nowittyname

Hi Came across your message just now by accident. Hope you are better but if not.... just wanted to say, have you been checked for autoimmune disease? There are quite a few of these illnesses, but they often cause extreme extreme exhaustion - it's like being thrown into extreme old age without warning - you basically just keep falling asleep, can't get up the stairs in one go, memory non-existent...etc. Did by any chance your mum, grandmother, aunts, have thyroid disease or unexplained illness? Doctors very very bad at diagnosing autoimmune diseases. Can be very few other symptoms, or fleeting symptoms, which they can always write off as something else. If you are persistently always exhausted and can't do the things that your same-age partner or friends can do, can't get anywhere suggest you go to private GP and insist on tests, particularly for PBC - primary biliary cholangitis - get the AMA antibody test. Good luck.

Could anyone please offer a recipe for Apple Parfait that might end up tasting anything like Toasted's?

You used to be able to go the old offices and just request docs over the counter. Took about 15 minutes (not 15 days). I was your situation last week, the desperation must have told in my voice because the operator very kindly put me through to the manager of the dept who found the docs on line within one minute and emailed them to me. My request through the ordinary channels never received a response.

In favour of the Co-op being open 24/7 - I believe it is now the only place in East Dulwich, or on Lordship Lane anyway that charges keys for key meters for electricity, gas (and water?) - that's as far as I know - some time ago I gave a lift to a young woman with a toddler whose husband was being kept in Kings, having managed to knock himself out with a moving box as they were moving in. She had got back late, and couldn't find anywhere along Lordship Lane to charge their meter key (house dark and cold) - had to take her to Peckham Road, the nearest place she could do this - located on the bit that is not the most reassuring place to be for a woman at night. Apparently the Texaco garage at Goose Green and the Costcutter used to do it but stopped, and apparently the Co-op is the only place that still has the social awareness and sense of caring to do this. It's not a money-spinner, so good for them.

Do you have a business plan? I understand the rent is about ?40000 pa so you have to show ?769 a week profit just to pay the rent before you can take anything out of the business, is that right? Plus heating that great big space, business rates, water, electricity, music sub, 5 staff I think they had for the restaurant when that was open, bar staff, cleaning, building maintenance....what would the turnover have to be to make any kind of a profit? There's a three bed flat upstairs but the only way in is through the pub, which is not exactly ideal.

There must be someone? It's quite hard to venture out without seeing someone who's been on the telly at some point. Surely these people don't just shop in Sainsbury's? The famous, notorious or anyone who has been on the telly, ever, for any reason, might like to shop at the Co-op. Although the Co-op is smaller, people in there might be more likely to be scrutinising the prices than in Sainsbury's, and hence less likely to gawp at you? Also, it's easier to escape from the Co-op, should the need arise.