MarkT

In the bandstand

My brother has just emailed me "Seems entirely in keeping with that wartime make-do-and-mend spirit! Perfectly good hand grenade. Waste not want not..." MarkT

The grenade appears to be tied together with 2 bits of steel pipe on a length of wire. It looks to me that it was used as a weight, which in conjunction with a float might have switched on and off a pump to fill the tank, perhaps from a well, or from a lower level tank. This would predate our modern high pressure mains supply. It reminds me of a story in the papers, in the 50's or 60's, of a family clearing the house of their deceased mother. The dustmen called the police who called the bomb squad. The item in question was a live first world war shell. She had used it as a door stop. MarkT

Thanks, Pugwash. Also see our website https://eastdulwichcommunitycentre.org.uk/

Doesn't the Isle of Thanet want to remain in Britain?

"Can the noisy drain between The Health Centre and the School running from LL to DV direction be repaired so we can all sleep at night." That's 2 of you now want this. It's starting to look like a movement. Surely that is a culverted stream. Are you asking James Knut McCash to hold back the waters? MarkT Apologies for my spelling of the Historic King's name. My first version, with a C, was bleeped out.

The smoke might be getting through in specific places, eg if there are pipes or wires passing through the floor/ceiling, or shrinkage cracks in the ceiling. The downstairs light cabling will run under your floor, with a hole through the ceiling for each light. There could be large gaps around pipes out of sight in cupboard ceilings. If the downstairs neighbour is cooperative, you could identify and map all the possible leakage points from below, so you can lift specific floorboards from above. With basic carpentry skills, put a box over the light fittings, so the wiring is still accessible from below. Then use a can of expanding foam around those boxes and on all the other holes. Shrinkage cracks in the ceiling might be best dealt with from below. Best also to do a follow up check after a the smells have dissipated to see if you've missed anything This will also improve the soundproofing and your, and your neighbour's, fire safety. Electric gadgets such as air filters will do neither.

Spartacus, Why do you think people objecting to MMR would accept even one of the individual vaccines let alone all three? Antivaxers can be selective, of course, eg in believing the "evidence" of the link between MMR and autism, while ignoring all the subsequent counter evidence, and the fact that the original "evidence" was fraudulent, for which the perpetrator was struck off the medical register. Perhaps the OP would explain the "fallacies of the Germ Theory of disease" here on this forum, rather than using the Forum to lure people through private messaging into his/her bubble of dangerous ignorance. MarkT

The Proposal is "like for like" replacement, which is probably not the cheapest option, either initially or for subsequent maintenance and energy costs. As it is a listed building, I suspect English Heritage's influence is overriding economic or environmental considerations. MarkT

mattfarrer1 I would like a few - 20 if you can spare. I can collect. We have some small raised beds at the East Dulwich Community Centre. MarkT

Malumbu, "Can you get rid of duck weed?" If you are starting with the new pond liner, you are in with a chance. You must quarantine all the plants you are transferring. First shake them thoroughly in a bucket of water and any loose duck weed will float out so can scim it off with a net. Hand pick any that is still adhering. When you think the plants are clean, leave them in quarantine for a week or two and check them a couple of times. Even the tiniest duckweed leaves will grow to full size in that time. Do likewise with any mud and water you are transferring. I have collection of sinks with a variety of plant mixes, and locations. I get frogs in some and newts in others. I would like to eliminate the surface duckweed (lemna minor) entirely, which I am doing progressively as I clean out any individual sink every few years. However I encourage its relative Lemna trisulca, which is a submerged oxygenator. MarkT

"The controlled zone is not starting on Monday, they are preparing the roads. I don't think it comes into force until 22nd May '20." Ontherun, are they painting double yellow lines? Those would come into force 24/7 as soon as they are painted.

Yes Sue, those Waxwings are in Perth but we had a small flock a couple of winters ago, stripping rose hips in our garden in East Dulwich MarkT

2 frogs in my pond this morning. MarkT