Sue

WTF?? :))

I love Ganapati too, eaten there many times but not recently (less money these days!), have occasionally had a less-good-than-usual meal but very rarely. It is quite expensive but I agree with Saila, it's worth it. I don't recall the portions being particularly small. The service is lovely - they once made me a dish which wasn't on the menu, because I had mentioned when ordering how much I liked it and that I was sorry it wasn't on the current menu - they brought me a little portion of it when my main course arrived. I was really touched :) They have good ale as well - eg local-ish brewery Meantime. Edited for embarrassing typo :)

Very sorry indeed to hear this, he was my dentist too and I always felt in safe hands with him. My condolences to the family too.

Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't take sides between bickering forum users. > If they break the rules then I act, but please > leave me out of it, don't make up stuff about me > and just sort it out yourselves. Like grown ups. > > I may introduce a rule, something like "the forum, > especially the ED issues section, shall not be > used to air personal gripes about others." xxxxxxxx Apologies then, another untruth from the person in question, I guess.

More good news, we've just heard that The No Frills Band are up for it too. Anybody who came to the Aquarius Festival in the Summer, they played the last spot on our indoor stage (before the jazz started) and are absolutely absolutely amazing. I think we're almost there with the music side of it now :) :)-D

Anybody else seen the blue bin on the front cover of this week's Southwark News? Maybe just in the Dulwich edition. With the headline "Bins too blue for Dulwich?" !!! I was just wheeling my shopping out of Sainsbury's when I was stopped in my tracks! My name is in it as well :-$ so I had to buy one :-$ I know that's very very sad :-$ James, did you give them the story?

They're clones. This is the beginning of the end. The tables have a cunning plan to take over the world. It's like something out of a John Wyndham book.

Ellie78 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi folks > Not posting more about this, as I still want to > resolve the situation through communication with > DJKQ. > I doubt she's reading this but, if you know her, > can you please encourage her to contact us. We > want to sort everything out cleanly and simply. > And put it behind us. xxxxxxx Ellie, I have PMed you the info you wanted (in case you see this first).

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agreed. I thought this was funny at first, but Sue > has been a bit like a dog who found a lovely bone, > and it has become a bit uncomfortable. xxxxxx Yes you're right, the OP brought back bad memories and I got carried away. I can see why you might think it was funny, but I can assure you spending thousands of pounds to be stressed out is not at all funny. I'm not going to post any more about what actually happened, as I can see I have let it get to me more than I should have, even though it was all two years ago now. If something similar had happened to you, maybe you might empathise with where I'm coming from.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > my opinion is now that it (the thread) ought to go > - at least until the other party makes an > appearance. xxxxxxxxx Well the other party is conspicuous by their absence, despite having posted on their football thread relatively recently. Perhaps in due course the OP may expand further on their experience of the trader in question. All I would say is, there are always two sides to every issue. Which is why I said that I would abide by the decision of an independent objective mediator. DJKQ refused mediation. Why?

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the-e-dealer Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Well then it WAS partly their fault they should > > have kicked someone incompetent out NOT > encouraged > > you to keep them on. > > Yes, but would it have made good television? xxxxxxx Actually they didn't cover the problems with DJKQ at all because it wasn't that kind of programme. She appeared extremely briefly in one part of it (IIRC) demonstrating how to put paint on a wall :)) I thought that was quite funny because her painting technique was idiosyncratic to say the least, she didn't seem to have heard of cutting in. > > . > . > . > > Sent by Osmosis.

theasidonio Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > perhaps the OP can shed some light on her > experience with Djkillaqueen? xxxxxx She has done, in the "about the forum" section, in "ask admin"

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > New program? victims of Makeover shows? xxxxxxx It was nothing to do with the people from the show. They left me to employ my own tradespeople, so I can only take full responsibility for my rubbish judgement (the plasterer and plumber were fine though - though sadly DJKQ took it upon herself to do some of the plastering and plumbing, and guess what ...... (6)). My only gripe with the TV people is that at one point I had a massive row with DJKQ because of poor workmanship and the TV people smoothed it all over and persuaded me to keep her on because they had already invested loads of money in filming etc and they wanted the programme finished. I tried to get some compensation from them to help pay for all the work that had to be redone or finished, and they offered ?100, which I thought was such an insult after the thousands of pounds I had shelled out that I didn't even bother to answer the email.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Failing that consider legal action...no one should > emlpoy anyone without a detailed and itemised > quote of what the work entails and how much it > will cost and the time it will take...employing > someone on an hourly rate is asking for trouble, > where's the incentive for them to finish?.. xxxxxxx Yes. You're absolutely right, and I was very very stupid. But if you had been in my position, you would realise what a very plausible first impression she gives - extremely self-confident etc etc. She did give me schedules, she just never got anywhere near completing them. And yes, I felt as if I was pouring money into a bottomless pit, which is what I said when I emailed her asking her to come round to discuss progress. The people from the TV programme were also taken in, particularly as she apparently told them at great length how I "kept on changing my mind", in order to explain her slowness. But I didn't find this out until much later. On the day of the reveal, apparently (according to the producer) she didn't seem to know how to put on the cupboard doors (which she had promised them would be completed by the previous day, incidentally, but hadn't started) and spent an hour and a half making one pencil mark on one door (I'm sure that must be an exaggeration, but IIRC that's what they said). Then one of the production assistants, with just a glancing knowledge of DIY, apparently put up three blinds in the time it took DJKQ to do one. And that one is so stiff it is really hard to roll up and down. Then she apparently used a 7" masonry drill to hang a picture in my living room, causing a huge lump to fall off the newly plastered hall wall. She blamed the plasterer!!! (Who was one of the really good people I've had working on my house, extremely competent). I could go on - and on - and on. ETA: I did consider taking her to court, and as I said the TV people said they would give evidence in my favour, but I was so extremely stressed out I just couldn't face it. I had photos and documentary evidence eg email correspondence etc, but the thought of putting it all together to make a case and trying to work out what amount I should claim was just too much for me at the time.

