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Does anyone know if Tommy Rooney is away? I have a boiler emergency and he isn't responding to messages. I don't really want to use someone I don't know, and I know Tommy is excellent!

Thanks, all good ideas, but I need it for tomorrow! I can't believe there isn't already one online! I will keep looking! There may at least be something I can copy into Word and print out. ETA: Just found this, should anybody else be interested: https://dutchgirlinlondon.com/2016/01/20/street-art-dulwich-outdoor-gallery/ However it's very old so quite a lot has changed since then, I imagine.

I have been trying to find a map of this that I can print out. The Go Jauntly app has a walk, but I'd rather have a printed map. I'm sure there must be one, but I can't find it. Does anyone have a link?

You can Google to find out how often you will be invited for breast screening. It depends on your age. Here you go: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/breast-screening-mammogram/when-youll-be-invited-and-who-should-go/ If you are over 71 you won't be automatically invited, but you can request a screening. It's all explained in the link above.

Could you make that a link? I don't want to Google it or type the www in case I then get inundated with - well, not sure exactly what, but I suspect I wouldn't want to be inundated with it 🤣

That's really annoying! They have deleted their posts. One person quoted one of them, but what was in the other one? Could somebody tell me what they said? Whatever it was, it seems they thought better of making it public! That was only when Cynthia was running her brothel there 🤣 But what would they be vetting them for? My mind is boggling 🤣 My mind is boggling again re celebrating Mother's Day 😀

For some reason I have thought for years that it was just a very expensive restaurant!

Does anyone know of anywhere local where I can hire a large shredder? The new Library of Things in the Leisure Centre doesn't presently have one, apparently because they are in the process of getting new improved ones. I would have preferred to use them, but I need to dispose of a very large amount of stuff, and I don't want to wait indefinitely. There's too much of it to dispose of by other methods, like soaking in the bath, and anyway I want to recycle it once it's shredded.

It was a specific technical comment re the wording of the questionnaire and its likely effect on the results. It was of no concern to anybody else. I posted saying that I had PMed because people don't necessarily see that someone has sent a PM. I thought it was important to feed it back given that the questionnaire was part of someone's major project. But I'm not sure why you seem to have taken this so personally! It has absolutely nothing to do with you!

Who owns/runs this place? They certainly seem to be holding some very strange events there. I thought it was still 1 April for a minute 😮

I was talking about the forum as a whole. Sorry, I didn't realise that you meant just this part of it!

Norberts? Is this something to do with Wallace and Gromit? 🤣

I feel totally knocked off balance by all this stuff. What it must be like to be living in America, I can't begin to imagine.

I thought Musk was (in theory anyway) only supposed to be there for a limited time, for a specific purpose (DOGE) which is now completed?

Does anyone know where the fireworks were actually coming from? If from someone's garden, that's even worse. Pity the poor immediate neighbours 😭

That's true. They often weren't emptied. But that is surely down to the council making sure they are regularly emptied, rather than an argument against bins per se. If they can spare the staff to go and remove one off piles of dog s**t from the pavement every time they are reported, it is surely not beyond their capacity to empty the bins. I don't have a dog, but I didn't know the green bags could be put in "any litter bin or green house bin"? If that's the case, what's the point of having dedicated dog poo bins at all? Why not just publicise this more widely and/or increase the number of general litter bins?

Yes. I can't imagine that there are many Musk supporters locally, but who knows.

Eh?

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Has that ever actually happened? The bags are quite bright, and don't blend in with the pavement, so are quite noticeable. But surely there can't be many cases where someone has bothered to put the s**t in a bag, but then just leaves the bag on the pavement?

Hope so!

Maybe, like me, they can't get their heads around how the card readers work 🤣

I think you'll find that there have been many threads on here with positive vibes! But it seems that it's the negative ones which stay in people's memories. Also, it's a bit like online reviews such as TrustPilot. People tend to post if they have had a bad experience with a company or product. A good experience, not so much. Same with starting a thread on here, I guess.

We tried to eat at Thai Corner Cafe not that long ago. We were coming home late and very tired, and they told us to go to a cash machine. Under other circumstances we might have done, but we were too knackered. So if they now take cards, it must be quite a recent thing? But Il Mirto were taking cards. I don't remember them being cash only, but maybe I've just forgotten.

You can also use the CDs on a string as bird scarers on a vegetable patch or allotment! Loads of other ideas online, eg: https://www.momsandcrafters.com/things-to-do-with-cds/ It seems a waste (literally) for them just to go into landfill. If I didn't already have a house full of things to do, I would take them off your hands! Maybe kids at a nursery or primary school might be able to do something with them?