PeckhamRose

Dishwashers apparently save energy: they only use the right amount of water and so if you fill up the dishwasher each time before use, even taking into account the energy used, you'll save something, money or energy, water definitely. However, no room in our flat for a dishwasher and we couldn't afford one anyway. Washing machines probably the same theory - better than washing each and every item separately. I remember reading that if you go in to a room which has say a strip light and turn it on each time you go in, during a day, you would save energy by keeping it on because the energy it uses being turned on each time is more than if you had left it on. But that may be bollo&s. Do Macs use energy more efficiently than PCs? Then the world should demand the desctruction of all PCs! I have a brick in the toilet cistern so it uses less water when flushing; can't afford a new modern cistern. Doing me best but sometimes I look out at the view of London and all the lights especially in the taller buildings, and think - I can't do this all alone, corporate social responsibility and all that. Piccadilly at night anyone? Pahhh

Well to say farewell to Summer we are going to Mount Ephraim Gardens Sunday 13th for Apple Sunday. All sounds lovely.

SlumDog East Dulwich

Bring back Jonathan Meades.

For the cycling on the pavement issue, come to the Police Ward Panel at harris Girls Academy Thurs evening 7pm. I'll start a thread in What On In East Dulwich. Only part of ED is covered by the area forum though.

Agree with man_or_mouse! Except in my case it's my motorcycle.

And what really pisses me off is when you fill out the forms when entering America, and they won't accept England Wales Scotland or Northern Island as the correct country you live in. They will ONLY accept UK which as mentioned above is really just a political word to describe the grouping of those individual countries. But it's WRONG you stupid thick ignorant American administrators, it's just plain WRONG. And if you DO write the country name, you're rejected and made to stand at the back of the queue to fill out the form again; I know, I've seen it done!

Don't worry, some Eastern European country will make them and fill the gap in the market, and we will be able to buy them from some of the shops in Rye Lane. And the Electricity Companies will devise a way if a way has not already been devised of working out which homes are using them. And this law loving government will be able to create yet another new law for us to break and criminalise us all with! Yayy!

Absolute Begonias. Lordship of the Flies. Remember about 10 years ago there was a TV drama series about a community based in Greenwich and the effect the loss of a kid has on them and it was all a bit trying to be Twin Peaks? Trafalgar Road I think it was called. Well the ED version is like that but about community response when shock horror another trinket shop opens.

Will this be the second marriage to be announced on this forum?!

Thanks cate and everyone - will try the last one soon.

Oh I saw a camera crew up Lordship Lane the other day. I heard something about a new drama being filmed based in East Dulwich.

I remember a few years ago the Eastern Europeans brought over for the job, were still picking ripe fruit in Lincolnshire in November because it was still so warm! It's normally this time of year I go on a road trip round England but I have had little work this year, so I can't afford to go. It's a fab time to go away, cheaper B&Bs and emptier roads and the tourist places are free of - tourists! But I still like this time of year, till about late October. What a beautiful day it is today!

I don't think the relevant person you're aiming your question at reads the forum. He's too busy running a pub in hard times to run a pub when something like 15 are closing per week. Anyway, go in there - ask for Laurence, and tell him. It's my local and they try and do a lot right, so let's balance it out, eh?

NO idea where I am supposed to put this thread. I telephone USA and NZ a lot (relatives) and have used a company called Swiftcall since it started in 1993. It's about to stop trading because of the competition but I have no idea which company to go with as such an easy to use replacement. With Swiftcall I had an account and could call from any landline to any landline anywhere in the world and from anywhere in the world to back home. I want to be able to do the same with the same ease of use and cheapness. Oh - please don't recommend BT's 'family and friends' system. I could indeed use that for one of my international numbers, and of course there's Skype which is fine for computers but I'm talking about travelling. Recommendations welcome, please and thanks very much!

I think he should be employed by the government to make sure no-one else does it. Clearly he is a clever so and so. But money will be wasted imprisoning him when he could do so much good in other ways. But that's me.

Just bought a MASSIVE bagfull of small unradiated tasty juicy tomatoes for one pahnd, a pahnd a pahnd, at - sorry but Lewisham Market!

And don't get me started on those dodgy people with hazel eyes.

"mainly middle to upper class" - ah that's why I've never heard of it on the SE15 side of the park! I would advertise in it if anyone above had said they read it regularly! I bet they're not cheap either.

Oil of Cloves works. What dentist you going to?

Oops, sorry. Family. I am on a diet so missing my M&Ms

This should be not in the Lounge but the Local Business and trades section? Good luck with your new additional profession Ma'am!

Spoke to a local postie this morning, as he sat on a box waiting for the delivery van with six bags of post to deliver. Since it was late and he was having to wait that's his manager upset with him, and his average 4 miles an hour delivery walking time down the pan. I told him I was one of the few who had bothered to write to my MP about the situation and she had written with a reply from the Communications Minister or some such person saying as Royal Mail was a limited company it was down to them (Mr Crozier). He told me a few years ago the posties in his area was told a big new clever sorting machine was being installed that meant it would do things so much faster and more accurately. The night staff were fired before the machine was installed. To date that machine has yet to be installed. All the day workers are doing the extra work. The Casuals are paid MORE than the regular posties who know the rounds. I support the postal workers 110% and think the whole service should be re-nationalised. But that's me.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You don't need analysing, AuraCaught - that was > one of the most exquisitely written posts I've > ever read. Agreed!. Too much analysing going on. You just DID stuff. Best wishes!

Or Prudence and the Pill!