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Just want to say what a brilliant service I received from Chadwick Road surgery audiology this morning and what a lovely surgery it seems to be in general- spacious, light, ordered, friendly and appointment on time! No crowded waiting room either which made me think they are extremely well organised.

Yes that is where I am going, I rang Kings who put me through to the company now responsible for audiology in the community who will have my notes from Mapother House and who made me an appointment and Ive got one tomorrow morning. How's that for swiftness of action? Last time I lost a hearing aid I had to go right through the system again from a gp referral- only because I never needed to go back for yonks- so this is brilliant.

thanks! now sorted.

Audiology used to be based at Kings but then became localised. I have a hearing aid to back up my muffled hearing, proscribed by the NHS ages ago. It's now cracked and I need a new inner tube. I have googled audiology, hearing, kings, southwark- all to no avail! I know one of the GP's centres does audiology outpatients and hearing services..but which one?!

husband has just told me that Lidl pay highest graduate entry starting salary of any company in Britain. So maybe all the jolly new staff are diverted barristers.

Maybe Lidl staff have become jollier and more helpful now they are constantly exposed to the delicious smells of the instore bakery. . Their freshly baked croissants are 29 pence a pop, (if you hang around they will pull out a fresh batch from the oven) their ?39 single malt whisky sold out in hours just before Christmas after being voted one of the top whiskies worth ?100 by the whisky experts as Lidl had a deal with an obscure Islay distillery - bottles appeared on Ebay shortly afterwards. Lidl are brilliant for cheese, juice, fruit, baked stuff and those continental chocolate biscuits that are nearly two quid under a different label. This week they are doing horse blankets. I bought a fire extinguisher.Currently got little coloured vests exactly the same as the white stuff twenty quidders at ?2.99. I love Lidl! While you are all aching for a Waitrose, you are missing out!

thanks everybody. Ive informed all the people you advised me too. Son Ok, more annoyed than anything.

btw, Ive looked for Safer neighbourhood in the index but can someone actually direct me to their website/email so I can let them know too. Incidentally, touch wood, this is the first incident in fourteen years of living here.

he wasnt far from home, he had walked anyway. He was on the phone, but they asked for the oyster first, then as an 'afterthought' for the phone, but he was very conversational,like 'what kind of phone have you got there?' it was daylight! didnt ask for money. probably opportunist..hence my thought about the oyster testing the water. If it didtn go his way or a passer by noticed what was going on then the perp could pretend he wasnt actually mugging him.

absolutely! it's insane! hope you have sent this to powers that be DJKQ!

I wonder if the bus pass was knicked first to slow him down on his way home and give more time before reporting it, also to test the water without too much risk?

yes told tfl, they say if a stolen oyster is used the user gets fined. Trying to find original oyster number for police so they can link it if this happens! the other thing, my boy had a feeling about the approaching boy. I'm telling him now, act on instinct, cross the road, turn around....! follow your instincts!

on another note, while waiting for new oyster, how is he meant to get to school?

thanks all, he's fine but annoyed. The police said you just can't tell if theyre chancers or not. He could have said no and they may have walked away...or they could have punched him or worse. So although he is annoyed he is not traumatised. But it was ever so subtle.

today at 4pm my 14 year old son was asked for his oyster card and phone which he immediately surrendered. Police informed, everythng cancelled but just to warn. He was on his phone. Robbed by older boy, tall, thin, round 17, mixed race, blue and grey cap, blue zip up, who asked which school he went to, accompanied by white girl with blonde hair, tallish, slender who melted away just before the encounter. Son ok, did sensible thing.

today I saw all the traffic coming from Nunhead lane with a green light completely stuck at the next red light on 'kings on the rye' crossroads. Can these lights not be coordinated so that when they let cars through they don't immediately stop them so there is a blockage ?

this man is the very useful man '[email protected]'

When developers next to us began to dismantle our boundary fence and encroach on our property and raise the level of their garden on foundations of rubble three feet above our fence, we got in touch with Southwark council who stopped the work till it was sorted out.

yup no mention of Peckers!

Kwik Fit have always been brilliant pumping up my tyres and changing valves for free .

Grove Vale pavements like an ice rink this evening!

thanks Bic Basher. Done so now.

As Ive posted in the rail replacement bus thread, the rail replacement buses were a disaster!

The rail replacement buses were totally uncoordinated in relation to the east london line trains they were meant to be interfacing with. On returning to Surrey Quays tonight, passengers were given completely mistaken timetable, then waited fifteen minutes in blinding snow, a bus arrived, but it was coming from Clapham not going to Peckham, the guy said it would be another half hour for the other one. This meant that actually we had just missed one and that the previous bus hadn't waited for the train that was coming in! I got on the bus anyway to stay warm till it returned the other way! At Canada water the bus was not allowed in the bus station as it is not a 'normal' bus and so the replacement bus stop was some way away. when we stopped at this canada water replacement stop there were no passengers..presumably they never found the stop! We then returned to the stop the bus had picked me up from and then back to Peckham etc. Deposited at Peckham Rye well over an hour after I had alighted at Peckham Rye.

I'd have wrapped it in a snowball and thrown it back to her.