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I know you?ve got to be careful not to get the floor too wet, but I let the cleaner get on with mopping the whole lot with Flash like any other floor, and it?s done no harm. As long as the mop is reasonably wrung out, it doesn?t slosh water everywhere.

Previous owners of my house had ?soundproofed? a ground floor room by fitting a suspended ceiling, and filling the void with loads of roof insulation. Absolutely useless as far as I can tell, didn?t muffle much at all. So that?s how not to do it :)

Anything has got to be better than the assault on our senses being perpetrated over at M&S. They have X-Factor celebs voicing the self-service checkouts. Who?s shouting at us excitedly today, to insert your card NOW in the Lordship Lane foodhall? Ant and bloody Dec, that?s who. I only went in for granola, I?ve come out with palpitations.

cella Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I suggested to Admin that for a range of reasons > it was better to delete it. Spoilsport ;) That was my favourite thread this year!

If you caused damage to the boiler somehow, the landlord could have a claim on the cost. If your contract has provision for this kind of expense, then perhaps he has a claim that way. If the landlord offered one kind of fix but you insisted on some particular fancy boiler instead, he would doubtless want to be compensated for the difference. The first of these seems unlikely. You?ve already said the second doesn?t apply. Presumably the third doesn?t apply either, and if it did then something should have been agreed beforehand. Assuming all that, the landlord has to cover the expense of maintaining his property, including fixing the boiler and anything else he provides as part of the contract. So, just politely write a reply that the boiler replacement is not an expense that you?re responsible for. Confirm you?ll continue to pay the rent as agreed (I?m assuming you haven?t been withholding and that there?s no other rent dispute), and for the avoidance of doubt remind him that he will not be permitted to withhold any part of the deposit to cover the boiler or other normal maintenance costs. Keep a copy to show the deposit escrow people when he tries to hold back your deposit at the end of the tenancy. I?ve been a landlord. I?ve paid a lot in boiler maintenance. Wouldn?t dream of charging a tenant for that, unless they had been mucking about with the heating system and broken it!

OP - how well do you get on with the neighbour otherwise?

Quite excited about this, can't wait to have a go!

I heard* a different rumour, that it?s going to be annexed into Peckham Rye. As a cost saving initiative. *invented

Just wondering if OP (or anyone else) can tell us what these guys are like?

Keep your chin up. Change UK a lost cause, but if you believe in it then I admire you for being prepared to put your time and shoe leather into it :)

That?s a great analysis for tactical voters, thanks! Johnie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gina Miller's new site may help: > > https://www.remainunited.org/be-tactical/

Where?s the best place round here for car tyres? I?ve used Kwik Fit on Grove Vale in an emergency, but only for a repair - which they did well and not expensive. I got a tyre fitted before at the place by ED station, but I wonder if there?s more competitive pricing somewhere.

The article about Friern Manor Dairy Farm is great. I live the detail that all fourteen milkers are ?of the rougher sex?! OP is unnecessarily petulant - this forum is in the English language, in England. The title has incorrect spelling, grammar, and the name of the farm in the thread title is wrong too. Those are just facts, there?s nothing wrong with striving for correct use of language.

AylwardS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I frequently get hooted for driving at 20 mph, Might be worth checking your car?s speedometer against something that tells you speed using GPS (like many smartphone navigation apps). Indicated speed on speedometers is always at least a little bit higher than actual speed. On my car it?s only 2mph so shouldn?t be enough to justify impatience, but my old Ford Focus was a good 5mph off - and I?d be annoyed at being stuck behind someone doing 15mph!

TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Ah, a cargo cult! > Now we have the ship cult, or the pirate cult > according to LowLander > > Lowlander Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I don?t have photo. I happen to know two ship > > owners quite well, both have posters up ...

I have been converted from opposing CPZ in my road, to being unexpectedly pleased with the actual effect. On Chadwick Road, the controlled time is just a couple of hours in the middle of the day, to stop people who don?t live in the road from using it as a free car park / park and ride for Peckham Rye station. When the Council proposed the parking restrictions originally, I was bothered by the reduced parking that would result from the changes, in an already congested road. Now though, gone are the old bangers and vans that always clogged the kerbs up and made it hard to see round corners. The whole road is suddenly open, and if you want to park you?ll have no trouble as long as it?s not in the 2 hour window of parking restriction. Much as I hate to admit I was wrong, the Council did know better in this case. Maybe their proposals aren?t all bad all the time.

Yet they still can?t get chewing gum off their own feet. I wonder if we could train them?

The basket self-checkout has become very efficient. You?ll find out why that is if you use the trolley self-checkout: half the people using it have baskets, but can?t be bothered to walk back down to the end. Look basket shoppers, just shove off to your own queue would you? Grr.

Hi, my neighbour was ticketed for parking across the dropped kerb in front of my house. She successfully appealed, because I wrote a letter to the appeal adjudicator. All I confirmed in the letter was that the garage had long since been converted, meaning there was no exit being obstructed, that this was widely known in the neighbourhood, and that all the neighbours including Ms X had my ongoing permission to park in front of my house. Wardens stopped enforcing after that. ?then they put a double yellow line over it, in the latest round of new painting! So no more parking for me or anyone now.

cn150 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > will it be better than Flock & Herd or WR? Will you have to > queue on Saturdays like you have to at WR on LL? F&H & WR have staff with a high level of butchery knowledge, and although they have queues they get through them quickly. Proud Sow?s staff don?t have to deal with a queue, they also don?t have the same level of knowledge. Today I was on a mission for caul fat (it?s the lacey stomach fat used to wrap meat for faggots, sheftalia, things like that). F&H regretted they didn?t have the right lamb parts in this weekend for that, but often would stock it. WR didnt have any, ordering in advance a possibility. Proud Sow had absolutely no idea what it is, they did offer me some goose fat though. I know it?s not an everyday item, but a professional trained butcher knows this stuff, and Proud Sow?s staff just didn?t. By the way, TFC in Camberwell stock caul fat on their meat counter as standard, so if anyone else is planning sheftalia for the BBQ that?s where to go :)

Trust your suspicions, that?s someone being a creep. Best case, lonely soul wants a cup of tea and a chat, and you?ll never be rid of him. ?Safety issues? is a line that could maybe lead to all sorts of things, perhaps including checking over your house with you and making security recommendations, while seeing for himself which window you leave unlocked and whatnot. Do encourage the local fuzz to have a word, if they can figure out who he is.

Salut OP? there used to be a group, probably worth finding out what became of it. The thread was here: /forum/read.php?6,1562968,page=3 Bon courage :)

I bought a large sofa from Habitat, and they offered a special delivery service which included construction the sofa on-site. It was the only way to get it up the narrow stairs (other than putting it together myself - which I later realised wouldn?t have been as hard as I had thought it was). It was a 3rd party delivery company, that Habitat use regularly. You could ask them for details perhaps, even if you don?t get your furniture there.

A TfL customer service advisor writes:

Going downhill, the traffic light was stuck on red earlier. As a result, drivers eventually go through it - so be careful whichever direction you are coming. Reported to TfL online just now, having been directed to them by Southwark Council. Hoping their ?we?ll get back to you within 10 days? stock response doesn?t mean it will take them that long to sort it out!