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If it has shut I'll be gutted - best Sunday roast in Dulwich in my opinion. I was forced to go to the Clockhouse this Sunday as the Patch was closed (GE/Franklins had run out, Palmerston stopped serving) and it was nowhere near as good. Must admit the service was a bit shoddy on occasions but I've never had any complaint about food.

New tactic being used by Winkworth to make people believe that house prices are still at May/June highs = leave a house as 'under offer' on your website even though the buyer retracted their offer 2 weeks ago and the seller has taken the house off the market market. Genius. Fool people into believing you've managed to sell a house at a super high level when in fact you haven't.

Joe Knight - KN Designs - he's excellent [email protected] Check out his website www.kndesigns.co.uk

the Victoria Pub (Bellenden Road aka Peckham Village - still makes me laugh)

We ate there on Saturday lunchtime and although there had been some confusion over the menu (I was sent the dinner menu which isn't available at lunchtime - for which they were very apologetic) we had a really lovely meal. I would highly recommend. Their Sunday roast is probably the best in ED in my opinion.

I am not sure if we are speaking about the same individual but I had a very similar experience with London Landscape!! What a dreadful man. What a dreadful service. I found him rude, obnoxious and only interested in how much money I wanted to spend. I know very little about gardening and was reluctant to share a top budget if what I actually wanted could be done for half of it. But he didn't want to discuss 'options', his main aim was to get me to commit upfront to the absolute maximum I could afford to spend. When I refused to do that, he told me he didn't need the job and that was that!!

If you can get passed the receptionists to actually see a doctor then yes, I think they are good. I have no complaint about the doctors at all. The issue is with the people on reception and I can speak from experience. Just over a week ago I made an urgent call to the medical centre and requested a conversation with a doctor (I was reluctant to call 999 if I didn't need to and a conversation with a doctor would answer this). The lady that answered was helpful and tried, unsuccessfully, to connect me to a doctor but promised me a call back. I waited for over an hour and with my pain increasing I sent my boyfriend round on foot to try and get some sort of follow up. He was met by a belligerent, rude receptionist who denied all knowledge of a call from me (she hollered out to the back room to check with her colleagues) and told him as there was no record of my call I would not be receieving a call back from 'no doctor, no matter how urgent it was and I'd have to queue for an appointment the next day like everyone else'. So he came home, we called 999 and I was rushed into hospital where I spent the next 6 days extremely poorly. When a rude, unqualified receptionist has the power to decided the urgency of a patients need and can dictate whether or not they get to speak to a doctor then I think we're all in trouble.

What would have been useful, rather than traffic calming based on a census carried out 'before' a major road, which made Henslowe a rat run, was blocked off and digging up road bumps that kept the speeds to an average of a quite respectable 21.3mph and replacing them with bumps that you can drive over comfortably at 30mph and creating a dangerous and pointless cycle lane and taking away parking by painting double yellows where they weren't needed instead of painting them where they are needed, would have been to repair the badly damaged and hazardous pavements on Henslowe!! Now that would have been a genius idea. James please do confirm the cost of the works on Henslowe, I'm eager to know exactly how much was spent so I can get even more wound up.

Thanks for the reply James. The last traffic count is irrelevant. The vast majority of those cars would be the ones turning off of Peckham Rye onto Upland/Frien and then cutting down Henslowe. The Peckham Rye/Upland/Frien juctions were closed off in Nov 2011 (after the last count). Right now, the only reason for anyone to cut down Henslowe would be to get to Underhill Rd if Barry Road was shut - otherwise you'd just stay on Barry Road. My point about speed bumps is we already have them and given that your census shows that the average speed down Henslowe was 21.3mph, they appear to have been doing their job quite nicely. Oh and you can still go 30mph quite happily over the new ones so I have no idea how they'll change anything. The cycle lane is not only pointless but it's actually dangerous for cyclists. It's going against the traffic, which is fine, but it's been marked up on the right handside of the road (if you're driving the right way). Being a one way road this means cars that are parked on the right will need to swing across the cycle lane to get out. Being right hand drive, you cannot actually see what's coming towards you until you're already in the cycle lane which is too late for the poor cyclist speeding down the new lane without a care in the world. As I mentioned, cyclists rarely use Henslowe anyway and surely the safest place for them to be is in the middle of the road to avoid exactly what I describe above. They can move over if they see a vehicle coming down the road. Why do they need a cycle lane - it's common sense. I'm not a cyclist, but if I was I certainly wouldn't use the new lane. The only thing that needed to be changed was at the junction of Henslowe and Underhill where it's a nightmare pulling out because parked cars on Underhill mean you can't see anything. They have painted double yellows on the right but on the left they have done nothing meaning you still cant see a darn thing. What they have done however is painted double yellows at the end of Henslowe Road where there was no issue with visibility and have thus only succeeded in taking away valuable parking spaces. So to summarise, new speed bumps - pointless, new cycle lane - pointless and dangerous, new double yellows on Henslowe - pointless and have now created a parking issue. Exactly how much did these works cost???

Over the last 2 days new, full road width speed bumps and a cycle lane have appeared on Henslowe Road. What a complete and utter waste of tax payers money!!! We already had perfectly good speed bumps. It's a one way road that no one would want to use as a cut through. In the 4 years I have lived here I've never seen anyone speed. I've also rarely seen any cyclists use the road. Who asked for these pointless and quite frankly, useless additions???? Please step forward. I'm all ears to rational reasoning.

Another vote for Norwood Road vets from me! Excellent, kind, caring, generally do an amazing job.

I had dinner there last Thursday and it was amazing. It was really busy but the service was impeccable. The food was delightful and the house wine was excellent. Yes a discretionary service charge was added to the bill but so what, it was well deserved. If it hadn?t been I would simply have asked for it to be removed.

Classics have just finished our loft (bedroom with ensuite) and we couldn't be happier. The whole team were courteous and professional throughout the 10 week build. Any issues were sorted immediately (including with the Council who they liaised with directly), the quality of the work is second to none (certainly no corner cutting in our experience) and they did an amazing job of getting the most out of the space. We are absolutley delighted with the result. The people opposite us used Classic and our next door neighbours have just signed them up based on the experience and outcome we've both had.