Sue

The suspense is killing me. And I don't even like Tesco 🤣 and I can't remember the last time I used an ATM 🤣

There will be tickets for sale on the door tomorrow. Door 7pm, live music starts 8pm, tickets £18 Get there early to be sure of a seat!

Yes, the choice of words was strange, but so far as I could see they were correct English?

I rarely iron, so my massive ironing board is just taking up unnecessary space. Does anyone have one of those little ones that you can use on an ordinary table?

It's happened twice today, I've never had this happen before! Here's the second one. All I did was try to agree with a post in the lounge!

Now I'm having my hand slapped by some forum bot 😮 All I did was try to add a laughing emoji to ianr's post. This is obviously a message from the universe to tell me to get off my phone and get back to working my way through my very lengthy to do list 🤣 ETA: And it's just happened again when I tried to agree with a post in the lounge. OK universe, I give in. Back to the hideous task list.

The link doesn't work for me.

Yes I did, in case that wasn't clear from my posts above. What reasons do you have for thinking that English was not the first language of the person who put the survey together? (And even if it wasn't, how would that be relevant unless it made the questions hard to understand?) I don't think the issues with the survey stem from a language problem. I think, though I may be wrong, that they stem from an unfamiliarity with survey methodology, and not properly thinking the process through. Yes you are right, I missed that because in each case I could only find one possible answer I could give, but that of course doesn't mean I couldn't have given more.

I think that's highly unlikely.

This is tomorrow!

They can, but it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong, so they tend to close their eyes to it. There is a name for that, which I knew many decades ago but can't now remember.

Was she ok?

The one answer allowed per question is possibly understandable, to make the next stage in their research easier. The actual list of possible answers isn't. I would be interested to know why this company was chosen to work on this campaign, and on what grounds, and whether any other companies were considered. Maybe the OP could comment on the reasons for the wording of the survey? TBH it doesn't fill one with confidence if they don't even check that their links work when posting on a public forum under their company's real name. Maybe they are a newbie or someone doing work experience? If so, shouldn't someone more senior have run their eye over the survey before it went live? Very sorry if that sounds harsh. The actual ideas for the campaign are fine, and different skills are involved for that, which might explain things to some extent.

Thanks ianr. So no mention of either Tesco or October? So we are no further forward with knowing when the Tesco will actually open? The place seems to have been empty for ages. I would have thought Tesco might have wanted to be up and running in time for Christmas, but maybe that isn't relevant to a relatively small Tesco Express? ETA: The wonders of the space bar, eh? It took me more time than it should have done to see the difference between the two addresses in your previous post!

Do you have a link to this, Monica? I just googled and I can't find anything on the Southwark planning register, but I'm probably looking in the wrong place.

I wouldn't call it charisma exactly, but is it something about the "in your face" nature of Farage and Trump's personalities? Whereas Starmer sort of fades into the background.

The Palmerston is open for meals on Christmas Day. I imagine The Cherry Tree will be again. We had a truly terrible meal there on Christmas Day last year which cost us around £100 each without drinks, so I wouldn't recommend you book there 😭 Please PM me if you want details, though I am very tempted to post them on here.

It doesn't appear to be a scam? Snap!

https://anatomylondon.com/

Sorry, but I thought this survey was totally bizarre. Does whoever put it together have any experience at all in this field? How did they come to choose the answer options? Wouldn't they have been better having the focus group first, to gather thoughts on what to include in the survey? As noted above, virtually all the possible responses are negative, apart from "happiness", which seems a strange approach to say the least.

You need to make the survey a link, via the link icon at the top when you are writing your post.

Just to clarify, this is purely a friendly social occasion for people to meet each other, and not specifically intended to be to discuss matters relating to East Dulwich or the forum (though you can if you want to, of course!) And you don't have to divulge your forum name (though again, you can if you want to!) You can come at any time after 7pm, and of course can leave at any time! Sue x

You can still request a phone appointment with a doctor, I think, if it's an issue you need to ask questions about? Or, I have had questions quickly answered by a GP via their online system. Hopefully all this is teething problems, and the staff as well as patients are having to get to grips with a relatively new system. I can fully understand that it is much better all round if GP face to face appointments are saved for things that need a physical examination, and it must mean that patients who do need one are seen more quickly than under the old system?

Still some tickets left!