Jacqui5254

Jon has just be round to clean a year's worth of filth off my windows [eek]. Hard working, friendly and very nice guy with decent prices. Recommended to anyone wanting a good window cleaner. 07908 953257

The last quarter of the year is a good time as people come back from their holidays/back to school, then look to 'be in by Christmas' Unfortunately, this is more like the last sixth of the year! Unless, of course, you can exchange and complete quickly..that might appeal to some buyers. Alternatively, try for a short period then take it off until Spring..?

Don't go anywhere near this ATM.. I went to use it once in the summer and it had clearly been tampered with as it was partly hanging away from the wall!

Thank you MarkT. Perfectly put.

After last week's fiasco..posted on here about no internet or tv for the best part of a week, I was incensed to find I have been billed for a whole month, despite assurances [when I called] that my account would be credited for no service last week [no, I didn't believe them, but it added fuel to my fire when I called them yesterday]. After half an hour of a nit-picking call centre gentleman trying to count up which days I should be refunded for, based on when I called 'and spoke to someone',...there is no record of the many calls where you listen to a recorded message about 'your area'...even though they confirm your postcode and mobile number.. ["So, you have NO record of how long we had no service in my area? The promise that my bill would reflect this is a lie then..?"]... I pointed out that I expected recompense for time taken to make 16 phone calls, the lack of internet, lack of tv, loss of programmes-to-be-recorded, cost of extra data for my phone, general disruption to my day and now a 30min+ call after they promised me they would not charge me for a service I DIDN'T GET!!!!....I said 'if you are only going to be offering me ?s, you can put me through to cancelling my contract right now. He couldn't pass me on quick enough. After another long rant with 'Retentions', and clarification of what I had put up with, I ended up with a ?50 credit, a reduction of my monthly bill from ?66pm to ?25pm for a year, then ?48pm after that, slightly faster internet speed and slightly reduced tv bundle that still includes all the channels I watch. And although I was probably paying too much to start with, and MAY get a better deal elsewhere, I reckon I will be ?542 better off this coming year as against if I had done nothing at all. That will pacify me through the next few times the service is down, by which time I will be ready to do battle again.

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Now back on, Dunstans Rd.

Got it back Thursday after 4 days off and now it?s gone again, not even two full days later.

Perhaps we should organise a mass exodus...

Yup, ONCE AGAIN, no internet/tv for the last 2 days. Many calls to Virgin...finally...?we expect it to be fixed by 17th?.....( 6 days away) ....and? ?And, nothing....?

I tried EVERYTHING. It was this [chemicals] or a flamethrower. In the end, just the spray did the trick, followed by a decent hoover around all the carpet edges. Haven't seen a single moth since. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pest-Expert-Killing-Clothes-approved/dp/B075LH2SDR/ref=sr_1_10?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1535037805&sr=1-10&keywords=Pest+Expert

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With the closure of Forest Hill Road, there are no > longer any sub PO's left in the whole of SE22. There's one in the chemist in Dulwich Village. I went down there yesterday after FHR post office closed and there wasn't a single person waitig to be served.

I went in this afternoon just as they were locking the door. They have been there 30 years so there were a few tears... Now closed for refurbishment and then new owners. As sidekick said....Nilesh, Anita & Raj you will be very missed. Sorry to see you go.

I stopped going to Gail's after I formally requested that they covered the food on the central table as there are often flies crawling on the cakes and sandwiches. Head office said they took my health concerns seriously. Last time I went in to Gail's in Dulwich Village and Wimbledon there was no coverings and nothing had changed. So, I will be happy to exchange my spinach and taleggio quiche for a Greggs sausage roll any day. It's all about respecting your customers, folks!

NO MORE SPEED HUMPS! For Barry Road, a fully operational speed camera gets my vote.

Inbound Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Balderdash! If you were on a hill then it would > prevent the car from rolling off if the handbrake > was to fail. The object of leaving then angled is > to allow to pull out without having to manoeuvre > back and forth to gain the space need to turn the > wheel outwards in a really tight space. I thought we were talking about trying to get in and out of a tight parking space? 'wheels facing outwards' might help on the rare occasion that you are on a hill AND your handbrake fails but for the common 'driving out of a tight spot', reversing back into the remaining space, however small, requires the wheels to be straight. If you left the wheels pointing at an angle and tried this, you would just move closer to the kerb. A good driving instructor would tell you 'for the benefit of moving off again, finish parking with your wheels straight'. It's not Balderdash, it's parallel parking.

"front wheel is angled outwards" isn't the correct procedure...the first manoeuvre should be to reverse back as far as you can go, with your wheels straight, to give you the most amount of room at the front, then you are in a better position to pull out. Parking with your wheels angled outwards is dangerous.

johnie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rahrahrah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > RadLuke Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > NO - the free parking is one of the most > > > convenient things about living aroundhere and > > it > > > is never impossible to find a space, even if > > > sometimes you do have a little walk. > > > > ^this > > Agreed Agreed, too.

