Sue

Well, as I could have predicted, I've just spent ten minutes trying to find out on the phone, being cut off twice and not actually being put through to Dulwich Library. The person I spoke to in the "library" section of Southwark Council didn't even know what an eBook was. I still don't know the answer to my question :( ETA: I've also been subjected to some of the most appalling music I've ever heard whilst holding on.

Don't know about flies, but saw the first flying ant earlier in the week, yuk yuk yuk :(

Thanks Fox, but it's not clear from that whether Dulwich Library (or other Southwark libraries) are part of the scheme, which is what I wanted to know. Never mind, I was just being lazy posting on here instead of finding out by other routes :))

If you advertise them on here, I'm sure somebody will snap them up. I gave loads of mine to a local school a few year back.

As ratty said above though, you could have problems progressing things unless you have contact details for the builders who saw the incident, or can track them down. Otherwise how can you demonstrate that it was that car which caused the damage? Be interesting to see if it is also damaged though. Do hope you sort it out, it's horrible when that kind of thing happens :(

I've looked at the libraries website and can't see any mention of eBooks, but I know a lot of councils do do this now. Does anybody know?

Cas59 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you very much Sue nice to meet you today , i > hope you will enjoy the plants. > Bright blessings Cas xxxxxx I think you must be mixing me up with a different Sue? The only plants I have bought recently were some Woodruff from a church fete last Saturday! ETA: Where is the garden?

Cyclemonkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm an Ivy House shareholder and i haven't recived > any notification or a newsletter! :( xxxxxx You might find, as I did, that your junk/spam mail folder is full of communications from the Ivy House team which you haven't seen or read :))

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I dare say this is all WIP. xxxxxx I had to look that up :))

Oh for God's sake Fox, just for once can't you give your negativity a rest and accept that the Ivy House team knows what it is doing???!!! :)) Quite apart from having a considerable amount of intelligence and common sense between them, they are in the process of recruiting an experienced pub manager. Do you really think they are going to start off this venture by wasting a load of ale?

fl0wer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> ...and while I am writing, if you have a minute > please read my other post/link to the Plantlife > wildflower survey, this time of year usually great > for botany especially once the sun's brought a few > things into bloom. xxxxxxx That'll be before Southwark Council (I presume) have sprayed into oblivion all the lovely wild flowers along the edges of the pavements and in the street tree pits. GRRRRRRR. :(

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a share owner I hope we follow the lead of the > communty run pub in Cowden Pound in Kent. One > ale. Nothing else on draft. xxxxxxxxx As another share holder I sincerely hope we don't! I'm looking forward to a selection of excellent ales! Can't wait!!

Congratulations, Cas! Where is the garden?

I still like it and watch it, and yes I'm one of those who records it. I hardly watch any television, but I watch The Apprentice. I agree it's now got a somewhat tired format, but I still find it entertaining :) Of course it's "contrived". What else could it be? At least it's not bloody Mary Portas :))

They aren't chosen because they're the sharpest knives in the box. they're chosen to be good television - which they usually are :)

Cyclemonkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >But if you put a yelling 4 or 5 year > old into a buggy because they don't want to walk > you are surely creating massive rod for your own > back. > > xxxxxx I have in the past put a yelling 3-4 year old into a buggy in the interests of actually getting her and her 6 year old sister to school and pre-school in time. They both normally go by bike but there's no way I'm taking them by bike! The 6 year old cycles and the 4 year old has a balance bike or else goes on the back of mum or granny's (the other granny's) bike. A twenty minute walk first thing in the morning with a grumpy child is not my idea of fun. I think that's quite a long walk for a small child with little legs who can't walk as fast as her older sister. ETA: Making a big isue of it is hardly a great start to a small child's day, is it?

I wonder what that will look like in a year or so though. Chamomile lawns are a nightmare to keep looking good. I realise that one has other things in it as well.

Sometimes needs must :)) ETA: For example a twenty minute walk to pre-school/school with kids who are used to going on their bikes with the other granny :))

ed_pete Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- How > would you feel if you were the owner of the car > cleaning business at the end of Chesterfield Grove > ? xxxxxx You mean the one where apparently (according to a thread on this forum, and I'm pretty sure it was this car cleaning business being discussed) people who leave mobiles in their cars whilst they're being cleaned there get them nicked, and the police can't do anything about it because there is no proof? OK not very wise to leave such things in your car, but I certainly wouldn't want to use an enterprise which apparently employed thieves.

Cyclemonkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Finally if your child is around 3 or over and has > no walking impairements i would suggest they don't > need to be in a buggy xxxxxxx If you had a child between, say, 3 and 5 whining and refusing to walk, believe me you'd shove them in a buggy in a blink of an eye :))

I agree too, penguin68. ETA: And Cyclemonkey.

As honeybee 79 says, let's wait and see shall we. Entering into "discussion" with some posters on here makes me lose the will to live :)) Strange how some people think they have so much more expertise than the funding bodies who - having gone over the business plan with a fine tooth comb - have loaned a million pounds to the venture, but plus ca change. ETA: And why keep on and on about the same points, which honeybee 79 has already fully answered on this thread?

Why are the two pessimistic posters above so keen to give us their opinions over and over again on this thread when they have nothing positive to contribute, and nothing new to say? It must be so depressing to have such a level of gloom and negativity all the time. Why not engage with this community initiative in a positive manner and suggest new ways to help make The Ivy House a success? All you have done so far is to tell everybody why you think it won't be. And so far as I know, neither of you were even at the meeting there earlier this year, which was so full that some people couldn't even get into the pub to hear what was being said. I think that you have both very badly underestimated the massive level of community support for this ground-breaking venture.

stacey-lyn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and quite often F precedes cold, as in "It's F > cold again". :( xxxxxx :)) :)) :))

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it possible to order brand new 1 pence pieces > from your branch? I would ideally like @ 140 xxxxxxx Maybe ask your branch? If they can't get them they should surely know who can?