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Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's good thing to make a concerted effort to be > thankful frequently. It's a good post Sue. > > It makes you more aware of what you really have. Yes, thank you. That was exactly why I posted it. I was making a cup of tea and looking at all the snow out of the window. I thought how extremely lucky I was compared to many people in the world, and how I should focus on that more often instead of dwelling on things which get me down but in the great scheme of things are really not important at all. I genuinely can't understand how anybody could have taken it any other way.

LW51190 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just as an FYI - I have had various issues with > Family Store on Upland Road. A few times my > delivery has triggered a notification that it is > ready for collection, and when I get there they > have said that no parcel has been delivered. This > has been investigated by DPD and the various > companies have had to refund. > > I would completely avoid ANY delivery to this > store. Are you implying that somebody from the store is taking the parcels? That would be a bit foolish surely, because it could be so easily tracked, assuming they have to sign for them when they arrive there?

BigED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > what kind of bugs? :)) :)) :)) ETA: Sorry, I know it's a serious matter, but that did amuse me, BigEd

I've just had a card through my door from The Sash Window Man. At the top, it says "Are your Sash Windows stuck fast while you swelter in the heat?" Er, no :))

Posted by DulwichFox Today, 10:18AM > Sue.. So you do Charitable things and you are telling us all about it. > When I did something similar, I was branded about being Narcissistic and it being all about me. > IE when I mentioned about my own fund raising for The RNLI and RNIB. and Diabetes UK. > I too am grateful for my own situation which is similar to yours. > Got very little food in the house though so I will HAVE to venture out. Oh FFS. I give up. I am "telling you all about it" because of your rather nasty post in response to my OP. Please look up the definition of narcissism. ETA: And the traits and signs of a narcissist. Wikipedia may provide a starting point for your research.

I'm guessing this work is probably not happening today as planned, due to the weather, or am I wrong? Have just put my head out of the door, and no sign of Thames Water. Vile smell of pollution, though :(

Re: Things I am grateful for this snowy day .... Posted by DulwichFox Today, 09:46AM > Why don't you put a poster up on Lordship Lane > so all those who are on the streets and will not see this post > will know that someone is thinking about them. I was hoping that perhaps other people might post up what they were grateful for. I suppose I should have known that wouldn't happen and that the negative posters on here would pounce immediately :( And yes I do give money to charities for the homeless, Dulwich Fox, and have raised a lot of money for refugees via a benefit gig, so if you are implying that thinking of people is not enough, I put my money where my mouth is. Edited to add Dulwich Fox's post.

Having a roof over my head. Having a functioning heating system and enough money to pay for it. Having a kettle and a toaster, tea and bread. Having warm bedding. Having food in the house and not having to worry about not being able to afford food for others. Not having to go out onto slippery pavements. Thinking of all those who are not so lucky x Oh, and apart from the snow, and despite all the hideous things wrong in this country at the moment, grateful that it is unlikely that I will be bombed in my own home, that my grandkids will be shot in their own classroom, or that I will be a person fleeing a desperate situation in their own country who no other country is willing to take in.

:)) I remember that one! Brilliant!

Thames Water will be able to tell you. In my experience they are really helpful if you phone them.

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Self harming is a mental health issue, not a > fashion. Are you on a different planet? FFS. > > Rarely do I feel riled by a post. > > OP - you must be trolling. Yes. I wondered that too.

Surely self harming isn't a "fashion", unless you are including things like piercing and tattoos.

