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  Thread: 2 x Rice Cookers for Sale
Post: 2 x Rice Cookers for Sale

It's a long story, but I have two rice cookers, as offered for sale in Lidl's this week. One is completely new, still sealed in the box and the other has been used just twice, but has a small crac...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,586 03-02-2015, 09:21 PM
  Thread: 78 RPM Records
Post: 78 RPM Records

I have a several albums of 78 RPM records, that belonged to my father, mostly light opera, and easy listening and especially Austrian music, both classical and otherwise. I'd like to sell or otherwis...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,998 16-06-2013, 08:05 PM
  Thread: Big Bang?
Post: Big Bang?

Not the start of the universe, maybe, but just after 10:15 Fiday 13/4/12 heard huge explosion. Surely not more Tornado jets breaking the sound barrier. Nothing on the news yet. Anyone know anyth...
shzl400 Wider Topics 3 5,105 13-04-2012, 10:53 PM
  Thread: Blythe Hill Fields
Post: Blythe Hill Fields Fun Day

Just a reminder to anyone who might be interested - Blythe Hill Fields Fun Day is this Saturday. See [url=http://www.blythehillfields.org.uk/]here[/url] for details.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 44 50,053 24-06-2009, 11:39 AM
  Thread: Bosch Undercounter Freezer - free!
Post: Bosch Undercounter Freezer - free!

This is a Bosch Undercounter Integrated (i.e. designed to take a decor panel to match units - not supplied) Freezer with three large drawers. Free to any takers (also advertised on Freecycle). Th...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,617 08-08-2012, 10:06 PM
  Thread: Bucks Warehouse, Deptford - does it still exist?
Post: Bucks Warehouse, Deptford - does it still exist?

There used to be this marvellous emporium, known as Bucks Warehouse, up near Surrey Quays, where they sold, at knock-down prices, all the furniture that had been ordered, but couldn't be delivered, fr...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 4 14,891 28-03-2012, 02:58 PM
  Thread: Bunch of stuff going cheap on Ebay
Post: Bunch of stuff going cheap on Ebay

I'm having a clear out, so I've listed some stuff, mainly kids clothes, on ebay all at 99p. Unfoturnately, the postage makes cheap stuff expensive - but not for those who can collect! [url=http:/...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,886 04-02-2013, 09:10 PM
  Thread: Catford Bridge pub on fire
Post: Catford Bridge pub on fire

I think this is the pub that used to be the Copperfield - no chance for Antic now :( http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/LatestIncidentsContainer_01031560.asp#.VPN51mIgGSN There seem to be fire engine...
shzl400 Wider Topics 9 9,565 01-03-2015, 09:52 PM
  Thread: Cleaner Recommendations
Post: Cleaner Recommendations

My cleaner of some ten years is leaving to become a groundskeeper at Dulwich College (!) Recommendations, please, from the good folk of SE23, for her replacement much appreciated. Please no self...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,745 26-04-2012, 12:22 PM
  Thread: Curtain shops?
Post: Curtain shops?

Following the demise of the House of Curtains in Sydenham, where does one now go for curtains? Apart from John Lewis, of course.:rolleyes:
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 4 4,668 06-08-2012, 08:24 PM
  Thread: Demolition of Bell Green Gas Holders
Post: Demolition of Bell Green Gas Holders

People may like to know that there's a petition by the Sydenham Society to save the two Gasometers by Sainsbury's. https://www.change.org/p/these-streets-belong-to-us-the-sydenham-society-save-our-...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 27 23,829 16-04-2017, 07:50 PM
  Thread: Devonshire Road Water leaks
Post: Devonshire Road Water leaks

Does anyone know when the water leaks on Devonshire Road (at the Honor Oak End) will be resolved? There's the one that seems to have been caused when the Council was resurfacing the road, which i...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 2 4,625 27-01-2015, 11:50 PM
  Thread: Fire at junction of Dulwich Common and Lordship Lane
Post: Fire at junction of Dulwich Common and Lordship La...

Traffic reports say the South Circ is blocked at junction of Dulwich Common and Lordship Lane due to a "serious fire". Sounds like the Harvester/Grove Tavern. Anyone know any more detail?
shzl400 SE23 Topics 7 9,692 21-03-2013, 10:10 AM
  Thread: For Sale - Toys and Books, mostly new
Post: For Sale - Toys and Books, mostly new

Toys and books, mostly new - all offers welcome. Collection from Honor Oak area. [attachment=3042][attachment=3041][attachment=3040][attachment=3039][attachment=3038][attachment=3038] John Lewi...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,631 25-08-2014, 11:34 AM
  Thread: For sale: 3/4 size violin - ideal for age 7-9
Post: For sale: 3/4 size violin - ideal for age 7-9

If anyone's DD/DS is starting violin in Year 3 this Autumn, then this is the instrument for them! The Stentor Mk. II is used in many schools and is often recommended by music teachers. See full li...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,255 27-07-2013, 07:25 PM
  Thread: For Sale: Boys Smart Grey Suit incl. shirt & tie Age 8/9
Post: For Sale: Boys Smart Grey Suit incl. shirt & tie ...

