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Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > music shop in Northcross Road and Grove Vale. xxxxxx There isn't a music shop in North Cross Road any more. I believe it moved to Grove Vale!

Can anybody who has switched surgeries suggest a viable alternative to DMC in the same catchment area? With equally good GPs but a very much better admin system?

simonethebeaver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wouldn't call that rough. I'd call it less > poncey! xxxxxx Agreed!

dv1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Car2Go have indeed left and now only operate in > Islington. xxxxxx An idea whose time hadn't yet come, then? So if you use their cars now you have to start and finish your journey in Islington?

Thanks Jah Lush, yes unfortunately that seems right :( I'll try the cleaning first. :)) :)) :)) to The Curtain and The Asterisked One. Actually the music player is probably worth more than my car :)) Foxy, does that sound like a good solution to you?!!! I sit in my car with the door open for an hour? This time of year, it's more likely to suck moisture into the CD player!!! The unit stays in my house when I'm not in the car, so I think it's highly unlikely that it's anything to do with condensation. CDs were playing fine last time I used it. ETA: Push comes to shove, I can transfer all the demos to a memory stick and play them in the car from that, but sometimes life is just too short, innit.

Yeh thanks, had googled before posting on here. It came up with nothing apart from what I already knew :(

I have a Sony car music thing which has suddenly stopped playing CDs. It gives a message "read" (so it appears to recognise that there's a CD there), then "error". It's fine playing music from a memory stick or from the radio, it's just CDs that won't play. Obviously I have tried various CDs in it, but none of them will play. I've tried taking the whole unit out and putting it back a few times, with no effect. I have tried emailing Sony but have had no response (not surprised as their supposed "help" website appears to be total crap). Any ideas? It's about five years old but it was quite expensive so I am not keen to replace it, however I need a car CD player to listen to demos when on longish journeys. Haven't yet tried cleaning the head (or whatever it's called) as I have no idea where my CD head cleaning CD is as it hasn't been used for years :)) I bought it from the car music place in Bellenden Road, so unless anybody has any bright ideas I will see if they can help, but it's well out of its guarantee period :(

The larger St Christopher's Hospice shop on Lordship Lane by the Palmerston takes furniture, have you tried there? Also there's a charity shop in Streatham Hill (I think it's an Oxfam shop) which takes furniture. No idea if either of them would collect, though.

pinecone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > tiddles, yes. and horses in the back. xxxxx Those were the days ....

So, did anybody posting on here actually go to the meeting at the surgery to discuss patients' discontent?

Louisa Wrote: an affordable women's clothing > store? > xxxxxxx That's called a charity shop :))

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ED doesn't need another charity shop. I give to > charity and by from charity shops, but we cannot > have our high street dominated by one type of > business - whoever they may be. We are in > desperate need of a whole host of shops around > here. > xxxxxx Another charity shop hardly counts as "dominating", surely? Indian restaurants and estate agents - yes, they appear to dominate Lordship Lane. Charity shops? No. And I know which I'd rather have another of, and it isn't Indian restaurants (or indeed restaurants at all) - or estate agents ..... Which "whole host of shops" did you have in mind, Louisa, that you'd rather see than a charity shop? Waitrose? M&S? Some other chain to make Lordship Lane a clone of every other bloody high street in the land?

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > James Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The "reasons why" are as bonkers and > nonsensical > > as the entire notion of petitioning a charity > shop > > not to open. > > Well I don't think they are. Just wait and see. xxxxxx Wait and see - what? You seem to be hoping that the new charity shop is a dismal failure, just so that you can be proved right.

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Patch thread I found pretty tedious. > Interesting that now it has actually opened and > serving good food nobodies much commenting. xxxxx That's because many of the comments on the previous thread were not (obviously) directly about the food - how could they be as it was not yet open - but about claims made by/about The Patch which did not appear to be accurate, for example in relation to its independence and self-sufficiency. As was pointed out, there are only so many times you can question those (apparently) inaccurate claims when you never get an answer to the questions .... which aren't relevant to a thread about its food anyway.

EagleJon19 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not one to post negative opinions online, but > when my wife and I moved to ED last year we > registered with the DMC after doing a lot of > research. We've never had such a poor experience > with a GP. We moved to another GP within 3 months > because the service, attention to detail and lack > of empathy was terrible. I wouldn't recommend > them to anyone. Best of luck to everyone in > finding another GP or those still at the DMC. xxxxxx Are you talking about a specific GP or the service at the surgery in general? Because I've had nothing but excellent service from the actual GPs at DMC, apart from a locum many years ago, who I have never seen there since.

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Another question here - it's around the whole > issue of heating one room versus the whole house > . > > For myself I'm happy to just heat the one room > but.....the scenario with my mother is ,in her > 90's ,doesn't move around much ,lives alone in > what is basically a 2 up ,2 down ,with a back > extension kitchen ,never goes up stairs . > > I have been told to keep rads on upstairs to slow > the escape of heat from downstairs ,kind of keep a > cushion of hot air especially above the cold > kitchen . My aim is NOT to keep her bills down > ,but to keep her warm . > > What do people think ? xxxxxx Insulate the upstairs floors? Is the loft insulated?

I can't easily look for it because I am using my phone but there is a thread about Give and Take from when it opened. A proportion of its profit goes to charity but by no means all. I don't remember the details.

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the trade for the existing shops must > suffer; there is, after all, only a finite amount > of surplus people are willing to donate. The jam, > so to speak, will get spread more thinly. Unless > experts can prove, of course, that a concentration > of similar shops brings in more trade. > Lynne xxxxxxx I'm not sure that's necessarily the case. The large hospice shop, for example, always seems to have a room full of stock at the back waiting to be put out. I used to donate things to Trinity Hospice (on Clapham Common) to sell at their charity shops, and at the hospice itself they always had an overflowing room full of stock which their shops didn't have room for. My gut feeling is that there will be plenty of stock for all the charity shops including the new one. There's certainly generally loads of stuff being given away free on this forum. In a relatively prosperous area, people give away things they've tired of in order to replace them with something newer.

Thanks Foxy :)

I don't consider Give and Take a charity shop. It's vastly more expensive than "normal" charity shops, and not all the money taken goes to charity.

Oh great, that's good. Where is their recycling thing situated in the shop? At the front?

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > nxjen Wrote: > > I'm shocked at such an uncharitable attitude. > > Thankfully any petition would have little > chance > > of success. Who would it be addressed to? xxxxxx > > I'm shocked that people think it's a good idea to > dilute the stock of the charity shops that are > already there, whose trade would suffer as a > result of yet another shop arriving. But that > clearly doesn't bother you. xxxxxx I think it's highly unlikely that existing charity shops' trade would suffer. I buy clothes, books and bric a brac at the existing charity shops, but often there is nothing there I want. If there were more charity shops, then I'd be more likely to buy more because there would be a wider selection. It's not as if it's another butcher opening when there are already x butchers in the area. It's completely different.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If there's a petition I'll sign it. So I expect > would the people running the ample number of > charity shops already in ED. xxxxxx Eh? What "ample number"? So far as I know, there's: The Mind shop Two St Christopher hospice shops, one extremely small. and that's it. Apart from a tiny one up past the Plough.

Oh thanks. Anyone know of one in the stretch between the old police station and Goose Green?

Admin, please move if in wrong section, not sure where to put it. Is there anywhere in ED other than the big Sainsbury's which has a container for recycling batteries? I'm sure there was a thread on this before, but I can't find it. Thanks.