Dogkennelhillbilly

Gusto Italiano (cosy cafe on Half Moon Lane, opp Judith Kerr Primary and next to Kens Fish Bar) has a nice new front deck in addition to its pretty little back garden now - will be great in the brighter weather ahead. West 16th next door has a stylist indoor area too. They're both worth a visit.

Half of Holland and Barrett is just fake-healthy fizzy drinks anyway.

Literally no-one said that. That's a thing you've just made up.

Dulwich College and the rest of the private schools are never going to get serious about reducing the number of kids commuting by private car. It goes against their business model - marketing to rich, picky parents across the whole of London (and the world). Community schools that draw from a local catchment area will find it much easier to have kids that walk, bike, scooter etc in. By the way, these private schools also employ hundreds of staff and provide onsite parking for many of them - an unusual perk in London. JAGS lost a lot of goodwill from neighbours and parents when they opposed the school street having effect when kids were arriving...because it would interfere with staff pulling into the car park right before the school day!

I haven't had a run of bad luck. I have had to deal with the systematically rubbish private courier market because I send and receive a lot of parcels. This country's approach of dumping this vital economic activity in the hands of the Barclay Brothers, Jeff Bezos and various other spivs has failed. It's a rubbish outcome for consumers (for all the reasons above), it's a rubbish outcome for workers (many of whom are placed under massive pressure to work stressfully and dangerously by shame subcontracting arrangements), and it's a rubbish outcome for businesses that rely on volume deliveries (as their stuff gets dumped all over the place and their clients get annoyed). Post Office branches are a vital front door for that sector.

Good for you. What happens when you get to sodding Tesco and the crappy instore Hermes terminal is broken, and the store workers aren't trained to fix it, and there's no way for the punter to contact Hermes IT (as if it were our job to fix it)? What happens when you get to the parcel locker to drop off a package and the machine can't scan the label that it itself printed several seconds beforehand? What happens when each shop requires a different bar code, QR code, reference code and ID to send and receive a simply package? These are all things that have happened to me in the last month alone, despite your implications that people who want to use the Post Office are thickies and troglodytes. It's all a stupid inefficient pain in the ring that is unnecessarily complicated. What is wrong with this country that it can't run a decent, simple post office?

Well said. I don't think much of that post office's business is Mrs Miggens withdrawing £7.34 in cash from her pension because she can't be doing with the new-fangled computers. That's a stereotype. I'm terminally online and digital but when you're dealing with physical objects (like bloody parcels or cash!) sometimes you need to drop them off and pick them up from somewhere. That's especially true for international items. I don't want to do that at Tesco or Ken's Korner Kabin where you have to piss around with some deadbeat courier's app which never works, and where you can't yet the courier on the phone and the poor guy in the shop doesn't know how to fix it and is only being paid 13p for the transaction. I don't want a million white vans being driven up and down the same street every day by insecure workers in the gig economy being paid peanuts. I want to drop my stuff off and pay the fee at my local post office, and I want my stuff to be delivered by my brilliant friendly postie who knows me and my neighbours and where to leave stuff safely. And judging by the huge queues out the door at Lordship Lane PO it seems there are plenty of people who end up coming to the same conclusion. Rant over...for now.

Not exactly being suckered. Drivers are not being fined for "driving near to the while line". A solid white line on a lane means "do not cross" - so use your eyes and don't cross it.

My dentist is also a bit wobbly about giving proper receipts/statements. I don't really know why it seems to be tricky...

This is not correct. The Dulwich Village restrictions are not part of a School Street. The restrictions apply Monday to Friday at the times specified on the signs. They are not suspended during school holidays.

No, it's perfectly reasonable prices. Don't remember exactly but it was similar to Uber and cheaper than black taxi.

Used Mason & Green for airport transfers etc thanks to recommendations on here. Never been disappointed, always reliable. https://www.masonandgreen.co.uk/

Mate, the speed limit could be 70mph along there, and all you'd do is get to the next traffic light six seconds earlier and with a massive increase in danger and emissions.

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Pharmacists are highly trained healthcare providers and antibiotic resistance is well within their area of expertise. Let's not assume they're "handing out" anything.

Forget about it. These people aren't happy if they're not moaning online.

That's good news. I saw that DVillage is also being renovated. Now the pavement in front is wider and flatter with the recent works, they'll have a nice setup indoors and outdoors.

Good news. Can't get anything done in this country without months or years of pissing around. Councils need to be let get on with doing stuff instead of having to gather the "input" of their most opinionated, time-rich residents. "Blocked in consultation...virtually every move is box ticking" Well, which is it? A process that does block council action or a process that doesn't block council action because it's a sham? You can't have it both ways. All these procedural moans about process and consultation and feelings are just waffle to distract from the moaners' real point: that they don't like what happened as an outcome.

At 377 Lordship Lane? It's unusual - every eighteen months or so there will be some work done, and then nothing happens. I passed by last week and the door was open - it seems to be decorated in the style of a western saloon, there were bottles of booze on the shelves, and tradies doing something again.

But you don't know that, do you? An awful lot of leaping to wild conclusions and drawing unsustainable inferences there. Those things really upset you, apparently. 🤣

That's probably why the DVLA puts the words "This document is not proof of ownership" across the V5C form.

The DVLA doesn't record who is the owner of a vehicle. It records who is the "registered keeper".

The DVLA does not keep records of ownership of vehicles.

When there is no bike lane at all, that's also what happens - drivers are opening their doors right where bike are being ridden. 🤷