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We had already had the nice day 😂

Wood pigeons strut about in my garden as if they own the place. It's amusing watching them try to work out how to access the bird feeder ports. They usually end up walking about underneath the feeders hoping for bits to drop down 😂 This has however wrecked the bed which my bird feeder pole is in, which now has virtually no plants in it, including some which I had had for decades 😭

I used a white floor paint, whether you keep redoing it depends on how bothered you are about scuffs, which I'm not 😂 I just pretend it's supposed to look like that 😂 I hoover it then mop it with Flash or something similar in a bucket. Some things have stained it in places, but obviously a white floor in a kitchen is liable to get stained. Sometimes I put rugs down if I want a change. You need to make sure the floorboards don't have gaps where water could get in and rot them. In the kitchen I originally had a concrete floor, so tongue and groove was put over it (so no gaps between the boards, though it looks like floorboards) but my bathroom has actual floorboards which were painted white. I know people who have just used ordinary paint rather than floor paint, but I imagine it's not so hard-wearing. You could ask advice in a paint shop.

Yes, I have. Just make sure they are thoroughly dry before anyone walks on them. I had some truly terrible "builders" doing my kitchen.

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That's true on the one hand. On the other hand they had deliveries going out, which presumably required the kitchen, which was not "shutting". There were other customers eating in who appeared to have just got their food. Given we were an hour and a half ahead of the publicised closing time, not "half an hour before closing time", it did not cross our minds to call ahead to book. In any case we had been out all day, our journey home involved two trains and two buses, and we didn't know what time we would be back. Plus if a business "reacts to demand", it should say that its opening times may vary. Monkatsu clearly says on its website that it is open from 5-10 on Sundays to eat in or take away. Eating out anywhere is a "first world" thing, and yes there might have been alternatives, but we had chosen to eat at Monkatsu! It's not as if we had got there at 5 to 10 and expected to be served! My post was to ask if anyone else had experienced the same thing. I wasn't expecting to be attacked for living in the first world and also apparently for having unrealistic expectations that information on a business website would be correct 🙄

We were hoping to have a meal at Monkatsu last night (Sunday), after having been out all day. Online information gave the closing time as 10pm. We got there around 8.30pm and they wouldn't give us a table because "the kitchen closes in half an hour." Surely it doesn't take half an hour to make a meal? We've never had to wait that long when we've eaten there before. Has anybody else had this happen? We ended up going home and getting a delivery, which wasn't how we had envisaged the end of a nice day 🙄

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That place did only have pizzas on the menu, to the best of my recollection. We ate there once, the pizzas were ok but the room was not exactly atmospheric. Il Mirto has a lot of pasta dishes on the menu, but that also never seems busy. It's small and out of the way, and easily forgotten if you're looking for somewhere to eat, I suppose.

I agree, at the moment it just doesn't look like a welcoming place to have a meal, sadly.

I also thought it was just pizza. I didn't know there had been any change in the menu since the name of the place changed

How do you get to Catford by train from ED?

I wonder if it's got any connection to the nice Viet Van people who come to North Cross Road market? Their food is great!

I haven't read the rest of this thread - I kept well away - but I'm delighted that Sadiq Khan has won. Susan Hall would have been an absolute disaster for London, as thankfully the vast majority of voters recognised.

Camberwell Green, but only if in that direction anyway, I wouldn't make a special trip unless it was Christmas (Lebkuchen! Big bags! Very cheap!) I sometimes went to the Peckham Lidl in the days before ULEZ, but my car isn't compliant so it wouldn't be worth a trip unless I was using the car for something else, and it's a pain on the bus as there's no direct route.

Crikey, I think I will give the SE23 forum a miss after reading that lot! Though I remember back in the day it was very strange. I can't remember exactly why now.

Thanks, I'm not sure a round trip to Anerley on the bus with my shopping trolley would be worth any potential savings 🤣 but I'll check it out!

??? When they refer to "all Dulwich", I took that to mean including the residents of the streets where the traffic has been directed into due to the LTNs, which are presumably experiencing greater pollution/stress, whereas the "privileged few" in the LTN areas are experiencing lower pollution due to less traffic. Hence the reference to inequality. Sorry if I've got the terminology wrong.

That's interesting, because I thought the Overground would transform Forest Hill, but I don't see much evidence of that. Have I missed it? Can't say I've noticed much change in Penge either though, on the rare occasions I go there 😂 , so maybe I'm just inattentive ....

Is this the same group? A quick Google found it on X aka Twitter 🙄 Or are their aims completely opposite and they are just trying to sound like the other group to confuse people?

At least one of them has seats outside, but it's opposite the green bit at the end nearest East Dulwich, so quite pleasant to sit outside. Can't remember what it's called, but it has really nice vegan (I think) food.

I find the Sainsbury's in Forest Hill even more depressing than the Dog Kennel Hill one, if such a thing was possible Where is a nearby Aldi?? Do they deliver? I like Lidl for some things, but lugging it home is a pain. I also quite like Asda for some things. Also their delivery charges are low and their customer service is very good. It's annoying that I find I can't get everything I need/want from one supermarket, but unfortunately I am picky. Some things I like I can only get from Waitrose, eg a particular brand of olive oil (presently rocketing in price). I bought own brand soya milk from one place, possibly Asda, and found it had salt added to it. WTF?! They refunded me with no quibbles and collected it all next time they delivered.

I meant that particular Sainsbury's, but perhaps I am being too hard on it. But then I remember Sainsbury's in the days before there were supermarkets .....