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Thanks, it's not very dirty, it just needs freshening up really. It's been on the sofa for more than thirty years , as I bought the sofa shortly after I moved here 🤣 But the sofa has large seat cushions (whose covers wash easily) and it's had throws over it for much of its life. It's massive. It is in two halves, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get it in the house 🤣 but the cover covers both halves, so you can't see the join. Oh dear, all I asked about was a launderette, I burble on as badly online as I do offline 🤣

Whereabouts in Bellenden Road is it? Though I settled for a very thorough going over with the upholstery attachment on my Dyson in the end 🤣

My Acanthus mollis is eaten to the ground, apart from the flower spikes. I have just left them to it, on the basis that if they are eating this they aren't eating anything else. Anyway, pigeons have trampled over most of my plants 😭 leaving an expanse of bare earth beneath the bird feeders. I don't use slug pellets any more. I did mean to try beer traps, but I kept forgetting. I hope the frogs will eat the slugs, but the slugs seem to be winning. The attached pic of a slug hospital made me laugh a lot 😂 I don't know the poster, it was shared by someone else.

Many years ago I was looking round some stately home or other, and there was a mounted horse's head (if memory serves, on one side of a fireplace) and its tail mounted on the other side. I made some comment about this horse to my then partner, upon which someone behind me with a fraightfully posh voice said "That's not a horse! That's the Duke of Wellington's charger!" 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for that picture of the headlines. That was the one I referred to above, but I couldn't find it. Disgraceful, aren't they.

So are you going to step forward and organise a street party in your street? To save you looking at the link in the OP's post, I've attached a screenshot of some of what is required.

Having been involved in running street parties locally in the past, I would warn you that it's a lot of hard work! And when some of the organisers moved away, nobody else appeared to be willing to help. Though I expect it's easier in these days of What'sApp groups etc.

Shingo at Kuki in Bellenden Road is absolutely brilliant. I've been going there for years I have only ever had Shingo, who owns the salon, but I believe the others there are also very good. The prices are the same whoever you have. Https://kukihair.com I have very thin and fine hair, and in the past, whenever I've found a good cutter, they have moved on and it took me ages to find someone else. I can't recommend Shingo highly enough. But usually you have to wait some time for an appointment as he gets booked up very quickly (not over the summer though as people are away). Prices have gone up recently, so it may still be more than you want to pay, but the length of time between cuts will depend on the style. I've recently had a quite short bob which is going to mean cuts every couple of months.

Very silly question, sorry, but have you looked at reviews on places like Trust Pilot and Google?

Yes. And many other weird measures 😂 I still remember 1,760 yards in a mile. And 2,240 something or other 😂

I just had a look at its reviews. It's strange that it seems to be so inconsistent, with some (most) people raving about the excellent food and service, and others saying the food is awful/tastes of nothing and the service is terrible. Wondering: Is it due to different chefs/waiting staff/duty managers at different times? Is it due to some people having very low expectations/little experience of Chinese food, and therefore thinking rubbish food is very good? Is it due to some people having very high expectations/wide experience of Chinese food and therefore thinking run of the mill or mediocre food is dreadful? Is it because some of the reviews aren't genuine? I'm almost tempted to go and try it for myself, but I think that's probably a very bad idea 🤣

Thanks all. I was hoping for somewhere a bit nearer. Now wondering if I can get away with not washing it 🤣

Is there still a launderette locally which has a large capacity machine? I need to wash a very large sofa cover.

When did it become 148? Many years ago we ate here, and I can't remember exactly what was wrong with the meal, but we were told by the manager that the chef was drunk 🤣

Their website says they are closed from 5 to 13 August, so maybe they were using up the last few bits of chicken ....

Thanks for the clarification! Though although of course none is more right (unfortunate choice of words!) than the other, it does seem that there is a lot more violence and lack of empathy from the people on one "side", for want of a better word. Not sure how relevant this is, but many years ago I lodged for a short time with a couple who were committed Christians. If memory serves, one of them had fought in the war. I asked how he could reconcile this with "Thou shalt not kill" etc. Basically he couldn't. I'm wondering, if it came to it, how many of the thousands of peaceful and non violent people who came out on the streets recently would actually physically fight the fascists (or whoever) if circumstances called for it.

Pardon? Are you posting this in response to what I said? If so, how exactly have you come to this interpretation of what I said? To be absolutely clear, I did not mean that certain arrests were made because it was being SAID that there was two tier policing ! Who is disagreeing with you, exactly?

My understanding is that it's both those, but the majority of identified troublemakers are from one "group", consisting of the various subgroups involved in the initial riots.

From what I have read so far, there have been one or two arrests of people who weren't right wing racists and/or thugs out to thump people and cause trouble, but the vast majority were in the latter groups. If it is being said that those arrested are "from all political and cultural backgrounds", I assume this is because some people have laid accusations such as "two tier policing", implying that people of certain groups are treated differently to people of other groups for similar offences. I thought the point was exactly that, that the photo wouldn't be much good in identifying who it was?

To be fair, unless someone from the group has told Sam that their arrangements have changed, he can't be expected to change the website! But even if they have, he has a really heavy workload and works very hard at putting on and overseeing a wide range of excellent events and activities, so it may take him a while to do it.

Watched? Didn't anybody try to stop them?

Also it should be clear at the time of the session, because for lane swimming the pool is divided into lanes (fast, slow etc) whereas for the family/open swim or whatever it's called, it isn't. It wouldn't be appropriate to have babies in the lane swimming sessions, and I've never seen children in them so I have no idea if there's an age limit, however presumably they would have to be able to swim and be able to go in the deep end (not that it's very deep at Dulwich!) But I haven't been there during school holidays.

It's on the Ivy House website under "activities". First Monday of the month at 7pm. Https://www.ivyhousenunhead.co.uk/activities/ The pub won't be directly running this group themselves, but if you did want to contact them, the events manager is Sam and his email address is [email protected] He might have a contact number or email address for whoever started the group, should you want to find out more about it before turning up to it!

Pound shop. Just the thing for that location 😂

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