another annie

Thanks all, now I can stop faffing around with it and just wait.....

Is anyone else having problems with Virgin Media tv today, or is it just us? (Goodrich Road, Lordship Lane end). Thanks

Yes, Forest Hill Road GP texted me yesterday and I have an appointment next week, they had lots of dates available. Was very well organised and easy last year. I'm also having the pneumococcal? jab at the same appointment, so two aching arms...?

Having been let down by another firm, we needed a taxi at very short notice this morning to get to an appointment at Kings. Remembering this thread we phoned Rye Cars and the car was outside our house in ten minutes or less. Great service.

Yes, I got that text message at around midday today, thought it looked a bit odd, too, so didn't open up the whole message. Coincidentally I'd booked my second covid jab at Tessa Jowell earlier this morning (hoorah!)after a whole weekend trying, so I wondered if the text was connected with that and just made to look official. But then I'm a very suspicious person/worrier...

Yes, I'm in my sixties and was pleased to received the link to book my second jab (at TJ or Lister) yesterday morning. Have been logging in to book a slot pretty much hourly since then, but the website always says there are no available appointments at either surgery. Maybe I've just been unlucky with timing. Received a further text today reminding me to book my appointment, which was a bit irritating.

Yes, I always take my shoes and boots to Merrifields for new heels, soles etc, they come back looking like new. A skilled craftsman and a really nice guy.

The lady who invented the London A to Z lived in Court Lane Gardens, there's a plaque on the front of the house. Apparently she walked the streets to gather the information (no Google earth then...). Robert Elms came to unveil the plaque around ten years ago.

Pair of jays in our tiny back garden this afternoon - well, I assume it was pair, though they looked identical? Have only ever seen them up in the trees in the woods before, didn't realise they were so big. One found some worms to eat while the other kept watch from the shed roof. They looked so exotic, made my day!

Re: Sian's query above - I received a text from Forest Hill Road Practice on 6th Feb saying they were anticipating vaccinating the over 65s 'in the coming weeks', and told to reply YES if I wanted the covid vaccination. I texted back YES but haven't heard anything more from them yet.

London Figures?

I wrap the food waste for the kitchen caddy in 'parcels' using newspaper, it was suggested in one of the Veolia/Southwark leaflets. Keeps the caddy quite clean and recycles the Standard at the same time...

Thanks, good idea! We'll check that.

Trouble is if we're getting some letters, we don't know/suspect what might be getting held up. We thought our deliveries weren't too bad, then today my partner received a hospital appointment he has been waiting for. Trouble is, the appointment was more than a week ago. The letter from Kings was posted on 9th September. So, more waiting and worrying for him, and a wasted appointment at the hospital.

They're not at Belair any more - does anyone know where the nearest testing is now? Billingsgate is the nearest we can find thats up and running at the moment. Thanks!

I usually take them to the recycling bin specifically for plastic bags just inside the main exit of Dog Kennel Hill Sainsburys, it was still there when I shopped last week, I made a note of it as we've got a load to recycle as well

Awww... you're a star! Do let us know what happens!

Great news! (oops, no pun intended....) Planning a few treats for partner's birthday next week, and a stroll to one of our much missed favourite locals will go down nicely. (and don't worry KK, we'll take our own glasses, assuming that's allowed)

Just wondering if anyone has ordered anything from the lovely Shannons Garden Centre lately, and if so, how long did it take? I emailed an order on 1st May but haven't heard anything (apart from an automatic email reply). Am I being too impatient? Don't want to chase, they must be inundated with orders and anyway instructions are not to phone them... thanks

Re your goldfinches, that could be us, Malumbo... a pair have started visiting us in Landcroft Road, I had to look them up in my bird book, very exciting! One hangs on the very floppy branches of a tamarix tree eating the bugs in the cuckoo-spit, while the other sits on the fence keeping watch. Made my day, could we share them...?

If you didn't find any Greens Stationers and toy shop in Dulwich Village have posted on here in the ED businesses section offering free home delivery, they mention printer paper amongst other things.

We run a greetings card company in East Dulwich, you can view our ranges on our website www.miko-greetings.com, then email or phone to place an order and we will deliver for free in the SE22 area. Annie and Mik

Agree with comments about the Plough local Sainsburys, but have to say on the plus side the staff there are still managing to smile under difficult circumstances. And they have to be there all day. Would suggest in particular closing the middle self-checkout, they are so close together anyway and yesterday the person next to me had 2 children with them as well... and limiting the numbers a bit more, no one would mind the extra wait if it meant a safer shopping environment.