Sue

Clear now at 4.20pm

Massive queues at present in direction towards Denmark hill. Nothing can get past bus and rescue truck. 3.40pm. Traffic also backed up in other direction ETA: Road clear now 4.20pm

Is that the car involved? Knowing nothing about cars, I can't tell if it's a Golf. The number plate is clearly visible.

That was very community spirited of them 🤣🤣🤣

My garage tested the battery and it was indeed completely dead. I bought another one. With the fitting etc it was extremely expensive. I now intend to use the car more 🤣

Yes, it's sad when it has such an apparently good ethical background, but the management always seems poor, and most of the staff (with a few happy and helpful exceptions) seem either depressed or grumpy.

It will be quite a small Tesco, won't it? And quite near the one on East Dulwich Road? I wonder how the Co-op will keep going, it always seems to be on its last legs as it is.

Dear oh dear. Just reading that stuff from the "Group expert in Business news" hurts my brain.

I agree it looks like a huge potato! The bits that look like roots are strange though!

This East Dulwich Forum was in existence long before the ED Facebook page. The Facebook group nicked the name, and if memory serves there was nothing that admin could do about it. It has no connection with this forum. Never heard of the one with Herne Hill in it though.

It wasn't particularly disturbing me, but I could hear the bass through triple glazing last night. I'm just off North Cross Road. Can't remember what time I stopped hearing it. I put on white noise if I'm disturbed by external noise, on phone or on Alexa. I just turn it up to whatever volume is needed to not hear the other noise, or at least to not be disturbed by it.

Coming to a junction near you soon!

Yes, if you think they have been complicit in this. When you say you "had to" accept the lower price from your buyer, was that because of the timing of your purchase?

Thanks. I know that's the most obvious solution, but there are other factors, as mentioned above. Also, whilst I was relieved to discover from a post above that Zipcar has no upper age limit, my daughter has pointed out that modern cars (mine is a 1998 Micra) have features (like no obvious handbrakes, apparently) which would be fine if I was buying a new car and could get used to them, but less fine if I am using a hired car occasionally and don't know where anything is or how to use it! This would probably be no problem if I was younger, but I am now nearer eighty than seventy, and apart from dwindling brain cells, I am prone to anxiety, which not being able to locate or use the handbrake on a hill would not help 🤣 For various reasons I have decided to keep the car. I will just have to make fairly frequent long trips to keep the battery charged.

It's quite obvious what it means! Though it's less obvious when you run the original words together in your haste to criticise.

Curated. Or carefully curated. FFS. You are a shop, not a museum. Your customers EXPECT you to have chosen what you sell, rather than grabbing (GRRRR) some random selection of whatever it is you sell from the wholesaler, or the manufacturer, or the designer, or the individual artists or craftspeople or whatever. Anyway, just because you have "carefully curated" what you sell doesn't mean it will be to everybody else's taste!

If you are on the app, click on "more" (on the right of the green strip at the bottom of this page). Then click on FAQ. The page on the screenshot below comes up. Then click on "How can I contact the forum admin". Then click on the link which comes up (the "contact us page") There might be a quicker way, but that should work.

It's terrible behaviour. One consolation could be to be thankful you aren't them.

It might well be working - you don't know how loud it might have been without it!

You can tell red kites by their forked tails. Lots above the M40 on the way to Oxford.

Sorry to be thick, but can you explain the connections between "foreign money", politics, your paragraph starting "most people in the village" and Belair House? I honestly don't understand what point you are making.

Really sorry, I should have messaged you privately, I thought I had. Apologies.

I can't see it will ever be finally resolved, unfortunately. Although the local problems were made much worse due to the move of the Sylvester Road delivery office to Peckham, Royal Mail has had issues ever since it was privatised. Whenever the local MP gets involved, things get a bit better temporarily, then they just deteriorate again. I hope I'm wrong, but there are similar postal delivery issues all over the country. I think there are currently discussions ongoing to change the delivery requirements which Royal Mail is supposed to adhere to for first and second class post. Silly question, but are you actually expecting letters? I haven't had any post for ages either, but I'm not expecting any! Much stuff these days is done by email or on apps. The East Dulwich delivery office is in Peckham, not West Dulwich?