Probably in the process of changing her forum name again. Last time it was pointed out on here that she had two names, although she vehemently denied it (which let's face it she had to as she had been slagging off somebody else for having more than one forum name, and she's not a hypocrite, is she?) she immediately deleted all her Angetastic posts and then deleted the name. Sadly for her, there was still a quote in somebody else's post linking Angetastic to the person we know as DJKQ. Anyway, riveting/rivetting as all this is, I've got to stop wasting time on here and get on with my To Do list :))

Ellie78 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was told by this person that you were > their 'friend' and that's why previous criticisms > (from a so called 'difficult client') were > removed from the EDF admin. xxxxxx Is this true, admin? I thought you were well aware of the situation regarding this person. Is it true that you have chosen to perceive me (I presume it's me who is being referred to) as a "difficult client" rather than the person in question as an unreliable, slow, rubbish, untruthful tradesperson? This tradesperson refused my offer to abide by the outcome of mediation by an independent objective mediator. I think that says it all, don't you?

I could do, I don't think there is any forum policy preventing this, but I think she is very unstable and I don't want to make things worse than they already are. Although I really don't know why I should care, as I have also found out that for two years she has apparently been telling everybody she knows what a horrible person I am. And because my forum name is my real name and I am "out" because of running www.thegooseisout.com gigs with Nyge, people here can easily find out who I am in "real life." And - pre-empting anything she may say - after she had been working on my house already for some time, I emailed her (because I wanted it in writing) saying I was not happy with progress and asking her to come round to discuss things. The next thing I knew, she emailed back to say that she couldn't discuss anything because she had just found out something which was a personal crisis, which I won't go into here obviously. This was very unfortunate, because I didn't feel I could then ask her to stop work on the house, although I was hoping she might say she didn't want to continue, but she said it would take her mind off things.:-S She did come round, but spent the whole evening talking about the crisis. The only reason I am saying this is that I suspect that she has used this crisis - which came halfway through the job - to explain away her poor workmanship to others, and I also suspect that she has told people that I was unsympathetic to her, whereas in fact I bent over backwards to be nice to her. I'd also like to add, to be fair, that she built some very nice floating shelves in my living room - it just took her weeks to do them :-S and I could have paid the same money and had a proper professional carpenter do them in far less time. ETA: However other work she did was nowhere near the same standard, unfortunately. Edited again because I can't actually remember (over two years on) how many weeks the shelves took and I don't want to say anything inaccurate. I just know it seemed like a very very long time.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was only making mischeif with the "bird" comment > :-$ xxxxxxx Oh sorry, sometimes I take things too literally :-$

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Funny...but I actually feel quite awful for Sue. > I'm almost tempted to launch: MR BEN'S DIY RESCUE xxxxxxx NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :)):)):)) Gary Lee supposedly "came to the rescue" of my bathroom after I started a thread about driftwood worktops (on which DJKQ posted, incidentally, though obviously I had no idea she was the person who had ordered my very expensive iroko in the wrong width in the first place (6) ) He started off fine, and ended with a basin sliding round the worktop, taps not parallel, the bath not sealed, and wood oil all over a newly painted wall, designer spout and new bath - none of which he removed. (ETA: He's now gone AWOL, bit like DJKQ with the OP only we're talking months - not answering emails or texts, and he's still got my keys. And yes I stupidly paid him because I trusted him to come back. I will never never never learn, it seems). Re the iroko, DJKQ told me that the woodyard had sent iroko of the wrong dimensions. It didn't occur to me until much later that if that was the case, why hadn't she arranged for it to be sent back and the correct dimensions obtained? (6)(6)(6)

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The main question here is, why in the name of God > would anyone hire a bird as a builder!?! xxxxxx The bloody ironic thing is, I thought I was striking a blow for the sisterhood, or something. I was quite proud that I had employed a woman in a non-sterotypical job. (6)(6)(6) But it was nothing to do with her gender - I have had appalling work done by men on my house as well, Gary Lee for example (whole thread on him on this forum somewhere - it was too late for me sadly). Oh yeh and Dean Richards - that was even more stressful. He didn't finish the job but said unless I paid him in full that afternoon he would come round and smash up the wall and path he had just built. I paid him. (6) He was the one who said I was "nitpicking" because the border of my very expensive Victorian style mosaic path was different on one side than the other because he had measured things wrong. At least he put that bit right after I burst into tears in the street, being already off work with stress :-$ He then laid a rope tile edging with great wodges of mortar in between each tile, and said he thought it looked fine. I had to pay somebody else to redo the edging (and finish the wall Dean was supposed to have finished).

