Sue

Yet again, for about the zillionth time, we have Thames Water apparently digging up Ulverscroft Road. At 10.30 on Saturday night. Anybody know what's going on, and why they didn't sort the problem the many times they have dug up the same bit of road before? :( ETA: Just been to ask them. "It's a hundred year old main." Yes so why don't you replace it or do a repair which lasts more than a few weeks? Wouldn't that be more cost effective than keep having to send out people every few weeks? "Yes I agree with you etc etc etc and you should have your water back by the morning". I just hope the poor expletive deleted who keeps getting his cellar flooded, a few doors down from me, is going to claim enormous amounts of compensation. Are Thames Water privatised? Disgraceful.

singalto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, hegave the impression that he is ?very > important.? 😃 :)) Somebody running a delivery office would surely not be taking that kind of decision!

Credit where it's due. I had a dreaded red card on Thursday and ordered a redelivery for today. It arrived around 9.30 am! Amazing!!

Feij?o Wrote: --------------------------------------------. > I work for an educational institution south of the > river and the amount of shoplifting going on is > just insane. Sorry don't see the connection. Do you mean the students are shoplifting? How do you know?

Sorry duplicate post

Councils have had their money drastically cut. I guess they have to decide where their priorities lie, unfortunately. ETA: Hope your mother is OK, falling over is always a shock even if you are not physically very hurt :(

Thank you for posting this. I just saw it on Facebook this evening. What a great idea.

Emma Bailey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I also find the advice of "keeping them in a small > tank to restrict their growth" laughable apart > from being cruel. He must have made that up. It isn't true, but that doesn't mean somebody made it up. They may have believed it and passed it on in good faith.

ab29 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I have requested > a replacement over a month ago but the council > can't be bothered to deliver it. There could be all sorts of reasons why the bin hasn't been replaced. What makes you think the council "can't be bothered" to deliver it?

What worries me is where some of my post may be ending up. I assumed it was somewhere in the black hole which appears to be the mail system round here at the moment, but now I'm thinking .... what if it's being delivered to empty houses? Or houses with people who can't be bothered to repost wrongly delivered items? I'm still waiting for a gift card which was sent out in October (it's been cancelled and I've received the replacement, but where is the original?) It's all very well if you know something has been posted to you and you haven't received it, but what about the things you aren't expecting?

JennaAZ Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My husband takes the 12 to central London from > Peckham and says there are road works at > Parliament so the 12 is either ending at > Westminster Bridge/Parliament or trying to take > the diversion around. He said when it took the > diversion, it was just sat in traffic, not moving > for 15 minutes. He has also mentioned that > electronic outlets for this info are not updated > to reflect this (i.e. google maps, waze, etc). > Not sure how long the works will be, but if it's a > huge delay there, it's bound to affect our area > both coming and going. TFL really should put notices on bus stops when a particular bus has temporarily changed its route and is not stopping there. I only found out when I eventually used the Bus Countdown app on my phone to see when the next 12 was, and what came up was a long list of other buses but no 12s. When I clicked on 12 specifically, I just got a blank page :( I'd had a long long day trekking around Oxford Street and I really could have done without this at the end of it :( I only went for the 12 in the first place to save me further trekking up to Tottenham Court Road to get the 176 (I avoid the underground wherever possible) but then I had to (and had to wait ages for that, as well, grrrr).

Thank you for reporting this, Isolde2018. I meant to report it a few weeks back, and forgot all about it. It is a very scary stretch to walk down in the dark, particularly alone, but a very long way round if you avoid that path altogether because of the dark section. There didn't seem to be any lighting in the car park either (which can be a short cut depending on where you are going) - is there supposed to be? I didn't want to stop and investigate at the time.

There were two litter pickers in my street (off North Cross Road) last week, one on each side of the road.

