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We saw the male heron in dulwich park the other weekend. He grabbed a baby rat out the reeds and dispatched it by drowning and crushing....lovely. The rat was squealing it's head off. Nature at it's finest.

Anybody got any views on this? We were thinking Pedder but have heard they are only local and might not have as much reach to potential buyers in other areas of London. Cheers

The only way to figure this one out is for someone to go and have a wee dram and report back. Any offers?

Yep no cavity as it's Victorian. Was thinking of upgrading the loft insulation anyway so if it does work out to be for real and the council pay for it then it's a bonus. Will wait to hear from the guy at Southwark to confirm it's for real. It's just a bit odd them not going into any detail of who would be paying etc.

Has anyone else received a letter from the council about a company coming round their house to carry out a survey to see whether their property is suitable for wall or loft insulation? The letter doesn't state if the council will pay for this and leaves things unexplained. We own our property and thought this may have been sent by accident as it seems like something more to do with social housing. I have called Southwark but didn't manage to speak to the person on the letter (left a voicemail) Can anyone enlighten me?

So Milk76 How exactly did they get in. Were all your doors and windows locked?

If you have fire/smoke alarms they should go off way before the smoke gets bad enough not to see and find any keys. Just put them somewhere away from the door in a container so you know exactly where to go straight away.

drive?

'no longer lives at this address, please return to sender' usually works.

huh?

...as in the race starts at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm ????

Oh it did the link automatically.. sweet....you might need to refresh the page though once its loaded as you may get a black picture to start with.

Hope this works. Copy and paste the link into google maps..not sure how to do it the way dukesdenver did. If not type in 81 Old Brompton Road on google maps. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.493537,-0.168966&spn=0,359.991031&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.493537,-0.168966&panoid=d7RgLHvFGX1TzCBcVL5dUQ&cbp=12,162.11513729826962,,0,-1.1363636363636391

There are nice areas to the east and west of Sevenoaks. You can get the train to Sevenoaks from a couple of stations I believe. I did a 14 mile walk with plenty of hills near there the other weekend with some friends.

Yes he does live in SE22 (or he did 8 months ago before we moved. Used to live down the same road as him near ED station.

I rang Southwark Council a few weeks before Christmas requesting a new blue bag. The person I spoke to said they had run out and would put me on a waiting list. She said it would be about 3 months before I got a new one!!! Fortunately a nice bin man dumped someone elses bag in our garden so now we're using that. They aren't all bad you know :)

Nice 'n' Spicy Nik Naks!!

Found out it was last night and it started at about 8.45. It was ?1 each then you could pay an extra pound to enter a bonus question with ?330 up for grabs. The bonus is now gone....but not in my pocket...grrr!!

I know what you mean, we ditched ours as well. Are you the brainy type perchance??

Is this still on a Tuesday at 9pm?? Thanks

We have a 3 bed house and pay ?40 a month. Do you leave the lights and heating on all day??? Mayeb you work or have someone at home most the time?

Why dont you check if you're in credit on your bill. We were in credit by about ?50 after the last quarter and I got an email from Scottish power saying they were putting our direct debit up by ?20. I called them to say this was not needed as our current DD was enough to keep us in credit even with the onset of winter. They didn't change it after I'd explained it to them. I think they just have an automated system and don't really check that closely.

MM Can you tell us who you got insurance with?? PM me if you don't want to divulge on this thread.

It's Ludlow Thompson expanding...lol

I think some are secret wannabe Michael Schumachers and why do they insist on edging out into traffic (tiny nudge on foot break, tiny nudge on accelerator and so on and so on )causing a rocking horse effect (annoying!!!)