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  Thread: Offered. Double bed. Free. SE20.
Post: Offered. Double bed. Free. SE20.

Double bed with divan base. We have manged to put the mattress in a Ford Focus before, but you'd probably need a second trip to pick up the base, which is in two pieces.
InTheForest Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,252 19-05-2018, 10:21 PM
  Thread: The walk to the station at night
Post: RE: The walk to the station at night

It's a walk I do from time to time and never had any problems.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 8 7,691 20-04-2017, 11:52 PM
  Thread: Outdoor gyms
Post: RE: Outdoor gyms

There's one in Betts park in Anerley.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 8 7,056 18-10-2016, 04:21 PM
  Thread: Cycling on the pavement
Post: RE: Cycling on the pavement

[quote]Only about 1 in every 1,000 cycling accidents and offences are reported and that is when there is a serious injury.[/quote] I can't imagine the majority of driver offences are reported. People...
InTheForest Wider Topics 16 11,834 07-09-2016, 11:12 AM
  Thread: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the evenings - anyone else?
Post: RE: Virgin Broadband Super Super Slow in the eveni...

We are just over the border in SE20 and our Virgin service is very variable. We have a square two bed flat and one of the bedrooms you pretty much can't stream TV in. Trying to use Apple TV in the liv...
InTheForest Wider Topics 15 11,749 29-05-2016, 09:21 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

I can't see if anyone's looking at me anyway without my glasses. Prescription goggles would aid communication for me.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 2,074 2,033,720 30-06-2015, 08:34 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

Yes, I gave up on Glass Mill as I was fed up of going and queuing for an age to get in and then the timetable being wrong. Then there was the lane swim which consisted of a single, narrow lane for t...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 2,074 2,033,720 08-04-2015, 10:06 PM
  Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...

Great video. And all so familiar!
InTheForest SE23 Topics 333 286,069 12-02-2015, 01:10 AM
  Thread: Annual travelcard: Gold Card improvements from Jan 2015
Post: RE: Annual travelcard: Gold Card improvements from...

Until this, it was only £1 to buy a second Railcard, although you were restricted to a Gold Card.
InTheForest Wider Topics 1 3,783 21-12-2014, 06:27 PM
  Thread: No trains to WE or CX from LB from mid-Dec
Post: RE: No trains to WE or CX from LB from mid-Dec

Isn't this going to mean a whole load of people on the Jubilee Line as they go to Waterloo/Westminster in place of Waterloo East/Charing Cross? Is there room for them? Is this therefore going to mean ...
InTheForest Wider Topics 15 13,550 20-11-2014, 12:43 AM
  Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge

"At least it will be on bright, air-conditioned trains". You're joking, right? At least half the time the Overground has no aircon I can tell and is headache-inducingly stuffy. Just give us windows th...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 85 83,106 24-10-2014, 11:36 PM
  Thread: Bakerloo Line Extension
Post: RE: Bakerloo Line Extension

Michael, what do you meant there's room for a couple more trains? I assumed the reason we are all packed in like cattle was they couldn't fit any more trains on the line.
InTheForest Wider Topics 89 91,152 27-07-2014, 10:28 PM
  Thread: Direct train to Charing Cross
Post: RE: Direct train to Charing Cross

When South Eastern train stop stopping at London Bridge where are they expecting all the people who change onto them to go? The Jubilee Line? The Overground? It's From January to August and I can't se...
InTheForest Wider Topics 20 20,266 18-06-2014, 11:32 PM
  Thread: Sainsburys big freeze
Post: RE: Sainsburys big freeze

Please tell me it's fixed now!
InTheForest SE23 Topics 36 31,975 20-12-2013, 11:45 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

Yes, please bring back the timetable of coloured blocks! The current one is impossible to read. I've resorted to taking a photo of the coloured one with my phone when I'm at the pools and using that; ...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 2,074 2,033,720 10-12-2013, 09:38 PM
  Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park

I agree. I really don't like the new seats. They are hard, the backs are too upright and make me hunch my shoulders. And the arm tests are in the wrong place for my arms at least. They are all fou...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 1,398 1,246,045 06-11-2013, 10:37 PM
  Thread: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bridge next year
Post: RE: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bri...

