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Lu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If it's anything like New Cross PO, half the > problem is that each transaction takes twice as > long as it should. Once you've finished what it > is you went into the PO for, they then try to flog > you top up for your mobile phone, their savings > products, credit cards... All this when there's a > queue of 20 people behind you waiting to be > served. I feel sorry for the cashiers though, I > imagine management make them go through this. xxxxxxxx Really? I use the LL post office fairly frequently, and I've never once had anybody try to sell me anything - apart from what I went there for, obviously :)

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Report recent crimes here for Forumites. Also tell > Police Obviously. (from the Idea of another > member) xxxxxxx Sorry to be dim, but when you say "here" do you mean on this thread? Are the police going to read it? Or do you have a link for the hotline?

Moore13 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh God, this is horrendous... I live in Hayes > Grove too (only been here 4 weeks!) and was woken > up by the sound of a girl screaming - it was > really bloodcurling and shocked me to the core. xxxxxxxx Did you go to investigate, or phone the police, when you heard the screaming?

tiger ranks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > this is gettin very serious around this area what > have local police said about this xxxxxxxx It is always hard to know whether these incidents are actually increasing in number or whether they are just getting more publicity than they used to because people knowing about them post details on this forum. Unfortunately it is a sad fact of life that muggings happen in all parts of London and elsewhere). It's just that we don't usually hear about them. I would be interested to know the statistics, if anybody has them - whether there is an actual recent increase in number or severity of muggings round here, and if so, whether it is more of an increase than in other areas of London.

:)):)):))

The point was the coincidental timing, Foxy, not the offering of the package per se.

tomhenson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plus net had a major outage today. Think they > still have for some people. > > probably just a random email that arrived nothing > to do with the downtime xxxxxxx Thanks very much, that's useful as I was worried it was something wrong at my end, though I couldn't see what. Thank goodness I am not still affected (selfishly) as I thought I'd have to trek up to the library! The email was a bit of an unfortunate coincidence for Plusnet then, I guess :))

I've been with Plusnet for a while and generally it has been fine. However this morning I could not get online for a couple of hours (was slightly panicking as I have a ticket list to print out .....) I could not diagnose what was wrong as the wireless signal was apparently fine blah blah. Turned laptop off and on, turned modem off and on, all seemed OK except I could not get online. When I finally managed to connect (phew), imagine my surprise to find that my latest email was from Plusnet advertising something called Plusnet Assist (never heard of it before) In their words, this is "Simple, straightforward software that will give you a helping hand if you ever have trouble with your broadband or wireless connection. If you've not yet downloaded Plusnet Assist to your PC or laptop why not give it a try today? It's completely free to download and use as part of your service." Is this just a bizarre coincidence? Am I being paranoid in thinking Plusnet caused problems with my connection this morning so I would download their new software? (It's free, so why would they?) Did anybody else have connection problems this morning?

What colours are available? Sounds like a great idea, thanks James.

Well done for calling the police.

cnn1951 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > god help us , too many foreigners who cant read. xxxxx I think you'll find that Royal Mail doesn't employ people who "can't read" in jobs where reading is necessary, whether they are "foreigners" or not.

maritap Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, P.A.L.S helped me on more than one occasion. > Not sure where they are based. xxxxxx I thought they were just for King's, and based at the hospital. Do they deal with complaints etc about GPs as well?

I went away for the weekend and when I came back there was no sign of ANY of my frogspawn - it hasn't sunk to the bottom again, it has just completely disappeared. It hasn't hatched - no sign of tadpoles. I've just googled and apparently cats and some birds will eat it :-S I had removed the netting over my tub - now I wish I hadn't.

The covering letter is intended to "sell" you to the employer in a way that the CV may not. But if they are doing their job properly, they should be looking to see how your skills fit with the person spec for the job. If you can demonstrate cross-over skills which may not be immediately obvious from your CV, then you should use the covering letter to make it clear how you could use those in the job requirements they have specified. A concise covering letter is fine if it covers all you want to say - a covering letter which is long just for the sake of it is more likely to put them off, I would have thought. ETA: You should definitely get somebody to look over both your CV and covering letter to check for typos and layout errors. ETA: But if you don't fit all the "essential" requirements of the person spec, then you won't (or shouldn't) be offered the job, so don't be too disheartened if you don't get it. Good luck.

