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bigbadwolf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > This thread would tie in nicely with 'thieves in > east Dulwich', I'd sooner take a valuable package > to the local Gypsy camp than leave it in the care > of the post office! xxxxx And your point is what exactly? Glad to see you're spreading goodwill etc to all this festive season. Oh no, my mistake, you're not. You're spreading prejudice and hate. Oh well.

I had two "meter readers" recently within a week of each other - I didn't think to question the first one until the second one turned up and was quite clearly from the energy company. But if number one was casing the joint, I'm sure word will have gone round the ED underworld that I have nothing at all worth stealing, unless they're into houseplants :-$ And now I'm even more bemused as I've had a letter giving my last meter readings as supplied by me - which they weren't :-S

These had gone last night, so hopefully the owner of the mitts found them and they were not taken by some other person :-$

What happened to Mr Da Bank, then?

His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman. All three.

Bunty Annual.

Ulysses. Lord of the Rings. Glass Bead Game (Herman Hesse). Couldn't get through any of them. Tried several times. Loved Life of Pi though :)

Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller

How do you insert a picture? :-$

Are you sure this was Royal Mail? It happened to me last Christmas with a parcel delivered by another delivery company, who also left a card saying "your parcel is in the bin".

If anybody reached home with a mittenless child today,I found one in Whateley Road and another one in Ulverscroft Road, and they are now sitting together on a wall outside 16 Whateley Road :)

Well some folk don't seem to be bothered by the cost of trees - Islington Council has had to ask Islington residents not to put out artificial trees for recycling - and apparently last year some people also attempted to recycle real trees complete with lights and baubles :))

I think the Blue Mountain was last night unless I have lost a day somewhere - quite likely.

There was an ambulance outside, was anybody hurt?

I have ordered a lot of stuff from Amazon and other online sites in the last few weeks, and it has all arrived very quickly and been delivered by the postie with no trouble at all. The only parcel I have had a problem with was the one delivered by a non-Royal Mail firm.

Ladygooner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Must be a boy thing! xxxxxx I love steam trains too, I would have been excited to see one near here!

If people think their parcels are going missing in the post they should definitely report it - Royal Mail can't investigate if everybody just sits about waiting months for things they are expecting to arrive :)

Anyone know what happened at the Blue Mountain? Police cars and ambulance outside (8.30pm) and the pavement's all taped off with police incident tape.

Dunno, I've only been in there once on a Saturday afternoon during BonkersFest and it was jazz and poetry :) But no doubt I was very very very drunk so maybe it was actually brilliant 80s music and I was mistaken about the jazz and poetry :))

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue, with your folksy roots, I think you might be > the legend of zelda. If so I would like to play > you with a wii. > > xxxxxxxx Eh? I just googled zelda and it says something about evil darkness. Thanks. And Nyge, oops I mean Flapjackdavy, had to explain to me the other day what a wii was. :)) But back to buses or yet again my post will be zapped. Yes - they're crap of late. I feel another email to Tessa Jowell coming on. Not that any of them have ever seemed to have any effect whatsoever, sending them just makes me feel better :)) The constituent from hell, that's me :))

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And if you get really drunk, you could try > the newly(ish) reopened Red Star, which used to be > open til 4... xxxxx The Red Star is a lot nicer inside than it looks from the outside, as we found out during BonkersFest when they had music and poetry in there as part of the festival.

I came home from work today to find a box placed next to my front door with the mat from my doorstep propped in front of it. The package had been ripped open and the inner packaging also ripped open. Whoever did it clearly didn't think the books I had ordered for Christmas presents were worth taking :-$ Maybe they're not into The Night Garden or Hairy McLairy from Donaldson's Dairy :)) and the other books were probably too heavy and conspicuous for them to bother trying to remove. The instructions when I ordered were to leave the package with a neighbour if I was out. Yes I've complained. No it wasn't Royal Mail, it was something called "Home Delivery Network", whose slogan appears to be "Putting the customer 1st". I think this may be the same organisation who once left a card with the words written on it "Your parcel is in the bin." It was. Luckily it wasn't the day the binmen came :))

Yeh, better six pairs of babies' socks for ?20 in Davina's Boutique than tumbleweed. When I balked (?) at the price the assistant said "Well, that is for six pairs, you know". Clearly I don't fall into their target demographic. :-$

Was the bank really robbed? I thought they had all sorts of security measures these days??

I had a PCSO come to my door the other night with one of these kits - they do seem very easy to use. She said there had been a lot of burglaries in this area recently. I told her I had nothing worth stealing but she seemed to disbelieve me (I once had my door kicked in and the house turned over, including the mattresses, and whoever it was left without taking a thing - admittedly that was twenty five years ago and I have since acquired a computer and a telly :)) )