PeckhamRose

Hi Yes I heard that item on You and Yours on Radio Four. In my case UKPC have simply have not proven the case, refused to answer my reasonable questions, and are bullying. A great forum consumeractiongroup.co.uk is highly recommended for anyone else and have been helpful to me. But as for the Seat car - DVLA shouldn't be advertising private companies! That's like DWP offering a competition to win a job in Tescos!

I am appalled at the neighbours being upset at the noise from the kids. I would be oh so nice to the neighbours try and make them feel guilty. Have a cake making afternoon and offer the nice cakes to your neighbours. If the kids are old enough and the neighbours very old enough, tell them you are thinking of taking your kids to first aid classes which could be very useful in the future....

OK opinions sought. DVLA sold my information albeit for only ?2.50 to a very dodgy car parking company who had no right to have it, as they are bullying and their methods appear very against recommendations set out in various laws. Since I was not the person driving the vehicle at the time, I almost look forward to a day in court, since they have now had debt collection agency writing to me and they will no doubt take that further. (If you are legally riding someone else's vehicle and cause an accident or break the law somehow, it's you not the owner of the vehicle in trouble, right?) Anyway, further and separate to the above, I have just received my tax disc reminder and - like my tax itself and everything else - I support my local (now getting further away) post office so I pay my tax and tax disc there. But DVLA now offer me a chance of a prize of a Seat CAR if I pay on line, saying they want to encourage the move to a low emission vehicle. I ride a little motorcycle. It may even be an electric scooter (it's not, but they don't know that as they put these sheets in all their letters). They reckon the offer of a free prize draw is innovative for a government agency. No, it's not. It's a government agency selling out with advertising. Naive, I know. But it's still wrong! Discuss.

SO this new website then, can we spend all day slagging off the council in it?

Do you have new jimjams for the occasion?

I like inclusivity. Including trying to read the sign language of the deaf people I see in pubs in Lordship Lane sometimes. If all pubs and bars are gay friendly (and I think in ED they seem to be) what's the problem? Bars and pubs are having a seriously bad time at the moment and they need to be attractive to everyone. I like the idea of going into a pub and seeing all sorts of people in there, except, of course, screaming kids.... (FHT the other night)! If a gay bar means screaming kids are absent I'll go in there too/instead ;)

Can't get any channels on me Freeview or TopUp. Meanwhile, 74 miles away, neither can me Mum get anything on Sky. Back to the puter, then. Anyone else?

It's you, and I live in SE15! ED is important and villagey and to top it all, it's even keeping up with the PeckhamJoneses now it's got its own palm tree. Perfect.

Also there is a booklet Piaggio sponsored with all the bike parks listed but I am not sure where you can get them from now. A new site which also lists them (but asks for us all to help them update it for the benefit of all of us bikers) is www.scoopark.co.uk It's a different one to the one mentioned by SMcG.

OutofworkingClassicide?

Seems to be the definite answer there, and this coming from someone called Beef! :D beef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The best vegan marge for cakes is Tomor, comes in > a block like butter, so is great for pastry making > too. Available from DKH Sainsburys (occasionally) > and Waitrose Online.

? Is this an in joke with EDF? HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because without a surfeit of Stella then nobody > would ever have the courage to wear a 'wifebeater' > vest. > You haven't thought it through JB..

Yup, but it will get lonely and may pine (palm?) for more of its mates with him. The row of Palm trees and yukkas on the Peckham stretch sometimes look a bit badly kept. They're tough trees, but they do need a bit of tending to since they are not in their natural habitat. I hope they develop a healthy defence against car fumes. They remind me of holidays too. Your post is right and appropriate SmG!

You were back after just fifteen minutes? Wow. I queue for half an hour in that place sometimes. I concur with your experience of that place and also agree the reason: Southwark Council DDebit screwed up my account too so I pay Council Tax and Service Charges by cash! It's a nice walk down there, though...

But . . . splutter .... cough.... it's not LONDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I now need a bag for my bags. I got one from The British Humanist Association, Sopers Fishmongers on Evelina Road Nunhead, The Co-operative on Forest Hill Road, and a few others. Still not found one saying ILovePeckham and hope there's some left in Acorns of ILoveEastDulwich, too. Or Snub.

I only ever use oil in carrot cake (as well as carrots and all the other ingredients!) In fact I have no imagination as a cook but my recipe says use oil. And if it works in that....!

I like Laurence and the beardy one at Clockhouse, mind you I've been going there years. Cheers...

And Tina's Hairdressers.

I think on you lots next pub crawl you should make notes of all the prices in all the pubs and copy them up here. Would be mighty interesting. Totally inpractical by the end of the crawl, of course, but interesting!

He's home but is he okay? Does he have any excuse/story/fleas? Great news though and thanks for letting us know.

This is not just an SE22 problem. I have lost several ebay items too either as sender or expectant receiver. Probably not just a SE15 and SE22 problem, either.

My school was crap. TV was my education. And continues to be so. But yes drama output is down considerably because it is so expensive to produce. In the days of the Wednesday play people had little else to do, or chose to do little else... But now to invest in a new drama even by an established writer is such a risk it's barely done. Even one off dramas tend to be written by very well known writers. And let's face it now there is little else worthy of watching other than intelligent dramas, great comedies, and of course TopGear. Oh, and documentaries. We still make good documentaries. Oh and cartoons. giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't have a TV; haven't had one for years. > Every minute you spend in front of the box is a > wasted minute. TV is rubbish and it's getting > worse. If you're wondering where your licence fee > is going let me tell you that the BBC has spent a > small fortune trying to get me to buy a licence. > Go figure. They just won't accept that I not > everyone has a frigging telly.

Can highly recommend anything you may see advertised as being at The Great Debating Chamber in London County Hall. Yup, the one Ken Livingstone lived in before he took a break as an MP then returning up the river... Saw Andy McQuade in two one man shows Saturday, and he was wonderful, but the theatre itself was the most unusual and beautiful venue! You get to sit in comfy leather seats with little desks in front of you!

Another idea for picnic space which I did yesterday. But not in ED! Check the tide tables and eat on the Thames "beach". Yesterday I found myself at the beach which is accessible by stairs right next to the Surrey Docks Farm. There is a quite a bit of sand but the rest of it is rocks and stones, so take a fold up table and chairs (!!!) Orrr as in my case, just sit on the stairs. Absolutely lovely, totally alone, and when the pleasure tourist boats come by you can wave at them, and also see the Isle of Dogs buildings across the river. No, seriously, it was absolutely devine. Walking up the stairs leading to the door to the beach, there are blackberries so had some of them too! And to my shock when I walked around Surrey Docks Farm itself, on a sign right in front for all to see, they advertise the fact they're now selling organic lamb and pork!!