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Thread: Hairdressers SE23 Post: RE: Hairdressers SE23
[url=http://www.barbaros.co.uk/index.html]Barbaros[/url]. |
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Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found |
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07-01-2012, 06:55 PM |
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Thread: Found a HSBC Bank Debit card at 5.40pm Post: RE: Found a HSBC Bank Debit card at 5.40pm
Why not hand it in to HSBC? |
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06-01-2012, 08:38 PM |
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Thread: attempted robbery Post: RE: attempted robbery
Have just been given news of three different burglaries in the Dunoon Road area over the last week or so. All late at night, some whilst occupants were at home in bed. Scary stuff. Check your windo... |
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04-01-2012, 08:50 PM |
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Thread: Can you not sit somewhere else? Post: RE: Can you not sit somewhere else?
[quote]I still have no problem with praying as long as it is done silently.[/quote]
Regrettably, this is so often not the case. Nothing is more likely to make me turn away from the path of righteo... |
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03-01-2012, 04:34 PM |
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Thread: Recycling in Lewisham Post: RE: Recycling in Lewisham
We've had no leaflet or anything round from the recyclers on this. Unless you are a regular on the Lewisham website or a devotee of se23.com, how are people to know that they can now recycle so much ... |
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10-12-2011, 09:35 AM |
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Thread: Parking machine in Sainsburys car park. Post: RE: Parking machine in Sainsburys car park.
Appeal the ticket!
No tickets today, though - free parking throughout Lewisham for "Shop Local Day"
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/inmyarea/shop-local/Pages/default.aspx |
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SE23 Topics |
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10-12-2011, 09:31 AM |
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Thread: Supermarkets Post: RE: Isn't Sainsbury very expensive supermarke?
Tesco, Sainsbury etc. all tend to be quite competitive on price, but variations can arise by the various special offers they run. I've often found, as one offer expires in on supermarket, you will fi... |
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07-12-2011, 10:14 PM |
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Thread: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale Post: RE: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale
[quote]Other favourite ploys I've noticed recently include putting things on a Special Offer shelf when they are not actually on offer. [/quote]
May not be entirely Saino's fault - I've seen people... |
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13-11-2011, 07:46 PM |
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Thread: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale Post: RE: Our local supermarket: a cautionary tale
Definitely with you on the stinking chicken. Been there! Yukkkkkk! |
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12-11-2011, 09:52 AM |
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Thread: Cyclists Post: RE: Cyclists
If you think Hyde Park Corner's fun now, does anyone remember it before they put the traffic lights in? It's a picnic now by comparison! |
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22-10-2011, 07:49 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
[quote]let's say, a pension at 50% of final salary[/quote]
I think I see what's getting folks all riled up about final salary pensions...
I'm sorry to say, that the pension you get is [u]not[/u] the... |
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22-10-2011, 06:35 PM |
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Thread: Dog Fouling on Trilby Road Post: RE: Dog Fouling on Trilby Road.
[quote]people like to leave fruits and things[/quote]
Foxes aren't really noted as fruit eaters. Maybe the fruit is attracting the mice/rats, which in turn attract their natural predators, the fox... |
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20-10-2011, 01:19 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists Post: RE: Cyclists
In Cambridge, a town where cyclists are more predominant than cars and compete with dim tourists in the medieval streets, all student cycles have to display a "registration number", which includes a l... |
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20-10-2011, 12:55 PM |
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Thread: The Old Sorting Office Post: RE: The Old Sorting Office
There was another big truck in the forecourt there again today. |
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18-10-2011, 08:27 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
Right, let's get this funded issue cleared up once and for all.
The LGPS is described [url=http://www.lgps.org.uk/lge/core/page.do?pageId=100438]here [/url]and I quote below the relevant bit (my b... |
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18-10-2011, 08:22 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
Brian, it's a whole bizarre other world in the public sector. You have to be in it to truly understand.
The pensions, which I admit now appear relatively generous against the ups and downs of privat... |
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16-10-2011, 12:48 PM |
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Thread: English Usage Post: RE: English Usage
Being in the same sector as Roz, mine's "horizon scanning", which is reflective of the current paranoia in the sector (however, it's not paranoia if they really [u]are[/u] out to get you). It always ... |
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09-10-2011, 12:19 PM |
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Thread: Burst Water Main Post: RE: Burst Water Main
[quote=roz]Is Sainsburys still open as it must be hard to replenish stock. Unless of course they go the wrong way down Manor Mount. Like a lot of people. [/quote]
Waldenshaw Road - their normal acc... |
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08-10-2011, 04:48 PM |
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Thread: English Usage Post: RE: English Usage
Well, you learn something new every day!
