Sue

I have Plusnet. I've been with them for years, and I switched to fibre some time ago. Threaten to leave them and I'm sure you'll be fine money wise. Get armed with price comparisons first 😀

Fair enough. We are all different. I apologise (again). And stand corrected (again). Sorry, Beansprout.

Very true. I stand corrected! In future I won't believe anything I read 🤣 Or perhaps I have misunderstood what you said or mixed you up with someone else, in which case I apologise.

No, I don't have a problem! I just wondered, as you have mentioned several times on the forum that you have moved to Devon/the country, and I got the impression that you were glad to be out of London, so I assumed that you were no longer living in ED!

Just wondering if anybody has had a meal recently from Malabar Feast? I was compiling a list of places to eat/get a delivery from, and I remembered this place. I looked at their latest menu, and I see that the fish curry has returned. I'm wondering if I dare hope that they have upped their game since my last disappointing (and embarrassing, as I had visitors) experience?

The postal deliveries where I live (off North Cross Road) have been much better lately. I'm not aware of anything having been delayed. beansprout, I'm wondering why you are taking so much interest in East Dulwich matters if you have moved to the country? Do they not have local forums out in the sticks? 😀

Oh crikey, yes, I'd forgotten about Consignia 🤣 Was that when it was privatised? My memory is truly terrible these days 😭

Well, what has the postal system got to do with the Royal Family? Decades ago there was a discussion about potentially changing the name, but it never happened. I think they decided to stick with a traditional type name.

For some reason post boxes feel like something from another age. The only time I seem to use them is to post my used ink cartridges to HP for recycling, or my used contact lenses and cases to Vision Direct, ditto (I don't buy the lenses from there, but they take them anyway). I hardly ever send physical cards any more, and I can't think of anything else I'd ever post which didn't require me to queue at the Post Office to get proof of sending and/or delivery. And it also feels ridiculous in the twenty first century that we are still calling our postal system "Royal Mail"!

Have you read the OP?

I would go out of my way to avoid it if I knew where it was 🤣

Eh? I'm not sure whose post you are responding to, but if it was mine, you "clearly do not know how much it costs"? I have two granddaughters who have frequently stayed with my partner and myself in London, since the younger one was four. I wasn't commenting on the cost of taking children out in London. I was asking exactly what a holiday science club was doing with the children to warrant charging £242 for five hours! You "clearly" did not read my post! You don't have to take children on expensive outings. As you say, there are plenty of free/cheap things for children to do in London, and children enjoy choosing things to go in their packed lunch which they can carry themselves in a little backpack. As for buying toys etc, you can give them pocket money at the start of their stay, to spend how they want, and if they make poor choices and then run out of money, it's a learning experience, isn't it. And I suspect I am at least as old as you, and quite possibly older! But in any case, Pugwash was not asking for general comments, s/he was asking for specific suggestions for a specific boy with specific interests.

£242 a DAY? For 5 hours? What on earth are they doing with them, alchemy to make gold to take home?!

Thank you for that information. I will google. Though I don't know why people should be legally allowed to take cuttings from, say, plants in a herbaceous border in a public park. They may not uproot or "damage" the plant (depending on how you define "damage") but they could certainly remove enough plant material to affect the plant's appearance. And suppose everybody was to do it?

The plane noise seems to have been really loud lately. Have they been flying lower for some reason? Or are there more of them? Or is it more noticeable because there's less road traffic noise? Or am I imagining it? I don't usually notice plane noise, I thought I had got used to it!

Thanks but I'm looking for a camera which records, rather than sitting up all night with binoculars in case something visits! But thanks anyway! You could post in the For Sale section, I'm sure someone else will be interested!

So is it still going on? I live very near there and walk there often, but the only bleeping noise I've ever heard is from the alarm near the dentist. And I have very good hearing. Though I'm beginning to doubt that now, if there's a constant bleeping in the area every 60 seconds!!!

But doesn't "public" land belong to somebody? Sorry to go on about it, but I'm confused. Some years back, someone/some people picked all the lovely daffodils growing along the edge of Peckham Rye (adjacent to the main road). Do you think that was OK, because it wasn't on private land? It spoiled the potential enjoyment of them by a lot of other people, including me. And what is the distinction between "plants worth growing" and those apparently not worth growing? And why is it relevant to the theft of plants and flowers and cutting material? Or have I totally misunderstood your point?

Thank you, that's really useful.

Aren't all places with plants or flowers someone's property, or have I missed something somewhere?

Maybe so, but in both cases it is theft, in my view.

This happens in nurseries and garden centres as well. I imagine they think nobody will notice 🙄 Not quite the same thing, but years ago I had three fully planted window boxes stolen from my front bay. The police said someone was going round East Dulwich with a van. I think it was Mother's Day or something. I also knew someone in North London who had two very expensive planters (and plants) stolen from outside his house. He had to get the replacements chained down.

That's dreadful. There are snipping sounds. She must have come out with scissors or secateurs specifically to steal other people's flowers. What road is this?

The alarm outside the dentist hasn't been bleeping when I've passed it a couple of times recently. OP and others, have you heard the mysterious noise in the last few days?