louisiana

I'm in favour of both, but haven't seen any consultation.

I have a horrific number of Saved Items on my Amazon account. Amazon site is fairly hopeless for editing/rationalising these (10 items per page; and you are always bounced back to first page after a single edit). Is there any easy way of exporting my list to something a little more edit-friendly? Haven't found anything yet on the interweb.

I notice that Freecycle gets a mention for recycling, but not EDF! B)

You've made a pig's dinner of my thread. :-S

I'm retching.

Tosspots at Excel/Excell are re-writing history. *Apparently*, most of the silent/dead calls they made to my mobile are not on their records (so that their calls supposedly and conveniently fit in with Ofcom guidelines on silent calls). Quelle surprise! Given this morning's exchange of pointless and fraudulent (= "telling untruths to obtain pecuniary advantage") emails, I would be happy to shoot their MD, whoever he is. Instead, I shall be taking the reasonable course, and writing to Ofcom.

Is that a yolk?

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > louisiana Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > You hand back your bags (from the previous > > delivery) to the Ocado van driver. > > Nnyyeaah, that's what Ocado said when I complained > to them. But with crates you don't need to use > bags at all, which seems an improvement to me. So they leave you with crates? Or them empty the crates onto your floor? I'm imagining the driver does not offer to put away all your shopping into your kitchen cupboards etc. (?)

lorna63 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Granted that > wildlife use the rail lines, but why do they get > off at Sainsbury's? Quite. This is the only place I'm seeing rats in the entire neighbourhood (at 4.30pm on a sunny afternoon, on a public pavement, to boot), and there are plenty of railway lines all over the place.

Marvellous idea. Crap implementation. If even peeps on EDF are struggling to know what's going on so soon before the scheme kicks off, there has been a failure in comms. Looking forward to the end of the pilot and the scheme being extended.

The last few weeks I've been getting quite a few calls from a number which turns out to belong to a company called Excel or Excell Communications (with whom I have no relationship of any kind). The phone rings twice or three times, then stops. Then the same thing 20 minutes later. Then the same thing, ad infinitum. When I try and call the number, I get an answering service. I had a hunt around on the Web, and this company seems to have a bit of a rep. Has anyone else been getting this? I've sent them a stinky email saying I'm going to report them to Ofcom.

And an oldie but goldie

RosieH Smiths? Sounds interesting. If you no longer require it, I might be up for that. I've just got some simple stuff out of the library for now to test the depth of rust. On the knees up front, I shall have to hone the skillz beforehand, which may take a little time... unless someone else is a skilled ivory tinkler.

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > louisiana is that to add to the growing list or on > the current list- was it Woody? This was in early September.

OMG: "Dulwich Library contains the Borough's collection of music scores"...! Yay! I can now forgive them not having a single Brian Eno CD.

He's sounding terribly nasal, isn't he? Anyways, I now can haz piano! Avec stool to boot. I shall have to dig out my much-travelled sheet music from the year dot...

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't know whether anyone elese has noticed, but > Holland is a notoriously flat place - London on > the other hand, and particularly around here > isn't. (Notice that almost all the local stations > other the the 3 Dulwich stations have 'hill' in > their name.) > > Once you reach a certain age much of ED and its > surrounds becomes quite a struggle - apart from > the less than bike-friendly roads we have > generally around here. What age would that be? (I'm on the wrong side of 50 and not a gym bunny at all.) It's fairly easy to avoid unnecessary hills around here e.g. Dog Kennel Hill can easily be by-passed, and who would want to cycle along that road anyway... The main problem in the area is Crystal Palace triangle, which is uphill whichever direction you travel from.

SeanH, do you think eater81 will ever be convinced by us that ED is a lovely place really?

RosieH, I believe what we are receiving is - technical term - 'care in the community' :) SeanM, eater81 is an angry bot. *Most* of ED is about the nice stuff. Unfortunately, peeps tend to remember the nasty stuff and forget the nice stuff. Psychology, innit?

I would add: If you have bushes or trees screening your windows from the road, cut them back. Screening greenery gives burglars time to break into your property out of public view. Also, install some external lights that are triggered by movement. Cheap (25-30 quid), easy to install, and adds to the unattractiveness of your property from a burglar POV.

Big thanks to the lovely Polish guy who rescued me last night while I was carrying an item of EDF-gained furniture. He parked his car and carried the item the rest of the way home for me when he found it couldn't fit in his car! (Not so far, but far enough.) I told him all about EDF, of course. And also to Amy, who is handing over her very nice piano to me, FOC. Again via the EDF. The excitement chez Louisiana is palpable. I don't know where I'd be without the EDF and all our local lovely people. :)) Corrected to remove the impression that this guy had carried his own car.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > languagelounger Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Living South magazine. Regularly get home in > > winter to find that their horrible jumped-up > > keep-up-with-the SE21s glossy tat mag has been > > jamming my letterbox open all day so the house > is > > freezing. > > Worse still, if you're on holiday, it looks like > there's no-one in. That's one of the reasons why > postmen are instructed to push mail completely > through the letterbox. Many times we've come back > from a break to find a faded and limp pizza flyer > hanging out for all to see. Yes, this is a real issue. I'm thinking about installing a wall-mounted post box and sealing my letter box as an attempted solution (in addition to 'no junk mail' stickers etc.). Many people's letter boxes can be a little tricky to manipulate (small entry, strong spring or heavy brushes, or even a dog at the other end!), which in *some* cases may explain why material is not pushed through all the way.

I found this parks Byelaws document on the Southwark Council website. No mention of 'dog' or 'dogs' (only Dog Kennel Hill!) which I find surprising. The dog issue does seem to be getting worse in local open spaces. (Someone doing some work for me has just had her own small dog attacked by a much larger one, on Peckham Rye (reported to police). Her poor dog needed an expensive operation. Another to add to the growing list.)

I *think* you can use the upstairs room (where the projector/screen are) free, but you'll need to check that, and check they have all the equipment there. (They will of course get bar takings anyway.)

Employment? What's one of those?