Sue

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!

Miss Community Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> > > anyone been to the bar on top of the peckham car > park, thinking about going but hear its pretty > expensive, any reviews welcome. xxxxxxxx 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: ------------------------------------------------------- Idiots who > deliberately spend more money to buy the same > goods from Somerfield rather than Iceland because > it makes them feel better about themsleves. > xxxxxx 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

I don't see how it can possibly have been an "illusion", assuming that he did actually publicly state these numbers in advance of the draw and that is on record? Edited to say: Ooops sorry, I wrote the above before I looked at the link, obviously he didn't actually predict them but somehow inserted the "correct" balls before they were shown after the draw. :-$

After last year's fete, The Goose offered to put on local singers and musicians all through this year's fete - with no charge for either our organising it or the singers' time - but nobody got back to us after an initial expression of interest. Very happy to arrange something for next year.

Who/where is Sopers?

iaineasy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FANTASTIC MR FOX! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :))

I also agree. What agenda is behind this scaremongering? Not the first time on this forum, and never any hard facts to back it up.

I live in a road off North Cross Road, and closing NCR would be very inconvenient if I want to wreck the environment by going somewhere in my car on a Saturday. NIMBY!! Edited to say: Actually I don't feel that strongly about it :)

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Really? They dug a very large hole in my very > small back garden - I don't have a lawn - didn't > store any food in it and didn't back fill it? > > That's odd - normally fox holes (as living > burrows) are dug into banks/ under sheds etc. > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It is a sort of bank - on a slope, anyway. They didn't live in it, as far as I know, just exposed all the roots of a shrub. I haven't seen any foxes in the garden lately, but there was a huge one a year or so ago, apparently terrorising a cat, or possibly vice versa. When I went into the garden it leaped over the wall.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue wrote:- > > at this time of year they dig holes, parents > teaching cubs how to dig, so I've read, could be a > load of b******s of course. > > Foxes actually eat worms, often the small (and > very annoying) holes they dig in lawns are to find > them - larger holes are also dug to store food in > (i.e. bits of chicken they scavenge from bins) but > these will be back filled. xxxxxxxx Really? They dug a very large hole in my very small back garden - I don't have a lawn - didn't store any food in it and didn't back fill it? :-S

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Essentially, you could give the job to a jar of > pickled onions and get exactly the same results. xxxxxxxxxxxxx :))