Sue

DulwichFox Wrote: > But many people have just had enough of the > market and the parking situation > and are just moving out. > Are you seriously suggesting that people are moving out of Ulverscroft Road (and presumably other roads adjoining North Cross Road) because they have "had enough of the market and the parking situation" ??! Surely that is a gross exaggeration??! The market is once a week - plus one or two stalls on Friday. I think it's a fantastic asset to the area rather than a disadvantage. I love being near the market. I can usually park outside (or very near) my house. Can't you? Even to walk from one end of the road to the other very slowly can't take more than a couple of minutes max, so I'm bemused as to what this "parking situation" is? If you have heavy things, you can always double park briefly while you unload them, surely? Of course people move out as others move in, otherwise there would be no houses for sale in the area, would there?!

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well there is usually a 'bod' with a machine > blowing the leaves all over the place.. > > Perhaps they need a machine with 'Suck Mode' > > Just a thought. > The machine doesn't suck leaves up! It would have to be enormous to do that! It blows them to get the leaves into one big pile so that they are easier to collect ..... :)

I have seen the two robins together again in my garden, and I'm sure they must be a pair. I'm assuming things have started early due to the mild Autumn - there are some normally spring flowering shrubs already flowering locally. Just hope any baby birds aren't zapped by the cold (probably will be though??) :(

The end of the saga (I hope!) Got a (red! Very seasonal!) bonnet, hinges and bonnet catch/lock delivered to the garage all for ?70 from a scrappie in Bolton specialising in Nissan parts. They had fifteen Micra bonnets but sadly none in green :( The red one they sent had a few tiny dents but nothing I would have noticed if the garage hadn't pointed them out to me before they sprayed it. Got it sprayed green and fitted and all the rest of it for ?160, so total cost of parts and repairs was ?230. Still have a dent in the roof but hey, ho. Got ?575 from the insurance company, so now have a car with a slightly dented roof plus ?345. Quite a good outcome I think even if my premium goes up a bit :) I'd like to give a plug to the guys who repaired it, who really went the extra mile with help and advice, matching the paint colour exactly, letting me know what was happening, etc etc.. They are Fisher Auto Repairs in Thornton Heath, the main man is called Tony and their number is 020 3417 8324 or 07930 202 297. They are trying to build up their business at the moment, are working hard and really deserve to do well in my opinion. I phoned quite a lot of car repair places (and visited one other), found this place by chance via another mechanic, and it was very refreshing to speak to someone who didn't either patronise me, be totally uninterested, or just be plain rude :( Or give me an astronomical quote plus VAT :(

Something similar happened in my road quite a long time ago. It was not just very loud music at all hours (including 4am on Christmas Eve, when the Southwark noise team were off duty) but also loud shouting and swearing, with the windows wide open in all weathers. My then next door neighbour had young children and was worried that their first words were going to be swear words :( The man was also apparently known to be potentially violent, and consequently nobody wanted to approach him directly. In that case, they were tenants of a housing association, and initially despite approaches from several neighbours including me, the housing association passed it from pillar to post and didn't want to know. In the end one of my then neighbours wrote to the Chief Executive and it was sorted. I can't remember exactly but I think the housing association had a clause in tenants' leases that they were not to cause a disturbance or something. Also, the tenants had not been taking their medication, which was the main issue, and that was sorted too though I presume not directly by the housing association. Once there had been intervention, everything quietened down and the tenants continued to live there. However if this guy owns the flat it would be a lot harder to sort I guess than if he is a tenant and the landlord can be approached. Not sure how you would find out. If you involve Southwark Noise Control, they will probably ask you to keep a diary of times and noise volume, so it might be a good idea to start that now anyway, if you haven't already done so. They will only act if you can actually hear the music loudly in your house, not if it's only heard in the street. Good luck.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lowlander Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > ps I was also miffed about the lack of pale > ale, > > that was the first Saturday they opened, so > still > > without it!? > > Well they certainly didn't have any the Saturday > just gone. > > I assumed they'd sold out, I didn't realise they > hadn't had any to start with! > > The lager was fine though. Had my third yummy pizza at Franco Manca on Saturday, and they STILL didn't have any pale ale! Forgot to ask why .... but very strange .... they only have a few alcoholic drinks on the menu, so for one to be (it seems) permanently missing is odd.

Hope you're OK, Sarah-Marie, what a frightening experience.

A friend of mine Max Rush (also living in Herne Hill) is a pianist who does paid gigs, you could try him? I've only heard him play jazz piano, but I'm sure he must play other things too! I don't know whether he'd want to be away from his family on New Year's Eve, though, and I have no idea what he would charge. You can contact him on [email protected] He's also a photographer if you wanted some pics of the occasion too!

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On the topic of an Eccles cake, can any of our > northern chums please inform the difference > between a puff pastry mince pie and an Eccles? > > Louisa. I'm not Northern, but we had Eccles cakes a lot when I was a kid. They're round and flat and have a few slits in the top, no? So a different shape to most mince pies. I too prefer puff pastry for mince pies, but then I'm not very fond of mince pies. Or shortcrust pastry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/eccles_cakes_72475

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > I sometime wonder how much more it might of risen > in price if I could still park outside my home at > all times. > and did not have to put up with hot-dogs and onion > smells wafting up my road on Saturdays. > And the constant traffic up and down my road. > > People come to markets.. No one CHOOSES to LIVE on > / near one > I live in the same road and a lot nearer the market than you do, Dulwich Fox, and I think it's great. I've never noticed any food smells at all wafting up the road, on Saturdays or any other day. Nor have I noticed "constant traffic". And I can quite often park outside my house, and even if I can't, so what? I can almost always park in my/our road, which is hardly very long. I think it's a great advantage living so near the market, not in any way a disadvantage. And in case you hadn't noticed, many people have recently moved to our road, presumably all CHOOSING (your caps) to LIVE (ditto) near the market :))

Did the police catch the robbers? Did you get the items back? Hoping the answer is yes to both (and that nobody innocent was hurt).

