Sue

I just went in to buy a bottle of Kahlua. It was £16, or £12 with a Nectar card, which I have. At the till I wasn't asked for my Nectar card until I asked if they were going to scan it, and after it was scanned I was charged £24. When I protested, the guy said "have you got a photo of the price?" WTF! Yes, every item I buy in Sainsbury's I take a photo of the price 😡 He made me go all the way back through the store to take a photo, and only then charged me £12. Had this been part of a mega shop, I might not even have noticed, so check your bill! Oh, and then I got on a P13 going in the wrong direction 😂 Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

Thanks both!

When we were in East Dulwich for Christmas we used to go to a carol service at St John's (Goose Green) which was held before Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, but this year there just seems to be Christingle for children that afternoon. I can't see anything in the Events section. Does anybody know of an evening carol service in East Dulwich (or nearby) on Christmas Eve this year?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/royal-mail-collapse-cant-even-deliver-christmas-present?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Took it all to the tip today, no problems, thanks everyone ❤️

As I have in the past complained on here about loud music from builders, I would just like to thank the various builders around the North Cross Road area recently for not having radios blasting out, or indeed any music at any level. Building work is inevitably noisy, which can't be helped, but it has been so nice not to have that added to by loud music. And so nice not to have to be glared at (or worse) if I ask them to turn the music down (assuming they can hear me above the noise).

Are Royal Mail using temporary staff in the run up to Christmas?

That would have been a good idea, but for the fact that someone recently trailed blue paint all over several walls in my road, apparently deliberately 🙄, so I'm not risking it. Also a cat trod in it so there were blue paw prints (and presumably a cat with paint on its paws 😭) Thanks for the useful link, h3+, and the other replies. I did think I had seen paint cans at the tip in the past, which was why I was confused when I checked on the website. I will take them there!

Southwark Council's website says the recycling centre does not take "paint tins" but paint is not mentioned anywhere. I have a load of paint tins with unused (and so old that it might be unusable) paint. Some of them are full, or nearly full. What can I do with them? Put them in the green bin with the paint in? I've found another website (not the council) which says that the Southwark recycling centre does take paint, so now I'm thoroughly confused. And it also says not to put paint in with general household rubbish. I've got to do something with it!

Is it still closed on Saturday lunchtimes?

There has been one on Goose Green in the past, which I believe was provided by the nearby primary school.

I suppose very convenient for all the builders working round here, but what happens when every house has had its loft extension and side return extension kitchen? Just a never ending round of redecorating?

I go to the one near Camberwell Green now. Easier for me to get to, several buses go there from Lordship Lane (though I don't normally make a special trip, just go there if I'm in that direction anyway)

Screwfix???? That's a strange place to have a Screwfix 🙄

I know, I've already got loads of them. Hence my reference to Lidl lebkuchen 🤣

I think it was already vandalised some way back. But hey, it's the lounge! It's a festive thread! Anything goes as long as it's festive- related! Or even if it isn't! Anybody else eating too many of those German iced spicy lebkuchen things from Lidl and then feeling slightly ill? Anybody else discovered that more than one supermarket has not one Christmas pudding available for sale online, but they taunt you with all the various Christmas puddings that would have been available in the brief window between them going on sale and them becoming unavailable? GRRRR. I'm not feeling festive now. I'll have to GO OUT IN THE COLD to find a Christmas pud 😭🤣

None of them any more. Edited to add: I agree with the posts below that Kokum is excellent, but it isn't on Lordship Lane and it is in a different category of restaurant to the run of the mill places on Lordship Lane. And also considerably more expensive!

Surely it's "God bless us, every one", not "God bless us everyone"? That doesn't make sense 😕 I was going to say that the face of that child at the end nearly made me throw up, but it's Christmas, so I won't. Oh. I did. Sue: Not keen on Dickens. Likes quotation marks. Didn't think they were necessary in the post complained of above, and in fact would have detracted from the post. Relights blue touch paper and stands well away. 🤣

🤣🤣🤣 Not to my knowledge!

Ooops, yes I did mean Camberwell.

Isn't there one in Peckham, in that road that goes towards the Oval?

Presumably they recalled it because of the typo, but didn't do it properly, so the recall email went out to everyone but the email they intended to recall didn't get recalled? I haven't had any of them - I won't take that personally, either 🤣

I'm finding local NHS communications quite difficult at the moment. Their new MyChart system doesn't seem to link up with whatever is sending automated texts about appointments, or with anything else. So I have more than once had contradictory information in different places, eg getting a reminder in one place about an appointment I have changed the date of (grammar) in another place. I know they are still bedding in the system, but this seems a bit of a basic thing to sort out. And I know they have to have high confidentiality/security, but I'm finding logging in each time an annoying nightmare, having to go into my email on my mobile to get a validation code. Is anyone else having problems?

I've been trying to change a physio appointment and I can't get a ring tone (?) either on the main switchboard number or on the off-site physio number. I've checked it isn't my mobile. Does anyone have any info? I will try other contact methods, but I know the physio department has a massive backlog of emails, and it's impossible to know if they are picking up texts via the automated system.

Yes. Reverse the privatisation. I know, I know - pigs might fly 🙄