This survey is going to get lost amongst these posts. Shouldn't it have a seperate thread?

You'll be standing on your doorstep in your CPZ-ed street, chatting to someone dropping off your/their kids, and 10 mins later they'll discover a ticket, stealthily applied by a warden-on-a-moped... ?120 fine. The person visiting you stays 10 mins longer than they intended. Returning to their car that has a 2hr parking voucher, and their 'extra 10 mins at yours' results in a ?120 fine. Your [3 hrs] cleaning lady decides to stay a bit longer to finish off a job and when you get home from work she has left you a note saying 'I got a ticket, I didn't realise, ?120..., etc. Your guests come for the weekend. On Monday morning, too late, you realise that they should have a parking voucher from 8am...run out to the car, ?120 fine Car goes into the garage and you have a loan car for the day...completely overlooking the fact that not only is your permit in your car in the garage, but such permit is useless as it is for that car only, and you should have made arrangements with the council to have a temporary permit..?120 fine. Your visitor puts a voucher on the dashboard and it blows onto the floor as the door closes. You show them the voucher when challenging the ticket but are told "you could have written it after the fine"...?120 fine. ALL these things and more happened to me and my neighbours when we lived with the hell that is a CPZ. And, just to clarify as jimlad48's explanation above is confusing...a parking permit is for the homeowner, a parking voucher is for the visitor. No dates are required for parking permits. Just check out the simplicity of Ealing's 'applying for visitor parking vouchers'... https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201181/visitor_parking/1500/apply_for_resident_visitor_parking_vouchers

Bobby P Wrote: > Today, as this thread was hot, I made a point of > looking mid-afternoon, and there were at least 10 > spaces near the junction where Melbourne N. > residents could park if it were busy during > commuter hours on their stretch. So come and > join us in parking nirvana, North Melbourners: you > are seriously very welcome, and parking here, you > almost on your doorstep. > > Better that than impose restrictions, where > neither you be able to park on our stretch nor we > on yours, and everyone is paying for a piece of > pseudo-private road where parking is still not > guaranteed. Bobby P...if there was a like button, I would press it for this.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Clearly commutter (sic) cars > > But maybe of people commuting in to serve and > service the area you live in, nurses, teachers, > shop assistants etc. Why assume that all people > who travel to where you live and want to park are > out to 'steal' space from you. Maybe they're there > to serve your needs and those of your neighbours. > Of course they've vanished now you've nimby'd them > away. Let's hope you'll never need them. Let's > hope if shops etc. close around you you didn't > want to shop in them, or eat in the cafes that > these people worked in. Let's hope you don't mind > if your hospitals and schools can't find people to > work in them. Well said, Penguin68

jimlad48 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The problem is, all the people who say 'but X > can't visit' forget that right now they probably > couldnt get parked anyway. Where we were, it was > regularly taking residents up to an hour to find a > parking space in any of the roads where they could > park within a half mile radius. > > All this talk of 'but Mrs Miggins won't be able to > come round' forgets that right now there is > unlikely to be anywhere for her to park. A CPZ > gives you that parking space to come over - so > definitely a plus for peoples social lives! Yes, but before the CPZ there was no threat of a large parking fine for forgetting that 'popping in to see your friend' entails having, and paying for, a voucher to enable you to do so. And right now, most residents don't have 'an hour to park' problem and therefore don't need a CPZ and all the crap that comes with it.

Ah yes, the money-making CPZ...and here it comes....'visitors permits'...?49.50 for a book of ten. Yay! Southwark need to cream off as much money as they can. Next will be 'extending the parking restrictions from 2 hours-a-day to all-day' as this will bring in more money, too. Ripe for the picking. And vouchers are not just for 'family and friends'...how about.. your cleaning lady, the decorator, babysitter, tradesmen and women, counsellor, vicar, health visitor, estate agent, removals, people who come to look at your sofa that you are selling on the EDF, 'someone who drops your kids off and just wants to chat for a couple of minutes'.... They'll all need a voucher if you don't want a ticket. There is a huge price to pay for MAYBE parking a little nearer to your home and that includes it occupying a large amount of your thinking as it infiltrates your daily life. Exchanging one stress for a much bigger one. And, once all the residential streets of ED have been sucked up, the independent shopping of Lordship Lane and surrounds will be tied down with limited parking spaces. There will be one or two hour slots, ticket machines, loads of wardens and endless number of people trying to get their shopping or have a meal within a time limit, not wasting time browsing or relaxing, in order to make sure they don't get a ticket. Never mind the impact on the local shops... And, once it's in place, there will be NO GOING BACK.

Hi Beth. His number and contact details are in the first post. I don't know what his usual rate is as I had the outsides cleaned which hadn't been done for ages, then a few difficult to access windows + my downstairs neighbour's. He is a very amenable guy though and works hard. kind regards, Jacqui.