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Thread: Anyone else lost their mains water around Woodcombe Crescent/Devonshire Road?
Post: RE: Anyone else lost their mains water around Wood...
| Sorry, it's back now. Not an interesting post at all. But I do my best. |
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16-12-2012, 05:24 PM |
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Thread: Anyone else lost their mains water around Woodcombe Crescent/Devonshire Road?
Post: Anyone else lost their mains water around Woodcomb...
| Sunday afternoon and we haven't had any water for an hour or so. Has anyone else around Woodcombe Crescent/Devonshire Road had the same problem? Thanks. |
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16-12-2012, 04:41 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Carole, according to the website the 'general swim' times are intended for people who prefer not to do lane swimming. I'm not a particularly fast swimmer so I always go then and there are usually adul... |
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09-12-2012, 09:02 PM |
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Thread: Another bank/identify theft scam, quite clever
Post: RE: Another bank/identify theft scam, quite clever
| She did ask why they needed the card, and this guy said that they suspected it had gone through a particular type of copying machine which sometimes left marks, so they needed to examine it.
I'm g... |
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28-11-2012, 07:40 PM |
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Thread: Another bank/identify theft scam, quite clever
Post: Another bank/identify theft scam, quite clever
| On Saturday my friend in Forest Hill got a call claiming to be from the 'fraud squad' at her bank, saying that someone was buying items on her debit card and having them delivered elsewhere. He urged ... |
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28-11-2012, 07:34 PM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| The police said they would come out immediately if someone rings them when they spot her, saying where she is and quoting that reference. I'll do it if I can, but it would great if anyone else on the ... |
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15-10-2012, 03:50 PM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| I rang Social Services who said they needed to know the woman's name and where she lives before they could do anything, and that the community police team would need to get those details from her. The... |
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15-10-2012, 10:59 AM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| No doubt she is using the money she collects for drugs not formula, but the things she is doing now sound really bizarre - saying her baby is dead and that she'll kill herself unless someone gives her... |
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14-10-2012, 11:35 PM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| When I last saw in late spring, she wanted to show me her breasts to prove she was breastfeeding (I hastily declined!) so if there is a baby, he or she would be at least a few months old by now... who... |
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14-10-2012, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| Oh God! She sounds fairly bonkers and what if there really is a baby at home she's in sole charge of? My partner who used to be a social worker suggested contacting the Lewisham duty social worker dur... |
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14-10-2012, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| I think sectioning only applies if someone is posing a serious threat to themselves or other people and this woman doesn't seem to be in such a bad state as that, though the way she is living is causi... |
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12-10-2012, 12:02 PM |
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Thread: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby formula money
Post: RE: Street scam - distressed woman asking for baby...
| Does anyone know what the police can actually do about people who behave like the woman who asks for electricity and baby milk money? Is it actually an offence to ask for money in the street?
I ca... |
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10-10-2012, 01:59 PM |
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Thread: SEE3 Town Team Marketing Committee meeting Thurs 10 Oct at 7.30pm
Post: RE: SEE3 Town Team Marketing Committee meeting Thu...
| Thanks Louise. Please could you clarify what the difference is between the proposed Town Team and the existing Forest Hill Assembly? |
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Jane_D |
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09-10-2012, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: Free memory foam mattress; king-sized, as new
Post: RE: Free memory foam mattress; king-sized, as new
| Sorry Hopscotch, the mattress eventually went to my neighbour. |
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27-07-2012, 03:34 PM |
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Thread: Free memory foam mattress; king-sized, as new
Post: Free memory foam mattress; king-sized, as new
| We have a spare, hardly used, completely clean memory foam mattress; not a posh expensive one but good for a cheapish one. It was the firmest memory foam mattress we could find, but turns out not to ... |
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21-07-2012, 06:39 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| I am quite sad about the way the Archers is going. Used to love the carefully crafted, slowly-developing plot lines and the convincing way the feasibly-numbered tragedies and dramas resonated through ... |
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28-06-2012, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: Dark Green Curtains suitable for large bay window
Post: Dark Green Curtains suitable for large bay window
| If anyone happens to be looking for a pair of second-hand lined, dark-green curtains made by John Lewis and suitable for a large 1930's bay window, in basically good condition, I've just put them on E... |
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19-05-2012, 08:28 PM |
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Thread: Missing Tortoiseshell Cat - Pebbles
Post: RE: Missing Tortoiseshell Cat - Pebbles
| I live near Devonshire Road and will look out for Pebbles. There are quite a few recent missing moggy stories on the forum with happy endings, even after weeks of absence, so lets hope that Pebbles so... |
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Jane_D |
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23-02-2012, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: Mugging in Honor Oak Park Saturday 14 January 2012
Post: RE: Mugging in Honor Oak Park Saturday 14 January ...
