Sue

"What happens to the earth" is happening right now, and things are going to get very bad indeed long before the 200 years you quote. It is because many many individuals and organisations have thought in the past that the environment was "not their concern" that we are in the state we are in. But hey ho. Here's a constructive suggestion. Why don't neighbours share a brown bin and each contribute to the cost? Or take it in turns to take everybody's garden waste to the recycling centre off the Old Kent Road? Oh, and if the council was going to only collect from the blue bins once a month, that would mean a great many people were not doing their recycling, surely? I despair.

North Cross Road

I agree. I was surprised when I saw the menu, for the same reason.

Does Dwayne just mend Macs and iPhones? Just Apple?

Don't know why this was moved to the lounge? I would have thought it was a topic of local interest?

Putting compostable material in the green bin is not exactly environmentally friendly, is it? And the council is not "greedy". It has services to provide which possibly you and your family might need some day, and like other local councils, it has had its funding cut by the Tories, so it has to bring in money from somewhere.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-matters-air-pollution/health-matters-air-pollution This was some time ago. There has been more recent research demonstrating the links between pollution, poor health and life expectancy. But never mind, cutting one's journey time by ten minutes is much more important 🙄 Although, I also recognise the downsides of LTNs to the people living in the roads where the traffic is directed to, grammar. And councils have had their money cut by so much, you really can't blame them for finding other sources of income to fund essential services.

The lease expires September 2025????? So in only around 18 months' time ?????

But anybody could just lie, surely?

Happy days. What are they doing? Was there a leak? Again .....

That's a massive space for a pub that isn't a Spoons! Do you know what pubco (?) it is? I'm guessing probably a chain rather than an independent, but I would dearly love to be wrong.

Also the bus stop outside the Post Office was closed yesterday due to the works. I don't know if it still is, but I imagine so. It does clearly say it is closed, but I stupidly didn't notice until I had stood there for some time, so I'm just posting this in case it might save someone else a pointless wait!

That is absolutely awful. Can you get a phone appointment to speak to the GP? I'd be absolutely furious if that was me, not to mention extremely worried. Hoping for a good outcome for you after what must be a really stressful time.

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Oh! My daughter told me that someone did all the jigsaws 😂 Maybe that's just in one shop she knows of (not in London) 😂

I think somebody does them first to check that all the pieces are there!

I shan't be going in unless I absolutely have to for some reason! And I am so snowed under with more time critical things that attempting to get any reasonable response from them is sadly way down my To Do list. I just feel sorry for all the other people who were overcharged. However, if they didn't notice a £12 overcharge on their receipt, probably they can afford to lose it 😵‍💫

Eh? The till receipt showed the price they charged me, in this case if I remember correctly £24. As I said,it was a system error. If I had had a trolley load of shopping instead of just one item, as many people did, I might never have noticed. It should have been £12. The man on the till said "have you got a photo of the label on the shelf?" WTF? And then made me go right back across the store to get one. I have no idea whether he ever bothered to report the error. He had to input the correct price manually. And my ill health isn't obvious. It just made things more difficult for me.

Oh no! I always thought it was a protected view as well. That's awful 😢

Because if nobody complains, things don't get better. In the situation I complained about, there was an apparent system error which meant an item was being overcharged at the tills by, if memory serves, about £12. Plus I'm in my mid seventies and not in particularly good health, and was asked to walk back right across a very crowded store to take a picture of the price label on the shelf to prove to the assistant that I was being overcharged. I'm very sorry if you think I was complaining about nothing. I don't. I wonder how many people were overcharged that day by £12 and didn't notice because it was Christmas Eve, they were stressed with doing last minute shopping, and had so much in their trolleys that they didn't have time to notice the price being charged for each item on the till.

Good idea, but a bit like writing to their Head Office, it's rather far down my list of priorities. Now I feel like I shouldn't be wasting (ooops I mean spending) time on here when I've got a very lengthy To Do list 😭

I imagine you would have been similarly annoyed if it had been you in that situation. I would. Don't bother complaining to Sainsbury's, Lynne. I complained to them by email after an incident in there on Christmas Eve, which I posted about on here at the time. I received an email back saying I would get a response within some time scale - I think it was three days. When the weeks went by without an answer (or even an apology) I phoned them up. The person said "Oh, you won't get an answer." Me: "????". Person: "The complaint will have been sent to the store to be dealt with there." Me: "So will I get an answer from the store?" Person: "No, they won't answer." Me: "So why was I told I would get a response within three days?" Person: Shrugs shoulders, I imagine. Me: "I'm not at all happy about this. How can I complain about not getting a response to my complaint?" (!!!!) Person: "You will have to write to Sainsbury's Head Office." Me: "OK. Please can I have a contact name and their email address?" Person: "Oh, you can't email them. You will have to write a letter and post it." So. I have an address. Needless to say, this has been languishing in my pile of things to do for weeks. Anybody would think Sainsbury's didn't want feedback, or indeed to be actually put to the trouble of having to deal with annoying customers who had had bad experiences in their stores I stopped using them for deliveries years ago after a similar lack of any smidgeon of customer care 😡 If I ever go in there now it's either as a last resort (as at Christmas) or to pick something up from Argos.