I am glad of that. I was sad to see it go. I went to see the people standing by the model although he couldn't tell me a great deal. A lot of it is still to be decided by the DfT. He did promise the...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 13 16,066 13-09-2013, 11:11 PM
  Thread: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bridge next year
Post: RE: 24 dates without southern trains to London Bri...

Did they have any detail about what the station will be like? The model's got very little detail and the leaflets next to nothing. I want to know what the interiour will be like.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 13 16,066 05-09-2013, 11:54 PM
  Thread: Indian Takeout suggestions
Post: RE: Indian Takeout suggestions

I like the Elachi although I've only ever eaten in there.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 24 20,667 24-08-2013, 06:08 PM
  Thread: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012
Post: RE: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012

Agree, it's hopeless. Although if does seem to be the one escalator on the Tube (well, almost) where people are incapable of walking on the left. I know it's busy but they seem to manage it at other p...
InTheForest Wider Topics 9 8,534 26-07-2013, 09:31 PM
  Thread: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012
Post: RE: Signal Problems on Trains - 22nd July 2012

Yeah, the LOG trains seem to get very hot and stuff the minute they are busy. So much for aircon! They are nice and cool if you happen to get a quite one though.
InTheForest Wider Topics 9 8,534 24-07-2013, 08:13 PM
  Thread: Buses
Post: RE: Buses

Robin, I got on the bus from Catford, it said Forest Hill on the front so I was also a bit confiused when it turned up Brockley Rise where I got off. I think it must do a loop/Uturn and come back down...
InTheForest Wider Topics 12 12,132 11-07-2013, 09:36 PM
  Thread: Buses
Post: RE: Buses

Anyone know what's going on with the 122? Last night the Countdown board heading towards Crystal Palace at the Waldram Park Road stop showed no 122s at all. Then the same thing this afternoon. Then wh...
InTheForest Wider Topics 12 12,132 06-07-2013, 11:12 PM
  Thread: Motorcycle nuisance on rise in SE23
Post: RE: Motorcycle nuisance on rise in Se23.

Don't get me started on those idiots who roar along the South Circ with bikes that sound like loud painful farts at well over 30 mph.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 17 18,375 05-07-2013, 09:52 PM
  Thread: Buses
Post: RE: Buses

Are you supposed to fill in one for every route you use ? Seems odd that it's all very route specific.
InTheForest Wider Topics 12 12,132 26-06-2013, 11:03 AM
  Thread: Random lamp post placement
Post: RE: Random lamp post placement

On my road they've done five on one side then five on the other repeated. Are they doing a similar thing here, just haven't finished it?
InTheForest SE23 Topics 6 6,424 09-06-2013, 11:10 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

I think that kids have as much a right as adults to use the main pool, and if they don't want to swim lengths in the general swim area, well, that's fair enough; it's not just for us adults. If there ...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 2,074 2,033,720 18-05-2013, 12:56 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway

I'm all for the whiteboard idea.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 195 190,628 06-04-2013, 10:16 AM
  Thread: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road
Post: RE: Traffic lights Dartmouth Road/London Road

I agree with hopper about that junction being a pain to cross. I get very fed up having to wait twice for the lights to change just to cross one road!
InTheForest SE23 Topics 111 108,019 21-02-2013, 12:28 AM
  Thread: Shop Shutter Art
Post: RE: Shop Shutter Art

I think they should do this in the subway too. Much better then the water stained plain wall we are going to get if they don't fix the drips!
InTheForest SE23 Topics 8 7,928 10-02-2013, 07:23 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

Yes, this happened to me this evening, Rob. Felt a bit conned. If the pool shuts at 5.45 then the time table should say that. I'd have arrived earlier if I'd known. Also, if you are closing the buil...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 2,074 2,033,720 10-02-2013, 07:22 PM
  Thread: Morning travel experiences?!
Post: RE: Morning travel experiences?!

