Sue

It was my blue bin collection day today, and the bin people have emptied my blue bin and my small brown bin, but have left three brown council paper bags of garden waste (weeds mostly) which I had left on the pavement with my bins. Just wondering whether anybody else has also had this? Are the brown bags collected separately? I always thought they were collected with the rest of the recycling.

It works both ways. I know people who moved because of the people who moved in next to them :) ETA: Also, different people have different expectations and tolerance levels for noise, and different kinds of noise, frequent or one off.

The last time we went to the Curry Cabin (and at one time it was our local Indian restaurant of choice) the reason given for a meal that let's say was not up to their previous standards was that the chef was drunk :)) It was all a bit Fawlty Towers :))

I also live in a Victorian terrace and yes, as I'm sure with any adjoining houses, I can hear sounds from both sides and no doubt they can hear me. Also, sounds travel in weird ways.

I use Plusnet, but I'm shortly coming to the end of my current contract and will be comparing different options. It's OK, their customer service has been good when I've needed it, with helpful advice. WiFi is patchy but I don't think that's Plusnet's fault, and moving the router a very small distance greatly improved things in a bad corner of my living room.

There is already a thread on here about this.

I thought it was Moxons who were opening the restaurant, have I misunderstood?

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been told that contents policies have, as > standard, cover for rehousing > > Really - that's not on my contents policy. Only > for the house fabric (I insure separately). Try > National Farmers Union - they can be flexible. If > you have the same cover on 2 policies they don't > pay out on one of them anyway. So they shouldn't > penalise you. If memory serves, the NFU was not interested in insuring my house. Can't remember if it was because of the postcode or because of a subsidence claim (except it wasn't called subsidence by the insurance company at the time, plus it was caused by faulty drains and was completely sorted) in the dim and distant past. ETA: Oh sorry, I have just realised this is about contents insurance. Though I have a joint buildings/contents policy.

Tjd3114 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd just like to add that Mark & Sons nr East > Dulwich station were just rude to me when > collecting a collect plus parcel including the > muttering of expletives under their breath when I > made a remark 'service with a smile'. I'm not > sure if they're just not happy with people coming > in and collecting parcels and not buying anything > or just generally rude. > > Needless to say I decided not to spend my hard > earned cash on a some supplies whilst I was there. I had never heard of Mark and Sons, so I googled them. Seems others have had a similar experience: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mark+and+sons+east+dulwich&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=vF57WpncHLPP8AfMvYDoCA#gfe_rd=cr&lrd=0x4876039064720321:0x5f1370d390c3957e,1,,,

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DulwichFox Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Do dogs keep rats away? > > Can a pet dog help repel rats? Unfortunately, > not > > really. > > > not quite what i meant, DF - more that rats prefer > to avoid hanging around near where dogs hang out > although few dogs seem to want to catch rats any > more, even though i've seen terriers have a go > i understand that foxes do kill rats for food, > (and i've certainly seen a fox trotting past with > a squirrel in its mouth) > > i can't understand the other posters' resentment > of rats minding their own business in public > spaces Nor me. They have as much right to be there as us.

NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > we always do 20mph in roads where that is the > limit and believe me when I say many drivers do > nearly double that. > we've been hooted tailgated, and on occasion > overtaken by drivers going into the lane of > oncoming traffic. > we need more speed cameras. Yep. Same up Sydenham Hill. It's the tailgating I find really intimidating. DbBoy, what do you mean? It's perfectly possible to travel at 20mph. That's a different issue to whether that's a reasonable speed limit on particular roads, which I would agree in some cases it isn't.

It isn't a council park, is it? That's probably why?

Renata Hamvas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Council officers So I'm sorry to be thick, but how often is a council officer likely to be around when a driver is parked with his (or her, but it usually seems to be his) engine running?

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Would it be possible either to change the name of > this thread or to start a new one celebrating its > reopening! It's all slightly confusing now. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1906384

What it says! ETA: To those mystified by the heading, see here: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1882203

My street is quiet! The builders have gone from the roof opposite! The people repairing the water pipes in the road a few houses down have gone! The shouting and swearing has stopped! The road is not blocked by gigantic lorries! I don't have to have my Pzizz app on Focus to try and concentrate on what I'm doing! I'm so happy :))

Still nothing on Facebook or Twitter that I can see, but I guess they have more important things to do at the moment :)

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > None of this is flu. Everyone?s running to the > doctor for antibiotics, which are no use at all > and quite bad for us all unless we have a > bacterial infection. I?ve had what you describe > Sue since 23rd December, it?s just a nasty cold. > A virus. Antibiotics don?t work on viruses. Just > being kind to myself has helped, lots of vitamin > c, eating well and plenty of red wine! I don't think anybody is suggesting it is flu? Flu generally makes you extremely ill and bedridden and totally incapable of doing anything. It's not what I call a cold, either, although it has some of the same symptoms and yes, probably they are both viruses. What I call a cold starts with a sore throat, progresses to a runny nose, you feel a bit shit for a day or so if it's a bad cold, if you're unlucky you get a cough, but it's over in a relatively short time. It doesn't involve very sore eyes (oh and very dry lips are another of my symptoms), and it doesn't keep coming and going. As regards antibiotics, my daughter was on the verge of being admitted to hospital on Friday night because she self-diagnosed her chest infection as a virus and insisted that antibiotics would not work. When she eventually phoned 111 for advice, she was told to go to the emergency GP, who told her that her heart rate was high, which was a sign that the infection was going out of control, and put her on antibiotics immediately. She was told to come back a few hours later and that if the situation hadn't improved she would have to be admitted. At 10pm she was told that luckily (and to my astonishment because she had only taken one dose) the antibiotics had kicked in and she hasn't had to be admitted. My point in all this is not for a minute to suggest that everybody should rush off to their GP at the first sign of illness, but to suggest that to self-diagnose yourself with a virus and assume that therefore it cannot be treated is not a great idea if you are clearly rather ill :)

TE44 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Sue, My neice has had a similiar thing, lastung > nearly 3montgs, she has noe been diagnosed > asthmatic. Out of curiousity did you recieve the > flu jab, hope you get better soon. Yes I had the flu jab, but this is nothing like as bad as flu.

Top as in .... ??? Past the library end?

Rats are very intelligent.

Renata, when you say "refuse to switch off their engines when asked", do you mean asked by any member of the public, or asked by a Southwark official of some kind?

That's terrible :(

OMG I'm just reading Guardian Weekend and the Tim Dowling column headline includes "total eclipse of the heart". How weird is that?