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Hahaha! This was long before midnight 🤣🤣🤣 Around 6pm if memory serves (which it may not, but it was still daylight 🤣🤣🤣) Honest!!! 🤣🤣🤣

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Since when did squirrels start eating > Crocuses...@#$%&! Since forever! But they don't usually dig up bulbs once they have started sprouting, are your squirrels eating the actual leaves and flowers??? Sparrows (and possibly other birds) eat the yellow flowers .....

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There?s a gap in the trees (maintained, I think) > from the highest point in Nunhead Cemetery > directly towards St. Pauls. > You may be aware of this though, as quite well > known. We once lingered there too long admiring the view and found ourselves locked in the cemetery 🤣

This is the (much) more recent thread: /forum/read.php?5,2117568,2185730,page=18#msg-2185730

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Coco vergette Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Hi I received penalty charge notices/fines six > > weeks after they were issued meaning a huge > fine > > which I am now struggling to challenge without > > proof of Royal Mail delays. > > > I successfully challenged an increased fine > recently on the basis that the missing mail > notification was due to localised delays and I > used this thread as the main evidence. It?s dated, > shows multiple long-standing users posting, and > provides an insight to the frustrations felt by > many in the community. I think you are referring to a different thread, KK. This one has been resurrected from 2011 😶

Thanks TheCat, that's annoying! We did have a very good Indian meal from elsewhere, and had a long wait for that as well. We would have happily waited! I can't remember what time we went onto their website, but somewhere between 6 and 7pm. I don't know why they would have a message saying they were "closed today", that's quite misleading I think, it would have been better to explain the situation? Not to worry, we will try again next weekend!

We went to order from the website and there was a message saying you were "closed today", and also the website says that your delivery hours are the same as the restaurant opening hours? Very disappointed as we were looking forward to trying your food. Are you not open for deliveries on a Saturday night???

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > diable rouge Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sue Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > > > I know of at least one current poster who has > > two > > > forum names and has sometimes used both of > them > > on > > > the same thread. > > > > > > Not a troll though. > > > > I can understand someone having separate > accounts > > for say 'business' and 'pleasure' with that > well > > known adage in mind, whereas having multiple > > 'pleasure' accounts, even if they don't troll, > > looks sketchy... > > Specially posting on their own threads in each > ?alter ego?. That?s just odd, tho I suppose > there?s a ?Oooo..I?m getting away with this? about > it, but it?s still fekn sketchy. I agree, it's a very strange thing to do. I think originally one of the names may have been intended for "business", very loosely defined, but that isn't the case any longer.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > diable rouge Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Setting-up a fake account for his own ends, I > > wonder which local internet forum he got that > idea > > from?... > > I know, I wonder if there?s any accounts on here > that are like this, like having another identity > > Steve Taylor/ Trolley Snatch has gone, but there > must be others?! I know of at least one current poster who has two forum names and has sometimes used both of them on the same thread. Not a troll though.

Oh ok, I don't recall one!

How do you define "elderly" ???? :)) Also, would it not be preferable to give some actual (visual) examples of the options you are talking about? I'm probably elderly, and have no idea what you are talking about in practical terms re level of functionality. I am not quite sure what you mean by a "book library web application", either. Is this to borrow actual physical books, or to borrow books to read on a Kindle or similar? And it is possible to change text size at the user end, surely. And why would anybody want less contrast in colours? It just makes things harder to read. And how close is "closely grouped"? Where would the buttons be on the page? I do think you need to provide actual examples!

Where was there a pizza restaurant in Barry Road???

sally buying Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because of Khan car values in London and on the > resale market because of the ulez are scrap only. > > I have the same problem. No one wants them. "Because of Khan?" You think he is wrong to try to reduce pollution levels? I will also have to get a new car, but I'm not blaming Sadiq Khan for it!

My food waste bin has not been emptied for three weeks, however as noted above, it says on the website that they are running behind and please not to report the non collection on the website. I think we should cut them some slack, what with absences due to Covid and the awful weather last week.

This may be easier to find: https://heritagedulwich.co.uk/ I wish you luck, the food looks and sounds lovely! ETA: For future reference, if you put https:// in front of the website address, it turns it into a clickable link on here :) ETA: Sorry to see you don't have the desserts on the website yet! Do you do kulfi? Also, whereabouts in Rajasthan are you from? It's a nice part of India!

DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At long last. It?s so tiny in there though! Can't remember if that used to be the cobblers or the pet shop? They were both pretty small! It went through various incarnations as a shoe shop.