Grey suit by Flipback from BHS with shirt & matching tie. Pictures attached. Ideal for Weddings, Christenings, posh summer do's etc. Shirt and Jacket are both age 8; trousers are age 9. Suit...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,556 27-07-2013, 03:34 PM
  Thread: For Sale: Laura Ashley Mugs x 4
Post: For Sale: Laura Ashley Mugs x 4

Pretty floral bone china mugs by Laura Ashley. Would be ideal for a summer tea party, if it ever stops raining! Listed on ebay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231000574960?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,422 16-06-2013, 07:58 PM
  Thread: For Sale: NEW Boys Swimming Trunks & Shorts
Post: For Sale: NEW Boys Swimming Trunks & Shorts

These items are NEW, not secondhand. All from TU at Sainsburys, but a couple of years old. Due to (several) rushes of blood to the head, I bought these at various times, put them away in a cupboard ...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 2,387 21-07-2013, 07:56 PM
  Thread: For Sale: Imperia Pasta Making Machine
Post: For Sale: Imperia Pasta Making Machine

Make your own fresh pasta! This machine will roll your pasta to the desired thickness and cuts in two separare widths for either lasagne, fettucini or tagliatelli. Like [url=http://www.ebay.co.uk/sc...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,960 21-04-2013, 08:47 AM
  Thread: For Sale: Rugby Boots - sizes 5 and 6
Post: For Sale: Rugby Boots - sizes 5 and 6

Two pairs available, in great condition due to rapid foot growth! Kooga - size 5 Patrick - size 6 £10 each See pictures... [attachment=3242] [attachment=3243]
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,542 07-12-2014, 08:55 PM
  Thread: Found: Witch's scarf after Halloween
Post: Found: Witch's scarf after Halloween

Found in Fairlie Gardens, black scarf with pink/white stars and arrows. It's outside at the moment, but if not claimed soon, I will take it in and wash it, pending collection.
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,684 02-11-2015, 09:58 PM
  Thread: Free!! Clarks Rugby/Football studded boots size 3
Post: Free!! Clarks Rugby/Football studded boots size 3

Rugby or football boots with metal safety studs. Velcro fastening. Size 3G. Brand - Cica by Clarks. Silver and black. Plastic trim coming away a tiny bit at both heels, but there's still plenty o...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,762 16-03-2014, 02:33 PM
  Thread: Half size guitar for sale
Post: Half size guitar for sale

Good guality make (Valencia), recommended by music teachers. Suitable for children approx 6-8. Viewing before bidding welcomed! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230752987444?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,794 02-03-2012, 09:31 PM
  Thread: HOP Sainsburys delivery trucks parking
Post: HOP Sainsburys delivery trucks parking

Is it just me that this drives absolutely mad? Invariably, the new HOP Sainsbury's has a delivery truck - plain white, no Saino's livery - parked outside it, in the ordinary car parking bays, leavi...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 18 17,220 14-06-2014, 08:21 PM
  Thread: Ideal Home Show Ticket offered
Post: Ideal Home Show Ticket offered

One ticket (OH can't go) offered to Ideal Home Show at Olympia, valid any day 23rd to 27th March. It was a freebie, but still hate to see it go to waste. Printed out and ready for collection near ...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,261 16-03-2015, 11:20 PM
  Thread: Loft Conversions
Post: Loft Conversions

I'd welcome recommendations for loft conversion contractors from the kind folk of SE23. I'm sure this subject has been covered before on the forum, but the previous posts don't seem to go that fa...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 3,398 25-02-2012, 05:16 PM
  Thread: Lost Cat Dunoon Road area
Post: Lost Cat Dunoon Road area

Please can anyone in the area look out for our cat, "Cat" (!), who was last seen yesterday morning? We are concerned that he may be injured, although he was last seen climbing a 5ft fence into the ne...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 3,489 23-07-2013, 08:27 AM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: Louise House - to list or not to list?

It seems there has been a lot of heated debate about this whole issue. [Chorus off: you don't say!] I thought it would be interesting to provide an opportunity for all 1,695 forum members, asid...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 130 154,373 28-08-2008, 05:55 PM
  Thread: Missing Cat - Please Help!
Post: Missing Cat - Please Help!

Our cat, Logan, went missing from the Dunoon Road/Devonshire Road area last Friday, 24th November. Went out as usual first thing in the morning and never came home. He's black with white paws, b...
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 2,804 28-11-2017, 12:08 PM
  Thread: No Recession in Dulwich
Post: No Recession in Dulwich

Courtesy of the BBC's "Magazine", I reproduce their quote of the day for your amusement.... "Due to illness, Benjamin Britten's Recession will not be performed. So there will be no recession in Du...
shzl400 Wider Topics 1 3,771 19-12-2008, 12:00 PM
  Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: "The People's Post Office" - FH - really?!

Under TUPE, they would become WHS employees, but should not have to have reapplied for their jobs - just automatically transfer across, with protected terms and conditions.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 157 174,844 20-02-2008, 05:10 PM
  Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: "The People's Post Office" - FH - really?!

