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Christmas tree collection Bedford Park area

I know there is already a thread on this, but that seems to have gone cold, so thought I would post again. Does anyone know what is happening with the supposed Christmas tree collection in the Bedford Park area? There are a number of trees, including ours, still waiting to be taken away. Is this still scheduled to happen, or has it been cancelled for some reason this year?If that is the case, then I will try and get ours to one of the local collection points, but it would be good to know what is going on!

Mark Edwards ● 2117d8 Comments ● 2116d

Mental Health and the Pandemic

Have any contributers noticed the subject of mental health arising in every day conversations?

Nicholas Beard ● 2118d20 Comments ● 2116d

Ocado Zoom non delivery today

I was expecting a delivery today between 1.45 - 2.45 pm but nothing!    Recorded phone message says office closed due to a fire drill.   Email request says they'll try and respond within 24 hrs, which is not much help as I'll be running out of milk pretty soon - gruel and water for breakfast, ugh..    I' m in Grove Park has this happened to anyone else?    It's either a major fire or the vans can't fight their way through the maddening street closures and diversions south of the A4.   This the council's newly designated and unhelpful safer lower traffic neighbourhood, I don't think.

Jennifer Selig ● 2117d10 Comments ● 2116d

Smishing attempt scam on my O2 contract

Today , in the last hour I learned that Smishing is a fraud or scam attempt via SMS message and Vishing is an attempt at the same via a voice call. Hmm didn't know those 2. I thought it all stopped at Phishng.Anyway just saying I had a much more nearly convincing scam attempt come through on my mobile on my O2 service message sms thread, the only one that the real O2 sends me details of my monthly bill on. It was just a short message saying out of contract please click the link  below to sort this out however couple of phrases in the message signalled it up for me. You are out of your minimum contact term -  err no,  if I was out of my minimum term I wouldn't be in contractYour monthly airtime plan is 25 quid  - er  no , my plan is nothing like that.Just a warning , you may get it too if on O2  contract

Andrew Craig ● 2117d4 Comments ● 2117d

Update on Hounslow COVID-19 vaccination programme

Update on Hounslow COVID-19 vaccination programmeDear Hounslow patients, residents and voluntary groups, We have started vaccinating residents in Hounslow against COVID-19. The NHS is prioritising vaccinating those people who experts have agreed will benefit from it the most. We will let you know when it is your turn to book your vaccination. This email is to update you on useful sources of information and to ask for your help in promoting the recruitment of volunteers to support our local vaccination hubs.  Useful websites The website below will be updated regularly with information about the vaccination programme across North West London - The NHS COVID-19 Vaccination Programme :: North West London Clinical Commissioning Groups (nwlondonccgs.nhs.uk)  This includes important information about scams circulating in the community, useful links, videos from local GPs and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). More information will be added as the programme progresses. Please share with your contacts. You can find more details about the programme here - Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination – NHS You can find details about priority groups here - Priority groups for coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination: advice from the JCVI, 30 December 2020    Help us to recruit volunteers We are already building a great team of volunteers, but we need more. If you or anyone you know have time to help please visit this website for information on the current opportunities - COVID-19 Hub Marshall for NHS Hounslow CCG – Ealing and Hounslow CVS. Please share this with your contacts.  Community briefing Please find a link to a recording of a community briefing and Q&A held last week on COVID-19 and the impact on North West London NHS services. Further sessions will be taking place in the coming weeks. The next session will be on the COVID-19 vaccine roll out in North West London and we will let you know as soon as we have more details.  We will keep you updated and you can also sign up to the North West London CCGs newsletter by clicking here. Remember, please do not contact your GP for a COVID-19 vaccine. You will be contacted by your GP or the NHS when it is your turn. Please continue to follow all the national public health guidance to control the virus and save lives – Hands – Face – Space. Stay safe, Hounslow and Ealing Engagement and Equalities teamNW London Collaboration of CCGs www.hounslowccg.nhs.uk | www.ealingccg.nhs.uk@HounslowCCG | @EalingCCG

Bernard Allen ● 2118d1 Comments ● 2117d

Front page article from borough health boss

I hope everyone has read and absorbed the front page article from the borough health leader. She is pleading with us all to say home and only go out if it is essential and then protect yourself by avoiding as much human contact as possible simple message. To all those who are not complying stop and think about the damage you are doing to other people, think about all the doctors and nurses that are exhausted because people are not complying with the rules, if you are guilty of this think again and join the majority of people who are being compliant. If we have to shame you into behaving correctly then we will!  Joggers please move over and if necessary go into the road thank you,

Jayne Thorburn ● 2117d21 Comments ● 2117d

Seaside Hotel / Badehotellet

Has anyone got "Badehotellet Season 6" (2 disc DVD set) that I can buy, borrow or rent?Please...

Jeff Gear ● 2118d6 Comments ● 2117d

Chiswick health centre any other local Gp doing the jab

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Jon morris ● 2119d18 Comments ● 2117d

Indonesia an interesting approach to vaccine

Indonesia is offering vaccine first to key and frontline workers and then to younger working population between 18 and 60. This is in a bid to get the economy going again. The theory is the elderly and vulnerable can still shield and be sensible more easily and it is the younger population who are more likely to be the spreaders and these people are needed back in circulation quickly to kickstart the economy.   Sounds a very plausible plan.

Alina Dansord ● 2118d4 Comments ● 2117d

Denouncing American fascism

I don't always agree with David Lesniak. However I salute his opposition to Trump and his thwarted 'March on Washington' .Serious threats to 'execute' VP Pence were defeated by the Secret Service. Trump's  British sycophants, Johnson, Gove and Farage are contemptible and should be disoowned by Conservatives.

David McLoughlin ● 2121d34 Comments ● 2117d

Carers should receive vaccine as priority.