Yesterday I had all my neighbour's post delivered to me. Today I got a letter for a different road (same number as mine). When I returned it to the postie, he said "The machine does it". Do they not look at what they are putting through the letter box???

peckham_ryu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Last time I reported a missed collection, they > said they would collect in the next 5 working > days. > > When it all gets to overflowing, I find the green > bin men can generally be persuaded to take pity > and empty the blues on their collection. If you?re > around to ask them nicely. Doesn't that mean that the blue bin contents will just go into landfill instead of being recycled?

I waited for a 12 for ages this evening in Regent Street, at a bus stop with no indication the 12 was not using it. Apparently the 12 is not currently going down Regent Street. Does anybody know why? Grrrrrr.

se22cat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Funny thing is the antics of the protest just led > to a ton more fumes in the atmosphere with all the > buses, cars and heavy goods vehicles idling while > the prats pranced about making everyone's life a > misery and endangering a few lives as there were > ambulances stuck with their sirens doing nothing > due to the gridlock this morning. Absolutely > pathetic and misguided behaviour! It may not look so pathetic and misguided if/when we become extinct because nobody did anything in time to counteract climate change. I was held up at the Elephant on a bus today because of the protest, but I support them wholeheartedly. To the best of my knowledge emergency vehicles were being let through. These people are not "prats prancing about". They are people who care about you and your childrens' future and are trying to get others to see the danger we are in as a species and as a planet.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Remaining on the subject of civil society, do any > of us as citizens challenge the incidents above? Sadly, I don't even challenge people who drop litter these days, unless they look particularly harmless. It's a matter of self preservation, frankly. If somebody steals, you don't know what else they might do. ETA: I would however inform a security guard or staff member if I saw somebody shoplifting.

You probably know this already, but eczema can sometimes be due to diet, particularly dairy intolerance. Don't know how old your little one is, but if they are having dairy products had you thought of cutting them out for a while to see if the eczema improves? I think oranges can also sometimes make eczema worse for some people?

I genuinely don't understand why somebody would want to keep terrapins, or any other creature for that matter, if they don't know how to care for them properly and humanely. Well OK, vicious dogs (for example) I can understand for a certain type of person, but terrapins??

Sazzle30 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I worked for a plc company that allowed you to > self certify sickness for 5 days but for anything > longer you needed a doctors note I thought that was a general thing? I'm pretty sure doctors won't give you a sick note for under 5 days.

Might it be useful to look into mediation?

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Never mind Brexit. I read that Cheetah the lost > cat is home after two months on the MIA list. > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?3 > 1,1976443#msg-1985536 Hooray! Now, about Brexit .... :))

Elphinstone's Army Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gaynor Hill Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The plough > > Went last year good price and excellent food > > > We had Christmas lunch here two years ago after > just moving 3 days before, and 'recommended' to > eat here although we had our reservations. This > was truly the most disgusting mess on a plate ever > - ?50 each in advance - no ambience, atmosphere, > just a plate of dry overcooked food shoved at us, > very upsetting. > We pushed it around the plate, could not believe > this was served as a mid winter feast - walked > home and made food. > > > > On leaving we were chased out by a barman who > insisted we had not paid our bar bill - we said, > we havn't had a tab, we have no bar bill? > We have not had drinks at the bar? > What a shambles > > This was the one and only time we attempted to eat > out for Christmas lunch ; never again, we enjoy > our own cooking/quality food too much > > How dare they charge so much for such pigswill and > indeed, how dare they serve pigswill. > > > Gaynor - honestly, this is a review which should > never have been written > > Sue - this made me laugh Elphinstone's Army, I once went to a "Burns Night" (inverted commas intentional) at The Plough which sounds a bit like your Christmas lunch there. It was such a shambles it would have been quite funny if we hadn't paid for it. Against our better judgement we had lunch there earlier this year because the grandkids were pleading starvation and it was the nearest place to where we were at the time. Every aspect of the meal was appalling. And it wasn't cheap. And yes I complained, but I did feel sorry for the person serving us such rubbish :(

Which dry cleaners is this? The one near the EDT or the one near the Post Office? Or the one near The Plough?