Sydenham Town Forum

I really don't think we need that 'friend or foe' thingy. Did that come as default with the new design?

Now, should I reveal a bit more about myself and put up my website? Not sure about that either. It would be weird if one of you recognized me in Morelys. Weird and embarrassing.

Global Thinker - everyone knows there is a law of diminishing returns on a forum thread. The longer it gets, and the older it is, the less relevance it has to the OP. Just read the first page and leave it at that. You'll have got all the relevant info the thread is ever likely to contain. Of course,...

It sounds complicated, and you may want to get some specialist advice - maybe try the CAB, or the insurance ombidsman. The insurance industry has a code of conduct for dealing with subsidence. I think you should talk to the management agency, find out if there has been a change of insurer and of so,...

We have lived in two houses with subsidence and in both cases the insurers when the subsidence was first noted were legally required to go on offering insurance for the house, as other insurers won't take it on. So I'm surprised that the current insurers have only been covering the property for thre...

Thanks for the recommendations, Admin. I don't like to mutter behind people's backs either, which is why I emailed the SE23 admin with my concerns and gave him time to reply. I would have posted the above on SE23.com but I doubt it would appear for than five minutes. No admin is perfect, some are be...

Good news - Sydenham School will still be going ahead with its rebuild. There is a list here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/p ... ilding.pdf

BBW - yes you did. I was more worried about some of the rabid posters than admin, but I'm still nursing a scraped jaw from when it hit the floor today as all this unfolded.

Thanks for the info too. Are you stalking me?

Our dear admin here in Sydenham tells us that he has met SE23 admin and they discussed moderation and had similar views. So I'd be very interested to hear what our admin has to say about the bizarre experience I've just had on SE23.com. I posted a request for recommendations for a bike repair shop. ...

Like all these things, it depends. Depends on the child / children, depends on the route, etc. I don't worry about my kids being snatched, but I do worry about the traffic, because there are some loonies out there who will drive around a lollypop man / lady rather than stop. But that's exactly why I...

BBW - I'm trying to institute change 'up North' by a stealth campaign of being generally reasonable and affable. I'll let you know how that goes.

Is Jam Circus a done deal at the old PO? I could go check the planning apps, but can't be arsed.

I also have a foot in both postcodes. When my house was built in the late 1800s it was, according to the original deeds, in Sydenham, Kent. Now it is in Forest Hill, but only just. Two houses down and the postcode changes to SE26. Which is why you will find me both here and on the SE23 forum. There ...

And now my post makes no sense. Score one to the Wolf.

Poultry? I don't get paid in chickens. Although, times being what they are, I could probably knock out a bit of flash fiction in exchange for a bucket of KFC.

The East Dulwich Writers' Group has members from all over south-east London, several of them from the Sydenham area (including yours truly). The group published an anthology, Hoovering the Roof last year and it has been so successful, we've done another print run. We have a number of events coming u...

Michael - that was a rather heavy handed response. The tone of the OP was more disappointed than malicious. And to be fair to them, it sounds like they did take it up with staff at the time, but didn't get satisfaction. They praised the offer of free desserts and drinks. The general point was that t...

I've had lots of these calls, which is very amusing, because I only have mac computers. I also get calls claiming to be from 'the UK government' telling me there is unclaimed grant money in my name. Now that one really makes me laugh, given last week's emergency budget.

Many thanks - I called the BHF shop and they are picking them up next week.

The last time I found a dead fox outside my house I called the council and they came and picked it up. Not sure if they do the same if it's on your property.

Does anyone know of a local charity that will come and collect a couple of hundred books? I don't want to wait until the next time the British Heart Foundation leave a little bag and then put out lots of heavy boxes for them! Can the hospice use them, I wonder? Suggestions appreciated.

Those lights are fine if you want to cross Sydenham Road, but if you just want to cross Newlands, there is no way of doing it without dodging traffic from one direction or the other. I am amazed nothing has been done about this before.