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How awful. Poor man. Was he from the dry cleaners near the Post Office? Unless I've misunderstood, it seems that the police were already aware that this was a dangerous dog, so why wasn't it removed from its owner before?

And you back this statement up with what, exactly? But the outside kitchen waste bin is brown.

Cooked food can be composted. I think they use a process which creates a higher temperature than the common or garden (no pun intended) compost bins. My replacement brown outdoor food bin has not arrived 😭

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/06/struggling-thames-water-receives-buyout-offer-from-covalis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Trouble is, you are stuck if you are on a bus.

When the old Dulwich Hospital was there, there was a community herb garden at the front which was built, planted and maintained by local businesses and residents. If memory serves, they were told that this - or some form of it - would be kept when the new buildings were built. It's a real shame that (to the best of my knowledge) this hasn't happened. We (The Goose Is Out!) ran a gig at DHFC to raise money for it, and all the musicians (including Wizz Jones) gave their time for free. A local business (I can't remember which, sorry) built all the raised beds for free, and Monica from Health Matters in Lordship Lane played a major part in getting the garden off the ground (no pun intended).

It seems to me that the whole of the ancient London water system needs to be replaced, and as that is clearly not going to happen, we have this piecemeal approach. How many of the problems may be due to incompetent management, incompetent workmanship, privatisation and/or greed, I have no idea.

Local free paper The Dulwich Diverter may be interested in running a story? Also, is there any way either PALS or your union could help? Or your GP or your boss? Good luck, it sounds horrendous 😭

Again? Last time I passed that Sainsbury's on a bus there was water pouring out and Thames Water in attendance. They can't have repaired it very well!

The email I have is gmail not googlemail. No idea if they go to the same place.

Does anybody know what, if anything, is happening to the place that used to be a French restaurant up by the Plough? It's been closed for years now.

I don't think it's an easy location to attract custom to (ungrammatical, sorry) but I hope they do well. What happened to that guy who was going to have a stall outside selling some kind of hot food? I can't remember the details, but there was a thread about it on here some time ago, I think earlier this year?

The 484 has been quite unreliable lately as well. Today I waited 13 minutes for one from Kitto Road going to Camberwell Green, with another one following 3 minutes later. When buses have stopped at Waterloo or Vauxhall, it has sometimes been because of marches/demonstrations blocking roads on the other side of the bridges. Very annoying, but at least there are tube stations in both places, so usually it's easy to take an alternative route to wherever you are going

Thanks both! X

Are any of the local churches having Christmas Eve carols this year?

If you like singing, we have a Singaround at The Ivy House (London's first community owned pub) in Stuart Road, Nunhead, on the second Sunday of every month. Listeners are also welcome! It isn't an open mic - we don't use PA or the stage. Any genre or language, accompanied or unaccompanied, anything goes. For lots more info see https://www.thegooseisout.com/faq and go to the Singaround section! People of all ages come, but it's different every time. We don't ask how old people are, but I'm sure some of them are in their thirties 🤣 It's easy to get to from East Dulwich - a five minute walk from Peckham Rye Park, or a 484 from Goose Green (towards Lewisham) stops at the end of Stuart Road. Our December one is different as it's our Seasonal Singaround, and we sing carols and other seasonal songs in unison, as well as people singing by themselves as usual.

Yes she does, that's how I know she is an excellent teacher! I only had classes with her but am thinking of having individual lessons. I had to stop for health reasons, but want to go back.

Russell was very knowledgeable and competent, and would have had no problem "trying to please people like the Penguin", whatever you mean by that I am very sorry if he is no longer working, as he would definitely have been my first choice for anything connected with roofing.

That's odd. I hope he's OK. In regard to roofers in general, I've just seen this in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/nov/30/how-do-rogue-traders-get-past-checkatrade-checks?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I have found Russell Perrin to be an honest, reliable and reasonably priced roofer. I suggest you ask him for a quote at least. He might have to see it, but he might give you a rough idea over the phone. Other people have recommended him on here, if you do a search.

https://www.artofswimming.com/home/aos-teachers/ Don't know if this is any help? Trish who teaches at the Dulwich Leisure Centre (and I think elsewhere) is an excellent swimming teacher, but I don't know if she specifically uses the Shaw method as I don't know what it is!

That's just weird. I mean, of course things like nappies would have to be bagged, but it never occurred to me to bag items for the green bin which were clean. In future, then, I will save it all until I've got a black bag full, which could take a very long time indeed and in my view still be a needless use of plastic and a pointless use of my space. When I take things to the tip in a black bag, I empty the bag there into the appropriate place and bring it back to reuse it. Also, how could small items from the green bin fall out during rubbish collection if they aren't bagged, if small items from the blue bin don't?

Autofill (great name, btw) said "deserved", not "deserves".

Yes, mine has been, which is why the new guide confused me.

This is people. This is what many of them do. It's not just this forum. Have you never tried to sell anything before? And you seem to be new on here. Did you not have a read of the forum before you posted, to see how people interact with each other? It isn't all sweetness and light 🤣