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DirtyBox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I always piss on my cans before drinking them, > washes away the rats piss xxxxxxx You don't work in a shop, do you? :)) ETA: As in, replacing the unhygienic rats' piss with your own prior to selling the goods .....

simonethebeaver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not really. I'm fairly relaxed about stuff, but > drinking directly from cans that rats and mice in > warehouse may have run over, with their leaky > little bladders, is a bit grim. xxxxxxx Not if you just don't think about it :) You'd never get out of bed if you worried about everything you might do which had a hygiene implication! How many people do you know who have ever become ill through drinking out of a contaminated can?

DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As for the shops , always wash cans and tins in > case mice etc have urinated on them and dirty > hands touching the items . xxxxx Oh for goodness sake. That's verging on OCD, sorry.

SebsC Wrote: Apparently a total of 6 > members of staff have left meaning they have 1 > person left for reception, phones etc. I should be > hearing back again today with regards to what is > going to be done to improve the situation whilst > they are finding full time staff again. xxxxxx I would be interested to know why so many staff members have left simultaneously, and if there is a common reason or if it is just coincidence. If there is a common reason, and if it is connected with the way the practice is run, I'd like to know what the practice intends to do to ensure that it can recruit and retain competent replacement staff. Otherwise this situation will just keep repeating itself. ETA: And surely they can get temps to cover the phones? I realise dealing with callers with medical issues is not like being in a call centre, but surely anything would be better than nothing, even if they have to take messages and get somebody else to call a person back? Surely anybody can get to grips with an appointment system so that at least callers could make appointments?

SteveUK1978 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The owner must have a friend on the planning > committee xxxxxx Or as BNG says above, brown envelopes and cash have been involved. Surely obtaining planning permission must take into account unreasonable disruption to others? ETA: It's not like it's a new medical centre or something, where the longer term advantage would outweigh the shorter term disruption. It's a bloody private swimming pool!

It's an unusual name. Googling it brings up (apart from the Linked In link) an Elisa Onuoha living in SE6, with a link to her full address. OK it may be a completely different person, but she could either have moved from that address or moved to that address, so worth investigating? It's on 192.com and from quite old electoral records, but if you still don't want to open the letter/s and you still want to contact her, it's probably your only hope (unless the council might help?) http://www.192.com/atoz/people/onuoha/elisa/se6/3861068667/

I have emailed Jenny Sargeant the following (I live just round the corner): I understand that Crawthew Road is to be closed because somebody wants to build a swimming pool in their basement. Please could you explain why residents, visitors and people who work in the area should be inconvenienced for such a very long time for the benefit of people owning one house, and how this swimming pool came to get planning permission in the first place? Thank you.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're beginning to sound a teensy bit like a > tosser now woodrot. xxxxxx Ah that's unfair, it made me laugh :))

It could be funny - but it just doesn't ring true, sorry ....

brain_opera Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can absolutely believe this would happen at DMC, > and one of the reasons being you never see the > same GP twice, and just from notes, you don't get > the full picture. xxxxxx Eh? You can ask to see whatever GP you want. If you don't, then you probably won't see the same GP twice .....

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > From what I understand from friend that they did > 'standard tests' and when they came back negative > and her symptoms remained ( we are talking over a > number of weeks) she had to plead with them to > send her to Kings for more intensive tests. It was > Kings who found the cancer xxxxx Easy to criticise, but with rare conditions doctors often have little knowledge/experience of what to look for and what a particular set of symptoms may indicate. I'm not defending them, far from it in light of my daughter's experience, but I do understand it. Good for her for persisting.

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely if the source has the wrong address, > returning it back to them, or opening the letter > serves no purpose as they don't have the correct > address. xxxxxxx Well they may well have the correct address, just some low-paid minion has copied the address wrongly when sending the letter ......

redjam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- The dates > specified are for guidance and informative > purposes only and works may extend outside these > dates. xxxxxx So never mind eighteen months, it could be YEARS ?!?!?! :(

I was on ATV Junior Club somewhere around 1955 or 1956, when I was six. I "won" a competition - in fact, my father had told me the answers and then rushed down the road to post off the entry postcard so it would get there first. Don't blame me, I was only six and had a very competitive father :( They gave me some sort of needlework box as a prize, and it was so large I dropped it. It was all live in those days, so that was probably rather embarrassing for my mother watching proudly at home. They asked me to sing a song, so I sang Away in a Manger (hopefully it was near Christmas). They said I was the first child who had ever actually agreed to sing :)) :)) :)) Shame they didn't record TV in those days (so far as I know), I could have embarrassed my family for ever :)) The second time I was on t'telly was around 1966 when Lambeth had a school exchange programme with Moskvoretsky (sp?) a suburb of Moscow, and I got to go. It was the first ever exchange with Russia and quite a big deal given the year. Don't remember much about the telly programme but I do remember the Streatham News making up and printing a whole load of stuff I never said, since when I have never trusted the press. Celebrity, eh :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/28/norfolk-clowns_n_4356282.html?icid=maing-grid7|uk|dl1|sec3_lnk4%26pLid%3D226492 ETA: I like this bit: Officers would patrol areas where the reports had been made and, if they found any clowns, they would "offer them strong words of advice", he said. "Firstly I'd like to stress that it isn't against the law to dress up as a clown," Mr Edwards added.

