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Typos, typos 😂 I particularly like the "great squirrels" 😂

Which bit of East Dulwich will Helen Hayes still "have"? Sorry, too lazy to Google. I think she is/was an excellent and responsive constituency MP, but some of her actions on wider issues in recent years have been iffy to say the least (in my opinion). I don't know if people locally have written to her about it, but if a significant number did, that could explain the leaflets? I wouldn't have voted for her again. I would have written to her to tell her why if the boundaries hadn't changed.

I do all that, I wasn't expecting a hard copy as well, I'm just annoyed at the delay. And I'm concerned in case my postal vote is equally delayed. I can't remember why I have one, unless I applied during the Covid era.

I think this is a local issue, but admin please move to the lounge if not. Boundaries have changed, and my bit of East Dulwich (or possibly all of East Dulwich?) is now combined with Lewisham West. According to the Get Voting website (see screenshot below), this is such a safe seat for Labour that tactical voting is not necessary. I do wonder whether it will turn out to be as safe a seat as they predict, as many people I know who used to vote Labour can no longer bring themselves to do that (for reasons which are definitely a lounge issue!). I think many people in our area may vote Green, and I'm interested to know people's thoughts (I'm not asking for individual voting intentions, unless you are happy to divulge them!) The Labour candidate is Ellie Reeves, Rachel Reeves' sister.

I saw a male sparrow feeding a baby sparrow, and as a result discovered via Google that both mum and dad sparrows share the feeding! Do all birds do this? On a bird theme, I moved around my feeders so the pigeons couldn't get at the feeding holes, except those on the goldfinch feeder. I have had great amusement from watching a very confused pigeon first try to get into the goldfinch feeder (which it couldn't, because the tiny niger seed comes out of narrow slits) and then attempt to reach the holes on the other feeders, which it couldn't because it no longer had a perch near enough the holes. There were some squirrel like acrobatics, then a great crash when it fell off. Then it flew away. I haven't seen it since 😂 I too have a very friendly baby robin, but maybe not for long, as it seems to prefer drinking from filthy water in an old bowl to the nice clean water I have provided it with today 🙄

Nor mine. Loads of snails, and foxes have dug massive holes at one end of my very small garden, and have now started down the other end. I like both foxes and snails, but ..... 😭

Just had through the door a letter from King's offering me an appointment last Friday. Lucky we have phones, emails and texts, isn't it? The appointment was originally made by phone. The letter was dated 6 June, the envelope is stamped 11 June, the appointment was on 14 June, and today is 17 June. 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/16/almost-half-uk-adults-struggling-prescription-drugs-medicine-shortages?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Oh, that's excellent news that it's opening on Saturday lunchtimes!

I accidentally cut through solar powered fairy lights and didn't get a shock 😀

Cover it up with something prickly? Pruned rose branches? Until the fox gets tired and finds something somewhere else to play?

A perfectly healthy looking tree in our road was recently removed, and apparently it was because it had diseased roots. Who knows how this was discovered!

Hooray!

Perhaps the OP needs to make the title more specific, to avoid the serious issue in question being taken over by other stuff unconnected with it?

Francoise Hardy 😢 at 80. French sixties singer. Tous les garçons et les filles ... great song.

How weird!

The Ivy House, lovely as it is, doesn't book rooms for parties any more, to the best of my knowledge, except in exceptional circumstances. Though you could ask, in case things have changed again. The Castle has a nice function room upstairs, but I have no idea if they book it out for private parties.

But presumably without the cinema part?

Off topic but I don't want to start another thread. I just had a Royal Mail delivery of a parcel. The postman ignored a large sign on the door asking people to ring the bell, and just rattled the letterbox, which luckily I heard. When I opened the door, I found the parcel on my doorstep in full view of passers by, and the postman getting into his van a few houses down. I then received an email informing me that my parcel had been delivered to my "safe place", an "enclosed porch". I don't have a safe place, and my porch is not enclosed, it is basically a doorstep to a terraced house . I know posties have a lot to do, but I find things like this really annoying.

No. Both sides of the dispute have to agree to mediation in the first place. I have been in a situation where the other people concerned refused to have mediation. And it wouldn't have been free.

Unfortunately the neighbour has to agree, which in this case sounds unlikely.

I have PMed you.

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You have my complete sympathy. In my case, I discovered you can't even go to an eye emergency clinic any more. You have to phone round opticians on a list who are part of a scheme. The only one in East Dulwich who was part of the scheme had a six week waiting list. That isn't very helpful when you are in danger of going blind. I was lucky that another East Dulwich optician told me to try one in Crofton Park, who was able to see me that day. They told me it was good that the ulcer had been caught early. Hollow laugh. It was three days and a long long saga before I could get the eye drops. Ironically, I paid for a private prescription rather than the optician sending it to my GP to prescribe because I thought it would be quicker 😭 And then I couldn't get the effing drops anywhere anyway.