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randombloke

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  1. Once more I recommend Steve at Inclean Services. This is the second time he has visited and done a sterling job. He came recommended on the forum. His contact no is 07941 344 137
  2. Thanks for the reply. I got a call later on and got fast tracked through a centre in Croydon.
  3. I arrived for my 1:45pm appointment today. It is closed today, tomorrow and Monday. So don't bother. No notification and no apology. I can't begin to describe my anger and disappointed at this situation. Unacceptable. If you add to this thread with a similar experience I will write to Helen Hayes. David
  4. Josh has done an excellent job designing and installing the bookcases exactly as we envisaged them. Together with additional work in our hall and office. He's trustworthy, efficient and friendly and competitively priced. We'd not hesitate to recommend him. Thanks Josh.
  5. This may sound facetious but actually it isn't. Just act deranged so they keep away. I'd suggest shouting in a Liverpudlian accent (I'm from the Wirral and doing so terrifies southerners) but shouting is really not terribly socially aware at the moment. Too many people aren't taking this virus seriously. If it is transferable via aerosolised droplets then merely talking can infect people 30 feet away, that's 9 metres. I queued on Friday outside M and S on LL and was aghast at the stupidity of people walking aka brushing past me. If you feel a need to shove someone or be rude, then do so. If you said "I may be infected, but maybe I don't know it yet" you are telling the truth, it's Schroedinger's virus. We MUST assume that we are infected and so are they. Just watching BBC news in theatre recovery units turned into ICUs tonight was terrifying and I spent 6 years as a hospital equipment sales rep selling recovery room monitoring so I'm not generally concerned. I sure as hell am now. Be rude, be obnoxious, be safe.
  6. The new Smartshop initiative is an evident success.1 person using, meanwhile Christmas-like pandemonium at all the other tills, massive queues, people barging into one another, total confusion. Bravo Sainsbury's.
  7. Here's a recommendation for Dave who repaired my Dyson promptly, efficiently and inexpensively this week. He's definitely still around.
  8. I'll add my voice to the chorus of approval for Steve. He was prompt, courteous, knowledgeable, professional and inexpensive.
  9. Back in the 80s I worked for Oddbins. At that point the most popular wines were Liebfraumilch and all German wines. Thereafter new world varietals were the flavour of the month, Chardonnay and Shiraz especially. In the noughties it was Sauvignon blanc and then Pinot Grigio and Zinfandel. Quite how Pinot Grigio and Prosecco have become so popular is beyond me as they were both second class Italian wines and yet they fly out of the door. Personally I'd rather a Cremant de la Loire or Cremant de Bourgogne. As for a cheaper alternative to Champagne I'd always go for a Lindauer Special Reserve Pinot Chardonnay.I think some wines just become modish and people just ask for the name, My favourite Champagne based on comparative tastings was Roederer Cristal and yet it got ruinously expensive and almost embarrassing to admit to it as it was all over Bling bling Rap videos by people who probably had no idea why is was so good. (High dosage to balance the acidity of the Pinot Noir). Picpoul seems to be appearing all over the place so is that the latest fad? You read it here first...
  10. A friend of mine went to the Rugby sevens at Twickers some years ago. As was tradition they enjoyed the hospitality and each following year there was a prize for the stupidest/most drunken/forgetful behaviour at the previous event. One year it was won in perpetuity by an attendee who upon arriving back at his local railway station on the last train from Waterloo decided that it would take too long to call a taxi and would be a good idea to drive home as he felt the effects had worn off by then. He duly did and remembered to press the blipper which opened their fancy new garage doors that both they and their next door neighbours had had installed by the same supplier in their adjacent properties. Next morning his wife wants to take the Volvo to go to church. Goes into the garage where said Volvo is kept and discovers it is no longer there. Rouses slumbering husband who distinctly remembers parking the car as he had used the new remote control gizmo which was hung up on a hook in the hallway. Police called. Crime number obtained, insurance claim made. New Volvo duly arrives. Some months later, next door neighbour returns from their Summer holiday home in Spain or Florida or wherever it was, ask for the remote control that next door had retained for safe keeping, after a bit of rummaging original can't be found so they are presented with the back up key to open their garage. Which they do: to behold our Rugby loving friends' original Volvo. He?d taken the wrong blipper, opened the wrong garage door and parked his car in the wrong house, in his confused state simply shut the door and staggered to his own front door and gone to bed. Remote control to wrong house remained in his Rugby club blazer hung up in the wardrobe pending next year's visit to the home of Rugby Union. This may well be an apocryphal shaggy dog story but it?s a helluva tale nonetheless. I once spent a fruitless and annoying ten minutes becoming aggravated that my remote control would not open the doors of my fancy new Japanese Sports car. Guy comes out of clubhouse. Opens doors. Points out this is his identical Japanese Sports car and that he had been amused watching my lights going on and off at the other end of the car park for the last ten minutes....
  11. B821SCG Vauxhall Cavalier 1600L in red. Company car leased through Swan National. Picked it up at the office on my first day as a Sales rep at company in Southend January 1987. I dented it in the first weekend I had it.In fairness I'd only driven a Nissan Cherry and an 1100 Escorts two door previously and I'd driven home to the Wirral in a blizzard.
  12. The Crooked Well Camberwell. Not got a garden as far as I know, but they do have an upstairs room you can hire. We had our wedding reception there in January and the food, drink and service was exemplary. We had a starter of mixed meats, smoked salmon and mezze, superb Beef Wellington main and Chocolate and Marshmallows to follow. They let us taste various wines and Champagnes prior to the day to get a good match and couldn't have been more accommodating. Highly recommended.
  13. Signed. I use the service from Nunhead to City Thameslink or Blackfriars every day, over the last 8 years it has deteriorated dramatically, every train is overcrowded, ALWAYS late and often cancelled with no notification. I also notice that the South eastern service trains to Victoria seem to get priority, why? There may be extra passengers due to the work at London Bridge but that is no excuse.
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