| Your thoughtfulness is a credit to tall bearded Antipodeans, Cellar Door.
But unfortunately your strategy for not walking right behind lone women pedestrians at night clashes with mine for avoidi... |
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21-01-2012, 07:58 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing
| We had a visit yesterday from a young guy who 'just' wanted our phone number even though we said we definitely weren't interested in the services the company offered. He said he would get his commissi... |
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24-12-2011, 05:26 PM |
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Thread: Crime Prevention
Post: RE: Car Theft - Netherby Road
| Mmm, I'd prefer to be burgled than not be able to find my front door keys in a fire. I've seen minor house fires and the air is absolutely black; no chance of quickly going to find the keys in a dista... |
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29-11-2011, 10:14 PM |
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Thread: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale
Post: RE: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale
| I've had so many experiences of buying 'off' meat from Sainsburies, well before its use-by date, that I don't buy it there any more. I took organic chicken back several times and the staff seemed abso... |
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12-11-2011, 12:17 PM |
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Thread: The Shard in sunlight is a sight for sore eyes..
Post: RE: The Shard in sunlight is a sight for sore eyes...
| Interesting. Might it be true that as the Shard is lower than the sun, reflrections from it could come through a window at a more direct angle and therefore more powerfully? |
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11-11-2011, 01:44 PM |
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Thread: Jumping the ticket barriers
Post: RE: Jumping the ticket barriers at HOP station
| I would have thought it was reasonable to expect the station assistants to ask barrier jumpters for their ticket, or at least show that they've noticed them doing it, rather than just calling hello as... |
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06-11-2011, 11:39 PM |
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Thread: Crime and Punishment
Post: RE: Crime and Punishment
| This online Texas newspaper suggests that crime is unusally high in Texas, despite being the state being the biggest user of the death penalty and generally 'tough on crime':
http://www.statesman.... |
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04-11-2011, 06:52 PM |
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Thread: Plastic Bags
Post: RE: Plastic Bags
| Those wheely shopping baskets are a great way of avoiding plastic bags, if you don't mind looking rather uncool. No lugging or car needed, and suitable for the mighty slopes of SE23. |
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26-10-2011, 01:49 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| Excellent that that cyclist survived without serious injuries.
On another note, I was in Oxford Street this lunchtime and astonished to see a cyclist riding up the middle of the jam-packed pavemen... |
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19-10-2011, 09:40 PM |
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Thread: losing Hope updated........
Post: RE: losing Hope updated........
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17-10-2011, 10:37 PM |
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Thread: Postal problems
Post: RE: Postal problems
| I get this all the time, for several roads round here with the same initial letter as mine. Maybe we all have the same postman. It is very worrying. |
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19-09-2011, 11:47 PM |
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Thread: Fox attack
Post: RE: Fox attack
| I'm sure you are right, Brian, that cats are an alien species in this country, and it is true that they reek havoc of their own on local wildlife.
