Sue

Which is the one in Penge, Malumbu? Is that the very small one with the tea shop which has twee gifts and advertises in SE22 mag? I went there once. They did have good plants, as in well selected, but not very many of them if memory serves.

Thanks for this, I've never been there, I will check it out!

Strange their website makes no mention of it at all!

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Not strictly East Dulwich, but must be our nearest garden centre now, as our local ones closed years ago ? Very sad to hear that it's closing by the end of September. There's nothing on their website, but https://mailchi.mp/9be9512ba80d/important-announcement-closure-of-garden-centre

Can you not just contact the energy company and ask for the reason? On the face of it, that is a ridiculously high bill, so it would seem that something is wrong somewhere, as per the various suggestions above, but surely your first port of call would be the company who issued the bill?

Only just seen this. Thanks!

Thanks for all your hard work on this, Joe!

Excellent, I will go and look at the veg and say hello!

We have tried them all over the decades, and we currently like Mirash, just off the roundabout on the way to the station. Their mains are very good, however sadly the Sunday buffet is not great, especially if you don't eat meat. It's often very quiet, which is sad, but it's off the main drag so presumably overlooked and less likely to get passing trade.

Ah sorry Sue, it has been popular which is great as these youngsters are doing good work up there; I think they are keeping a waiting list so it might be worth emailing them. Also, we would encourage anyone passing by to say hello and take a look at the skate park and also the kitchen garden they have created. Thanks, I will. I didn't know they had a kitchen garden there, that's brilliant! Where abouts is it? Can you visit? My allotment is opposite the skate park (next to the tennis club)!

Building work is bound to be noisy. That noise obviously can't be helped. What the builders do have control over is the blaring out of their radios 😡 and to a lesser extent shouting to each other (I can see that the shouting may often be necessary). When neighbours are working at home, or otherwise at home during the day, constant loud radio noise - on top of the banging and drilling - which you can hear both inside your house and when trying to sit quietly in your garden is a nightmare 😭

You are objecting to building work being done because people want to repair or improve their houses?

Sadly all tickets are sold out, as I would love to have gone and your post was the first I had heard of it.

Wondering who is responsible for maintaining these notice boards? The one in North Cross Road has been vandalised, and some of them have been flyposted. Would be better if they were taken down altogether than left in this state, surely?

Both The Castle and the White Horse in Peckham used to have pool (?) tables, don't know if they still have.

I have only just noticed that the original post was from 2006, so the Sunday lunch get together for ten people was SIXTEEN YEARS AGO 🤣 How (and why?) has somebody resurrected a sixteen year old post?!

Another one. https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/where-to-live/guide-to-dulwich-village-boris-johnson-home-b1018866.html

I'm sure I must have missed something here, but why is it necessary to have a bus connection between East and North Dulwich stations? They are on the same train line, aren't they?

I thought that was in Herne Hill? ETA: Sorry, posted before I had read the rest of the thread.

Which road is it rumoured to be?

My partner, niece and I had an absolutely fantastic Sunday lunch at Franklins the weekend before last. https://www.franklinsrestaurant.com/ She had roast beef and we had a cauliflower dish that sounds a bit boring but had me practically licking the plate it was so delicious. Hers was so much she couldn't finish it (and she is a hearty eater). We also had an absolutely excellent dessert between the three of us. I know this sounds a bit over the top, but I really can't recommend it highly enough. It wasn't cheap (housewarming celebration for my niece who has just moved to a house share in London) but it was honestly worth every penny. We had a nice bottle of wine as well, and the service was excellent. We sat in the front bar, which has a nice atmosphere, but there is a proper restaurant area at the back, plus tables on the pavement outside. ETA: The worst Sunday lunch I have ever had in my life was at the Crown and Greyhound. In fact it was one of the worst meals I have ever had in my life🙄

You could try the community garden in Brockwell Park? They sell some of their plants in pots, to raise funds.

I'm not surprised. I once saw two women pulling stuff out of them and just leaving it on the pavement (presumably after taking what they wanted). I take clothes which aren't good enough for a charity shop to sell to the hospice shop in a bag clearly marked "rags". They recycle them somewhere, can't remember where.

Is there anyone out there who can advise on a website issue? I already couldn't edit it but now it seems to have been hacked, and internal links are going to places I'd rather they didn't, to put it mildly 😭 Please PM me if you can help or know someone who can, thanks. I was already looking to start the whole thing from scratch, but this has now become more urgent, and made more difficult because I don't have a working laptop at the moment 😭