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Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They were asking ?290 for a "vintage" mirror that > was obviously new, which is probably against > various trading laws.. ?290 would have been very > expensive even if t was old. Still, if someone was > daft enough to part with their money...... I guess that is what they are banking on. I've only been in there once. Saw their prices and came straight out again :(

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone on the EDF still actually live in East > Dulwich?? Yeh, I do too :)

bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Making the pavement almost twice as wide and the > road twice as narrow ?????? That's what it looks like. WTF? And they now seem to have some sort of ramp at the end of North Cross Road? It looked at first as if they were going to close the road off completely (permanently) at the Lordship Lane End, given the changes of levels they have now introduced, but no - cars will have to go up. And then down. Let's hope the end result is worth all this aggro to pedestrians, bus users and drivers over such a long period of time. Grrrrr.

ginebra Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Police adviced to put > CCTV. That's not going to be very helpful if the thieves are in balaclavas and full face helmets, is it? Unfortunately. All you'll get is an indication of height and body size, surely.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ask not for whom the bell tolls ... :))

numbers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where will the monsters go?! :))

mancity68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I want to do something like this - do I need a > builder or a carpenter? Beyond my skill level > either way.... Not very aesthetically pleasing? In my opinion ......

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm with rahrahrah. If the upper deck was busy and > the only option was to either sit next to one of > them or ask one of them to move next top their > mate, then fine. But if there were plenty of seats > available, then why should they move just so that > you could have your favourite seat? I'd have said > no to be honest. So you'd continue to sit at the outside edge of a double front seat, with your mate at the outside edge of the other double front seat, despite the fact that a couple requested to have one of those front doubles you were using up? Regardless of whether there were seats elsewhere, sorry but I think that's just being difficult and unfriendly for the sake of it. But as always, each to their own.

I currently have a small second freezer under the stairs, below the gas meter (I have a fridge freezer in the kitchen). I enquired about moving the meter. It is very expensive. To move mine outside would have cost getting on for a thousand pounds. It depends on distance etc.. And the electricity meter and fuse box (or whatever it's called now) are still under the stairs, anyway. I removed all the panelling some months back so that I could store things under the stairs more easily while my kitchen was being replaced. I had intended to replace it with several doors, for easier access, but I'm now considering just leaving the space open altogether. I would have liked to put a larger chest freezer in there, but I think there could be problems with opening the lid fully because of the slant of the stairs. I haven't measured that up yet. I personally wouldn't want a washing machine in there for various reasons.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Are you sure you didn't just have your eye on that > front left seat for yourself Sue :D Eh?

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If there were other seats available I don't think > it really fair to ask them to move. Even when they're hogging the whole of the front of the bus? I think it's reasonable to ask that four people can see out the front rather than just two. But each to their own. I wouldn't have pressed the point if they'd refused.

What REALLY REALLY REALLY annoys me are two people travelling together, one of whom sits upstairs in the front left seat and the other one in the front right. So they talk to each other across the gap and there's a spare seat next to each. I asked one of them politely to move the other day (the one on the left, obv), much to the embarrassment of my OH. He did, with rather bad grace - but they then proceeded to diss me from the front right seat in some East European (I think) language. Which I couldn't understand, but I sort of picked up the gist :))

Lots of ideas in this thread: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,1545413

Thanks, that's really useful :)

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There was a Bejam. > I used to have a Bejam freezer! And very fine it was too :)

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?2 > 0,file=187967 > > Sorry :))

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 'And if that seat is occupied I watch it with > eagle eyes until it isn't, then make a dash for > it.' > > Ah you are one of those people Sue :D > > P.S why left over right? Just curious. Yep! I'm one of them! Just feels like I'm getting a better view from the left side. I guess because it's nearer the pavement. On the right side you're looking over a load of traffic. Worst case scenario is being stuck on one of those single deck buses and not being able to see out. Maybe it's due to some deep psychological trauma. I don't like facing the wall in a restaurant, either :))

There's an app called SMS Backup+ which is very easy to use.

dulwichrat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My mate died of Sudden Cat Syndrome, in St > Francis' Park, under a bush. :))

Front left seat upstairs for me. Always. Unless I've got luggage which is too heavy or bulky to drag up there :) And if that seat is occupied I watch it with eagle eyes until it isn't, then make a dash for it. Front right seat is a just about acceptable second best :)) And people who block the bloody stairs and the doors are an absolute pain.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Otta - lots of people away on holiday. The > office > > and train both seem quieter than usual this > week. > > > Yeah that was my theory. Was a bit disconcerting. I expect they're all in their second houses in the country :))

Andrew1011 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When I moved to East Dulwich it barely had shops > let alone chains, although the largish Co-op store > was still operating on most of the Lordship Lane > site between North Cross and Shawbury Roads. Oh > and a Tesco, roughly the size of a small Tesco > Express, and still the size of the current shop > unit, on the corner of North Cross Road had > recently closed down. I can't recall which > supermarket company then had what is now the > Co-op, but it was a smallish chain and not one of > the big four or five. > What year was that? The Co-op used to be Somerfield. That wasn't that long ago. Londis on the corner of North Cross Road was a 7/11 I think.

I don't use prime because I find their free deliveries are usually pretty quick anyway. What really annoys me though is their so-called "tracking" system, which generally bears no resemblance whatsoever to what is happening in real life. You see a timeline getting closer and closer, then it reaches the end and - no delivery. Or you are told a parcel is going to arrive on one day, then it arrives the day before. There's no point in having a tracking system if it isn't accurate! And yes, I've told them. On the other hand, I have found Amazon's customer service extremely helpful whenever I've had cause to contact them, in fact they have gone beyond what I would have expected.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Sue, it took just 5 mins for my own two children > to go from stabilsers to no stabilisers at the > ages of 6 and 7 respectively. I remember it taking > me a similar amound of time and at a similar age. > Kids tend to get that you just have to go for it, > better than adults do. A bicycle, once it's going, > is hard to fall off of. Adults find it harder to > learn to ride a cycle because they worry more > about fallling off than kids do. It's the same for > many things, like skiing and swimming for example. > All easier to pick up in childhood. And there's > plenty of evidence to back that up in a fair few > psychology manuals. We can even test that here. > How many people who cycle can remember when they > went from stabilisers to two wheels? How hard was > it? Well, you may be right but you are extrapolating from a rather small sample of three - your two children and yourself :) I can't comment because my grandchildren never had stabilisers, they had balance bikes before their "proper" bikes. They both learned to ride their proper bikes very quickly (their parents are both keen cyclists) but I'm pretty sure it was rather more than five minutes :)) However if memory serves they were younger than your children, as the little one has just moved on to her second (larger) "proper" bike, and she's not six and a half yet.

Oh FFS. Lots of humour is quite black. People have different senses of humour. I found red devil's picture very funny. I find some of the "jokes" posted in the joke thread on here quite offensive. Each to their own, eh? I sincerely hope that when I snuff it (which if people on here think 72 is a good innings then I haven't got long to go, grammar) I won't get a load of friends and relatives afraid to make jokes about it. Though of course I hope they'd have a bit of a cry too :))