Sue

How much would you have to use the air fryer to recoup its cost in energy saving? I read that it's cheaper to batch cook - fill the oven and then freeze what you don't use immediately, in suitable sized portions for the number of people who will eat them. Obviously this assumes that you have a freezer with spare capacity. You can also do this with stews, stir fries etc cooked on the hob. Once frozen, you can either let them thaw naturally before you reheat them, or if you are in a hurry microwave them (not in the same container. You can briefly run the container under a tap to loosen the contents, then put them in another dish). I don't much like cooking, so I've been doing this for years, not to save money, but to get a load of cooking done in one go. I can see in some cases cooking in an air frier might be healthier, but only if you are currently eating a lot of unhealthy deep fried foods, I would have thought?

Stradella Road runs between Dulwich Village and Herne Hill, so if it is correct that he is moving to that road, it would depend which end of the road it was.

I have a manhole cover over a drain in my front garden, and it is definitely Thames Water's responsibility up to the road. In fact they fairly recently repaired the drain and installed the manhole cover. Whether you can actually get to the right Thames Water department and then actually get them to do the repair is another matter entirely. I had been trying to get them to repair the drain for some time. The broken drain had been identified during resin injection work beneath my front bay It took a sewage overflow in my case. They said they only did repairs if something like that happened 🙄 I imagine in your case it's a safety issue, so maybe they will respond more quickly. Good luck!

Same here, and I too received a load of post all at once after not having had any for ages. I'm in the North Cross Road area.

Thank you for posting this.

When was it a Woolworths?

Seems to be OK now, thanks!

Wondering if you have read the rest of the thread? "Endure" ???

The graffiti in the skate park has been done by the skateboarders themselves, to the best of my knowledge.

They kept the door closed for some time for Covid reasons.

Other people who live in the flats have welcomed the skateboard park and community garden for the opportunities it is giving to (mostly young) members of the local community. Are you saying it (and the recent excellent play put on there, supported by the Arts Council) is not "meaningful"? How do you define "meaningful" in this context? Are you saying there was no noise when it was a pub car park and garden? Are you saying there is no noise from the traffic on the South Circular? I pass the skateboard park frequently, and quite often there is nobody there at all. I see you only have two posts on this forum, so it wouldn't seem that you are greatly involved with the local community yourself 🙄 Also, graffiti is a recognised art form.

There is one receptionist at The Gardens who from past posts on here seems to be renowned for her behaviour and attitude. I can't understand how she is still in the job. I changed my practice to The Gardens during lockdown, following a recommendation. I have no issues with the GPs, or with getting appointments (for anything potentially serious, I have always got one very quickly, and for anything not serious I am happy to wait). But my first visit there (the introductory session, or whatever it's called, with a nurse) nearly resulted in my turning round, going home, and registering somewhere else. I rang the bell. Nobody came to the door. This went on for a very long time. Eventually someone appeared, snapped at me "take a seat", and disappeared again. There was nobody else in the waiting room. Stupid me. I sort of thought that she would say something like "Oh, you are a new patient, aren't you? Welcome! The nurse will see you soon, meantime please take a seat." But no. Whilst I was waiting for my appointment, a very elderly woman on two sticks was kept outside ringing the bell for a very long time before the same receptionist eventually let her in. In retrospect, I'm not sure why I didn't just let her in myself. When I was there for a subsequent appointment, one of the other receptionists had to retrieve some paperwork to give me, which she eventually found filed in two separate places rather than all together under my name. When she mildly asked the first receptionist (the non door opening one) why she had not kept my papers together, she got the snapped reply "I'm doing my best." Surely the practice manager, GPs and nurses must be aware of this? People have been posting on here about it for ages, as well. It is just not acceptable for someone in this kind of role. I posted on here once before about this, and someone PMed me to say she had had similar experiences with one of the receptionists. She asked me to describe her, which I did, and it was clearly the same woman. BTW in terms of communicating with the surgery, I have found they reply quite quickly to emails, if you are able to use email.

I passed through Herne Hill recently, and saw a community notice board which appeared to be in pristine condition and with up-to-date notices in it. What a difference.

I'm assuming you live in a great big house with a great big front garden and loads of space to store your completely non-smelly bins? I expect you have one of those purpose-built bin stores, and you employ somebody to wait around until the bin people arrive, who can nip out as soon as the bins have been emptied, and put them back in your luxury bin store? Please spare a thought for those who aren't so lucky 🙄

Crikey, I wasn't expecting so much interest! These are all spoken for now, sorry!

It's because he doesn't like interruptions when he is working. He has a mobile number which is on the door of his workplace in Pellatt Road, which he will answer (the call). At least he did me. Sadly he was abroad on holiday at the time 🤣 You have to book an appointment online via his website, or else put a note through the door on Pellatt Road. He also only opens that if he is expecting someone. Don't be put off, he is very friendly and helpful and knows his stuff.

Thanks Joe, I'll try that and let you know the outcome!

Does anyone know if Sainsbury's plastic recycling will take blue IKEA bags? I presume IKEA will take them, but I have no plans to visit IKEA in the near future, and I seem to have accumulated eleven of them 😮 Alternatively, can anybody make use of them? I will keep two or three of them, but I would like to recycle the rest!

We went to this on Sunday afternoon, having been lucky enough to get tickets. It was absolutely brilliant. The acting was outstanding. It was hard to believe that none of the actors were professional, and we were told that the whole thing had been put together in eight weeks. Excellent direction and costumes, too. We would happily have paid for the tickets! It was also great to see the garden at the back. What an incredible amount of hard work had gone into clearing a site which we were told had been covered in fly tipped rubbish, head high brambles and worse, and creating a beautiful and productive flower and vegetable garden. What a contrast to the way the pub and its grounds have been left to deteriorate over the years by apparently greedy and self-interested people only out to make money by building luxury flats for the benefit of a few. I suppose at least we may finally get the pedestrian crossing at that junction, so that the owners of the luxury flats can cross the road 😡

I am constantly having to log in, even though I ask the page to "remember me". Am I doing something wrong?

I've completed it, but why is only one response possible for how you "use" Dulwich? If you shop there, can't you visit friends as well, etc?