MissWorld

Thank you - alas I can't drive!

Hi there, I need a person with a van to help me move house on Monday 8th Oct. It would involve picking up some stuff from Haggerston, then driving to a garage in Camberwell for the rest of it, then helping me move into a flat in Peckham. I think I'd need someone for 3 hours or so. I have a friend to help me. No big furniture items - mostly boxes. Any recommendations would be very, very welcome. Thank you!

Yes sounds about right jj55...We only moved in about a month ago so don't know all the neighbours yet. I was scared out of my skin, but only answered the door because he said he needed help and I was worried that he would try and break in if I didn't answer - it is a tricky one. I gave him the cash to get rid of him more than anything. I let the police know before I posted this thread, but just wanted to make others aware.

This could all be very innocent but I just wanted to flag that on Friday night/Saturday morning at around 2.30AM, someone started banging on my kitchen window on Oglander Rd while I was downstairs making a drink. I was startled to say the least so I ignored it at first, but they kept gently banging. I asked who it was (my window blinds were down), and a man said it was a neighbour and he needed some help. I answered the door, and he said he'd just moved in opposite and had locked his doorkeys and his wallet in his car he'd left in Bermondsey after a party and needed ?10 to get back to the car (I was half asleep so the details are hazy). I gave him ?10 and he thanked me and said he'd pop back round later that day to give back the cash. He never appeared...He also mentioned the door number he'd moved into ? which I've since realised is quite a long way up the street from us. Like I say this could all be very innocent...but I know of situations like this where people have ended up being burgled a week later, and I just wanted to flag it up in case anyone's experienced anything similar.