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Reporting it via the abandoned bins page (https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/abandoned-bins) worked for me a couple of years ago. Which makes sense I guess - they don't know (or probably care) whether a bin is abandoned or just surplus to requirements.

Choosing from a small sample size but Noel Gallagher at Crystal Palace Park in July was pretty special. Great venue, great support from Johnny Marr and a great set. I was never an Oasis fan so mostly there for his solo stuff, but almost lost my voice singing along to the Oasis songs at the end.

I got a letter from my credit card company telling me I was close to my credit limit. Postal date was two weeks before, so by that time I'd gone over the limit and got charged. Annoying, but reading the above I feel I got off lightly.

I recently moved from Virgin to Community Fibre - now paying £20 a month and service has been good so far. Cancelling Virgin by both phone and chat was incredibly painful and I totally get the Ofcom investigation. You can also cancel by letter which I wish I’d done. That said, the phone/chat people offered price reductions quite quickly, so if you’re happy with service that might be the path of least resistance.

Still using. I use Twitter mostly as a news feed for topics I’m interested in (sport, music, comedy) and it works well for that - on the Following tab I just see people I follow plus the odd promoted tweet. The For You tab is hit and miss though - it picks up some things I’m interested in, but a lot I’m not. I’d contrast this with Facebook and Instagram, where accounts I follow are just drowned out with spam these days to the point where they’re almost unusable.

I agree up to a point, but also hasn’t the problem moved beyond this? Just walking to the station I routinely see speeding/extreme speeding, people ignoring red lights, cycling on pavements, people jumping on the backs of buses without paying etc etc. Essentially I see more criminals than police. If graffiti and litter can lead to more crime then I’m pretty sure open criminality can too. A burglar might reasonably take a look around at all this and feel invulnerable. It might be that the pandemic has messed with my mind a bit, but were things like this in 2019?

If you’re not fussed about going out it’s free to watch on the BT Sport YouTube channel. Possibly this is common knowledge but I only read about it 3 days ago.

Useless fact of the day: Kemi Badenoch stood for MP (under her maiden name) in Dulwich and West Norwood in 2010. I’ve not voted for many Tories in my life, but she is the only one I can remember not voting for.

Wes Streeting (Labour shadow health minister) had some interesting thoughts on this in the FT the other day: https://www.ft.com/content/3592b0e6-6d8d-4483-9f89-4c909b2defd0 In case you can’t see it (the FT paywall is a bit random) he does say they can’t open the cheque book and “Reform will need to do more of the heavy lifting”. The incumbents have set the bar pretty low admittedly, but Streeting at least seems quite sharp.

People with multi-syllable names who refuse to accept the common abbreviation for those names, making you say/write the whole thing every time. Yes Jonathan, I do mean you.

Might be worth taking a look at the air bricks on your property if you haven’t already done so. A local handyman replaced the rusty metal ones on my flat and the “visitors” stopped overnight. Can’t guarantee that’s the problem but possibly an easy win if it is.

The four speed bumps in a row at the North Dulwich Station end of Half Moon Lane, and in particular going over them on the 37 bus. Anybody know the history of these? Why???

Men who use their phones at the urinal. (Is there a female equivalent out of interest?)

You could try the Oriental Mini Market that’s just opened in Forest Hill. It’s on the stretch of shops by the Wetherspoons. No knowledge as to stocks as I haven’t been in.

When I’m in the queue for the self checkouts and I can see there are checkouts available but the people at the front of the queue just stand there.

I listen to very little of my old music now, which is possibly a bit strange but Alan Davies said on QI he only listens to new stuff so at least I'm not the only one. I often love older pop hits when I hear them by accident on the radio - Whitney, Britney - when I'd have thought myself far too cool to have listened to them at the time. And Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen is, I now realise, complete genius.

I recommend Sparsh in Forest Hill, it’s opposite Sainsbury’s on the site of the much-missed India Gate. It’s a short, quality over quantity menu with some interesting twists on standard dishes - chicken biryani arancini anyone?

Forgot about this thread, had nobody in ED experienced any joy this past year? How about, young British cyclist Tom Pidcock’s mad mountain descending skills in the Tour de France last week:

Dexter definitely qualifies - the later series weren?t bad but it peaked with season 4 ( I haven?t seen the recent revival). I tend to think there?s so much money in successful US shows that there?s a big incentive to keep them going even when the writers have run out of ideas. An exception: The Good Wife. I recently rewatched all seven seasons (my partner hadn?t seen it) and that stayed brilliant all the way through.

Buying a bottled drink in a pub and being given a glass that?s too small for said drink.

The Marvellous Mrs Maisel is great, series 4 just started on Prime. Wouldn?t have chosen it from the description (female comic starting her career in 1950s Mew York) but it?s really funny. 50 minute episodes though so might not meet the ?relatively short? criteria.

Making one of my periodic attempts to resurrect this thread?saw The Shark is Broken last week and thought it was great. It?s an imagining of the conversations/personality clashes of the three stars of Jaws behind the scenes while they?re waiting for the mechanical shark to be fixed. Not sure there?s much depth to it, but it?s very funny, especially if you?re into films. And co-writer Ian Shaw plays his dad Robert (Quint in the film) and being now a similar age the resemblance is scary.

One of my old managers said to me years ago "You can pretty much reduce a job interview to: does this person tell lies?" That line comes back to me whenever I read about BJ. I think it's an over-simplification (talent matters) but on the other hand, I've never met anyone who told lies who was any good at their job, whether that's the PM, Trump, or various colleagues I've had over my career. I have zero training in psychology but I suspect the incompetence is why they end up lying.

It wasn?t really my thing either, but the people I was with liked it and the moving dinosaurs were cool. Probably great if you like photos of shiny things for social media. It took us about an hour to get round so ?20 isn?t bad - we could have spent longer but it was really really cold.

It was ?60 at Dulwich Dental Office (North Cross Road) as of a couple of months ago when I had mine cleaned.