Sue

That's a shame - we looked at this hall as a possible venue for The Goose when the EDT kicked us out, but for various reasons we didn't go with it and ended up at DHFC. I hope they will still have the Saturday jumble sales there!

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No it's nothing to do with that one Sue which is > all I think I need to say on that (that thread is > there for anyone who really wants to see for > themselves rather than reading selective > commentary). xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I could not find the thread, otherwise I would have posted the link. If you are making accusations about other forum members, it would be better if you were clear and upfront about who and what you are referring to.

My granddaughter coming home happy from her first day at school (yesterday) after being really worried about going :)

I hate that too :)) The top of the banana always ends up really mushy where you've tried to get the skin open.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are subtler forms of prejudice that are > exercised in this forum from time to time for > example (including sexism) but after my last > experience of correctly challenging use of a word > to find it then disgracefully mimmicked and > ridiculed by a prominent female user of this forum > I gave up. I have no time for bullies, esp > childish ones like that. > xxxxxxxx I have just seen this. Are you by any chance referring to your post where you were very upset because somebody had used the word "faggot" on this forum? And unfortunately hadn't understood that the poster in question was quoting from a very well known Pogues song, "Fairytale of New York", as should have been obvious from the context? And if it is me you are talking about, which I suspect it is, perhaps you could back up your comments by copying and pasting this alleged "disgraceful mimicking and ridiculing"? To the best of my recollection, all I said - in response to other people's comments - was "She doesn't know the song", which far from bullying was actually explaining your post. Though I did find it strange that as a DJ (or I assume from your forum name that you are a DJ) you hadn't picked up the reference to: "You scumbag you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot, Happy Christmas your arse I pray God it's our last." I have worked as a diversity consultant so am hardly likely to take issue with anybody objecting to the gratuitous use of the term "faggot", however this was a musical reference. If you are referring to something else completely, perhaps as you have raised it you could let us know what it is. As for bullying, people can draw their own conclusions from the content and tone of forum members' posts - including yours. Edited to correct a typo Edited again to add: It was also pointed out to you at the time, not by me, that "faggot" is Irish slang for a lazy person, and is unrelated to the derogatory term for gay men. Shane MacGowan is of course Irish.

Frankito Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I want a blue bin as I am fed up with the foxes > mugging my blue boxes! xxxxxx What on earth are you putting in the boxes?!

I lived in Streatham as a child in the fifties, and remember the rag and bone man very well. Sometimes he would stop in my street for the horse to feed from his nose bag. My aunt who also lived locally would rush out with a shovel to pick up any manure for her roses. I guess it probably wasn't the ED man though, they must have had their own territories. We also had paraffin (Esso Blue and Aladdin Pink) delivered to the door by tankers. Apart from the milkman, who as well as milk delivered yoghurt in little glass pots (plain or strawberry only), the baker also delivered and carried bread and cakes up the path in a big basket, and the greengrocer also came to the door. You could go into his van and pick out what you wanted, no ordering in advance. Bit depressing to think my childhood is now social history :)) My mother once locked herself out, and a policeman came back with her from the police station and climbed into a top floor window to let her in. Can just imagine the reaction now if you expected them to do that :))

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Sue, > Yo can have a smaller green wheelie bin. Te > standard size is 240 litres but you can swap that > for a 180 litre one. > Phone 020 7525 2000. > > Or if you get one well with your neighbours share > their green bin. > > Regards james xxxxxxxx Thanks James, that's very useful, yes sharing a bin would be a good idea though both sets of neighbours are moving (I'm trying not to take it personally :)) )

Sorry to hear that, tomsav, and I was just mulling over the possibilities of growing tomatoes in my windowboxes next year, too :-S

I don't really want the green wheelie bin now if virtually everything will be recycled, is it possible to have something smaller for non-recyclable rubbish? I have very little space at the front of my house, and I don't want bins etc spilling over into the part reserved for plants after I specially had a bin recess built!

