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Lucky you, I love wrens, had one in my garden a few years back but never heard it singing :)

:)

If you really want to hear birdsong, go to Sainsbury's car park around 2 or 3am, just stand and listen, absolutely amazing. Would never have believed I would hear anything like that in London. Edited to add: Shameless plug, we hear it after a Goose Is Out! gig at DHFC on a Friday night, coming home after we've taken down the fairy lights, blown out the tea lights and stacked up the chairs. But we always have to drag ourselves out of bed the next morning and get down to DHFC with a hangover to finish clearing up :))

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How do you know they were female?

The Minkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mrs Blackbird has finally started collecting for a > nest - seems very late this year. xxxxxx I've got blackbirds been nesting in my garden for a couple of weeks now.

Gimme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Depends where you live. If you live towards the > bottom end of LL or near Goose Green on the SE15 > side or between LL and Peckham Rye Park, you will > hear the planes big time! Particularly when > sitting in the garden. xxxxxxxx Yeh I live off North Cross Road, Goose Green end of LL, and I find the planes very irritating. I hear them start up in the morning if I haven't been sleeping too well, and that's the worst because once one has gone over I lie and wait for the first stirrings of the next one in the distance. I've been here twenty years and they've got a lot worse. It's been great without any lately. I do still miss Concorde though, I didn't mind the noise at all then because the plane going over every day was so beautiful to look at.

Miserable git, go and live somewhere else then :))

Birdsong is always louder in the Spring, personally I love it. If it was a blackbird it wouldn't drive you mad I'm sure, blackbirds have a beautiful song and tend not to repeat the same thing over and over. Stopped me in my tracks, literally, the first time I heard a blackbird singing. Could be a flock of sparrows? Starlings? If it sounds like a squeaky wheel which needs oiling, it's a Great Tit :)

Once I get my teeth into a cause I don't let go :)) ETA: I've also got a gripe because the last three times I've been in, I've been charged more on the till than the price on the shelf for items, twice for grapefruit and once for eggs (you can tell I'm on a diet :)) ). It's only a matter of a few pence each time, but the thing is, I've never been undercharged, and a few pence for each person buying these items adds up.

I haven't found the staff disinterested, but I do think the management is poor. And I'm not sure that's something you can train, because a lot of it is common sense, surely. If I don't get a proper response to my letter and if things don't improve I am going to copy the letter to Co-Op HQ because I think it's a real wasted opportunity. I would rather shop at the Co-op than Sainsbury's, but there's no point if I can't buy the stuff I need - I don't want to have to go to two supermarkets.

Squeezy or jar debate here: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=15672425113&topic=4284

There will be music on Goose Green on Sunday 9 May as part of the festival, and the absolutely excellent local artists Jen Doyle and Joe Fowler will be singing and playing at 3pm. If you haven't already seen them at a Goose gig (they first came down to the Mag to do a floorspot, then did a support act at DHFC and now we've booked them to headline at the Mag in the Autumn) you can read more about them at http://www.thegooseisout.com/events.html#jenjoe These two are going to be big and hey they live in ED! Joe's brother Luke will be playing bass on 9th. :)-D

Sadly, I've written to the manager, because .... Shelves of chicken pieces but no free-range pieces, and I won't buy chicken that isn't free-range. No organic fruit and veg any more, that I could see. Shelf after bare shelf - no stir-fry bags or salad (around 6pm on a Friday), hardly any alcohol in the chiller (ditto). Carton of cottage cheese on display past its sell-by date. Astronomical price rise in own brand tissues (which have now disappeared from the shelves altogether :-S ) I was really looking forward to the Co-op opening, and from the point of view of stuff that I buy, on the whole it's got worse. Not because it's a Co-op per se, but because of what appears to be poor management, poor stock control, insufficient shelf filling staff, and/or a lack of research on what local shoppers (ie me :)) ) might want to buy. I did however buy a load of what appeared to be perfectly good plums reduced to 25p a pack last week so swings and roundabouts I guess :))

:)-D

I'm sure most people who rent out their house don't deliberately rent it to people who blight the lives of those around them :))

The Lambeth tip at Rosendale Road is for recycled goods only. Sorry, edited to say I mean, stuff which can be recycled. They won't take anything else.

SteveT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have often wondered why parks are locked at all, > no one can steal them and those intent on getting > in will do so whether locked or not. > It seems a pointless expense employing someone to > open and lock useless gates. xxxxxxxx Surely it must deter some people from getting in. And look what happened in St Francis park next to Sainsbury's when gates were left unlocked. Personally I feel it is a good thing to have parks locked at night, even if a few people might want to climb over the railings.

Probably because it's April.

Perhaps the people who open the parks do not want to have to start work at dawn? I wouldn't :))

chez Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > sophiesofa Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > I hope they don't bring out XO out in the > squeezy > > - it tastes better from a proper jar. > > > wow- serious marmite connoiseurage! xxxxxxxxx I thought the stuff in the squeezy thing was actually a different recipe to the stuff in the proper jar? It definitely tastes different, and not so nice. I thought they'd somehow made it runnier in order to be able to be squeezed out, and that that had affected the flavour?

Is this the time of year when foxes mate? If so, I guess that is probably what it was.

I agree with you H, and I'd be bloody furious if it happened to me.

You can get Marmite rice cakes! They're brilliant! And Tesco do some which taste much the same but are cheaper :)) :)-D