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  Thread: For sale - Dyson DC39 Animal vacuuim
Post: RE: For sale - Dyson DC39 Animal vacuum

Reduced to £40 Will deliver locally No offers please.
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 2,302 08-11-2019, 07:29 PM
  Thread: For sale - Dyson DC39 Animal vacuuim
Post: For sale - Dyson DC39 Animal vacuuim

Dyson DC39 Animal with a selection of tools. All the original Dyson tools as supplied with the machine, plus a few non-Dyson extras. The machine is in perfect working order. No broken bits or thing...
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 2,302 02-11-2019, 11:36 AM
  Thread: Democracy review
Post: RE: Democracy review

The real problem with democracy in Lewisham is democracy itself. An elected body with councillors from a single party and no opposition isn't a good thing. Nobody in the chamber to ask the difficult q...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 4 4,062 07-01-2019, 01:58 PM
  Thread: Planning application to convert Forest Hill Co-op to a hotel
Post: RE: Planning application to convert Forest Hill Co...

He doesn't own the Harvester at Dulwich, he owns the site in Forest Hill. There is probably sufficient demand for cheap hotel accommodation in the area, which the council will pay. The guests th...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 12 13,293 13-02-2018, 09:35 PM
  Thread: Beckenham Place Park Golf Course closure
Post: RE: Beckenham Place Park Golf Course closure

We'll all be worse off when the golf course is gone and £4.5 million later the park becomes a venue for Rap concerts.
jollyrog Wider Topics 5 6,205 18-09-2016, 11:58 AM
  Thread: TfL Consultation - Stanstead Road/Brockley Rise/Cranston Road juntion
Post: RE: TfL Consultation - Stanstead Road/Brockley Ris...

I have submitted an objection, I would encourage other forum users to review this consultation and submit their comments. [quote]I have no comments on the elements of the proposal that refer to loa...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 2 5,861 07-02-2016, 12:46 PM
  Thread: TfL Consultation - Stanstead Road/Brockley Rise/Cranston Road juntion
Post: TfL Consultation - Stanstead Road/Brockley Rise/Cr...

A proposal for junction improvements here: [url]https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/roads/stanstead-road-brockley-rise[/url] Previously discussed on this forum. The arm of the crossing across Brockle...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 2 5,861 05-02-2016, 08:17 AM
  Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban

But it's probably not just about shoplifting. As has been said, even if Sainsburys catch them red handed, it's just a time consuming exercise for their staff to process the event, which will ultimatel...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 75 61,957 11-12-2015, 01:51 PM
  Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban

[quote]I think Sainsbury's should invest more in security and proactively work with schools to bring those found to be shoplifting to account. High definition CCTV cameras that give full coverage to a...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 75 61,957 11-12-2015, 01:27 PM
  Thread: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban
Post: RE: Sainsburys Forest Hill School Children Ban

Sainsbury's wouldn't turn away the business without good reason. Many inner London schools are nothing more than zoos. Once the animals are out of the cage, the keepers lose control and aren't real...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 75 61,957 11-12-2015, 10:23 AM
  Thread: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
Post: RE: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road

Wow, thank you BarCar. Based on that response, I have to withdraw my comment that none of the Traffic Planners have identified the problems. Perhaps I am in the wrong job... maybe I could be a Traffi...
jollyrog Wider Topics 10 12,604 04-12-2015, 10:02 PM
  Thread: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road
Post: RE: Eastbound traffic on South Circular Road

Some real traffic planning failures cause most of those jams, unfortunately no traffic planner seems to have spotted them. St.Dunstans - never used to allow cars to drop on its access road. About 1...
jollyrog Wider Topics 10 12,604 23-11-2015, 08:00 AM
  Thread: Another stabbing , this time Brockley
Post: RE: Another stabbing , this time Brockley

It is fortunate for the media that the Metropolitan Police mostly have photographs of the victims when alive and can quickly supply them after the event.
jollyrog Wider Topics 15 11,508 07-09-2015, 12:56 PM
  Thread: Armed Robbery in Barclays Bank
Post: RE: Armed Robbery in Barclays Bank

[quote]Its true what it says in the article that the bank is in such a conspicuous position that it would be hard to make a swift getaway unnoticed.[/quote] I though it was a pretty good location. The...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 16 17,143 25-07-2015, 08:53 PM
  Thread: Recent increase in aircraft noise
Post: RE: Recent increase in aircraft noise

London City is closed from noon Saturday to noon Sunday. There are flights on Sunday afternoons.
jollyrog Wider Topics 32 25,109 14-07-2015, 10:00 AM
  Thread: Sainsbury's Car Park "recycling"
Post: RE: Sainsbury's Car Park "recycling"

Currys/PC World will accept any electrical item for recycling, any size, whether you bought it from them or not. I often take them stuff. [url]http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/recycle-1042-theme.html[/...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 9 13,884 14-07-2015, 07:46 AM
  Thread: Recent increase in aircraft noise
Post: RE: Recent increase in aircraft noise

