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JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Kay Burley and Beth Rigby "taking a break" > Kay Burley "taking a break" on six months' full pay. Other people get fined 😡

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A fitting footnote to add to that triptych, would > be this eternal tweet written back in Sept 2016, > which I presume was a response to Michael Gove's > ''The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the > cards''... > > EU lays down a royal flush. > > UK looks at own cards: Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, > a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool 🤣🤣🤣 Hmm, The Fool. About to leap into The Abyss, if memory serves.

Thanks legalalien. Yes, it's the Camber tennis club and I live just off North Cross Road. I think you're right that I will have to time my journeys outside the closure periods. I had thought about turning round and coming back down the 205, as you suggest, but decided that I'd rather spend the time driving than sitting in the massive queue of cars going in that direction. What a nightmare. I really feel for anybody who is affected by this every day, particularly as we are supposed to be avoiding public transport wherever possible.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Grenadine available from Sainsburys > > Probably Creme de Cacao too > > Foxy Sainsbury's say they sell Grenadine, but they don't have any in stock. Nor do Tesco. Neither Tesco nor Sainsbury's have Creme de Cacao. But thanks anyway :) ETA: Unless Sainsbury's have suddenly got some in since I got my delivery yesterday, and Tesco since I updated my Christmas order earlier this evening.

I'm really confused as well. I have to take the car to my allotment (next to the tennis club on the South Circular, opposite the new skate park) if I have a lot of bulky or heavy stuff to unload. Coming home again it has become really difficult to turn right from the entrance to the tennis club, because there is now so much more traffic going in that direction, so unless I wait ages for some kind person to let me in when there's a gap in the traffic going the other way, I have to turn left and go home via a really circuitous route. Which is now even more circuitous with so many roads closed off or restricted in some way. Coming from the South Circular, at the roundabout in DV, are cars forbidden to drive down Burbage Road completely during certain times, or is it just that you have to go round the roundabout first before turning left?

I have a sudden urge to make cocktails at Christmas, which I haven't done for about forty years :)) I preferably need Creme de Cacao and Grenadine (not to use together, I hasten to add). Does anybody know of anywhere locally I can get either or both?

redpost Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's actually illegal and you can get an urgent > injunction to stop works. What is illegal?

Suggest if you still hear nothing, you email Helen Hayes. It's amazing how an MP's involvement can get answers.

You absolutely must have a party wall surveyor to look at your flat before and after this work is done (assuming you have a party wall with the other flat). Your neighbour has to pay, and you should not agree to use the same one as your neighbour (I speak from bitter experience). I wonder if the council did in fact send a letter, because to the best of my knowledge I never got one either.

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some weeks ago two teens on bikes circled me as I > walked down LL about 3pm-one cycled alongside me > on the pavement his friend on my other side > cycling in the kerb-so I was in the middle-it was > really scary I just stopped at the nearest bus > shelter where happily there were people.and they > moved on but the one on the pavement kept looking > over his shoulder at me as they cycled away. > I felt because I was a lone older woman they were > trying to intimidate me and maybe rob me. That sounds really frightening. Glad you were able to reach a place where there were other people.

lameduck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HI All like you all no post at all nearly 2 weeks > I am nr Ivy house, I got a bit paranoid, wondered > if my mail had been > diverted elsewhere, , > Popped to Highshore rd > Apparently concentrating on parcels, not letters. > told letters are going out tomorrow. I'm expecting an urgent letter in the next few days, which had better blooming arrive because it's time critical :(

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps he was just being informal. The Highshore > Road one is now called the Peckham and East > Dulwich Delivery Office: > www.royalmail.com/services-near-you/delivery-offic > e/peckham-and-east-dulwich-delivery-office-se15-5a > u/ . Oh OK, fair enough, I didn't know that!

KK you could try asking at that new ceramics gallery on the way to the station? They might know someone who has a kiln?

Fwomble Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have tried blocking obvious holes in wall, also a > humane & a non-humane trap (baited with peanut > butter) but (s)he still comes out from under the > sofa when we're watching TV in the evening. > That's not so bad, but yesterday (s)he ran up onto > the sofa cushions - too close! Have you checked there is no food under the sofa? I had a mouse which ran out from under the sofa, and when I investigated I found a plate of half-eaten pizza shoved there by a child after our family Christmas get-together last year ....... Another Christmas I came downstairs to find a mouse - or more probably more than one - had eaten out the whole of the inside of one of those cheeses with red rinds, and just left the rind standing there as if it still had cheese in :)

gumshoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Following a recent email to Helen Hayes, she got > in touch with RM on my behalf - attached is their > response and latest figures on sickness absence in > the area. "The East Dulwich Delivery Office" ?!?!?!?! That would be the one in Sylvester Road which I believe is now turned into flats?!?!?!?!?!

spider69 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You have more chance of winning the lottery than > getting a response from a Cllrs. Personal > experience. That is very unfair. I've always found our councillors (and Helen Hayes, our MP) really helpful.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I?m thinking about going digital this year I use Jacqui Lawson for nice digital Christmas "cards" which the recipients seem to appreciate. I send very few actual cards through the post. Obviously the downside is that you don't have a card to display, however there are other sites where you can send digital cards which can be printed off. You can't do that with most of the Jacqui Lawson cards, because they move :) It's also much less time consuming, because once you have the contact email addresses saved on the site, you can send the same card and message to a lot of people at once.

Pugwash, this happened to me once and it turned out that the meeting had been set up so that only a certain number of designated people were visible. It was the Ivy House shareholders' AGM and only the committee were visible. Everybody else could see and hear the committee, but couldn't be seen or heard themselves. Would it be worth checking with the meeting host whether this is the case? I spent a very long time trying to work out what was wrong before I twigged. Or rather, somebody else did and told me!

Why is this thread in the Covid section?

A couple of times when my boiler has gone dead it was because I had accidentally switched off the switch on the wall which is for the ignition (I think. Something electrical to do with the boiler, anyway). I moved my bread bin and hadn't noticed it had knocked off the switch. May be worth checking?

I've quite often seen them on the Thames (from the South Bank). Maybe they are visiting from there?

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I thought this was going to be a thread where > > forum members could say what they collected, eg > > stamps :)) > > I collect cook books Sue > > What do you collect? Dust 🤣

I thought this was going to be a thread where forum members could say what they collected, eg stamps :))

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not forgetting Shrieker If memory serves, Shrieker wasn't cloning him/herself at exactly the same time. But then my memory is rubbish so I may be wrong :)) Edited to add: I love the sound of the Christmas streets, thanks to all involved! (and edited again to remove a typo .....)