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Neighbourhoods don't exist in isolation. Many of the East Dulwich businesses, schools, leisure facilities etc. benefit from customers from the surrounding areas so why shouldn't they contribute to discussions here? When it comes to buying/selling I understand it could be frustating if you find the vendor isn't local but you're not obliged to continue with the purchase if you think it's too far for you to travel. I've given away things on the forum to people who turned out to be from Nunhead and Brockley, neither of them SE22 postcodes.

Ellesspe - where did you find the info about breaks? I'm seriously considering pulling out which would be a great shame after they and I have invested the time and energy in training but I feel I've been somewhat misled.

People who say 'almost exactly'.

Probably using the milk to make the porridge?

Has anyone else volunteered to be a Games Maker and been a bit surprised by their shifts? I volunteered for 10 days but have given 12 days. We were told shifts would be 8-10 hours but many of mine are 12 hours, including 3 consecutive days of 12 hour shifts with early starts. I signed up in good faith, prepared to take time off work to volunteer, but feel slightly as if someone's taking the mick. Anyone else experienced something similar?

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If it's anything like New Cross PO, half the problem is that each transaction takes twice as long as it should. Once you've finished what it is you went into the PO for, they then try to flog you top up for your mobile phone, their savings products, credit cards... All this when there's a queue of 20 people behind you waiting to be served. I feel sorry for the cashiers though, I imagine management make them go through this.

Some of those bottles have a very small opening. The mind boggles at how the cab driver does this - do they use a funnel? Actually, I don't want to know!

Same story more or less everywhere in my experience. At Queens Road Partnership you usually can't get an appointment for about 2 weeks. They have to have on the day appointments availalbe but when you try to call you as soon as they open the lines you can never get through, then when you do they tell you all the appointments for that day have already gone. The only way to get seen seems to be to turn up on the day early, before they open at 8am, and join the queue for a same day appointment.

I can second the Palmerston. Went recently and left very fat and happy. I've also head the Nun's Head is good for veggies though I've never eaten there myself yet.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If anyone is living nearby in a campervan this > could be their stored-up urine perhaps dumped in > batch at intervals. > Open a bottle and tip it out and you'll have your > answer. Looks too colourful to be urine to me but I was thinking the same thing, why doesn't someone who's concerned open a bottle and give it a sniff? I'd wear rubber gloves and don't sniff too hard though! If someone is dumping old cooking oil or some other substance that could be toxic it needs to be stopped.

I can sympathise. I had a flatmate who used to walk around in next to nothing clothing but had the heating on full blast all the time and left lights on all over the house, the oven on with nothing cooking etc. She was the home owner too so very tricky trying to point out that I was subsidising her lifestyle as we split the bills. Do you have individual thermostats on your radiators so at least you can turn off/down the radiator in your bedroom and any areas of the house that don't really need it? Might be worth getting them fitted.

There's one in Brockley. Sorry I can't be very helpful as I can't remember the name but earlier this year I definitely bought some local honey from the Frog on the Green deli in Nunhead and it was from a beekeeper in Brockley. Maybe give the deli a call and they could give you their details?

Not in Sainsburys but Adrian Lester of Hustle fame was in Black Cherry this evening with his wife. Looking short I thought though Google says he's 6 ft 1.5 inch. Maybe I'd had one too many of Black Cherry's fine cocktails. Hiding under a nasty flat cap wasn't fooling anybody though Adrian!

Also in New Cross Gate. People looting the shops in broad daylight this evening. Stay home and keep safe.

I don't know if I'm missing something here but if I found a wallet near a police station I think I'd hand it in to the police station (unless the station wasn't open of course). I certainly wouldn't want someone else's wallet full of cards in my possession, it might put you in a very uncompromising position. Imagine if one of the cards had been cloned and was used fraudulently while you had the wallet... or maybe I'm just overly paranoid!

And it's not just Royal Mail. I was waiting for something I'd ordered online to be delivered by a private courier company 'between 8am and 1pm' so I took the morning off work. At 12.50 I called to see if they were coming and they claimed to have called but no-one was in. I was definitely in and my flat is the size of a shoebox so there's no way I wouldn't have heard the buzzer. I made a bit of a stink and was told the driver was having his lunch but would come straight afterwards. On arrival he admitted that he had too many things to deliver that morning and had put mine (and probably other people's) down as undeliverable on his schedule because he ran out of time. So my advice if you're waiting for a delivery is to always call them halfway through the scheduled delivery time. Otherwise you risk taking time off work for nothing.

Hi I too have a T-Mobile dongle and have had problems, I live in New Cross. Usually the signal is 'low' but it still connects and is just a bit slow. Often the signal then drops to 'very low'and I lose the connection completely. I've had the dongle a year and the signal has only been 'good'a handful of times and 'excellent' once! Sometimes it goes through a phase of not connecting at all for about a week or two. When I phoned T-Mobile about this they checked the coverage from my postcode and said there's 90% coverage in my area which would suggest that on average 1 try in 10 it wouldn't work. With mine it seems loss of connectivity comes in phases, then it will work fine for a couple more months with no problems. Very frustrating indeed, don't even bother trying to download music or a TV programme. It took me 12 hours over 3 days to download a 60 min programme from BBC i Player! I'm in the same boat, I don't have a landline so this is the only option. Only good for emails and light internet usage in my experience.