Sue

Dead pigeon in the garden the other day. Unfortunately appeared to have been killed by a cat, so I presume it was the sick one. It had its wings spread out as if it had been trying to escape 😥 but it had a length of ivy on top of it, so I wonder if the cat attacked it where it had been hiding, then dragged it out into the open. I'm bemused by a rather fat (or has its feathers constantly fluffed out) sparrow which has been hanging around the garden. It's extremely tame and always by itself. It has sparrow colouring and a sparrow type beak. It also seems to be shedding fluffy feathers. It's behaving like a robin, hopping about nearby when we are gardening. But it's eating birdseed, not looking for worms, and it definitely isn't a baby robin. I've never seen this before, normally lots of sparrows come down at once, and also they normally fly off at the slightest movement they see. Can anybody explain?

I get my repeat prescriptions from Echo. It is quick and easy. When I registered, I just had to input all the medication and say when I was due to run out of each one (I said the week before, to be on the safe side, but in practice that wasn't necessary). Echo email me when one is due, I confirm it, they send the request to my GP and I get it by post a day or so later. I've had no problem at all getting them, so I presume Royal Mail prioritises the packets. There are other similar systems. This one is linked to Lloyds pharmacies. My friend who was kindly collecting my prescriptions from Lloyds in North Cross Road saw an ad in there for Echo and told me about it. It saves all sorts of inconvenience, and I'd only have to speak to the GP if for some reason I needed to change the medication. ETA: It's completely free.

Thanks Foxy. For some reason which I can't fathom I am not getting sound on videos on my mobile. This happened recently and I sorted it, but I can't remember what I did! It was some obscure setting somewhere 😬 ETA: Luckily I had the tab saved with the instructions on it. As you were 😂 ETA: Great to hear East Dulwich described as "leafy"! Long may it stay that way!

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Hey thanks Brian, very good news re the oaks! ETA: And fingers crossed, good news re the bats!

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A friend who is around 80 went for her jab at > Tessa Jowell Centre on Monday = arranged by > Burbage Road surgery. If that's Elm Lodge surgery (at the Herne Hill end of Burbage Road) they don't seem to have arranged mine,so far as I can see, so I am mystified!

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > London Live is a channel. How do you get it??

I haven't heard anything at all from my surgery (Elm Lodge) but I got a text from Guys/St Thomas's with a choice of hospital, date and time, and within ten minutes I had two appointments booked and confirmed. I don't understand what's going on.

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Had my jab at Guys yesterday as a result of > persistently trying that number. Didn't help that > the train from ED Station was cancelled, but still > got there in time. Very efficient considering how > busy everyone was (unlike the train service) Damn, I completely forgot I could have gone to Guys on the train! So used to getting the 40 in the halcyon days when it still went to London Bridge!

A friend of mine (over seventy) just messaged me to ask why I was asked to go to Guy's/St Thomas's when he and other people he knows had been called for the jab to the Tessa Jowell Centre. I have absolutely no idea and considering he lives in Nunhead and I'm a lot nearer the TJC than he is, I'm a bit put out, as I'd obviously rather have avoided having to use public transport. Apparently this was via his GP in Forest Hill Road. However when he phoned to make the appointment, after trying for three hours, he was told they had run out of vaccine and to try again after 1pm on Friday 🙄 I suggested he try before then as they will have told everybody that and he will be stuck in a queue again.

muffins78 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - did your text come from your GP or hospital, > or via the shielding list? > > > They say you need the letter - that will be late > given the post situation. I know you can book > online - do you think the online database is > driven by shielding list aswell? The text came from the hospital/s. Guys and St Thomas's are linked. I have no idea how they got my details. I've been an outpatient at both over the last couple of years but also at King's, so if because of that I would have thought I'd have been called by King's, which is closer. I had assumed it was most likely because of my age, but maybe it's more likely because I'm on the shielding list? The text didn't say I could book online, only via responding to the text (including answering a number of questions including am I pregnant, ha ha ha I'm over seventy) or by phoning them. I am quite bemused. A healthy friend of mine who is 67 has been called for the jab by her GP, yet another friend in her sixties who is due to have an urgent operation has been told she isn't in the age range to have it. Despite the fact that she will be very vulnerable after the op, plus in hospital where she may well pick up Covid.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It seems there are a lot of no-shows for vaccines > (a family friend went to have a pacemaker > adjustment and was given the jab "as he was there > and a lot of people hadn't turned up so they had > spare") and I do worry that a lot of people just > aren't getting their letters in time. I don't know whether they have sent a letter as well, in which case it will probably arrive in time for my second jab in April, but my invitation to have the jab was by text (thank goodness!)

