Sue

Sounds like my stairs :))

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The charity shop at 405 Lordship Lane, almost > opposite Dulwich Library had gone and is now a > junk/antique shop. Some interesting stuff Crikey, that was quick! It was still a charity shop when I passed it on the bus the other day!

bcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Sue > I'm just having a tongue in cheek moan. Oh, sorry, I thought your OP was serious. It would have driven me mad (der) as well if I was trying to work.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So the rubbish in the Co-op is /was my > respnsibility and should anyone slip on it, > it is MY fault for not picking it up. > > Right Got it now.. Think I will drink a bottle of > gin to catch up.. > It was you who raised the subject in the first place, Fox, and told us how dangerous the rubbish was. And you still haven't told us what this law is. Enjoy your gin :))

If they're having a band practice, I doubt they're reading the forum whilst doing it :) If you don't want to go and ask them to stop, you could phone Southwark Noise Control (if it still exists) via the council's switchboard.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is today wind up foxy day or something? Second > thread I've seen some group fox hunting going > down. > I think it's more the other way round .... the Fox winding other people up .....

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > all this started because SUE wrote. > > If memory serves you fell out with them after they > complained to you because they saw you in another > restaurant? > > Which is Total B*****ks.. > It was a restaurant across the road from Jafflong, if that helps. ETA: Or very close to Jafflong, anyway, because they could see it from their place :) ETA: Or perhaps I have totally dreamed the conversation? Don't think so, though, to the best of my knowledge I have never dreamed about you, Fox. Yet :))

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ours has one door and then the entire wooden panel > can be removed in two sections, the smallest being > triangular in shape and closest to bottom of > stairs to access different bits. they are on > hinges and you just pull them out. this was done > in the 1930's! tried to attach? photo but too > big!! Oh that sounds like a clever idea - so you don't actually have doors (apart from your one), you just lift off the panels? If I PM you my email address, could you send me the pic?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue mine is just open, no partition or door, and > absolutely packed with crap and stuff. Yeh, but I want to hide my crap and stuff, KK :))

Thanks TheCat, I've considered that kind of thing, but my hallway/passageway is far far narrower than in that picture - the drawer would not open fully into it, particularly with the radiator there. Also, much of what is stored in the cupboard would not be suitable for drawers. I have big things stored in there, not little things like books and shoes.

I bought my huge and comfy sofa at enormous expense from Heals, and it's still going strong a quarter of a century later :)) ETA: It comes apart in two pieces so it could be got into the house :) And kudos to Sofa Workshop (I think it was - they're still there, on the road leading down to Clapham Junction) where we would have bought our huge sofa but theirs didn't come apart, and rather than persuading us to buy something smaller from them, they actually advised us to try Heals. Now that IS good customer service! Edited again to say, it has a loose cover, so you can't see that it has two halves, obviously!

Thanks, wouldn't work for me now because there's nothing left to fit the door in :)) But may help others, hopefully.

I need easy access to things stored in my understairs cupboard, including meters (which I'm not willing to pay to have moved outside). I used to have just one door, but the door blocked the whole of the hallway when it was open. I removed the door and replaced it with a curtain, but it was still a pain getting at things at the end of the cupboard. Everything else had to be taken out to get at them, and then put back again : Then I removed the panelling under the stairs, but since then it's just all been left open, and although things are tidily stored it just looks a mess with hoover, stepladder, brooms, shopping trolley, ironing board, overflow freezer, random boxes of bird food, etc etc :)) I considered having a carpenter build a system of doors/drawers, but because of the narrow passageway (further narrowed by a radiator) I decided that that wasn't going to be workable. It seems to me the only solution is a curtain (would have to be divided into several lengths) or what I've recently discovered is called a string curtain, however there are issues because of the triangular shaped space with the curtain slipping down. I have googled it and found various possible solutions (eg very thin hem so curtain doesn't slip. Clips. Velcro.) but I'm not convinced any of them are going to work very well in practice. OK getting to the point, has anybody actually used a curtain or curtains or similar to hide the contents of their understairs cupboard, and if so did it work and did it look OK or did it look totally naff??? There are lots of houses like mine (small terrace) round here, so surely other people have had the same problem - and hopefully solved it?!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > DulwichFox Wrote: > > > > > As the law (an ass) stands.. If I had picked > > up > > > some of the rubbish and 'Missed' a piece, I > > would > > > of been responsible > > > if someone slipped on a piece I had > missed.... > > > > > > What law is that, Foxy?? > > Stop being bloody minded and if you ARE going to > quote me. Quote the whole message.. > > As the law (an ass) stands.. If I had picked up > some of the rubbish and 'Missed' a piece, I would > of been responsible > if someone slipped on a piece I had missed.... > .. Like clearing slow from your path.. and the > postman slips on the ice... you are better off > leaving it be. > > We are all aware that clearing snow from your path > leaves you responsible.. and it is better to leave > it to melt . > "Stop being bloody minded and if you ARE going to quote me. Quote the whole message.." Eh? I'm not "being bloody minded", and I quoted the relevant bit of the message because if you look above you can see what happens when people quote the whole of messages - it just gets very confusing. I have never heard of any law like this, so I was asking what it was. I'm not questioning you, but I've never heard that clearing snow from your path makes you responsible if somebody then slips on the ice. Equally, I've never heard that picking up rubbish from a public place makes you responsible if you leave a bit behind and somebody trips on it. I'd genuinely like to know what law says that, because it seems to me it would be a minefield. ETA: Oh, and of course the staff should have picked up the rubbish. But given that they didn't, I still think if anyone thought it was a major trip hazard they should have done something about it themselves, regardless of any inconvenience. ETA: That's just being public spirited and thinking about other people. Isn't it?

