Sue

Info is on another thread - you can do a search.

Ah, that explains it. Except you appear to have posted under a different name? :))

Ah. Maybe it was a PM which I deleted after I'd replied to it (and then deleted my reply). Anyway, my problem is solved. Picking up my library card and Pin number from the Barbican next week :) Now to work my way through the shelves full of charity shop books I still have to read :)

bawdy-nan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I can't imagine they'd have sold or advertised it > in the way they did if they'd known it was > "theft". Probably would have been helpful for > someone to have talked to them about it. XXXXXX It's not too late? I'm appalled by the contents of that article. How extremely selfish can people be? Even if it wasn't a nature reserve, don't they think twice before wrecking an area of wild plants?

That's a great picture! :))

This is very weird, because somebody had posted on here about City of London eBooksand how anybody resident in the UK can sign up to join the libraries and get eBooks. But their post and my response to it seems to have disappeared. I'm not going mad(der) am I? Because on the basis of that post I completed this evening an on-line membership form for City of London libraries :))

Thanks for that. I used to belong to the Barbican library as I worked near there many moons ago, but I think I have binned my card. I think at the time I did need proof that I worked in the area though - maybe things have changed!

Thanks, I had already downloaded loads of free books from Gutenberg :) However there is a limit to how many Dickens and suchlike I can read ....... Also - apart from the "classics" - large amounts of the thousands of eBooks available on Gutenberg (and I'd assume on other similar sites) are absolute crap. Great if you want a zillion titles about vampires etc. And yes, libraries do "lend" ebooks. Oxford library does for one :) http://oxfordshire.lib.overdrive.com/8A5209D1-E473-4430-8846-5D9A933B712A/10/50/en/Default.htm http://oxfordshire.lib.overdrive.com/8A5209D1-E473-4430-8846-5D9A933B712A/10/50/en/NextGen.htm Apparently Kindle/Amazon won't allow libraries to use its software for the purposes of lending, or something, so hard luck if you have a Kindle - luckily I bought a Nook because it was on offer at ?30, purely intending to download free classics I'd never got round to reading. Wouldn't have bought an eReader otherwise :)

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > a local place for local people. > xxxxxxxx Be very afraid :))

Hi James Please could you find out why Southwark libraries don't lend eBooks. The librarian I just spoke to at Dulwich Library didn't know, and the person I spoke to in the libraries section at the council didn't even know what an eBook was!!!! Other councils have an eBook lending scheme, both in London and elsewhere. Thanks!

OK just finally spoken to somebody at Dulwich Library. Southwark Council doesn't lend eBooks. They didn't know why but think it's because of the "fractured market" eg Kindles and Nooks use different formats. I presume that must have some financial implication for them, as surely each eBook is available in many different formats. And if that's the case how come other councils manage to do it?

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 :))