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Admin, please move this if it's in the wrong section. Can anybody recommend a reasonably local dietician (or possibly nutritionist? Not sure what the difference is). My GP has suggested I see a dietician, but there isn't one attached to the practice. I have googled, but it's very hard to tell what people may be like from an online description, and I want somebody who is properly qualified. Alternatively, please PM me if you know of people I should avoid! Thanks x

I think the unhelpful (to say the least) solicitor/s involved should be named and shamed, with details of how they apparently obstructed things, particularly if they are local.

That's very useful, thanks. Just hope I never need to use it. Thank you for caring ❤️ Unlike the horrible driver, who must have known they had hit something 🤬

Try Fox Angels. They respond very quickly locally if you send them a message via their Facebook page. They took a fox I found dying in my garden to a vet. Unfortunately it didn't survive. If they can't help I'm sure they will know who can.

A lovely night and conversation, and a great venue! Fewer people than expected, though 😥 If you were intending to come but couldn't make it, hope to see you next time! Think we will stick to this venue as it's friendly, comfy and convenient!

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Silly question, sorry, but are there speedometers for cyclists? Because if not, how do they know how fast they are going? And how will they (or anyone else) know if they are breaking a new speed limit? And how will they be identified if they are (as presumably they would be fined?)

This is TONIGHT! From 7pm in the lovely new lounge bar upstairs at the EDT/East Dulwich Tavern (the pub at the end of Lordship Lane, on the corner by the roundabout at Goose Green). Please buy a drink at the downstairs bar before you come upstairs, as the bar upstairs won't be open (purely so you won't have to come back down again once you've got upstairs. Well, not immediately, anyway!) The entrance to the lounge bar is now through a door INSIDE the pub, on the right as you come in through the main doors. Turn right at the top of the stairs. We will be in the area by the windows. Please message me on here in good time if you will need help getting up the stairs. I probably won't be checking my phone after 7pm so may not see messages after that, though I'm sure the friendly bar staff would help if needed. Looking forward to meeting old and new faces. (I am face blind, so please don't be offended if I ought to recognise you and don't. I often don't remember names either. I'm just mentioning this as I know I can seem rude otherwise. It's an actual thing. I now have a little card to carry around 🤣 ).

I completely agree. A cat with a bell comes into my garden and sits patiently beneath the bird feeders. Sometimes I hear the bell first and can chase him out before he gets there, and hopefully birds can also hear the bell (but only when he's actually moving). This has got worse since prickly rambling rose stems were removed from fences at the back of the garden. I'm looking at what cat deterrents I can put there. You have probably done this already, but if not you might want to look at ways you can try to stop the cats getting into your garden in the first place? It's very difficult. I love both cats and birds, but as you say, cats will be cats.

This is tomorrow! Would be great to see forum members there! It's a cosier venue than last time, and hopefully easier to mingle and chat 👍

Whilst I agree, I have been thinking about this recently in relation to some of the other posts on here about anti social behaviour. We are all products of our upbringing - our experiences at home, school and beyond - plus whatever we have inherited genetically which might affect our behaviour (the nature/nurture thing). So in this case, if people haven't been brought up to love and appreciate trees and other wild things, plus as you say they may be deeply unhappy (or have other undiagnosed issues) it's easy to see how they could have ended up doing this. Also, it's possible they had quite low intelligence and didn't really grasp what they were doing and the effect it would have on so many other people. But that's just surmise and possibly completely wrong. From what I've read about it, they seemed to be two mates egging each other on, like two big kids. I'm not for a minute excusing what they did, and it's right they should be punished, but I really hope they might get some sort of rehabilitation in prison (it would be appropriate to have them do some kind of community service like planting saplings, wouldn't it, or working in woodland conservation). And the same goes for phone robbers and shoplifters (rehabilitation, not planting saplings), though for SOME shoplifters there might also be other issues at play, not excluding poverty. Sorry Jasonlondon, I've gone off at a real tangent here, lucky it's in the lounge! Oh oops I've just noticed it isn't. Sorry admin. Oh, and then there's a whole philosophical discussion to be had about free will and determinism ..... 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks! I'll find out in a few weeks when I get the results! It was one of those disconcerting things where a disembodied voice keeps booming at you to breathe in and hold it, then breathe normally. Apart from that it was OK, all completely painless. I imagine there will be quite a few people going from ED, though I presume it covers the whole Southwark area

Yes, the appointments were scheduled for every ten minutes. And there is no waiting area at all this time (sometimes for medical checks there they have a very small area inside with 3 or 4 seats). If you have come by public transport, you have to sit on the steps up to the van if you are early, which isn't pleasant in very hot sun or pouring rain, or else wander round Asda (there's no cafe in Asda, despite it supposedly being a superstore). It's one in, one out. I don't know what happens if you are late, but I doubt they would hold up everybody who came after you in order to fit you in. There was someone immediately before me and someone immediately after me. That's what I did in the end , so thank you for that. I gritted my teeth and got some exercise. It wasn't as bad as I expected 😀 I did get a 37 from Nigel Road back to Goose Green on the return journey, though!