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Thanks mid life for the mention I follow most of those you mention,(including you obviously) love the fact that ED & local areas has a strong twitter representation :) My partner @terryronald is on here & is very entertaining. He has a long career in music as a writer singer & producer, & also in publishing (he co wrote Dannii minogues biography & has helped other celebs) & also has his own novel out "becoming nancy" set in ED in the late 70's. Me I'm @M_HammertonChef ..basically tweeting about my life as a pastry chef at Spring studios & other nonsense. I've made some great new friends locally via twitter & it good for finding local bloggers & sharing views..especially for foodies like me :)

Sorry to here about the mugging thats awful and seems to be happening all over the place at the moment. I live right by that road & walk up it most days to catch the bus to work on woodvale. I haven't seen much fly tipping over the 6yrs i've lived here...also in my experience most of the cars I have seen parked up with engines running seem to be mini cab drivers killing time before the next fare ( see most of them with TFL cab stickers in window )

We have 1 blue bin for a building that contains 3 flats, the overflow has been going into the remaining old blue boxes. But today they took away our old boxes so the one bin is going to be nearly nowhere near enough now ! Had originally requested an extra blue bin and suggested they take one of the 3 green ones as now the food waste goes in the brown we can do without one, didn't get a response

Kings saved my life,h after 5 months of chemo was back at work within 2 months and two years later still in remission with fantastic aftercare and monitoring. My step dad was recently diagnosed with a serious blood disorder that can lead to leukemia he has to be given platelets every two weeks. He was treated at the UCLH they said a bone marrow might offer a cure but they couldn't offer him one because of his age and gave him around 5yrs with his condition. He had a 2nd opinion at kings...and with in 4 weeks as been offered a transplant to take place in september, they have been nothing but positive.

Young police officer popped around today, he said there was a lot of people affected...definitely not going through the insurance, i just cant afford the hikes in premiums, i have claimed 3 times so far and every time my car was parked outside my front door & i wasn't any where near it. Once when someone hit as it as they drove past and drove off whilst it was parked, then the break in and now this..sheesh..not sure if its worth having it now its just an old banger !

MsDulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I and two other people have had our cars broke > into (via the back quarter window). We are just > off Underhill Road. Any suggestions as to what can > be done ? (ie is it worth getting carwatch type > posters printed)? Thats how they broke into my car on underhill three weeks ago

Good grief..i just don't understand people who do things too deliberately cause people they don't know or have never even met anguish for no reason by mindlessly damaging their property, their not gaining anything from it

Sorry to put up another crime post :/ But last night ( jan 30th) someone decided to go down the street I live and vandalise my car and my neighbours by scratching the word "vex" into the paint work on the bonnet in quite large letters. It happened on Underhill road near the cemetery, and I believe we were not the only ones. With this and my car being broken into 3 weeks ago I can already hear my Insurance premiums crashing through the roof skywards. The reason I am posting is that the police want to know if anyone else was affected along this road.

I was the one that wrote the last post when this happened to my partner not long ago...cant believe its happened at the very same cashpoint again !!

Had my car Broken into on the same date, went outside on the morning of the 8th and the small vent window at the back of my 11 year old astra was smashed, the emptied the glove compartment ( chucking stuff all over the place and ripping a few pages out of the AZ for some reason) & they took my stereo which wasn't much being an old car, but it was one of those ones where the front comes off, but they took it anyway. I think they just saw my car & saw it as an easy target, i never leave anything out on show and it was parked by the kerb the end of my path practically under the bedroom window of our flat, the only time i have cursed myself for being a heavy sleeper :/

It was the cashpoint on the corner of the bank by Ashbourne, the bank did say the best way to defeat this sort of device is to shield your pin number from above with your hand. It also turned a few days later that they tried to use it in a tescos and for a bit of online shopping. Hope they enjoyed their free ?600 pound spree before going back to their miserable lives.

Last night (wednesday) my partner and i were coming home from town in black cab and stopped at the Barclays bank on Lordship lane to get cash for the cab. My partner used his card, but it appeared to get stuck and there was a clicking noise. then the machine flashed an out of order sign and his card wasn't returned. He phoned the bank this morning and they told him ?600 was taken from his account just after the time we left the machine. they said by what he described that it appeared some one had used something called a "Lebanese Loop". After you have entered your pin the machine will tell you your cash is being counted but no money comes out, then you find your card appears stuck and wont come out, the loop traps your card, the clicking noise is a classic sign. the final insult is that a small camera records the pin. The bank said someone would have been watching until we went then removed the device and used the card then. My partner banks with Santander & they said it seems quite common with Barclays cashpoints for some reason. luckily the bank refunded his money..its annoying to think that some *@*$ out there got away with ?600 scott free !

