Jacqui5254

Looks like a case for Juan Sheet....

There is no way that GOSH has a handle on the hundreds of fund raising events that are done in their name. For most people its the go-to charity when they think of children and hospitals. A friend of mine was upset when GOSH didn't send someone to formally 'receive' their cheque at the end of their fund-raising Golf Day. Their response..."we have hundreds of these events and we can't attend a fraction of them". Personally, I think it would be nice if some of the lesser-known children's units received some of the attention and funding also.

Disagree. Don't have/have need of the iPhone and don't want to be left out of the Groovy group. Jacqui.

A twisted wire coat hanger once worked for me. That, and a crowd of nosey neighbours giving their opinion. Good luck!

Rang 101 and reported my daubing this morning. [to add to the three times my car has been run into since I moved back to ED in January!] Anyone heard anything more? Horrible to see the car with DIE DIE on the windows at the end of Dunstans Road.

Absolutely!!

And it happened around 9.30pm when the flats around were occupied. There were no lights on at the front so maybe that made it more of a target. Police stressed importance of having front door frames reinforced with metal strips as well as good locks. Really sorry to hear that it happened to other people last night also.

About 20 women, doing an organised dance routine, with a few cars driving slowly round the roundabout, with about half a dozen people watching from the pavements. Took a few minutes. Great cause, but probably a silly place to hold it as there is enough to concentrate on at Goose Green roundabout. Maybe a better audience/response elsewhere?

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And there's no need to assume it was that guy > either. I wasn't assuming it was this guy, I was saying we must be vigilant...whilst I was reaching into my car, loading my shopping, he was standing next to my trolley and would have had an opportunity to help himself. It only takes a second. I purposely didn't describe him as being homeless/alcoholic/off the streets, etc because its not about that. However, that stripey jumper, mask and bag over his shoulder with SWAG on it should have rung MY warning bells...

I was told by security last week that a bag had been taken from the end of the checkout counter whilst a lady was packing her bags. There was a guy hanging around in the carpark at around that time yesterday, asking if he could 'return your trolley'. I suppose in order to keep the ?1. Definitely need to be vigilant.

Was it a daily/hourly ticket or a monthly one that could be passed to someone else to use? I have contested tickets like this before, not locally, and it was an hourly ticket. I impressed upon them that I had shown my intention to pay...and surely they should be spending their resources on those avoiding payment not tricking those who have. That seemed to do the trick. Good luck.

OK...maybe it was a slight exaggeration... Thanks for the offer of help, though! :0)

If you want serene and peaceful, wide aisles, large windows you have to pay for it through high Waitrose prices. They have a price match with 1000 Tesco items. That means that the remaining 8760000 items cost MORE than Tesco.

Could someone tell me what the point of this thread is?

What is wrong with some people?? How hard is it to imagine the difficulties faced if you were hungry, homeless, tired, depressed, penniless, unwell, had nowhere to go, nowhere to SLEEP. Completely empty of basic resources fl0wer...what you wrote made me want to weep..."I saw a few weeks ago that someone was sleeping rough in that area, slumped against an apartment building's porch. More recently a very end-of-tether, thin lad was running round ED asking householders for casual work, saying the temporary homeless shelters were hell." DJKillaQueen you are right. Most of us are where we are by nothing more than an accident at birth. Get real, people and stop feeling entitled, start feeling grateful and share some of that luck you had...there is plenty to go round.

I agree about simple skills exchange!! I am definitely NOT looking for therapy [as bodsier posted] or heavy duty work. Just some simple, friendly, one-to-one 'help each other out' type of stuff. I imagine there must be LOADS of it out there. And, as others have said..maybe keep it to EDF?..a simple exchange of simple skills? Can we have a section on EDF??? Can we??

I would be happy with a 'babysitting in return for putting up some shelves'/'cooking a dinner party for a lift and back to Heathrow' level of swopping. Small jobs can sometimes be the hardest to sort out if you don't have the skills [ie, I know where to find a plumber, or a builder, but if I just need help with putting up some pictures, [just moved house so have several rooms-full], then maybe you would like my coq au vin..?

Saving flyers for the recycling bin seems to me to be a small price to pay for someone having a job, being paid peanuts for dropping a piece of paper through my door in these difficult times. Sometimes I even smile at the person delivering them!

On so many levels, knocking on people's doors is WRONG. Its in a private place so it can't be monitored for appropriate behaviour, it could be ANYBODY, they could say ANYTHING to persuade you, could make ANY claims, etc. At least if they were more public approaches the 'collector' might have to behave more responsibly. Why not ask people outside shops? their place of work? on the train? I know these aren't ideal but it would be harder for someone masquerading as a collector to behave innapropriately. As long as you open the door and chat to someone 'collecting for charity', the more often scammers, or worse, will call. Official-looking garb does not mean official! Don't do it!!

Seriously, folks, why are we engaging with total strangers, uninvited, late at night, about personal views and private information?? There are many different ways to make money for charities and to spread the word about new research and it is a lot more credible than offering an opportunity to a cold caller who could be ANYBODY. As long as we reinforce this, the more knocks on the door late at night. A 'breast cancer jacket' and 'ID' [would you REALLY know if it was genuine or not?] should not give you access to someone's home or life.

What has this to do with Kings College Hospital..?

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