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If someone says hesitantly that they are looking for shoes in a bin, is it not possible that rather than having criminal intent they may have mental health issues?

There are several excellent local bands who will gladly play for a few beers at community events like this one.

God I hate artificial grass. What's the point of having a garden?

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't decide whether Blanche is > > A) a troll > > B) severely lacking in comprehension skills > > C) just plain ignorant of the way local democracy > and the law works > > D) devoid of any real connection to real life. > > Her tactics seem little more than Violet Elizabeth > Bott's "I'll scream and I'll scream til I make > myself sick" My theory is that they are gathering material for a future "comedy" event or publication by the charming Lewis.

Rosetta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > First Direct are excellent. Yes, except you can no longer use the HSBC branch in Lordship Lane, because it's gone. But (as above) you can use the Post Office. However, excellent as First Direct are, the time you have to wait if you phone them has vastly increased lately. I mostly use online banking, but sometimes with a query I just want to speak to somebody to get an answer straight away.

i*Rate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > > Can anyway recommend a walk where none of he > Street Art is based on highbrow classical > paintings in Dulwich Picture Gallery? Just shows > how snotty the area has become. I think the link between the paintings in the gallery and the street art is brilliant. Sorry to take your bait, but why do paintings in a gallery have to be "highbrow"? We are really lucky to have both the gallery and the street art so near.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The irony is that most of us get charity > collection bags posted through the door every few > weeks, so if you want to dump a load of stuff on > the street and feel like you've donated to a cause > you can actually do it without going to the effort > of hauling it to a charity shop. :))

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can we have something different for those of us > who do not eat pizza. It's not as if every place in ED is solely offering pizza .... :))

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Could be worse - if you bank with HSBC or one of > its brands it's a choice of Brixton or Peckham. Not so! You can use the post office in Lordship Lane.

:)) :)) :))

oddlycurious Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Also, have you considered t-shirts with FOCC SSW > on them? I think they would be very popular. :)) :)) :))

Thanks, yes, I've had two in the past and both these new ones were being built next to the remains of one of the old ones. Though I can't understand why there were two new ones, both very small, in the early stages, and very near each other. There is a small gap in the loft I can see daylight through which must be where the queen is getting in. I have been meaning to do something about it for ages but it's hard to get at.

OK knocked them both off the rafter with a long stick. There is what looks like the very small beginning of what could be a third one, which I couldn't reach. Will keep an eye on it :(

Hey thanks Fox. I will try the stick!!

Having seen a very large wasp come and go, I investigated my loft and found the beginning stages of two new wasp nests. I imagine they don't have much in them at the moment except the queen, and I'm not sure whether foaming wasp killer works on the early stages of wasp development. Does anyone know? Could I just knock the nests off with a broom or something? Would they just be rebuilt? Or is the queen likely to be staying inside (haven't seen her for a few days) and if I use the foam I will kill her and then the rest will die if she isn't there? I feel a bit mean, but I don't want a load of wasps in my loft.

Ilona, for wasps nests it works from three metres away, maybe for ants nests too. But I'm going to start a thread on wasps as I need advice.

Just looking for wasp nest stuff (problem in loft) and found a can of Bio foaming wasp nest destroyer which also destroys ants nests according to the instructions.

Sorry to miss your dawn chorus walk, BNG. We did one last year in Horniman Gardens, but afraid this year bed won :))

Depends what you mean by cheap! People have to earn a living!

You can get ant baits. Don't know if there are kinds other than what you've already used. They eat it, take it back to the nest and die. Probably Farmers or a DIY shop would have them? And probably other suitable things? I doubt there's any non chemical solution apart from boiling water on the nest? But surely it's far too early for flying ants?

So might anyone.

Don't want to start another thread, but I had a weird experience recently. I left my house and started walking along the pavement, and had gone a short way when a young man I've never seen before crossed the road and said to me something along the lines of "I saw you just come out of that house and I wondered if it was your house, and if so do you have a plaster." I must have looked a bit bemused, because he then said "I've hurt my finger." On my looking even more bemused, he then showed me his finger (not a euphemism) with a tiny little sore bit which wasn't even bleeding ...... I really didn't know what to say. It wasn't as if he was in desperate need of first aid and there are three chemists in ED, including one just round the corner from my house. Anyway, luckily he then asked if I was in a rush, to which I said yes and he went off. I just wondered if anybody else had experienced anything similar, because I can't see why anyone would ask a complete stranger for a plaster when they didn't even appear to need one. So I wonder if he was trying to get a look inside my house.

Baby moorhens in Dulwich Park :)

I believe most charity shops will take things like that as rags? I've taken bags of clothes not good enough to resell to the hospice shop, clearly marked as rags.

We did think it was rather a grand house! He is one of my favourite artists :)