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Yes, was there on the 21st with queues going into the car park, shopping and out again over two hours so will see if I get a ticket! Luckily I still have the receipt. Not like Morrisons car park at Camberwell where I've had a word with the manager about things but will start another thread on here sometime!

I've always had a great service from the Royal Mail and find it quite astonishing that you are blaming a member of their staff for faking a signature! I ordered something to be delivered last week from a delivery company but it wasn't. They sent me a dark photo of the parcel being put through my letterbox one evening when I knew I was in. Turns out they put it through next doors letterbox but they were away and I've just got it.

Drove through Grove Hill Road this morning to go Sainsburys and there were parking wardens about, one taking details of a car parked up on the new CPZ which probably shouldn't be there if they had read the signs. It's Christmas Eve but the wardens are out there sometimes!

Just what I was thinking and I'm over in North Dulwich! Then again, lots of parents seem to keep their children up all hours of the day and night these days.

Oh come on Sue, who cares if the manager is a man or woman, also known as a lady?

I shouldn't have to report them. So many multiple posts again on the for sale and family classifieds section today and over the weekend which drives other posts down.

Rye Lane branch closed down 5 years ago. There's a big WH Smith in Lewisham too.

I seem to remember somebody posting that the Goodrich School boot sale is no longer being held? Something to do with Southwark Council wanting more monies? I wasn't sure as was at the local vet surgery with my cats last week and saw a booklet advertising the boot sale for last week? All very confusing.

Just wondering why a caf? would be needed in a library? Toilets were not an option years ago in Dulwich Library and certainly not in Grove Vale Library but you just coped even though Labour closed down lots of public toilets. Seems like everybody needs to have their cup of coffee on the go these days.

I noticed trees being cut down on the Denmark Hill estate/Sunray estate recently and asked the workmen what was going on. Some of the trees were very small but the workmen said they were full of disease and had to be cut down.

Lots more multiple posts on the For Sale and Family Classifieds sections over the past few days. Blatant disregard for the rules and some of these posters have been on the forum since it started and should know better.

I was just leaving secondary school (Kingsdale) in the Summer of 1979 (nearly 16) and saw the Buzzcocks on Top of the Pops and still remember all the words to Ever fallen in love. RIP Pete Shelley

Just wondering what was wrong with the original Grove Vale library?

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That might explain why the bus countdown app is > struggling too. Bring back the days of just waiting for your bus to come along!

Thanks for the info. Didn't realise it was ready to open so soon. The new school building looks amazing on the website. Was the flyer from the school or Southwark?

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Southwark Council state they litter pick every > street every two days and sweep streets every four > weeks. > But clearly this isn't working. > > Amazingly still almost 100% manual sweeping and > almost zero mechanisation. Went past Sunray Avenue this morning and there was one guy who had done a great job sweeping up a path free of leaves. The whole length of Sunray Avenue has been full of fallen leaves for days. Nearby in Sunray Gardens there is a lone Southwark litter picker who has been there for years. His job is made harder by the local primary and secondary school children who regularly leave lots of litter.

sarahsouthlondon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Over the past 3 weeks or so I've noticed a really > shocking build up of litter on the streets around > Dulwich Village, North Dulwich, Herne Hill and > beyond. This is isolated bits of litter dropped > everywhere - it is definitely NOT the work of a > fox getting at a bin or similar. > > I have tracked specific pieces of litter which > have definitely been there for at least 3 weeks. I > have also not seen any litter pickers in that > time, nor have I seen litter bagged up in council > bags left at sides of road for collection. > > What's going on? Local councillors - have the cuts > meant that the council has cut litter pickers? > Otherwise I can't understand what's happening. > > I keep wanting to pick it up myself but to be > honest there is so much of it. Very depressing. The bits of litter have probably been there for around 3 weeks because the leaves have not been swept for weeks and so you see it more! The falling leaves are more a problem but because of boundaries set up in the past couple of years by Dulwich/Southwark you could see one side of a road being swept, with the other side being left unswept.

Elaine25 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My mother slipped over on the leaves in our road > she is 87. I spoke to two council workers the very > next day when I saw them using a blowing machine > and lorry with hoover they told me that it would > only be done once a month! Hope your mum is recovering and I also dread treading on all the fallen leaves, especially as they don't seem to be swept up regularly.

I was due to meet a friend in Lordship Lane yesterday and was aiming to get a couple of buses but then decided to drive in as read Sweetgirls post. Came into Lordship Lane from Melbourne Grove around 11.30am and it was shut from the Goose Green roundabout up until the Townley Road area. Cars were still driving up and down but no buses. Seemed so empty and surreal! Left through Barry Road around 2.30pm and the 176 and 185 were driving along there as probably being diverted.

Thinking back, I think the taxis had use of a garage or service area nearby and so used to park and use our street as a storing area. Could this be the case with all your taxis parked on Crystal Palace Road?

hooksan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In recent months there have been 3 taxis parked on > Crystal Palace road near Heber road and they don?t > seem to be moving. I know this as one is parked > directly outside my house. > > I was relieved to see that they disappeared at the > weekend but they have now reappeared in almost > exactly the same spots. The only difference is > that they have new adverts on the back doors. > > Is this happening anywhere else? Does anyone know > why there are so many taxis suddenly parked here? Our street had this problem (taxis, lorries, abandoned vehicles, people going on holiday) and the everyday commuters coming in to park. This was nearly 3 years ago before the area was made a CPZ. The taxis were a particular problem.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Living on Copleston, whatever the rights and > wrongs of CPZs we are now in a position to have no > alternative I feel - our road and Soames Street > are starting to look like a commercial carpark, > one vehicle in three is a cab (as Rofflick notes, > usually without commercial plates, which argues a > dealer is probably storing them here), LGV or > campervan in our section. A few years ago you wrote on this forum and attacked people who supported a CPZ in their area.

Instead of looking these places up on the internet, I would visit them in person to ask questions, look around etc. I have concerns with a couple of the providers on your list.