obviously - just thought it odd that Boots the chemist, no longer sells its cheap own brand of a really basic product. Not everywhere - but not in the Brixton branch according to the young man serving me. Still think its weird.
Loads of scumbag agencies have nailed their shitty boards into the walls of the block - or around the walkways - and almost always left damaged brickwork behind, or nails sticking out of the wall.I've seen more than a few brick gate posts on semis borked by twats nailing or screwing into the brick. Annoying and totally unnecessary.
One S. London estate agency in particular used steel strapping back in the '80s (like a giant jubilee clip tightened with a ratcheting device) which was sometimes even worse than nails if your brickwork was old and friable, because the straps were always over-tightened, often causing the faces to spall off of the bricks.It also wasn't too healthy if you caught yourself on the strapping, as it was quite sharp-edged.
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Yes but the Brixton one is on my way home - and so convenient when shopping in the market.
Ever tried Babas Chemist up on Tulse Hill, next to Haircut Sir? They seem pretty well stocked with most things, perhaps slighty off your route home however.
I'm pretty sure Westbury Pharmacy, the massive chemist on Streatham High Rd, used to sell them. They stock an almost endless amount of gadgets and refills. Worth a look.
yes but cant be arsed going up west very often. I prefer using the smaller local shops generally. Love Nours.
You can do click and collect with Boots ie. order the tablets online and they'll generally have whatever it is dropped at the branch of your choice the next day. I don't think there's a minimum order size for it.
They didn't offer this when I was asking. I bought them in Herne Hill instead.
Bit of an over reaction in my view.
brixton boots is quite weird altogether.
I can look in central london tomorrow?
If by "weird" you mean "crap", I agree.
You're on the list for the Open House Weekend on 19/20 September.AFAIK there's a similar family fun day staged this weekend on this estate (Cressingham Gardens) - I have good reason to suspect that it'll be used to sell regeneration (regardless of consent) as a Good Thing, particularly when part of it will showcase the estate team doing minor repairs for free around the estate. Minor repairs, for free, which they ought to have been getting on with all along. This is on a par with a child who's past the first bit of potty training still wanting lots of praise every time they do a poo.
I think Superdrug are much better as a pharmacy chain. Boots are tax exiles anyway - why support a Swiss registered company that avoids paying UK tax. Same argument as Amazon, Starbucks etc etc.
Superdrug Brixton are dire- pharmacy desk is closed at random times, it's never open on my way back from work, and they seem to hold a very small stock- when you do find an actual pharmacist in there, they are out of some really common prescription drugs. They have some odd company rules about October stuff too- eg you can only buy 2 boxes of painkiller. So 3x packets of 12 is forbidden; but 2x packets of 36 is fine
At my son's former primary the volunteers used to spend quite a bit of time liaising with local EAs and gathering names and addresses of people happy to have a board - they raised significant sums for the school and its charities, thousands - not £25!
Yes I remember that,at first seeing boards up at various squats around the place my first reaction was WTF but then I learned quite a lot of money was going to the schools and the estate agents were none to careful about which houses the boards where attached to.
Love that place. I went in there when we got a hot few days at the start of the summer for some cheap deck chairs and amazingly they didn't have them. The guy in there was genuinely distressed telling me they didn't stock them.
For our street party sponsorship in July we were asked to get definitive approval from each house that volunteered and provide a list showing such.
The £750 we received helped toward paying the bands and meeting other costs.
They got all of the northerner's post op stuff for him by 9 the following morning- I went in at 5. And they didn't ask him to go in for a lecture about the addictive properties of opiates unlike boots!Baba are well-stocked with everything except prescription meds. Go in there with a prescription and it's "we've only got half of what's on your prescription, we'll have to order the rest".
As you might have guessed, I'm not a fan!