Also Ianr, did you have to go through the main entrance to get to the North Wing, or is there another entrance round the side? It isn't clear from the map they linked to from the text they sent me. There is a little yellow circle on the side of the North Wing nearest the river, with an arrow saying St Thomas' Vaccination Centre, but it's not clear whether that is just telling you to go to the North Wing, or whether that is a side entrance to the Wing so that you don't have to go into the rest of the hospital? Hopefully it will be well signposted as you arrive, though?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Had a major disaster this lunch time.. > > Discarded a lot of my starter and fed the > remaining starter with 50g Flour 50g Water > > Went shopping and on return my stater was very > active and ready to use. > > Filled my bowl with water salt and small amount > of sugar 5grms > as I was adding my starter the whole lot tipped > over and I lost the lot. > > Lucky I had not put the flour in. > > Fortunately I had kept the discarded starter to > one side so I have fed it and we are off again. > > I wonder if all this is worth it ?? > > Such Fun > > Foxy Oh no! Well, if you decide it isn't worth it, I get my sourdough delivered from Tesco with my groceries. I then slice it up and freeze it, and toast it from frozen. Not as nice as other sources, but comes to my door :)) But if you're going out to shop, M&S San Francisco sourdough isn't bad, and not a vastly inflated price, though the vastly inflated price places probably sell much nicer bread :) ETA: But unless they've changed since lockdown, M&S don't have the same sourdough every day, and I only like the San Francisco one. Also they run out quite quickly (though maybe not at the moment with fewer people shopping).

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Of course all weather pitches are a good thing, > but plastic grass in your garden? And the Dulwich > Woodhouse.... OMG has the Woodhouse got fake grass? Not that I've ever liked its "garden" much ..... but I never noticed it had fake grass :(

Thanks for the Tiny Forests links, mynamehere :)

Send them to the Peckham delivery office manager, to have for his tea break :))

chrisb0702 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i had some Xmas brownies from my aunt arrive > yesterday that were sent on the 15th Dec. Shame as > they were rock hard now You could try spraying them with water and microwaving them? Or having them with custard? (Great Cooks Of Our Time :)) )

Thanks, ianr x

AAARRRGGGHHH! Booked for St Thomas's on the basis I'd only have to get one bus rather than two, so probably less risky in terms of contact, and then saw in a post above that I'll get the Oxford vaccine rather than the Pfzizer. Googling, it all seems a bit unclear what the likely immunity situation is after you've had both doses. Not sure whether I should try to change! Anybody got any views?

Hooray! Got my Covid jab appointments! First one Friday ((could have gone tomorrow but needed time to mentally prepare, lol). All very efficient, done by text, choice of hospital, day and time 🙂 I'm in the over 70 group, no idea if it was quicker as I'm also in the extremely vulnerable group. Oooops, edited to say Covid not Flu, DUH.

Crikey, well done Foxy, I'm impressed! But you don't need actual baskets, do you? Couldn't you use any suitable container? Not that I know anything about making sourdough 😂

Thank you for a brilliant post, mynamehere ❤️

On Saturday I finally received (far too late to use it) my "urgent" item which was posted first class on 8 December. Today I received a gift card which I had ordered well before Christmas (When it didn't arrive, I had to send an e-card instead and will have to use the gift card myself). Still, looking on the bright side, at least they have actually turned up :) I was beginning to worry that Peckham may have had a bonfire :))