Sue

I don't know who you mean, the only receptionist I know there has blonde hair and has always been perfectly pleasant and helpful to me - it's hardly her fault the system is crap. I've never had anybody be rude to me at DMC.

OMG, that's like something off Kenny Everett's Worst Records. :)):)):)) I guess you had to be there .....

Cora Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Found the questionaire really frustrating - > questions set in a way that do not address the > real issues. Just felt like a box ticking > exercise. xxxxx But they say you can add any comments you want, so I added quite a few at the end - plus I printed out this thread and attached that as well :)) Will it reach whoever's conducting the survey? Who knows. I handed it in at reception this morning!

Seems to be a London-wide problem, I was at a meeting today and one borough apparently had only one park warden left :-S

I saw him in a pub in Chiswick or somewhere in that direction about five years ago - he was still doing the same stuff then :) I believe Wild Willy Barrett is still gigging, as well :) at least I vaguely recall seeing his name on some agent's blurb.

MadWorld74 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hornimans Gardens with your own six pack of > Guinness....cheapest night out option. xxxxxx Don't forget the crisps

After all this discussion, they say the blue paint can be easily removed, blah blah?? Words really do fail me this time :) I've heard of lack of communication, but this takes the biscuit.

Surely this is all a matter of individual taste???? You can't say just because you like something everybody else is bound to (though of course I say that all the time,lol ) :)-D

Gubodge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue said "If they can't handle cycling on the road > they shouldn't be cycling, full stop." > > Does this apply to my four year old, too? > >xxxxxxx Well I have mixed feelings on this. My daughter and her husband are very keen cyclists, my granddaughters no doubt will soon have their own bikes instead of being in the trailer, and then what? I shall enquire of them when next I see them - but as a pedestrian, I'd say kids on bikes on the pavement are potentially as much a menace to pedestrians as adults if not properly supervised (which of couse I'm sure your four year old is :) )

flapjackdavey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > i seen it too . xxxxxxx I never :) And for those itching to take a pop at me for daring to make a flippant comment on someone's grammar, flapjackdavey and me go back a long way :))

MadWorld74 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > , and have been told that > there are no appointments, even when I am > physically in the building. What's the point of > getting myself out of the house when I am unwell > only to be told to go home again and ring tomorrow > morning. xxxxxx I also had this problem - can't get through on the phone so go down there physically, they don't open the door at the time they're supposed to, and even though I was about the third person in the queue who needed to make an appointment that day, they'd all gone to people who had managed to get through on the phone.

The DMC is doing a survey on patient opinion of their services at the moment. I suggest you fill one in and make all these points - I have, and certainly had a few points to make about various things. I have an appointment tomorrow morning and will add a link to this thread onto my survey. Only thing I am worried about is that when they see the contents of my questionnaire they will bin it! The doctors I usually see and one of the nurses I usually see are great, but the appointments system certainly leaves a lot to be desired. When I was there making my appointment there were two other people as well as me complaining to the receptionist about the system.

You are joking, Karter, aren't you??

Boosboss, are you saying Southwark are 45 park wardens short? That's terrible :-S How come? Budget cuts??

:))SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can you imagine if fines were implemented Sue? > We'll have people posting on here saying "I can't > believe my tax money is being wasted on 57 plastic > police telling me and my Poppsy off for his > morning whoopsies" > > Or in the case of PGC's encounter it would be more > like "Ere, some faakin Kant* only tried to give me > a fine this morning " > > * him being a gent of a philosophical bent no > doubt > > ;-) xxxxxx :)) :)):))

Wishing Well then? :)-D

Islington Council, for whom (grammar) I work, has a dog fouling campaign, accompanied by spot fines, which has had a lot of publicity and so far as I know has been very successful. If anybody would like me to find out more about this, particularly the spot fines, I will.

I think I'd keep the dog/non-dog sections, though possibly not in the way they are presently divided. I'd replace the existing fence with one which is in the style of the perimeter fence, and which would not appear to be such a visual barrier dividing the two sections. This works and looks good in the park next to Sainsbury's. I'd spend some additional money on enforcement for a period of time and come down hard with maximum fines on dog owners who were not adhering to the rules, in the hope that a few short sharp shocks to the pocket may have the desired long-term effect. However I don't know what this would cost so it might not be viable.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You could merely eliminate each venue after they > have been visited. xxxxx That's a bit drastic, look what happened to kebab and wine :))

Yeh agreed again, of course we should do all we can to try to understand why it happens, and try and prevent it, and all the rest of it, and maybe we will succeed (we will never know will we, we only see what happens, not what doesn't happen) but - it will still happen. Sometimes. And yes, if you want an eye for an eye that makes you just like them. Which isn't to say that if I saw someone doing anything remotely like this I wouldn't beat the s**t out of them, but that's a knee jerk reaction of an individual, not the way society should "deal" with them. In my opinion.

Agreed. It's same old, same old. No systems will ever prevent cruelty. It's built in. All they can do is maybe prevent the effects of some of it.

Great idea, but would there be some kind of system so we didn't end up going to the same place every time? Or even every other time! Edited to say: Why not just list every pub/bar in ED/ED borders, eliminate those unsuitable because of size, put them more or less at random against each month but have those with gardens between ?May and September?, then just start again when you get to the end? Adding on new pubs as they open or taking them off as they close?

kristymac1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > As for dogs being able to clear the inner fence - > the owners of these dogs seem to be perfectly able > to keep their dogs from clearing the outer fence > into oncoming traffic - why does the inner fence > pose such a problem for dogs jumping over? xxxxxx Because it's lower? (If it isn't, I apologise - have only winced at it from a distance) Edited to say: And maybe green grass is more attractive to dogs than a load of cars and buses in the jumping-over stakes

Hey, what's wrong with a pink hearse? Funerals need cheering up a bit if you ask me :) I think I shall send another email round to my family in addition to the one sent recently specifying the two songs to be sung at my funeral (hope this isn't some sort of premonition). The Rose by Bette Midler and Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright, since you (didn't) ask :)

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> > All the miserable tw@ts trying to push nervous > cyclists onto the roads should get out of their > cars and stop taking up our road space. xxxxxx I have - that's why I have been almost knocked over by a cyclist on the pavement :))