Sue

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 🙄

Oh dear. Looks like someone put it in the bag upside down 😭

He has been in Ulverscroft Road today. Apparently very angry and intimidating to several people who had the misfortune to answer the door to him (according to the road What'sApp group. He hasn't called at my house). Very similar to what KidKruger has posted above.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, there's a "contact us" link . At least there is at the bottom of mine! I'm on my mobile, on the EDF app.

Pubs will usually let you use their toilets if you ask politely at the bar. Also other places if you are really desperate and ask politely. In my experience, anyway.

That is really annoying for you. This is a really stupid question, but could Amazon somehow have your wrong address? When my parcel wasn't delivered recently when it was shown as delivery attempted, I was told that possibly someone could have mislabelled it (I did get it the next day, and it did have the right address on). However that was an Amazon parcel using Royal Mail for delivery, not Amazon directly.

You said Khan "remains a huge liability to London in general". If you weren't referring to his efforts to reduce emissions and pollution (and hence to affect climate change, however minimally and belatedly) perhaps you could be more specific in why you said this at all in - yes! - a thread about bus frequency!

I have just received my first Christmas card, posted 18 November. Usually this arrives in November 🤣 Not the same one, obviously, but from the same people. With a lengthy handwritten letter 😮

The failure has been since the postal service was privatised. The money we pay is going towards profit for shareholders instead of towards improving the service.

What did Amazon say when you complained? Also, I don't understand how the tracking could show the drivers were on your street if they weren't?

But they would have to sweep them every day at this time of year! The council swept Ulverscroft Road leaves, put them in bags and collected them - but now, obviously, a load more leaves which have fallen since are lying on the pavement. I think it's somewhat unfair to say they "don't bother" sweeping them, unless you have evidence of that.

I think the 75p/£1.25 postage is a good reason not to send cards 🤣

Probably safest to book, particularly if you want a table in a particular part of the restaurant (or at all in the case of Maria's Tortilla, as some of the seating is at the bar).

The holding of buses to even out the service is to try to prevent buses being bunched up at certain sections of the route, eg due to traffic conditions, which means that there may be none at all on other sections of the route, where people would therefore have to wait a lot longer for a bus. And why do you say "Khan remains a huge liability to London in general"? I think he has been a great mayor. Or are you one of the people who has their heads buried firmly in the sand about issues such as climate change and pollution?