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  Thread: Life in SE23 - Slow Worms in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Slow Worms in Forest Hill

Brilliant! :laugh:
edd SE23 Topics 9 9,927 12-05-2016, 09:49 PM
  Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service

Our bin has arrived. It is splendidly decorative (slightly tongue-in-cheek). Am very pleased with it.
edd SE23 Topics 44 41,610 14-04-2016, 06:26 AM
  Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service

Have also bought in. Now[b] want my bin[/b], as everything is growing like crazy!
edd SE23 Topics 44 41,610 31-03-2016, 05:13 PM
  Thread: Life in SE23 - Shops
Post: RE: Shop door window shattered

Sorry to hear this, and hope the miscreant is caught.
edd SE23 Topics 177 112,934 31-03-2016, 05:10 PM
  Thread: Outstanding Rathfern
Post: RE: Outstanding Rathfern

That's smashing! It's a bit of a shame that no one pointed out that celebrating by littering (450 balloons!) is considered somewhat antisocial and eco-unfriendly, though. :ohmy: [url]http://balloo...
edd SE23 Topics 1 3,880 11-01-2016, 10:48 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding

Really? I though the council, not government, choose how to spend what money they have.
edd SE23 Topics 159 131,430 09-12-2015, 11:16 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library

And oh god YES to Labour-heavy councils. Nightmare.
edd SE23 Topics 159 131,430 21-10-2015, 06:22 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library

Have also completed the online questions. Sorry for being dumb, but please could someone link to stats on what budget the council get, how much it's being cut, and how much gets spent on each thing...
edd SE23 Topics 159 131,430 21-10-2015, 06:21 PM
  Thread: The Hob Closed
Post: RE: The Hob

About £3:50 per loaf, I believe. :laugh: I shall certainly be giving it a go, mind you. Feeling quite spoilt for choice nowadays - a big difference to when I moved here 15 years ago!
edd SE23 Topics 125 107,119 07-10-2015, 07:11 PM
  Thread: Lewisham Council consultation on changes to waste and recycling
Post: RE: Lewisham Council consultation on changes to wa...

So did I gather from that survey that Lewisham want us to have: wheely bin, paper recycing box, other recycling bin, food waste bucket? Oh, and green waste bin if we pay at least £80 a year for it? Do...
edd Wider Topics 5 7,419 09-09-2015, 11:30 PM
  Thread: Street Trees Map
Post: RE: Street Trees Map

A GCSE is a very basic qualification (!), so no, I can't explain much - but yes, CO2 trapping is greatly reduced in the winter (apart from evergreens, of course). But all these websites put it much...
edd Wider Topics 33 22,877 31-08-2015, 12:02 PM
  Thread: Street Trees Map
Post: RE: Street Trees Map

Thanks for the clarification. :) Mmm. I'm going to have to disagree with you, I think. Yes, a few more trees may not seem to you to make much difference, but in a city like London they really are n...
edd Wider Topics 33 22,877 30-08-2015, 08:32 PM
  Thread: Street Trees Map
Post: RE: Street Trees Map

I was aiming for sarcasm, [b]erekose[/b]. Hence the :huh:... I clearly failed! I did pass GCSE Biology, though, which is why - unlike Sherwood? - I know that trees are vital to animal life on earth. ...
edd Wider Topics 33 22,877 30-08-2015, 01:27 PM
  Thread: Street Trees Map
Post: RE: Street Trees Map

:laugh: You're probably right. No need for trees to reduce CO2. It's that pesky 78% Nitrogen we need to be worrying about! :huh: And trees absorb some air pollutants. Even more stick to their...
edd Wider Topics 33 22,877 30-08-2015, 11:08 AM
  Thread: Street Trees Map
Post: RE: Street Trees Map

Nah, I call troll. Your views seem to me designed to rile, not to promote intelligent debate. :laugh:
edd Wider Topics 33 22,877 29-08-2015, 09:53 PM
  Thread: Street Trees Map
Post: RE: Street Trees Map

I love the trees we have, am grateful for the vital job they do in removing CO2 and pollutants from our city, and am very sad to have seen the loss of a beautiful Rowan from the end of Rockbourne Road...
edd Wider Topics 33 22,877 29-08-2015, 12:50 PM
  Thread: Polarn o Pyret unisex waterproof jacket 9-10 years
Post: Polarn o Pyret unisex waterproof jacket 9-10 years

Aged 9-10 years Excellent condition - hardly worn Waterproof with taped seams Reflective strip, cuff adjusters, detachable hood, zip with storm flap and chin guard. Mesh lining. Current season reta...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,994 21-08-2015, 07:20 PM
  Thread: For sale - Miele paper vacuum bags
Post: For sale - Miele paper vacuum bags

