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Thread: Manor Mount one-way system
Post: RE: Manor Mount one-way system
| The most convincing argument for keeping the current configuration is the ambulance station at the top of David's Road. Given that we are just moving traffic from one place to another, allowing the am... |
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18-01-2016, 03:21 PM |
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Thread: Manor Mount one-way system
Post: RE: Manor Mount one-way system
| I well remember when Manor Mount was open. You saved precious little time going that way because so many others did too and we all had to wait to make that left-hand turn back onto the South Circ. Reo... |
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18-01-2016, 02:22 PM |
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Thread: New Year - same c**p as tubes on strike again
Post: RE: New Year - same c**p as tubes on strike again
| Careful, we don't want to get bumped off to the English Usage thread. |
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13-01-2016, 04:53 PM |
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Thread: New Year - same c**p as tubes on strike again
Post: RE: New Year - same c**p as tubes on strike again
| Indeed - cross-posted. But I left it because it wasn't clear if you realised your spelling was perfectly correct. |
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13-01-2016, 03:25 PM |
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Thread: New Year - same c**p as tubes on strike again
Post: RE: New Year - same c**p as tubes on strike again
| Londondrz - wind your neck in, as we say in Belfast. Re-read the last few posts and you'll see that: a) no one was correcting your grammar or spelling as it was fine, and b) misreading 'your' for 'you... |
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13-01-2016, 01:12 PM |
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Thread: Christmas tree collection
Post: RE: Christmas tree collection
| The trees are chipped and reused in the parks. |
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08-01-2016, 10:15 PM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Eateries
| We went to The Perry Vale today for Sunday lunch and it was exceptionally good. Still licking my chops thinking about it. |
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03-01-2016, 11:26 PM |
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Thread: Christmas tree collection
Post: RE: Christmas tree collection
| If the recycling point is in walking distance, it's within tree-dragging distance. They are surprsingly light. |
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31-12-2015, 02:36 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| My reply was to shzl400 who said 'St Dunstans boys'. Given that it's a co-ed school, my question was a genuine one. |
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27-12-2015, 03:49 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| Were all St Dunstans' children banned or just the boys? Because that's a whole other can of worms... |
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27-12-2015, 12:44 PM |
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Thread: Chemists open Xmas and Boxing Day
Post: RE: Chemists open Xmas and Boxing Day
| Have you tried calling 111? They can probably tell you. |
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25-12-2015, 12:38 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| Secondary schools don't always operate their admissions policy on catchment areas. Sometimes, but not always. The school my children attend doesn't, for example. |
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12-12-2015, 11:07 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| Sharon - sounds like your kids go to the same school in Streathsm as mine. Absolutely agree that schools have a responsibility to their local community and should make sure their kids behave while in ... |
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12-12-2015, 02:25 PM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Takeaways
| Pippi - you don't need an account to view anything on Twitter, or public pages on Facebook.
Michael said in his post they hope to open late December. |
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11-12-2015, 01:29 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
| Guys, guys, why is this getting so heated? One's position on this doesn't have to be binary. It's possible to sympathise Sainsburys' position AND feel bad for the decent kids who are disadvantaged by ... |
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11-12-2015, 11:16 AM |
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Thread: Electricity problems last night? Please report it
Post: Electricity problems last night? Please report it
| After a few weeks of intermittently flickering lights, we had all our lights dim last night (Tuesday 8th Dec), at about 10:40. They lowered all the way down to off over a period of several seconds, th... |
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09-12-2015, 05:07 PM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys School Children Ban
| I'm not condemning Sainsburys - as I said there's no reason why they would have considered how a policy like this makes 'good' kids feel.
The schools could maybe do more. My kids go to school in S... |
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04-12-2015, 11:42 AM |
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Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys School Children Ban
| Have they been banned specifically for stealing? The OP doesn't say.