Yeh it looks as if it's a Hazel. Though the bracts (?) around the nuts are much fancier than any pics I have found online. Do nuts ripen later if they're still green? Many of those which had fallen to the ground were green.

I passed the tree again on Saturday night and picked a leaf, will try to ID it now, this has reminded me, it's got a bit dried up though :))

elloriac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does this page help? > http://www.arborday.org/programs/hazelnuts/consort > ium/types.cfm xxxxxxxx The ones I picked up don't really look like that, I think I will have to try to upload a photo of them, but not today! I could go and get a leaf and check that out too. Minkey, I'm scared to try and eat one in case it's something poisonous!!!

There is a tree down Copleston Road (outside number 119) which has shed a load of the most amazing looking "seedheads", for want of a better word, which look like strange sea creatures. There are piles of them in the road and on the pavement, or at least there were at lunchtime today! They have three nuts of some sort in each one, about the size of large acorns. Does anybody know what it is? I thought it might be a cobnut, but I've googled cobnut and I can't come up with anything which looks like the things I saw. Another passer-by said she thought they might be hazelnuts (and I've now discovered that they are more or less the same thing). Anybody? I've brought three home with me, but the thought of getting a picture of sufficiently low res to upload on here almost makes me lose the will to live ..... :))

The main thing I didn't like about the Clock House was that it was a Youngs pub! Though some of the stuff they tend not to do on draft was OK.

PipD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I try to be > aware of potentially risky situations and take > some precautions. Things like hooking the strap > round your leg xxxx I do that with my bag in pubs and restaurants as well, though it's a real pain, but better than having it nicked. Very sorry about your experience msamykey, hope you are feeling a bit less traumatised now.

OK no prob :)

They used to have a large and wonderful range of really nice and unusual wall tiles. And now they don't. Just enormously expensive free-standing kitchen furniture which I wish I could afford :))

I never liked Youngs ale, but I'm sorry to see it disappear nevertheless :-S

Have a good holiday, Monica. Is it likely that we'll be able to drop off plants and seeds before you go?

Monica and the East Dulwich Community Garden are also after seeds and plants which could loosely be described as medicinal, for the new Physic Garden at Dulwich Hospital :)

No offence intended, and I realise your post is intended to be useful, but this thread was supposed to be about our own ED gardens, not about general garden maintenance issues and plugs for specific garden centres. Hope that doesn't sound rude. ETA: Sorry, my post makes no sense now as the original post has been removed .....

Not only have I not seen a froglet for ages, even when watering the garden, but I haven't seen a bird on my feeder for weeks either :-S Something is eating the fatballs,however, so maybe it's the mysterious rodent I spotted earlier ...... I do have quite a lot of ground cover so hopefully the froggies are lurking somewhere .... they were so tiny that it would be hard to spot them unless they were actually hopping, but they did use to (grammar?) stay near the tub when they were out of the water. Maybe they've now ventured further afield.

Brilliant! Now all I need is a decent phone :))

SCSB79 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > If you are succeeding in turning it around, then > I > > genuinely wish you very good luck with it and I > > hope you do very well, but comments made on > other > > threads concerning relatively recent poor > service > > haven't yet inclined me to give the Plough > another > > chance - sorry. ................................. > > Instead of relying on others to give glowing > feedback, why don't you try it yourself. If you > went on other people's feedback all the time you'd > never go anywhere as I doubt that any > establishment has 100% customer feedback - go on, > take a chance. > > I've been in and out of The Plough over the last 3 > years and have never had a problem. xxxxxxxxxx I don't "rely on other people's feedback all the time" - what a very strange thing to say! However I have consistently good pubs nearer to me than the Plough, so given some of the recent negative feedback on here I don't feel particularly inclined to trek up the hill to it just yet to "take a chance", as you put it. If you've "never had a problem" there, then great - but unfortunately it seems that some others have. I'd rather spend my limited cash somewhere where I don't have to "take a chance", if that's OK with you :)) If those glowing reports materialise, then yes I'll probably give it a go - but to say you've "never had a problem" there is damning with rather faint praise, wouldn't you say?