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The Lordship Lane branch didn't have any decent stationery even when it opened, if memory serves. Once upon a time, you used to be able to get pretty good notebooks in pound shops, and cheap drawing pads for kids. I imagine they are laid out like that to make the best use of space - more shelving for products and fewer aisles?

I was joking, sorry, that probably wasn't obvious. I'm not sure I agree with culling aka killing loads of anything (except things carrying diseases like malaria etc), but I don't know enough about it to be able to say.

Has anyone here bought one of these? Malumbu? Does it do what it says? I just have the rad on in whatever room I'm in, if I'm in there for a while (I move the thermostat around with me and turn the rads on and off as appropriate), but this sounds like possibly a better solution, if it works and is actually cheaper. Also a temporary backup should something go wrong with the boiler. It sounds rather dangerous if people are using one in the bathroom though? I have my bathroom rad permanently on, so it heats up whenever the boiler is on to heat another room.

Doesn't it depend on how much it would cost to get your existing car through its MOT, if it fails?

Sqwaky? If you had worn your Poundland glasses you might also have seen the red wriggly line under sqwaky. And if you want to start talking about culling things, please start another thread! Surely rats aren't an "alien species" are they? Anyway, they are very intelligent and don't deserve to be culled. And Egyptian geese are very pretty, so they don't deserve to be culled either. Glad you are saving starlings and rabbits too. How do you feel about mice? 🐭 🤣

But it beggars belief also why you don't just go somewhere else! Why are you putting up with it? TJ isn't the only surgery in East Dulwich! You don't have to tell TJ you are leaving! You just register with another GP in the appropriate catchment area, and they do everything else!

In that case, maybe Poundland made a mistake opening in Lordship Lane. Or else they are selling the wrong kind of products in this branch for the potential customers. But surely they must have done some research first? If not, then they deserve to do badly.

Sorry, off topic, but please ignore that first photo that comes up in the Ivy House link! It isn't from the Goose Singaround and I've never seen it before! It appears to be Leon Rosselson singing at one of our concerts years ago! We don't use mics at the singaround and never have done, it isn't an open mic night! We don't want people to be put off before they've even come to it 😀 I've just asked the lovely Sam (events manager) to change the photo to one of ours!

I don't want to be unkind, but if sales are well down it could well be because their buyers aren't buying things that people want to buy, or else are buying them at too high a price, with knock on effects on the retail prices. How are other pound shop chains doing? My reply to Ianr has disappeared, and the screenshot attached to it has become attached to my reply to insuflo. Admin ???? Shome mishtake shurely ??? Hopefully not mine 🙄

Oh dear. It's certainly not going to last long at this rate. Maybe the writing is already on the wall and the staff know it? Not that that's any excuse for rudeness to customers.

I love pound stores too, though I don't buy food there, but despite going into this one several times since it opened, I have found nothing that I either wanted or couldn't get cheaper somewhere else, even at Christmas. All I have bought there was a pack of mealworms for the birds (dried, obviously 😀). I've been very disappointed, as I've had some great bargains from pound shops over the years - some of which have even survived my decluttering. As for the pricing, that's very poor management and customer service - both for having the wrong prices in the first place, and then refusing to honour them. As is having nobody on the shop floor to take the money. How on earth could that happen? I understand that the staff may be poorly paid, but that doesn't mean you don't have to do your job properly. This place is in a prime position, and personally I hope it closes down and we get something better. 😀 (sorry, removed a sentence and can't delete the smiley). I'd be happy with another pound shop or discount shop if it actually had real bargains and was properly run.

What has any of that got to do with a discussion about LTNs?

Never mind that, I want to know more about the train cake tin!

Not sure if this is relevant, depending on the cause of the cracks, but I read recently that scientists have now invented a self-healing road surface, such that cracks and potholes will no longer appear (assuming I understood it correctly!). Don't know how long it will take before it comes into use, though.

To be fair, my understanding (which may well be wrong) is that the whole of the London water system consists of antiquated Victorian pipes, and the whole lot needs replacing. Because of the enormous potential cost of doing that, it just gets patched up as and when. The other factor, of course, is that it should never have been privatised.

So was the injured goose returned to its partner when it had healed?

Won't the car now have yellow paint on its tyres?!

Couldn't the sanctuary have taken the female as well? That's very sad 😭

What I meant was, it may not be worth your while if you have to pay someone to do it, unless they are very expensive clothes. Are you going to ask them to take the pix as well?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/31/tell-us-what-has-been-your-experience-of-royal-mail-deliveries?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Yes. I must have accidentally clicked on something when I was coming out of the brightness settings after having checked the brightness was ok on the spreadsheet I was editing. And the first Which Tech person I spoke to when all this started said I couldn't have done that because the only settings on that page were for brightness. But neither he nor I nor anyone else until now came to the what now seems obvious conclusion that I had somehow on coming out of the settings clicked on something which turned the brightness down completely to black But as my daughter just said, why on earth would Lenovo have the lowest setting possible set to no brightness at all?! Bonkers! Anyway, thanks so much again to everyone who has helped, it's much appreciated ❤️

Sorted. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but probably laugh. A young (I think) woman - not that that's relevant - from Which Tech deduced the cause of the problem in about ten minutes or less. She didn't even need remote access. The effing brightness was turned right down. There is a function key f6 on my laptop which turns up the brightness (I had no idea it existed - I was changing the brightness in settings). Using this - when restarting again brought up the dreaded black screen - had a miraculous effect. Whatever is the opposite of SNAFU I now have it. Thanks to everyone who has been so helpful, and it just goes to show how easy it is to overlook the simplest things!

You could try posting them on here in the for sale section? I have just started buying stuff on Vinted, but I think selling online is a bit of a faff and maybe not worth it unless they are expensive designer clothes or especially sought after, especially if you are paying someone else to do it. Apart from the admin side, it's all got to be packed up, labelled and taken to the despatch point. Unless there are ways of doing it which I don't know about!

Which Tech are phoning at 1.30 today. I expect they would do this, if not I will suggest it, but I'd rather let someone who knows what they are doing deal with it at this point, rather than me! I really appreciate everyone's advice on here, so pleased don't think I'm being ungrateful!

Oh ok, I'm even more confused now then. Have you seen the discussion on the dangerous driving thread?