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Is it a combi boiler or do you have a separate hot water tank ?

Wandered over there today (Tuesday) only to find it closed. Should have checked before I guess but assumed they’d be open Monday-Friday but no, Wednesday-Friday, and weekends.

999 is for emergencies only. A stolen car is NOT an emergency.

I'd like to recommend Shabaz at Bifold Door Repair. The lock on our bifolds broke and Shahbaz diagnosed the problem, ordered the spare parts and carried out the repair. Communication was top notch and I would be happy to recommend to anyone needing their services. https://bifolddoorrepair.co.uk/

Thread title says it all really.

Really, it’s just a bit of gossip…

https://youtu.be/cNTd_sIZB-4?si=8N0U-eesxGm3dhzt

If you've been through Dulwich Village recently you may well have spotted what I think are 3 Rolls-Royce cars with covers on them, parked on the road between Gail's and the roundabout. They've been there a while, a least a couple of months. Just curious if there's anything behind them being there as it just seems a little out of the ordinary.

I think there is still a shoes/clothes recycling bank outside of North Dulwich station.

I'm not so sure the collection team are that bothered anymore. Two houses either side of me are rented and the tenants just chuck their rubbish - mostly bagged - in the blue or green bins depending on which has space in, not based on what it is. The blue bins are always emptied.

Southwark's list of School Gates is here: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/parking-streets-and-transport/parking/parking-permits/school-streets/current-school-streets This section of the website says that they only apply in Term Time and gives a link to the Term Dates here: https://services.southwark.gov.uk/schools-and-education/school-term-and-holiday-dates The local anomaly is that two of the streets are for JAGS and Alleyns but these schools have longer holidays and different term dates !

US (Boston) all-female quintet that play Celtic inspired folk. Only playing 4 dates in the UK, one of which is at the Hootananny in Brixton, on the 37 bus route. Google them for more info or here on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/scottishfishband?igsh=YnhjcWNiY2hoMzhp

Waitrose.

Buy it from the supermarket. Cut in it into wedges. Wrap neatly in greaseproof paper. No one will no any different.

So you want non-supermarket, artisan cheese, for 20 adults. Decent cheese from a cheesemonger will cost at least £25 a kg (probably more), so allowing 100g each that's 2kg so expect to pay £50-£60. Good luck finding anything cheaper that isn't from a supermarket.

Vans are restricted to one hour a day 8:30 to 9:30 and have to be pre-booked. So long as you went with and were able to show the right ID then I doubt it would be an issue unless the builders van is emblazoned with their branding as businesses aren't allowed to use it.

I came across this the other day. Probably the closest I personally ever came to one like this was my first office party in my first job. Not sure that many are like this anymore.

Heritage Cheese, the cheese shop that was in Dulwich Village and closed suddenly in August, has been fined £150,000 for food safety breaches. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/heritage-cheese-fined-ps150000-after-two-severe-food-safety-breaches-uncovered-southwark Yeeauuch.

Scobies in Dulwich Village perhaps.

Why make it one property ? If own more that one property which together amount to over £2m then why should I escape this measure ? (I don't btw).

Waitrose.

There is an approved planning application (24/AP/0643) to reconfigure the site, keeping it as a builders merchants. I had thought that the one at the top of Railway Rise was going to move here once the dust has settled over that site being redeveloped. 24_AP_0643-PROPOSED_SITE_DEVELOPMENT-3956284.pdf

Line speed and the strength of your Wi-Fi signal are two separate things. The first is determined by the type of connection (fibre/copper etc) to the outside world and the second is the connection between the device (printer/TV/laptop/tablet etc) and the router. If you are connecting a device to the router using cables (as Alec1 is) then this is will give the best possible connection but isn't practical for many without a degree of upheaval and even then not all devices (tablets for example) will allow a wired connection. So you relying on the quality of the Wi-Fi signal from the router to the device and this will depend on the quality of the router, the type of Wi-Fi connection (the frequency), line of sight etc - many different things. This is why some people opt for a "mesh" type setup which is supposed to give a solid quality of Wi-Fi signal around the house with little or no blackspots. It's expensive though and still requires the devices that send and receive the signal (like the plug-ins you have) to be wired to the router.

So for the vast, vast majority of people their internet is access via wires (or fibre) supplied by openreach, virgin or one of the smaller providers like community fibre so there is a physical medium involved. However you can buy off-the-shelf 5G Routers that have a SIM card slot. Put a 5G SIM card in it and you can then access the internet from your home devices via 5G. Imagine hot-spotting your phone and sharing it. Effectively that's what your doing. Rather than buy one, 3 (and I think EE) allow you to take out a contract for a 5G SIM and the router for around £20-25 a month. Speeds won't be as fast but I get around 80 gig bits download speed and it holds up fine for us. Thus the mobile providers gain a foothold in the "broadband" market. 3 offer a no-quibble 30 day guarantee so you can try it out and if you find your signal isn't strong or reliable enough you can take it back for no charge.

Vodafone and Three merged this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VodafoneThree