I believe Southwark Council (or someone else in the borough) already runs something like this, but not in East Dulwich. I've been to one in Oxford. It wasn't exactly swap, just people could bring things they didn't want an/or take things they did. The people running it weighed everything that was taken away, so they had a record of how much stuff was saved from going to landfill. I personally wouldn't be particularly interested, just because I use Freecycle or this forum to give away things I don't want or to find things I do, and I think a swap shop would be less likely to have the things I might want, purely because it's only on one day. Also, the downside is, presumably the organisers have to do something with all the unwanted stuff that's left over at the end of the day.

Razors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought you folk types were laid back. My > mistake. Anyway, back on topic - do you think the > GE will have a folk night? Jesus Christ, don't you have anything better to do with your time than to lamely stereotype people and to make these pathetic "jokes"? It really is getting extraordinarily boring.

Razors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The only people I ever saw "drawn" into the CPT > for the Singalongabeard was the Councils Noise > Nuisance investigaton team :)) I think this "joke" is now wearing a bit thin. Strange we had to turn people away for our gig at the Mag on Friday night, which was rammed by people coming to see an unaccompanied traditional harmony folk group, and sold out within minutes of the door opening. Haven't seen that many people turn up at the Mag for any of the other kind of music gigs I've been to there. Weird, that, given all the Anti Folkies suddenly crawling out of the woodwork. Can we get the thread back on topic now.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It's not often you can collectively close your > street down and party. Actually, KK, your street has been collectively closed down for the last two years for a street party on the occasion of the Big Lunch. You would have got two separate flyers telling you about it last year, possibly even delivered by me :)) The only reason it isn't (unless you do it!) being closed down this year at that time is because of the reasons CivilServant gave above :) Personally, I'm going into hiding on Jubilee Day, unless I can find an anti-Jubilee party somewhere (or even hold one myself :)) )

The lounge beckons (td) Now, about the food at the CPT (or as we must now learn to call it, the GE). What times will it be served?

It was a joke, people. We don't actually ban songs. FFS :))

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > That'll be the Pied Piper belting out Stairway To > Heaven... xxxxxx Please not Stairway To Heaven, that's going on the banned list along with bloody Scarborough Fair and anything from The Sound of Music :)) Sorry admin, back on topic now, when will food be available, all day, does anybody know?

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's a beautiful thing Sue. The only one I can > do is "Take it Easy" by the Eagles - any chance > for next time? xxxxxx Yes, go for it, we look forward to it and I'm sure you'll get lots of people joining in. Unless - you're having a laugh :))

Razors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > KK - It was not a folk club, it was a sing-around > or something which meant non professional > 'singers' off the street giving it large with some > ye olde English ditty. There was no quality > control. Same difference of drunken footy fans > singing in the pub! > > I like folk anyway, and have been to a few things > Goose is Out have done/arranged. I feel that a > Singaround in a pub does not work, however it may > do in the Mag as I believe it is in a seperate > area and not the main pub where Joe Public > drinks. xxxxxxxx Our whole reason for having a Singaround is precisely that there is no quality control. That is deliberate. It's a community event where anybody, of whatever standard, can come and sing whatever they like. People don't just sing folk songs. People come and sing Beatles songs, songs from musicals, humorous songs, thirties songs, songs they have written, all sorts of things. The point is that it is people who like singing, coming together to sing. Something which has become sadly missing in a society where people go around with earphones stuck in their ears all the time listening to somebody else singing. The lovely thing about having it at the CPT was (or was originally) that some people who were in the pub already joined in the singing when it started, once they had got over their horror. Some CPT punters actually got up and did a song (and no - shock horror - not folk songs) and were then quite startled when the people who were actually there for the Singaround joined in (blimey - they know the words to songs that I know which aren't folk songs) and also on other occasions, some people were passing, heard the singing and the singing drew them into the pub. Personally I think that's a lovely thing to happen and a lovely thing to have in a local community. So let's agree to disagree on that one. Having it Upstairs At The Mag is fine, and has some advantages, but because people then don't stumble across it, it becomes something different. And there is obviously no question of the Singaround returning to the new format of the CPT/TGE, so - again - it's rather hard to know why the issue was brought up on this thread in the first place by the Anti Folk Mafia.

Razors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am hoping that the new place will be good etc > but I fear it is the end of a backstreet pub that > the area really needs, rather than trendy kid > welcoming bars. xxxxxx If the area "really needed" the backstreet pub that it was, I guess it would have already been doing well, and wouldn't have needed to welcome with open arms a Singaround which attracted a room full of people on otherwise (usually) quiet Sunday nights once a month.

How charming :)