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"Donald Trump has been and gone"? We will soon find out 🙄

I don't think they would be happy if I phoned in, I'd be ranting on for hours 🤣

Whereabouts on Grove Vale is it? Seems a bit daft to have no seats! Do they have large capacity machines, and if so how much is the wash?

Annual outbreak? Why is that? And how did they manage to suddenly find more people when the Met had had their overall numbers so drastically cut?

The police can't be everywhere, and they have to prioritise. There should be more of them, and they should be walking the streets, like they used to. It is hard for a passerby to intervene when you don't know if the attackers may have knives. Also, you don't know what your reaction may be if faced with a violent situation. I was once on a bus where a young man was kicked down the stairs by two youths. The driver did nothing except open the doors to let them out, and to my utter shame I retreated to the back of the bus and didn't do anything either.

Sold????

Time, for example.

Well, that's a cheery post which has really contributed to the discussion 🤣🤣🤣 I did say "financially or otherwise" able to contribute x

A forum is for people to express their opinions! It would be very boring if everybody had the same opinion! You presumably didn't "frequent this forum" in the old days? It was toxic compared to how it is now.

This is not about late deliveries, but honestly ... Yesterday I heard a load of stuff being shoved hard through my (small) letterbox. I went to pick it up and the pile included a very bent (so bent that the cardboard was completely broken across) cardboard backed envelope clearly marked in large red letters "Please do not bend." I went out holding the envelope, and the postie (one I had never seen before) was now two doors down, so I said (fairly politely I thought, under the circumstances), "Excuse me, this says on it do not bend". He just scowled at me. When I opened it, the contents were unusable - it is something which needs to lie flat, and it is now permanently bent. I have complained to Royal Mail, and the sender is kindly posting me a free replacement, so I just hope it isn't delivered by the same postie. GRRRRR. I also hope this isn't the calibre of the new posties they have taken on. Can they not read? Do they not think to try ringing the bell if something won't fit through the letterbox? ETA: My lovely regular postie delivered the replacement today, together with another packet also marked "Please do not bend". He must have made a special trip, as surely usually this would not have arrived for weeks 😮

Yes. The council doesn't come round and put salt on every icy patch as soon as it appears in Winter. And as for those bad trees dropping their blossom in Spring ....

When did all this start in England? It seems to be quite recently. When I lived in Scotland there was guising every year, but I never remember it in England. I have very mixed feelings about it, as although it's obviously fun for the children whose parents are financially or otherwise able to participate, it also seems like yet another way for big businesses to take the opportunity to make money. This is an interesting article about the history etc, though North American centric in parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

Many terraced houses round here have been converted into flats, or else used to be flats and have been converted back to houses.

Good ideas! It's just to annoy ab29 🤣

I also use white noise if there are annoying noises at night (or other times). I ask Alexa to play white noise, but I'm sure there are free apps for your phone. I find it very effective. Good luck.

Exactly. It now costs £40 to buy 20 paper bags from the council to put garden waste etc in, if you don't have a need for (or space for) a permanent brown bin. And it seems you can't buy less than 20 at a time. They used to be free from the library.

The Southwark News link leads to "page not found"

Why are they suddenly doing this now? Bit late, isn't it? Since I moved in around 1990 my light and view of the sky has been greatly reduced at the back of my house by loft conversions in my own road and the road whose gardens back onto mine 😭 Also, yes, very unfair on those people who don't yet have one and want one.

I had an email from Royal Mail saying my package would be delivered on Saturday. I was going to be out all day, so I requested delivery on Monday, when I would be in all day. While I was out on Saturday, I had another email from Royal Mail saying my package had been delivered to "your safe place." I don't have a designated safe place, as there isn't one. It turned out that they had decided my safe place was behind a flower pot. I got home late on Saturday night to find that at least the package was still there. However a snail was sitting on it and was happily chomping away at the cardboard! It was only a small snail, and it had already eaten quite a lot of it 🙂 It was lucky I got home when I did, or it might have eaten right through the packaging Also, the 24 hour tracking label says "Photo only", but I never got a photo. I'm not making yet another complaint to Royal Mail, because I reckon the postie was trying his best, but honestly .....

The General ED Issues section? Southwark Council does employ street cleaners. It's just not true to say "pavements which are never cleared". In the Autumn they bag the fallen leaves up and leave them on the pavements to be collected. I expect they are composted. But you surely can't expect to see a street cleaner every day in every street? The cost would be enormous. And sorry as I am for people with disabilities, anybody can slip on leaves. My partner broke his ankle last year after slipping on leaves on a pavement in Lewisham. He was on crutches for months. He didn't blame Lewisham council for not having removed the leaves before he got there.

Are you talking about leaves? This complaint comes up every year. The problem is with the trees. It's Autumn! The trees keep dropping their leaves! Blame the trees, not the council! As soon as someone clears away the leaves, those pesky trees drop some more! Basically, the council can't provide people to clear leaves from every street in the area every day, or anywhere near that frequency, I imagine. Don't worry. Once the trees have shed all their leaves, we will be into the season of frost and ice! And btw I don't think this should be in the "What's on in East Dulwich" section, should it?

Really? Why?

I also have iD which I think uses Three, and it seems fine, but I probably haven't been to every corner of East Dulwich! They are usually very good on price.

It was me who said it looked very dark in there, but I specifically said during the DAY. Which it did. And I was clearly referring to their old place in North Cross Road. And I did eat in there. In the evening. When the darkness wasn't an issue. But sitting in the dark on a sunny day isn't my idea of the ideal setting for either a daytime meal or drinks. And yes, the food was good. As were the cocktails. Looking forward to trying out their new place.

Thanks, A good idea, but I was hoping someone on here might be able to help before I went down that route!