It's not really the Heathrow traffic that passes overhead here, it's mostly London City landing traffic, when they're on runway 09 (East).
jollyrog Wider Topics 32 25,109 11-07-2015, 12:16 PM
  Thread: Trains To Catford Bridge
Post: RE: Trains To Catford Bridge

Engineering work in connection with the Thameslink Programme is taking place between London Charing Cross and London Bridge and on the Charing Cross lines between London Bridge and New Cross with vari...
jollyrog Wider Topics 1 4,115 27-06-2015, 12:47 PM
  Thread: Plasterer required
Post: Plasterer required

Can anyone please recommend a plasterer? I need a small ceiling done. Thanks.
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,013 18-06-2015, 02:28 PM
  Thread: Lifts at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Lifts at HOP Station

> Still, it'll be worth it in the end, won't it? Indeed. More oversized buggies on the trains, each taking up the space that 4 standing commuters could take, in the most awkward part of the door ve...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 53 48,187 24-10-2014, 09:13 PM
  Thread: Stanstead Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.
Post: RE: Stansted Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.

I wrote/spoke to TfL several times about those lights. There wasn't a phase that allowed pedestrians to cross Brockley Rise in one go, which I thought was dangerous, especially considering the proximi...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 39 40,471 26-05-2014, 07:21 AM
  Thread: Stanstead Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.
Post: RE: Stansted Road / Brockley Rise junction lights.

The lights now seem to have pedestrian push buttons.
jollyrog SE23 Topics 39 40,471 25-05-2014, 08:34 AM
  Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May

The one party state. We're paying for 51 Councillors that we don't need.
jollyrog Wider Topics 25 21,985 24-05-2014, 09:37 AM
  Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May

The delay in posting Lewisham's results is a bit third world. Tower Hamlets is corrupt. They are probably counting each vote five times, just to be sure. Explains their delay.
jollyrog Wider Topics 25 21,985 23-05-2014, 08:50 PM
  Thread: Flight Path
Post: RE: Flight Path

2,700+ metres of unused runway now available at Manston, ILSs both ends, East-West runway with published (currently suspended) over-sea instrument approaches and departures and plenty of land availabl...
jollyrog Wider Topics 19 16,198 21-05-2014, 07:14 PM
  Thread: Flight Path
Post: RE: Flight Path

The low ones annoying you are probably London City Airport inbounds, they overfly SE6/SE23 at 2,000 feet. We do have others joining the Heathrow approaches from the Biggin Hill stack, but they tend...
jollyrog Wider Topics 19 16,198 16-05-2014, 06:02 PM
  Thread: Colour laser multifunction device - HP 2840 All in One
Post: RE: Colour laser multifunction device - HP 2840 Al...

This is still available and I am open to a sensible offer.
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 2,890 15-01-2014, 01:51 PM
  Thread: How to give away an old sofa bed
Post: RE: How to give away an old sofa bed

I wonder if the people who would like/need the free items don't have cars, so they don't respond because they wonder how they would transport it.
jollyrog Wider Topics 10 8,725 17-12-2013, 08:06 PM
  Thread: Colour laser multifunction device - HP 2840 All in One
Post: Colour laser multifunction device - HP 2840 All in...

Hewlett Packard Laserjet/All in One 2840 [img]http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2007/07/27/one_dozen_color_laser_printers/hp-2840.jpg[/img] [size=x-small][i](Web image, not actual machine)[/i][/size]...
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 1 2,890 13-12-2013, 07:35 PM
  Thread: Child's bunk bed & desk
Post: RE: Child's bunk bed & desk

Now sold, via this forum :thumbsup:
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 10,262 03-12-2013, 12:37 AM
  Thread: Child's bunk bed & desk
Post: RE: Child's bunk bed & desk

If anybody is interested in this and has transportation problems, I should be in a position to deliver it from Sunday evening onwards. Happy to deliver to local area, SE6/SE23 postcodes, no extra c...
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 10,262 29-11-2013, 01:07 AM
  Thread: Lost 2 Cats
Post: RE: Lost 2 Cats

Wonderful outcome.
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 8 6,502 25-11-2013, 05:28 PM
  Thread: Child's bunk bed & desk
Post: Child's bunk bed & desk

As found here on the Argos web site: [url=http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7381100.htm]Classic High Sleeper with Blue Sofa Bed Frame - Pine[/url] [img]http://www.jollyrog.com/BunkBe...
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 2 10,262 25-11-2013, 01:56 PM
  Thread: Cardboard boxes wanted urgently please
Post: RE: Cardboard boxes wanted urgently please

I have an enormous one, very strong, the size of a piano. That's because a piano came in it. If anyone wants it, let me know ASAP, before it gets chopped up. Collection from SE6, off Bromley Road.
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 3 4,934 07-11-2013, 10:22 PM
  Thread: Lamppost misplacement
Post: RE: Lamppost misplacement

