Sue

RPC, sorry about your glasses. Asda opticians do varifocals at really good prices, all in. My OH and I both got some recently. There's one on the Isle of Dogs right next to Mudchute Farm. Lovely staff, too.

The noise team at Southwark and the hours they work were reduced a few years back due to council cutbacks, I think.

So Kibris, you are calling someone who has been a member on here for years and found someone's behaviour sufficiently concerning to call the police a liar? I don't find that kind of behaviour in any way amusing either.

Amktlk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They were also on Derwent Grove this afternoon, I > said to her that she shouldn't be going through > people's bins and she replied saying she was > looking for shoes!! There was a post on here a while ago saying someone was looking for shoes in bins. Weird. Wonder how often she finds any?!

Oh dear :( ETA: How was he acting oddly?

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I suppose it could have been a salute by cannons > then as there were only 2 bangs that I heard. I heard more than that. But there was a brief flash of light before (or possibly after, I can't remember now) each one, which was weird. And they weren't very close together. I thought it was thunder/lightning at first. I looked out of the window but couldn't see any sign of fireworks.

Did you call the police?

Yes there is, opposite the small (and expensive) general Oxfam shop. The larger hospice shop isn't keen to take books either. ETA: My granddaughters were staying with me in August. They are 8 and 10 and both keen readers. They get through a lot of books. We went through the books they had at my house to see which ones they no longer wanted, and ended up with a couple of bags full to take to the hospice shop, with the intention of buying more to replace them. The shop said they didn't want any more children's books, though in the end they grudgingly agreed to take them. But when the kids went excitedly to the children's section to look for "new" books, there was hardly anything there suited to their reading ages, and empty spaces on the shelves. I did take this up with the person who said they didn't want any more books, and was told it was because they had nobody to sort the books out. They were both disappointed to leave without anything at all, not even one book.

Yes just heard several loud bangs. Are you sure it was fireworks?

I am sitting at my laptop in thermals plus a fleece onesie plus a thick cardie plus woolly socks. May put a woolly hat on soon :))

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > I think damson and satsuma gin might be a step > too far :)) > > But it would TWO of your 5-a-day, then! :))

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe you could chuck them in the gin, Sue? > My damson gin is tasting pretty yummy as it is, and it's only been started a few weeks (obviously I have to lick the spoon after I've stirred it :) ) I think damson and satsuma gin might be a step too far :))

Isn't that medlars??

It is perfectly possible to care a lot for animals and still eat meat. The animals on the organic farm where I lived had happy, natural and cared for lives which they wouldn't otherwise have had. All animals die in due course, including us. ETA: But the point under discussion was not to do with eating meat per se, was it?

We're not "on the subject" of charities, that's a completely separate issue (which you yourself raised :)) ). I'm sure many posters on here donate to and do other work for a variety of charities. Never mind, I'm losing the will to live :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I think it is your mind that is clouded. > > I was once Vegetarian in the past for about 3 > years and kept a strict veggie diet during that > period. > So you really have no idea the lengths I go to, to > ensure animal welfare. > What has your having been vegetarian in the past got to do with your preference for cheap takeaway chicken without enquiring as to its source now? And what lengths do you go to exactly "to ensure animal welfare"? We really can have no idea of these lengths, since you haven't told us. It's clear you aren't a vegetarian now, let alone a vegan, for example.

DulwichFox Wrote: -------------------------------------------- > > If we eat out, NONE of us can be sure what we are > eating. > If we eat out and don't specifically check what we are eating before we order it, that's true. Which is why I don't eat anything containing chicken when I'm eating out, unless it is clearly free range. As regards being high and mighty and all the other stuff above - yawn. Usual twisting of what has actually been said.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Poste's Child Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Don't... I deliberately avoided the cake aisle > in > > DKH Sainsbury's at the weekend just in case > there > > were mince pies already. I've still got two > > panforte from last Christmas to eat up. > > > I'll have them if you're not finding the > opportunity to eat them :)) :)) :)) I'll swap them for the satsumas I've still got in the freezer from last Christmas (peeled, obv) :))

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't... I deliberately avoided the cake aisle in > DKH Sainsbury's at the weekend just in case there > were mince pies already. I've still got two > panforte from last Christmas to eat up. I'll have them if you're not finding the opportunity to eat them :)) :)) :))

binkylilyput Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Even if the hen has slightly improved quality of > life then that's worth paying a little extra for- > and yes, that does make me feel better! > Yes, and me. Dulwich Fox, you post up all this stuff on here about cruelty to animals, such as circus animals, and yet it seems you willingly eat cheap factory farmed chicken. Could you explain? You will happily eat birds which have been debeaked and kept in cages where they can hardly move? Rather than chickens which can move about and have access to the outside if they want it? Just because it's cheaper? And please don't patronise. I used to live on an organic farm which raised (and still does) extremely well looked after cows and sheep. Their meat is sold in Sainsbury's, as it happens.

Wishing I hadn't binned my furry slippers (though had to as they were a hazard on the stairs).

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're not alone, Sue. After glaring at a man who > kept looking at me in Sainsbury's the other day I > realised he's been living next door to me for two > years. :)) :)) :))

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Lamb is expensive.. Chicken is Cheap.. > Well, chicken is cheap if you are happy to eat factory farmed birds. That's why the vast majority of ready meals are made with chicken. Perhaps the chicken you were offered had actually had a decent free range life. I will happily pay more for chicken if I know it is free range, otherwise I won't eat it unless I am really desperate.

I buy mine on line. I always google in case there's a cheaper deal, but who is cheapest depends on what brand and type of lenses you have. I now have daily multifocals and use a different company to when I used to have monthly lenses. But whoever I use I have never had any issues with delivery or anything else.

Lol J&B, RPC and M. Unfortunately I will probably worsen the situation because as I never recognise anybody I have probably already blanked her in the street. I used to just smile at everybody just in case, but I got more glares than smiles back :(