I get the train to London Bridge about 8/half past and tend to get a seat, especially if I'm later rather than earlier. Back of the train as other have said. Overground: probably no seat. I never do...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 14 12,262 16-01-2013, 11:01 PM
  Thread: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses
Post: RE: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses

Thanks for all the answers. Siegee, do you find that the bus manages to stick to the timetable in the mornings? Does sound like I don't want to rely on buses and may end up walking down to L Sydenha...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 17 19,062 09-01-2013, 11:08 PM
  Thread: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses
Post: RE: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses

Lower Sydenham would mean paying for Zone 4 and once you get a certain way north it's not much closer than Forest Hill/Catford, so you might as well walk there. I would like to buy closer in to the ...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 17 19,062 08-01-2013, 12:07 AM
  Thread: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses
Post: Perry Rise/Perry Hill Buses

We are currently looking at buying somewhere around the SE23 and nearby area and one place that we keep seeing properties is around the bottom of Perry Rise/Perry Hill, near the giant Sainsbury's. Bu...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 17 19,062 07-01-2013, 10:52 PM
  Thread: Clapham Junction by Southern Trains or London Overground?
Post: RE: Clapham Junction by Southern Trains or London ...

Yep, I'd get the Overground to Crystal Place and get Southern from there. Only any good if you are happy walking up all those stairs though. But it is a nice station to change at as bits of it are so...
InTheForest Wider Topics 5 7,193 16-12-2012, 06:35 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

I pay £3.50 for an adult swim and £3.85 for am aquafit class.
InTheForest SE23 Topics 2,074 2,033,720 16-12-2012, 06:16 PM
  Thread: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 2015
Post: RE: Closure of London Bridge (upper station) in 20...

But one extra car really isn't much. I can't see that it will take all the people who will be pushed off the Southern LB train. The Overground is already horribly overcrowded in the morning rush hour ...
InTheForest Wider Topics 36 40,463 29-11-2012, 12:28 AM
  Thread: Parking Policy Review
Post: RE: Parking Policy Review

Have gone and filled it in. Do they think they made it that long to put people off? ;) Did feel the some of the questions were rather presuming CPZ introduction. Surely they haven't decided until th...
InTheForest Wider Topics 25 24,869 12-08-2012, 03:07 PM
  Thread: Departure board at Forest Hill station
Post: RE: Departure board at Forest Hill station

Time to dust off that green pen, Erekose! Maybe I'll write them a poem. They could display it on the whiteboard they have in aforementioned ticket acquisition space. Or as I call it extension non-acqu...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 20 20,169 20-07-2012, 10:40 PM
  Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water?
Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...

I can make it up to the NR platforms at LB in 5 minutes, did it in 4 the other night. But that only works if the train is on the middle number platforms; no good if you're stuck on platform 16! My r...
InTheForest Wider Topics 23 28,066 16-07-2012, 10:18 PM
  Thread: Rail services during the Olympics
Post: RE: Rail services during the Olympics

So there is room on the line to ease the overcrowding that occurs every morning then? They just don't bother.
InTheForest Wider Topics 30 28,438 08-07-2012, 07:09 PM
  Thread: What's happening at Waldram Crescent??
Post: RE: What's happening at Waldram Crescent??

[quote]When we met with TfL in October 2010, they were planning on making Waldram Place easier to cross for pedestrians by putting an island in the middle of the entrance.[/quote] I wish! It's a hope...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 15 16,917 08-07-2012, 02:56 PM
  Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water?
Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...

I prefer the forward/backwards seat and the seats themselves are more comfortable, they lean back; do that on the Overground and you hit your head on the window. Heading north you also get the 4 acros...
InTheForest Wider Topics 23 28,066 20-05-2012, 09:36 PM
  Thread: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or Canada Water?
Post: RE: Jubilee Eastbound - Change at London Bridge or...

I manage it by knowing the times of the LB trains and getting off the Jubilee or not depending on whether I will make the next one or not. Do prefer going Via LB as the trains are much nicer.
InTheForest Wider Topics 23 28,066 20-05-2012, 08:28 PM
  Thread: Pedestrian crossing by Forest Hill Station (Perry Vale side)
Post: RE: Pedestrian crossing by Forest Hill Station (Pe...

I find the worst bit is crossing over by Dawes for Doors. That little side road is a rat run as people can't turn left from Perry Vale onto the South Circ. BTW does anyone get the logic for the left t...
InTheForest SE23 Topics 57 64,135 05-02-2012, 06:53 PM