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Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: Driving during the power cut
| Did anyone else find driving during the power outage very easy and calming without traffic lights?
I drove along the south circular towards brixton from HOP and the first lights that worked were ... |
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10-06-2008, 09:14 AM |
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Thread: HOP Station Staff
Post: HOP Station Staff
| Any idea what the staff on the platform are there for? Never used to be anyone before the Overground.
Do we really have to be told to stand behind the yellow line - like it was not obvious?
I c... |
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15-06-2010, 03:49 PM |
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Thread: Moses Basket & Prince Lionheart Nappy tidy - FREE
Post: Moses Basket & Prince Lionheart Nappy tidy - FREE
| One Moses Basket and stand looking for a new home.
Also a Prince Lionheart nappy tidy (hooks onto the edge of a cot or changing table) [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000056OUO/ref=asc_df_B00005... |
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12-02-2012, 05:42 PM |
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Thread: New Polish Shop in Crofton Park
Post: New Polish Shop in Crofton Park
| New Polish shop on Ewhurst Road (opposite Peter James butchers) where a Security business used to be.
http://notesofanidealist.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/u-gosi-polish-shop-ewhurst-road/ |
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30-11-2010, 12:12 AM |
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Thread: Bar Equal
Post: RE: Bar Equal
| it is not about greed. what are the rents like comparable to other areas? perhaps they are quite reasonable. given that a new business (neroli) has decided to locate on the parade, rates cannot be ... |
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24-06-2008, 11:16 AM |
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Thread: Blythe Hill Fields
Post: RE: Blythe Hill Fields
| Are the plans posted anywhere? |
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15-02-2010, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: Brockley Jack
Post: RE: Brockley Jack pub
| being renovated... there is discussion on this on brockley central blog |
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04-04-2008, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: Brockley Jack
Post: RE: Brokley Jack
| fyi Brockley Jack is open for business - passed by last night. looks tidy. |
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16-05-2008, 09:23 AM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| the aisles in the buses are usually big enough for a buggy to go through - until the bus design decides to throw in a pole at the end with a curve that stops it (not at the wheels but somewhere else a... |
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01-11-2010, 10:53 AM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| everybody has a bad day sometimes |
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05-11-2010, 10:22 AM |
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Thread: Buggyjam
Post: RE: Buggyjam
| suggestion - find another place to have a quiet coffee other than a museum that is pretty clearly aimed at children (in my view)
the newish coffee shop opposite Forest Hill station seems small enou... |
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27-10-2010, 09:12 AM |
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Thread: Buggyjam
Post: RE: Buggyjam
| tiggywinkle - are you a troll? |
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27-10-2010, 12:55 PM |
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Thread: Extend 63 Bus to Honor Oak Park Station?
Post: RE: Buses to Honor Oak Park station
| i dont really see why a double decker bus is a problem. there are already double deckers coming down stondon park/ brockley rise. also large lorries etc go over honor oak road and down the parade. ... |
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13-06-2008, 05:48 PM |
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Thread: caribbean food shop brockley rise/gladiator street
Post: RE: caribbean food shop brockley rise/gladiator st...
| yummy goat curry as well. great place - long may it survive. |
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16-03-2008, 10:40 PM |
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Thread: Childcare - what do people genrally do?
Post: RE: Childcare - what do people genrally do?
| my advice if going private is to put your unborns name down now with a estimated return date at all the nurseries. Then when closer to the time, just keep ringing all of them, on a daily basis if nee... |
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13-06-2011, 07:53 PM |
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Thread: Conservation area breaches
Post: RE: Conservation area breaches
| communal dishes are all very well aesthetically BUT they do come at greater cost. sky may install "free" but the installation agent tends to charge and extra monthly rental for the service as well as... |
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19-05-2008, 06:46 PM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
| great to have new destination but anyone else annoyed that the train display only shows one train now because the name is to long - can they not shorten to H'bury and Islington.... or something like t... |
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mljay |
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04-03-2011, 10:26 AM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Disaster The Old Bank to become a Dominoes piz...
| ooo really looking forward to the bright neon red and white signage. |
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mljay |
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15-09-2011, 10:56 AM |
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Thread: Does SE23 have a fringe?
Post: RE: Does SE23 have a fringe?
| i definately think of brockley, crofton park,honor oak park and forest hill as separate, never mind the postcodes/ wards etc.
i live in the se4 bit of crofton park but on the streetmap, my road is ri... |
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18-04-2008, 04:26 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| I am curious to know what the definition of 'living in poverty' is when you say they are 'making you live in poverty'?
Also to say you would be working 'almost for free' - sounds like you would jus... |
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13-01-2011, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| thanks derbyhilltop - It would not be my definition of 'living in poverty' but to each their own.
sorry to hear that you are facing tough times and the nursery bill hike does sound like a shocker... |
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13-01-2011, 05:55 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| for any interested on 'living in poverty' - just tried looking up what it means when using the term in the UK(http://www.cpag.org.uk/povertyfacts/#who) |
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13-01-2011, 06:20 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| Derbyhilltop - have you considered looking for less expensive nurseries (I know many have really long waiting lists - I put my sons name down when he was 3 mths in the womb and only got a place when h... |
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14-01-2011, 11:40 AM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| It may have only been one documentary but I also recall the Panorama investigation when people were stopped outside of the benefits office and asked if they would like a job which paid above minimum w... |
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26-01-2011, 02:38 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| My nursery fees just went up by £100 per month! Boo! Ouch! |
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11-03-2011, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| My friends work, either full or part time. My relatives are overseas. My husbands relatives live outside of London, and are working as well, with their own families and childcare arrangments to worr... |
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11-03-2011, 02:50 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| Brian - sorry, did not mean to jump back at you.