Feel free to sign. My dad 97 is getting his first jab this week. His live in carer will be taking him. His carer BAME and 40 and terrified of catching virus. Yet he is not on a list to receive Vaccine in near future. Private carers and family carers not prioritised. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/552473

Krysia Gdaniec ● 2118d0 Comments ● 2118d

Over 80’s queuing 45 minutes in the cold for the vaccine at Chiswick health centre

Hi All,Just a word of warning to those taking their loved ones to get vaccinated at Chiswick health centre - we were given a time thinking it was an appointment, it wasn’t and theres at least 30 of our most vulnerable people  stood outside in the freezing cold waiting to go inside! No social distancing either - so if you are booked in, please be aware you will be queueing outside for at least 30 minutes!

Claire Smith ● 2124d68 Comments ● 2118d

Ealing back to normal  rubbish collection

No sign of them so far It says on website and  free Magazine back this week to normal collection

Jon morris ● 2118d7 Comments ● 2118d

OFGEM Investigation Into Utility Point.

IMPORTANT UPDATE. UTILITY POINT HAVE HAD THEIR SUPPLY LICENCES REVOKED BY OFGEM?                                                                                                                                                                                          After spending nearly 4 months trying to get to the bottom  of how Look After My Bills illegally changed my energy supplier from SSE to Utility Point, today has come a breakthrough. I had to deal with the matter myself after Look After My Bills who claimed to have started an investigation into the matter 65 days ago refused to respond to my last dozen or so phone calls or my last 8 emails. Today someone posted the following on trusted website Trustpilot regarding Utility Point and Look After My Bills.                                                                                                                                   "I just got a quote from LAMB and it suggested I change to a company called Utility Point.According to Trustpilot, this company are under investigation regarding giving customers incentives for positive reviews.The OFGEM website says they have revoked their supply licences with effect from 4 January 2021.LAMB...you say you work with suppliers who value their customers and are committed to improving their customer service.“Don’t worry, if a supplier has terrible customer service we won’t switch you to them even if they want to pay us!”I think you need to have an urgent review of some of the companies you are recommending.I won’t be using LAMB."

Neil Milkins ● 2119d1 Comments ● 2118d

Outdoor cat for re homing

I have been fostering a cat for 2 years. He is not happy to be indoors and needs to be outdoors. I am not “throwing “ him out I am appealing in conjunction with HAWS.They are over run at the moment so we are all looking to find a suitable outdoor home for this boy. Hoping someone may be able to help.

Maureen Yakoubi ● 2119d5 Comments ● 2118d

Staveley and Hartington Road restrictions are bad for Grove Park residents

The barrier on Staveley is very poorly designed. From what I can see it is pushing traffic from a wide road that’s a main and efficient artery through Grove Park to smaller and narrower residential roads.  What problem exactly was it supposed to solve? If it’s people going too fast down Staveley then a few speed bumps and redesigning the calming islands would do, surely? Likewise, the new restrictions on Hartington Road are poorly thought through. I support stopping rat runs through Grove Park - I think all resident do - but restricting access to Hartington Road to only those with a resident parking permit for that road and those immediately adjacent is very portly conceived. What about the rest of us Grove Park residents who need access to this road? Please let all of Grove Park use Hartington, it’s an important access road for all of us.    Why do the driving/parking rule makers in Hounslow Council think so one dimensionally and inevitably create more problems than they solve every single time they act?  Why is it seemingly impossible for them to design solutions from a whole  community perspective rather than blithely pretending displacement doesn’t exist? If you are reading this Hounslow council please hear our consistent plea for more than a decade since too started rolling out CPZs street by street: please treat us as one community and stop dividing us.’

Glenn Manoff ● 2134d42 Comments ● 2118d

Christmas Trees Blocking the Pavements

As ever the proportion of people who are unaware of the change of bin days for Chiswick residents in Ealing borough seems very high. This is probably due in no small part to the fact that if you check on the council's site it tells you it is today — it's not, it's tomorrow according to details kindly published on this forum earlier. As well as the recylcing wheelie bins with a tremendous amount of extra Christmas packaging there are some huge trees left out on the pavement which aren't exactly a positive with regard to social distancing. It would be an easy win for the council and the quality of life in the place where we live if they made just a bit of an effort to make sure that people are aware of revised collection dates.

Andrew OSullivan ● 2120d19 Comments ● 2118d

Percy Pigs and Brexit

Difficulty with Percy Pigs now due to the fact they are made in Germany imported to the UK then re exported to Czech Republic, France and Ireland.

Nicholas Beard ● 2122d24 Comments ● 2118d

Dog owners: Beware of Alabama Rot

Young Veterinary Partnership8 January at 11:01  · ❗️ CALLING ALL DOG OWNERS ❗️Yesterday we received a very sad ☎️ call from another vet surgery in the local area unfortunately reporting a case of Alabama Rot within their surgery.Alabama Rot is rare but potentially fatal if contracted. As a dog owner please make yourself aware of the signs ➡ http://bit.ly/3hVQefK ⬅ 💦 Wash & towel dry your dogs feet & legs after every walk.  🔴 Look out for new sores or ulcers on your dogs skin.This dog was being walked in Sheen Park & Chiswick park. If you find new hot spots or sore patches particularly around your dogs feet / leg area please seek veterinary advice immediately. Many thanks Young Vets 🐾🐾https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/diseases/alabamarot

Leslie Wilson ● 2121d12 Comments ● 2118d

Paypal scam

Woke up this morning to an email telling me my Paypal account had been compromised and locked. Quick hover over the address showed it to be bogus (actually contained the letters screwpaypal!).Just a head's up, anyway, in case anyone's tempted to do a sleepy click through on the link.

Susan Kelly ● 2119d2 Comments ● 2118d