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Which will make the printed property address particularly visible...

Do we keep the brown bins if we aren't paying for a subscription? Seems a strange system They (Southwark) are meant to collect unstickered bins (presumably for re-issue for those who want one and don't have one) - of course they should be swapping them out for the kerb-side food waste caddies (with about 3-4 times the capacity of the kitchen caddies) for those who don't have them, and issuing additional kerb-side food waste caddies for those keeping their large brown bins for garden waste. I suspect those logistics may defeat them. At the moment we all continue to put all our organic waste in the one brown bin we may have, of whatever size. At some (by no means clear) stage we must not mix food and garden waste.

Mine has arrived as well. My Veolia source (great binman) tells me that only 5000 of 25000 households have requested garden waste collection, mainly in the South of the Borough. (I.E. Borough of Camberwell as was). But then, that's where the larger private gardens are.

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This, surely, is also about cognitive dissonance. By saying famous people (people we know/ have heard of) live around us we are trying to confirm our decision to live or stay here. If famous people shop where we shop then surely we must have taken the right location decisions? We gain, additionally, by osmosis, that their fame and fashionability will somehow rub off on us. I don't really think this is either creepy or in any way stalking. We have stumbled upon them in a public place, not searched for them in private ones.

Has any other subscriber received theirs, or not? Yes, arrived on time - and I've not missed any of those. A political weekly is less certain in arriving, sometimes 1-3 days late. But now being delivered sometime, which wasn't true a year ago!

Certainly where you can pay catering staff a pittance (or less if they are family members) then the economics of running a business look better. I have rather mixed feelings about this - I love cheap 'Indian' food, (and the ingredients are certainly rarely expensive) - but I also quite like to see skill (properly) rewarded.

Now those people are at an age to retire, they will disappear. It is quite normal for businesses to be sold-on (where they are not kept in the family). One assumes that a business which isn't sold-on may no longer be viable. Fashions in e.g. food outlets change (as we have seen in LL). As do customers for food outlets. It is true that some business types do disappear over time - and others emerge. Often in areas where rents etc. are cheaper - which is why the face of london is always changing. That's broadly a good thing. Think of the influx of Vietnamese and indeed Turkish restaurants in Kingsland Road (Hoxton) or of Portuguese restaurants in Newington. LL used to be the go-to place for 'Indian' restaurants - it's less so now, but there is still quality to be found, and now amidst other cuisines.

Do remember that slug pellets and hedgehogs don't mix (they don't mix with toads and frogs either)- in both cases poisoned slugs eaten by either will do them no good.

Yes, fixed line broadband infrastructure for domestic use in ED is supplied either by NTL (branded as Virgin) or by BT Openreach, supplier to all other companies offering fixed line (non Wireless/ mobile) Broadband, which includes BT, EE and Plusnet (all owned by the BT Group). Only BT Openreach is obliged to wholesale local network infrastructure (Local Loop Unbundling). Many companies will additionally have their own racks of equipment (line cards) in BT exchanges, but some will use BT equipment end-to-end (although their service will be front-ended with their brand). Because some companies use their own equipment in BT exchanges, services offered will differ technically as well as by brand. It also makes a difference (as regards data speeds) whether the service is part-supplied using fibre optic in the local network or whether the copper local network is used all the way into the exchange. In ED BT supplied network has tended to have a better service record (and better contention rates) than some of the services offered by Virgin, who seem to have under-supplied capacity locally.

I don't think people used it then, either. But then, police in that era tended to 'proceed in a westerly direction...' rather than simply walk, as I recall.

So we're forced to continue putting it in the large bin and, no doubt, they'll refuse to take it. Rather the opposite in my case - they took the bagged kitchen waste and left a rose branch (the only garden waste I had put in the bin) - and yes, I have paid the ransom (as soon as the system started to work). On Tuesday this week.

Presumably Southwark pays for the electricity consumed by its lamps, but the charging electricity is separately metered and either charged out to the supplier by Southwark or directly by that supplier

For a council to be providing a subsidy for non community charge payers (they have no control over who would be using these charging points) must be an error. Are they perhaps paying for the installation of these points, but not then electricity consumed through them? That might make more sense. And it might explain what seems to be two different stories. Or even, not charging the supplier to install charging points on their lamp posts. So no straight subsidy at all, but also no additional revenue stream for supplying supporting infrastructure. That would make a lot of sense. No costs to the council at all, but a potential revenue stream ignored to encourage electric vehicle usage locally. So then, they wouldn't be charging the supplier of the equipment for siting it on their lamp posts. Hence the 'no charges' concept.

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Being a private landlord is now a legal minefield. It may be worthwhile using professionals (you'll pay for their expertise mind) to see you through this, at least for your first tenants. How keen are you on hands-on management (arranging repairs etc.)? - if you are local and know tradesmen, good, otherwise maybe delegate.

I hope the good work won't be damaged by those Travellers that twice in the last year have occupied the site and used it to fly-tip builders waste and rubbish (possibly toxic).

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I would check with Thames Water - pressure is not high around here, but for most people sufficient for combi-boilers - so I suspect you and your neighbour (if you're in the same house) may have a specific problem with your supply. Thames Water can test and should remedy if this is so.

It's fair to say that (Barcelona apart) few establishments have lasted very long on this site. But to be any sort of destination it had to have a consistent offer - which included (considering its location) a consistent food offering. A 'beer only' establishment might have worked on LL (where there are numerous food outlets) - but stuck out there if it couldn't offer food as well (on a regular, consistent and quality basis) it was surely doomed.

Louisa The sad fact is that the demographic you represent (or wish to be seen representing), which was a dominant demographic in ED once, is no longer. The sorts of shops and restaurants you say you like, and would like to see, no longer command the support of sufficient numbers locally to be able to operate profitably. Shops and restaurants selling low cost items have to sell very high volumes to pay for local rents and business rates. And maybe we don't have a pound shop because we do have the excellent Farmers. And as for your dislike of pizzas - well that's absolutely fine - no one is ordering you to buy or eat one - but there may be sufficient others who have different tastes to make a success of this new one (or, as I have said above, if it's better than an incumbent, to force an incumbent out). You wish to roll back time to get back to an ED (as regards its residents) that no longer exists. I understand (sort of) that feeling, but it is a fantasy.

You have paid for your garden waste to be collected from 1st June and it will be. What you are upset about is that others haven't paid and their garden waste will still be collected. I can't see why you would get a CC refund when you are getting what you paid for. Just rejoice thst others are being looked after as well. No skin off your nose if they haven't paid. (And I paid as well, by the way). If Southwark was to be trusted (it isn't), then those who paid by 1st June should perhaps be charged only ?25 next year, and not ?30,but don't hold your breath.

I imagine this may be about 5G introduction - in which case probably a good thing. More masts than already exist on this roof won't be a major eye-sore - it's not as if it's really blocking a view from anywhere. Indeed, and in general, improved signal is generally a good thing, 4G or 5G. But the benefits from 5G, including integrated and real-time control of emergency services etc. is to be desired.

The absence of public toilets is a disgrace. A 24 hour city needs 24 hour facilities

Assuming Sainsbury's pays minimum wage for their till staff we should demand pro-rata if they are asking us to do a till staff job. Or maybe the London Living Wage?