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What's all the ash though? Or is it dust?

That is utterly disgusting. What is wrong with people? Please update the thread when you get a reply op and I am so sorry your children were frightened.

Really sorry to hear of your awful experience malia.

The Salvation Army. St Mungo's. The Passage. The Passage have a phone number and link on their website to Streetlink.

Very slow for us last couple of days. We are further up LL (just off), where it starts to become Forest Hill.

Is it possible to join without being given the Third Degree? I didn't like the level of scrutiny I was put under when I applied to join the 48% FB group.

Mumsnet or NetMums could give you really helpful answers to this question (just a wider audience). I have to say as someone with only minor experience of nurseries (and that quite a long time ago) that those t&c's seem extraordinary!

Big Brother and CBB. The first one or two series of BB were quite interesting. Have never watched CBB.

Very happy to add our recommendation for Lee Garvey Plumbing on the forum. Our annoying problem was quickly sorted, without fuss, even though they were clearly very busy. Thanks guys!

So how does the waiting list operate in a school that allocates places by lottery rather than distance? Jerry, both the Charter School Herne Hill and Kingsdale are very over-subscribed and have long waiting lists. If you move to within the Charter School "catchment" area you will automatically go above someone who lives further away from the school than you do, no matter how long they have been on the waiting list. Distance is all. With Kingsdale, there isn't a catchment, so I'm not sure how they manage their waiting lists when new people apply.

How does Kingsdale handle in year applications? anyone know?

Just letting folks know that the recycling facilities are still in situ at the big Sainsbury's Saver Centre at Bell Green.

Just letting folks know that the recycling facilities are still in situ at the big Sainsbury's Saver Centre at Bell Green.

I often pick up a few items in Lidl. It isn't the greatest experience of my life, tbh, because of the awful scruffiness and the queues. I can't say I love it. There's a lot to be said for shopping in a clean and welcoming environment. Possibly lulls you into a benign mood where you spend even more than you intended? In Peckham Lidl just before Christmas, I saw an opened box of tissues on the shelf! For some reason that really rattled me. Someone going round the shop obviously had a nose blowing emergency and instead of just buying the whole bloody box for 95p or something, they thought it was ok to open the box for a handful of tissues and leave it there.

I can't see what is green or environmentally friendly about having to make a special car journey of several miles to recycle stuff. I do think this is an appalling decision by the council, although in the light of swingeing budget cuts, perhaps not that surprising.

There were fundraisers packing for charity at the checkout in M&S on Christmas Eve - much appreciated.

I always used those bins for recycling textiles or if we had no more room in our blue bin. Yes, we have good recycling collections in Southwark but clearly there was a need for those large collection points in the supermarket otherwise they wouldn't have got full so quickly! Are we supposed to drive to the dump now? I agree that all those items which could previously be properly recycled at the supermarket will now end up in landfill or fly tipped and then landfill! Crazy decision.

Healey You will be an old person moaning about kids one day, I more or less guarantee it! I have children but the little toddling critters or the ones that cry a lot (babies) can be incredibly annoying when you've treated yourself to a meal out somewhere. Even when my children were small and exuberant I really didn't expect every single eating and drinking establishment to welcome them. I wasn't that entitled.

I know Admin doesn't like duplicate threads, but I wonder if the title of this could be amended so that EDF readers who have so far ignored the thread, or who read it in its early days and don't know about the new developments (like me), are now alerted to the fact that that the proposal is getting closer to happening and there is little time left to object (should you wish to) ?

Ah ha, I didn't think about the special offer on my birthday thing. This is where I might have been quite cute - I thought they may be trying to wangle their bookings so that younger customers get priority (it's one of those establishments and a very busy time of year) so I used correct day and month, just shaved 10 years off the year! So I might get my birthday offer after all. Will update in 10 months ...

I'd rather book by ye olde fashyionned phone, such is the depth of my wrinkles.

Why do you think they would do that? Is is to keep the grey and wrinklies out?

Forest Hill School have done as much as they can, I think, with regard to this recent spate of muggings. Ironically, mobile phones are banned in the school and most of the pupils don't even take their phones to school with them. I feel so sorry for your son, OP, and all the other young folk who have been targeted like this. Where do all the phones go? I just can't believe that there is a huge black market for them!

Sorry for incredibly dull thread but I daren't put it in the main ED section. I've got too many bottles for my blue bin, where in Forest Hill to recycle now that the banks in Sainsburys car park have gone? Thanks!

Is ?2.25 for a packet of crisps about right? I'm obviously way behind the times!