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7.5%? I wish! It's like that report that the average UK house price had dropped by £7k ...

Oh dear, so sorry. I presume you were insured - and just as importantly, weren't in it at the time?

The same thing happened to someone's car when a tree came down in Venner Road, last year or maybe the year before.

This is in addition to the CP Underground festival, I take it? Ear defenders at the ready again, I guess

El Cid wrote: ↑

6 Mar 2019 17:28

I stand by my comment on pricing. Mamma Doughs specials come in at £12, while the dearest pizzas at Franca Manca are £8.75, at Bona £10.90 and at Four Hundred Rabbits £10.50.

Wow. The pizzas at Pizza Express are rather more expensive than those!

Best of luck then, Parker! OTOH, you can also get appointments with a GP there if your own surgery is overbooked, but only if your surgery has an agreement with them. (I've done it a couple of times when I've needed to see someone urgently and continuity of care wasn't a particular concern). I guess...

OTOH, you can also get appointments with a GP there if your own surgery is overbooked, but only if your surgery has an agreement with them. (I've done it a couple of times when I've needed to see someone urgently and continuity of care wasn't a particular concern). I guess that probably requires you...

Just realised that the noise I can hear out the back is likely to be more railway engineering works (Penge East line), despite the fact that it feels as though it's coming from 180° the wrong direction! Thank heavens for double glazing, is all I can say.

I've now realised that my earlier post was technically ambiguous. But I'd have thought it wouldn't have been too difficult to guess what I meant. Those who argued for the retention of the gasholders (like those who argued against Brexit) lost the argument. So obviously they should now shut up and l...

Ah - Canonbie Road - hill starts!!

Very pleased to hear this, and I hope it all proceeds smoothly, at both locations.

Bovine Juice wrote: ↑

16 Feb 2019 15:23

The Standard hasn't covered Penge in its Homes & Property supplement for 5 years

I could have sworn it had - are you sure?

I definitely got the feeling the majority of research on the area had been done by skimming this forum :( - I certainly didn't get the feeling that there was any first-hand experience talking. A huge proportion was taken up by the history of Sydenham which was essentially labelling who is on the Syd...

I notice that Sydenham was the featured area of London in this week's Evening Standard property section - although I'm not sure it made it such a tempting-sounding place to live that people will be rushing to buy here!

And boy, has the Hayes line been dismal this week. Just my misfortune that I had to attempt to travel Londonwards on it 3 times in the first 3 days this week

So what is everyone supposed to do in the meantime?

That doesn't sound easy to me, trying to thread turning trains round into the rail schedule without blocking up either the down or the up line at inappropriate moments. There must surely be a better option planned. In fact, it would make more sense, I'd have thought, to run a line down to New Becken...

You wont lose the Hayes line. The tube will run on the same tracks (making the extension easier than other options), and be more frequent. I am unsure where it would be diverted? Sorry, I'm not clear on this (and the proposal is stunningly unclear, from what I can see). Are you suggesting that tube...

Sorry, I don't see that this has anything to do with the extension beyond Lewisham?

And even if it does, I have very major reservations about losing the Hayes line. It's quite long enough as it is - and getting longer - without diverting round any more of SE London than is absolutely necessary.

Typical. I went into Bromley Post Office (aka WH Smith) this afternoon. There was a queue of maybe half a dozen people, so I thought I might as well just use one of the machines - it was only a large letter I was posting. But yes, they were all out of operation, too.

Gulp!

Thanks to those who actually replied to my question