I'm pretty sure there was a direct service, because I was mega pissed off when it started. I used to work in Islington and it was a pain in the **** to get to from ED, so that service would have saved me hours of commuting ...... Sadly I left the job before the train started running .....

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Never had cause to give Jaflong a bad review.. Why > would I of continued to use them for years if I > had. ? > If memory serves you fell out with them after they complained to you because they saw you in another restaurant? :))

DulwichFox Wrote: > As the law (an ass) stands.. If I had picked up > some of the rubbish and 'Missed' a piece, I would > of been responsible > if someone slipped on a piece I had missed.... What law is that, Foxy??

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Many years ago my mum sliped on a magazine in her > home and broke her hip landing on carpet. > She had 3 operations over the years.. > > At one time she slipped on a small piece of > plastic in a store resulting in her new hip coming > loose. > resulting in the 3rd operation. > > SO.. do not underestimate the dangers.. If > someone were to slip and fall backwards hitting > their head > on the hard floor surface .. it COULD be lethal. > > DulwichFox . (Previous Health and Safety Officer) > for large corporation.. B.T. If you did a risk assessment of every potential hazard in a public place, the whole country would close down and nobody would ever go anywhere. Was there any reason why you didn't pick the cardboard up yourself, since you thought it was such a hazard and the staff weren't doing so?

I think you'd have to be walking around in a total daze and not looking where you were going to trip over those, tbh. If it bothered you that much, why not pick it up and take it to the checkout area? It's only cardboard, it's hardly huge areas of slippery liquid spillage! I use the Co-Op quite a lot and I've never noticed either rubbish on the floor or rotten food. I also use two different branches in Oxford quite a lot and I've never noticed rubbish or rotten food in those either.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Given that people are in need - as this man's > actions show - perhaps EDF posters should have a > good clear out and pass on their pre-loved clothes > to the local charity shops or organisations. Unfortunately, some of the local charity shops (eg the Mind shop) charge what I would consider quite a lot for pre-loved clothes. May not sound a lot if you have a job, but it is if you don't. Whereas getting them free from a bin costs nowt and saves them from landfill. Not that I am condoning going onto somebody's property to rummage through their bin.

aerie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mary's Living and Giving, on the corner next to > Health Matters - it was an expensive charity shop. > Now folded after a visit from the Mary > apparently. So why does it have a notice in the window saying it is reopening after refurbishment? It is definitely being done up.

Their free range eggs, cheddar and frozen veg were good value. I miss Iceland :(

There is a notice in their window saying they will reopen between (I think) 22 and 25 July - ie soon.

worldwiser Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sure there's a sensible health & safety reason > for not having an entrance right off a busy > roundabout but they could definitely add one near > the EDR corner (the service road side rather than > the busy side) > > The gate near the church hasn't worked for months > so may as well not exist but they've just spent an > eye watering amount redoing Camberwell Green - > they can obviously afford to replace with self > closers and add one path. The pedestrian gate opposite the church is in full use. I've used it several times recently. Are you confusing it with the entrance for cars etc further down, which is only open when there are events on the Green and people with stalls etc need to drive in? And didn't Camberwell Green get lottery funding, or have I mixed that up with something else?