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*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The last 20 pizzas we've had at The Actress have > been steadfastly tasty. > > There was one off day. They took the offending > item back without question, refunded the money, > gave us another one free - and threw in a free > drink. xxxxxxxx Bloody hell. Clearly I wasn't assertive enough :))

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why the hell anyone would want to read a book from > a telephone screen is beyond me. xxxxxxx Because a mobile doesn't weigh a f-ing ton?

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > She's a killer qu....:: > > "you don't. You can't pick and choose what is > legal and what isn't." > > Sounds reasonable. Know ANYONE who is that holy? > You don't knowingly break any laws? None? > > Unrelated sidenote. Ivy house is doing well. Many > said it wouldn't you know xxxxxxx Very naughty, Strafer Jack :))

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't forget (pretty decent) pizzas at the Actress > too. > xxxxxxxx Really? The last pizza I had at the Actress was, sadly, absolutely disgusting. It arrived at the table virtually raw. I sent it back and it didn't arrive again much better, but I ate it and paid because I was starving. If memory serves, it was something like leek and pea shoots, which was weird anyway even without the raw dough. Some of the Actress pizza combinations are just bizarre. I'm just going straight to the Gowlett next time. Fantastic pizza. The Actress is just round the corner and the Gowlett is a trek, but needs must ......

Levina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone get seriously annoyed at the sound of > chewing, even if the person is chewing with their > mouth closed? xxxxxxxx Yes. Apples are the worst.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Somebody posted up a message from that Stephen > chap's facebook page. A sad tale for sure, but > does it make me a bad person that my instant > reaction was > > "mom? mOm? what the f..?" xxxxxx Maybe she's American?

A small terraced house on Ulvercroft Road "in need of some modernisation" has just been sold for ?815k . Where will this end?

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, don't forget Review on Bellenden Rd! xxxxx Yes, you're right, sorry forgot that one :)

Nicoledulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rats do live in nice big lush spaces too and > Dulwich park is one such place...shouldn't be a > problem unless there are too many one day. Just > part of life and nothing to worry about. xxxxxx Completely agree!

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi Sue, > It is good. > How about your street joining in? xxxxxxx Sadly I have too much to do already (including forthcoming street party involvement!) and have no children young enough to want to play in the street, however I will mention it to neighbours who have :)

dimples Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > High gb2014 , there is a fantastic bookshop > already up there called rye books ! > Go up the road to the empty shop turn left and 100 > yards down that road it's there :) xxxxxxxx We are very very lucky in East Dulwich to have three independent bookshops within easy reach. Apart from Rye Books (at the Barry Road end of Upland Road), there is the lovely Chener Books in Lordship Lane just near the Goose Green roundabout, which has a great selection including a whole separate kids' section, then there is also a bookshop in Dulwich Village (though no idea what that one is like as I've never been in it). Oh, and I think there might be one in Herne Hill as well? There's certainly an Oxfam bookshop. Plus one in Sydenham and one in Crystal Palace, though they are not within walking distance unless you're a dedicated walker :) So if you aren't completely converted to e-readers yet, lots of choice! ETA: But of course they have somewhat different difficulties these days, though akin to those of the yellow shop with the arrival of supermarkets in the area - ie the arrival of Amazon.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lovely piece of casework. Residents on Heber Road > asking about how to enable kids to play on the > street - > http://jamesbarber.mycouncillor.org.uk/?p=2461 > > Today's Southwark News lists 4 dates, 1 a month > starting Sunday 25 May 2.30pm to 5.30pm, where > Heber Road between Cyrena and Landcroft Roads will > be open for kids playing on the street. > > If you'd like this to happen on your street please > get in touch so we can help you organise this. XXXXXXX That's a fantastic idea! Well done Southwark!

I think it must be very difficult to run a small local shop like that these days, when most people are getting their main things from supermarkets (or in ED, maybe in "posher" local independent shops). He presumably has to buy everything he stocks in bulk, in certain minimum quantities, regardless of whether he thinks he is going to be able to sell it within the sell-by date or not. So he has the choice of selling things past their sell-by date (I'm not condoning that, btw, although with most things I doubt it is an actual health hazard) or binning them at a loss to himself. Or stopping selling them altogether, which means even fewer people will come to his shop. Rock and a hard place. For somebody who has had a shop in ED for fifteen years, that's a sad position to be in. No wonder he's lost interest in his business (if indeed he has). I'd be pretty grumpy too.

