Sue

Perhaps they have new staff and/or a new chef (given your comments about the other food you got). Not that that is any excuse, obviously.

That's a shame. I haven't used them for a long time as I haven't had a delivery for a long time, but I always found their food and service reliably good.

I have found that some tradespeople ask you to post a review on here after they have completed a job. This puts you in a difficult position if you thought they were ok but not outstanding, but I imagine is the reason why some people have so many reviews, because their customers feel obliged to post something. Also, if someone does a really crap job, it would probably have to be extraordinarily bad before anyone would post about it on here, for the reasons Moovart gives. So the reviews are very useful (thanks admin) but there are downsides. But then even if you have a personal recommendation from someone, that doesn't necessarily mean that that tradesperson will do an equally good job for you. It's all a minefield 😂

Those projects were both great ideas which had they been assessed as feasible would have been wonderful assets for the whole community. I think it was reasonable for the council to contribute towards feasibility studies. The amounts contributed were not enormous in the great scheme of things. I'm sure people wouldn't be grumbling about them now if the projects had gone ahead.

Does anybody have this in SE22? I just checked my postcode, and it says "We don't offer service at the address you checked and we have no plans to build here" 😮 Why?!

I thought there already was?

They aren't "helping me with my everyday banking needs " In order to show the bank some ID documents, they told me I had to make an appointment. In LEWISHAM 😡

Does this not mean there could be a leak between your house and the meter? Have you phoned Thames Water to ask what the possible causes are and if they will be coming to investigate? I had a leak in my house which I had no idea was there, btw. I found out about it on Christmas Day when water came through my kitchen ceiling. A concealed cistern had been slowly leaking water through a small crack in a connection, probably for months, onto my bathroom floor behind a panel, where it could not be seen.

Sorry I don't understand? You do what? The government has greatly cut council funding. Therefore in order to try to continue local public services, councils have to get their money from somewhere, either by increasing council tax or by initiatives like this one. Also, the Tories cut income tax rates decades ago in order to get elected, and no party is now going to put them back up again, with the effects on such things as the NHS and schools which we can see all around us. The whole infrastructure of this country is falling apart.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/28/cash-strapped-london-council-starts-crowdfunding-drive-to-pay-for-green-upgrades

Who was it, then? Don't keep us all in suspense 😂

Yes, there is a physio department at Guys as well. It's all very confusing!

I think there are physio departments in several locations. I don't know what the difference is. I've been to Tessa Jowell, but also Shakespeare Road, plus Willowfield for hand therapy. Possibly others which I've forgotten. One was associated with my GP in some way - I got an appointment the day after I phoned 😮

That's great! But I'm guessing you must have quite large gardens if there are two large composters?

"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.

Great evening, thanks everyone, so far we have raised nearly £2000 for the RNLI !

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.