nunheadbelle

Maybe "stationary" is a kind of glue that stops you from moving when touched, a type of superglue :) Jennys Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mary Russell newsagents at Herne Hill on Half Moon > Lane sells "Stationary" accord to their painted > sign across the front..

Annasfield Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For some reason I thought this post was going to > be about boobs. :-S So did I, I thought somebody was bragging or wanted to sell a bra :))

Oh, and I read somewhere else relating to the same story, that she is complaining that it is too big to clean. She can probably claim for a cleaner too. We have lots of cleaners on here offering their services, perhaps somebody can apply for the job.

I have a squirrel in my loft that you can have, gladly, and I won't even want some of the stew. Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Erm, where can I get a shotgun? And would that be > to shoot people intent on stealing my tinned > potatoes, or to shoot cats and squirrels with > which to make a stew?? > > :)

I was taken aback by this article, what do other people think? A MUM of seven is being paid ?170,000 a year in benefits so she can live in a ?1.2million mansion. There's posh ... tenant Toorpakai Saindi Taxpayers hit by the credit crunch fund the swish seven-bedroom home enjoyed free by Afghan migrant Toorpakai Saindi and her family. And her landlord is raking in rent of more than ?12,000 a month from a local council ? funded by taxpayers. That?s DOUBLE the normal market value of the seven-bedroom property, located in a swish West London street peppered with the Mercedes and BMW cars of private owners. Raking it in ... Ajit Panesar is making a fortune from rent Yesterday Saindi, who also gets an estimated ?400 a week in child and local tax benefits, said: ?It?s a lot of money, but the council pay it. ?This is their problem. I don?t know why they pay so much.? Landlord Ajit Panesar, who is acting within his rights, also referred The Sun to Ealing Council. They blamed the Government, saying it set the rate. But Whitehall insisted the council could have put Ms Saindi in a cheaper home. The root of the potty payouts lies with the Local Housing Allowance ? rolled out nationally on April 7. Anger ... Mark Wallace It enables tenants and landlords to find out the maximum amount of LHA available before an agreement is reached. In July Ms Saindi, who has four sons and three daughters aged eight to 22, approached the council after being made homeless. They had a legal obligation to find her a seven-bedroom home. But they did not have one big enough on their books and so turned to a private landlord, Mr Panesar. He fixed a price for his Acton property which the council checked with the Rent Service ? an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions. They then advised the council what they should pay. It turned out to be a staggering ?12,458 a month ? partly because under boundary changes implemented in April, Acton is crazily lumped in with mega-rich Westminster. Yesterday estate agents Foxtons said similar properties in Acton command rents of around ?6,000 a month, top whack. Ms Saindi, who came to the UK from Afghanistan seven years ago, said: ?I always thought the housing benefit was a lot, but I?m told that is what it is for homes like this here.? Mr Panesar said: ?I can?t help it if the law says I should get paid that amount of money.? One local said: ?It is unbelievable. Her house is on one of the nicest streets in Acton. "People pay hundreds of thousands for the privilege of living there.? Mark Wallace, campaign director of the TaxPayers? Alliance, said: ?The system has gone seriously wrong when one family is costing taxpayers so much. ?The people running the welfare system seem to have forgotten money doesn?t grow on trees. This family could be helped without the need for such a huge bill.?

TIMSTER Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have had quite a lot of dealings with the local > council when it comes to trees being cut down. > They only allow it to happen if they are left with > absolutely no choice, and it is usually nothing to > do with the health of the tree but that it is > causing subsidence to a property close by. Yes, it is usually because the trees are causing damage to the foundations of houses nearby or even drains. We've had several trees cut down around here over the years and mostly because of foundation problems. But even if this is the cause, they can still cause movement because the soil will shrink back and dry out, usually causing the property to move the other way. It's a shame to see trees go but we have a particular problem in this area with trees.

I don't think the lights are temporary, I know the removal of the speed humps is temporary, as you say, until they finish the pipeworks. I did ask one of the workmen when they were digging the road up. I agree they do take a long time to change, especially when the bus is coming down Forest Hill Road and you're trying to catch it. nunheadbelle zephyr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The lights are temporary whilst the work continues > on the underground pipework/main from Honor Oak > Reservoir as are the 'painted in' road cushions on > Colyton Road. > > I quite like the lights when crossing Forest hill > road into Dunstans as it used to be a nightmare > with cars edging out all the time and a number of > near accidents. I would not like to see the return > of the zebra crossing when/if they are removed but > would rather see a Pelican crossing in its place. > > I would vote to keep them but look at their > phasing.

We ate there once and it was pretty good. Had a takeaway there too and that was good. The food is better than your average Chinese takeaway and a little bit more money too.

Probably the yoof were trying out the entertainment in the area prior to the new boys' school opening. God help us!

Maybe they were filming an episode of 'The Bill'. If you had a speaking part (as you did speak) they have to pay you :))

I don't mind the idea of dropped kerbs, but it's annoying when almost EVERY property in a road has a dropped kerb, which makes the whole road dropped. What are the requirements for getting a dropped kerb anyway?