The fact is that it does still happen today where people live close to relatives or with relatives. I know examples where childcare is split betwe... |
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11-03-2011, 04:21 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
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24-03-2011, 10:38 AM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| [i]bigot [/i]- a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
I do not think that anyone in this conversation has made statements that could be described as bigoted... |
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25-03-2011, 04:36 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| problem with food stamps is that they would just get sold for cash at a bit less than face value |
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29-03-2011, 03:11 PM |
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Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Driving during the power cut
| oh!
well, I was driving at about 10am - maybe it got worse later on!!! |
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10-06-2008, 01:03 PM |
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Thread: Fairlawn School and nearby area
Post: RE: Fairlawn School and nearby area
| What if the arbitrarily agreed standards do a better job at educating the next generations than local authority controlled standards? |
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19-11-2010, 11:57 AM |
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Thread: Fairlawn School and nearby area
Post: RE: Fairlawn School and nearby area
| Perhaps some of the governors and parents are also educationalists? |
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19-11-2010, 03:17 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| I am pretty sure that DC children attend state school and that they use the NHS.
At least DC and GO are taking realistic decisions about how much money there is to spend rather than living in la la... |
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11-10-2010, 10:04 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| derbyhilltop
To respond, I prefer that we feel the pain now (including me) rather than my childrens children feel the pain later.
[i]We all know that the country is in the global recession - why p... |
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12-10-2010, 11:48 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| I am not sure how making an observation that hospital cleaners come from a certain place becomes a racist comment.
Plus, I saw no comment from Brian about sacking the above cleaners and sending the... |
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14-10-2010, 10:42 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| [i]mljay: Thanks for the revelation that the last Labour government invented the benefits system. Could you possibly tell me how unemployed people managed before that time. Say, in the early 1980s whe... |
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14-10-2010, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| [i]Sp Mljay - what is your occupation ?? [/i]
What is yours - and everyone else's on this forum? Why do you need to know.
Is it because I hold views contrary to yours? |
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15-10-2010, 09:29 AM |
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Thread: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
| Do you know that there is a hairdresser/salon called Attractions on Brockley Rise. And a nail bar on Brockley Rise. And a hairdresser on the HOP parade. I wonder how many more hair and beauty salon... |
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15-11-2007, 10:58 AM |
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Thread: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
| A beauty salon i.e. what Beauty Plus would be complementary to hair salons. They do facials, massages and botox and stuff like that, but no hair and I don't think they do nails either. I would defin... |
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15-11-2007, 01:05 PM |
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Thread: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Fireplace shop on Honor Oak Park
| Noticed some work being done to the empty shop between Goldstar Furniture and Barber shop. No time to stop and query.... anybody know what it is going to be? |
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27-11-2007, 10:35 AM |
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Thread: Green Wheelie Bins
Post: RE: Green Wheelie Bins
| Massive shortage in europe for wheelie bins....
http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NewsAndEvents/News/EuropeanBinShortageAffectsLewisham.htm |
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01-08-2008, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak electronics shop - disappointing
Post: RE: Honor Oak electronics shop - disappointing
| Just thought I would mention something I heard from a friend who works in tv.....
since we are moving to digital transmission, they are slowly turning off/ turning down the analogue transmitters, s... |
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21-02-2008, 03:27 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
| I often walk by with a buggy and though sometime I have to wait for a couple of seconds to get by I hardly think the congestion outside the station requires the proposed changes.
Surely there are bet... |
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04-01-2011, 10:55 AM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
| apologies for sounding dismissive. |
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05-01-2011, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
| I'm with andrewr - or putting in lifts to access the platform. |
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06-01-2011, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: HOP Station Staff
Post: RE: HOP Station Staff
| Got back at about 8pm tonight - no one on the platforms - but there was someone in the ticket office.
I tried to say hello to chap on the northbound platform this morning - but was ignored.
I do... |
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15-06-2010, 11:02 PM |
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Thread: Horniman to charge for Aquarium
Post: RE: Horniman to charge for Aquarium
| Love the aquarium.
£15 for a family for a year seems reasonable. |
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10-12-2010, 11:42 AM |
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Thread: June 2010 Budget - What Do We Think
Post: RE: June 2010 Budget - What Do We Think
| [i]People reading this forum might actually believe that your 'tongue in cheek' rants represent the views of people in Forest Hill rather than the London Borough of Wandsworth[/i]
And what is wrong... |
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28-06-2010, 04:04 PM |
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Thread: New primary school for Lewisham?
Post: RE: New primary school for Lewisham?
| To be fair to fhmum, the proposal was hardly put forward as a solution to ALL our educational ills. Merely an alternative.
And I am sure that fhmum will be engaging in many debates over the coming... |
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