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  Thread: Hairdressers SE23
Post: RE: Hairdressers SE23

[url=http://www.barbaros.co.uk/index.html]Barbaros[/url].
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 4 6,982 07-01-2012, 06:55 PM
  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?
shzl400 SE23 Topics 2 4,448 06-01-2012, 08:38 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 21 21,483 04-01-2012, 08:50 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 49 45,454 03-01-2012, 04:34 PM
  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 ...
shzl400 Wider Topics 22 25,662 10-12-2011, 09:35 AM
  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
shzl400 SE23 Topics 8 11,311 10-12-2011, 09:31 AM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 59 74,035 07-12-2011, 10:14 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 41 51,959 13-11-2011, 07:46 PM
  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!
shzl400 Wider Topics 41 51,959 12-11-2011, 09:52 AM
  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!
shzl400 Wider Topics 271 245,360 22-10-2011, 07:49 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 55 43,888 22-10-2011, 06:35 PM
  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...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 13 15,580 20-10-2011, 01:19 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 271 245,360 20-10-2011, 12:55 PM
  Thread: The Old Sorting Office
Post: RE: The Old Sorting Office

There was another big truck in the forecourt there again today.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 13 19,275 18-10-2011, 08:27 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 55 43,888 18-10-2011, 08:22 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 55 43,888 16-10-2011, 12:48 PM
  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 ...
shzl400 Wider Topics 587 489,528 09-10-2011, 12:19 PM
  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...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 23 26,904 08-10-2011, 04:48 PM
  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.
shzl400 Wider Topics 587 489,528 29-09-2011, 08:54 PM
  Thread: Bagpipes
Post: RE: Bagpipes

Ah yes, rap with a silent c. I must admit to agreeing with Brian on this one.
shzl400 Wider Topics 14 14,015 21-09-2011, 08:26 PM
  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.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 736 625,694 21-09-2011, 08:17 PM
  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...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 736 625,694 17-09-2011, 09:02 AM
  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!
shzl400 Wider Topics 4 6,988 26-08-2011, 03:27 PM
  Thread: Sydenham Hill Wood Open Day Sun 11th Sept 2pm- 4pm
Post: RE: Sydenham Hill Wood Open Day Sun 11th Sept 2pm-...

Date?
shzl400 Wider Topics 4 6,988 26-08-2011, 03:26 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 34 29,801 26-08-2011, 03:24 PM
  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.
shzl400 Wider Topics 110 97,189 09-08-2011, 02:13 PM
  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.
shzl400 Wider Topics 9 10,112 09-08-2011, 12:40 PM
  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 ...
shzl400 Wider Topics 110 97,189 09-08-2011, 10:39 AM
  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.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 36 38,575 02-08-2011, 06:12 PM
  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]
shzl400 Wider Topics 24 33,495 12-06-2011, 01:19 PM
  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.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 5 7,615 31-05-2011, 06:30 PM
  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.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 8 11,311 31-05-2011, 06:27 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 113 86,135 30-05-2011, 06:11 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 5 5,675 28-05-2011, 09:52 AM
  Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Upgrade

Sooo... exactly the same as the old ones, but newer?
shzl400 SE23 Topics 89 107,350 25-05-2011, 07:58 PM
  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.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 21 20,296 21-05-2011, 12:36 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 49 45,454 20-05-2011, 07:42 PM
  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 ...
shzl400 Wider Topics 49 45,454 18-05-2011, 07:51 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 587 489,528 17-05-2011, 07:28 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 64 50,324 16-05-2011, 02:43 PM
  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).
shzl400 Wider Topics 114 90,962 06-05-2011, 11:33 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 114 90,962 06-05-2011, 08:25 PM
  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/
shzl400 SE23 Topics 14 19,419 30-04-2011, 09:52 PM
  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 ...
shzl400 Wider Topics 114 90,962 16-04-2011, 06:04 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 114 90,962 15-04-2011, 07:32 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 69 123,717 15-04-2011, 02:39 PM
  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...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 62 62,899 15-04-2011, 02:20 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 114 90,962 14-04-2011, 07:40 PM
  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 ...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 13 12,573 01-04-2011, 12:16 PM
  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...
shzl400 Wider Topics 27 22,928 28-03-2011, 08:31 PM
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