Sue

Jenijenjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Something?s happened, have had two deliveries > totalling 20 letters in the last hour 😮😮😮

Thanks James. I've just had a package today which says on it "delivery by 28 September". And my book posted to me on 3 September still hasn't arrived, but the same book (well obviously not the actual same book) I then ordered from somewhere else weeks later in desperation arrived two days ago (also sent by Royal Mail). So it appears they are not working through a backlog in order of arrival at the delivery office, but getting newer items delivered first.

muffins78 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - did your request come through as a third jab > or booster? Mine was booster. I?ve been offered > the Tessa Jowell or a place in Peckham. I?d > rather go to Kings!! I've now had two more invites!!! One from Guys (where I had my first two jabs) and then one from my GP (who told me recently when I asked that the invite would not come from them but centrally from the NHS, hey ho). So - the central one which came first led to a page which listed the local centres, but there was nothing in East Dulwich, it was either Denmark Hill Vaccination Centre ie Kings or a pharmacy in Herne Hill. So I opted for the Denmark Hill one. The GP one leads to a link where I could book in either at Tessa Jowell or the Lister. I could cancel the first one, which I booked, and go for Tessa Jowell, but I'm just going to leave it at Kings. They all said booster, not third jab, but surely they are the same thing????? I'm just grateful to be getting it at all! I could have gone tomorrow (!!!!) but I sprained my back yesterday (pause for sympathy) so I'm going next week, hooray!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One at Man of Kent tonight - I know a guy playing > there. Shan't be there after all - I sprained my back yesterday :( However we just found a great one on Monday night at The Junction in Loughborough Road.

Just booked my third jab at the Denmark Hill Vaccination Site, which is apparently in the Weston Education Centre. This is shown on the KCH site map, but it's not at all clear how to get to it, as if you google it, it says it is located in Denmark Hill, but its address is shown as 10 Cutcombe Road! and there is no Cutcombe Road marked on the site map! The centre seems to be nearer Coldharbour Lane than Denmark Hill! Can anybody shed any light? Do you just keep going past the other hospital buildings (Jubilee Wing etc) and then turn right? I'm assuming it will be well signposted, but not banking on it! ETA: I've just done what I should have done before posting this, and looked it up on Google Maps, and yes it seems that is how you get there, DUH.

Thanks :)

I agree.

I can't tell a lie

James, there's another thread here: /forum/read.php?5,2236584

kiera Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure Royal Mail > management at a higher level would find the true > situation totally unacceptable if they only knew. I believe Helen Hayes took it up with the CEO of Royal Mail, but that was some time ago.

KateFord Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- And > no one seems to be bothering about our area > suffering from this awful service. Helen Hayes, our MP, has tried very very hard to do something about it, including initially trying not to get the East Dulwich delivery office in Sylvester Road closed, so it is not true to say that nobody is bothering about it, unless you mean Royal Mail itself?

Cheers KK

Someone told me recently about an open mic night in or quite near East Dulwich, and I can't remember where it was. I'm already aware of several but this was a new one. I also can't remember who told me 🤣 Can anyone help? (With venues, not with who told me! 🤣)

If there are goods in the vehicle which need to be kept refrigerated, how else are they going to do it? I feel your pain. I have complained about this in the past (different vehicle) until the reason was explained to me.

Dimelda Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To Callie: Not quite correct. At the practice I > use (in Clapham), patients without an appointment > can still walk into the practice. It would seem > that some practices are different from others. Clapham isn't local to the people in East Dulwich using this forum, though, so I think Callie may well be correct.

I'm having mine at The Gardens tomorrow. I may see your hubby there, Pugwash! Judging by the weird time of mine, it seems they must be doing them at two minute intervals. I asked for a later appointment and was told they were allocating them in the order people phoned for the appointment (so it's up at crack of dawn for me 😶)

tomszekeres Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hey everyone, keep it kind :) > > There's a PDF on Sainsbury's website that details > all of the participating stores (including > Dulwich), but it's pretty hard to read, so I've > added all of the local stores that offer flexible > plastic recycling to a Google Map (that also > contains the Co-op stores): > > → Where can you recycle soft plastic in > South-East London? > > The long and the short of it is that Sainsbury's > Dog Kennel Hill *do* have a soft plastics > recycling bin. I can't see the DKH Sainsbury's on that map, only the Forest Hill one??

Isn't her address on it, if it was wrongly delivered to your house?

scarlettbanks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Had an incredible dinner at newish restaurant Omni > (near the bottom of Rye Lane). All vegan (which I > am not) - incredible flavours, some quite unusual > - the corn ribs with cashew cream for example were > amazing. Has good sandwiches at lunchtime too. Which end of Rye Lane is the bottom end? The end nearest to East Dulwich with Mr Bao (?) etc?

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I expect > non-recyclable waste going in with the recyclable > is more of an issue, but could be wrong! It is mostly removed manually at the first stage of sorting at the recycling centre. Although judging by the air of boredom surrounding the guys doing it when I visited on an open day, I'm not sure how thoroughly. And that was on a day when "the public" were watching!

James McAsh, a delegate from Camberwell and Peckham, says if the 20% threshold were in place in the 1990s, John Prescott and Margaret Beckett would not have been able to stand for the leadership. Ed Balls, Diane Abbott and Andy Burnham would have been excluded in 2010, he says. And he says if the same rule had applied after the 2019 election defeat, Keir Starmer would have been the only candidate. He says with this rule change, candidates will be paler, maler and staler.

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I went to the Crystal Rd practice at 8.00 this > morning only to be told that they didn't accept > face to face bookings, I had to ring. No-one had > ever mentioned this to me before on either of my > attempts to get an appointment. So I stood there > and she reluctantly booked me a telephone > appointment. This info. must have come as a > surprise to the people queuing up behind me too. > no wonder one has to sit so long at the phone if > that's the only way you can get seen. But surely it's because they are trying to minimise face to face contact in the present Covid situation? Certainly the policy should be better communicated, but it's completely understandable, surely?

Surely "they" should be a) rationing petrol and b) giving emergency vehicles and essential workers who need a vehicle to get to work priority? Is that naive?

Thanks both! Mine should be coming up in the next couple of weeks then, but if it doesn't materialise I will go the health centre. Thanks again!

I asked at my GP recently and was told I had to wait to be contacted from the NHS (I presume) but I haven't heard anything yet despite being in the high risk group.