I can remember being about 12 years old (a long time ago!) and going to a supermarket after school to get things for my mother ... |
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04-12-2015, 09:41 AM |
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Thread: Brand New Wooden Stair Gate (Open Box) For Sale
Post: Brand New Wooden Stair Gate (Open Box) For Sale
| I'm selling a Babystart Extendable Wooden Stair Gate. Bought from Argos, details here:
[url]http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 898257.htm[/url]
New and unused. The box is open and the par... |
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30-11-2015, 12:58 PM |
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Thread: Brand new Lindam Easy-Fit Plus Deluxe Safety Gate for sale
Post: Brand new Lindam Easy-Fit Plus Deluxe Safety Gate ...
| I have a brand new Lindam Easy-Fit Plus Deluxe Safety Gate for sale. Never used, box is still sealed. I am currently using the same model in my kitchen to contain my boisterous puppy. The gate is very... |
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30-11-2015, 12:56 PM |
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Thread: iMac 20" 2008
Post: iMac 20" 2008
| I'm selling my 2008 iMac. It's in almost perfect condition and fully operational in all respects. The only original item missing is the mouse. The hard drive has been securely erased and freshly insta... |
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30-11-2015, 12:37 PM |
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Thread: U turn by the Tories
Post: RE: U turn by the Tories
| Not a u-turn. Still going to happen, just more slowly. |
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26-11-2015, 11:02 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Eh? What's wrong with bus station? A terminus can just be a stop where buses terminate and don't pick up. A station is somewhere out of the main flow of traffic where buses running several routes star... |
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24-11-2015, 12:49 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| It's a 'fewer syllables' thing as far as I'm concerned. |
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24-11-2015, 11:24 AM |
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Thread: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
Post: RE: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
| Excellent summary, jollyrog, and probably worth emailing to TfL. |
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23-11-2015, 08:28 AM |
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Thread: Wanted: Removal of unwanted furniture
Post: Wanted: Removal of unwanted furniture
| I have an old sofa bed that is not fit to sell or donate. I need someone to wrangle it down the stairs and take it away. Can anyone recommend someone local who can do this? |
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21-11-2015, 02:30 PM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Best takeaways?
| I think the research suggests it's not as simple as smoke points - you also want an oil high in monounstaturates. On that basis, nut oils are indeed a good choice. If takeaways are replacing nut oils ... |
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10-11-2015, 03:37 PM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Best takeaways?
| At home I use a nut oil in my wok. But if we're talking about takeaway, my guess would be they wouldn't bear that expense, so it's either veg or olive. In that scenario, olive is better. |
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10-11-2015, 11:44 AM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Best takeaways?
| That report says exactly the opposite and recommends olive oil over vegetable oils for frying as a good 'compromise' oil for frying. |
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10-11-2015, 10:59 AM |
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Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Best takeaways?
| We've been going to EXP for years. Best of the local Chinese, but standards have slipped of late, I think. |
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26-10-2015, 01:08 PM |
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Thread: Microsoft Windows phone scam
Post: RE: Microsoft Windows phone scam
| I've asked more than one of them how they sleep at night - but only after they've got aggressive with me, which happens surprisingly often. I was once accused of being a liar when I said I didn't have... |
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22-10-2015, 08:26 AM |
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Thread: Possible door to door scammer in forest hill??
Post: RE: Possible door to door scammer in forest hill??
| No, but you can call 101 and let them know scammers are currently working your area. It's not about the overpriced tea towels but the criminals running the scams. |
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21-10-2015, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: Possible door to door scammer in forest hill??
Post: RE: Possible door to door scammer in forest hill??
| These scams having been running for years. I've had them calling at the door, usually around teatime, on and off for as long as I can remember. Not a legitimate scheme - why would any official program... |
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20-10-2015, 12:34 PM |
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Thread: The Hob Closed
Post: RE: The Hob
| Agreed the Perry Vale has done some tweaking around pricing and offers. But the core business - the food, the atmosphere, the staff - were all in place from the off. In other words, I knew what sort o... |
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14-10-2015, 04:05 PM |
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Thread: The Hob Closed
Post: RE: The Hob
| New businesses might want to take a leaf out of the Perry Vale's book, which hit the ground running with very little tweaking needed. It was clear from the off what their 'offer' was (and still is) an... |
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12-10-2015, 04:11 PM |
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Thread: Strictly at the Horniman?
