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by Rachael
5 Dec 2021 10:38
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Christmas tree on the high st…
Replies: 4
Views: 3574

Re: Christmas tree on the high st…

Sydenham Syd wrote: 22 Nov 2021 16:41 …is pretty budget. I think this year’s is about half the usual size.
Please don’t blame covid anyone
I felt the same when I first saw it, but now I understand. It’s got decorations! And decent lights! Which is probably why it’s smaller. I think it’s about the same size as the Forest Hill tree.
by Rachael
10 Nov 2021 09:25
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Covid Vaccine - Third Booster Jab
Replies: 45
Views: 31276

Re: Covid Vaccine - Third Booster Jab

I've booked my booster but Sydenham Green (Where I had my first two jabs) was not an option (I'm also with Wells Park). So it's at Our Lady & St Philip Neris school instead on a Saturday. Last time round, where you were offered depended on how you booked. Sydenham Green was never an option on t...
by Rachael
24 Oct 2021 14:37
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Covid Vaccine - Third Booster Jab
Replies: 45
Views: 31276

Re: Covid Vaccine - Third Booster Jab

WRT flu jabs, you can book online at Boots (If you're OK with paying for the flu jab). First appointments with Boots for free over 50s shots are late November. Online they aren't showing any appointments for under 50s locally (I checked as far as Bromley). Both me (in my 50s, free) and our lodger (...
by Rachael
23 Oct 2021 10:25
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Covid Vaccine - Third Booster Jab
Replies: 45
Views: 31276

Re: Covid Vaccine - Third Booster Jab

What counts as the ‘younger’ flu jab? I got mine as a walk-in at Touchwood (opposite the Greyhound) on Thursday after Lloyds in the Bell Green Sainsburys screwed up my appointment twice. I’m 53. We got our first set of Covid vaccines at Sydenham Green although we’re not patients there. We got texts ...
by Rachael
27 Jun 2021 21:32
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Blackbird Bakery
Replies: 21
Views: 20625

Re: Blackbird Bakery

The Cake Store is still operating as an occasion cake supplier, with orders taken online and shipped nationwide. So I assume they are still using everything bar the shop front.
by Rachael
28 Sep 2020 15:09
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Flu-Jabs @ Sydenham Green now Covid test compatible
Replies: 25
Views: 17578

Re: Flu-Jabs @ Sydenham Green now Covid test compatible

OH and I are getting ours on Saturday at the Lloyds Pharmacy in Sainsburys. Booked online. They had a plethora of appointments available from Friday onwards.
by Rachael
19 Sep 2020 13:30
Forum: Offers
Topic: 2 large bags of air-filled pillow packaging offered free for collection
Replies: 2
Views: 11089

Re: 2 large bags of air-filled pillow packaging offered free for collection

You can also deflate them and recycle with plastic bags at larger supermarkets.
by Rachael
18 Aug 2020 09:45
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Covid-19 Failure
Replies: 4
Views: 4157

Re: Covid-19 Failure

My son went to a Spoons on Thursday to mark A-level results day. He left almost immediately and came home. It was packed, with a queue out the door. Even a 19 year-old hoping for a well-deserved night out with his mates could see it was a shit show and not worth the risk.
by Rachael
6 Jun 2020 22:01
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Masks
Replies: 46
Views: 35306

Re: Masks

We're not going out that much but when we do we're putting our masks on when we're out on the high street and also inside shops. Taking them off when we get to to Mayow Park, seems silly given the amount of space between everyone. Be careful how you use the mask - you shouldn’t take it off until yo...
by Rachael
18 May 2020 07:47
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Masks
Replies: 46
Views: 35306

Re: Masks

If you are buying masks, please have a look on Etsy. There are a lot of home sewers diverting their small businesses from making other textiles to producing masks. Worth supporting, IMO. I have bought several cotton and linen masks from different sellers on Etsy and they’ve all been great. Have at l...
by Rachael
2 Apr 2020 14:31
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Home deliveries
Replies: 13
Views: 14140

Re: Home deliveries

Here is a list of local suppliers who are offering a delivery services - I'm sure it will change regularly and there will always be firms not on it who are offering deliveries. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8APM9A9L7xcDGYXWUGr_3jF1o03hJG-KoEHjL6xdDc/edit?usp=drivesdk The list doesn’t include...
by Rachael
27 Mar 2020 12:46
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Low water pressure
Replies: 13
Views: 13212

Re: Low water pressure

That explains why my dishwasher, which runs on a timer in the wee hours, had thrown up an inlet fault message overnight.
by Rachael
23 Feb 2020 22:39
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park
Replies: 29
Views: 27982

Re: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park

UK Power Networks are reporting a cable fault affecting some SE26 postcodes earlier in the evening and restored power shortly after the time of our blip (we had the same brief outage on Mayow Road). Maybe someone flipped the wrong switch. 😉
by Rachael
5 Feb 2020 19:07
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park
Replies: 29
Views: 27982

Re: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park

The question, it seems to me, is who is at fault if the retail park cannot provide sufficient and reliable power supply to Aldi? Were Aldi in full possession of all the facts when they took on the unit and knew they were have to use back-up generators? I can't imagine they ever wanted to have to bui...
by Rachael
5 Feb 2020 16:08
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park
Replies: 29
Views: 27982

Re: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park

This masks the real issue with our Bell Green supermarkets. Both Aldi & SavaCentre are chilly. Made chilly by rows and rows of chilling cabinets presumably being counteracted by heating to stop us customers and staff being reduced to the same temperature. This 24/7/366. An appalling drain on an...
by Rachael
3 Feb 2020 13:03
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park
Replies: 29
Views: 27982

Re: Power Issues at Bell Green Retail Park

I was in Sainsbury’s in December when the power went out and we were all shepherded out.

We live very close to Bell Green and have had some odd flickerings in the last past month, and a complete outage for about 2 minutes a few weeks ago.
by Rachael
20 Dec 2019 20:45
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Kirkdale Costcutters
Replies: 9
Views: 10622

Re: Kirkdale Costcutters

Relocated from Forest Hill.
by Rachael
29 Nov 2019 09:05
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Impressed: Planters outside the Greyhound
Replies: 1
Views: 3876

Re: Impressed: Planters outside the Greyhound

They are always amazing. Whoever their gardener is, they really know their business. It lifts the whole appearance of that area.
by Rachael
29 Nov 2019 09:01
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Christmas lights
Replies: 4
Views: 6867

Re: Christmas lights

Couldn’t agree more. It’s amazing what a simple change can achieve. Congrats to everyone involved in achieving this. A small group of us tried to get some momentum behind getting new lights when the road was being refurbished but ran out of steam before we achieved anything.
by Rachael
25 Nov 2019 10:52
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Black cabbies in celebration.....
Replies: 11
Views: 12766

Re: Black cabbies in celebration.....

They’ll still be operating while appealing the decision. I’m a big fan of Uber for convenience, cost and what I perceived as better safety, and it’s local mini cabs rather than black taxis that have lost my trade to Uber. However, the breaches outlined in the ruling make me genuinely concerned for m...