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is shocking, Sue. > > > Are you seriously telling us you applied to be on > a home makeover show? xxxxxx Yes, it was called "Love the Place You're In". Made by Talkback Thames. I'd never heard of it, but they advertised on here for people. I only applied because I couldn't decide what to do with my living room. In fact, I went through a lot of stress to end up with my default, which was white :)) ETA: But it was on over two years ago now, and on some channel/s I can't get, though I gather it's aired again every so often - I had somebody come up to me on the South Bank last year who recognised me from the programme :)) ETA: I like my living room now, but I had to make a lot of changes from what the designer did before it felt like my own room again. The bathroom was also supposed to be being made over, but DJKQ was so bloody slow elsewhere it never got anywhere near meeting the (twice extended) deadline for the programme. There were a few genuine holdups which accounted for a few days, but nothing sufficient to account for the delays. She also wouldn't let me get anybody else in to help when she got stuck eg she said part of my living room wall was concrete (or something) anyway it was so hard she couldn't drill into it. Oh yeh and she made a lot of fuss about the living room walls not being straight. Erm, yes, it's a terraced house which is over a hundred years old and has had bomb damage, we would expect straight walls, no?

Oh she fitted it in alright, "expert" that she is. Working very slowly and charging me by the hour. And yes, I was a fool but I was on a deadline for a TV programme (unfortunately I was paying for the building work, just getting design advice) and I didn't have time to find anybody else. And it took me some time to realise that things were very wrong. And she gives an initial impression of being very confident, knowledgeable and experienced, and I am very gullible. And I should have asked for references, but she was recommended by someone I know (just to sand floors) and then it was an "I can do that", "I can do that" scenario. And I was naive and stupid. There was once one whole morning when neither I nor her "apprentice" could contact her - when I had taken time off work to speak to her. And then when she eventually turned up at lunchtime, she had the cheek to tell me I was "unprofessional" because I had asked her "apprentice" if he had ever worked with her before, and what he thought of her work. Well, we had to talk about something during the hours when we were kicking our heels. As it was, despite being extended twice, the deadline was nowhere near being met. I also investigated some of her excuses for work not being done and found they were lies. Unfortunately for me, two years down the line I still haven't had the energy to get finished/rectified much of what she and her "apprentice" did. If it hadn't cost me a lot of money and traumatised me so much that I was off work with stress, it might be funny. Nothing was ever her fault, eg bad work was because "the light was bad" (you've never heard of artifical lighting?), and delays were because "you changed your mind" (once, with a shade of white in my living room - which I said I would repaint myself later, but she said the "apprentice" could do it while she was doing other things) and nothing to do with things like having to repair my kitchen ceiling because the "apprentice" had put his foot through it - I found the rubble still there on top of the kitchen cupboard months later). And nothing to do with taking a day (I think it was) of my money to source hinges (I think it was) - which she actually bought from B&Q (6) and which a few phone calls could surely have tracked down. I withheld her last payment pending discussion of unfinished work and work to be put right, upon which she refused to discuss anything until I had paid her in full. I then said if she didn't want to discuss it with me, I would pay a final payment of whatever an independent mediator thought was fair, which she refused. She then threatened to take me to court!!! And said I'd better pay up or if it went to court I would lose my credit rating etc!!! The TV company said that having seen a day of her work (on the day of the "reveal") they would back me in any court case, but she wouldn't have had a leg to stand on anyway - I would have counterclaimed, and the fact she had refused an offer of mediation speaks for itself really. I sent her a detailed letter by recorded delivery, which she never picked up from the sorting office and it was returned to me several months later. I had also sent it to her by email, which she never replied to either. And I only found out very recently that my "builder" was no other than DJKillaQueen who had been giving me grief on here for two years, when I had no idea who she was, and no idea why she appeared to hate me so much.

Well she appears to have been playing football on Sunday, according to this

loobylou Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Sue > I really am very sorry, I misinterpreted your > post. I was probably a bit stressed out by the > whole thing. I have emailed the address and will > post when I get a reply. > Again very sorry > LL xxxxxxxx OK no prob, sorry if I was a bit sharp, apology accepted and sorry if I made your stress worse :)

She may have been ill, but it seems she has found time to post on here but not let her clients know. She's a "builder". Inverted commas deliberate. If you want to know more, please PM me.