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I have decided on the chest freezer I want. I have ascertained that it will fit under my stairs - once I have got it there. How can I work out whether it will go round the corner of the stairs? The actual spaces will fit the depth, but it's manoeuvring the length round the corner which could be problematical. I have had a chest freezer in the house many moons ago, but I can't remember the dimensions and how they compared to this one.

I've just found a post-it with some figures on .... For the MailChimp "Forever Free" option you can send up to 12,000 emails per month (I think that is per calendar month) You can have up to 2,000 people you send them to. You can send up to 2,000 emails in any 24 hour period. Helpfully, MailChimp provides a record of how many emails you have sent, and when, broken down by month, on one page in your account.

Do not on any account use Your Mailing List Provider. I now use MailChimp and yes it is challenging. Someone I know gave me a tutorial to start me off, and I have muddled through from there. I'm getting used to it now, two or three months in. You get a good number of mailouts free per month, however you cannot send two within 24 hours (this caused me some difficulty recently when I needed to correct an error). But I have googled reviews of some alternatives, and they seem a lot worse. There is a very comprehensive "help" section, however there is no additional customer service unless you pay. ETA: I'd be happy to walk you through what I do if that would be useful, though it may be too basic for you. I set up an initial template but now I just edit previous newsletters by deleting and adding text and adding, duplicating and moving sections around then editing them.

I heard today on Facebook that the developers have withdrawn their planning appeal, so Greendale is safe. Apologies if there is another thread on this already. ETA: Oh yes sorry, it's on the DHFC thread. I'll leave this here though in case people don't read that thread.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That shop was always being stripped out / > renovated, never seemed to be open for more than a > month at a time. For a cafe, the purple doors / > windows were not very inviting. No, sadly it always seemed a bit amateurish, including the signage, and there was nothing to entice one in (unlike the yummy looking cakes in the window at Luca's.

It depends who takes it over and whether it remains a book shop, doesn't it?

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently the Homemade Kitchen cake shop being > stripped out on North Cross Road is going to > become a book shop too. Really? With two others within a five minute walk of it? That seems strange, unless it is going to be very specialised.

Thanks for posting the link, Penguin68. My ancient Micra is eligible but as I avoid the congestion charge zone anyway I should be OK.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And the money for the rent and a manager would > come from where? > > Presumably from the revenues and profits of being > a bookshop? Being run by volunteers? Unpaid volunteers? As in a charity shop? Do you have any examples of this working anywhere as a financially viable concern? In an area with rents on a level similar to those in Lordship Lane? It would be nice to think it could work, but I really can't see it.

And the money for the rent and a manager would come from where?

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It will be a significant loss to Lordship Lane if > it goes, but I can't see how any independent > bookshops stay open these days. Well there are quite a few independent bookshops staying open round here! Apart from Chener, there is Rye Books in Upland Road, the bookshop in Bellenden Road, one in Dulwich Village, one in Crystal Palace. That's just off the top of my head. ETA: And four of those are within easy walking distance of my house.

RubyGraeme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the freehold is owned by John, a community > run bookshop sounds a brilliant idea....along the > lines of The Ivy? Is there anyone out there who > can advise? The Ivy House had grants and loans. Its community shares are only a relatively small part of its finances. And the turnover/profit on a pub is surely far far greater than anything a bookshop is likely to achieve, particularly given it is competing with the likes of Amazon, let alone Kindles etc. Plus, it may sound a brilliant idea, but it needs a strong core of very committed and very hardworking people to make it succeed. The Ivy House had (and has) that, and has gone from strength to strength, but I'm not convinced a small bookshop could work on a similar model.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Could have something to do with people driving too > much and concreting over their front gardens to > install their cars, thereby reducing the amount of > greenery available to host insects (and do other > beneficial stuff). Like many things, each of us > can help change it for the better but there's also > an excuse, eh? Many people are also concreting/paving/decking their back gardens. There is usually at least one thread on this forum offering topsoil :( I have a paved garden myself, which I inherited from the previous owner - it is very tiny though and it would be an absolute pain to have to keep a mower to mow such a tiny patch of grass. I have been gradually removing paving stones to increase the number of plants I can cram in, however I am a bit worried I will end up with just a few stepping stones amongst a tiny jungle :)) However, sad as the loss of urban plantlife is, I think the main cause of the problem is the commercial/agricultural use of pesticides. They don't just kill the pests that attack the crops in question, they kill other insects as well, and that has a knock-on effect on the things which eat those insects, or did do. But there are loads more birds round here than magpies, crows and parakeets - blackbirds, sparrows, blue tits, great tits, goldfinches, wrens, sparrowhawks, seagulls, robins, pigeons, collared doves, probably loads more but I have seen all those in my garden. Plus jays and magpies I have seen elsewhere, and woodpeckers I have heard. And long tailed tits I vaguely remember seeing in the woods, though I may be confusing that with another wood elsewhere. Fair number of butterflies too, but I don't have any plants at the moment which specifically attract them.

Eh?

I think you'll find the rent would be too high for that!

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Dulwich Tandoori? Double check your bill. Just saying .....

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I agree that the carpets could do with a deep > clean (or preferably being taken up and > incinerated) but in PP's defence it has (at least > in the gents' version) some of the most salubrious > lavatories in this neck of the woods! The Ladies aren't bad either :)) But yes it would be good to see those carpets disappear ...... Went to see Blade Runner there last week. Six quid (for the 3D version). Compared to fourteen quid in East Dulwich (not for the 3D version). Worth the walk :))

John is hoping that it can stay a bookshop, but at the end of the day that may not be possible.

To be fair, if these people have only just moved in today, they have probably got more on their minds than not slamming doors. Like getting all their stuff into their new home. Might it not have been kind to wait a few days before starting a thread about them on here? Or maybe gently ask them not to slam the door? They have probably got absolutely no idea that it might be annoying you.

Excellent news! Thanks for posting it, rendelharris!

It could be put on the roundabout! 360 degree traffic fumes!

Heartwarming thread, thanks x

Crikey, kids in the fifties used to throw fireworks about in the street all the time around 5 November. Admittedly it was quite scary, but I expect that was the intention.

I saw Blade Runner yesterday. The light is just like that. But yes, apparently sand and stuff blown over.

Already a thread ..... http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,1871600