Wino

Have so far been happy with Bespoke Windows and Murray since I asked for a quote last month. Two windows being fitted tomorrow so will report back when they are in place.....

Just used them for a lounge carpet. Happy with service from first shop visit to carpet fitting. Whole process took 9 days. Price reasonable. From Ian in the shop to the guy who popped in to measure and the two fitters themselves, all very friendly and helpful. May be luck of the draw or maybe down to the way one engages with people? Who knows. Must say I didn't envy Ian patiently trying to help a customer who was in the shop when I was there. They were armed with a photograph of a carpet from a friends house. No further info - no invoice, brand name or even date (let alone year) that it was fitted, but they were still expressing some dissatisfaction that Ian was struggling to 'name that carpet'.....

Bill Oddie

This started happening to me after the last EDF maintenance session. Worked on IPhone but not Mac or Laptop inc windows and Firefox. Tried clearing history/cache etc but no joy. Then found typing the full addresss inc. HTTP://www it started working again. Now I can just shortcut to it from the browser window. I am sure someone more IT savvy can explain what needs doing if the above is a fix. angiepangie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hey there, > i used to be able to go onto the EDF by typing > www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk into my explorer - now > that only gets me an empty page (both on my pc at > work as well as on my laptop). i can only get to > your first page if I google the forum, then open > one of the subpages and then go back to "home". > this has been the case for one week now - any > suggestions what i might do wrong or what has > happened???

Drew, Huguenot... all a bit old hat isn't it? When can we officially kill these pat responses for good? Forum needs something new. Good effort woodrot. Very topical. Mind you, I perversely miss the *twitches curtain* of yesteryear EDF. So what do I know.

garnwba Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I find it very amusing that a number of people on > this thread are objecting to the introduction of > the CPZ because they live near by and worry about > the knock on effect are also disuputing that there > is any issue with commuter parking.... > > Surely that is slighly contradictory?!?!!? > > Unless of course they think that those in the CPZ > zone will all park outside it to avoid paying.... > in which case they will not agree to the CPZ, we > will not get it and therefore you can all stop > worrying. > > Wino - I'm not sure what road you have been > walking down in the morning but it can't have been > Melbourne Grove - 3 spaces free everytime during > commuter time - Sorry but that is utter rubbish or > you work weekends?! I think that the argument is that commuter parking is not the main issue, but it is more the fact that there are too few spaces for residents as it is, along with day visitors (including guests/service people for residents), shoppers, some commuters, misc. others. So all roads already share the burden to varying degrees. With a CPZ, this just pushes more overspill onto other streets in a wave effect, particularly as available spaces will be curtailed by the mechanics of the system implementation as others have already mentioned. In answer to your question I work from home and throughout London so the times that I walked around the roads varied at the time. There is a thread out there somewhere so you can check the times. I can only report what I physically saw with my own eyes, believe it or not. I am due to to use the station after lunch and if I have time I will have a look and report back what I see. Out of interest garnwba, can I ask what vehicle(s) do you have and when do you use it(them) that generates issues for yourself? Would be useful maybe for us all to build up a picture of what the precise problems are, rather than the generalised 'I can never find a space' argument. edited for typos

As has been stated many times already, I feel it is very blinkered to presume that introducing a CPZ to a section of a local community will not affect the whole community in the long term. That is why any consultation should include the whole community. Aside from the valid points made by many on this thread and similarly made by many when Southwark last tried to introduce a scheme (to a wider area and using the most biased 'consultation survey', with scare stories about how the introduction of the congestion charge zone would bring hordes of car-driving commuters to East Dulwich to park and we would become log jammed), I am curious as to the situation of the pro-CPZ posters. A few times there has been mention about difficulty returning from shops and finding parking space? With Sainsbury's a five minute walk up hill and Lordship Lane within a 5-10 minute walk, is a daily shop drive a necessity? How many cars do some of the pro posters own? Just an honest question to give a proper perspective to the situation as I believe the issue (if any) is more down to multi-car ownership and more car owning residents than street space, than an influx of central London/city based commuters. Surely, when one chooses a property you take into consideration it's advantages and disadvantages? A house near/next to a mainline station in an area with no tube: Positive Higher in value than similar properties that are further from the station Convenient for transport links Negative May have higher demands on available parking spaces Live further away and you get a cheaper property but you have a 10-20 min walk to the station, but parking may be easier. I am strongly against any CPZ anywhere in East Dulwich, as I believe there is not a commuter issue as so asserted by Southwark. I have in the past walked some of the allegedly affected streets and varying times of the day and day of the week and there always appear to be a space or two and a pretty regular turnover. Sometimes inconsiderate parking means that there are 2-3 spaces in a street. For the record I have one car and live off Northcross Road.

