Mountain walker

I have done some DIY skills courses at the Goodlife Centre based up between Blackfriars and London Bridge. Hands on learning.

I spoke to the relief postie in our road today. According to him our regular postie is off with Covid,there is not much cover, sorting office is short staffed and the staff are dealing with lots of tracked Covid test deliveries. He didn't think a visit to the sorting office would be productive. Not a very promising outlook.

Really Maria on Lordship Lane has a note in the window saying they do sewing machine repairs.

Sad to report that in our part of SE22 the delivery service appears to have deteriorated. Letters and cards taking ages to arrive, if at all. Several magazines missing along with online purchases. Does anyone know if I can make a trip to pick up post from the Peckham Sorting Office?

We want to replace our current Mira shower with a modern version. Probably also needs a bit of update to the electrical wiring.Can anyone recommend a plumber/electrician/heating engineer to carry out this work? Thanks.

We are looking for someone to strip our hall fireplace.It is currently painted gloss black.The work would need to be done on site. Any recommendations?

We had a lot of windows replaced about five years ago by Bespoke. Recommended.

Perhaps also post this in the business section with the name of the company in the subject line.

Might I suggest a connection between waiting for the permit and the issues many of us are having with Royal Mail deliveries. These are discussed at length elsewhere.

We used P&P glass to supply and fit Sunflex bifolds. Still very pleased with the job they did about 5 years ago.

Disappointed to see that some customers in the Forest Hill Road Coop are still not following the law. I just asked a woman in there why she was not masked and was standing too close. No exempt badge. All I got was abuse. The other customers kept quiet. We need zero tolerance to stop the virus. If she had been smoking in the shop would the staff and customers let her carry on?

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Has anyone seen the police stop anyone illegally riding an e-scooter around East Dulwich? There are an increasing number of riders who seem to regard the pavement as their domain and when on the road are a menace to all. Our car was damaged by one a few months ago, luckily the rider was honest enough to pay for the repairs.

Can anyone tell me what advice bus drivers have been given as regards passengers boarding buses without wearing masks. I would also like to know how to report or complain officially about journeys on which there is widespread non compliance. I have just had a bus journey on which a good 25% of the passengers were not even pretending to wear a mask. It didn't feel safe and unless there is active enforcement or the offenders catch the virus and get ill or infect their loved ones I don't see their behaviour changing.

Graham Nolan has just done an excellent job on the exterior of our house in Scutari Road. Recommended. He has before and after pictures of our house. Graham is on 07890 069558.