Sue

If you ask in any pharmacy, they will probably be able to direct you to one who does, if they don't do it themselves.

Could it have been some kind of light on the ground reflecting off clouds or fog?

Collage

Possibly one or more of those lighted lantern things which people send up in the sky? I suggest the OP removes the final photo/screenshot 🤣

Is it just me who doesn't know what an Advent window is?

🤣🤣🤣 Are you channeling an ex member of this forum? 🤣

40 mph? Is that a typo?

If it was, somebody's having a lot of tea!

Obviously not shattering compared to many life problems, but relatively minor annoyances add up to become a horrible background buzz to life I've just phoned and cancelled the order. Getting a refund. I'll get it from somewhere else. 🤬 Oh, that is annoying. What has DPD got to say about it?

Yeh. I've now had yet another change on the tracking, and now they can't even give me a delivery date. It's appalling. I don't know why Staples use them. I ordered from Staples because the paper I use is cheapest from them, and to be fair I had no issues last time with the delivery and Staples customer service is very good, but this is really annoying me. Yet another phone call to Staples in the morning. UPS have very mixed reviews on Trust Pilot, with a lot of recent one stars (and about to get another one, but I'll wait till I actually get the paper .. ) 😭

I have a delivery from Staples, ordered 2 December, and I still haven't got it. It was supposed to come on Friday, but apparently the UPS van broke down. Ok that couldn't be helped, but annoying because I needed the delivery (a box of premium paper to print flyers). So then it was scheduled to come by end of day yesterday. No sign. Then scheduled to come end of day today. According to the tracking it's still at Dartford and not even out for delivery yet, so I'm not holding my breath. This is even worse than Royal Mail 🤬

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/10/thames-water-cash-emergency-funding-nationalisation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

How awful. Poor man. Was he from the dry cleaners near the Post Office? Unless I've misunderstood, it seems that the police were already aware that this was a dangerous dog, so why wasn't it removed from its owner before?

And you back this statement up with what, exactly? But the outside kitchen waste bin is brown.

Cooked food can be composted. I think they use a process which creates a higher temperature than the common or garden (no pun intended) compost bins. My replacement brown outdoor food bin has not arrived 😭

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/06/struggling-thames-water-receives-buyout-offer-from-covalis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Trouble is, you are stuck if you are on a bus.

When the old Dulwich Hospital was there, there was a community herb garden at the front which was built, planted and maintained by local businesses and residents. If memory serves, they were told that this - or some form of it - would be kept when the new buildings were built. It's a real shame that (to the best of my knowledge) this hasn't happened. We (The Goose Is Out!) ran a gig at DHFC to raise money for it, and all the musicians (including Wizz Jones) gave their time for free. A local business (I can't remember which, sorry) built all the raised beds for free, and Monica from Health Matters in Lordship Lane played a major part in getting the garden off the ground (no pun intended).

It seems to me that the whole of the ancient London water system needs to be replaced, and as that is clearly not going to happen, we have this piecemeal approach. How many of the problems may be due to incompetent management, incompetent workmanship, privatisation and/or greed, I have no idea.

Local free paper The Dulwich Diverter may be interested in running a story? Also, is there any way either PALS or your union could help? Or your GP or your boss? Good luck, it sounds horrendous 😭

Again? Last time I passed that Sainsbury's on a bus there was water pouring out and Thames Water in attendance. They can't have repaired it very well!

The email I have is gmail not googlemail. No idea if they go to the same place.

Does anybody know what, if anything, is happening to the place that used to be a French restaurant up by the Plough? It's been closed for years now.

I don't think it's an easy location to attract custom to (ungrammatical, sorry) but I hope they do well. What happened to that guy who was going to have a stall outside selling some kind of hot food? I can't remember the details, but there was a thread about it on here some time ago, I think earlier this year?