I'd always assumed, in my ignorance, that it referred to the east India, rather than aboriginal americans. |
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29-09-2011, 08:54 PM |
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Thread: Bagpipes Post: RE: Bagpipes
Ah yes, rap with a silent c.
I must admit to agreeing with Brian on this one. |
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21-09-2011, 08:26 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank) Post: RE: The Old Bank to become a Dominoes Pizza
Tersie, how could you forget Vaidas the cycle shop. And it's not just any old hairdressers - it's the multi-award-winning Barbaros. |
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21-09-2011, 08:17 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank) Post: RE: Petition against the Old Bank site in Honor Oa...
Yup, me too.
Not only for the aesthetic issues of converting an attractive building, but also because there is already one (independent) pizza store on the high street, for reasons of dveloping a... |
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17-09-2011, 09:02 AM |
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Thread: Sydenham Hill Wood Open Day Sun 11th Sept 2pm- 4pm Post: RE: Sydenham Hill Wood Open Day Sun 11th Sept 2pm-...
Ok, just seen it in the title - d'oh! |
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26-08-2011, 03:27 PM |
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Thread: Sydenham Hill Wood Open Day Sun 11th Sept 2pm- 4pm Post: RE: Sydenham Hill Wood Open Day Sun 11th Sept 2pm-...
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26-08-2011, 03:26 PM |
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Thread: Appeal to trace three Bromley suspects accused of robbing a girl near Forest Hill sta Post: RE: Appeal to trace three Bromley suspects accused...
There was a piece recently on tv, might have been the 7 o'clock show, where Dom Littlewood filmed the reactions of the public to his 60-something sound engineer asking them the time,directions etc., f... |
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26-08-2011, 03:24 PM |
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Thread: Riots in London Post: RE: Riots in London
All going off again - reports of Morrisons in Camberwell being looted and the Peacocks there being on fire. |
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09-08-2011, 02:13 PM |
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Thread: Burglary via the front door Post: RE: Burglary via the front door
Yale is used as a generic name for that type of lock, regardless of manufacturer, like e.g. Hoover. |
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shzl400 |
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09-08-2011, 12:40 PM |
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Thread: Riots in London Post: RE: Riots in London
I'm absolutely horrified by events unfolding over the last couple of nights. Utter lawlessness - and getting scarily close to home.
Agree with Spartan Army.
The lack respect for authority has ... |
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09-08-2011, 10:39 AM |
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Thread: Damage to cars on Davids Road Post: RE: Damage to cars on Davids Road
Surely access should have been considered as part of the planning process for the recent extension? There should have been a fully study on how trucks get in and out of the site. |
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SE23 Topics |
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02-08-2011, 06:12 PM |
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Thread: Honours Post: RE: Honours
Anyone can suggest a nomination: see [url=http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/UKgovernment/Honoursawardsandmedals/DG_067917]here[/url] |
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12-06-2011, 01:19 PM |
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Thread: Suzi Perry (Gadget show) races to Perry Vale! Post: RE: Suzi Perry (Gadget show) races to Perry Vale!
It should be said, however, that Ms Perry never actually made it to the eponymous Vale on the show, as co-presenter Jason Bradbury completed his challenge first. |
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31-05-2011, 06:30 PM |
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Thread: Parking machine in Sainsburys car park. Post: RE: Parking machine in Sainsburys car park.
I always park in the under-cover area in order to be nearer that machine anyway as you only have to enter the digits of your numberplate, rather than the full number. |
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shzl400 |
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31-05-2011, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners Post: RE: Granny spinners
One of the main problems is that the person most often to be found cycling on the pavement is the one that has no respect for anyone in the first place. It's just another way they have of demonstrast... |
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30-05-2011, 06:11 PM |
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Thread: Postal Fraud (aka 419 Scam) Activity in Forest Hill Post: RE: Postal Fraud (aka 419 Scam) Activity in Forest...
