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Recommendation for Giuseppe. A photo of him is attached. Forgot to say : he lives next to Peckham Rye park and works from home office. I promised to do some ?shout outs? as he helped us so much previously. MORTGAGE FINANCE - could help if you?re trying the bead the dreaded stamp duty deadline. In 2018 we were looking for a mortgage and stumbled upon Giuseppe via a childminding connection. He helped with a complex need ( domestic / commercial purchase) and gave calm sage advice throughout, managing to offer unique solutions where many before had failed or just couldn?t be bothered. I bumped into him in the park a few days back, where I learnt he has set up his own business to offer, as he says, a ?more personal, considerate service?. Mr Peluso is a rare find, he actually cares about his clients and in this most competitive of markets, it is quite unusual. I wish him well and cannot recommend him highly enough. MORTGAGE FINANCE 4ME Mr Giuseppe Peluso? ?CeMap Email : [email protected] http://www.mortgagefinance4me.com/ 07814 650 975

Hello EDTers, www.melindastyles.com 07958330235 My name is Melinda Styles and I?m a friendly and down-to-earth Designer and Maker specializing in hand made bespoke curtains, blinds, roman blinds and soft furnishings. Oh and I?m also a Mum! Probably my hardest commission to date! I work from my large garden studio and as my overheads are lower, my prices are realist and I can offer my lovely clients great discounts on Design Fabrics saving you ????s on Liberty, Designers Guilds, William Morris and Voyage fabrics, to name only a few! For those on a budget I also produce machine made curtains, but they still maintain my high standards and eye for detail. Commissioning window treatments can be very daunting and choosing fabrics time consuming so I am very happy to advise and offer up solutions. I have access to lots of fabric design books to loan that reach across all price ranges. I can also draw FREE visualizations of final window treatments and thereby reduce costly mistakes. My work covers; Ultra Modern homes to Vintage chic. Authentic Period and Traditional Property. Unique Baby Blackout curtains which are a hit with those little early risers or night workers! Lampshades, cushions, bedding, bean bags and more?. Room partition solutions, tented rooms, fabric covered walls Domestic and Trade Interior Design. Please have a look at my website and if you have any questions I?d be very pleased to hear from you. Melinda Styles Happily Designing and Making Bespoke Soft Furnishing from her home Studio. www.melindastyles.com [email protected] 07958 330 235

Yes it is true!!! A WEDDING VENUE. Having spent years avoiding The Plough Pub as it was known as a geezer/ fighting pit our desperate bit to find a venue led us there. We braved a visit to discover a GEM. We were looking for a place to hold an informal wedding reception of 80-120 people and the Plough Pub on Lordship lane fitted the bill exactly. It is split in two by a lovely bar. We chose the large room next to the left. It is has muted chic Victorian interior with panelled columns and exposed brick work. Lots of quirky tables, standard lamps and sofas. There is a dance floor area with potential use of the pubs own decks and sound system. Mark the Manager accommodated our two live bands, his chef put on a fabulous spread of healthy food for 100 people plus evening snacks. (They even obliged me with wheat free and veggie options). Mark and his staff prepared punches and toasts. They worked as a team tirelessly and all with smiles. We had a wonderful wedding reception and the bar service was smooth. I recommend you give the new revamped pub a try. Great garden, kid friendly, live music, good loos, and serve food all day, good bar snacks. THANKS TO ALL THE STAFF AT THE PLOUGH. We'll be back many times

Well in my humble opinion a lot of new builds are just glorified mouse houses. All you are getting is a few millimetres of carefully chosen paint colour and a bit of slick design with the use of Industrial/ chic materials. These trapping will fade in a few years. You are investing in surface polish but polish tarnishes very quickly. I see it all the time cladding coming away, slick sheen surfaces covered in crud, shadow gaps swelling around windows and the public spaces becoming shoddy. It is unlikely that your freeholders interest in the exterior will remain, will they update the property in the future so it holds onto its cache. When these blocks are sold it is then a case of minimal maintenance from the freeholder. Maintenance is only as good as the leaseholders lobby group in your block. Modern finishes are expensive to repair. Period property always remains just that - a property of period. Some folks say that the new builds will be the slums of the future.

I seriously hope you have your facts right. My objection is that East Dulwich is great because it has very few high street chains in it. The best way to keep it maintained as such is not to use them. I only go to small concerns and avoid larger chain stores. eg Sommerfields, Caffe Nero, Foxtons and that dreary clothing place opposite Foxtons are all good examples.