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Bluerevolution Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @#$%& hell Otta, don't let her know !!! Mid life > crisis and all that !!! :))

Hi James, I emailed you this morning. Just wondering if you picked up the email? Apologies for posting on here, but you're normally very prompt at answering emails and this one is about something time-critical, thanks!

lizzie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lordship Lane in the early 90s (I moved 1992) was > dire indeed and a very depressing place, > especially after Sainsburys opened and the > greengrocer and butchers (Le Chardon now) closed > and Northcross Road was wall to wall hairdressers. > I remember when the Blue Mountain cafe opened > (1993??) and after that the domino effect began xxxxxx I moved to ED in 1991. I didn't find Lordship Lane "dire and depressing" at all! When was Northcross Road "wall to wall hairdressers"? If memory serves, there was a butcher, a cobbler, a newsagent, a Greek deli, a greengrocer (still there), amongst other things. To the best of my recollection there was a barber (still there) and one hairdresser. What were the other hairdressers? I agree the opening of the Blue Mountain was the start of the gentrification of ED :(

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hence the usefully provided links. xxxxxxx I'm afraid the links made little sense to me either :)) Never mind, I gave up on stuff like this after hitting a mental brick wall whilst attempting to learn Fortran in the seventies :))

Is it just me who has no idea whatsoever what this is all about? :))

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fazer71 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah the thread has been removed. > xxxxx Maybe it's just been moved? Whole threads aren't usually removed?

Slightly different, but there are also a few community gardens around which are open to the public, eg the Physic Garden at the front of Dulwich Hospital, which has a selection of herbs and other medicinal plants, with information about them. Good for bees, I imagine.

Not local, but Neal's Yard Apothecary have excellent electric oil diffusers. The reservoir lasts for some time (you put in water and a few drops of oil), and when it runs out the diffuser turns itself off. You can also have either changing colours, a static colour of your choice, or no colour at all. I've got the Zenbow one, but they do other shapes. http://www.nealsyardremedies.com/essential-oil-burners They are not cheap, but I've found them much much better than the tealight ones, which only have a small reservoir and when that runs down, the burner itself can crack so I was constantly replacing them. The electric ones are also safer as there are no naked flames. I don't know where the nearest branch is, but there's still the original one in Neal's Yard, Covent Garden, or if you have time they do them mail order. ETA: I absolutely love mine - I usually burn lavender oil, but at Christmas have Christmassy scents :)

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > northlondoner Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > Course it's not the wrong door. He was a "young > black male". > > You can never quite tell tone of voice from the > written word, can you? Sarcasm or racism? Hmmmm. xxxxxx Sarcasm in this case, surely? That was how I read it, anyway.

We have been on a Dawn Chorus walk in Horniman Gardens this morning (starting at 5am!!!!) It was led by a very knowledgeable, enthusiastic and - importantly - audible guy from a company with the excellent name of Bird Brain :) Many birds are already nesting and some already have young. We heard - and in theory are now able to identify the songs of - blackbird, robin, blue tit, great tit, goldcrest, wren, nuthatch, song thrush, dunnock, wood pigeon, green woodpecker, one of the spotted woodpeckers but can't remember which, redwing (I think), magpie, parakeet, crow. Well obviously we already knew some of them ..... Well worth making the effort to drag ourselves out of bed and going out into the freezing cold dawn, though we did have to go back to bed after we'd had breakfast :) Apparently there are at least thirty types of bird at various times in the gardens, probably more. Didn't hear any house sparrows but came back to see several in my garden :)

We have just been on a Dawn Chorus Walk in the Horniman Gardens this very morning (had to get up at 4am as the walk started at 5am, but it was well worth it!) Was about to post on the nature thread about it when I saw this thread. Now off to post on that thread! ETA: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,246908,1290701,page=54#msg-1290701

wavyline girl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If anyone has any doubts about the level of air > traffic, maybe they should come round now and look out my window. > It has been constant since the early hours of the > morning, one plane isn't out of sight before the > next one comes over. xxxxxxx We were in Horniman Gardens today between 5 and 6.15pm (dawn chorus walk) and at one point you could see about six planes in the sky at once in various places and at various heights, including very low :(

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Excellent - if the band plays reggae you can just > stand at the back and ting. :))