It's really only a 'pop in' supermarket for convenience and you'll find that people usually just pop in. When I go there and there are no spaces, I just wait a few minutes and someone will come back to their car. Also, a lot of people park there just to get money out of the cash machine. Car parks are a way of enticing customers to the store really, otherwise it would mean them havng to park in one of the side roads (if you can find one without yellow lines). Talking of car parks, Somerfield really should have a car park and they'd get more customers. Even the small car park that Iceland has encourages people to shop there.

We had Thames Water digging up Ivydale Road for about 9 months and half the road was blocked off to traffic so buses and other vehicles had to turn down the side road. If you were a few minutes late home from work, you had no chance of parking on Ivydale, most of the time I had to park on one of the few remaining side roads. I thought it was all over until recently when they blocked off the road AGAIN whilst they dug up and resurfaced the road AGAIN. It was all quite entertaining as buses confronted other buses and cars contronted cars and lorries coming round the corner, we witnessed many a stand-off.

I was in there around that time and as I came round the corner of one of the aisles, I saw a policeman talking on his walkie-talkie and a guy standing not far from him. I would imagine this was the shoplifter? He wasn't handcuffed or anything and was just standing there. Obviously I missed the bit when he was being manhandled and if I had seen it, I would have said something. I'm not one for standing back and doing nothing if I see an injustice being done.

Is one of the symptoms a tendency to stop and restart sentences? :) monica Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >Well we have had a full moon recently and > > >Well we have had a full moon recently and that >could bring up all manner of conditions

There must be a medical name for this type of behaviour, 'stepadefecatitis' maybe :-)

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Neither. It has a silent "w". A silent 'w' can be dangerous, you never know when it's going to strike

hadn't read this thread until I got a call from NatWest fraud department a few days ago. They asked if I was in Ghana, whch I wasn't, then revealed someone had tried to use my card in Ghana. Thankfully (or not) I didn't have too much money in there and they were declined, but NatWest blocked the card straight away and then I got my call. they had also tried to spend ?1 to buy a pizza somewhere in London and managed that. So now my card is being replaced and I'll my ?1 back. I've had my card cloned before sometime last year and that's why I don't use the cashpoint outside NatWest in Peckham anymore, I prefer to queue inside. When I mentioned it to the teller at the time, he was pretty aware of it and confirmed that they had had this done many times every day that week and recently. Back to the ED bit, I have used that card in Morrisons recently and also the Tesco on East Dulwich Road, but I always shield my digits with my other digits, as one person suggested. Actually, going back to the previous NatWest incident, I remember a young man standing outside the cashpoint with something in his hand, which I assumed to be a mobile phone, but I became a bit suspicious when he kept ushering people to go before him, as though he was just waiting for someone. He probably had one of those readers that can record the tones; I also mentioned this to the bank at the time and informed them that I would not use the cashpoint again. Now... just have to wait for my new card to arrive and I hope I don't go overdrawn waiting.

What about East Dulwich is it East Dul-wich or East Dool-wich ;-) Sorry, just being silly, or si-lee The Sinjun Wood one is funny >:D<

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Indeed (and thanks for that!) The other issue is I > am not applying for credit or a credit card, just > to open a Co-op bank account! > I think the issue is that you DO NOT have a credit history. It can be just as bad not to have taken out loans and credit cards etc,. as it is to HAVE these and not paid them or fallen behind etc. If you have no credit history people get suspicious as to why.

shoshntosh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you certainly don't hear about these sorts of > things happening at iceland. :)) Here, here

Yes, you just phone the Council, they collect old furniture and in fact most things and it's free. Vik Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Southwark will collect up to 15 bulk items free, > but you may have to wait up to a week.

Just a little character. Actually, it wasn't that long ago that Lordship Lane was more or less like this stretch, until it went upmarket. The shops in Grove Vale have been there for many years. I remember I used to frequent Hong Hong, the Chinese takeway on a weekly basis and that was about 25 years ago. JamieT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lordship Lane is populated by fashionable > restaurants and bars yet the road from the EDT to > the station remains a mecca of dirty kebab shops > and dodgy looking bookies. Any idea why and is > this likely to change soon? > > Apologies if this topic has already been discussed

Well we have a cajun/soul food place on Grove Vale and I'd say it's been there more than 10 years. Best Caribbean food takeaway for miles and frequented by all nationalities. It the guy made it into a restaurant more in the 'heart' of East Dulwich along Lordship Lane, he'd do well.

He beat me to it then. That's how I feel, having to put up with maniac drivers at that spot trying to bulldoze me into submission every day on my way to work. If you're in the right lane going towards East Dulwich Road, the lane obviously isn't straight, if you carry on straight you'll going headlong into the oncoming traffic, so what do they do, they gatecrash into the drivers on the left, forcing them to stop or be killed. The road markings made sense before because there was a right turn there but it doesn't work now.