Sue

There isn't going to be an M&S, it's a longstanding forum rumour based on nothing at all :)

lenk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do you suggest the post office makes money > then? Should they abandon all of the services you > describe? > > Yes, because privatising it would do wonders for > us all. > > For one thing, unprofitable personal mail would be > downgraded - and probably take longer to deliver. > > Private ownership will lead to thousands of > redundancies, a reduction in services and higher > prices. xxxxxxxx Royal Mail, who delivers the letters, is a separate business from Post Office Counters. Edited to say: Several grammatical mistakes there, sorry, but can't be arsed to work out what it should all be :-$

andrewc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know a good time to miss the queue but Im not > telling you! xxxxxxx Oh, go on, you meanie :)

I can understand a queue on Monday morning, or Saturday, or before Christmas - but a queue right out into the street at 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon? I had to wait over twenty minutes to be served, and at one point the queue wasn't moving at all, just one customer at the counter and all the staff just sort of looking at each other. Anybody know why? Have they got a staffing problem or do they just not care?

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I Just Wanna Make Love To You - (Rolling) Stones

TheePope Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry Sue - I didn't see that! > > Yep it's really called a White Death Crab Spider > or Misumena vatia to give it its Latin name. You > can see were it gets the 'crab' name from in this > photo - not for the squeamish! > > http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/pictures/showpho > to.php/photo/4456 xxxxxxxxx Yeh it had very long front legs which it waved about in a horribly crab-like way. I hope it's not breeding outside my front door....... I don't usually mind spiders, but this one was really very spooky, particularly as it was white all over, body and legs .......

HEY! TheePope! That's the spider I saw the other day and posted about on this thread! Is it really called a White Death Crab Spider?

Nor me. I think they add to the character of the area and are a bit of fun. Seriously :)

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Things have become palpably worse since the > mayoral changeover a year ago. In my opinion of > course > > xxxxxxxxxxx Yes I agree. The buses seemed to get a lot better for a while, then they got very much worse again (edited to say, after Boris took over, though that may be coincidence). In the morning, I go to a stop before the one most convenient for me, just so that I've got more chance of a bus stopping at the stop and then being able to get on it. But I do feel sorry for the people at the stops it then sails past. I feel another letter to Tessa coming on :-$

Yes I agree with Louisa and Bob, but hey, what is proposed is better than many of the other possible options and at least a unique building will be staying in ED.

I like these vans! Except I thought it was one van which moved about a bit. It's a red letter day when I spot one :)

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know if I was looking for a builder I would > definitely want one who had knocked someone off > their bike. xxxxxxx :)) But he did redeem the situation :) Snagging, innit .....

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads

Sorry for posting :-$

It certainly was going to be compulsory at some point, but I can't remember if the government backtracked?

I saw somebody reversing out of Fellbrigg Road into Northcross Road about 10am this morning and making a real pig's ear of it, but I didn't see them hit anything and afraid I couldn't give a description of either the driver or the car because as usual I was in a world of my own :-$ The only reason I noticed was because I thought it was a dangerous thing to do.

Don't think so PeckhamRose. Admittedly I have a crap memory, but I thought they said it would be repainted with some sort of graffiti-washoffable paint, not that the blue paint could be washed off. If the blue paint could be washed off, what would have been the point in putting it there in the first place, or am I missing something here?

You've always had to pay for parking there as far as I know, and last time I was there (ages ago admittedly) it was quite clearly signposted that you had to pay.

dazeykat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The swifts are here. Soon be summer. xxxxx Yeh just saw them for the first time this evening over Ulverscroft Road, YAY :)

Blimey! The walls of my little Victorian house seem quite thick. Noise doesn't seem to carry through them much, anyway. Only prob with them is that you can't have that insulation that goes inside walls (forgotten what it is called, duh) which I have had in previous places I have lived in.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is a Victorian area - almost by definition > our houses will be energy inefficient. Drafts, > thinning glass in windows, elderly central heating > systems, many chimneys, thin walls. Some actions > can be taken to improve matters but a Victorian > house will never be as energy efficient as a > modern purpose built property with all attendant > technology. > > Beware being told you're well off the mark and ask > what is the best that can be achieved in this sort > of housing stock. xxxxxxx I agree with most of the above, but - thin walls???

Thanks that's useful - maybe I'll go for it then!

:-$ Edited to say: Kingcups aka Marsh Marigolds do look like big buttercups, but it might be a bit late for them at the mo.

Did anybody else get a letter recently from "The UK Carbon Census" saying they were conducting a census in your road? They are basically offering to provide an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for ?20. They claim to have already done six streets in East Dulwich. They say they can save you money by showing where you can conserve energy. But then they say if you want to use the EPC to sell or rent your house you have to pay them to register it. Is this something useful, or a total scam, or something in between? If it's just recommending "energy-saving lightbulbs, more insulation, draught-proof, condensing boiler" etc I can't see much point in shelling out any money at all.