welshio

Another recommendation for Jon Smith. I contacted him over the weekend and he was able to fit in a clean of all my windows inside and out today. Very polite and professional and the quality of the work is great. I?ve already booked him in to come again in a couple of months.

It seems that the 'repair' that they spent a week working on at the mini roundabout by Goodrich School lasted less than 24 hours before there was water coming up through the newly laid tarmac. You'd think they'd do some form of testing before closing it back up: Is it wet? If so then it's probably not fixed!

They had a go at pulling mine off as well, fortunately they just bent it the wrong way and it seems to have popped back into place OK. I'll never understand the behavior of some people....

+1 for portable aircon, it's an absolute god-send. Good luck lugging one all the way up to the loft, the good ones are damn heavy.

I was chatting to the workmen there at the end of the week before last and they were saying it was more likely to be around Weds 29th. If they'd dropped behind schedule that early on in the refurb then I wouldn't hold my breath for it re-opening on time. I hope that they have come up with a good design for the interior, it's my nearest corner shop and I've been suprised how many times I've missed it while its been closed.

sleepy-li: Thanks for the info, it's good to get the opinion of someone so close to where we are moving to. Bic Basher & Jah Lush: I agree with you, Virgin is not worth taking the chance with. I was hoping that I might get lucky but as it has a 12 month contract it's too much of a risk to take. I guess I'll have to suck it up and give my business to an ISP that uses the BT infrastructure. Cheers

I'm moving into my new house on Dunstans Road (near the middle close to Goodrich School) next week and I'm trying to figure out who to go with for my internet access. I'm currently living up near ED Station where my only option was BT FTTC (using Zen as the ISP) which has been fine (getting approx 70Mb/s). The previous owners of my house had Virgin and I know that I can get up to 200MB/s with them but I have read a fair few horror stories about how much it can slow down at peak times. BT are quoting that I am only likely to get approx 35MB/s at the new address. Also when I say BT I just mean their wires, I'd sign up with a proper ISP, not the actual BT jokers :) Does anyone on here live near my part of Dunstans Road and are you able to give me some first-hand experiences of what the internet services are like? Thanks

I think its just re-opened now. I just drove up it and it looks like the workmen are taking down the diversion signs.

I went in there with the Mrs last night for dinner. Was impressed by the Cherry Tree burger and the service was superb, Mrs welshio had the duck salad and enjoyed it. We would have stayed for dessert but the mains left us stuffed. Given that I can see my flat from the beer garden I'm more than happy to make this my new local. Hopefully they'll also be showing Rugby during the World Cup and if I'm lucky maybe even the odd footy game featuring the mighty Swansea City :-)

I love these souvlakis, so much so that they have won my custom away from the pork roll stall of a Saturday morning which, if you know me, is no small achievement :)

Scaffolding is up at The Cherry Tree and it looks like they've begun ripping out the old interior. I for one am looking forward to seeing what they do, this will (geographically speaking) be my local.