23e Heure

I live near the no through end of hinckley road, by the goose green playground. At least 20 times a day moped riders are jumping the 'dead end' between Hinckley Road and East Dulwich Road by mounting the pavement and riding along the footpath past the playground. Here's where I mean I so dont want to turn into Victor Meldrew, but it's driving us mad. Not only to have bikes constantly clonking up and down the pavement and buzzing past our window. But more importantly that it's plain dangerous - it's a 'blind' corner, and children are often walking along there. Where do I take this? The police? The council? In the evenings it's mostly pizza bikes, but when calling Pizza Hut and Dominos hasn't changed anything. And there are plenty of 'private' scooters doing it too. "I don't believe it!"

It's not just the small shops that have high price items. I went to buy some chocolate in WHSmith the other day. They charge 92 pence for a Yorkie. Now I don't often buy chocolate bars, so maybe I'm out of step with the times but... 92p for a bar of chocolate?? Not a kingsize, just a regular ol'Yorkie.

Thank you. Used the chap just up from the Post Office as recommended.

I've always known about my OCD tendencies. With the recent arrival of LittleHeure, I'm actually hoping those tendencies will be forced to realx a bit... wishful thinking!?

Quick'n'simple question: Where can I get passport photos taken in ED today? Thanks!

Well all your advice was taken on board, and my labour back packed full and tight. What with the wife's bag too, the baby's bag, the car seat, another bag for luck - oh, and a pregnant woman too - it was one back breaking consignment to take out to the car in the mist at 3.30 this Wednesday morning. But heck I wasn't complaining: we could be in that hospital for days, and would need all the supplies and comforts we could get. We left Goose Green at 3.35, wife was in the labour room at 4... and our beautiful baby girl born at 4.30! Don't regret my men's version labour bag one bit - all that preparation meant I could concentrate on everything I had to do, and not worry about racing around getting my stuff together. Thanks for the advice... am sure we'll both be asking for plenty more from this part of the forum now that parenthood has arrived!

Thanks everyone for all the feedback and good ideas. Bendy straws is a good one, so they are packed. Along with extra tissues: it's highly likely that I will be the one doing the most crying too! Now we wait as patiently as we can for the process to get started...

My wife is due with our first in two weeks. We think we have everything prepared, but I haven't got my own bag packed for the Big Day. This may be coming across as painfully self consciously "new man", but I just want to make sure that I have everything to hand and don't forget something stupidly obvious. Mobile phone, wallet, warm jumpe, wife's favourites drinks, music and a book I have already. Anyone want to volunteer some more items that saved your man's bacon on labour day!?

It's just possible your postman is doing the same as mine? Link here:Leaving parcels under the doormat

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Royal Mail Complaints... Thanks.

GinaG3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... when I got home the next day > the postman had left a parcel on my doorstep all > night. Glad it wasn't nicked it was quite a > expensive order I had placed in a less convincing > sized box but still shouldn't of been left there > at all! Hi Gina, We had the same thing on 2 separate days last week: postman putting parcels under the doormat, which could easily be seen and pinched by anyone passing. The second time he did it, my wife was home and saw the postman from an upstairs window. So she ran down and asked him why he hadn't knocked, and why he thought it ok to leave parcels where they could get stolen. He simply turned his back and walked up the street. Anyone know where/how we make a complaint? Thanks!

We're expecting our first in early Feb. I very much enjoyed this one:Peter Downey

This Christmas has certainly let me in indulge in abundant galimaufrey

Not going to win an award for most exciting post of the year, but I don't know where to ask this dull question! Does our council have a team to sweep and collect the Autumn leaves? I live by Goose Green playground, and all of the heavy fall of autumn leaves we had a few weeks ago are left rotting and untouched. Maybe naive, but I thought this was something the council would have a team of people dealing with?

Nice! Anyone have a link to a higher res version of that?

cate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To those who want to convert their green bins to > blue ones; what will you put your non-recyclable > stuff in? I currently have two of the small size green wheelie bins. One is currently redundant. Am holding off on asking Southwark to collect it in the hope fo future 'conversion' opportunity

- The blue boxes are impractical/messy... - ...Clearly "Messy" for the collection team to deal with: for the past 3 weeks on the trot they have emptied mine and then simply tossed them direspectfully over my hedge! I don't want to be a forum whinger, but am just forced to get on here and have a little rant about that: Please Southwark just offer us blue wheelie bins or self apply lid stickers to 'convert' our existing green bin to a blue one: it will make for a cleaner and more attractive local environment, and will surely be more efficient for the collection teams to handle! I'll definitely fill in that survey (!)

...I was racing a 1966 Porsche 906

Funny you say that: We moved (back) here from Clapham because we felt it more mum friendly. Or is this just conflicting definitions of "Yummy Mummy"? My wife is about to become a Mummy. And she's definitely Yummy. So she'll be a Yummy Mummy to me :-$ In Clapham we were in Abbeville Village, which was populated by mums with lots of money/designer buggies/porsche cayennes etc. They were just 'Lucky Mummies' to me, (although some were also 'Yummy' looking but don't let my wife hear me say that) nancyse15 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just hope it doesn't go too far and go all > Clapham... I love the fact there is still a wide > variety of people - not just yummy mummies, > although they do seem to be multiplying. I live in > Peckham so I do enjoy escaping to LL for a good > coffee.

Mothercare are doing very good deals on the 09 bugaboo bee right now, with a further ?40 off if you order in store

Someone suggested Bodeans: it's not going to happen, but wow what a thought, yes please!