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Brixton Prison Blues? They don't put you in prison for crossing a bus lane. YET!

Laughing out loud here. Please do it! There's an upstairs room at The Castle, I'm sure they could take out the tables and chairs for you 😄

😮 Please, no songs about bus lanes or Dulwich Village or LTNs on Sunday (OR buses, in case somebody would find it amusing to come and sing the wheels on the expletive deleted bus go round and round 🤣 )

Why don't you all get together over a few pints and then have a fight afterwards? It's getting incredibly tedious on here with people trying to distort things to suit their agendas. I know I shouldn't read it if I find it tedious, before someone tells me that 🤣

Where did you find a website? I couldn't find one. It still has a Facebook page, but there's nothing on that after 2015. I thought it had closed down years ago! ETA: There are two reviews on TripAdvisor from April this year, but they are the first since 2019. Did it close and then reopen and then close again?

Evidence, not previous posts 🤣

What exactly is your evidence that Southwark are laying "traps" to "generate funds" to pay for "vanity projects"?

Surely there is much less cash being banked these days because the vast majority of people find it much more convenient to pay by card (or phone) than to have to get out cash, carry it around, pay with it, and then mess about with having to find somewhere to store heavy loose change. Card payment is also much easier for the shop. And much easier for customers in a queue who don't have to wait while someone gets their purse out, counts out the money and gives it to the assistant, who then has to count out and give them their change, which they then have to put away in their purse... And nobody from the shop has to carry shedloads of notes and heavy bags of coins to the bank or post office and queue up to pay it in. There is also less likelihood of a customer being short changed, or of some form of theft from the till.

It would be interesting to have a breakdown of the post office transactions, to see what proportion of each kind of transaction makes up the whole. Obviously it will vary according to the time of year, and I imagine also according to the day of the week. I would also imagine that shopkeepers in 2025 will have very much less cash to bank than in say 2015, even.

Sadly I doubt the kind of person who doesn't pick up after their dog is going to pay any attention to that, even if they see it.

There used to be bins around the area specifically for putting in bags of dog poo. I don't know who collected the bags from the bins, or how frequently. Do they no longer exist?

It is my understanding that the services which the Crown post offices on this list (such as the one in Lordship Lane) presently provide would be transferred to new sub post offices such as those that already exist in shops. So services such as posting parcels would not disappear. They would just be provided in additional suitable locations (eg shops) locally. Or possibly parcel lockers, though I don't know how those work in terms of posting rather than collecting parcels. The Post Office obviously needs to look at all suitable alternative options which would be cheaper for them than continuing to have dedicated (?) premises which are running at a loss. Bear in mind that all this is at a very early stage. I'm not convinced that a petition signed by individuals is the best way to influence the decision makers, who one hopes will be taking all factors into account and consulting relevant interest groups anyway. Probably making your feelings known to your MP or councillor would be likely to carry more weight. But what would I know.

What percentage of total transactions are cash transactions? A "rise of 7%" doesn't mean anything without some indication of what the starting figure was, and how it compares to non cash transactions. And I'm also interested to know what percentage of older people "rely on their local post office for cash"? I'm now by some hideous mischance nearer 80 than 70, and I haven't "relied on cash" for years, let alone relied on my local post office for it. I'm pretty sure I'm not some statistical anomaly! I carry emergency ten and five pound notes for the rare occasions when I might need cash. Even the Big Issue sellers take card payments now. There will always be a few people who hang on to the old ways. If progress was halted because of them, we would still be in the stone age. There are, or used to be, free classes to teach older people about computers and the internet, and basic smart phones are relatively cheap. But I'm not sure what that has to do with having a bank card. Have I misunderstood your post?

Unfortunately unless there has been a cancellation, a good stylist is not likely to be available at short notice and may be fully booked for weeks ahead! Also, some may be taking a break after the busy festive season! I would recommend Shingo at Kuki in Bellenden Road, but I think he is on holiday. You could try phoning them. I don't have personal experience of the other stylists there, but they always have good reviews on here. https://kukihair.com/

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Many moons ago I used to develop and run some of those 😀

I remember punched cards! And the uni computer taking up a whole room! And the results of a simple statistical test on your data being returned to you (along with the box of punched cards which you had spent hours punching) on a long piece of paper with error error error on, and having to go through all the cards to find the error/s before you could get the test redone. And this sometimes happening several times before you actually succeeded in not having any errors, and got the actual test results on the long piece of paper. And the terrible fear of dropping the box of cards and getting them in the wrong order. Those were the days (not). ETA: I stopped putting my date of birth on job applications long before age discrimination became illegal, after I wasn't shortlisted for a job when the only possible reason could have been my age. Not in IT, I hasten to add. I tried to learn Fortran once. My brain encountered some sort of barrier around the third lesson 🤣

She presumably cannot explain because the explanation would of necessity reveal information which apparently the family do not want publicised at this point. That's my understanding, anyway. What do you mean by this?

Age discrimination is illegal, but like other forms of unfair discrimination still happens, because if an employer doesn't want to employ someone they can usually find some other "reason" unrelated to their actual ability to do the job. As said above, definitely don't put your age or date of birth on applications, and don't give dates of education, qualifications or past employment (unless recent) either, as all those could give away your age as well. Stick to stating how you meet the person spec, or if there isn't one, how you meet the requirements of the job you are applying for. Also, tailor your application to the particular job/company, don't just use something which could apply to any employer. And include a brief covering letter saying why you want this particular job and why you think you are ideally suited to it, eg say how much you love their shop and why 😀 Good luck! Don't take rejections or lack of replies too personally, btw. Employers are often inundated with applications. Yes it's rude not to reply to every applicant, but sometimes it just may not be possible, especially for a small company. ETA: You could try approaching suitable shops etc directly, even if they are not advertising a vacancy, saying why you would like to work for them, and asking them to consider you if a job comes up. Then your application won't be lost amongst loads of others. Also, there is a book called "What colour is your parachute?" which you might find useful. It is revised every year, but you can find second hand copies online very cheaply, and the basic advice doesn't change from year to year (though things like employment legislation might do). I think it is American, but again, even if there isn't an English version, the basic advice is the same.

Forgive me if I misunderstood. I asked you if the pharmacist had diagnosed what was wrong and you said no, you had, you were a grown up and knew your body. If you did not in fact self diagnose, I wouldn't have expressed my concern on here, nor the reasons for my concern.

"Exceptional transportation experiences"?! "Luxurious transfer"? Sounds like you would be paying more for the transfer than for the flight 🤣

I find the self diagnosis thing a bit worrying. I once nearly died because a hospital doctor misdiagnosed a ruptured ovarian cyst and peritonitis as food poisoning. It was lucky I hadn't initially diagnosed it as food poisoning myself and assumed the sickness and pain would go away. I called my GP, who called an ambulance. I ended up having an emergency operation in a different hospital, the first hospital not having scanning facilities (this was in the olden days) 🙄

😮 I hope your pain has gone and you are feeling a lot better. I'm a bit surprised a pharmacist would just give out antibiotics to someone who had diagnosed their own need for them! Hopefully I have misunderstood, and the questions he asked you served to confirm your diagnosis.

Did the pharmacist diagnose the kidney infection?