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bird flu xxxxxxxx :))

adonirum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Having read your post carefully ............ > > I always thought this was one of those rare > occasions when you were indicating "sarcastic" > affection, Sue. > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Eh? How do you make that out? What is your definition of "sarcastic", then, because it's clearly different from mine! And why don't you just leave me alone when this is supposed to be a thread about rats in Dulwich Park? All the xxx s in the last three posts have been yours. If you want to continue to have a go at me, why not start a new anti-Sue thread in the lounge? Provided of course this thread hasn't already ended up there :(

adonirum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I always thought you were indicating "sarcastic" > affection, Sue > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Maybe you should read my posts more carefully, then, as I'm rarely sarcastic, in inverted commas or otherwise :) Not sure why this sudden interest in the way I write my posts, however.

kristen Wrote: When I did this I wanted him to know he was being watch & > that someone would come along (so I said the > police had been called) - this was partly because > I was on my own & was worried about the > possibility of being attacked. xxxxxxx Fair enough.

I'm quite bemused by the sudden interest in the way I write my posts, but hey ho. Thanks for all the suggestions, but I'm not about to change! Most people appear not be confused, as this is the first time it has ever been mentioned, on this or other forums :) I'm even more bemused that some people appear to think a row of xs to show where my own post starts should demonstrate affection! Anyway, back to the rats. I agree there should be more education re feeding bread to ducks, but what you can do? There are already notices up. Maybe the cafe could sell more suitable food for ducks? Personally I'm more concerned for the health of the ducks than the fact that rats are attracted. But then I like rats :)

LuLu Too Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have no truck with this seemingly fashionable > gluten free "bandwagon". > For those of us with Coeliac Disease it is a > tedious condition. xxxxxxxx I have every sympathy with people with Coeliac Disease, of course. However I think it is a bit unfair to talk about "fashionable" and "bandwagons". Many people find they have symptoms which are relieved by omitting certain foods from their diet, which may include gluten-containing foods. Those symptoms may not be as severe or potentially serious as those experienced by people with Coeliac Disease, but surely it is not unreasonable that some people would prefer to eat a limited diet rather than put up with the symptoms? My six year old granddaughter is presently on a hospital prescribed dairy-free diet for six weeks to see if this improves chronic stomach pain and eczema. Had that been a gluten-free diet, surely you would not describe her as jumping on some fashionable bandwagon? She has been tested for many things, and Coeliac Disease was one of them, but the doctors still do not know what is the root cause of the symptoms (but they suspect they are related). Surely if somebody finds that diet can improve their symptoms - or even that following a particular diet just makes them feel better - then that is a positive thing?

Passing a Money Shop in Forest Hill on the bus, I was astounded to see a large sign in the window offering short-term loans at 2961% APR. I thought I must have misread it, but I've just looked up their website, which says: Representative example: ?200 Loan. Total amount repayable in a single payment of ?259.98 in 28 days. Annual interest rate 390.94% (variable). 2961.4% APR representative. And underneath that, it says "Warning: Late repayment can cause you serious money problems." They're not f-ing joking, are they? No wonder people who are already poor enough to need this kind of "service" spiral further and further into debt :( :( :( Bastards. Sorry, this probably isn't a tiny little thing, but it has certainly caused me enormous rage, irrational or not I have no idea.

kristen Wrote: > I yelled at him as loudly as I could to pack it in > & that I'd called the police. > He didn't turn round but stopped & walked off down > Playfield Crescent. > xxxxxx Great that you reported it to the police, but once you'd warned him that you had, unfortunately he wasn't going to hang around till they turned up, was he :(

LadyDeliah Wrote: > > I think I'll try weaning myself off and just keep > the gluten free bread in the freezer in case of > emergency :-) xxxxxxx I do that, it's much easier and means you don't waste any and never run out (probably). If it's unsliced, I slice it and put those dividing things between the slices. If it's already sliced, I just leave it as it is and prise the slices apart as I use them ....

LadyDeliah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I like the Genius grainy gluten free bread, but > it's expensive. > xxxxxx I have just discovered that Tesco sell an own-brand seeded gluten-free bread which is actually really nice compared to many of the others. The only other one I found that I liked was one of the Warburton gluten-free ones, but Sainsbury's stopped selling it for some reason.

Gill in Bath Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Mr Ben, this is a long shot but did you ever > get to the bottom of the hens egg in plant pot > mystery? > I realise it was ages ago but I found an egg > buried in a pot of compost today. Rather > un-nerving and weird. > Yours was the only related item that google found. > and even more strangely I used to live in Dulwich > a long time ago. > I hope it wasn't something witchy. Gill xxxxxxx Foxes bury raw eggs. I found one a year or so back buried in a pot in my front garden. What I couldn't understand, though, was where the fox had got the egg from in the first place, as it was stamped :) If you google "foxes bury eggs" a whole load of stuff comes up :)

Mustard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely a line is better than xxxxx, as those > indicate crossing out. xxxxxxx But you wouldn't delete something online with crosses, unless you somehow put the crosses over the top of what you'd deleted because you wanted it still to be seen? You'd delete with the delete key leaving no trace, surely? Anyway, I've no idea how to insert a line into a post! Perhaps I will try using different symbols - probably not though :) EPB, :)) :)) :))