Sue

Is this the one Norma Waterson won a few years back?

Say no more .... what on earth are their criteria?

andyxlandells Wrote:

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> > they also own the local alldays convienience

> stores

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Really? I never knew that! How did that come about?

Had to laugh re the advice on avoiding the backstreets, as don't most people live in them?!

I've lived here on and off for twenty years, and in the off times I have lived in small places like Ditchling, Oundle and a farm near Leominster, and I can honestly say that I feel just as safe walking around at night here as I did there.

You have to be careful anywhere - as people have said above, hide your purse and mobile, walk confidently, know where you are going and be aware of who is around you and be ready to deviate from your planned course if that feels safer.

I never get round to it, but I do keep meaning to carry a spare purse with a fiver and a few old cards from closed accounts in, to hand over should push come to shove. Oh yeh and make a note of all the numbers on my mobile ......

The only time I have ever felt unsafe round here was a month or so ago in broad daylight, just as I had left my house, when a guy passed me and then kept turning to look back at me (not in a good way). I felt really spooked, and I actually turned round and went home, and waited twenty minutes and made sure he had gone before going out again.

Basically, better safe than sorry is what I say, which doesn't mean staying in all the time, just being careful and going by your gut instinct.

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> >

> Eventually people twigged that lower prices were

> better value than licking stamps and collecting

> books and swapping them for a coffee

> grinder....:))

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Eh? They don't seem to have twigged that with Nectar cards, Tesco Club cards, Boots cards etc etc etc .... !!

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> A boring old pedant looks back nostalgically

>

> Green Shield stamps were Tesco

> Co-op's were Pink Stamps

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Loads of places gave Green Shield stamps, didn't they? They were the forerunners of the Nectar card!

I don't remember Co-op stamps, I remember every customer had a number and the cashier wrote it in a little book.

Fifties/early sixties maybe.

:-$

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> Anyone know the local number for the Police who

> cover ED now? Saw some bastads casing out several

> cars today, but had no idea which number to

> call...

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The general Met number for Southwark is

0300 123 1212

Opening Hours: 06:00-22:00 Mon - Sun

and I guess they'd put you through to the relevant people

I asked someone from the council last year why Southwark didn't have a domestic food waste recycling service, and he said they had no facilities for it and no prospect of getting any :-S

Erm, someone has not stuck to the rules here, naming no names Jeremy :)

And indeed Jimmy .....

Or has there been a change in the game when my back was turned?

:-$

They're into, er, co-operation and fair trade. They're an ethical supermarket chain.

They have very good value things (in my opinion).

Hopefully the Co-op management might keep a better check on things than Somerfield did to prevent the apparent past scams etc, but who knows.

That's good news :)

Well I'd rather have a Co-op than a Somerfield, would not have thought Somerfield had any particular goodwill in ED after all the problems there have been there.

You should all complain, there's no excuse for it, it only takes the postie a minute to write a card and it's causing massive inconvenience.

I've had the opposite - card left, I trek round to the sorting office, and it turns out to be a Viking catalogue :))

I must have a very conscientious postie!

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> anyone been to the bar on top of the peckham car

> park, thinking about going but hear its pretty

> expensive, any reviews welcome.

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It was a pop-up bar, hasn't it closed now?

Summer is over .....

Things advertised in the For Sale section which are described as "tasteful", and you look at the picture and they are (expletive deleted) not.

I Love My Dog - Cat Stevens

WOOF :)

OK, I know we've had threads ad nauseam but I can't find them.

And I've googled this but I'm still none the wiser.

The Co-op bought out Somerfield, no? But we still have a Somerfield in Lordship Lane, still called Somerfield, with a sign in the window saying something like "Welcome to the Co-op family".

And some Co-op things for sale within which weren't there before.

But - what has happened to the Fairtrade bananas? Somerfield used to sell them and now they don't.

What has happened to the organic veg? Somerfield used to sell it and now they don't.

Where is the Fairtrade wine which Co-ops in other places sell?

In an attempt to clarify this, I asked one of the shelf-stackers "Are you a Co-op now?" He looked at me in bemusement and said "No".

About five minutes later, as I was perusing the shelves in search of binliners, as you do, he came up to me beaming and said "Co-op, yes. Good!" and we did the mutual thumbs-up thing.

So basically I'm still none the wiser.

Co-op? Somerfield? Hybrid?

Edited to add a hyphen :))

eater81 Wrote:

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Idiots who

> deliberately spend more money to buy the same

> goods from Somerfield rather than Iceland because

> it makes them feel better about themsleves.

>

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They must be bonkers.

Iceland has three packets of spare ribs for a fiver :))

And three bottles of not too ghastly wine for a tenner :))

Sorry admin, off topic, slaps self hard on wrist ......

Ah, thanks - was very loud in ED then! And quite late, too!

Lovely on the Water - Steeleye Span

5-4-3-2-1 - Manfred Mann

The last couple of times I've been into the Lordship Lane Post Office there has been no queue at all, much to my amazement.

It also seems to be undergoing some sort of brightening-up process.

I quite like going in there as I find the staff very friendly.

I usually try to remember to take a book to read in the queue though.....

Burning Down the House - Talking Heads

I think an EDF internet radio station is an extraordinarily bad idea, but then the only radio I listen to is Radio 3 as an alarm clock :))

John Martyn. Davey Graham. Johnny Collins.

Jah Lush, great pic :))

We've gotta get out of this place - The Animals