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I?m very happy to put in a recommendation for your services, James. Thanks for coming round so quickly and fixing our kitchen light and figuring out where that fault was. Very reasonable rates too.

smozzy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > why not try north peckham. rds like meeting house > land are slowly changing the area with new shops, > cheaper rnets and great neighbourhood! I was just dropping in to say exactly this. There?s a few empty shops on Meeting House Lane. I live round this part of Peckham and there seems to be a new place opening up around Queens Road every few months. We?d definitely support a shop like this.

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't mind about lycra one way or the other, but > to me it signals racing. You simply don't need to > wear lycra to cycle to work. The Dutch manage to > cycle in their ordinary clothes and their weather > is not noticeably better than ours. It really isn't about racing. I wear Lycra because after the first few rides into work in normal clothing, it was deeply unpleasant (for me and probably my coworkers too) to be sitting around in sweaty clothes for the 2 hours it took to dry. My commute is 40 minutes and it's plenty of time to get pretty gross. Even if you change, you still need to change back into the clothes to get home, and a normal tshirt and trousers won't be dry by the end of the day. Believe me, a fair few of us really do need the Lycra / fast drying workout style clothing to commute. And I'm well aware that I don't look attractive in it, but needs must. Besides, it's not a fashion show, I just want to get to work and atone for the bacon sandwich I'll have when I get there. With regards to the racers - I've been taking a very well-travelled cycling route to work for the past two years, and while there are a handful of racers, really there's only 2 or 3 out of the 40 or so cyclists I see every morning who stand out as being d*ckheads. Going fast shouldn't be an issue; it is entirely possible to cycle quickly and safely. The vast majority obey the rules, but as a previous poster mentioned, no one remembers the ones who follow the rules. Just like the vast majority of motorists don't run red lights or cut me up - I just tend to remember the ones who do.

Pledged. I'd love to see this become a reality.

That's the one, rosythebadger. Very sad.

A couple of incidents that seem suspect: Barry Road, Peckham Rye end - yesterday afternoon a guy rang my friend's bell, claiming his wife's waters had just broken, and he needed cash to get a taxi to Essex. Friend heard "waters broken" and went into help mode, told him to wait on the doorstep, then penny dropped so she called the police instead. Meanwhile bloke carries on ringing bell and knocking on door. Peckham Palms - Thursday morning around 8am, woman in early 30s stops my boyfriend, very distressed and suicidal because she can't buy milk for her kids, saying "I'm not a drug addict, look, no track marks on my arms". Boyfriend believes her, gives her a couple of quid (all he had on him) and offers to walk her to the Hurley practice for some help. Woman tries to convince him to walk to a cashpoint instead.

Thank you. There's plenty of advice online on how to 'transform your tiny urban garden' but precious little about what to do with the waste, particularly if you don't have transport.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this; moderators, please feel move to the correct section. Newbie gardener/DIYer here. I live in a first floor flat of a Victorian conversion, with a small front garden that's overgrown with weeds. I want to dig out the flower(weed) bed and replace with gravel, take down the rotting picket fence on the half-wall, repaint, and generally tidy up. My question is, what do you do with all of the rubbish and dug up topsoil? Do you pile it all on a tarpaulin and get Southwark Council round to haul it away? (I can't imagine my neighbours would take too kindly to a pile of dirt left on the pavement for days.) Buy one of those hippo bags from b&q? What do local car-less DIYers do? Even if you have a car, where do you dispose of green waste and wood? We're mid-terrace and don't have access to the back garden, so there's nowhere to put it all while we wait for it to be hauled away. Any tips appreciated.

Noooo! I loved this project. I thought the Queen Bee was beautiful.

Fredbear, I have had this same notice, with an amount of over ?7k. My partner and I bought in 2012, and my flat has new windows (although downstairs hasn't - we're in a converted victorian terrace with 2 flats). AFAIK there's been no inspection, and we seem to have been sent a proposed bill for the entire property - no mention of splitting costs with downstairs (also leaseholder, though it is rented out to a private tenant - ie not a council tenant). The proposed works pricing seems fairly reasonable, if it actually needs to be done. However, they're talking about a lot of work that doesn't seem necessary - eg, repointing, repairing and replacing windows, etc. None of this came up in the Homebuyers survey we had done in mid 2012. Not a nice letter to come home to this evening, and as you can see by the time stamp on this post, I am definitely losing sleep over it! It says we have 30 days to respond. Does anyone know what we should say? Do we need to seek professional advice when drafting a response? This is our first flat and I've never had to deal with this kind of thing. A google search brings up loads of Southwark council leaseholder horror stories.