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Big thanks to the lovely Polish guy who rescued me last night while I was carrying an item of EDF-gained furniture. He parked his car and carried the item the rest of the way home for me when he found it couldn't fit in his car! (Not so far, but far enough.) I told him all about EDF, of course.


And also to Amy, who is handing over her very nice piano to me, FOC. Again via the EDF. The excitement chez Louisiana is palpable.


I don't know where I'd be without the EDF and all our local lovely people. :))



Corrected to remove the impression that this guy had carried his own car.

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Hear hear louisiana: in the space of a week, the EDF yielded me some home-delivered delicious meatballs, a fixed ipod that I thought would never work again, and a delightful lunch companion. All smiley and gratis (not that I usually pay my lunch companions, you understand).


Truly the forum cup, it runneth over.

RosieH, I believe what we are receiving is - technical term - 'care in the community' :)


SeanM, eater81 is an angry bot. *Most* of ED is about the nice stuff. Unfortunately, peeps tend to remember the nasty stuff and forget the nice stuff. Psychology, innit?

There is quite a bit of local strangeness too though, to be fair.


Twice I have been queueing in William Rose, to find someone has queued up to purchase just one "piece of bacon" and for clarity, I am talking a rasher of bacon here. What is going on?


Only in Dulwich...

RosieH


Smiths? Sounds interesting. If you no longer require it, I might be up for that.


I've just got some simple stuff out of the library for now to test the depth of rust.


On the knees up front, I shall have to hone the skillz beforehand, which may take a little time... unless someone else is a skilled ivory tinkler.

louisiana Wrote:

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> On the knees up front, I shall have to hone the

> skillz beforehand, which may take a little time...

> unless someone else is a skilled ivory tinkler.


Looking forward to the I can haz skillz.


Will see if I can dig it out.

Maybe he was Jewish ...


Actually, under Talmudic Law (see: The Mishnah by Pinhas Kehati, page 31), there is a limit beyond which an exception is recognised in respect of certain prohibited foods: it is usually an amount 'less than the bulk of an olive'.


I'm not sure whether that ruling applies in this case, though.


I've seen lots of people buy a single tomato, onion or piece of fruit. If that's all one needs, why buy more?


Perhaps the guy is on a strict one-rasher-a-day diet?

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