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fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looked at the menu online for Matoom. There's a > lot of stuff on there that doesn't sound > particularly Thai (won ton soup, aromatic crispy > duck, gyozas, samosas, etc...). But I guess > they're just trying to please everyone. If the > actual Thai dishes are decent, I'd give it a try. We just had a takeaway after these recommendations. ?20 minimum to my postcode (SE22) Very underwhelmed. Probably shouldn't have played safe and gone for Pad Thai. The prawn crackers were ok. Unlikely to order from there again, sadly.

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was the tone of foot stamping entitlement for > me.On a free resource. I've just looked at the thread. I don't see any "foot stamping entitlement". Just an attempt to get some information and frustration when it wasn't forthcoming. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?12,1988618

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Foxy, have you just come too in your bedroom and > had a look around? > :)) :)) :))

To the best of my knowledge, Sainsbury's in DKH sell towels, bedding etc. At least they used to. Where in Forest Hill can you get these things you mention? Or Peckham? OK there are phone shops in Peckham. My daughter bought a new battery in one. It lasted about a fortnight. Where are the furniture shops in Peckham, Brixton and Forest Hill? Where are the electrical shops? Where are the cookware shops? For most places in London, you have to go up to town or to a big shopping centre to buy things like jeans, or to get a decent choice of cookware etc. That has been the case for over fifty years. East Dulwich did until recently have a cookware shop. It closed down. Many if not most people these days buy things you mention like electrical goods, clocks (if anybody still uses clocks), bedside lamps online.

Damo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Will stick a mousetrap in the ashtray for next > time. :)) :)) :)) They probably won't be after old fag ends in the ashtray, though :))

"Apart from restaurants there are no real shopping facilities in East Dulwich". Eh? There's M&S, the Co-op, Sainsbury's, Lloyds, two other pharmacies, Organic Village, Moxons, William Rose, three DIY shops, Blackbird bakery, a cobbler, a florist, at least two newsagents, two bookshops, several clothes shops, a shoe shop, at least two dry cleaners, at least two off licences, at least two plant shops, a toy shop, You can buy art materials now in Willows. Several gift shops. Farmers, which sells just about everything .. Many more, that's just off the top of my head. What do you define as "real shopping facilities", Dulwich Fox? My partner says you have to go to Camberwell for a record shop, is that what you had in mind?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With Boots stores nearby in Forest Hill, Brixton > and Peckham and Boots currently closing many > stores > Also with Lloyds Pharmacy just 100 mtres away. > I find this a little unlikely. > > But what do I know. ? > > DulwichFox Whilst I hope it isn't a Boots, I very much doubt anybody living in East Dulwich would go to Forest Hill, Brixton or Peckham just to shop in a Boots!.

Maybe speak to the people who got The Ivy House listed at very short notice? The developers who bought it weren't then able to turn it into flats (I think I've remembered that right). As a separate issue (I think) it was then listed as an asset of community value, after which it became a community pub I'm not suggesting in any way that anybody should go down that route with The Palmerston. I don't think a community owned pub would work in East Dulwich. But getting it listed might at least save it as a pub. Like The Ivy House, it seems to have an interior well worth saving

sweetgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've just had a take away from 148 Chinese > In my opinion, crap food, prices have jump since > the new start up..... Even with the 10% opening > discount which is on until Sunday. > > It's my closest Chinese, but I need to find > another! > > Any other recommendations? > > I have to say I do miss cafe noodle, especially > the Kung po king prawns with cashews..... That > was lush Oh dear re 148. Sad but not entirely surprising. I don't miss Cafe Noodle. I used to eat there back in the day because it was cheap and filling and OK. Until my partner and I were both quite ill after eating there .....

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Youngs for instance. If they thought the Cherru > Tree was value they would pay a fortune for the > Palmerston. Oh no. Please not another Young's pub :(

ID? Money? Or maybe it's just random vandalism.

