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OK. I don't usually eat beetroot (except raw and grated in a salad) or brown sauce. I hate cooked beetroot, if that is what the packs are. I suppose it depends what sort of food you are looking for. Before you accuse me of being snobby, Lidl is very good value for many food items which I would buy, but there isn't one in East Dulwich, and those in Peckham and Camberwell Green are too far for me to walk. I don't understand what you mean when you say "You said that you want it closed down so why would you go in there in the first place?" I was pleased that a pound shop was opening locally, and If memory serves, I said that on here at the time. I have been in there several times in the hope of finding great things to buy - great things like I have found in other pound shops in the past. I haven't found anything much I want to buy in there, let alone any bargains, even at Christmas. I did once buy some toothpaste, and when I got home I realised that it was cheap because it was a smaller size tube than I usually buy. My post on this specific thread regarding it closing down was in the context of the previous posts which said things like no staff being available to serve customers. Of course there are very expensive shops and restaurants round here. I don't usually go there either, and I don't want them closed down either. I don't know quite what point you are trying to make?

That's very odd. I'm with iD and have had no problems making calls at all. I don't understand the internet issues. They don't provide internet, do they? Do you mean specifically their own website? If so, why on earth don't they get it sorted out?!

We used to go to the CPT quite often! I don't remember any red lights over the road! When was this?!

But Poundland aren't actually that cheap, are they? I found their toothpaste, for example, was not cheaper unless the amount in the tube was smaller. What are the bargains in there?

They already have one shop on Oxford Street. If memory serves it's at the Tottenham Court Road end. Where is the new one going to be?

Passed it earlier and looked through the window. Horrified to see that they have removed the beautiful tiled floor. I suppose it's too much to hope for that they will replace it unharmed, or indeed at all 😭 When I moved here around 1991, it was one of the few decent pubs, if memory serves. Unless you wanted a fight 😂 And it had some great music and comedy upstairs. I saw Eddie (sic) Izzard there. They also used to have live music downstairs, separating off that room at the side with a makeshift velvet curtain. I wonder if they intend to combine the downstairs space with the presently unused space next door, and have an inside entrance to the upstairs space, instead of a separate entrance on the street? The pub is certainly in a prime position!

It was iconic 😭 But over the years some changes had already been made which detracted from the original atmosphere. In my opinion.

I don't think the baths have been "in continuous operation"? They were closed for renovation. I can't remember exactly when, but I remember some "discussion" on here because the pool could/should have been made longer and/or deeper, and wasn't. Itv certainly has a relatively shallow deep end, and it's a pity that people can't dive

It sounds lovely! I wasn't aware of it! Thank you for posting!

Oh I doubt it, it's a pretty big question 🤣

I've moved GPs twice because I wasn't happy. It took about half an hour max each time. I'm very happy with where I am now (The Gardens). Depends whether you'd rather have the slight inconvenience of identifying another suitable GP (eg by looking at reviews, ratings etc) and then going there to register, or prefer the stress of staying where you aren't happy, in a surgery which doesn't seem to be improving, and prefer to complain on here! Yes things should be different. Yes you can try to get them changed. If they don't change, maybe it's time to put your physical (and possibly mental) health first?

I thought this was interesting re the importance of trees in urban areas, though a bit off topic, sorry. It's a short reel about two trees in a station car park in Petersfield, absolutely filled with pied wagtails on a cold, dark, wet night. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BEzpKfYXf/

The Lordship Lane branch didn't have any decent stationery even when it opened, if memory serves. Once upon a time, you used to be able to get pretty good notebooks in pound shops, and cheap drawing pads for kids. I imagine they are laid out like that to make the best use of space - more shelving for products and fewer aisles?

I was joking, sorry, that probably wasn't obvious. I'm not sure I agree with culling aka killing loads of anything (except things carrying diseases like malaria etc), but I don't know enough about it to be able to say.

Has anyone here bought one of these? Malumbu? Does it do what it says? I just have the rad on in whatever room I'm in, if I'm in there for a while (I move the thermostat around with me and turn the rads on and off as appropriate), but this sounds like possibly a better solution, if it works and is actually cheaper. Also a temporary backup should something go wrong with the boiler. It sounds rather dangerous if people are using one in the bathroom though? I have my bathroom rad permanently on, so it heats up whenever the boiler is on to heat another room.

Doesn't it depend on how much it would cost to get your existing car through its MOT, if it fails?

Sqwaky? If you had worn your Poundland glasses you might also have seen the red wriggly line under sqwaky. And if you want to start talking about culling things, please start another thread! Surely rats aren't an "alien species" are they? Anyway, they are very intelligent and don't deserve to be culled. And Egyptian geese are very pretty, so they don't deserve to be culled either. Glad you are saving starlings and rabbits too. How do you feel about mice? 🐭 🤣

But it beggars belief also why you don't just go somewhere else! Why are you putting up with it? TJ isn't the only surgery in East Dulwich! You don't have to tell TJ you are leaving! You just register with another GP in the appropriate catchment area, and they do everything else!

In that case, maybe Poundland made a mistake opening in Lordship Lane. Or else they are selling the wrong kind of products in this branch for the potential customers. But surely they must have done some research first? If not, then they deserve to do badly.

Sorry, off topic, but please ignore that first photo that comes up in the Ivy House link! It isn't from the Goose Singaround and I've never seen it before! It appears to be Leon Rosselson singing at one of our concerts years ago! We don't use mics at the singaround and never have done, it isn't an open mic night! We don't want people to be put off before they've even come to it 😀 I've just asked the lovely Sam (events manager) to change the photo to one of ours!

I don't want to be unkind, but if sales are well down it could well be because their buyers aren't buying things that people want to buy, or else are buying them at too high a price, with knock on effects on the retail prices. How are other pound shop chains doing? My reply to Ianr has disappeared, and the screenshot attached to it has become attached to my reply to insuflo. Admin ???? Shome mishtake shurely ??? Hopefully not mine 🙄

Oh dear. It's certainly not going to last long at this rate. Maybe the writing is already on the wall and the staff know it? Not that that's any excuse for rudeness to customers.

I love pound stores too, though I don't buy food there, but despite going into this one several times since it opened, I have found nothing that I either wanted or couldn't get cheaper somewhere else, even at Christmas. All I have bought there was a pack of mealworms for the birds (dried, obviously 😀). I've been very disappointed, as I've had some great bargains from pound shops over the years - some of which have even survived my decluttering. As for the pricing, that's very poor management and customer service - both for having the wrong prices in the first place, and then refusing to honour them. As is having nobody on the shop floor to take the money. How on earth could that happen? I understand that the staff may be poorly paid, but that doesn't mean you don't have to do your job properly. This place is in a prime position, and personally I hope it closes down and we get something better. 😀 (sorry, removed a sentence and can't delete the smiley). I'd be happy with another pound shop or discount shop if it actually had real bargains and was properly run.

What has any of that got to do with a discussion about LTNs?