brain_opera Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Dan G Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > It's bloody awful - possibly the worst GP I > > have > > > ever encountered. I can only repeat what > others > > > have said: impossible to get through to a > > doctor, > > > appalling staff. A disgrace really. > > > > xxxxxx > > > > Not everybody has had these problems. > > > > For example, see the post immediately above > yours. > > > > This is not helpful, Sue. I'm glad you had a good > experience but the OVERWHELMING majority of people > do not. Including me- I left the surgery after > repeated f-ups and prescription problems that put > my health at serious risk and ended with me > actually having to pay full whack (?45 for 3 > pills) for my own medication in an emergency over > a weekend they had messed my medication up. It's > not helpful to dismiss many peoples' negative > experiences that they might want to vent about > just because a minority have positive experiences. > The surgery is an absolute disgrace that needs to > urgent change or be shut down. xxxxxx I'm genuinely sorry that you didn't find my post helpful :( but it wasn't intended to be helpful as such, it was trying to make a point. I am certainly not dismissing many peoples' negative experiences, including yours, and of course something should be done by the surgery to address them and to ensure they don't happen to others. I hope that you have made a formal complaint so that your experience is investigated and the required action taken? However, you have no evidence to talk about "the OVERWHELMING majority of people" and suggest that it is "the minority" who have positive experiences, unless you or somebody else has done a survey of everybody registered with DMC. Which incidentally might be useful! For any service or product, if you google online reviews, you are likely to find that the vast majority are negative, purely because most people are only driven to post about their experiences if they are annoyed about them because something was wrong. Why would anybody bother to write about a perfectly normal visit to their GP during which everything went smoothly? Or a product they had bought which they were perfectly happy with? Please don't get me wrong. I am not in the least suggesting that there are not serious problems at DMC which need to be addressed. However I could post on here a long list of serious medical f-ups which I and members of my family have experienced at various GPs and hospitals in the past, some of which were potentially life-threatening. I made no formal complaint on any occasion, therefore - hands up - probably those particular doctors are continuing with their same incompetence to others. My daughter has recently made a formal complaint to a hospital regarding a long saga of negligence last year, however it has taken her nearly a year to feel able - and well enough - to put it all in writing, not least because writing it down brings back very distressing memories. Sadly, I don't think this kind of thing is confined to DMC, and that is the reason I am staying with them. Out of the frying pan and all that .... I completely understand those who are leaving because of bad experiences, and if I had had a similar negative experience there I might well do the same, but that would be because of a very natural knee-jerk reaction rather than looking at DMC's actual statistics compared to other surgeries. Sorry for the length of this post :(

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We need to get our top crime casebook operative on > this ASAP > > > Sue? xxxxxxx LOL, as it happens I have had more than a passing interest in this case. There's quite an interesting discussion on the Professional Pilots Rumour Forum: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines-mh370-contact-lost.html But I really don't want to get too engrossed in the detail of yet another mystery - life's too short :)) ETA: There's 316 pages on the pprune thread so far. Beats the Cherry Tree thread by a mile. But in seriousness, I feel very sorry for the relatives and friends who have no idea what happened to the people on board and are just left in a limbo where they can't even grieve properly.

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yes brilliant idea moving the bus stops away from > the Shopping Centre. Really clever and counter > intuitive. xxxxxx Is this going to be all bus stops, or just some of them? Because at the moment, at peak times, it is a nightmare with so many bus stops and buses outside the Shopping Centre, and hard to see whether the bus you are waiting for is somewhere in the line of buses ....

That's brilliant! Can you tell me how I now apply for a space in one? Can't get a bike till I know I have a space :) HOORAY!!!!

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's a toaster in mine they're welcome to. > > It'll blow the fuse in their house. xxxxxx :)) ETA: I sort of feel that if people are so poor that they have to resort to this, what does it matter? If something is in a green bin, presumably its original owner doesn't want it any more. Going through blue bins looking for ID stuff is a different matter, but aren't most people these days aware of the need to shred things which could be used for fraud?

I use buses a lot, and getting rid of the 40 would be a real pain. It is the only bus which goes from ED to Borough/London Bridge. The 35 does not go up Lordship Lane, it goes from Camberwell Green to Brixton. And I don't see what the 176 has to do with it - it goes to Tottenham Court Road. Do you want us all to have to keep changing buses to get to our final destination? It's bad enough having to wait for one :))

Dan G Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's bloody awful - possibly the worst GP I have > ever encountered. I can only repeat what others > have said: impossible to get through to a doctor, > appalling staff. A disgrace really. xxxxxx Not everybody has had these problems. For example, see the post immediately above yours.

demolik1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The East Dulwich Cafe owner has been threatening > and extremely abusive to some of the traders. > He's been making life extremely difficult for > them. His son owns two of the stalls and I think > it must be an attempt to drive out competition! xxxxxxx Interesting first post from somebody who just registered today .... How can a cafe owner "make life extremely difficult" for some market traders?

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Sue > In East Dulwich ward we only had 3 applications. > Sorry I can;t recall the streets proposed. > Residents living there have received letters > asking if they would use one. > xxxxxxxxx I applied, and I've not received a letter :(

Lesley Hopwood 07896 503658 She is an experienced gardener who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about plants.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_article/a_258_2014 > 0310023804.jpg > > Number 19 made be laugh out loud, but that's > probably because I'm an IT geek. xxxxxxx There is a discussion on Facebook as to whether Number 19 is actually correct .... I think it is but my sister-in-law's brother (not sure what relation to me that makes him) thinks it isn't. He claims it should be 13 loaves because in programming each step is separate and the second doesn't supersede the first or something. 12 loaves seems logical to me ..... Number 5 is my favourite, but I don't understand Number 12 :(