hellosailor

Even discounting by 50% wouldn't bring their prices to an appropriate place, it's crazy. They label items of clothing from high street shops as twice as expensive as they would have been new. If something has a high end label they price it as it would have been brand new regardless of the condition. I heard someone question this with the manager the other day, they wanted to buy a very bobbly cashmere jumper with a big moth hole in it that was priced at £70. They asked the manager why it was priced so highly when it was in poor condition and ventured that in another charity shop it might be £5 and the manager said that when they got a designer or high end high street label item donated they googled to check what it was priced originally and priced it similarly. A friend went there recently because they needed the buy a plain white shirt for their teenager for a school performance and there were 2 white shirts there, one £50 and one £80. A worn pair of Nike air force 1 were priced at £40 last time I was there. it's crackers

That's fantastic news!

If my memory serves me correctly Beansprout has been on the forum at least as long as the fifteen years I've been. If you've been part of a community for a long period then you don't just lose interest if you move out if it, there are lots of people on here who moved out of SE22 years ago, maybe they grew up here, had a family here, longed to stay here having lived here for decades because it felt like home but couldn't afford to. It's not odd that someone who has invested a large part of their life in a certain community doesn't just erase it from their mind if they move out. I grew up and lived in BlackHeath for 25 years, went through many rites of passage there, witnessed the births and deaths and weddings of my friends, knew every shop keeper, every square foot of the place, had many of the most formative and important experiences of my life there, and ultimately that will always be the place I think of as home. If someone had questioned or mocked why I remained interested in the community after I moved to ED I would have been perplexed to say the least.

Adrian is really great

Unless you're 5 years old or have been living in a cave for several decades you can't be for real. I don't believe that you're genuinely confused by this, no one who has access to newspapers, the tv news, the internet would ask this. Either you're an infant, or have recently woken up from a coma after decades, or you're a supercilious tw*t

If you don't innately know from a human perspective why it's not tasteful to ask 'what's the latest on the court case??' then I can't really explain it I guess. I suspect the family are finding the concept of the circumstances being hashed out in court and the papers quite distressing so although I'm sure they are touched by the support and outpouring of affection for Akif I don't think they want the private details to be a 'matter of local interest.' If people are desperate to keep up to date with the court case they can google it. It doesn't need to be discussed on a local forum. Just a bit of basic decorum and sensitivity really.

Might it be more respectful to refrain from asking this on a local forum which his family are on as if it's merely akin to casually asking if anyone has heard what's happening with the empty shop space next to Oliver Bonas or if anyone knows which dentists are taking on new patients? Christ. Google it if you're that interested. They are a real family and this isn't a Reddit discussion on a true crime documentary. Extraordinary

David at Mr Simms sweet shop has also been collecting donations so between you you will have raised a really good amount to do something to pay tribute to Akif. 👍🏼

I have a vague memory that the bird was called snowball

I really hope that ‘desperate times’ isn’t a suggestion that people are being forced to rob amazon packages because of the cost of living crisis. These people have been stealing packages from my road and I’m sure everyone else’s for a decade.

Have sent a DM

I agree there have been some extraordinary responses to your post, made all the more baffling by the fact that they largely completely ignore the facts that you outline. Your instinct that the journey - which as you make clear he must make on some days because he has two homes - is too complex for a ten year old, or at least your ten year old, who you know best, is completely sound I think. The issue has been created because rather than take responsibility for the fact that on the mornings your son wakes up at his dad?s he needs to be taken to school, your ex has chosen to decide that your son is old enough to do it alone when he isn?t. You absolutely don?t have to agree to this. I presume the reason his dad doesn?t want to make the journey with him is because he has to get into work for a certain time? If that?s the case then he really does need to accept that this is a dilemma faced by lots of parents but the responsibility lies with him to negotiate his working hours or whatever is necessary to get his primary school aged child to school safely. He needs to accommodate the logistical difficulties that have arisen from his son having two addresses, not the other way round. he wants his son to sleep over at his house on school nights and what comes with that is a responsibility to get him to school the following morning.

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You haven?t read the whole thread then I assume? BB lives a simple bus ride from the school. The issue is that her ex, the child?s father, has chosen to live several miles away from his children. His choice of course, each to his own and absolutely his choice where he lives. But there?s an issue now - as I understand - because the dad isn?t worried about the child making this commute from his house on days when the child has stayed at his. As you say the journey is potentially too complex for a 10 year old especially if there are disruptions, if his dad is keen to have him stay over on school nights then the onus should be be on him to get his son safely to school. Bellenden Belle is right to go with her gut instincts about what her son can manage rather than bend the logistics to suit an adult. hammerman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm in the minority and I'm quite shocked that you > would send a 10 year old on this journey and > that's before they've even started their school > day.

I think the chances that the dog reads the forum are slim. It feels thoroughly unfair that the goose can?t be returned to his family, this is a really sad outcome.