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I'm sure there will be consultation etc etc with relevant interest groups, however at the end of the day physical banks and post offices are becoming less and less relevant to most people. Sadly, businesses can't continue to run if they are losing money. I'm heading towards eighty now, and most people I know who are my age go online, use smartphones, apps etc.. There are courses available if older people need help in getting to grips with - I was going to say new technology, but it's hardly new any more! I realise money is an issue for some people, but my understanding is that things like the state pension, job seekers allowance ( if it's still called that) etc are all now paid online. Forgive me if I'm wrong. So Post Offices are no longer used for that. And you can buy things like smart phones reconditioned, with a guarantee, if you can't afford a new one. And other couriers will pick up parcels, or you can post them at shops which have a sub post office, like the one in Forest Hill Road. And should anybody still be sending letters at extortionate prices, you can get stamps online 🤬

Royal Mail is run completely separately from the Post Offices. But I'm amazed Royal Mail has staggered on for so long. I thought it would close decades ago, when everyone started using email! That's often people with things like Amazon returns, which you can take elsewhere locally. The last few times I've been in, it has been virtually empty.

That's really awful. There must be someone further up the management chain who could be made aware of this?

I'm assuming that anybody who has a cat can afford its food, litter, vets' fees etc. Nobody was saying that two quid is "nothing", but it's cheaper than some brands of cat litter, so was hopefully useful to the OP. Still, hopefully your post made you feel better 👍 🤣 We still don't know why there was a bag of cat litter at the bus stop! Surely it would be rather difficult to take it away unnoticed if the owner of the cat litter was also at the bus stop? It's not like someone distracted your attention and picked your pocket and you didn't notice till some time later! But what is also confusing me is, if the OP knows where the thief lives, why don't they go and ask for their cat litter back?

The market is only there for a few hours on Saturdays! Surely all street markets are "a bit tatty"! That seems a strange reason to close a road permanently to traffic! There is already at least one seat in North Cross Road (which seems to be quite well used), apart from those for customers of The Palmerston, and several of the shops in the road have greenery outside

Why don't you lot meet up and have a nice friendly discussion over a pint? You don't seem to get very far on here, rehashing the same old stuff over and over 🤣

10l for £2.10 in Tesco with a club card. Even cheaper! I don't have a cat. I got a bag of cat litter last week to soak up used acrylic paint water, as you can't put it down the drain (who knew!).

Charming. Why was it at the bus stop?

Many many decades ago when I was a student I started to smoke a pipe. It was a little wooden "ladies pipe" according to the tobacconist. I think I must have thought it would look cool. That didn't last long. I couldn't keep it alight 🤣 I quite liked Old Holborn (or maybe I'm confusing tobacco types. Is that just for ciggies?) , but I preferred Clan. Coffee all tastes much the same to me. Probably my palate has been ruined by the pipe smoking 🤣

Yes it's a rubbish system. Last Christmas at DKH Sainsbury's I was charged the wrong price for a similar reason. I was told I should have taken a photo of the label on the shelf before bringing the item to the checkout! Why would it even cross my mind to do that? I was made to go through all the Christmas shoppers to the other side of the store to take a photo, and only then did I get charged the correct price. This was a matter of several pounds, not a few pence. It was a bottle of Kahlua. When I subsequently suggested there was something wrong with their systems and that many other people must also have been charged the wrong price, and probably not noticed if they had full Christmas trolleys of stuff, I was told that complaints were not dealt with by the store manager. I was told I would have to complain to Head Office, that I could not do this by email, and that I would have to send them a letter. I just gave up. There's a limit to how much of my life I want to spend in trying to put things right. Funny how these errors always seem to be in the shop's favour.

I wasn't.

If you read Malumbu's post properly, you will find out why he wrote to Ellie. Oh, ooops, I mean Ellie Reeves. Just in case it wasn't clear who I meant 🙄

Typo? 😂 What sort of music?!

I wouldn't have understood FOT 🤣

It's not so much size in deciding which one to go to, it also depends on transport links, how far you are willing to travel, how much time you have available, and whether you are going to buy so much stuff that you need to take the car (if you have one)! 😄

Thanks, but I quite enjoy wandering around Lidl and seeing what's in their centre aisle 🤣 Also they have interesting snacky things at Christmas. Is the one in Sydenham bigger? I can't remember. Sorry admin, off topic. As you were!

I love Lidl, but that would be a rubbish site for it, and there is one a short bus ride away in Camberwell. Where I will be heading to get my Christmas lebkuchen ❤️

There is a search facility on here which will bring them up if you want to read them.

Because it's a maximum stay of 2 hours and presumably only the first 30 minutes is free?

If all else fails, a white noise app is good to mask unwanted noises. Sounds like (no pun intended) you might have to have it on quite loud, though .......

Somebody appears to be making money from it, albeit not much. Who?

But if she's just singing, how would that be a welfare issue? I realise it's at unsocial hours, but if the noise team can't help I'm not sure how the police could? Unless you could present it to the community police as a problem between neighbours, but she may not realise it IS a problem! Someone above said she doesn't open the door. You could try putting a note through the door? Or perhaps a friendly card along the lines of "I'm sure you don't realise .... but ...."?

I don't want to be negative, and maybe I've misunderstood the purpose of CCTV, but if it's supposed to be to identify people I'm not sure how it would help if the attackers are masked, unless there are other identifying features?

F**k off Trump would be my three words. Only without the asterisks.

As megalaki84 never posted again with anything to substantiate their allegations, I think we can probably assume that they didn't actually get food poisoning from Love