But it is you who appears to be "raking over this with me all over again." !!! I have been very careful in the past to really try hard to keep my responses to you on this forum (and indeede outside this forum) objective and not to attack you on a personal basis, despite gross provocation and despite your bizarre attacks on me on here under your various forum names, including very recently (but not as "Poker Time"). Perhaps instead of throwing unfounded accusations about, you could respond to the points I have made above and/or provide actual evidence to back up your accusations. All my efforts to resolve things with you were thwarted because you did not respond to my communications. In at least two cases locally I am aware of you acted in exactly the same way - leaving the jobs without warning and not responding to all attempts to contact you. One of those people was also left extremely stressed as a result. I am sorry because I think you are an ill and unhappy person, however unfortunately you also appear to be a very plausible and manipulative liar. As you keep mentioning the "documentary crew", I will just say that they got wise to you by the end, despite your efforts to explain away delays and unfinished work by blaming me. Let us hope that your previous post is indeed your "final word", but in any case I am going to ask admin to remove these posts. Deja vu. ETA: But if they stay here, then so be it. Though I'm quite sure nobody else is interested in something that took place nearly a decade ago and was done to death on here at the time. I was weary of it then, and I'm weary of it now. ETA: And in the interests of accuracy and truth, yes - I did lose my temper with you. I lost it once, and yes it was when the television crew were there. Not only did I lose my temper, I was practically in tears. By that point I had had weeks of seeing my money disappear into a black hole with very little to show for it. In retrospect, I was totally stupid to pay you by the hour and believe all your confident assertions, plausible promises and excuses, despite all the evidence to the contrary. I should also not have ignored my gut feelings at a very early stage of the project that there was something very wrong. If memory serves I snapped after you had pulled my large sofa across the room over a newly painted white floor before the paint was properly dry, with predictable results. You sanded the area down again but it was never properly repainted to match the rest of the floor. It had to be covered by a rug for the reveal shoot, and to this day I have to keep it covered by a rug. I have just looked beneath the rug, and it is a disaster area of large bare patches thinly covered by paint, right in the central area of my living room. My nerves were on a knife-edge by that time, and I am only amazed that I did not lose my temper more often. Had I known at that point that you were telling the television crew that all the delays and unfinished work were because "Sue keeps changing her mind", you would have been out on your ear, documentary or no documentary. My only consolation is that once they saw your work and speed, saw that you appeared not to know how to fit cupboard doors which you had promised would be done before the reveal, saw you hang a picture using the wrong large drill which drilled right through the wall and knocked new plaster off the other side of the wall, had to get one of their assistants with a rudimentary knowledge of DIY to fit some of the window blinds because you were so slow, and had to spend the best part of a day with you, they realised.

If the police have given information about this then they must have details of the dog's owner. If the dog is supposed to be muzzled but isn't, then surely this should be reported to the police, who can take the appropriate action? Before somebody else is hurt? Particularly if the dog's owner is being abusive.

Who was the man supposedly working for, shosntosh?

No gritting? FFS.

There is a dog presently barking in a garden which seems to be in Crystal Palace Road somewhere between the Great Exhibition and The Actress. Not the same thing I know, but it seems very cold to let a dog out. I presume its owners aren't sitting with it in the garden watching it bark :(

Seems to be a bit of an epidemic of this kind of thing at the moment (well, an epidemic of two): http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1912638

Also see the thread below about "NSPCC" door knocking: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1912311

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Try Naked Larder in Herne Hill > https://www.nakedlarder.co.uk/ > > > There?s one off Walworth Road too > https://fareshares.org.uk/ Thanks ianr Crikey, fareshares has been going since 1998! They seem to have different models. There's a ten pound minimum "fee" for each order from nakedlarder, but I'm not sure quite how fareshares works. It seems to be by volunteers, and donations towards the running costs. It would be great to have something like this a bit nearer.

Sounds highly suspicious to me. This kind of thing is usually done online for charity these days, isn't it? Surely you don't go door to door collecting money from complete strangers for a sponsored walk?

Even the sparrows have disappeared from my garden. They don't appear to like Wilko bird seed or suet balls :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just Paid my Water Bill. ?385.26p for a single > person. I am a single person in the same sized house as yours. I am on a water meter for the second year. I am currently ?2 in credit on on a payment plan of ?204 a year. If I'd changed to a meter years ago, I would have saved a fortune by now. As it is, I'm saving around ?200 a year. No brainer really :)

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Most normal people buy clothes at affordable high > street chain type places, and none of those are > EVER going to come to ED. Well, let's hope. People used to say the same about high street coffee shop type places - like Cafe Nero :(

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Someone has to pay for all those warning cards. > Just got my bill in which has gone up a whopping > ?150 for 2018/19! Do you have a water meter? I've saved a massive amount since getting one (and I'm also much more careful with water use :) )