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[Restored to original draft] At https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/christmas-period-tips-reduce-reuse-and-recycle there's this (see bottom of post) and a link to an online request form. ========== "Christmas tree recycling " We’ll collect and recycle your real Christmas tree for free! Simply remove all decorations, including any pot or stand, and do one of the following: "Put out your Christmas tree with your food and garden waste containers on your collection day "If you don’t have a food or garden waste collection, you need to request a free collection "You can also bring your Christmas tree to our Reuse and Recycling centre " "Request Christmas tree collection"

There's been fairly broad media coverage in the last few months of the development of 'banking hubs'. These are premises where shared counter services are provided by a group of banks, with back offices available for use by individual banks. https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/press/press-releases/pivotal-moment-banks-consumer-groups-post-office-and-link-join-forces-help-protect-cash-services Link (might other facilitators be available?) even invite community requests for their set-up. https://www.link.co.uk/about/news/four-new-banking-hubs-confirmed-following-community-requests/.

I have a stone age memory of vacuum cleaner carbon brushes needing occasional replacement. I've just had a quick google and am surprised to see that can sometimes still be so. Worth looking into?

1. Not forcing image downloads. If you go to User Control Panel -> Board preferences -> Edit display options -> Display images within posts and select No, then attached images are reported as a clickable link (as in the Phorum system) rather than being downloaded and displayed.. 2. Links to quoted posts (which may be just partially quoted, and maybe on a different page). If someone has selected the Reply with Quote option, as I've done here, the small up-arrow that's added -- here just after "ianr wrote:" -- is actually a link to the full post that's been quoted. [8/3/23 Editing the Subject field (adding "[mk.2]") to see what effect, if any . And it seems to be retained, as I can see, but only by going into Edit mode, when it appears changed in the Subject field. I guess that the field will be propagated to any post made by anyone responding to this specific post, but won't be of much other use. Effectively it's functioning as something like an internal private tag which denotes not much more than in which branch of a tree of posted responses any particular post has been made -- which should be pretty evident anyway, from its content. [Now relabelling Subject addendum to mk.3]

I only noticed these two features fairly recently ...

I've still to do a fuller write-up, but want to get this important point made. You do not need a phone app to make an appointment. I'm not surprised if anyone's been led to this conclusion. I was myself for a while. But any device with a web browser should do. I think the simplest route is to go to https://my.askmygp.uk/?c=G85132#/intro. It's the link provided at https://www.tessajowellgpsurgery.co.uk/services/online-services/. There you will first need to register on the system. As I went a roundabout route I'm not sure how much information will be required of you to confirm your identity as their patient. But I can confirm that the three data items given to me by Melbourne Grove Medical Practice in a letter in 2018, for entry to their previous patient access system, were still acceptable proof to their system now that they are Tessa Jowell GP Surgery. When accessing the AskMyGP system via browser I found that the time window on it for requesting an appointment seems to be the same as that for telephoners, ie a short time from 8 am. Can anyone who is using the phone app confirm that that's the case for them too?

I PM'd the OP on Monday, suggesting a change of thread title to refer to just the TJ GP practice, but it's not been read yet.

Oh dear. Commiserations to you. I don't want to be a dampener of enthusiasm for flu jabs, but my understanding is that the early choice of constituents each year is always a bit of a gamble with respect to actual effectiveness. I seem to remember reading that in one (just one!) year, in over-65s, there was actually a higher prevalence of flu in those who *had* had the vaccine! I'm afraid that as a hard headed over-65 empiricist I found that quite amusing, though it doesn't put me off getting the annual jab at all (or lead me to any almost certainly fallacious belief that the vaccine aids or abets flu). Another gratuitous observation, just in case it might have some validity and use for others, but with no assertion that it does ... On a couple of occasions in the last week, after noticing just the very slightest feeling of an incipient sore throat, and maybe a slight swelling of neck glands, I tried giving my immune system a helping hand by letting a small amount of mouthwash wash around my throat area for thirty seconds or so; and in each case didn't notice the symptoms again. I see btw that the latest flu surveillance report available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2022-to-2023-season does seem to sugest some sort of matching found between one of the several flu viruses prevalent at the moment and a vaccine constituent. Figures on actual vaccine effectiveness will presumably appear when there's enough data.

OK, I've decided to wait till tomorrow and then to see what's available to me in online appointment-making; in particular, given that the NHS Online questionaire concluded that I should consult a GP the same day, whether it's possible to get it similarly flagged or duly treated as more or less urgent. I'm finding the apparent disparity on the AskMyGP site, (currently advertised at https://www.tessajowellgpsurgery.co.uk/services/online-services/ ) between the examples of interchanges between patients and GPs and the appearance of This Is Not For Patients warnings on some pages, difficult to understand. I'll be doing that on the Evergreen site, as suggested by the TJGP introductory page https://my.askmygp.uk/?c=G85132#/intro, where it's said "If you submit a request that you deem urgent or essential it will be triaged by one of our experienced clinicians...".

