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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?

The 484 has been quite unreliable lately as well. Today I waited 13 minutes for one from Kitto Road going to Camberwell Green, with another one following 3 minutes later. When buses have stopped at Waterloo or Vauxhall, it has sometimes been because of marches/demonstrations blocking roads on the other side of the bridges. Very annoying, but at least there are tube stations in both places, so usually it's easy to take an alternative route to wherever you are going

Thanks both! X

Are any of the local churches having Christmas Eve carols this year?

If you like singing, we have a Singaround at The Ivy House (London's first community owned pub) in Stuart Road, Nunhead, on the second Sunday of every month. Listeners are also welcome! It isn't an open mic - we don't use PA or the stage. Any genre or language, accompanied or unaccompanied, anything goes. For lots more info see https://www.thegooseisout.com/faq and go to the Singaround section! People of all ages come, but it's different every time. We don't ask how old people are, but I'm sure some of them are in their thirties 🤣 It's easy to get to from East Dulwich - a five minute walk from Peckham Rye Park, or a 484 from Goose Green (towards Lewisham) stops at the end of Stuart Road. Our December one is different as it's our Seasonal Singaround, and we sing carols and other seasonal songs in unison, as well as people singing by themselves as usual.

Yes she does, that's how I know she is an excellent teacher! I only had classes with her but am thinking of having individual lessons. I had to stop for health reasons, but want to go back.

Russell was very knowledgeable and competent, and would have had no problem "trying to please people like the Penguin", whatever you mean by that I am very sorry if he is no longer working, as he would definitely have been my first choice for anything connected with roofing.

That's odd. I hope he's OK. In regard to roofers in general, I've just seen this in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/nov/30/how-do-rogue-traders-get-past-checkatrade-checks?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I have found Russell Perrin to be an honest, reliable and reasonably priced roofer. I suggest you ask him for a quote at least. He might have to see it, but he might give you a rough idea over the phone. Other people have recommended him on here, if you do a search.

https://www.artofswimming.com/home/aos-teachers/ Don't know if this is any help? Trish who teaches at the Dulwich Leisure Centre (and I think elsewhere) is an excellent swimming teacher, but I don't know if she specifically uses the Shaw method as I don't know what it is!

That's just weird. I mean, of course things like nappies would have to be bagged, but it never occurred to me to bag items for the green bin which were clean. In future, then, I will save it all until I've got a black bag full, which could take a very long time indeed and in my view still be a needless use of plastic and a pointless use of my space. When I take things to the tip in a black bag, I empty the bag there into the appropriate place and bring it back to reuse it. Also, how could small items from the green bin fall out during rubbish collection if they aren't bagged, if small items from the blue bin don't?

Autofill (great name, btw) said "deserved", not "deserves".

Yes, mine has been, which is why the new guide confused me.

This is people. This is what many of them do. It's not just this forum. Have you never tried to sell anything before? And you seem to be new on here. Did you not have a read of the forum before you posted, to see how people interact with each other? It isn't all sweetness and light 🤣

If you think that was bland, I'd be interested to know what art works you consider to be less bland 🤣 But anyway, it's already gone.

I liked it! I'm very glad the one on the side of what is now The Lordship has gone though. But sad about the one which used to be up by The Plough and was painted over with something else completely.

It wasn't one of the murals connected with the project reinterpreting paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery, so far as I know, so I guess nobody was protecting it or bothered about it, sadly.

Have you seen the new guide? It doesn't say anything at all about food waste compostable bags. It says to put food waste directly as it is from the kitchen caddy to the larger outside caddy. What do you mean by "small leftover waste"? Recycling waste always goes in the blue bin? Surely we aren't meant to be wasting black plastic bags every week by always putting non recyclable items into a black bag before putting them into the green bin? Surely the whole point of the green bin is to avoid using one-use-only plastic bags? I'm even more confused now 🤣

We probably all got one of these guides, or soon will do. I'm confused about two things. First, food waste. It seems you are supposed just to empty food waste into the outside food waste bin without any containing (compostable) bag. Is that right? Aren't you then going to be constantly washing the outside bin? Not that it matters much to me at the moment, as my outside food bin was just thrown over the garden wall after emptying and the lid broken off (which then blew away). Second, rubbish. The guide says "the small amount of waste left after recycling should (sic) be placed in a black bag." But it has a picture of both a black bag and a green bin. Surely you aren't supposed to put your non recyclable rubbish into a black bag and then into the green bin? And if not, why does it not mention the bin, when the recycling section clearly says bin OR bag? Does nobody read this stuff through before it goes to print? Or is it just obvious to everybody apart from me?! I've just seen in last year's guide that they gave away a one off free roll of compostable liners with it. And also, that they said " You can also use newspaper to line your caddy." When I did that, the bin men just threw the newspaper on the pavement and left it there 😭

How would you have phrased the letter then? And what are these services they provide that "people pay for in droves that commercially justify keeping it open"? If keeping it open was commercially justified, then presumably they wouldn't be considering closing it. Have I misunderstood you?

Non-tribal? James was an excellent councillor, but he was Lib Dem. Is that not "tribal", then? And what are your reasons for thinking the "Labour incumbents" are not sensible or committed? And what on earth has any of that got to do with locks?!

That's a good well considered letter 👍