Also if you get phishing emails, you should forward a copy to the [u]real[/u] organisation purporting to be the sender. Most of them have special emails specifically for this purpose on their website... |
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28-05-2011, 09:52 AM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade
Sooo... exactly the same as the old ones, but newer? |
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25-05-2011, 07:58 PM |
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Thread: SE23 house gets a facelift Post: RE: SE23 house gets a facelift
There were people taking photographs of it again as I passed this lunchtime.
Meh, it's not for me. I've always lusted after the mock Tudor pile more or less opposite. |
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21-05-2011, 12:36 PM |
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Thread: Can you not sit somewhere else? Post: RE: Can you not sit somewhere else?
jon14 is right - if she'd said something like "excuse me, would you mind your magazine", I don't think I'd have been that upset. But it was the end of a long, hard day, my feet were killing me, and s... |
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20-05-2011, 07:42 PM |
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Thread: Can you not sit somewhere else? Post: RE: Can you not sit somewhere else?
I was attempting to read a magazine whilst standing on the legendary P4. Given the way the bus was stopping and starting in the traffic, this occasionally meant that I inadvertantly brushed the hair ... |
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18-05-2011, 07:51 PM |
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Thread: English Usage Post: RE: English Usage
[quote=michael]There are many other words that have intrinsic gender bias that are in the process of being addressed: manned, men at work, chairman, mankind, workmen, spaceman, postman, fireman, males... |
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17-05-2011, 07:28 PM |
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Thread: Tatoo Removal paid for by us. Post: RE: Tatoo Removal paid for by us.
[quote = seeformiles]in some groups they are almost a uniform. [/quote]
And that's exactly the problem - what happens when you decide, for whatever reason, you want to leave that group, which may b... |
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16-05-2011, 02:43 PM |
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Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Interesting who voted yes. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge, 4 in North London, 2 in South London (with Leiwsham very close). |
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06-05-2011, 11:33 PM |
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Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
I spent a jolly 15 hours yesterday, ensuring some 400 of the good burghers of Sydenham got to exercise their democratic rights.
Frankly the ignorance of (admittedly a small part) of the electorat... |
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06-05-2011, 08:25 PM |
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Thread: Royal Wedding celebrations in SE23 Post: RE: Royal Wedding celebrations in SE23
Dunoon Road Street Party http://www.flickr.com/photos/zx9/5671963995/in/photostream/ |
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30-04-2011, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
Posted by one of my FB contacts:
[quote]Despite being pro-electoral-reform, I'm leaning towards "no" for AV. It seems the wrong way around - in eliminating the LAST candidate, more weight is being ... |
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16-04-2011, 06:04 PM |
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Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
[quote=Michael]We know that AV works, it is the system we use for Mayor of London and Mayor of Lewisham.[/quote]
There's plenty that would argue that those results aren't exactly glowing endorsemen... |
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15-04-2011, 07:32 PM |
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Thread: Red Ball Marketing aka Hi Marketing / Rockex HP / Bayer Global Group Post: RE: Red bull marketing?
Stuart, perhaps the reason that no one on this forum has been caught out (and also often people will not admit to being scammed because of the shame) is that we are all such wonderful, intelligent peo... |
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15-04-2011, 02:39 PM |
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Thread: Devonshire Road - residents parking Post: RE: Devonshire Road - residents parking
The problems with commuters is that some of them come from exotic parts of Kent and have driven the easy bit and just jump on to the train for the last stretch.
Folks might also want to note thi... |
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15-04-2011, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: Referendum on the Alternative Vote Post: RE: Referendum on the Alternative Vote
[quote=robin orton]As that's not on offer, abstention in the referendum seems the best option.[/quote]
As ever, there is not a box on the ballot paper marked "I abstain" or "None of the above" to e... |
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14-04-2011, 07:40 PM |
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Thread: TfL Bus new Countdown board stops announced Post: RE: TfL Bus new Countdown board stops announced
They should be compulsory on all P4 stops, because the service is so erratic:mad:
But seriously, they should also be available as an "app" for any route as well. Anyone know is TfL are working on ... |
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01-04-2011, 12:16 PM |
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Thread: Vermin on rampage again Post: RE: Vermin on rampage again
[quote=brian]They do seem to have a big share of the well paid state jobs with luctative pensions readers.[/quote]
[quote=roz]I don't think they're advertising many such jobs at the moment Brian. The... |
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28-03-2011, 08:31 PM |