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I would love to see an age analysis of the attendees at Glasto for each year since 1970. Glasto has evolved since its original aim of being a showcase for contemporary preforming artists. My guess is that many of these early attendees kept on returning and "stayed loyal" for many years to that ethos. But they are now aging and dont feel comfortable sleeping in a tent for four nights to hear innovative new performers. Or they are dead! But Gasto still caters for that diminishing demographic with headline acts such as Cat Stevens, Elton Joh et al. Isn't there a case now for Glasto to go back to its roots and cater for the young and adventurous, with tickets at £150 instead of £350?

It's not just bikes! Today, I was walking towards the Village when my right shoulder was brushed from behind by a lightweight 4 wheeled electric van - similar to a Tuk Tuk but bigger. Totally silent and taking up 60% of the pavement width. It was sign-written with branding "Green-Power Works". The driver had mounted the pavement to under-cut the backed up traffic at the DV/Turney Rd junction. On reaching Gilkes Place it cut across the traffic, went to the front of the queue then turned right into Turney Road. Kicking myself for not having my phone with me!

Did think it might be that it might have down to a mater of cost effectiveness.

Sure, they only come out of hiding in the run up to council elections and I agree with you, James Barber did an amazing job as a Councillor. Please come back James!

Just two minutes ago I looked across the road (East Dulwich Grove) when I heard some shouting. It was immediately evident that what had happened. A single male ( the victim) was on his own and was walking along the pavement when a thief all dressed in black approached from behind and grabbed his phone. The victim gave chase and the thief dropped the phone in the road. Both the victim and the thief were going uphill so I guess the thief must have reckoned on being caught up with. The thief was:- Black male about 6ft, thin Wearing a full fabric face mask (commando style) Dressed entirely in black with black trainers and black hoodie Low profile bike with black frame and thickish tyres. Had one white sock on right leg The thief had the audacity to slag off the victim . I seem to recall something similar to this being posted recently. Watch out folks and if you see someone approaching this description, report it

Went out this morning to se why my miniature water fountain was not operating. It has been popular with the birds since we have had all this dry weather. Turns out our local fox had chomped clean through the cable from the solar panel.

Great call Wombling; sure beats getting on a bus and having to drink on my tod. Watched the first half and delighted with the broadcast quality. I'm hoping BT do it for the Premier League next season.

Which pubs in ED are showing the match tomorrow?

OK, taking your input into consideration, I would start by looking at https://www.exchangeandmart.co.uk/ and do a search within 1 mile of your postcode. Set the sort order to lowest first. There's quite a selection and quite a few from recognised dealers which will have done all the checks about ownership, o/s finance, MOT etc plus they will have checked them. PIck a few and do some research on that make/model for known problems. Check out https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/ for knowledge. When you have narrowed down your choice get someone knowledgeable to go with you and check the actual car. There are lots of indicators for the trained eye e.g . is the wear on the pedal rubbers consistent with the mileage. Are the door gaps even etc etc. . Is there any paint overspray. There's lots of sharp operators out there! Go prepared, have all your questions ready in advance.

If you can be more specific about what you want to do with the car and your budget then we all can help you. Do you want it for.... 1. Daily commute 2. Occasional long journeys 3. Carry more than 3 passengers 4. Carry items rather than other passengers Most of the cars I have bought in the last 30 years have been between 6 months and 3 years old from Car Giant in West London. They have fair prices and they check their cars thoroughly. The best one I bought from them had done 9,000 miles in six months - which is high. But I guessed it was a hire car that spent all its time on motorways. Motorway usage is easy going for cars no corners, no stop/start. no braking etc etc. I still have it after 20 years and all it has cost me is one rear light bulb! Less desirable are cars used on frequent short (commuting) journeys where every start is with a cold engine.

I guess somebody has a grudge about traffic lights.

Tina - "The Best"

For the determined amongst us.......... Nothing is impossible Never give up

Mock if you so desire but regardless, the Penny is mightier than the sword.

.... the recent Tory leadership contest happened today, then we would have had Penny Mordaunt instead of Liz Truss or Rishy Sunak as PM. At both QE's funeral and the coronation she showed the qualities that all leaders should aspire to.

Make my day! Bet you lose. Out of date.

Check this out. My Neighbour has Japanese Knotweed - What do I do? (japaneseknotweedexpert.co.uk)

Sounds reasonable. I asked our Sainsbury's delivery driver this morning as to how many drivers there were working out of DKH and he said 40. So that's quite a quantity but not enough to account for the lack of availability on the shelves.

Perhaps someone can advise which rights the trans people are being denied. That aside, the filming shows just how useless the Met Police are. Poorly trained and ignorant of the law. Not fit for purpose. They failed to respond to the fact that Alexander was physically assaulted. In fact he was treated as though he was at fault.

Have been advised by a reliable source that the angled traffic bays opposite the shopping parade in DV village do not conform to the highways regulations because vehicles have to reverse out blind in to passing traffic. If the bays were converted to parallel parking then they would conform . OK, this would mean a little fewer bays but many are now not used since Southwark made it a controlled parking area to generate more revenue. Whilst on the subject of parking there, now that our Councillors, in their wisdom, blocked off the entrance to Calton Avenue so that they could create the infamous "Village Square". As that is now fait a complit, it would make sense to create a loading bay there so that the multitude of delivery vans servicing the Post Office and shops could park there briefly rather than distrupt the tyraffic as they do now.

I am looking for someone to add two lines of curved text within a circular logo. The text is the word "GENUINE" and is to go at the top and bottom where the roughly drawn curved lines appear on the attached image. The word "Brand" is there for indicative purposes and the actual brand name will be provided later. Someone with graphics ability might recommend playing around with size/colour/proportions etc to give more authenticity but it's a small job and pays in the form of a bottle of red.

I would recommend Lloyds in Sainsbury DKH now that Oscar has moved there from Rumseys in the Village

Was it fizzy or flat when you opened it?

Went out in the garden yesterday and inadvertently disturbed a grey heron that was perching above