Everybody has been really really helpful! I have had info posted on here, PMs and emails as well, thanks everybody! But have not had a chance to look at it today and probably won't till next week. But I'll let you all know what I do and what success I have :)

But the intervals between the buses are still the same, even if the journey takes longer overall. ETA: I'm not looking at this thread again until I have done all the things I'm supposed to be doing today :))

MarkE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BrandNewGuy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Not really. If six buses an hour take two hours > to > > complete the route rather than one hour, they > > still pass your stop about every ten minutes, > > right? > > That only works if you double the number of buses > servicing that route. Otherwise you'll have an > hour-long gap between 60-minute spells of regular > buses. > > So if it is taking twice as long, you'll need > twice as many buses to maintain the old frequency. > Which, one suspects, isn't happening. Why will you have an hour long gap at any point, assuming the buses are all starting out at regular intervals? Is there some crucial thing I've missed (quite likely, probably in the wiki link above which I haven't read yet)?

Assuming the congestion is there throughout all the time the 37 is running, and not just at certain times of day, there would be a delay to the advertised times of the first buses in the morning to stops in and after the area of congestion. And presumably the last buses at night would run "later" than the advertised times to stops in and after the area of congestion. However once the first bus of the day has arrived at "your" stop, as BNG says, the actual frequency should not be affected because they will all be held up by about the same amount of time, so they will still appear at "your" stop at the same intervals as if there was no congestion. It's just that each individual bus is "later" than its advertised time of arrival at "your" stop. But the time you have to wait for a bus should not be affected.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Otta honestly, Kebab and Wine will do a shish and > chips for under 7 quid. And I don't care what the > snobs say, they do one of the best kebabs around > SE London IMO. "One of the best kebabs around SE London" ?! Well I can't claim to have eaten at that many SE London kebab places outside ED, but just for a start, Kebab and Wine's shish is not a patch on Hisar's, just a few steps away up Lordship Lane. Kebab and Stab do stay open a lot later though :) Though I notice they now charge a fiver just to be admitted into the back room :))

Millhaven Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > > > > Do the Adventure Bar people also own this > > Australian (?) chain then, or is that a > franchise? > > Nah, they are nothing to do with Walkabout. So does anybody have some actual link to a written source which will tell us without a doubt who has bought The Cherry Tree? I'm beginning to think the Not Very Cheery owners are going to stay there after all! :)) and :(

Millhaven Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently the former owners of The Adventure Bar > (Lordship Lane) are the new owners of The Cheery > Tree. Let's hope it changes from The Not Very Cheery Tree to The Cheery Tree :)) Do the Adventure Bar people also own this Australian (?) chain then, or is that a franchise?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Ask a techy question I think Sue will > understand. > That would be along the lines of Question: "Where is your router, Sue?" Answer: "On the top of the bookshelf in the kitchen". :))

:)) :)) :))

Clear as mud, Foxy :)) And I thought ISPs only changed if you switched off your router? Isn't that how - for example - the people who run this forum could tell if somebody had two separate forum names but were using the same computer?

Thanks right-clicking, yes if the connection issue lasts longer than a minute or so I do always restart the router. No way am I moving from wi-fi, wires trailing around drive me mad (der) !! Thanks for the rest of the advice.

Yeh it's all a racket, and the insurance company were keen enough to claim it "wasn't an accident" when they thought they would have to pay for the car to be recovered :)) Having said that, whenever I have had to make a claim, luckily very rarely, I have always had very good and efficient service. 10% of my current premium wouldn't be a huge amount.

What I've been given is the estimated resale value of the car prior to the accident, less the excess and retention charge (for keeping the car). It isn't to pay for repairs. It will hopefully more than pay for the repairs, and cushion any premium increase for a year or so. I will deffo have to sort something out or I won't have a car! I'm on the case .... :)

Just in case anybody is interested (OK OK I know you're probably not) an update! I eventually decided to go with a claim, even though it did turn out my premiums would be affected though not my no claims discount. As I expected, it was written off as Category C and fast-tracked. They took the car all the way to Sandwich and back and then made the assessment from photos, so what on earth was the point of the journey except putting money in the salvage firm's pockets and probaby upping everybody's insurance premiums, I have no idea. Long story short they originally offered me ?634 on the basis of similar cars they had seen for sale (so they claimed). I said I had three examples of almost identical cars on sale for much higher and they upped the offer to ?884. Didn't expect that much so thought it might be counter-productive to try to haggle any further as they said that was their max. After the excess and the retention charge they sent me a cheque for ?575 and I've got the car back, so on the whole I'm quite pleased. Now I've just got to get the (expletive deleted) thing repaired in time for pre-Christmas visits :( Thanks very much for the help and advice above, especially the reminder about Glass's. I got pretty much the Glass value for the dealer retail price.