Robert Poste's Child

Thanks, jimmah. Someone else PM'd me their code already but that's very helpful. The customer service rating is very tempting, I have to admit.

Would be grateful for user experience - did the bills reflect the initial quote and were there any problems with the monthly direct debit? If you have a referral code too, happy to use it so you get something back too.

kp4 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you Abe_froeman and montassa, it is much > appreciated. It is very strange that Google > provides 2x different views. I agree, that it > might be safer to head down Carlton Ave instead of > Court Lane now. Thank you again! One of the views is out of date. Until the start of this year Calton Ave gave way to traffic from Court Lane. Now it's the other way round, with the yellow box to stop the junction getting gridlocked (like it was earlier this year before they got round to adding it).

Including me!

That would be great. Thanks.

How unpleasant.

Your posts don't come across as jokey or humorous. It just sounds like you're putting people down most of the time.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I like tulips though. I like the way they look > when they flop over and die :) Me too, Sue. They look so decadent and fleshy.

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i hate clogs and tulips. Khan should ban them. and > waxy cheese and soft drugs To be fair, you seem to hate a lot of things though.

My other favourite is to do a basic white bread, replace the butter with s slightly excessive amount of olive oil and maybe add some crushed rosemary and sprinkle sea salt on top. Bit like Foccaccia but you can slice and lightly toast it.

I used to have a Panasonic one which was very good and was recommended to me by a cook friend. Straightforward to use and clean. Only drawback was if you set it up on timer the night before to make bread for breakfast the noise of the paddle woke you up too early. My best recipe is granary flour, but replace one ounce with rye to give it more density, and add a tablespoon of honey.

Clip clippity clop, Sue. I love Dutch people. One of my favourite nationalities. Hup Holland!

DovertheRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This evening...unusual car (black BMW) with > occupant watching houses from a discrete distance > between 5.30pm and 7pm. The last two weeks of > August show a spike in break ins. Looks like some > more coming up. Have reported to 101. There's a dealer pretty near there. They could have been looking for him.

'Uz makez ur own fun in the coun'ry.'

holloway Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 'Dulwich Dental Clinic' for me. These guys are > fantastic, Dr. Tremaine in particular. I had a > check up, clean & polish and a filling for ?60. Seconded. I went there just over a year ago after a recommendation on the forum and it's all good (once you get past the receptionists who can be a bit chilly in my experience). Once he did a clean while the anaesthetic was taking effect.

Not sure if this might be related but cycling up CPR there's a bowl-shaped dip in the road shortly before Jennings Rd. As I cycled home in the dark tonight it was even more noticeable and I wondered if it might be subsidence or a potential sink hole.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As it?s complex why post a ug style anecdote about > housing Because debate is important and the ability to discuss things honestly and politely is an (I hope) inalienable part of our culture. It's one of the reason why people in less stable parts of the world want to join us. Reductive comments like yours just polarise any attempt at an inclusive debate.

JoeLeg and RH, those are both fair challenges and I can't answer the first without naming peoole, which obviously isn't appropriate. The underlying point, though, is that any managed or forced change to our culture tends to leave some people feeling pushed out, and others just fearful. You can mitigate that in my opinion by organising people around an idea effectively (whether a good or bad one), or evolution will eventually probably take care of it, if very slowly - for example, most white native Londoners in the last few generations have grown up in increasingly multi-cultural surroundings. My younger family members, for example, are genuinely colour-blind in a way that I, forty to fifty years older, am not. That doesn't mean I'm racist - I really hope not, anyway - but like many people my age, my idea and attitudes (and relationships) have changed over time as society has changed. When I look back to my childhood, or read books written in the first half of the 20th century it seems unbelievable how normal casual racism was. Casual sexism and ageism have persisted even longer.

japseylarue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BME people may also have been born and lived all > their lives in Dulwich too. Not that this has > anything to do with the original post. That's right, and they may be male, female, gay, trans, other, have experienced abuse or neglect (in all classes), older, younger, with physical or cognitive limitations, or mental health problems, or responsible for small children or elderly family members, or socially isolated, or with limited savings or pension that put them just outside policy but aren't enough to live on, or a combination of those, any of which may play into what they experience and the support they need. It's complex.

Can't we have a debate without people launching personal attacks all the time? Perhaps uncleglen was thinking of Southwark's housing policy, for example. Some local people, not me but certainly people using this forum, have been told by council staff that BME have priority, meaning some people who were born and lived all their lives in Dulwich have had to move away from their families, even out of London. It's not hard to feel empathy for people in that position and doing that doesn't mean you feel any less empathy for people who do fit into the BME category.

Can you give some examples to support those claims, uncleglen?

I don't think I did: I said we're still feeling her influence.

Another example, like Grenfell, of how we've let cost and profit have too much weight in what should be social decisions. Thatcher may be gone but we're still feeling her influence.

Without wishing to sound callous (it's someone's son/brother/friend, after all), a few more high-profile chases and arrests like that should quickly make a difference to the moped-mugger crimewave.