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The Mind shop had a big notice in the window recently asking for stock. However their clothes and books are really expensive considering they are a charity shop. In some cases their clothes seem to be more expensive than you could buy them new!

The Saint Christopher Hospice shop in Lordship Lane (the big one near The Palmerston) always has a good range of books. I'm sure they'd be glad of yours to replenish their stock after I've bought loads of them :)

I live the other side of East Dulwich to The Ivy House, but still often made the trip there for Sunday roasts and also to go to music and comedy gigs at the pub. If you are already having a stroll round Peckham Rye park, it is an easy and pleasant walk from there. When we subsequently held our own http://www.thegooseisout.com gigs there, we found that "our" punters were very happy to make the trip to The Ivy House. With the huge amount of local goodwill towards the pub, and the fact that it has already been shown that it can clearly work as a "destination" venue as well as a "local", I think its prospects are excellent. It's sad to see some negativity on the thread, but such is human nature :(

UncleBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Shouldn't have pets if you do not have the > appropriate environment to keep them in as unfair > to pet. xxxxxxx Lights the blue touch paper and retires.

Two suggestions: 1. Have a ground floor window left open at the bottom (with suitable window locks obviously). I once had a cat who happily let himself in and out of the window in that way. Not too great in cold weather, obviously. 2. Let him/her out the door when he meows to go out. Let him/her in the door when he meows to come in. I once lived on the third floor of a tenement in Scotland, and that was how our cat ( a stray who refused to move from our doormat until we adopted him) got in and out. There is of course an obvious flaw. If your cat is an attention seeker or just bloody-minded, he or she will be in and out the door like a yoyo.

If they are fairly young trees, I'd say they are more likely to be Birch than Lime. Didn't think the council planted lime trees as street trees, though I may be wrong.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cannot see how anyone can make any money. > xxxxxxx Speaking only for myself, I am not buying community shares in The Ivy House in order to "make money", though of course it would be nice if at some point there was a small dividend. I am buying shares in order to invest in a brilliant community initiative which has already brought lots of people together and I have no doubt will continue to do so in the future. I also wanted to be involved in saving a great venue which has an interesting history, including musically. Having read the business plan and spoken to the members of the core group, I have every confidence that this initiative will succeed. The fact that the target for community shares has been reached suggests that many other people share my confidence.

Mini plane leaf? Could be acers of some sort then (maples) ? From what I can see (very little) in the pics, I thought they looked more like birch leaves.

Let's look on the bright side, at least we no longer have those hideous fences dividing up the green ..... Be thankful for small mercies :)

Leaves don't look like ash?

TopTree Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don?t think your shares mean that you are > part-owner? xxxxxxx Well it still feels as if I am :))

Finally got round to buying shares - last minute? not me! - but your Account Name (Ivy House Community Pub Limited) has too many letters to fit into the First Direct payment box, so I sincerely hope the payment reaches "Ivy House Communit" ! Also I have still not received the promised email with the transfer details - though a side result was that I discovered that many Ivy House emails had been going into my spam folder :) - so there seems to be something wrong there? Not a problem as I copied and pasted the details from your website, but I'm a bit paranoid about getting digits wrong after reading hideous scare stories in the press ...... Anyway, looking forward to many happy hours spent in a community pub which I now part-own :)) ETA: If you haven't already bought shares, and you want to invest in your community, here's the link - just click and buy :) http://www.ivyhousenunhead.com/shares.php

It's really weird as I've had no problems at all with Orange lately, thank goodness, either calls or texts. I hope that's not tempting fate!!

Carpets are definitely warmer. But you can always put rugs on top of wooden floors in the Winter months. Whatever floor you choose will probably look old-fashioned in 5-6 years' time, so I would go with what you like now! Personally I think the same flooring throughout a house looks better, but it's a matter of personal choice really. When you say "grey colour" wooden floor, if it's grey because it's painted, you can always paint it a different colour if you go off it in the future?

Bit late to let us know! I've only just seen this, and would have come if I'd known about it before :( Never mind, am buying shares anyway !!!

I have an automatic repeat prescription with DMC-Lloyds and have had no problems at all with it. Just picked it up at Lloyds yesterday in fact, and it was there on the day specified two months ago. Must admit I did once have an issue (with different medication) when DMC were blaming Lloyds and vice versa, but that was a long time ago and was a one-off.

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh, is that what Sue is alleging happened? I've > never quite understood what she was trying to say. > > xxxxxxxx Let's be clear, I am not "alleging" anything. Like everybody else who doesn't have access to all the evidence which two police forces now have access to, all I know is the information from the Portuguese police files (and some other "official" evidence) which has been released into the public domain. For very obvious reasons, not all that information has been released! Websites like the one I and Stacy-Lyn (spelling?) linked to previously in the thread will give you that information. However the vast majority of people, quite understandably, cannot be bothered to wade through all that!! It is quite possible - indeed, probable - that information will come to light which sheds a completely different perspective on things than the one I have built up. All I can say is that from what I have read - not in the press, not from other media, not from articles based on press releases from the McCanns' "spokesman" - but from information released by the police themselves - I will be astounded (but of course delighted) if Madeleine McCann is found alive. And as a grandmother, whatever happened to her it breaks my heart that three little children were (apparently) left alone night after night in that way. It wasn't a hotel room, it was an apartment which was (if memory serves) outside the main complex, adjacent to a road. A ten-year-old or even a six-year-old is very different to a not-yet-four-year old left to babysit her two younger siblings, LondonMix. ETA: My younger granddaughter is four. The thought of leaving her in that situation just makes my mind boggle, frankly. She has no concept of danger whatsoever, just a need to run, climb, make huge leaps across furniture and play with whatever is available, toy or not.

bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Le Moulin near the Plough ..... > looks a bit funny from the outside ..... xxxxxx You win the Forum prize for understatement of the year :)

I think many of the good things have been in place for ages for many people (including me). I agree the appointments system does need sorting out though. I thought they were going to?

Oh dear. Even before the end of the clip I was thinking toenails. Crushed and crunchy peas :(

:)) Maxxi Numbers, oh duh, clearly I am still years behind everybody else in the culinary knowledge stakes. I never even really got as far as pea shoots :)) Pea shooters is more my era, come to think of it :))

The menu at The Montpelier includes "Beer-battered cod, Chips, Crushed Peas". CRUSHED peas? Is this some artisan version of mushy peas? Are they crushed by hand in their own kitchen? I need to know.

annigran Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just seen a Jay in trees at Goose Green. xxxxxx Lucky you, I love Jays :)

Anyway, now I'm going to go and do other things, so you can all have a lovely time slagging me off whilst I'm gone. Enjoy :) Or of course you could follow your own advice and not keep posting on the thread, so it disappears :) ETA: And DJKQ, as I have said, I am not going to be drawn in again by you.

woodrot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > for @#$%& sake. stop. > > > > *loses will to live* > > *hangs onself from monkey puzzle tree on the Rye* xxxxxxx Why are you continuing to read the thread then, Woodrot? Sincere question. Easy answer to losing the will to live would be to read something else, wouldn't it? :)