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ribrob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @sue > > > Complaints on here always seem to be about > Virgin! > > I am genuinely bemused as to why people stay > with them. > > On our road, we have no choice but Virgin fibre or > dial-up (unless we go satellite which is just daft > just to get an internet connection). > > Virgin owns the fibre on our road, and nobody else > has put any down, so we suck it up, or go back to > the days of watching images visibly downloading. > > Rob Oh dear. Monopoly situation then. That's bad.

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think most of us had figured this. I hadn't. Duh!

Complaints on here always seem to be about Virgin! I am genuinely bemused as to why people stay with them. Is it because they are much much better than other providers when you can actually get online?

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Recommendations please. > > Some plonker practising a clarinet in the garden > from 8.10 am this morning is making me desperate. Do you want to borrow my melodeon? 🤣🤣🤣 I'm sure you could drown him out 🤣🤣🤣 ETA: Or her .... If that fails, you could "accidentally" throw it at him/her. It's quite heavy 🤣

DulwichFox Wrote: -------------------------------------------------- > > Fresh air. The best remedy for most illness. ??????

Really sorry to hear this. Did anyone phone the police? I can understand people not wanting to get directly involved, presumably for fear of being hurt, but I find it hard to understand people who just pass by and don't even try to get help for the person being attacked. I hope your brother is OK and not too traumatised. Glad to hear that at least one person came to help.

Thanks Zig-Zag, that's reassuring. Especially as the last time I heard mega bird commotion it was on my allotment, and followed by a fox trotting away with a pigeon in its mouth 😮

There have been threads about this on here in past years. I'm sure they will be cluster flies. Someone on here identified them for me when I had them in my house (haven't had them since, thank goodness!)

For all you know, the girl is ill or being abused.

exdulwicher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What effect on the economy do you think NOT > locking down would have had? > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52968523 > > An extra 470,000 deaths in the UK which would have > completely overwhelmed the NHS (and morgues). > 470,000 key workers, elderly, vulnerable dying. > You reckon the economy would still be functioning > fine and we'd all just be carrying on, stiff upper > lip, we're British? > > There'd be CHAOS. Riots and looting as a result of > the massive hoarding that would have been going > on, mass absenteeism from work as people took > their own decisions (or were off work seriously > ill) - you may remember that many companies had > already closed up shop, locked down, gone to > remote working etc BEFORE the Government finally > mandated it. No-one would be "just carrying on", > there'd be no normal operations at the NHS > (because they'd long since have been overwhelmed > and would be taking years longer to recover beck > to normal). > > The idea that everything would just be fine with > the UK just carrying on regardless (while > virtually every other country in the world was on > lockdown) is just farcical. It's not realism, it's > complete utter fantasy. > Exactly. But unfortunately you seem to be talking to a brick wall.

What is only just becoming apparent (partly from the King's Zoe symptom survey) is that there are very many people (of all ages, including many young people who were fit and healthy before) who have ongoing, varied and debilitating Covid-19 symptoms which come and go, in some cases for months. Most of them will not have been seen in a hospital, though some have. If you are doing the Zoe survey and report symptoms, it actually gives links to a Facebook support group. Jimlad48, I suggest you do some research before posting your rather offensive opinions on here. And being over seventy and in the vulnerable group for other reasons, I find your assumption that my life is not worth saving repellent, to say the least. It's a pity this government didn't take the sort of action New Zealand did, then we would probably all be back to normal life by now.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not too concerned about a shop that I have never > heard of.. You probably aren't the only person reading this thread! Do not know where it is.. ? Next to William Rose. > > Not a long standing feature of Lordship Lane.. Depends what you mean by long standing. Not as long as the EDT for example, no. How > long has it been where it is. ? It opened in July 2017, so nearly three years. I'm absolutely gutted it is closing, and judging by the number of followers it had on social media (I wasn't one of them, I just looked to try to find out when it opened) I won't be the only one. They had very good quality plants and pots and other nice things, they had things that were in all price ranges, they were incredibly helpful and knowledgeable and never put pressure on you to buy. I really hope that they will be able to come back to East Dulwich in some form in the future.