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It does say up to 18 months. > Sometimes public authorities can only deal with > long time frames. eg My fathers blue badge was > going to take up to 40 days to process- and came 6 > days later. > Just sayin.... xxxxx Ah, OK, I was going by the title of the thread, hadn't noticed the "up to". More positive potentially in this case than the "up to 99% off" version, I feel.

So the restaurant at The Patch is apparently now open http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,1225779 Has anybody else been to it apart from the person starting the thread above? Sounds like their portion control needs tweaking (or else eat before you go) ..... ETA: Though I bear in mind that the person who started the other thread appears only to have made two posts on the forum, so bushel of salt and all that ....

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Darn it, maybe I'll reconsider my basement pool on > CP Rd. xxxxxx What, and get CPR closed for eighteen months as well?! The whole of ED will be in lockdown soon :)) Or flooded .....

That is bloody ridiculous. A whole road closing, with massive inconvenience to the people who use it, just so some ****** (fill in asterisks as you will) can have a bloody BASEMENT SWIMMING POOL? Closing for EIGHTEEN MONTHS??? There's an f-ing leisure centre with a swimming pool within a stone's throw of Crawthew Road! Is this what ED has come to? I feel my urge to move to Nunhead increasing by the minute ..... :( :( :( ETA: Please tell me I'm in a time warp, and it's actually April Fool's Day .....

singalto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The SNT officer has told me that a number of > burglars were caught yesterday and property > recovered. xxxxxx Excellent! Well done the police! :)

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Alan, don't be so coy, just open the letter up and > tell the source they have the wrong address!! xxxxxx That's what I'd do, illegal or not. I'd be extremely grateful to have somebody open a letter to me which had been wrongly addressed and gone elsewhere if it had some time-critical health or financial implication, and it's very easy for somebody copying stuff into a computer in an office to get a house number wrong. Or even the whole address ..... If it looks like an appointment, sounds like it could be time-critical, even if not urgent.

The Ivy House often has loads of kids, and does lunch (including children's portions of many dishes). It is also very dog friendly :) And near the Rye for a run-about and feeding the ducks :) http://www.ivyhousenunhead.com/

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - I thought lawns liked good drainage and > hated to be too soggy? xxxxxx Sorry, not sure what point you are making? I (and I thought the OP) was talking about "too" good drainage in her borders, where nothing will grow except daffodils? If the lawn is on clay, then it is likely to get very waterlogged in the Winter (which wouldn't help the moss) and dried out (as it is doing) in the Summer. I didn't think anybody had said anything about drainage re the lawn, though? Have I missed something? You can use a thing with hollow tines on a lawn to help drainage, and brush sand into the holes. Haven't watched this, but it's probably OK as it's on a BBC site: http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/basics/how-to-improve-your-lawn/179.html ETA: From the information given, there seem to be two separate problems: 1. The lawn (apparently laid on clay soil) which has moss, plus crevasses in Summer. 2. The borders (apparently consisting of nutrient-free very free-draining "soil" )

poppet27 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My lawn is in full sun but suffers from moss > creeping in from all sides. We even pulled it out > last year and resowed with grass seed, but this > year it's back again. > > The soil at the borders is also really poor: pale > in colour, terrible at retaining water and only > daffodils will grow. > > The thing I can't understand is why the lawn also > suffers from desertification in summer. Huge > crevasses appear across the middle and must be 8cm > deep. > > I have ordered a soil pH testing kit but any green > fingered advice welcome! xxxxxxx There has been a lot of moss around generally this year, I've noticed, even in sunny places. But if you don't remove absolutely every last bit of moss from a lawn, it will just grow back again. You can buy chemicals to treat it specifically I think if you are desperate, but usually people use scarification, as you would for getting rid of thatch in a lawn. This is quite backbreaking but I believe you can get electric lawn raking things these days (I'm an old school gardener :) ) Obviously you have to make sure you actually remove all the moss once it's raked up. Your border soil - possibly consists of c**p dumped there by builders in the past? If it won't retain water, it's probably very sandy, and since as Lynne says the London soil round here is clay, again, I suspect builders. Does it look the same all the way down? Could you dig a quite deep hole and see if there are layers? Whatever, you need to build it up with stuff like compost (not the stuff you buy in bags at the garden centre, the stuff you make from rotting down vegetable matter in a compost bin ......) to give it back body and nutrients. Worst case scenario, and depending on how much soil is in your borders, you could remove the top part and replace with bought-in (or donated) topsoil, however that will cost you. Your lawn crevasses in the Summer are almost certainly because this part of your soil is clay (which makes it even more likely that someone has f***ed up your borders). That's what clay does when it dries out (and goes horribly claggy when wet). The great thing about clay is that it's very fertile. Whereabouts do you live? I'll come and have a look if you like. If I can't help I have a friend who is a professional gardener who would probably be willing to have a look next time she's in ED. A soil testing kit will help to some extent, but it only tests for the presence of certain nutrients (particularly Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium) and will also test the acidity, but you need to look at other things like texture. And in any case, if nothing will grow in your borders, you already know there's something wrong! The daffs are growing because they get their nutrients from the bulb. ETA: Free-draining soil, like sandy soil, leaches away nutrients with the water it is losing, which is why many things don't grow well in it.

reeko Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Obviously cost > should not be the primary concern when considering > a referral, but it should absolutely be a > consideration. xxxxxx I can't imagine anybody would disagree with that ..... The symptoms should be the primary consideration, surely. ETA: Sorry didn't read your post properly