Vacuum cleaner finally died and the replacement doesn't take the same bags. So, twelve brand new Miele 'E Type' bags are going spare. Fit S219, S220, S224, S226, S2171, S2261. £4 the lot. We're...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,346 20-08-2015, 02:41 PM
  Thread: Weather = Some ladies wearing very litlle
Post: RE: Weather = Some ladies wearing very litlle

I'm with you, Pippi. I find this comment (and the one a couple of weeks ago about watching people naked) distasteful.
edd Wider Topics 22 19,212 25-07-2015, 08:21 PM
  Thread: NOFX tickets
Post: NOFX tickets

I have two tickets for NOFX (and Alkaline Trio) at the O2 Academy Brixton tonight, but I can no longer go, sadly. Is anyone interested in buying them off me? They were £27.50 each, but I'm open to of...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,766 04-07-2015, 03:17 PM
  Thread: Cybex Solutions car seat ages 3-12 for free
Post: Cybex Solutions car seat ages 3-12 for free

Our daughter has finally outgrown her car booster seat. This one but not Isofix, as our old banger was never fitted for it: http://www.prams.net/cybex-solution-x-fix-car-seat-isofix-group-2-3-15-36-k...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,480 28-06-2015, 09:57 AM
  Thread: Japanese Knotweed in Siddons Car Hire
Post: RE: Japanese Knotweed in Siddons Car Hire

Some patches in unkempt front gardens in Sunderland Road and Stanstead Road. I am tracking its progress towards our house with some trepidation! I suspect people just don't know what it is.
edd SE23 Topics 14 15,631 06-06-2015, 07:59 PM
  Thread: For Sale: selection of books for readers in Reception, year 1 and Year 2
Post: For Sale: selection of books for readers in Recept...

For sale: a selection of books to suit Reception-age reader of 4-5 years, through to the first confident steps in short chapter books in Year 1 and 2. All read once or twice only and in excellent cond...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 3,024 28-05-2015, 05:08 PM
  Thread: For sale £5 White Company toddler duvet cover as new
Post: For sale £5 White Company toddler duvet cover as n...

Plain white, 100% cotton, with little embroidered white bubbles around the edges. Very lovely, and suitable for either gender. Barely used, sadly, as the toddler bed was fast outgrown and rejected in ...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,342 28-05-2015, 03:58 PM
  Thread: Colfe Road Street Party
Post: RE: Colfe Road Street Party

Sounds fab! Thanks for the post. I've put in to join the fb group - we're just round the corner on Stanstead Road, but I don't think they'd let us close that for our own party, so we're going to have ...
edd SE23 Topics 13 18,062 02-05-2015, 01:53 PM
  Thread: Good Morning Forest Hill
Post: RE: Good Morning Forest Hill

I :love: FH.
edd SE23 Topics 13 13,048 29-11-2014, 10:04 PM
  Thread: Petition for clearer crossings on the South Circular
Post: RE: Petition for clearer crossings on the South Ci...

signed.
edd SE23 Topics 1 4,283 04-11-2014, 09:31 PM
  Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling

[b]Really? Or would it have been just as reasonable to conclude that kindness to animals, in however misguided a form, was the sign of a generous nature? [/b] Well, I don't think so. You could perh...
edd SE23 Topics 48 36,013 22-10-2014, 10:58 AM
  Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling

Hey! I was just auto-asterisked! <<f*@ks off back to mumsnet to have a proper swear>>
edd SE23 Topics 48 36,013 21-10-2014, 09:11 PM
  Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling

I assumed it was because antisocial behaviour ( here e.g. leaving take away containers/litter on the streetside and leftover food/attracting rats) often goes hand in hand with not giving a shit about ...
edd SE23 Topics 48 36,013 21-10-2014, 09:09 PM
  Thread: Dog Fouling
Post: RE: Dog Fouling

Well, that's that sorted then. Jolly good show. :rofl:
edd SE23 Topics 48 36,013 28-09-2014, 10:54 PM
  Thread: Railway Telegraph
Post: RE: Railway Telegraph

We were there yesterday - happy to claim it as our local. Fantastic food - and even a fruit cider to please us lager-haters! I had duck, with great potato mash and redcurrant gravy. Could have done...
edd SE23 Topics 53 45,637 27-09-2014, 08:33 PM
  Thread: Street art festival - Brockley/HOP nominated
Post: RE: Street art festival - Brockley/HOP nominated

We'll have to agree to disagree on that, Tinkerbell. Give me a nice piece of Victorian brickwork or a coat of whitewash any day. :laugh:
edd Wider Topics 6 7,375 05-09-2014, 07:43 PM
  Thread: Street art festival - Brockley/HOP nominated
Post: RE: Street art festival - Brockley/HOP nominated

Is this the same sort of enterprise that produced that frightening bee/mutant woman/tea-drinker hybrid on the side of a building near Dulwich library, and the house further down Lordship Lane which is...
edd Wider Topics 6 7,375 04-09-2014, 09:09 PM
  Thread: Brockley Corridor proposed improvements
Post: RE: Brockley Corridor proposed improvements

Thanks for bringing up the crossroads at Stanstead/Brockley Rise. It is abysmal. I live a couple of doors down, and can make neither head nor tail of when exactly we are supposed to walk across. I hav...
edd SE23 Topics 5 7,640 28-08-2014, 08:46 PM
  Thread: New Pizza Restaurant for Forest Hill?
Post: RE: New Pizza Restaurant for FH?