But when a cat is a dearly loved member of your hous... |
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14-08-2011, 04:20 PM |
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Thread: Fox attack
Post: RE: Fox attack
| How very shocking for you, and terrible for your cat. I'm so sorry. Thank you for the warning. I'm going to look into ways of keeping foxes out of a garden and will report back if I find anything usef... |
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13-08-2011, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing
| Sounds like a sensible decision. Thanks for the update. |
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27-07-2011, 04:05 PM |
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Thread: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Post: RE: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
| Oro, do you know whether the statistics which form the basis for risks being described as 'negligible' are constantly updated with data from patients who have complained of side effects or after effec... |
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26-07-2011, 07:12 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group
Post: RE: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing
| Hi Doris, did you actually work for Red Ball (or whatever they are called now) or did you just go for the interview and decide to leave it there? |
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25-07-2011, 10:42 PM |
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Thread: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Post: RE: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
| Have you come across this page about the side effects of the contrast injection? Worrying.
http://mri-side-effects.net/page/1/ |
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22-07-2011, 05:50 PM |
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Thread: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Post: RE: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
| Sorry about your friend, Orange, that sounds horrible. I had a rather similar experience not with an MRI but with a lumbar puncture. They told me I 'might have a headache' afterwards, but in fact I wa... |
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22-07-2011, 10:49 AM |
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Thread: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Post: RE: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
| I've had a couple of MRI scans. Not exactly pleasant at the time because of the noise and having to lie still in a confined space, but painless and no side effects afterwards.
I didn't have a cont... |
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21-07-2011, 09:06 PM |
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Thread: Superhero's Needed
Post: RE: Superhero's Needed
| Bumble, do you mean you want us to join the Nunhead forum and start some new threads? If so can you post a link? |
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20-07-2011, 09:16 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| My opponent on online Scrabble has just said 'nice one' to congratulate me on a 7 letter word. I think it just means generic approval or pleasure, so could easily include 'thanks'. |
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14-07-2011, 10:27 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I'm rather a fan 'poo', myself, Robin. Inoffensive in comparison to many other terms and rather expressive - almost onomatopoeic. |
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12-07-2011, 07:25 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Interesting. I would say
'The teachers were on strike that day'
or possibly even
'The teachers were striking that day'
but never 'That was the day the teachers struck'.
Maybe because ... |
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01-07-2011, 04:16 PM |
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Thread: People With Choldren Suffer The Most Under The Coalition
Post: RE: People With Choldren Suffer The Most Under The...
| ForestHillier and Ex FH Pat look more like the same person than connected people because they have an identical writing style, including never using punctuation marks at the end of sentences (as far a... |
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24-06-2011, 04:59 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| No clicking or wheezing occurred this time. Phew. |
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08-06-2011, 04:17 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| I've found this thread extremely thought provoking too. I was mulling it over as I walked down a quiet street in the City yesterday evening, until started by a frantic ringing of bells from an approac... |
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08-06-2011, 03:54 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Nork1, thanks for your post. How did those other countries get so many citizens so firmly supportive of the rules of the road? That would really make a difference; much more reliable and sociable than... |
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06-06-2011, 11:01 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Coming back to the original point, proper cycle lanes would obviously give a great incentive to stay off the pavements. But I guess the argument against them is that there's too much other traffic to ... |
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30-05-2011, 11:16 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| The spoke-stick is an interesting suggestion, but might require a certain dexterity on the part of the user that could be equally well be used in leaping out of the way.
Maybe a pithy television c... |
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30-05-2011, 11:14 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| I got knocked over on the pavement a couple of years by a young cyclist shooting down a steep hill and round a blind corner straight into me. It hurt! I wouldn't mind cyclists on the pavement too much... |
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30-05-2011, 10:17 PM |
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Thread: Woodvale Estate
Post: RE: Woodvale Estate
| I used to live five minutes' walk from there a few years ago, and was never particularly aware of the estate, which as Michael said, counts as good news rather than the opposite. The only thing we had... |
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09-05-2011, 08:54 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I think 'wishes for' is correct when followed by a noun, isn't it? Eg 'I wish for a good outcome' or 'I wish for a new car'?
Maybe 'wishes for' so often gets used in sentences when the 'for' is red... |
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