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There's the guy in Pellatt Road next to Captured on the Rye. Can't remember his name sorry but he has a board outside.

EleanorWJ Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Pete, > I play cello and very interested in playing this > style of music...I have a few wolly jumpers....but > not famous for them! > are you still looking for musicians? > Eleanor Please see the link above for a way to contact local folk musicians :)

You need to kill any adult moths you see because the females will lay eggs and the males will mate with the females. As I said above, you can get chemicals which will kill not only adult moths but also larvae as they emerge. Whatever you do they will come back eventually by some means, so you need to be very vigilant and make sure the paper strips among your clothes etc are kept up to date. You also need to move things about. I have found moths in a pile of spare towels in my bathroom :(

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The moths are not responsible for the eating of > materials.. The females lay 50 eggs then die. > Fox, people don't talk about moth larvae eating stuff. They talk about moths. I am using the term "moth" to cover anything which destroys clothing and fabrics and flies about (or in the case of the female moth slithers about) as part of its life cycle :)) :)) :)) I imagine everybody reading my posts will understand what I mean :)) :)) :))

Also, if you leave clothes around they will find them. My problem started when I had a woollen jumper which was at the bottom of my laundry basket for ages because it had to be washed by hand and I couldn't face it. When I eventually took it out of the basket, a moth flew out but I didn't take much notice. That was the start of it ... and I had to throw the jumper away in the end because it became full of moth holes. They also like dusty places (rather a lot in my house at present :( ) and nooks and crannies. Oh - and whatever is your favourite item of clothing, they will eat it in the most conspicuous place possible.

We can't do 12th either, sorry :(

JRK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was hoping for some helpful advice on how to get > rid of house moths for good? They are slowly > driving us mad and I've been using this nasty > lakeland spray but they keep appearing here and > there. I have a feeling we might have brought > them with us when we moved in vacuum bags with > clothes in but can't be sure. We had terrible > trouble with carpet eating moths in our last flat > - but I think the carpets at new house are > inedible! > > Does anyone know how to get shot of these pests > for good? > > Many thanks! Hmmm. If you do a search on here there have been several previous threads about the dreaded moth. I thought I had got rid of mine for good, I had a year or so without them, but now this year they've suddenly come back. I tried everything previously, and spent a fortune, and the only thing which really worked was chemicals. Lavender, sandalwood etc - they just ignored it. Having resisted traps for ages I also went down that road, but although they catch a few they don't get them all, and they only catch the male moths anyway. You can get nasty chemical things which you set off and then leave the house for hours. Sad to say it was only that which seemed to have a good result. I may have to do it again. Otherwise, those strips you put among clothes are quite effective, but you have to remember to replace them at the relevant time or they gradually stop working. You can also zap moths with a spray if you actually see them, but of course then you either have to leave the room or sit breathing in chemical spray :( I now have a spray in every room :( The female moths are the ones which slink along and don't fly. They are extremely fast moving and if you try to catch them they will slide into the nearest inaccessible (to you) space. The male moths fly. You may end up with squashed moths all over your walls. I'm too squeamish unless I have a tissue to hand. Good luck!!!! ETA: You can get a spray specifically for fabrics (but not suitable for clothes I don't think) which will also kill any emerging larvae as they, er, emerge. That seemed quite effective (I had had cushions and wallhangings eaten) but I think it has now worn off, not sure how long it lasts.

My heart sinks every time I see Astroturf. Please leave a little space at least for flowers for the bees and soil/worms/seedheads for the birds :( Do you really want to sit and look at an artificial lawn?

Don't think we're going to make this one, sorry Radiant Bhuna :(

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jah Lush Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Crystal Palace Road has one to. > > but not this year Sadly, it became too heavy a burden on the same few people each year, and several of the original organisers have moved away. ETA: Waverley Avenue in Nunhead has not just an annual street party but an annual coach outing, so a proper community, however as this is the East Dulwich Forum the residents may not see this thread.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a nation we talk about supporting the small > shops and the high street. But we don't. We are > all hypocrites "We" don't? I think you should speak for yourself!

