Sue

That was obviously a rhetorical question!

Where did I suggest that those in Southwark should pay more? I gave what seemed to be a likely reason why Lambeth is able to spend more than Southwark on street cleaning, if that is in fact the case. Local elections are coming up soon. I'm sure this would be an excellent opportunity for you to ask the existing councillors - and other people who are standing for election - what their priorities would be if elected!

I did O level Latin 🤣 and I had to Google that. Don't think that counts as a "classical background" though 🤣 Especially as I was crap at it 🤣

All uphill 🤣

From previous posts, I believe it is going to be meat based, as Persepolis is veggie. For East Dulwich veggies, it would have been nice to have them the other way round!

Southwark council has lower council tax than Lambeth. I'm sure if Southwark raised their council tax to cover similar street cleaning teams, the people on here complaining about leaves would be complaining bitterly about that!

I really hope so too, but they aren't going to get much passing trade, and parking round there isn't easy. Fingers crossed.

What's your answer, then? Should the council raise council tax to employ double or treble or more the number of workers to spend all their time clearing leaves from every street every day? Leaves have been cleared from my street several times since leaf fall began, including as I say very recently. It's impossible to keep every street permanently clear, and the situation is made worse by heavy rain. My partner broke his ankle in several places a year or so back when he slipped on wet leaves. He didn't blame the council.

I live in a road off Whateley Road. Leaves in it were cleared very recently. They were put in blue bags and left on the pavements to be collected later, which they were. I don't know how that fits in with Southwark's Autumn leaf collection schedule, however! But anyway, people can always clear leaves from pavements in their road themselves if they feel they are a hazard. Quite obviously the council workers can't be everywhere all the time, and I expect the recent high winds caused a greater leaf fall than usual?

Due to unforeseeable circumstances, we are unable to host the Forum Drinks for (probably) the next few months. If anyone else would like to take over on a temporary basis, book the space etc, please PM me on here!

May I suggest you read your posts through before you post them? I'm sorry your attempts at teaching blinds to see have failed. Perhaps it is because they are inanimate objects? And have no eyes? 🤣 May I also suggest that you find a different source of information - one which presents you with accurate facts? But if you seriously think that Trump is "best us president of last 50 years" (your lower case, not mine) then sadly there is probably little anybody can do to help you.

I have sadly had terrible food at The Plough.

I know I shouldn't bite, but .... Would you like to give some specific examples of exactly why you consider this orange faced narcissist with the apparent mental capacity of a gnat (that's probably being unfair to gnats) and a clearly rapidly declining memory the "best US president of the last 50 years"?

I have a very large (at least four seater), very old (bought when I moved in circa 1990 🙄) sofa which I am very fond of. It was extraordinarily expensive (from Heals) at the time. It has loose covers and large feather filled cushions (on the seating part). It is completely sagging at one end (the end I usually sit) and I think the springs have "gone". Some time back I had a quote to repair it, and I can't remember what it was, but it was a lot, so I decided to put up with the sagging as it's not too bad if the cushion is plumped up. Every so often I look at other sofas, eg corner sofas, but I can't quite bring myself to say goodbye to this one. To get to the point. There are various DIY solutions online for sagging sofas eg putting a sheet of hardboard or something specifically made for this purpose beneath the cushions. However there seems to be mixed views on how successful this is in terms of comfort. Has anybody tried this, or other remedies? Did it/they work? I know I could just try it and see, but it seemed to be a good idea to ask first!

I had no idea there was an EDF summary email. Can't people just look on the EDF itself to find out? There's an events section!