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > perhaps I've > been over-influenced by such as Tim Spector's > advice to eat 30 varieties of plant each week. > Who knows? Do you have a link to that? That's interesting!

siousxiesue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Out of interest, did everyone get a follow up date > when vaccinated? I haven't yet, but some have Yes, for mid-April

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/covid-almost-2m-more-people-asked-shield-england?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 800,000 more people to be offered priority vaccination (and asked to shield).

johnie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That looks like woodchip paper to me And to me.

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've lived in ED since 1996 and I think that shop > has had three re-fits in that time. So not all > that frequent. The most recent one was definitely > more than five years ago. Yes, they were giving away vouchers in Lordship Lane to spend in the store. I think they were a fiver. When we went in, there was somebody - apparently from head office - telling customers what wonderful new things there were to buy. We couldn't see anything that looked either new or wonderful, so we used our vouchers and left 🤣

siousxiesue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My favourite spider, a false widow I'm told, had a > showdown with another spider much larger than her. > > > I had to leave them to it obviously but was > relieved to see her victorious in the morning! What happened to the other one?!

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The very large spider that lived in a tunnel-like > web in our shed door was found lying cold and > still this morning. I don't know what it was, very > large and reddish purple. We called it "Cuddles" Poor Cuddles. R.I.P. I have a dead spider on my kitchen window, still hanging from a thread. I think that died of cold too (single glazed window :( )

Somebody in my road posted this from Helen Hayes (I think from her website) I haven't included the video. Royal Mail services in Dulwich and West Norwood Posted by Helen Hayes 27sc on February 09, 2021 Residents across many parts of Dulwich and West Norwood have reported significant problems with postal deliveries since last year. Although there have been problems in the East Dulwich SE22 postcode area since Royal Mail closed the SE22 delivery office on Silvester Road two years ago, these problems have worsened even further since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Since late 2020, residents in SE19 and SE27 have also experienced serious delays, with some problems in other postcode areas too. I have been in constant communication with Royal Mail about these problems and it is very disappointing that they are still unresolved. I am clear that the problems are not the fault of postal workers, who have been working tirelessly throughout the pandemic, and have been a vital lifeline for many people. It is very concerning to hear that many postal workers have fallen ill with coronavirus and that sickness rates at Royal Mail have been very high. I am grateful to every single postal worker for their vital work at the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. Notwithstanding the hard work and commitment of postal workers, there are serious problems at Royal Mail. In recent years, Royal Mail have closed many local delivery offices. In East Dulwich, the Silvester Road delivery office closed in 2018. The local ward councillors and I warned at that time that moving delivery services to Highshore Road in Peckham would create huge problems. Highshore Road is a long way from the furthest parts of SE22 and the topography in this area is challenging. We campaigned vigorously for Royal Mail to open a new fit for purpose delivery office in the SE22 area, but they refused. There was chaos from the start, with particularly problems around the peak Christmas period in 2018, and at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, it was clear that cramming two postcode delivery areas into the same office at Highshore Road left Royal Mail with no capacity to adapt to the pressures of the pandemic. It was impossible to keep up the same rate of mail sorting whilst also maintaining social distancing for safe working, and the long distance from Highshore Road to parts of East Dulwich has left postal workers dependent on vans, which cannot be shared safely by two workers during the pandemic. The consequences of these problems have been very serious. I have been contacted by constituents who have missed urgent hospital appointments ? or turned up for appointments which had been cancelled due to the pandemic, because they haven?t received letters. Other constituents have not received relatives? death certificates or important legal documents, and over Christmas when so many people were isolated from loved ones, cherished cards and gifts were not received on time. I have raised these issues in the House of Commons. You can watch a recent debate below. While Royal Mail respond to my individual queries on behalf of residents, they have never acknowledged the seriousness of the problems in SE22, SE27 and SE19, and they have not put in place a plan for recovery. Staff tell me that Royal Mail is refusing to pay overtime to postal workers who are willing to work to help clear backlogs, and they have refused to secure temporary premises to enable more mail to be sorted with safe social distancing in place. After many months of corresponding with Royal Mail without any resolution, I have now referred these issues to Ofcom the communications service regulator. I have secured a meeting with Ofcom which local ward councillors will also attend. We will be making the case that Ofcom must hold Royal Mail to account for the ways in which they are failing customers in Dulwich and West Norwood and must require them to put in place a recovery plan to restore the reliability of our postal services. In the longer term, I am clear that delivering a profit to shareholders is not compatible with delivering the Universal Service Obligation, and Royal Mail should be brought back into public ownership