Sue

The price went up from ?10 to ?2000 and she paid it???? She paid ?2000 in advance for someone to fix guttering????

Over ?200??? Seriously, check out Asda next time. My partner got decent thin lensed varifocals for under ?50.

Oops sorry brain malfunction

I have a dual fuel radiator/towel rail which I originally got to dry towels when the main heating wasn't on. I've only used the electric option about twice, but it could be a cheaper solution than underfloor heating?

Oh FFS

Sexist as well, then. Great.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's an excellent local ?1 shop for glasses Pound shops sell cheap reading glasses. They are not opticians.

I find it quite amusing that they give the calories in each dish so precisely. How can they possibly be sure that every dish of pork belly is exactly 503kcal?! :)) http://www.therealgreek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TRG119-Main-Menu-PG-1.pdf It all looks very yummy, and I got quite excited about the very reasonable prices until I noticed that they are recommending "three or four mezes per person", and then you have to add salad etc ...... Oh well .....

There is an article about the existing ED WI in the latest issue of the Dulwich Diverter :)

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for all the sympathetic comments. Hadn't > thought of Asda. My sister recommended them. She has a really strong prescription, and they do thin lenses included in the price. At least I think that's why she went there. She used to travel from London to Watford to get her Asda specs, before this branch opened! They don't have a vast range, but I found some I liked and I'm quite fussy :)

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 :))