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Thanks all!

I had subsidence in my front bay about five years back, which was treated with resin injection. My insurance premium predictably rocketed. My current insurer, Zurich, has withdrawn from offering home insurance via brokers (so now doesn't offer it at all) and the only quote my present broker can find for me is over £1500 a year 😮 with Midas Underwriting. And that also has a considerably higher excess. I know from previous experience of phoning around that as soon as subsidence is mentioned, nobody wants to know. Can anybody who has been in a similar situation recommend a broker or insurance company who could help? I have a week to find an alternative suitable insurer, or else I will have to grit my teeth and pay up. Admin, I have put this here as I know subsidence is common in this area, but if it should be in another part of the forum, please move it!

I had post this morning.

If anyone is heading in this direction, buses etc are at a total halt due to a protest. Get off in time to get the tube!

I can't make out what the poster says?

I really hope it hasn't permanently closed 😥

It's a man made material which looks like wood, with the grain etc, but is more suitable for using on outdoor surfaces eg because it doesn't rot.

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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.