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Two held after PC run over by Land Rover in > Dulwich > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-361479 > 37 Excellent. But I can't help laughing about the fact that it was a Land Rover. In Dulwich.

DovertheRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whatever you think of Green I don't think he > bought BHS to kill it. Like Austin Reid it was a > classic example of a business that failed to move > and change with the times...and by the time they > realised they'd lost most of the brand goodwill > and alienated the younger generation, it was too > late. But it had been crap and totally out of touch for years ..... how can they not have realised?

BigED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know what we really need - when will the powers > that be sort out an Iceland store for Lordship > Lane? :))

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > womanofdulwich Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I've always liked BHS for bedding and > > lighting.Never clothes. > > > I always thought of it as quite grand, because I > have childhood memories of lots of posh looking > lights in the old Peckham branch (Primark). It did go through a period of being a go-to place for well designed lights. Once. Its clothes have always been terrible (in my opinion). A sort of substandard (and even worse than) M&S.

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > A good idea, but I didn't have time to trawl > round > > looking, and I suspect any boxes from a gift > shop > > round here would have cost as much as the > > chocolate, if not more!!! > > But Sue, you could have finally used one of those > really useful East Dulwich shops that sell little > boxes, ?6 greetings cards and tiny cushions :-) :))

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue > > > Can you confirm your purchase of NICE CHOCS IN ED > > And that you're aware where, if ever you needed, > that you know Mealnge have moved, that that was > then and this is now, you/we know of the places or > places to buy chocolate. > > ALL GOOD FOR CHOCS IN ED NOW > > THANKS EVERYONE > > __________________________________________________ > __________________________________________________ > _____ Why don't you read the thread? :)

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was going to come on and recommend melange as > well but I see you've been and decided they didn't > have the packaging you wanted. One idea for > future would be to buy a nice box to put the > chocolate bars in and tie it with some ribbon. > I'm sure the various gift shops would have > something suitably posh looking. A good idea, but I didn't have time to trawl round looking, and I suspect any boxes from a gift shop round here would have cost as much as the chocolate, if not more!!! I do miss Hope and Greenwood, they had a range of boxes in different sizes for their chocs, fairly basic but nice.

No!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Call me a cynical old 'bugger' but 'Temporary > traffic lights are helping manage the traffic' > ??? Well if the burst water main/repairs to it are on one side of the road, then there will only be half the road for traffic going two ways, therefore traffic lights will help prevent total chaos, no?

It's not like that now. It's moved.

The use of fashion, whether clothes or interior design, is to try to get people to keep buying new things to keep the manufacturers and retailers and all the others in business. Isn't it? I had jeans with holes in the knees a year or so back. I was fond of them and didn't want to bin them. I used to wear coloured tights under them in the winter. I had to throw them out once the holes became on trend, in case somebody thought I was wearing them because they were in fashion :)) But then, I recall jeans frayed at the bottoms were fashionable in the ?seventies? and we used to spend ages making them frayed........ I don't see good clothes design as being about fashion, necessarily. Really good design is timeless. I still wear an Ossie Clark dress I've had for over forty years ..... I think good design is an art form, not a waste of the designers' time at all.

dirac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > on a side note, Melange does really really nice > hot chocolate. So thick you could probably stand a > spoon up in it. That sounds good! Though my grandchildren wouldn't like it. We once went to Paul's and they both rejected their hot chocolate on the grounds that it was "too chocolatey" :)) :)) :))

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > IMO a few bars from a nice chocolate shop makes a > nicer gift than truffles from the supermarket... > but if you already had your mind set on truffles > then fair enough. No I haven't got truffles. I only mentioned them because apparently that is what Melange do (except after Easter), that and chocolate bars. What I wanted was something in a nice box, not a cellophane bag. If the chocolate bars from Melange had been in a box, I would have bought them :)

I'm sure Melange are wonderful, but as I said, they had no truffles and only chocolate bars in cellophane bags, which unfortunately were not suitable for what I needed.