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I'm still quite confused, but never mind! I suppose it depends on exactly where you live and how far you are willing to walk! If you are getting the 484 in that direction (ie heading towards Camberwell Green) you can get off at Oakhurst Grove and walk up Crystal Palace Road. Or you can get off at Goose Green and walk up Lordship Lane (or get another bus) or walk round the back of the EDT and then up Crawthew Grove. It all seems like quite a complicated way to get back, but then with the loss of that part of the 40 route, any way is now, if the trains aren't running as scheduled. Or you can get a 12 from Peckham up Barry Road.

That might have been the case if it was a first post, but it isn't, which makes it less likely. It would be sad if people were put off from posting on here when they have had a good experience at a new local business because they think it will be assumed that they have some connection with the business.

What time is "early morning"? If it is disturbing your sleep, have you gone to talk to them and/or their parents and ask them to scream more quietly? Children do play loudly! I have acupuncture sessions at a community acupuncture clinic next to the playground of a nursery school, and they are more restful when there are no children in the playground 🤣

Crikey, that seems a bit niche. How many people use samphire in their recipes?! Admittedly I am out of touch with current cooking trends 😄

Sounds great! What is the cost of a manicure?

What would usually happen in a case like that? I would have thought if it was an XL Bully and attacked another dog, it would be considered dangerous and be removed from its owner? Is the system more complicated?

The dentist in North Cross Road is also (or was very recently) accepting NHS patients, and both dentists I have seen there since registering with them are very good. The restorative dentistry consultant I have been seeing at King's commented on what a good job one of them had done on a temporary filling when a large part of my tooth fell off (it has to be crowned).

A builder said that to me once! What I should have said (but thought of it too late) was that given that I was paying him to do a job, I expected that my glass would be full, not half full 🤣 But yes, you are right in this instance!

Just had a flyer through the door. Posting here for people who haven't had theirs yet. The 50% off food is for three days only, and advance bookings only. I liked the EDT as it used to be, so I really hope the changes won't be too massive. Last time I looked through the window the bar seemed to be still in the same place, but who knows. Think I'll wait a bit to try the food. When The Lordship launched, we went for a meal there and let's say things didn't go smoothly 😂 Anybody who was there will know what I mean 😂 They have redeemed themselves since, I hasten to add 😂

It's great that the council will do this, but it does seem a costly waste of their scarce resources, unless there are factors which I don't know about? Surely rather than dealing with a few piles of dog poo on request on an as and when basis they need to find some way of addressing the whole problem? What do other boroughs/countries do? Have things got worse since COVID, when the dog population seems to have quadrupled round here? Did some people acquire dogs without thinking through the less cuddly aspects of ownership? Could dogs be trained to use a litter tray and/or bury their own poo, like cats do? 🤣 (That was a joke, btw).

They could refund tix already bought though, couldn't they? We did this recently when we had to reschedule a gig due to the headliner's serious illness. That was a bit different because people had the option to transfer their tix to the new date when confirmed. But in theory everybody could have got a refund, though in practice only a few people took that option up.

They probably won't want to after all their sterling efforts last time ended in a rather unexpected way!

Yes, I saw it. It was in response to my post asking whether there was an update. It seems that may be the one which jb is apparently saying is "sarcastic", as I can't think of anything else If that is the case , it is quite upsetting that they should think that of me, given the very sad subject of that thread. I had already edited my previous post on here to say that, after I had had a look to see what jb could be referring to, but I don't know whether that was before or after your post above, as that is starting a new page and I've only just seen it. They both say 2 hours ago. Anyway, I'm tired of the whole thing. I don't mind being accused of things I've actually done, and if I agree I've done wrong then I will always apologise. But to be subject to a very public attack, when many people know who I am, which appears to be completely unfounded as jb despite requests has provided nothing to back up their statements, is very depressing. ETA: I know I can be outspoken, on here and in real life, but I don't think that is what I was being accused of.

Unbelievable. My laptop ran fine for a while and now it's got the blue screen of death on startup. I've just been running through all the options with Which Tech, and nothing they have tried (rollback etc etc) has sorted it. So I've got to crawl back to John Lewis and I guess it will be back to the factory reset 😭 BUT Also unbelievable. Since the BSOD I have been using my old Dell laptop, which nobody could fix either. It runs Windows 10, and had been running at watching paint dry speed, as indeed it was when I started using it again recently due to the problems with the new one. It's quite old, and it wasn't worth paying to get anything hardware related sorted given the move to Windows 11, which was why I bought a new one. BUT!!! There was a Windows 10 update recently. And since then the Dell has been running at lightning speed 😮 It probably won't now I've posted this 🤣

