Sue

Bit odd if someone's taken over a business which is losing money due to Sainsbury's. What are they going to do to make it viable which Nisha hasn't already done?

woodyp91 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Monica, Do you have any idea how I could get > my class at Goose green flyer put up in the > community notice boards around here? > Thanks - xxxxxx I think Monica is on holiday at the moment, and nobody else is dealing with the notice boards, however usually you can just take the flyer in to her at Health Matters on Lordship Lane and she will put it up for you if it's appropriate.

Yeh it has been an excellent year for fruit, but there's always loads of spiders about at this time of year. I always forget to duck when going down the side of my house into the garden, and end up with my hair full of cobwebs (and if I'm really unlucky, the spider as well :)) ) Luckily I don't mind spiders too much, but in my hair is a step too far :)) Sloe gin - excellent! If anybody has any spare sloes, I'll gladly take them off your hands!

computedshorty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Freddy > Palace Road is in Tulse Hill, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It actually runs between Streatham Hill and Tulse Hill. Google Map of Palace Road My school was at the Streatham Hill end.

lilolil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?2 > 8,750707 > > The owner?? xxxxxxx Not according to previous posts on this thread

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Let's hope they improve the food as well as the > building :)) > > Indeed. The only two times I've eaten there, the > food was pitiful. xxxxxxx Worst meal I've ever had anywhere, ever, was at the Dog.

Palace Road is in Streatham Hill, SW2 (my primary school was there in the fifties!). Don't think there's a Palace Road in East Dulwich. Do you mean Crystal Palace Road?

wee quinnie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> > As for making your roads/terrace > unsightly....funny no one ever mentions about all > of the cars parked along the streets looking > unsightly.... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The cars are not all bright blue, or weren't last time I looked :))

A friend of mine recently cremated her mother in a coffin covered with pictures of bluebells, and then scattered her ashes in a bluebell wood :) ETA: Perhaps the wheely bins could be dual purpose? It's all recycling, after all ......

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interestingly, the first application was for an > illuminated hoarding measuring 11m x 8m. This was > dismissed on the grounds of "appearance, scale, > height, location and illumination would result in > an incongruous and obtrusive element within the > street-scene, and have a materially harmful effect > on the visual amenity of the area." > > The new application is for an illuminated hoarding > measuring 10m x 7m. That they could even consider > the new proposal to be materially different to the > first application seems unlikely. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Very refreshing to read that somebody at the council has some sense, and hopefully yes, the new proposal will be rejected on the same grounds as the first application. Fingers crossed.

Thanks for that, DaveR, that's very interesting information, particularly the bit about Southwark's strategy for Lordship Lane.

Let's hope they improve the food as well as the building :))

My mind is boggling, but if it was found in Crawthew Grove it probably came from either the dry cleaner next to the Post Office or else the one on the other side of Lordship Lane near the EDT, so they might have a record of whose it is?

gm99 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As an example, one of my neighbours has their > green bin covered in a beech hedge pattern plastic > wrap, which neatly disguises it (just googled and > found e.g. this). xxxxxxx I've resisted these covers for ages, but I now reckon they would be preferable to bright blue. I quite fancy the Cottage Garden version :) Though I'm going for (a pile of) boxes rather than a bin.

I took that as just stating facts, not taking a position.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > James...be careful of posting on a thread where > you sit on the planning committee. That in itself > is a conflict of interest. xxxxxxx That's why he was careful to point out that he couldn't express an opinion

The most stressful thing in doing up a house, in my experience, is not making decisions about colours, worktops etc - that's fun! It's having the "I can do that" tradesmen/women in your house for months who - it turns out after you've given them chance after chance - can't actually "do" much of what they confidently say they can. But they still charge you an arm and a leg for not doing it. And then add insult to injury by charging you for rectifying what they've not done properly in the first place. And what they can actually do, they take three times as long as anybody else would. And charge you by the hour. If they actually turn up. Fingers burned? Not me :)) So reren, if you were also able to recommend local competent tradespeople to do the work, with genuine checkable references, that would be a great addition to your design advice!

There's also a branch of Wyevales just off the Purley Way, a little way past Ikea. It's good for bedding plants etc but don't know how it is for trees.

That's really not funny (6)

"Deceptively spacious" - so that will mean extraordinarily small then, no? "Vintage" - old second hand stuff that ten years ago you wouldn't have been able to give away.

Will there be a car park for Asda?

Willard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At last. Thank you Karter and Jeremy, can't > believe how worked up people are getting over some > scaffolding. Weeping Jesus... xxxxxx I don't think anybody's getting "worked up over some scaffolding". I think a number of people are objecting to a large and hideous illuminated advertising billboard on two sides of a building in a prominent position in Lordship Lane. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I saw what I think was a heron on the roof of a house in Crystal Palace Road on Saturday lunchtime! If somebody around the area of 109 Crystal Palace Road has a pond in their back garden, they might want to check that their fish are still in it :-S

intexasatthe moment Wrote: > ( I rather like the colour myself .) xxxxxx There's nothing wrong with the colour - as a colour :) It's just far too intrusive a colour to have on a bin in a neighbourhood where many houses have nowhere to store the bin except in front of their houses in full view of the street. Just my opinion, obviously. Maybe others like to be confronted with a sea of bright blue plastic clashing hideously with the plants and trees. At least the brown and green bin colours look vaguely natural.

Meant to say, if you have loads of plastic plant pots I'm sure there are schools etc who would be glad of them, why not try a post on this forum! I got rid of loads that way a year or so back. It's a real waste not to reuse them, unless they're split or broken.