JoeLeg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Easy Sue. Louisa is back declaring a new start. > Everyone is entitled to try and start over. Where did she declare a new start? I must have missed it :)) ETA: Oh, OK, seen it in the lounge. I await the posts arising from this new start with interest

goldilocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why should it be in the lounge? > > Genuine question? > > Thought this section was for ?issues affecting > east dulwich?. I think that woodburner usage in > East Dulwich is an issue for the local area. It?s > not unique to here but it does affect us all and > on an individual and collective level rather than > theoretically Most threads in the lounge are not unique to East Dulwich. That's why they are there. This section is supposed to be for issues solely relating to East Dulwich. But hey I'm not the forum police :))

Passiflora Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Article about the CPZ proposal in the Southwark > News today and mentions comments on this forum. Which ones?

DulwichFox Wrote: -------------------------------------------- > > In the many many years I used this pub I cannot > remember you ever using it. I'm not quite sure how that would follow from what I said, but it was my partner and my regular drinking place for many years. But presumably after you stopped going there I would say thank God, but that would be rude. ETA: And surprise surprise another person who left the forum seems to have returned. Oh joy.

mrwb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So much competition on Lordship Lane these days. > Bonne Bouffe didn't make it either. But in the case of The Palmerston, it seems to be that their lease came to an end and they weren't offered the opportunity of a new one. It wasn't that they had to close because they were doing badly, I think, which makes it even more sad in a way. Obviously I have no idea what the background to it is, whether the owner wants to sell the property or what. It's an East Dulwich landmark, I've spent many happy evenings in there with a pint or several :(

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cant believe it is 15 years since myself and many > others stopped using the place. > What a charming way to say goodbye to an established and well loved East Dulwich pub :(

Removed because I've just seen a similar post in the business section about the closure of the Palmerston.

karpar Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Apparently,to cope with > the large workload they are using posties from > other offices and they are using their own cards, > not SE15 ones. How on earth the people "managing" this fiasco got to be in their present positions beats me. You think you've heard it all, then it gets worse.

I would like to publicly give profuse thanks to James McAsh. I phoned the council a week ago with a question I needed answering, and was told to email a specific address and the email would then be passed to the relevant person to respond, but I had no response. I then phoned the council again today. Nobody seemed to know anything about the email, I hadn't been given a reference number, and I then spent a large part of the afternoon being passed from one person to another in the council, none of whom could answer a simple question that had by this time become quite urgent. I emailed James in desperation at around 4.30pm this afternoon, and just before 7pm I received an email from the head of the relevant department answering my question in full. I am well impressed and extremely grateful! Thanks, James! You're a star!

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Admin did indeed apologise on here...3 times > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?2 > 0,1959738,1960034#msg-1960034 The apology was a bit irrelevant. What I wanted was the text of the email sent to Heals so that I knew what had been said before I approached them myself. I have now got that, for which I am grateful, as I said above. However many months have passed now and frankly, with health and other very stressful problems at the moment, taking up a case of apparent misrepresentation (not by Heals) of a product being sold by them is not very high on my list of priorities :)

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > If you object to people commenting on your > business, old fruit, I would suggest you don't put > your business on a public forum, I posted asking for advice, as many people do on here. I would not call that "putting my business on a public forum." I have now had a very nice PM from the forum Head Honcho and as far as I am concerned the matter is resolved. It's a pity that it seems to have got lost in the PM ether before, but I'm grateful now to know what happened. You seem to have been in a very aggressive mood on here lately, rendelharris. I (genuinely) hope there is nothing wrong.

boomshake22 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OK. Quite misleading, using same tactics as > chuggers really, I noticed they have recently > stopped saying can I tell you about my start up? I assumed it was Freddie's Flowers. The people with the bike were really annoying. Worse than chuggers, at least chuggers are doing it for a charity. This lot stopped me as I was going one way down Lordship Lane, then again when I came back. At least chuggers tend to remember when you've said you aren't interested.

cella Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All sorted - the overseeing company came round, > apologised, identified training needs & brought > chocolates. The actual contractor has just been > and gave the right sort of apology & took my > number to give advance notice of extra loud > anticipated work - so all well. Excellent. I recently had an issue with builders a couple of houses down. Not as bad as yours, but when I asked them to turn their radio down they lobbed a lump of wood onto the roof above the room where I was trying to work. It's still there.

Could be misunderstandings when she's texting people :))