I think Michael is teasing! :)
edd SE23 Topics 24 18,006 28-08-2014, 08:40 PM
  Thread: Two junior Meccano sets for sale - suitable for 4-7 years
Post: Two junior Meccano sets for sale - suitable for 4-...

£5 only bargain. Over £40 new, I think. Plastic. Suitable for ages 4-7. Son has had much joy from it all, but now he (and dad) ready for metal meccano. 1) Mechanical Tool box with over 120 pie...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 3,029 13-08-2014, 10:30 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools

Might be more tempted to vote for you if you'd answered the question just posed by a would-be customer! :laugh:
edd SE23 Topics 2,074 2,037,403 10-06-2014, 08:48 PM
  Thread: Wok Express - new owners?
Post: RE: Wok Express - new owners?

It was our favourite for many years - until I opened a box of chow mein and found a small dead cockroach right on top of it. :ohmy::ohmy:
edd SE23 Topics 10 9,998 02-06-2014, 08:11 PM
  Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May

Hardly surprising, though.
edd Wider Topics 25 22,197 24-05-2014, 03:53 PM
  Thread: Sushi in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Sushi in Forest Hill

Is the owner secretly reading and picking up tips, then? If so, hello! :laugh:
edd SE23 Topics 14 15,177 22-05-2014, 11:18 AM
  Thread: Favourite Chicken & Ribs
Post: RE: Favourite Chicken & Ribs

No idea. I don't eat there. However, if the chicken is the stuff described as 'Poppas' (sic) on the website, I think it would be reasonable to expect it to b pieces of chicken the size of popcorn.
edd SE23 Topics 2 3,796 14-05-2014, 04:53 AM
  Thread: Council cutting trees down
Post: RE: Council cutting trees down

And if you go the private contribution route, can you select the type of tree yourself? And as the maintenance and ownership pass to Lewisham, do they tell you if/when/why they decide to chop it do...
edd Wider Topics 19 15,379 19-04-2014, 10:09 AM
  Thread: Steve Bullock's Manifesto
Post: RE: Steve Bullock's Manifesto

After TWELVE YEARS as mayor, if he hasn't managed to do all this stuff, what suggests he will do it now? <sits back>
edd Wider Topics 16 13,731 15-04-2014, 12:11 AM
  Thread: 14 ORT 'Fireflies' books
Post: 14 ORT 'Fireflies' books

Great non-fiction early reading books. Stage 4: Grandad and Me Night Animals From Curry to Rice Big Cats World Instruments Shapes Shells Stage 6 Skateboarding Dinosaurs Tour De France ...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,495 22-02-2014, 04:34 PM
  Thread: For Sale: Usborne Farmyard Tales boxed set of 20 books
Post: For Sale: Usborne Farmyard Tales boxed set of 20 b...

Ideal for reading to a very young 'un, or for a 4-6 year old learning to read (easy text at the top of the page, harder sentences for the adult beneath). This is the set: [url=http://www.amazon.co...
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,984 22-02-2014, 11:47 AM
  Thread: £65,000 kitchen for sale (only) £12,000
Post: RE: £65,000 kitchen for sale (only) £12,000

:wow::blush:
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 9 8,278 02-02-2014, 09:10 PM
  Thread: £65,000 kitchen for sale (only) £12,000
Post: RE: £65,000 kitchen for sale (only) £12,000

Speaking as someone who spent a couple of years working in an industrial kitchen, cleaning that amount of steel is a pain in the ****** :laugh:
edd Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 9 8,278 01-02-2014, 08:16 PM
  Thread: Crystal Palace Park Project: drop-in sessions this Satuday
Post: RE: Crystal Palace Park Project: drop-in sessions ...

What's gonna happen to the sphinxes? <dim>
edd Wider Topics 8 8,771 31-01-2014, 07:09 PM
  Thread: FH is amazing, what do you think would make the area better than it is allready!
Post: RE: FH is amazing, what do you think would make th...

Some one needs to buy up the lovely Victorian building next to the pools (Elizabeth House?), renovate it a bit and install a big soft play (like Rascals et al) and cafe. Would be huge earner, and in...
edd SE23 Topics 47 35,983 26-01-2014, 10:25 PM
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