Sydenham Town Forum

Well, it appears that I spoke too soon on another thread. We had our car broken into on Saturday night. The b*st*rds pushed a screwdriver through the bodywork and trashed the lock. Took a FOOT PUMP.... I notice this morning as well, another car has been broken into overnight. Any one else around Gir...

<groan> Eagle.. enough... please ;-) I have to mirror JoeP's comments, CarpetWrong (tm) in Penge are rubbish at installing lino - they made such a mess of our bathroom. I tried to get carpetWrong to fix it, that became such a farce that I did it myself. For carpets though, we had them do our stairs/...

6 years or so in Sydenham... 1. left car unlocked for a few days, still there.. 2. left back door unlocked over a bank-holiday weekend, nothing amiss 3. left windows open at the front of the house when out the back, d'oh.. 4. walked home from London bridge all the way to Sydenham at 02:00ish (seemed...

<edit - woah - wildly off topic, original was for Sydenham Hill, not Sydenham, sorry Suella. D'oh. must learn to read whole sentences one day> Hi Pat, a fair point... but, imo Visitors to the area often do NOT use the Girton Road car park, rather they park in Girton Road (and other side streets). [ ...

Hiya, there's a free car-park just off Girton Road. Drive down the high street from Sydenham station, turn right at immediately after Somerfields and take the first left - there's a free car park with 100 or more spaces there. DT ps - please don't park on Girton road - packed enough as it is and the...

Finally..... excuses of no baby sitter aside, MrsT and I finally made it to STD lastnight. Most impressed, we had the fish pie and chicken skewers (nope, still can't remember what they were called on the menu.) Both were good. We left around 10ish - and I was alarmed at how quiet it was - perhaps 5 ...

Greg - have you not used the local DIY stores? [ I've used the one on the High St by the Mayow Rd junction ] I've found that shop much better than Homebase - primarily because if they do not have something in stock that I need, they will still try to order it for me(so far, successfully in all but 1...

To quote from the castlemore website ( see http://www.castlemore.co.uk/news_details.asp?id=69&news=corporate ) : The scheme will comprise 114,571 sq ft of business, industrial or warehouse units, 145,496 sq ft of non-food retail and an associated garden centre, and a 3,401 sq ft restaurant. The ...

nasaroc - your last point - For the past few months every available community police officer in Sydenham has been redeployed on crime duty elsewhere in the borough. Scary, but apparently true, I have seen none of the community officers or real officers in quite a while now - even after the armed rob...

Len - just wanted to say thankyou for this information and your representations. Clarifications like these do help, and sharing the information makes me believe in the future of the ELL.

I hope your contributions to STF will continue for a long time.

cheers, DaveT

For gawds sake, give it a rest you lot. Stop being personal. Those on the receiving end - take the moral high ground and just rise above it - don't respond. It's getting harder to sort the wheat from the chaff here. please? ( tips hat to fishcox for setting a fine example ) ( leaf, you've confused m...

so, if you're almost an anagram of lemonade,

Ade Melon
Mad Leone
Dame Leon
Damn Loee
Lade Mone
Moan Deel

or perhaps... using the "almost" bit...
Made (F)elon

my starter for 10. 1. The high st - decent chemist, shoe shop, pretty good supermarket, awesome health food store, selection of banks, stationary shop, 24hr corner shop, bakers, pet shop, a handfull of pretty good reasonable restaurants, local DIY shops... must stop, the list goes on and on - lots o...

Hiya.. no sign of lemonade? perhaps an office based STF user - or maybe enjoying the sunny weather this morning.. <perhaps I should be doing the same> 3p - usually means "three phase" - the electric supply in homes is 1 phase (or single phase). 3 phase is used by industry/etc. 3 live wires...

I think that everybody who communicates should be aware that any form of interaction, whether debate or conversation, will always have room for misunderstanding. People have different backgrounds, and even the same person could be in a good mood, bad mood, or any other "mood" at the moment...

well, IMO, the high street is pretty good. We have a decent chemist, shoe shop, pretty good supermarket, awesome health food store, selection of banks, stationary shop, 24hr corner shop, bakers, pet shop, a handfull of pretty good reasonable restaurants, local DIY shops... must stop, the list goes o...

Saw the same link myself. I'm a wireless/bband user myself and have wrestled with the decision to leave it wide open or not. My PCs are reasonably secured, that's not the issue - it's about the accountability of actions. Currently, uk legislation and ISP customer contracts have in the small print wo...

This sounds rather like a problem we had when our 18mth old decided to play with the buttons on the oven. This resulted in the display showing something odd, and the oven refusing to respond to any button presses (including switching automatic/manual). We ended up turning the oven off at the mains, ...

a selection of 'nodding dog' avatars aaaghh. shot down in flames - my avatar is a dog.. immobile, but canine nevertheless. <embarrasment> :) spambot traps - loveit - that's a really nice piece of lateral thinking. Also - bandwidth - yep - I keep forgetting that little gem. And I mean gem, because t...

Hiya, When viewing the user profile for myself - I see I have a number of fields that I can have associated with my account, but, they do not appear on the "edit profile" page.. [ I'd like to include my avatar ] Is there a particularly strong case for allowing/barring these? No strong feel...