Once I found the right department to talk to (which took a lot longer than it should have done) I found Thames Water very helpful about a drainage issue at the front of my house.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yeah I'm high-risk Foxy (as are you), so your > little-exposure can do one ! So am I, but sadly still got/have it. Be super-scrupulous with quarantining/washing EVERYTHING that comes into your home, people 😢 Keep safe!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've had 12 weeks.. out and about shopping.. > Queuing .. travelling on local buses. > > Hospital appointments .. blood tests.. > > Receiving Take away deliveries. Living life. > > I must of been near or next to affected people. > > If I just stayed at home and totally gave up on > life.. Then I might just as well be dead anyway.. > > > Fox You have been crying wolf/fox for what seems like years on here, so I find it extraordinary that you are now deliberately putting yourself at risk. I suspect that as soon as you show any signs of Covid symptoms, your posts on here will be somewhat less enthusiastic about "I might as well be dead anyway." Obviously I hope this won't be the case, however you put me in mind of Boris Johnson boasting about shaking hands with hospital patients with the virus, then ending up on a ventilator 😢 In case of any doubt, I don't wish you ill. I just find your attitude very strange .... Staying at home except for urgent appointments etc does not have to be "totally giving up on life" and in any case it's not for ever (one hopes!)

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting that the UK has some of the most > Stringent Restrictions on Social Distancing > and Self Isolation .. > Compared to who? The UK locked down too late and not completely, and thousands of deaths could have been avoided if they had locked down even two weeks earlier. And "a little exposure" for some people can be fatal.

My tadpoles are now froglets, and some of them have begun leaping from the sink into the garden! I have provided a ramp, but they seem to prefer just jumping ... Weirdly, some of the leapers still have quite long tails 😮 Also - for the first time in thirty years I saw a bat swooping around the garden (a couple of nights ago, around 11pm). Ulverscroft Road. Hope they don't eat froglets 😮 The sad reason for my being in the garden was that I heard what seemed to be a blackbird alarm call plus some bird commotion, which was strange at that time of night I thought a cat was probably involved, plus probably young birds, but sadly it turned out the noise wasn't close enough for me to shoo away the cat. I had to close my bedroom window, because the alarm call went on for ages and it was quite distressing 😢

That's really useful, thanks 🙂

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can Track your Item Here:- > https://www3.royalmail.com/track-your-item#/ > > DulwichFox Only if it was posted via a tracked service, not if just put in a post box 🙂

jimlad48 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live in hope there has been an outbreak of > collective sanity after weeks of total > overeaction, panic and hysteria. Fingers crossed > we can get on living soon, safe in the knowledge > that 100% of people born will die, and just get > the heck on with our lives. I assume that neither you nor anybody you love/know has been affected by this virus, and that you believe that the thousands of deaths are due to panic and hysteria? And the New Zealand (for example) government's swift and effective actions - you also think those were due to panic and hysteria? New Zealand has (apart from the latest glitch caused by infected people from this country) been able to get back to normal due to what you describe as overreaction, panic and hysteria. Yes, 100% of people born will die. Well spotted. However some of us would prefer not to die avoidable and unpleasant deaths because of the failures of both the government and selfish people who think even lax and confused guidelines are overreaction, panic and hysteria and therefore they can just ignore them. 😬

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Why is this thread in the lounge, btw? > > Well Perhaps the title is Ambiguous.. 'Shops and > restaurants that will not reopen after lock down' > > > Just based on individual opinion and not fact.. > Pearspring's website is fact!

teddyboy23 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm banned from the general thread its been 3 or 4 > years now . Oh, OK, fair enough reason!

Why is this thread in the lounge, btw?

Just had a look too, and they are shortly closing down their gardening services as well 😢 https://www.pearspring.co.uk/

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