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The situation as a whole isn't funny but that article is (and I say this as someone who is unhealthily obsessed with their cats and quite concerned about their safety now, hence the constant checking of this thread).

You'll also have the cinema a short bus journey down the road once it opens.

Is this something you need to organise a large group to do (eg book one of the packages on the website) or can just one or two of you turn up and have a go?

Wow, I wondered if it might have hit a house it was so close. How scary that must have been for them!

Thanks Katzenbaer.

Do you know how they stole her purse? Did they just grab it off her on the doorstep or did she invite them in/they forced their way in and stole it?

I would also highly recommend Steve. After discussion gave a very reasonable quote for cutting the hedge and took the time to do it exactly as needed. He was reliable and quick to respond by email and phone. Will use again

i*Rate - they do actually have a veggie main: King oyster mushrooms, celeriac puree, gnocchi ?17.50. To give them credit one vegetarian option out of five mains isn't too bad. Still think it's overpriced though!

From looking at menus they're more expensive than the Crooked Well and Franklins. At over ?18 for a main and ?7 for a dessert I can't see myself going there. But guess they've worked out that East Dulwich has enough people who can afford (and want to pay) these sorts of prices for a local gastropub for them to make a success of it.

I hope this doesn't come across as rude as it's not meant to be, but are you from the UK? The reason I ask is because my experience is that it's more unusual to be religious than not. I've lived in ED all my life and throughout my school life those with an obvious religious affiliation (ie actually living by religious beliefs/attending a place of worship regularly) were in the definite minority rather than the majority, so except for the choice of school issue I wouldn't have thought any of the other things you raise would be a problem at all.

Is 4 hours the most people need for a park visit then? That's the bit I most object to. I don't go to the park that regularly (probably once a month) but I haven't ever noticed dangerous/obstructive parking. Do you know how people can give their views on this?

From their twitter account it looks like they're in already - getting ready for the end of July/August.

Went in the other day and had salted caramel and chocolate chip - delicious! Bit pricey but you do get a lot of ice cream and we ended up sharing a medium between two of us.

Great news - The Horniman won! "rAndom International?s recent immersive installation Rain Room at Barbican?s Curve Gallery had visitors queuing for hours. For Museums at Night they will be weaving their magic at The Horniman Museum and Gardens whose 1,615 votes secured a live art event with an installation, music and storytelling inspired by the museum, garden spaces and natural history collections."

It's a shame this has been moved to The Lounge. Is it not considered close enough to ED to be in ED businesses? I'm sure a lot of people in ED use the Horniman, maybe it could go in the 'What's On' section if it's not felt to suit the business section.

Horniman's is still in third place unfortunately but it's gone up to 24%. Hopefully we can get some more people from the forum voting, would love to see this at the Horniman's.

Just to say that for those trying to get home from Canary Wharf the jubilee line is completely rammed. Friend has been waiting to try and get on a train for 15-20 minutes and is giving up and trying an alternative route.

I think I know the house you're talking about and although it's on for (what seems to me to be) a crazy price if it is the one I'm thinking of they've done a lot of renovation work on it (loft conversion etc).

Hi, On Saturday trains were running during the day from LB to ED, but when I got to London Bridge at 11pm they weren't running anymore. I was just wondering if that's likely to be the case again today, and if so if anyone knows what time the last train will be? Thanks very much.

I walked up there just after a load of armed police had decended on the scene. They were forcing entry to one of the houses along there - apparently someone was assaulted 'possibly with a firearm' - they were taken off in an ambulance and the police thought the person that did it was in one of the houses. Not sure how it ended.

This is what frustrates me about this forum, that people seem to think that just because the conversation you're having happens to be online totally different rules apply. If I was at the pub chatting with a new group of people and someone asked me to help them out with a project by filling in their survey I probably wouldn't start criticising it in front of everyone, but instead would offer them help privately (as I suggseted with PMs). But equally, if someone said that they were a market researcher and ???? replied in line with his post above I'd think he was a bit of a w*nker and so I expect would everyone else, and I'd probably tell him so. Yet somehow there seems to be the tacit agreement on this forum that you can make genuinely insulting, mocking jibes on here and that as long as it's done with a modicum of wit it's OK and anyone who takes issue with it is just up-tight and needs to get a sense of humour. Anyway, sorry to sidetrack your thread Sophie, I've filled in your questionnaire and I hope lots of other people do too.

Sporthuntor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good old ???? > > Some people need to chill out a bit... Ah yes good old ????, denigrating someone's career and belittling what they work hard to do everyday, what a cheeky chap, don't you just love his rogueish good nature.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wouldn't worry Sophie, Market Researchers are ok > at putting surveys together but know bugger all > about adding proper insight to the findings, > they're just technicians...get your info and make > it sing, I'm sure you and your team will. Good > luck. I don't think that this thread is a place for criticising someone elses attempt at a piece of research, and think that PM's would have been a more appropriate method. However, ???? I'm somewhat at a loss for words for how you can justify making such an outrageously insulting comment about an entire profession. If it is based on personal experience then perhaps you need some professional training in how to recognise and commission high-standard companies. I'm not a market researcher myself but have used them in the course of my work in the past and found them to be an excellent source of insight generation, off the base of some fairly high level qualitative analysis (semiotic, discourse, thematic etc etc). I'm not quite sure where the bitterness apparent in your post comes from but would be fascinated to know!