Sue

Whereabouts on Stuart Road was your car parked? I'm just wondering if The Ivy House has CCTV (though I've never noticed any)

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We went to St John's, it was lovely. > > Planning to go to St Paul's for the late Christmas > Eve service. > > Thanks to everyone for posting. Reviving this thread from two years back, because just in case anybody else was planning to go to St Paul's, when we got there we found a massive massive queue, which sadly none of the organisers apparently thought to count and then let the people behind the end of the count know that they wouldn't get in. Having stood in it for hours (I can't remember how many hours) we were told a) we wouldn't get in and b) people had been queuing since midday !!!!!

I advertised a load on here (free) and somebody took them.

Thanks, admin. Hopefully Lemmy will see this. I think s/he can read posts, but can't post.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have had not a single person Canvassing on > behalf of ANY Party. Not one. > > I am at home all day and unlikely I have missed > anyone. > > So I say 'Stuff the lot of them' > > Complacent Labour think they are high and dry. > Well. with Corbyn at the helm they need to take a > good look at themselves. > I will not be Voting Labour. > > DulwichFox Former paid up member of the Labour > Party and lifetime supporter Helen Hayes is an absolutely excellent and committed local constituency MP. She and local Labour party members have been canvassing in marginal London constituencies where every Labour vote is crucial to get the Tories out. Surely that is time better spent than canvassing round here which is a safe Labour seat? And even if it wasn't, I don't see how they could possibly get round every single door. Three local Labour Party members were at a stall outside the Co-op on Saturday talking to passers by about the election and the Labour Party manifesto. It was the day of the Christmas Cracker. East Dulwich was rammed. You can hardly accuse them of keeping a low profile. You say you are a paid up member of the Labour Party. I have never seen you at any local meetings or social events or volunteering to deliver leaflets or help out in other ways. Why do you belong to a party you say you are a lifelong supporter of, but you are not going to vote for it because they haven't made coming to your door the top priority of their campaign? Absolutely ridiculous. And if you hate Corbyn so much, which from previous posts of yours on here appears to be because you have been reading a load of bollocks about him, presumably in the right wing press or on right wing social media posts, why aren't you active in the Labour Party to get another leader elected? Or do you just prefer to moan on here? ETA: Apologies I see you say you are a former member. But nevertheless you say you are a lifetime supporter, so much of the above still stands.

There's a large ad about it in the latest Peckham Peculiar.

Kesc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How much have people paid to have their front > garden repaved? > We have a medium-small front garden (space for all > of Southwark's bins and room for a small shed type > thing). > We've been quoted between?3,500-?4,500, excluding > materials. Seems extremely steep for replacing old > paving with new simple paving (not asking for > anything fancy) > Thanks! Excluding materials?!?!?! I think some people just ask ridiculous amounts in the hope that somebody will eventually pay it. In East Dulwich, some people probably will :)

Lemmy has messaged me asking me to post this on the forum as s/he is unable to post. Can anybody help? S/he has messaged Admin but hasn't had a reply. S/he is using Windows and Firefox, but is getting this message when s/he tries to post: A form was submitted in the windows-1252 encoding which cannot encode all Unicode characters, so user input may get corrupted. To avoid this problem, the page should be changed so that the form is submitted in the UTF-8 encoding either by changing the encoding of the page itself to UTF-8 or by specifying accept-charset=utf-8 on the form element. posting.php Loading failed for the with source ?[pagead2.googlesyndication.com]?. posting.php:38:1

If you Google "resize photo" there are lots of free websites where you can do this quickly and easily (you don't need an iPhone!)

jimbo1964 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can't remember what they were, though! > > Crazy Golf I think. Sounds expensive. I'd like to > see some cricket nets. Dulwich Park nets are > always busy. Oh yes that's right, it was Crazy Golf. They had that at the Horniman over the summer I think. But nothing seems to have been done for ages at the bowling green? Did they give up on their plans?

The Ivy House is open part of the day but I don't think is doing food. However they've got an excellent new chef, so might be worth checking just in case. The Clock House was open till at least late afternoon and was doing Christmas lunch last year. Obviously you have to book in advance.

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do people know why we have trees and wreaths at > Christmas? Or do they just buy them? > > I would suggest largely the latter. I imagine most people do it because it's a tradition handed down over the years. I bring greenery (and lights) into the house to celebrate the solstice on 21 December, when the days start getting longer. Except this year I've got to do it earlier than the solstice because I've got a zillion family members coming and they will expect a tree etc :)) My tree lives on my allotment most of the year (in a pot). OK, as you were :))

Michael P is still around under his original name :)

DulwichFox Wrote: --------------------------------------------- > > Well As far as I am concerned I personally have no > more to say on the matter. > Or do you want to make it compulsory like Voting. > ? Eh?! It didn't occur to you to just stop posting on the thread if you "personally" had no more to say then? :)) :)) :))

Lidl have an ad in Saturday's Guardian advertising potted non drop trees for ?18.99. Potted is not necessarily pot grown though, and I imagine they are quite small for that price.

