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Thanks Malumbu

Evening All After your recommendations on where to take the Mrs and the Mother-in-law for dinner on Sunday, where I can also watch the 6 nations on the sly? Thanks

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I?ve deleted a perfectly reasonable, non offensive post about taking my dog to France. I?ve deleted it because of the completely irrelevant comments made by Zenoria65. This is a forum, where people ask questions to get opinion from people who may have experienced what the poster is asking. It?s beggars belief why sometimes people feel the need to respond to posts that are in no way helpful and end up taking the focus off the original post. Well done Zenoria65 if you achieved your goal, you have been extremely helpful - not! Suggest you crawl back under your rock unless your responses to peoples posts are going to be helpful.

Does anybody have any experience / opinion of Plusnet Broadband - good or bad. They are significantly cheaper than my current provider (Sky) - should I change?

Hi All - my son is chomping at the bit to get involved with a football club. he currently plays rugby and cricket but has now declared he has a love for "the game". He is in year 3. Can anybody recommend any local clubs? ideally looking for a club where they train and play the occasional friendly game against other clubs. Any recommendations greatly appreciated. Thanks

So, after a lot of family debate, extensive research, and basically giving in to the kids we have decided to take the plunge - we're getting a puppy. The next steps are to decide what is right for us... a specific breed, a rescue dog, a puppy, a slightly older dog. It feels like a lot more research yet to do before we get one. We're also looking at the cost of keeping a puppy/dog. In order to help me with my research I'd be grateful if any of you other dog owners out there in East Dulwich could provide some help. Vets - are there any vets that come highly recommended, and why? Insurance - would be grateful of any good insurance companies. Dont want to pay the earth but at the same time want to ensure there is adequate cover. Look forward to hearing from all you dog lovers.

Have I posted this in the right section???

Hi All I was wandering if there is anybody on this forum who has had a side return done where you have had to use pile foundations. We got a quote from a building company quite prominent in the area, where side returns are effectively their bread and butter. The quote was very competitive and we liked the salesman, so we agreed for them to do the work. Only after we had paid our deposit the additional costs starting coming out of the wood work (although not literally ;-)). We were told a soil sample would need to be done because if we were on a clay soil the foundations would have to be deeper. Er, hello, does this company employ the only people in the trade who don't know that pretty much ALL of London is on clay. Unsurprisingly the soil sample came back telling us it was clay, and the price goes up because we would now need deeper foundations. Then we are told there is a tree on the boundary with our neighbor which coupled with the clay soil may mean having to do an "engineered" foundation solution. Er, hello, the tree was there when they came round and quoted. Its not a new tree so a bit annoyed they quoted without factoring this in. I guess they thought they'd hook us in to a contract and then tell us and we'd continue the work with them and a far higher price than first agreed, with what we had as contingency effectively spent before any work even started!! Well, the latest is that we WILL need pile foundations as they got building control in even before we have been granted planning permission, and we were told via EMAIL a week or two back that they are PULLING OUT of the contract as they do not do pile foundations. Can you believe their customer service was to tell us by email that they were pulling out - absolutely disgraceful. The owner, who I have mailed has still not had the manners to call me. So, we move on and hence the reason for posting. Not to bad mouth the company, which is why I have not named them but to try and find out from you good people if anybody has had pile foundations and can recommend a good builder who may be able to take this work on. Yes, surprisingly the builders we signed a contract with have not recommended anybody. Please help. Thanks Clicka

Can anybody recommend a balloon twister for a childrens party - they all seem extremely expensive so would prefer to go with a recommendation so as not to disappoint.

fair enough. But at the end of the day I meant no harm, I thought I was doing some good, at no point did I say one primary was better than another and no derogatory comments were made. I'm sorry if anybody interpreted the wrong way.