Post: RE: Strictly at the Horniman?
| Presumably filmed in August when the pro dancers do all the prep for the group dances. |
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07-10-2015, 07:52 AM |
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Thread: Manor Mount one-way system
Post: RE: Manor Mount one-way system
| Perryman - I see ambulances coming out of the end of St David Road on regular basis. If the road was re-opened at the top to rat-runners, I can imagine the ambulances getting stuck in a line of traffi... |
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02-10-2015, 02:29 PM |
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Thread: Hills & Parkes Closed
Post: RE: Hills & Parkes "closed until further notice"
| If you want a child-free cafe and a more-than decent coffee, St David's in Forest Hill does very well without catering for families. Not deliberately, it's just not physically buggy or toddler friendl... |
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02-10-2015, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: Why is Forest Hill station so busy?
Post: RE: Why is Forest Hill station so busy?
| Huh. In the past few years I've been on those roads (South, Sunderland, Church Rise) regularly around 7am and never noticed. Pre-coffee. That's probably why. |
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01-10-2015, 10:02 PM |
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Thread: Why is Forest Hill station so busy?
Post: RE: Why is Forest Hill station so busy?
| That's interesting. I've lived in this area for fifteen years and never noticed this. I must be on the wrong roads when this is happening! |
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01-10-2015, 09:42 PM |
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Thread: Why is Forest Hill station so busy?
Post: RE: Why is Forest Hill station so busy?
| As someone who lives south of the station, I'd like to know where this plentiful free parking is. I can't think of a street within ten minutes walk of the station where finding a free space wouldn't b... |
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01-10-2015, 09:09 PM |
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Thread: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car park when paying via RingGo
Post: RE: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car...
| I can prove I paid for A car on the date in question, same make, model and colour as mine. The only thing the app didn't have was the registration number. Not sure how that happened as I remember ente... |
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29-09-2015, 09:32 AM |
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Thread: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car park when paying via RingGo
Post: RE: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car...
| Okay, apologies to Lewisham parking - checking my RingGo account this morning, it turns out my car details are not properly recorded on the app (no idea if it's my fault or theirs) and my registration... |
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29-09-2015, 07:43 AM |
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Thread: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car park when paying via RingGo
Post: RE: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car...
| I'm going to check the tariffs RingGo offer when I park tomorrow. I THINK there may be a 20p admin charge per booking when using RingGo, which is making the tariffs looks as if they are still incorrec... |
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28-09-2015, 03:52 PM |
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Thread: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car park when paying via RingGo
Post: RE: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car...
| You're right. Letter sent to Lewisham. Not sure any other publications (or anyone else here for that matter!) would be that interested. But if anyone HAS won an appeal on first try, I'd love to know! |
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25-09-2015, 03:58 PM |
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Thread: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car park when paying via RingGo
Post: RE: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car...
| I have the email VAT receipt they sent me on the day. I have all the evidence I need. The pain-in-the-ass thing is that because I appealed online rather than in writing, they haven't had a paper copy ... |
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25-09-2015, 03:15 PM |
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Thread: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car park when paying via RingGo
Post: RE: Parking Tickets being issued in Perry Vale car...
| Update - I appealed online, giving Lewisham the RingGo reference for the payment I made. Today I got a letter saying they can't find that transaction so the PCN stands and I have to pay or appeal furt... |
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25-09-2015, 02:33 PM |
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Thread: Another accident on Perry Vale
Post: RE: Another accident on Perry Vale
| In my email to Lewisham yesterday I made the point that Michael makes above, namely that the road narrowing and poor parking around Waldram Crescent mean drivers speed up towards the table, released f... |
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24-09-2015, 10:08 AM |
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Thread: Another accident on Perry Vale
Post: RE: Another accident on Perry Vale
| Looking at the position of that car and knowing that junction well, I have a good idea about what could have happened. Whatever the cause, I wish all those involved a speedy recovery. |
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23-09-2015, 06:10 PM |
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Thread: Another accident on Perry Vale
Post: RE: Another accident on Perry Vale
| That's the standard reply they have been making since they introduced the 'improvements' that actually made the situation worse rather than better. I would guess this caseworker doesn't know what regu... |
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