mrwb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do any local seller do a tree like this:? > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/GardenersDream-Nordmann-G > rown-Christmas-Tree/dp/B07ZZH7DWK/ref=asc_df_B07ZZ > H7DWK/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=399666076754&hvpos > =1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=414691623115009244&hvpone=&hv > ptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy= > 9045890&hvtargid=pla-842704733999&ref=&adgrpid=848 > 09710723&th=1 > > Potted so can be planted after Christmas and then > re-used? > > Only 2ft, to start with, but presumably will get > bigger every year. Probably you can get one in a garden centre. I have one which has been growing in a pot for about four years. I can't remember where I got it. It may have been Homebase. You could phone around and ask. Shannon's in Forest Hill may sell them, or if not may know where you can get one. I think the people up on the South Circular at the entrance to the Cricket Club may do them, too (next to Cox's Walk). ETA: But mine was bigger than the one on Amazon to start with. They come in various sizes even though pot grown. Make sure it is really pot grown and not just dug up from the ground and stuck in a pot for Christmas though! If it has, its roots will probably be damaged.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With regards to the Mural I think enough has been > said. > > Not worthy of continual discussion. What do you consider "worthy of continual discussion", then, Dulwich Fox? This is a forum. People discuss things on it. Like local issues. Like this one.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whilst many high streets are boarded up / in > serious decline, East Dulwich is arguing over a > whether or not they like a mural. It's the East Dulwich Forum. The mural is a fair subject for discussion, I would say :)

sunshine77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Totally incorrect. Don?t post rumour Alice, deal > in facts It isn't clear what post you are responding to! Nor is it clear in your subsequent posts! The "quote this message" option is a helpful one in this respect :)

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We have a Prime Minister who won't tell the public > how many children he's fathered, yet has > castigated single mothers. Marina Hyde's latest > column pulls no punches... > > Boris Johnson?s big contribution to reducing > plastic consumption is not wearing condoms. Or as > Gavin Williamson put it this morning: ?Boris > Johnson has done more for the environment than any > other politician.? Quite. We don?t need a > joined-up strategy to prevent climate catastrophe > with the largest and most successful trading bloc > the world has ever seen, because Johnson?s going > to spaff our way to the higher ground, while we > serve as galley slaves on his privatised sex ark. > > Maybe I?m being a shade unfair. So let me say that > this election marks a change of behaviour for the > prime minister, who has finally started > withdrawing. Unfortunately, he?s pulling out of > climate debates and BBC interviews, as opposed to > single mothers. Still, baby steps. And he?s > certainly missed a few of those. Marina Hyde is brilliant. The rest of the article carried on in the same vein :)

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plusnet Vs B.T. > > https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/reviews/plusne > t-vs-bt-broadband > > All you need to Know ? I dont see anything about customer service on there. Apologies if I missed it. Also, the comparison is over a year old. Things change quickly in the broadband world :)

micromacromonkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > doogleflip Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > In our company we have had 2 vans broken into > > and > > > tools stolen from the back. One attempted > break > > in > > > with holes drilled into the back doors. One > set > > of > > > ladders stolen off the roof bars and this > > morning, > > > one of our engineers woke up to discover his > > front > > > window smashed and sat nav / bag stolen. > > > > > > All of these incidents have happened over the > > last > > > 12 months. We're a family business. This is > > really > > > upsetting. > > > > > > Obviously I'm very sorry to hear this, and I > > really don't want to sound unsympathetic, but > > surely vans should be emptied of bags, tools, > > satnavs etc at night? > > > > That's why you often see notices on vans "no > tools > > left in this vehicle overnight", as otherwise > > these (expletive deleteds) will break in on the > > offchance. > > And women with short skirts are asking for it? That is completely different. As I'm sure you realise.

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KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > DulwichFox Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > > > BT Excellent customer service.. > > > > > > I think you will find if you google that BT do > > not do well on customer service/satisfaction > > ratings. > > > > Talk Talk are setting the bar rather low, so it > > isn't surprising that BT are better than them. > > How much can you really trust "customer ratings" > though? > As with most things praise is hardly recognised > and bad experiences over exaggerated (IMO). > Never had a problem with BT. You just need to > know how to handle the help lines that are mostly > just following scripts. The only way that I got a problem resolved, after months of promises from various people in various places at BT, was to go onto their Facebook page and complain there. Because it's public, they have to be seen to sort things - which they did, very promptly. I just wish I'd thought of it before. And yes of course people are more likely to complain than to praise, however it is still the case that more people appear to complain about certain companies (BT, for example) than others (Plusnet, for example).

doogleflip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In our company we have had 2 vans broken into and > tools stolen from the back. One attempted break in > with holes drilled into the back doors. One set of > ladders stolen off the roof bars and this morning, > one of our engineers woke up to discover his front > window smashed and sat nav / bag stolen. > > All of these incidents have happened over the last > 12 months. We're a family business. This is really > upsetting. Obviously I'm very sorry to hear this, and I really don't want to sound unsympathetic, but surely vans should be emptied of bags, tools, satnavs etc at night? That's why you often see notices on vans "no tools left in this vehicle overnight", as otherwise these (expletive deleteds) will break in on the offchance.