Sue

Those posts were from 2013.

Passiflora Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Southwark Council would have taken it away for you > for a lot less than that if you left it outside > and registered on the website! The OP said she knew the council would take it away if left outside, so presumably there was a reason why she couldn't leave it outside!

alex_b Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > First I would post on James (the new councillor's) > thread to see if he can nudge them to do their > job. Also I would phone first thing tomorrow > morning, ask to speak to a manager and say that > you're about to call your insurers who will pursue > the council for their costs. Having some potential > cost liability might focus their mind. > > If it doesn't then call your insurers and let them > fight with the council. But once insurers are involved you risk having your future premiums hiked.

I'm sorry to hear this, but we went in there for lunch shortly after it opened and came out (having eaten) still hungry. It seemed like a place for snacks rather than a meal? Not sure if that was the intention?

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This has really upset me. > He was a lovely man who introduced me to authors I > would not have otherwise have discovered. > so very sad so soon after his retirement. > He will be missed Even worse, he hadn't originally been planning to retire until next year I think.

singalto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Sylvester rd office closes today. I dread > having to collect parcels from Highshore rd as > there is no parking and long queues! Why have residents not been informed of the closing date and the new arrangements? It would hardly have been difficult to post information leaflets through doors which they go to every day!

savvygirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- If you truly believe it was > coal being burned then the person responsible is > breaking the law and could be fined heavily. It definitely didn't smell like wood, and reminded me of coal fires from my fifties childhood (the days of London smogs). But I looked up and down the road and couldn't see any smoke from a chimney.

nunhead_man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This may be a daft idea but do either of your > neighbours have a coal fire? > > Sometimes when people put in wood-burning stoves > or fireplaces they forget to check the chimney and > builders, especially amateurs, working on party > walls sometimes damage chimney breasts when doing > other work as these are often only one brick > thick. > > So before you put a fireplace in you have to make > sure the chimney is proper with a smoke test and > if smoke comes out in the wrong places i.e. your > neighbours upstairs fireplace whether it has been > removed or not, then it's time to put in a sleeve > in the chimney - if you do not do this, you fill > your neighbours house with smoke the first time > you light a fire. > > The same goes with rows of terraces with a shared > loft where one broken chimney flue can send smoke > into however many houses there are in the terrace Not daft at all. I have an open fire (not used at the moment obvs!), one of my neighbours has a woodburning stove I believe, and I don't know what the other one has. However one of the first things I did was to smell up the chimney, and the smoke was definitely not coming from there. Also the smell was much stronger outside than inside my house.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I smelled that. Smelled like wood burning. > Chiminea? I love the smell of burning wood, and it smelled like coal to me.

Thanks annabel42, they did a load of tests involving my eyes but I don't know what they were ruling out! But the doctors did stress that vertigo is not the same as dizziness. I'm glad you were finally diagnosed.

Thanks for this. Long overdue! ETA: Survey completed and fingers crossed!

It smells like a fireplace burning coal :(

Does anybody know what is causing the smell of smoke in the North Cross Road area? It is filling my living room and is most unpleasant. Has somebody got a bonfire?

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EPB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Our ?comics? (due lasst Friday) have arrived, > together with a fistful of assorted mail one of > which was a letter from Kings dated Sept 3. In my experience, just because a letter is dated a certain date doesn't necessarily mean it was posted on that date! Not saying that's the case here, of course.

I had some clogs once. They were hideous, and they hurt my feet. I like tulips though. I like the way they look when they flop over and die :)

I have a bread maker which I was given and have never used. It is quite old as the person who gave it to me was replacing it with a better one! Thanks, the recipes above have inspired me to lug it out from the depths of a cupboard and try it out!

Home Office ignorant of strain on police after cuts, says watchdog https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/11/home-office-ignorant-of-strain-on-police-after-cuts-says-watchdog?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

It's the Lounge.

I may be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that if Labour get in they will look to unprivatise (is that a word?) Royal Mail?

Just want to thank you for your interactions on here, James. Appreciated.

Hope you and your wife are OK and not too shaken, rendelharris.

Eh?!

SpringTime Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ED_local_JM's buyer is still for sale though, so > they can't proceed and if they accept less than > ideal for their property their offer might not > mean much anyway. But this half-way house isn't doing anybody any favours, is it? Either you accept somebody's offer and take the house off the market until they are in a position to go ahead, or you don't. ETA: Or at the very least, you are honest with the potential buyer and say that if somebody comes along who is able to go ahead straight away, you will pull out of the deal you had with the first person. I'd be really upset if I thought I was going ahead with a purchase (assuming all concerned thought I could easily sell my own place) and the seller suddenly pulled out.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Clip clippity clop, Sue Thank you :)