Things move on, not necessarily for the better. AskMyGP is still there but there's yet another service outfit, "Evergreen Life" that seems to handle the appointments and records access. I have registered with them and linked my account to my practice TJGP. I seem to have spent several hours floundering around between websites this weekend. I'll write later with a gleaning or two. In the meantime can anyone please answer this moderately urgent query: Is it (still) possible to input some current case details somewhere with the assurance that they will be seen by a medic within 24 hours and progressed if need be to TJGP and the anticipated offer of an appointment? The situation may differ for weekends, so I don't know if tomorrow will be different. If not I'll resort now to NHS 111, which seems to be the only accessible resort at times anyway.

If so, when did it change? It always used to be the stop on East Dulwich Grove next to Derwent Grove. /viewtopic.php?p=2257729&hilit=rail+replacement#p2257729 There is also a map outside the station. or opposite the booking office. The positions are probably right in it, though they have sometimes mixed up the bus stop letters.

You could try this: http://public.londonworks.gov.uk/roadworks/home.

Tom Phillips. There's a fairly recent local piece about him. at peckhampeculiar.tumblr.com/post/189144461660/painter-man There's more of him on that site that seems to require registration, https://www.tumblr.com/search/Tom%20Phillips

I see you mention "the flat above". On the matter of your liability, the government advice page on the Party Wall Act requirements, at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-resolving-disputes-in-relation-to-party-walls/the-party-wall-etc-act-1996-explanatory-booklet does say: " In return for rights to carry out certain works, the Building Owner (the person having the work done) must notify you [any adjoining owner or occupier] in advance. He is made legally responsible for putting right any damage caused by carrying out the works, even if the damage is caused by his contractor."

If I'd known at any time that Private Eye deliveries were going to be consistently 2-3 weeks late for at least 2-3 months, as they have been, I'd have canvassed, at least half in earnest, the possibility of a large-enough bunch of us SE22 subscribers asking the distributors to send our copies in a single courier consignment to one of us, and then our arranging local delivery amongst us on a non-liability, but at least trustworthy, basis.

> There's no law of cycling while under the influence https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/part/I/crossheading/cycling-offences-and-cycle-racing/2017-03-10. See s.30. https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/newsroom/is-it-illegal-to-ride-a-bicycle-when-drunk/

From https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/status/?Input=185 : CHAMPION PARK SE5; From 06:00 Saturday 29 until 22:00 Sunday 30 October and also 06:00 Saturday 05 until 22:00 Sunday 06 November (weekends only), routes 40 176 185 484 are diverted in both directions due to Crane operation. Stops Denmark Hill Station to Ondine Road are not served. Buses diverted via Denmark Hill, Red Post Hill and East Dulwich Grove.

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Sainsburys are responsible for allowing daytime access: /viewtopic.php?p=1926691. Schedule 4 of the agreement I mention there also provides for a Management Plan for the park, to be submitted to and approved by the council.

Any chance of the the regs' name or some sort of direct or indirect linkage please? [ETA] OK Lynne, I've found it. The Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1368/schedule/1/made, which came into force on Saturday. I can see it being problematic. To be included in the placement ban a food has to be both (a) in the long list of specified foods (Schedule 1) and (b) scoring more than a specified minimum using formulae specified in https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nutrient-profiling-model. By my interpretation that would include, for example, any ready-to-eat breakfast cereal or muesli that fails (b). I wouldn't be surprised, though, if others reached a different construction of parts of Schedule 1 or had problems with the calculations bit. The regs' explanatory memorandum explains, btw: "The purpose of this instrument is to restrict the promotion of high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) products by location and volume price in medium and large businesses that sell food or drink in England (50 or more employees). "

They appear to be a branch or franchisee of the Arapina bakery in Greenwich. See https://arapina.co.uk/contact/ and https://arapina.co.uk/what-does-arapina-mean/.

Logging out will delete the 'remember me' login key on that machine. Is that what's happening? Alternatively, I see that manually deleting all my browser cookies for the forum after having closed it produces the same outcome. So perhaps you should check whether your browser's set to delete all recent cookies at the end of a session. That should probably be configurable somewhere among its privacy or security settings. Observation for Joe: my second para. was an edit of the already posted post, but doesn't have any added annotation to say so; nor does this one. But an edit just made to an old post in The Lounge has been annotated.