I am sorry to continue this, but I found your previous comment about me very personal, disturbing and upsetting, which was why I responded at length. I'm sorry it bored you. I try to stick to facts. I have investigated. You (and anyone else) can go into the "search" settings on here and do a search on an author's name. So you can (I presume) find all my posts, including any which were replying to you. I can't imagine that they are in greater numbers than my replies to anyone else, but you can see for yourself. I guess you can probably also find examples of what you call my "usual sarcasm". I wasn't aware that l had a tendency to sarcasm, though I do find a lot of things funny. There is no need to reply to this unless you actually find evidence in support of what you said. Sorry everybody else. I had to get it off my chest as I was lying awake last night worrying about it ETA: I have seen a comment on a recent post of mine on a thread of yours which could be construed as sarcastic. It was along the lines of "forgive me if I've missed it." This was a genuine comment as I thought there might have been more than one thread on the same subject. I had been at the bus stop by the dry cleaners, it reminded me of the discussion on this forum, and I wondered what the family had decided to do with the money raised. So I searched for the thread but couldn't see any update, which was why I posted. There was no intention whatsoever to be sarcastic. Why on earth would I do that on a thread relating to someone's horrific death and your kind money raising efforts? I really can't think of anything else I have posted on here which you could have meant. 😭

Sadly I think, apart from more dog poo bins, the only things that would deter these selfish people from not cleaning up after their dogs is more CCTV and very large fines. But that is not going to happen, is it? Too expensive to run, and problems with identifying the owners/dog walkers concerned. Didn't there used to be (grammar) dog licenses? Why were they stopped? Maybe people should have to pass a dog owning test, a bit like taking a driving test.

It does sound like that on the face of it, but it may depend on the upper age of the children who are going to the sessions? Does the cinema actually specify anything re age? I know you could say it's at the parents' discretion, but I'm not sure if showing an over 18 movie to kids old enough to understand what's going on (or possibly be frightened by it) would be legal? Or if anyone at all under 18 is legally not allowed in? I don't know how it works. Is it like pubs?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. It was more the suddenness I was questioning, rather than how they were actually putting it into practice!

That seems really odd. Was it really after just one complaint to the council? Do the council have a say in the cinema's policies? You would think that if the Picture House agreed that this change in policy was reasonable, they would apply it to all their cinemas. What is the upper age of the children at the baby friendly showings, or is one not specified? I'm not sure how I feel about the actual policy, I'm just surprised about why and how it has apparently been so suddenly implemented.

I was about to post the very same thing! Good points, and I wonder how these issues are resolved in the skate park in Peckham Rye park? The park has closing times when the gates are supposed to be locked, but in practice they don't always seem to be locked when they should be. I don't know why - possibly staff absence? There is also a skate park on the South Bank - I wonder how the insurance and/or safety issues are addressed here. Presumably the place is open for skating 24/7, as there wouldn't seem to be any way to close it?

Crikey. I made one comment relating to the ice cream flavour, which referred to a previous thread which you started. That thread was also about a specific named local cafe (not the same one). You subsequently deleted most of your very long posts on it, which included one in which you made false and insulting assumptions about another forum member (not me). Luckily nobody had quoted your posts in their responses, so the content is no longer on here. (ETA: That may have been another thread). In view of the subject of that thread (you and your son didn't like the vegan hot chocolate) I thought my comment above about the ice cream flavour was funny. I'm sorry if you found it "sarcastic". Maybe we have a different sense of humour. I thought the rest of my posts on this thread were helpful. I'm sorry if you didn't. I'm not deliberately "replying to every one of your posts " !!! What a very strange thing to say! To the best of my knowledge I haven't replied more to your posts than to anyone else's! I post a lot on this forum. If you click on my name you can see all my posts. I have lived in the area since 1991, and I have an interest in what is going on. I've been posting on here almost since the forum started. I am retired, apart from promoting and running music gigs, which takes up a lot of my time, however yes! I do have many other things to do! I don't know if they are "better" than posting on here. You post on here! So do many other people! If everyone had "better things to do" there would be no forum! I am "out" on here, and always have been. I don't have anything to hide behind a forum name, and I have always gone under my own name. You can come and find me any time if you want to address your apparent grievances with me in person. I am glad your son is better. Edited to add: I have just looked, and apparently you can't see all my posts by clicking on my name. I'm sure you used to be able to do this, but possibly it changed when the forum was changed, and now you can only see very recent posts and activity. Or possibly I have misremembered. However, I guess it wouldn't be a very great use of forum space to show my apparently over twenty thousand posts since 2006. I imagine an infinitesimal number of those were replying to posts you had made 🙄

I agree. I can't think why it hasn't been changed.

There was a competition to name the old Uplands when it was taken over by the person who owned the Bishop, and "The Actress" won for obvious reasons 🤣 The Foresters was vile (in my opinion). I'm interested that there are still problems with the smell from the Gents, because in the Foresters days you could smell it as soon as you went in, and my memory is that it felt like you were squelching your way over the carpet, though I'm sure that can't have been true 🤣

I had to phone King's this morning. The first thing you get is a recorded message saying basically that norovirus (I can't remember the exact words) is everywhere at the moment, and please don't come to the hospital if you have symptoms. I would strongly suspect that anybody with sickness and/or diarrhoea at the moment is very much more likely to have caught norovirus or similar than to have got food poisoning from an ice cream. Like COVID, one person in the family can easily get it first, and doesn't necessarily pass it on to the others, especially if they take appropriate precautions. I am very tempted to ask if it was vegan chocolate flavoured ice-cream, but I will resist. Oh, I can't 🤣 I hope your son gets better soon

I think we are talking at cross purposes? You said "I had the 484 in mind to carry on your journey from Peckham Rye, but only if you are based near East Dulwich Station." I'm really confused now! How does East Dulwich Station come into it, then? Which direction of travel are you talking about?