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Just wondered if anybody was still smelling this strange smell - my neighbour says hers has gone now.

Sorry, I think I'm mixing it up with something else - revolving ads down Lordship Lane? Something like that. Which included one outside the station, I think.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Yes but with 0.1% interest... after 3 years ... > there is not much left. > :( > xxxxxxx 0.1% ? I know interest rates are low, but surely you could find something paying higher interest than that?!?!?! Highest Paying Savings I do sympathise because I took a lump sum as part of my pension and now I wish I hadn't because what's left of it is plummeting in value :-S ETA: In the past even when I took voluntary redundancy it didn't affect my entitlement to JSA ???? The contributions - based kind, not the means-tested kind, anyway.

GinaG3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- We are in a private rent, ex > council owned but are charged a extortionate > amount, over ?400pcm more than its worth on > private rental market (and the condition its in!!) > and over ?700pcm the council rate for the same > flat. xxxxxx Stupid question, I know, so feel free to shoot me down in flames, but why are you renting a flat at over ?400 pcm over the going rate?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whilst I agree Social Housing should remain Social > Housing.... > > The big Problem is that many Local Councils do not > have the Money to maintain the housing it still > owns. > Much of Social Housing is in a poor state of > repair. > xxxxxxx But for example there has recently been an absolutely massive programme of improvements on the Dog Kennel Hill Estate, and I believe also on at least one estate on the other side of the Rye (and probably others). I recognise one swallow does not a summer make (or something) but it does seem to me that Southwark Council is doing its best with probably very limited resources. It could probably do more if it raised council tax, and then what? Votes for the other party. That's partly why the NHS and many schools are in such a fragile state - income tax rate reduced for political gain, and then nobody willing to put it back up again. What do people think pays for the NHS and education budgets? This isn't The Big Society, is it? It's everybody paying lipservice to community, but not wanting to be out of pocket to see other people lower down the heap raise their standard of living. Sorry admin, off topic, delete post if you want :-$

Fox, :))

zeban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bloody Maggie Thatcher. Social housing should stay > just that, not for people trying to make an > investment. xxxxxx Hear Hear

sambobia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And many thanks to James Barber for all his hard > work over the past year. I appreciate the work he > puts in on the forum and think we would be poorer > without it. xxxxxxx Seconded

paps Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My 7 month old seems to have got it for the second > time!! > > Anyone else had any experience with a baby having > it? > xxxxxx You might get more response putting this in the Family section, maybe?

That's a shame if it's true.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They do good work, it's true but they perpetuate > homophobia, so my money goes elsewhere. xxxxxx How do they do that, exactly?

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The planning application for a 9 foot advertising > hoarding in the pavement outside East Dulwich > station has been refused by planning officers. xxxxxx There were others proposed, weren't there? Have they all been refused?

jimmyay Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Romanian metal thief scumbag gangs strike > again no doubt xxxxxx Well if the article was in the Daily Mail, they're unlikely to be English or the paper probably wouldn't have printed it ....

Same here - I think the Sally Army do really good work. Somebody recently mentioned on the forum that they had heard their carols this year, but not sure if it was in ED.

Medley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd encourage everyone who wants to reform the > scrap metal trade to have a look at this > e-petition - and better still to sign it! > > E-petition for a cashless scrap metal trade xxxx PeterStorm already posted the same link above :)

I've also signed the petition (pending clicking on the emailed link which hasn't arrived yet :) ) Thanks for drawing it to our attention PeterStorm

bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's whisky in the Giro( Thin Lizzy ) > Bob S xxxxxxxxxx :)) I think the idea of people having to cash their giros in a pub is a terrible idea, for all sorts of reasons, including the fact that everybody in the pub will know that you are on benefits - which some claimants (is that still the right word?) may not care about, but others may. Or is the idea that the pub will provide a whole range of services presently provided by Post Offices? Great. You go in for a quiet pint and find a queue snaking through the pub waiting to buy stamps. Very atmospheric. ETA: Oh, yet again I didn't read the OP properly. As you were. Can't be arsed to edit this. Supposed to be doing my cheapskate thing and sending e-cards.

7.55am, FJD?? Bloody hell :))

But what on earth are they going to do with it? They can hardly sell it, it will be immediately recognisable :-S

It seems that it's human nature to focus on the negative. That's why a newspaper which was started a few years back to publicise only good news failed miserably. People don't want to read about good news, they want to read about disasters ..... But I actually think there's a lot on this forum which is very positive, and over the years we've had quite a few threads (if my memory serves) concentrating specifically on what people like about the area. But do feel free to start another one - oh, you have :)

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't mind e-cards per se, I just resent having > had to buy 20 laptops so I can display them all. xxxxxxx :)):)):))

If you click on your name, it says you have made five posts, but there's only one of them there (the one above this). So have four of them been removed?? What have you been saying?!?!?!

Is eggnog the same as advocaat? If so, Sainsbury's has it :) If not, I've learned something tonight :)

No idea but maybe King's?? For nurses or patients?? ETA: Not exactly a charity, but not exactly rolling in money either I presume ....

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Southwark council has 63 councillors. > Approximately 21 of these councillors represent > areas that the East Dulwich Forum covers. Exactly > one of those councillors comes onto the EDF > regularly to listen to our concerns and opinions. > That councillor is James Barber. > > For this he deserves a lot better than some of the > rude and snide comments he receives on this > forum. > xxxxxxx Agreed. Leads you to wonder quite what agendas some people have.