A conversation (a year or so ago) with a friend who works for a large insurance co., revealed that most insurers have been selling car insurance "below cost" in recent years in a very competitive market. He stated at the time that this could not continue and eventually firms would have to start putting prices up.

taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I like Chris Morris a lot. But I thought it was > rather gentle compared with his usual approach. Agreed, more gentle in approach but not in subject. I think that it worked better as a feature length film because of this. I am a big fan of Morris and enjoy all of the radio and television stuff but the format for these is shorter so maybe needs/is best with the more full on approach. Having said that Nathan Barley is the only thing that I have not got into as yet. Don't know why, but it doesn't grab me. Only seen a couple of episodes so maybe need to revisit. CM has without a doubt the twisted brain-wrong of a one-off man mental.

Yes and I enjoyed it. Brave of Morris to do it in terms of topic. Most of our current comics stick to 'safer' religions rightly or wrongly. Film did not condone the subject matter but put it into 'human' context. Not a deep film by any means but both extremely funny and reasonably thought provoking. I regularly use the innovative avoidence tactic for face recognition CCTV when out and about in London......

I joined Virgin last August and signed up for their 50mb package. Runs fast and so far have had good customer service. Did lose broadband a couple of Sundays ago when a few others did as well. Back up and running after a couple of hours. Same thing happened on Wednesday night around 7pmish. No fault showing on their service checker so called 150 and spoke to a guy who could see that there were some issues. He booked a visit for me the following afternoon (yesterday). The guy arrived in the timeslot quoted (although service was working again by then) and checked a few things in the local junction box. He said that there had been an outage in the area on Wednesday night but he had twiddled with a few things to improve my signal anyway. Overall I must say that the Virgin service has been good in my experience, speed has been consistent, no faults with tv and telephone, good telephone support. That said, it will become an issue if these 'outages' become regular in frequency. With my old provider (lowly 1mb), although stone age in terms of speed, I do not recall ever needing to contact them during the 8-9 years of using them.

Took a 176 in this morning and although the bus stop is still closed the driver let people off. May not be official policy though.

taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Presumably information is being kept back, with > the cooperation of the media, to assist the > investigation and any future criminal case. A > little more important perhaps than the need to > satisfy the voyeuristic desires of the public. Agreed taper. Also if family not identified and informed as yet then I doubt the police will release much further info. As to the idea mentioned elsewhere that having this area 'supervised' would have possibly prevented this event? Not likely in my view. You can be punched and kicked to death in trafalgar square or stabbed to death in victoria station with both places heavily covered by CCTV, policing and passers by.

Agree with woodleigh. BTW. I took a post lunch stroll up Matham Grove and down Melbourne Grove this afternoon. Matham Grove 'top end' joining East Dulwich Grove = 2 free spaces at 3.01pm. Melbourne Grove 2 free spaces and potential for 3 with better parking at 3.09pm. MG's problem is that a quarter/third? is restricted or no parking at all at the Grove Vale end. Maybe this is needed, maybe not, but controlled parking won't make a difference to this end of the road. The other 'problem' is that approx 10 properties or so have off street parking with dropped curbs. This means even less available space on the street. Again, controlled parking will make no difference here. Interestingly, with at least 7-8 of these off street parking properties the space was empty. So the owners were out/did not need the space and yet the street space could not be used by others. I have commented in the past when this issue rears its head. There are advantages to living next to a station and there are disadvantages. Ditto, living near a bustling street market, a thriving bar 'scene', a football ground, a park, a whatever. You make your choices with what you think is most important to you and what you can put up with. I very rarely get to park outside my property, sometimes not even in the same road. But it never takes long for a space to become free and I put up with it as I prefer it to the alternative; unattractive road markings, extra street furniture, parking wallahs, incorrect ticketing, time and energy disputing said tickets, even more bureaucracy to deal with in our day to day lives.

Doh! Too slow with my typing!

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/pds-phone-scam.html Obviously one should always be careful, but this may just be an email scare. Had 10 different people email me versions of this in the past couple of days.

The problem with Lordship Lane is that no matter how many crossings you put in, people will still insist on crossing at what ever point is considered most convenient for them and damn the consequences. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen people crossing (sometimes with toddlers, pushchairs or both)into the middle of the road without an ounce of common sense. A lot of the time this is within 50-100 paces of traffic lights or Zebra crossings and your map highlights this. I am not actually against a new crossing nearer Somerfield/Co-Op, indeed I think it is a good location. Far better than the one at the roundabout. I disagree that this crossing acts as a slow down for traffic. This naturally happens anyway as the roundabout is so small and there are 4 possible lanes of vehicles entering it. I think it is a dangerous location for pedestrians as drivers have too much to concentrate on at that point anyway, particularly the way larger vehicles such as buses traverse it. I suppose this should really be on the crossing post but I chipped in as James mentioned it. In terms of 20 mph speed limits I am yet to be persuaded. JBARBER Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I recently acquired a map of Southwark with red > dots for reported collisions involving people > being hurt. > See attached. I'm afraid I've lost the context of > the period covered - memory tells me three years. > Shows ribbon of crashes involving hurt people > along main roads. Most of them TfL roads. > Clear that Lordship Lane a problem. Hence the > proposed crossing and ?500,000 to improve road > safety along Lordship Lane and Grove Vale.