Are you absolutely sure that it's 100% on your property? If so, the solution is a letter of intent, giving them a fixed timescale to remove their property, then an angle grinder.
jollyrog SE23 Topics 11 16,331 08-08-2013, 07:35 AM
  Thread: Sony HT-DDW750 Home Theatre unit
Post: Sony HT-DDW750 Home Theatre unit

For sale: Sony HT-DDW750 Home Theatre unit This is a 5.1 Surround Sound Sony AV system, with Dolby ProLogic/ProLogic II Surround Sound processor and inbuilt AM/FM radio. It's a few years old,...
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 2,012 07-06-2013, 03:26 PM
  Thread: Large black post
Post: RE: Large black post

Cellphone mast.
jollyrog SE23 Topics 6 6,304 14-05-2013, 10:26 AM
  Thread: Shopping bag security searches
Post: RE: Shopping bag security searches

That's a cop out. The real way to deal with it is to front the Security bunny, say "no" to the search and threaten all sorts of complaints of harassment to both Sainsburys and the police. Just say ...
jollyrog Wider Topics 9 8,558 14-03-2013, 12:17 AM
  Thread: Shopping bag security searches
Post: RE: Shopping bag security searches

If you don't want to be searched, don't consent to the search. If you were stopped randomly as opposed to the security officer having a genuine belief that you've stolen something, I'd say it's gam...
jollyrog Wider Topics 9 8,558 12-03-2013, 08:22 AM
  Thread: Kids on motorbikes on blythe hill fields
Post: RE: Kids on motorbikes on blythe hill fields

Antisocial behaviour in Blythe Hill Fields has been a problem for at least the 21 years I've lived here and probably long before. My garden backs onto the fields, close to the playground. As the li...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 9 13,628 28-02-2013, 08:10 PM
  Thread: Council Tax 2013/14
Post: RE: Council Tax 2013/14

[quote]You can have your cut - which might save you £10 or £20 per year (based on a 1 or 2% cut on a £1,000 council tax bill), but then you dont get the swimming pool, or the library, or the roads swe...
jollyrog Wider Topics 5 7,033 27-02-2013, 08:54 AM
  Thread: Is Dalmain School pretty mediocre?
Post: RE: Is Dalmain School pretty mediocre?

It's a really good school. Our one went through it, she's at Kingsdale now. She can certainly read and write very well. She was very happy there, as were we with just about everything about the school...
jollyrog SE23 Topics 8 13,833 25-02-2013, 10:24 PM
  Thread: WWII RAF aircrew - day out for the veterans
Post: RE: WWII RAF aircrew - day out for the veterans

I am interested to know if anyone has identified a local qualifying veteran and directed him to the web site. Please le me know if so, as I'm piloting one of the two aircraft from Biggin Hill and w...
jollyrog Wider Topics 1 3,509 16-01-2013, 08:38 PM
  Thread: WWII RAF aircrew - day out for the veterans
Post: WWII RAF aircrew - day out for the veterans

If anyone knows any WWII RAF veterans (must be WWII, not later), please direct them to this web site [url=http://www.projectpropeller.co.uk/]Project Propeller[/url] for a day out in June. This is a...
jollyrog Wider Topics 1 3,509 11-01-2013, 06:39 PM
  Thread: Gas Safe engineer required
Post: Gas Safe engineer required

I need a Gas Safe registered engineer to connect a gas hob. Hob will be in situ and existing gas connection has an isolation valve less than 1 metre from the hob. I can't imagine it's more than an ...
jollyrog Offered, Wanted, Lost & Found 0 1,956 27-09-2012, 03:42 PM
  Thread: Noisy neighbours on Kilgour Road
Post: RE: Noisy neighbours on Kilgour Road

Just had a look on Google streetview and none of the houses on Kilgour Road have stone cladding.
jollyrog SE23 Topics 9 10,149 25-04-2012, 06:20 PM
  Thread: Stillness Road not one-way
Post: RE: Stillness Road, SE23

It's not no entry at the Brockley Rise end to cyclists.
jollyrog SE23 Topics 4 7,002 22-04-2012, 11:18 AM
  Thread: Watch the sky
Post: RE: Watch the sky

It's on again tomorrow night, in case you want to watch a second time.
jollyrog Wider Topics 17 14,142 18-04-2012, 10:13 PM
  Thread: Watch the sky
Post: RE: Watch the sky

[quote]The analogue signal is being switched off and replaced with a higher power digital one[/quote] The improved digital signal will still be much lower power than the old analogue. The old anal...
jollyrog Wider Topics 17 14,142 18-04-2012, 08:25 PM
  Thread: Search lights on Crystal Palace transmitter
Post: RE: search lights on Crystal palace transmitter

Digital switchover "celebration" on 18th April.
jollyrog Wider Topics 6 8,613 15-04-2012, 09:14 PM
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