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We had someone try to get a mobile phone delivered to our address - it happened when I was out and my daughter noticed it was the wrong name and gave it back to the delivery guy. However we got the person it was intended for coming over to our house several times over the following weeks - once stopping my daughter on the street and asking if we had the phone. I was quite worried about this and phoned up the mobile phone company who reported it as fraud. However we then started to receive bills for this mobile - I initially returned them to the phone company but they kept coming. So I opened the letter and phoned the company to ask them to stop sending the bills and demands for payment. Which after a couple of calls they did. However we then received a driving license application form for the same person that the mobile phone was addressed to. When I got this I was worried that someone was trying to commit fraud of some sort - so I reported both incidents on the non urgent police number 101 I know it seems a bit over the top but I found the whole incident worrying - If I recieve letters addressed to someone who has never lived at my address and they look like bills or applications forms etc - I would always open them as I would be concerned about fraud. It is a criminal offense to open mail addressed to someone else without a reasonable excuse (see below). But I felt I had a resonable excuse given my suspicions of fraud. BTW the police didn't seem at all bothered that I had opened the mail as confirmed in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. It is an offence to open, destroy, hide or delay any post that is addressed to someone else. Post cannot be opened if it is to the addressee's detriment and without reasonable excuse. Reasonable excuse is not defined by the Act.

I dropped the two birds off at the pigeon rescue place in Sutton and left a donation. The women who run the sanctuary think they will be fine and will text me when they are released. If anyone wants to make a donation then I'm sure it would be very much appreciated. They're not allowed charitable status and funds as pigeons are considered vermin. The details are on this page http://pigeonrecovery.yolasite.com/donations.php

I've just been down to have a look at the nest. One of the parent birds was sitting on it. I spoke to a man who lived nearby and was doing his front garden who said that since the tree had been cut back he had seen the parent birds coming back so the nest hasn't been abandoned. So I think all is OK although the nest is very exposed which isn't ideal as the baby birds are at greater risk from predators. It does seem a bit odd to cut the trees back in nesting season - I don't know if this is usual and if it is if there are some requirements around leaving trees with nesting birds in it.

Is the tree officer or anyone from Southwark likely to respond over the bank holiday? They probably keep office hours so it will be Tuesday at the earliest when they get this message. By which time if the birds have been abandoned it will be too late. I've taken a baby pigeon - brought in by my cat and still alive to a rescue centre in Surrey. The women has incubators and takes care of baby pigeons and injured birds. If the nest is abandoned and someone can get it down I'm happy drive the birds to the rescue centre. Or if someone else is able to drive them there the address 8 Vermont Road, Sutton, Surrey - there is an special box for the birds outside the door which you can leave them in if the woman who runs the centre is out.

ah panic over - that's saved me walking up and down Marsden in the cold with a torch @Gemmamb if the iguana you saw isn't securely attached to a lamppost with clips please get in touch!

Gemmamb If you let me know where it is I'll pick it up and look after till RSPCA can come Its so cold that its probably not moved since you last saw it. I've PM'd you my mobile. I used to keep an iguana. I don't have heat mat or uv anymore but can keep warm till RSPCA get here.

I love my smart meter. I've never exactly been a reckless leaver on of appliances but it's made much more aware of what I'm using and I'm now hooked in to keeping the numbers low. Wish I could get something for the gas meter though as that's my biggest expense.

Dennis came over yesterday and when he left we have a shower which works better, radiator reflectors, energy saving bulbs, a new water saving fitting for my garden hose and upstairs sink and a fantastic smart meter which means I've now become like my dad and turning everything off in an effort to save pennies Dennis said he's got lots of free appointments so I said I'd post on here to let people know - his number, as above, is 07960 152486

I've been cycling down this road with my daughter every school day morning for the past 3 years. It's no exaggeration to say that almost every morning there's some near miss - however this is normally not due to the coach drivers. The main problem for us are the car drivers and these are normally parents dropping children off at Alleyns, dangers include cars suddenly doing three point turns, drivers parking illegally and more unpredictably children leaping out of cars - either side - and opening doors in our path. My daughter is now 15 and I still don't feel comfortable letting her cycle to school alone. In my experience the coach drivers behave relatively responsibly when compared to the other road users.