To be fair Sue, one just needs to click the link in your sig., and your picture, full name, and the names' of your slippers are there for all to see! Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BBW came up to me in a shop and said he knew who I > was because he had tracked me down from the ED > forum to my Facebook page. > > It made me feel quite uncomfortable as I haven't > posted the Facebook link anywhere and nor is my > surname anywhere on the forum, so he must have > gone to a lot of trouble to do it. > > I think it's rather strange behaviour to go to > such lengths to find out about someone you haven't > even met, and I'm with dulwichmum on this one.

If they are the 'island' cushion types then in my experience they make a road look ugly and they do not slow down traffic as most vehicles can run over them without any interference. Because of that I suppose it does mean that you don't get the noise issues that you encountered before.

BOROUGH HIGH STREET SE1: From 1000 Monday 22 june until 1700 Sunday 19 July routes 17 21 35 40 43 47 48 133 141 149 343 381 521 RV1 N35 N47 N133 N343 N381 will be subject to serious delays due to Victorian water main renewal works. From TFL website

Let the monster thread begin..... Commuter warning, traffic could be bad as a result.

I went in on Sunday for the first time. Had smoked salmon and scrambled eggs and crab and avocado salad. Pot of tea and glass of orange and ginger to drink. Service very friendly and helpful. Food was good. Generous portion of smoked salmon and perfectly cooked scrambled egg. Crab and avocado salad was again well portioned and the crab was very tasty. It was nice to eat outside on a road that is not as noisy and crowded as Lordship Lane. The inside looked fairly spacious and done out well. I think that this was their first Sunday opening and it was quietish when I arrived but was fairly full when I left. I can see how there have probably been some 'teething' problems for others, but I think that it is a brave effort by the owners which will only improve with time and practice and it certainly offers a further alternative to Lordship Lane eateries. I will certainly be supporting it over the coming weeks and I wish them the best of luck.

matthew123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Someone said earlier that East Dulwich is the jam > in the doughnut, and by comparison with places > like Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell Green and > Peckham High Street, it is a sweeter place to live > if crime for you is not water off a duck's back. > However crime does exist in East Dulwich. I don't > think we should simply write off CCTV working in > East Dulwich just because it's failed in > Camberwell Green which has other factors at play. > > > People may consider that CCTV, and other measures, > erode civil liberties and freedom of movement, and > they'd be right, but that is the price to pay in > helping to reduce crime and get convictions. > > What is the priority, high tolerance or reducing > crime.. I have no stats or facts to back this up and it is only my opinion but I really don't believe CCTV reduces crime. Yes, I am sure that CCTV has helped to solve many more crimes than when there was no wall to wall coverage but as to actually deterring them? Case in point, the murder outside MacDonald?s still happened when the cameras (albeit not working) were present. Drunk thugs, druggies, loonies, generally desperate people really do not seem to care whether they are observed or not when carrying out their crimes, the shock just comes to them when the police track them down and knock on their doors days later. If we get CCTV in ED I think that the random acts will continue, but maybe a few more will be caught. Not really any compensation for the injured, traumatised or worse. I have lived in ED for 12 years now and I still find it be one of the "quieter" places to live in this big dirty city of ours.

Otto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > my DNA forensic property marking kit arrived > yesterday. i am in love with it. Me too. I got mine a couple of weeks ago and have been going mad with it marking anything that is moveable. I have even done myself in case my frozen body is found in a London blizzard and needs returning home safely. In regard to the thread. I agree that budgets should be weighted to areas that most need the resources, but that does not mean that other areas should be excluded because they are "well off" or "middle class." As recent threads highlight; ED is not exactly a crime free utopia.

I live in the same area and agree with Miss P. The mild inconvenience of parking is one of the disadvantages that is far out weighed by the advantages. In any case, as I have stated on previous threads on this subject, the turn over of spaces is pretty regular in my experience. I can currently count four spaces in sight of my flat right now. In 15 minutes they will probably be filled and it may be another 5-10mins before another space or two become free again If you choose to live near busy, desirable, "trendy" roads/neighbourhoods, surely you have to be flexible in taking the bad with good? Miss P Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We live near North Cross Road & there are many > occasions when we can't park right outside our > house. At Christmas time it's virtually > impossible as so many people drive over to shop > along North Cross Rd. However, we would both > rather park a couple of minutes away than deal > with the utter inconvenience and expense of having > to get visitors permits (or workers permits) every > time we have friends over. I am happy to suffer > the small inconvenience of walking a few hundred > yards if it means local businesses are kept > afloat. I would be very sad if all the local > independents disappeared, it really wouldn't be > the same without them. Long live unrestricted > parking.