you have any particular reason to think your symptoms are due to a B12 deficiency? I've got similar symptoms which have been going on for weeks, and I know it's definitely not due to that. I had blood tests last year for other reasons, and I was told to stop taking Vit B supplements because I had enough Vit B in my body to last two years 😮 I think my symptoms are either due to tree pollen or some kind of allergic rhinitis, possibly dust from all the building work around. Or else one of the many viruses around this year. Have you tried taking an antihistamine?

Lloyds Direct is fine. I get all my medication delivered straight to my door. Very very rarely any problems and that was Royal Mail rather than Lloyds.

Is anybody on here currently using MailChimp? Were you aware that it has been taken over and you now have to pay for emailing more than 500 people? I found this out accidentally. I have just looked at Trust Pilot reviews. One star 😡 Apparently this is from March. Nobody has notified us. I don't know what will happen when I try to send a newsletter this week. Any ideas, anyone? Any other decent free newsletter providers? I don't mind paying, but all this seems very underhand.

Hi Sue, I can see you signed up via the Google form. The email would have been sent on 23rd Feb. Anyone who signed up prior to that date should have had an email sent to them. If you can't see it, let me know and I can resend. Ah ok thank you, I have found it, sorry

Wasn't that service station implicated in some card fraud before,or have I misremembered? It was some years back, and I can't remember the details.

I got mine! Equally shocked!

I saw 2001 when it first came out, and that scene with The Blue Danube in the background was excruciatingly overlong and boring even then 🙄

Can we remove the survey results at the beginning of this thread? They are well out of date now.

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I offered, but nothing in my spam folder 😭

There have been several street parties in Crystal Palace Road. The part of the road between The Actress and what is now The Great Exhibition was closed, with no problem getting council permission. On one occasion the CPR party combined with Ulverscroft Road. My partner and I ran the live music for the CPR parties, and once for Ulverscroft Road. They only stopped because some of the people involved in organising them moved out of the area, and nobody else was interested in helping. The remaining organisers, including us, felt it was too much work for just a few people. I don't think any of them were connected with royal events. We were conveniently out of London for those 🤣

If memory serves, the shop wasn't right on the corner, it was a short way down the street on the left hand side if you are coming from North Cross Road. I'm pretty sure it was in Fellbrigg Road. It definitely wasn't Ulverscroft Road, and there aren't any other roads on that side (I'm sure it was on that side. I bought several things there). I knew the people's names at the time, but I can't remember them now. Sorry, I realise that's no help at all. Unless they miraculously come back to me! I don't think they went online, as they sold off all their stock when they gave up the premises. They were giving it away by the end.

I've got mine ! (Sorry to gloat 🤣) My post seems OK now. If other people are still having problems, I'm wondering if I am being given priority because I complained to the CEO and copied the email to Helen Hayes? Sorry, partly duplicated post.

I've got mine ! (Sorry to gloat 🤣)

That's awful. Have you spoken to the people concerned about the burning plastic in particular? If the council did nothing, you could try asking your councillor to chase it up if it happens again on a regular basis?

This puts our problems in perspective! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/16/letter-lost-in-1916-delivered-in-london-more-than-100-years-later

Please tell me when this very warm water is, so that I can time my visits accordingly!

What a bizarre thing to do. They've got a car. Why couldn't they have taken the chairs to a charity shop selling furniture, or to the council recycling place?

Souvlaki Street moving into the old Blue Mountain premises in North Cross Road.

I think that StChristophers which is a local charity may appreciate it more. They have less admin costs than a huge concern like Oxfam and also make much less money from donations. Unfortunately it is highly unlikely that somebody is going to be in the St Christopher's shop and is looking for a wedding dress and just happens to spot this one. Which happens both to be in their size and a style that they like. Whereas Oxfam online has a much larger number of potential buyers. I bought my partner a linen jacket from there after we had been looking in charity shops for one for ages.

...about what? "The market" produces a lot of toss. It will produce whatever is good for capitalism. It won't necessarily produce what's good for people. Eh?

Oh, either I didn't know or more likely had forgotten about HSBC in Peckham closing. Good idea re local shopkeepers, thanks!

Sorry, duplicate post and I can't see how to delete it