Sue

Oxfam have an online site and you can filter by size, colour etc requirements. Returns are also easy if it doesn't fit or isn't suitable.

I think it's probably both. Most people would not want to go to a pub in late evening and find it full of children. The pub would soon lose customers!

Yes, the Waverley is good but never crossed my mind. Too late now, the "deposit" aka the full price of the meal less the service charge has been paid ..... Don't really care if the food is preprepared, so long as it's ok. The menu looks good. Apart from the price 🤣 And the "goose fat" roasties. As I don't want to eat goose. I hope they have a veggie alternative. CherryTree1320_Day_Set.pdf

Despite our best intentions, we used to go here every Christmas Day (when we were in London) after The Ivy House closed (well, we had to pass it on the way home, and our willpower failed us) so this year we thought we would book Christmas lunch there. Sadly they are not opening at all on either Christmas Day or Boxing Day, let alone doing food 😥

We've booked at the Cherry Tree now, at vast expense, thanks for the post Louisemurray. Will live on bread and water for a while afterwards 🤣 Haven't eaten there for a long time, but the Christmas Day menu looks good and recent reviews seem good. One of the worst meals I ever had in my life was a Sunday roast at the Dog in Dulwich Village, which I believe is related to the Plough? I may be wrong. I belatedly remembered (after booking at The Cherry Tree) a Christmas many decades back when my father took the whole (large) family to a meal in Streatham which was accompanied by an Elvis impersonator. The food was not memorable, but singing along to Elvis more than made up for it 🤣

Thanks, I'll check it out x

Thanks, no, that's why I asked on here!

Does anyone on here use MailerLite for sending bulk emails (about 850 subscribers at the moment, following a cull) ? I use it to send newsletters, as what I was previously using started charging. I've been using MailerLite for some time now, but I can't get to grips with the editing system, so I always end up with weird spacing. Wondering if anybody on here uses it and can advise!

Basically the buck surely stops much higher up than this delivery office. For some reason, senior managers don't appear to be taking action about poor management further down the line. I can't believe this is just a staffing issue. But if it is, how come they can suddenly employ two more posties, after years of clear shortcomings? I know Helen Hayes raised it at a higher level on more than one occasion. Things improved for a while (ie the backlog got delivered) then just deteriorated again. I don't know whether she and Ellie Reeves have discussed it, but surely they must have had some kind of handover when the constituency boundaries changed?

If you are meaning the blue sign, that isn't what we saw.

Thanks, but there's no public transport on Christmas Day. I looked at the Plough (thanks Beansprout), but last time we ate there the food was truly appalling. And we once went to a Burns Night there, admittedly years ago, which was like something out of Fawlty Towers. So I don't really want to risk paying £85 a head plus drinks! Oh well, live and learn, clearly I should have looked at all this long ago. We are at home this year, so will be starting the day with drinks at the lovely Ivy House. The Clock House (for some reason now The Clock House Tavern) has always been open on Christmas afternoon, so we thought we would book lunch there instead of getting home and having to cook, but the new management has decided not to open on Christmas or Boxing Day. And I've missed the Waitrose (sorry) slots for the days when their Christmas food is available. Also M&S are either no longer providing a pick up in Lordship Lane for Christmas orders or else their slots are all full too. So basically this is very poor organisation on my part and I only have myself to blame. The only upside is that I won't have to spend at least two days away from home trying to avoid "discussions" with various relatives with different views from mine about various important things in the news.

Yes, I think it was there, or at least in that general area, though I have no idea why we would have been walking there, unless we had been in the woods and decided to walk home a different way!

I see they quoted (and named) one resident who blamed Labour politicians for Royal Mail's shortcomings and complained that his Spectator should have been delivered on Friday. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. Anyway, Ellie Reeves is encouraging everyone to let her know of delays in their post, if possible with envelopes as proof of dates (I presume you can scan and email).

Thanks!

It doesn't have to be a standard Christmas dinner!

Just had my flu and Covid jabs at Kristals. I was early, but didn't have to wait long, and there is a reasonably big waiting area which only had one or two people in it. The jabs themselves were quick and easy, and the staff friendly and helpful, so all good I realised when I got there that it wasn't actually Kristals I went to last time. It must have been the smaller pharmacy on that stretch, but they didn't have a notice in their window saying they were doing the jabs What a strange place Kristals is, though! I could have picked up some hardware stuff while I was there!

Saw this first when out walking with my granddaughters a few years back. We had already had a discussion about why there was a North, West and East Dulwich but not South Dulwich, and then we came across a map or sign (can't remember which) on a footpath with South Dulwich on it. I've lived round here for decades, and never knew! Now, there's West Norwood, South Norwood .... North Norwood wouldn't make sense, but why no East Norwood?!

On Saturday I phoned Royal Mail to arrange for the parcels which should have arrived on Friday (and then Saturday) to be delivered on Tuesday, as I had a dental appointment on Monday. Surprise surprise, they were delivered on Monday. Luckily someone else happened to be here, as they arrived shortly before I came back from the dentist. I had another two parcels arrive on time today. Amazing.

I'm up for it 😂

I have just complained as well. Complaints number is 03457 740 740 To speak to a person I think you have to choose "something else" in the menu, at least I did. Otherwise if memory serves you just have to key in a tracking number and get some automated response. I'm absolutely fuming. Yesterday I got one of the three tracked parcels supposed to be delivered yesterday. Then I got THREE notifications that delivery would be "attempted" on the next working day - but I'd already had one of the parcels. The "next working day" from yesterday is today. I was suspicious about this "attempt" thing, so thought I'd check out what was going on Then when I phoned I was told that delivery "could not be attempted" today. Though nobody had actually notified me of that. This "service" is an absolute joke. I've arranged redelivery over the phone for a day when I will be here, but I'm not holding my breath. Well that is clearly untrue, because 2 of my 3 48 hour tracked items due to be delivered yesterday have not been delivered. And I'm told that delivery was not even attempted. On 2 days running If this is due to staff shortages, why don't they expletive deleted employ some expletive deleted staff? I'm pretty sure there must be lots of unemployed people signing on in Peckham 🤬 Surely they can't all be unsuitable to be posties?

I have found in the past that phoning the complaints department actually does work. Not, obviously, to change the whole of Royal Mail, but in specific cases. You could try that. Also, you could see if your bank would send the letter tracked? What a pain. Finally, in view of what your postie said, you could write to the CEO quoting this, and copy it to your MP. And maybe the local and national press might be interested, as well. Of course the postie might be wrong and it's just general inefficiency at the delivery office, not a deliberate intention not to deliver letters on a particular round.

What will replace Vits n Kix on NXR? It always seems very dark in there during the day, hopefully their new place will be a bit brighter! The old Willow premises is still looking very forlorn.

I saw somewhere, maybe in another thread on here, that a postie told someone that Helen Hayes had visited the sorting office very recently to find out just what was going on. They may have got the name wrong, as to the best of my recollection Helen is no longer involved with any of the areas our delivery office covers?

No idea, I booked the appointment online I'm not bothered which I get.