I found the staff at the old post office always to be very helpful and polite, with excellent customer service. (I've yet to visit the new one in Smith's so will reserve judgment, but found there to ...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 157 174,844 20-02-2008, 01:35 PM
  Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: "The People's Post Office" - FH - really?!

Thanks, Ann, for giving us the clear picture - and thanks, too, to you and the other lovely ladies I used to see at the old post office - I always found the customer service to be top notch. Best wis...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 157 174,844 25-02-2008, 10:53 AM
  Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: "The People's Post Office" - FH - really?!

I went to the Post Office in Smiths in Bromley last weekend and was very impressed. Note that it was a Saturday afternoon - under the old system, the PO would not have been open. They do have quite ...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 157 174,844 19-03-2008, 11:13 AM
  Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale

[quote=michael] [quote=nevermodern] ....when did it all go wrong last time round? [/quote] Amazingly we still have MacKays who have stuck in Forest Hill for many years but nobody ever mentions o...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 58 62,549 14-11-2007, 02:14 PM
  Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale

Just noticed this morning a new shop fascia "Iron'd Out 4 You" (or something like that) - laundry and dry cleaning service in the parade of shops between Finches and EJ carpets. Wish them all the bes...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 58 62,549 12-12-2007, 10:05 AM
  Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale

[quote=Theotherbrian] Mayo-Maker is great and I've been (and bought) in there and I've not been the only one!! You weren't watching those times. It's not unreasonable to want our area to improve rat...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 58 62,549 13-12-2007, 11:44 PM
  Thread: 1 Slagrove Place
Post: RE: 1 Slagrove Place

Whilst I don't know the background to this "flogging" :scared:, I believe that this site was the Council's own in-house staff training centre, rather than a school or serving the local community. ...
shzl400 Wider Topics 2 4,312 14-03-2011, 03:18 PM
  Thread: 1930s houses in SE23
Post: RE: 1930s houses in SE23

Our next door neighbour's daughter was learning the violin - strangled cats or what! But they didn't complain either when we had all night parties and played Motorhead. Gotta give and take... B...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 5 8,120 24-11-2009, 02:36 PM
  Thread: 356 Bus
Post: RE: 356 Bus

[quote]But the countdown system is in high demand, so it is not on the list of proposed initial sites for countdown.[/quote] I'm sure I read somewhere that they had cancelled the roll-out programme...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 9 10,164 09-07-2010, 07:01 PM
  Thread: 356 Bus
Post: RE: 356 Bus

What a shame the countdown sign outside the Horniman is going - I've been extremely grateful for it on more than one occasion.
shzl400 SE23 Topics 9 10,164 09-07-2010, 09:32 PM
  Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...

I can possibly see the potential of using Hamilton Lodge for this purpose - but why 118 Canonbie Road? You'd have thought they could sell this on the open market and be able to afford to buy mayb...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 224 192,287 18-10-2014, 11:24 AM
  Thread: 4 White British Medium hair kittens for Sale
Post: RE: 4 White British Medium hair kittens for Sale

Our cat just turned up and made himself at home - free, nada, gratis, nowt!
shzl400 Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 12 11,450 25-07-2012, 08:14 PM
  Thread: A Few Mins
Post: RE: A Few Mins

And also for those whose lives were changed forever as well. Dying is easy, surviving is much harder. An acquaintance of mine was on the top deck of the 30 bus, in the last seat to actually remain...
shzl400 Wider Topics 5 5,840 07-07-2010, 07:14 PM
  Thread: A Levels At Home
Post: RE: A Levels At Home

Each to their own skills. Some people are just not academically inclined. Many years ago, I worked in Selfridges one Christmas, where I met a young man (OK, I had a serious crush on him!), who h...
shzl400 Wider Topics 10 8,531 09-03-2012, 09:54 PM
  Thread: A local gift?
Post: RE: A local gift?

Something from the Dulwich Picture Gallery gift shop - I know not as good as Horniman for being local, but still near enough....
shzl400 Wider Topics 21 21,675 11-11-2008, 03:15 PM
  Thread: Alarming house prices!
Post: RE: Alarming house prices!

Very close to what I've heard is a quite highly rated primary school (Kilmorie). That may account for some of it.
shzl400 Wider Topics 72 61,880 09-03-2014, 09:04 PM
  Thread: Alarming house prices!
Post: RE: Alarming house prices!

I've just spent the day at a seminar listening to various London councils expounding their plans for providing new council and affordable housing. Just about every proposal relies on increased de...
shzl400 Wider Topics 72 61,880 19-03-2014, 07:20 PM
  Thread: Am I a Scrooge but....?
Post: RE: Am I a Scrooge but....?

I must say that I'm a huge fan of Lidl and would recommend them to anyone, particularly for their fruit juices, sweets, biscuits and charcuterie - although I'd say the fresh fruit & veg. is of highly ...
shzl400 SE23 Topics 28 26,729 12-12-2007, 09:48 PM
  Thread: Angry of Lewisham
Post: RE: Angry of Lewisham

Erem ... me too! Does everyone in SE23 work in Lambeth?
shzl400 Wider Topics 10 8,873 12-03-2010, 07:36 PM
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