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Quite a lot of 11pm fireworks near me.

Whilst trying to get a smart meter fitted, the power company rep reported the housing as unsafe (in a cupboard outside and backboard rotting). It seems like an utter nightmare to get this sorted: electrician to remove meters, power supply company to remove their equipment, building work to replace backboard then the two electricians to replace respective bits). It's made even more complicated due to one of the meters being supplied by a different power co so they need to do their bit. Has anyone been through the pain of this?!

I'm a huge fan on Naxos. Been going for 25 years off and on and still low-key and friendly.

V sad.

Victoria, Belllenden Road usually open for food.

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Ended up in fabulous fancy dress shop on Southwark Park Road. Thanks all!

I need some vampire fangs but am struggling to find locally. Any one seen any? I need them for tomorrow night so no time to go online. I thought the ? shops would be an obvious source but no... Cheers!

Yeah. Peckham Lidl at opening is absolutely fine. Or midweek just before closing.

This NHS service shows you the GPS closest to your postcode https://www.nhs.uk/Service-Search/GP/LocationSearch/4

Grateful for any insurance guru advice.... I am a leaseholder who also shares the freehold with the other leaseholder in my building (a property split into two flats). Historically, we have each bought our own buildings insurance but, whilst having our leases extended and modernised, were advised that it was much more usual for the building to be insured by the freeholder on a single policy. We're quite happy to do this but our respective insurers, co-incidentally both LV, say that we have to continue to insure separately. Is this just a quirk of LV or is it usual for leaseholders in small shared freeholds to procure their own buildings insurance? Does anyone who is a leaseholder and shared freeholder in a small property insure the whole building collectively with their other freeholders? If so, is there a broker you'd recommend? We thought this would be a simple change .... Cheers.

Kings is having one.

We went to the Master Shipwrights House too. Amazing place!! Mr Google tells me it was bought for ?198,000 in 1998 and was put on the market, but not sold, for ?5m in 2010!

There doing something down on the bit of Bellenden Road near Lidl, clearly widening pavements significantly. Not sure if a precursor to making one way? I recall they were going to do something weird with the one way system around there.

The CLF Art Cafe is only there until mid 2020. V cool space.

Not ED, but Well Street Pizza in the new Mountview Academy building is great (behind Peckham Library).

I'm in same boat, Sue. It seems most people either do by themselves or with work colleagues as a bit of a joint project. But never been able to find something for those with no will power to do alone or who don't have a readily available group. Especially for those of us on the firmly 'unfit' side?

Two new dessert places in Peckham. The Dairy Bar on Rye Lane and Creams on Peckham High Road. Also spotted A Taste of Afghan on Rye Lane which looks a new cheap addition to the neighbourhood. On the down side, very sad to hear that The Hope is closing in its current incarnation. I think Antic Pubs have sold it on.

I saw people doing this on Regent Canal, between London Zoo and Camden.

I had a similar experience albeit in Austin Texas. I walked under a tree and was swooped on by a flock of rooks. It was so violent it knocked me to the ground. Pretty scary.

Well said new wave.

Yep, appreciate I can still get from a to b, but a pain that my usual journey will now require a change.

So, chance to do a great job, only trouble is it's in Manchester and I'd need to be there for majority of the week. I'm from Manchester so know it week, but my life (house, cat, other half) are all down here, and they won't move. Has anyone done a long distance commute job later in life and what are the pros and cons. What made it work/not work? Was there a pattern that worked well e.g. Max two/three nights away from home? Reflections welcome!

We're just going to keep using ours until it goes.