PeckhamRose

This'll disappear, it may be moved to the About the Forum section. Maybe.

Seriously, seven pounds? Wow...

He LOOKED Romanian or Kosovan? He was white, right?

The lights are already installed and ready at Oxford Street. I think they look the same as last year's. Indeed come to think of it I am not 100 % sure they were actually taken down...

I also hate the label thing. And when being asked if you are Mrs or Miss, but men don't have to state whether they're married because their label doesn't change. I dislike the connotation thing. Ladies and Gentlemen is fine, men and women is fine, husband and wife is fine. Man and wife? Grrrr. You never hear Woman and Husband! I think they should be abolished; it's class and gender nonsense.

Did anyone go? What did people think? In the end I couldn't go! :(

I assume you told the police and the SNT. If not, please do.

Sugar (for tea and coffee) Jack Daniels Milk (an endless supply..) Vegemite endless supply of ingredients for the Bread machine I have said before to friends that happiness is Somewhere safe and comfy to live and a full tank of petrol on the motorcycle. Happy girl!

I had no idea that poison ivy grew in this country! Interesting thread!

That's hysterical! So who got in the van? You?!

I described them well enough, and no. I can't! Someone PMd me with who they thought one of them was, but it wasn't. Thanks though.

I took them on film.

1) It's a large dog and I am 99% sure it is a Boxer. And s/he's sitting down looking straight at me with his tongue out, and s/he has a dark blue bandana round his neck. There are two women I think on the other end of the lead (I did not photo their faces) and one wears a full length dark blue skirt with what looks like Crocs on her feet. It's such a good photo if I say so myself and if it were my pet I'd love this! 2) A massive black or dark brown dog, but not a Great Dane I am sure, has locked his chops around an ice lolly! The woman holding the lolly is sitting down and I am sure she is pregnant. She has beautiful shiny dark brown straight hair, below ear length, and a red strappy top, wearing sunglasses, jeans and painted toe nails. With her other hand she is holding a lead which leads to another dog not in the photo. The lead of Big lolly loving dog, which is thick rope-like, is being held by someone else not in the photo. There is, I think, a red kid's scooter in front of her also. I'd love you both to have these photos so if you know of the identity of the people and dogs I have described please PM me. I took them on film and have been away so only just got them processed. Thanks!

I highly recommend the Nunhead Surgery, Nunhead Grove, up the road from the Man of Kent pub. They are a great bunch and the receptionists are helpful and friendly too. I have been a patient there for about 20 years or so and my health needs mean I have to go regularly. I attend their Patient Forums (All surgeries should have these now, so all the GP surgeries who you feel agrieved by, you should have the opportunity to complain in person at these forums.) Nunhead Surgery has people who answer the phone, and 020 landline numbers unlike some who have 0845 numbers and call centre type answer systems. Nunhead Surgery regularly comes top or near top in the patient satisfaction surveys of the surgeries in Southwark. Hope they're in your catchment area now I have praised them so highly!

I'm going to the drop in session, and will leak some information to you. I think 1600 to 1700 hours isn't bad.

I don't think so. This one has a dental surgery room right behind the reception so there's not much opportunity for any confidentiality.

My Dentist practice in East Dulwich - you may know the one, they keep you on hold for ages and the practice manager has 'attitude' but the dentists are lovely - recently told me that if something goes wrong and you have to come back to have it redone (a filling comes out after a week, for example), then you have to pay the ?48 or whatever you paid AGAIN if you see a different dentist within the same practice. And if you have to go back as an emergency because said filling has left the gap that now hurts, you have to pay the emergency fee on top because you're not seeing the same dentist. I said but what if the dentist is on holiday for a month, or has left. Tough, was the basic reply. This sounded wrong, immoral, and just pants. But practice manager insisted she was right. Meanwhile I had to wait 9 days to see the original dentist to put the filling back as I did not want to pay another ?48. I rang the PCT and they agreed with me. You do not have to pay again if you see a different dentist within the same practice to fix the problem. Your contract is with the surgery/clinic and not with an individual dentist. The PCT are phoning the practice to put them right. So if any of you have been told this and paid up, demand your money back! Just thought I'd share the info! Edited for clarity.

Thanks for all the info Eileen. Sadly I could not make the Sep meeting but look forward to the talk next week. Ben O'Looney is a gem for the Peckham Society.

Are you ready Steve?

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Actually, like, literally.

LEASEHOLDERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWARK 2000 (LAS 2000), PO Box 23394, London, SE16 2WA They are volunteers so don't have money for an office so work out of people's homes. If you write and want some advice it would be polite to send an SAE. They are only ?12 a year to join. Here's the sort of success they can be proud of http://www.anthonygold.co.uk/site/library/firmnews/andrew_brookes_in_victory_for_southwark_council_leaseholders

If you are going to be a leaseholder in Southwark, I recommend you (and anyone reading this) join the Leaseholders Association of Southwark. They are a group of leaseholder volunteers who have been so helpful to me. Southwark - 3 years after putting wonderful new double glazed windows in our flats resulting in me not needing to put the fire on during winter the last 3 winters - now have demanded an EXTRA ?2000 for the works. LAS 2000 have proven helpful to me as I try and argue that this is a tad unreasonable.

Not fewer laissez-faire though. That wouldn't make sense. So...

Like, no. So.... And don't call me Jay z. (!) Back to the OP. I think the first time I heard the word dissect was at school when we were told to DYE sect a mouse. I refused. And not because I was waiting for the teacher to say DISS sect, but because I thought it was a wrong thing to do. But as the teacher had said DYE sect, it would not have occurred to me that she had mispronounced it! I have never heard anyone say DISSect, but since I respect PGC I shall consider using that pronunciation from now on. So...