I also received this letter from kings, and they saved my life last year, and i still get excellent care. i recently raised over ?1000 for the same charity whilst doing the london to Brighton bike ride this year, i contacted them to see if they would publicize it on their website with a link to the just giving page as they have done with others but nothing appeared and to this day had no acknowledgment of the fact they received the money, not looking for thanks but would be nice to have a letter i could post online to thank those who donated. as a former cancer patient the idea did creep into my head that i was targeted with this letter as a former patient thinking i might feel obliged to donate ( getting cynical in my old age) but thankfully that doesn't seem the case going by other posts

I wss sitting in my garden last night when what i thought wss a large cat came belting passed being pursued by my cat at speed, it was then i noticed it was a fox she was chasing, it stopped when it saw me turned to face my cat who promptly smacked it around its foxy chops with her paw, it yelped and fled. Thinking i could hire her out as some sort of fox "bouncer"

It would be nice if people would stick to 30mph down our road let alone the 20mph limit. The part of Underhill road from the cemetery down to Melford road is like some unofficial race track, especially for the guy who i see most mornings driving a white van with the word "Enterprise" in red on the side, he screeches around the roundabout from langton rise, and really shoves his foot down on underhill road, you can hear a "whump" at every speed bump. i have had my car hit already by some women while it was parked outside my flat, her excuse was "well it was the rush hour" (WTF!)

on the 22december i had a card delivered through my door saying post had arrived for me that was 8p underpaid, and i had to collect and pay the excess 8p, plus a ?1.00 handling charge !!, i thought maybe someone had sent me a large envelope and not paid the extra by mistake, ( as my old dad usually does) but no it was within the size for small mail, it was because the card had a cut out xmas stocking on it making it 1mm to thick!!, so i had to pay ?1.08 to get it, how they work out that it costs ?1 to handle it, it was all screwed up and muddy looked like it had been handled by an angry rugby team !!

daizie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know where i can buy a fibre optic > tree or an artificial tree with all the > decorations already on it ? I really cant be arsed > with any of it but am trying to make an effort . > Thanks Here you go, woolworths still exists on line, had a look and they have one in the sale, down from ?45 to ?18, quick snap it up, go to wwww.woolworths.co.uk and just search christmas tree's its a 3ft gold one (tried to attache web page but it was to large)

Lorraine the christmas tree

We have a white tree from M&S, it was free, we came home and found it in our hall in a box addressed to the GMTV studios a few years ago, how the postman got our address in underhill road mixed up with them i have never fathomed out, anyway we rang the GMTV offices and they didn't seem to know what we were on about, but when we switched on the tv one morning a few days later, lorraine kelly was sitting in the studio surrounded by white christmas trees, so now our tree is named lorraine and is dressed every year in cream and silver balls ( this story should be made into a film by film 4)

I ordered some pet supplies of e-bay, well after the strikes, two weeks later nothing, i contacted sellers to check on estimated delivery times, both said they had sent them the day i ordered, one package contained aquarium plants, the seller kindly sent them again as he said i should have had them by now, i got them 3 days later. Today the original plants he sent turned up, 4 weeks after being posted, they were pretty mouldy and very dead. We have had a lot of post gone missing lately, also trying several ways to stop postman cutting across flower bed dividing our garden and our neighbors, they have trampled every plant in their way, kicked away bricks put there to stop them as well.they actually only have to walk a couple of feet to get to a path to get to our door, might have to invest in a large holly bush

the cat in question was "a bit of a goer" before we adopted her from a neighbor who just let her have litter after litter, to which we put a stop too (after keeping two of her last litter ourselves) she is a pedigree too so was probably quite attracted to a cocky south london fox, a bit of rough if you like, if she did have sunglasses they would have been D&G :)

ps, doesn't stop the foxes leaving a steaming pile of chod outside my door in the morning though, ready for me to slip in on my way out to work, i normally walk straight into a cobweb straight after as nature has it in for me sometimes it seems.

we have four cats (dont ask it just happened) and a lot of foxes in our garden, some days we see the oldest cat lying in the sun with a fox doing the same right near her, there seems to some sort of truce going on, we have seen the cats and foxes nose to nose and having a sniff of each other. i think some young cats are at risk, but foxes seem to keep away from larger adult cats as they know they can do some damage if provoked

I was basically really annoyed by the aggressive rudeness, which was totally uncalled for, fine say you don't want to take me to ED but don't give me grief with it like i have asked you to do something offensive, it makes me laugh when black cab drivers moan and protest when their monopoly is challenged ,the recent case of allowing Addison lee to have a booth at heathrow, which now heathrow has backed down from due to threats from black cab drivers to blockade the airport comes to mind, i would be happy to know another firm is operating from there that will actually agree to take me home (ps my rant isn't aimed at all black cab drivers as there are a majority of decent ones, just the odd bad apple who i have come across)

On friday my partner and i approached a black cab parked up near waterloo with his light on and asked if he was for hire to which he said yes, and asked where we wanted to go, we said East Dulwich , underhill road, he then waved his hand in my partners face and said aggressively "leave it out" and drove off quickly, my other half just barely got his head out of the window in time. We then managed to get another one who said yes, we got to just passed moxons when he got agitated and asked in a not very friendly way if we were nearly there yet and kept sighing, when we got to our flat he kept the meter running while parked up and in the short time between him asking for ?27.50 and us getting out and going to his window to pay it went up to ?28.20. we will stick to pre booked cabs and mini cab offices in future as they at least give you a fixed price and don't seem to give any attitude like the tools we unfortunately encountered.