Sue

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Amazon drivers have been really good recently at > ringing me while I'm out. I normally tell them to > leave the packages with my neighbour. How do they have your number???

Can't Lebara help?

I have never seen any berries on the ginko trees planted in East Dulwich, so I presume they are male. However ... https://homeguides.sfgate.com/ginkgo-tree-berries-stink-56020.html

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am told that a man has been seen regularly > driving in the Upland Rd area and taking parcels. > Photo's taken and description but I don't know > what, if anything, has been done about it. I'm obviously not condoning people stealing parcels, but surely parcels should not be left in full view outside people's homes in the first place. I rescued a parcel on Christmas Eve which had been left propped against a neighbour's front door in full view of the street, in spite of the fact that there were other places outside their house it could have been put where it would have been hidden from sight. My neighbours were not in at the time, so it's not as if the deliverer had knocked and then heard someone shout that they were coming to the door. Also, I was in all day and nobody rang my bell to ask me to take the parcel in for my neighbours. I do start to have suspicions about collaboration between some of the deliverers and the thieves. I hope I'm wrong. There are many different couriers, and I wonder whether this is a particular issue with just some companies, or if it's all of them.

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ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't the question a type of category error? Yes. I hate mince pies 🤣

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > There?s a hairdresser on the corner of Ulverscroft > / NorthCross Rd ! > So, actually ON Ulverscroft !! That's a barbers, isn't it? Are they called hairdresers now? If so, profuse apologies for my outdated knowledge :))

misterdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks Foxy, but this particular smell tends to be > outside the hairdressers on Northcross road. > Unusual for hairdressers, and I'm sure it's in no > way linked. However, I do think it needs > investigating further... The hairdresser's on North Cross Road is nowhere near Ulverscroft Road. I have never noticed any smell outside it. What I do notice however is a persistent faint smell of gas on North Cross Road at the mural end, near Superdrug. I have been meaning to report it for weeks.

Twiggy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > There is a camera at the South Circular end of > > Underhill Road. > > > > As I sadly found when I tried to return from my > > allotment that way! > > > > So having nurtured my Christmas tree all year, > it > > has cost me ?12.50 to bring it home, and will > cost > > me another ?12.50 to take it back :( > > > > Unless I can find another route ...... > > > What about Wood Vale? Yes will try that next time!

lameduck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > There is a camera at the South Circular end of > > Underhill Road. > > > > As I sadly found when I tried to return from my > > allotment that way! > > > > So having nurtured my Christmas tree all year, > it > > has cost me ?12.50 to bring it home, and will > cost > > me another ?12.50 to take it back :( > > > > Unless I can find another route ...... > > > Cant you park before it Sue and carry it No not easily, unfortunately.

Message on my road's What'sApp group: Just spoken to a poor harassed looking postman. The only thing they are delivering are Covid tests as they have to be delivered next day. Otherwise everything else is backed up and he?s no idea if there will be anything before Christmas. ETA: Ulverscroft Road.

There is a camera at the South Circular end of Underhill Road. As I sadly found when I tried to return from my allotment that way! So having nurtured my Christmas tree all year, it has cost me ?12.50 to bring it home, and will cost me another ?12.50 to take it back :( Unless I can find another route ......

I use iD which runs on the Three network. I suddenly can't make calls or text. Is anybody else having the same problem? ETA: It was something at their end, sorted now. Grrrrrr.

Lowlander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jacqui5254 Wrote: > ------------------------------ > > > > *'Lordship Lane'...not sure which bit as they > try > > not to show you more than your registration > plate. > > By the junction with the south circular. The > photos on my account show me next to a car with > the driver on his mobile!! > Which side? The East Dulwich side as you wait to turn right on the south circular towards Dulwich Park? Would it pick you up if you were coming from the Forest Hill direction and turning left? Asking for a friend 🤣

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm pretty sure the fabulous Herbal remedy shop on > Lordship lane next to Save the Children Charity > shop sell them. > and they probably have the resin version to be > used with charcoal burners like in Church too. > Also Elemental more or less opposite may have them Lordship Lane? Do you mean Baldwins on Walworth Road?

Try Celestial?

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Honestly, this council is beyond reproach. Yet > still, people will come on here and defend them > and claim this is a genuine oversight. > I don't think you mean "beyond reproach"?

Annie5 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just seen two > parakeets attacking a blackbird outside ....... > they are definitely pests. So are cats, by that definition!

I got mine this morning ....

Why did it take so long?

tfwsoll Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've seen a flock of parakeets attacking a > comorant in flight above Brockwell Park and Sunray > Gardens. I think they are just aggressive pests. > > It's nature .....

Marjoram Wrote: --------------------------------------------------- > things at the sorting office are clearly very bad > right now. It seems to me that things at the sorting office have been clearly very bad since the Sylvester Road delivery office was closed and our deliveries now come from Peckham. Royal Mail should be unprivatised, if that's a word. All it cares for now is profit for its shareholders. Any care for a reasonable, let alone good, level of service went out of the window ages ago. Covid is just a convenient excuse. Meanwhile our old sorting office was sold for flats. So-called 24 and 48 hour tracking is an absolute joke. And the posties' workload is increased because they now have not just the original package to deliver (eventually) but its replacement as well when the first one doesn't arrive. And then the counter staff at the Post Office have extra work to do when one of those two items, whichever finally arrives last, has to be returned. It's an absolute shambles.

So what is the point?!

Wordsworth

I've just posted on this in the Covid section. Unless you do the test in front of the person checking and hold up the whole queue while the result develops, you can just show someone else's test or photo of the test, or just lie? Surely? And you could upload someone else's result and say it was yours? Have I missed something obvious here? That's why at our gigs we ask for proof of double jab or proof of exemption only, and check against names. Even that probably isn't foolproof if someone was sufficiently determined.