Chase Dulwit

Isn't that Richard Ayoade's house?

It looks to me like the truck on its side may have been dropping off something heavy from its onboard crane without having let down the stabiliser legs under the truck first. I get the impression that the guy with the orange crane is using it to try and pull the truck upright, as it looks like a green webbing strap is running between the truck and crane grabber?

I was kept awake by it too from about 4am, and it was still going off when I went to my car, very tired for work at 7:30. I was parked opposite the bus stop by Rye Court.

I assumed it was coming from Turners MOT centre as my garden backs on to it, or from the church hall. However, it seems to have stopped now.

It was more annoying than a constant alarm as you think it's finished then it starts again after a few minutes.

Honor Oak Mansions has the envious facility of a large open-air swimming pool in the communal garden, hence the often heard sounds of frolicking as you go past.

Sorry, not being a horticulturalist I did not realise it was aphids. That doesn't change the fact that I have an obligation to pedestrians and other road users to be able to see out of my car windows. I cannot clean them every single time I need to make a journey. In the height of the season it takes only minutes to get a fresh layer of the stuff all over the car. It is carried by the breeze, so there is no safe harbour if you live/park on Barry Rd.

Lets hope we will have a season without all that nasty sap ruining my winsdcreen wipers, sticking my car doors shut and being walked in to my carpets.

I love trees, but bad planning to put them in this environment where the roots are damaging the pavements and encroaching on the house foundations. I'm sure the houses were there before the trees. Understandable that the original planters maybe didnt consider the number of houses which would be converted to flats full of 2-car families.

I think most people in East Dulwich have at some stage, it's always been a problem here. I'm worrying about when the clay dries after the months of damp we've had. That's when the movement really starts happening.

Who on earth spends ?80 on a couple of bottles of wine? No wonder the member of staff was blowing smoke in your direction, they probably despised someone who spends more than a weeks food shopping money on wine alone. It's disgusting the amount of money that goes to waste when there are people on our doorsteps who need it. Please tell me that you regularly donate the equivalent to a worthwhile charity.

Thanks for the suggestion. The problem is finding the time to go there.

Has anyone had any small, interesting looking packets not turn up in the mail recently?

A couple of weeks ago I had to persuade my provider of e-cigarette refills that I had not received their packet. They sent a replacement eventually (I almost had to go back on real fags), but when the replacement arrived I noticed it had a return sticker on it featuring an 'E-cig' reference in the company details. The packet would have been small enough to pocket easily.

Similarly, I was expecting a small tool kit for mobile phone repairs this week and paid extra for 1st class. Nothing has arrived and I suspect that it will be of similar size, probably with some reference to mobile phones on it. Tempting!

The site is close to where Thomas Tilling had his first Omnibus garage (Publice Service Vehicles), but I think it's more likely that PSV stands for Pressure Safety Valve(s) associated with the mains water network and/or the local reservoirs, which are constantly leaking.

Thanks for the info. I wonder why they chose your car. Did they cause much damage?

Sorry to hear that this is happening again. It seems that there's a queue somewhere of people to step in as soon as one lot move on. Can you tell us where this was?

Penguin68 you are obviously very lucky with your crew. Have a look at what I posted about ours a little while ago

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Got home about 14:30 today and the blue recycling bins had been dragged onto the pavements for as far as I could see (Clockhouse end of Barry Rd), presumably by the advance bin men ready or the lorry to follow. Just went to put some recycling in a bin (20:30)and they are all still on the pavements, full! In fact none of the wheelie bins have been emptied, and to add insult to injury my green one has disappeared completely.

I've had to move some back as they were literally resting against parked cars.

Did anyone see the bin lorry, break-down, or something?

Sorry, that may have been me (or any number of people nearby who have just found out their alarm battery is failing). I'm trying to find one of the correct size.

If you are in Nunhead (as the name suggests) it probably wasn't, unless I have a super loud alarm. although it took me less than 10 seconds to fly out of bed and enter the reset code to silence it.

I have seen Robert Glenister in sainsburys on many a Sunday morning, usually just after it opens.

I also live on Barry Road and yesterday witnessed the following;

I was in my car waiting to pull out, but as the bin lorry was just behind me decided to wait until it had gone by so I could have a clear view of the road before moving off; I then saw something fall out of the passenger side window and crash to the floor with a splintering sound. The lorry started to move forward and I thought that whatever it was the man would get out and recover it. However, nobody got out, and by this time they were forward of me and I could get a clear view of the inside of the cab from their huge door mirrors. What I saw was an operative delve into one of those large woven bags, often used for the laundrette, on the seat and pull out a seething mass of cables then dump it back in. Next I heard a smashing sound as what looked like a spotlight was dropped without a care out of the window onto the road. It was, and what appeared to be happening was that they are picking up small electrical appliances and cutting the cables off them to put in the bag, no doubt for stripping later and selling the copper for scrap.

Not a bad perk and probably one of many I would expect to be enjoyed by a bin man. However, this guy was actively creating litter, dangerously on the carriageway of a main road. The thing that he had discarded earlier turned out tho be a hair dryer, ready to be shattered into flying shrapnel by the next 12 that comes along.

The driver of the truck obviously didn't care, neither did the operatives at the rear emptying the bins, who just stepped over the items as the truck moved forward level with them when they could so easily have picked them up and thrown them in the back of the crusher.

Unfortunately, I'm not the type of person who will confront a four-man crew of burly bin men, but think it's disgusting that they are paid to take away rubbish and actually create it and leave it in a dangerous situation. They obviously don't give a crap about waste collection.

Anyone know what the deal is at the section of Hindmans Road between Tyrell Road and Nortcross Road?

Last Friday my wife walked past about 11:30pm and said that she had been disturbed to see the whole road filled with people generally milling around, but in complete silence.

Tonight I walked past at midnight and the road was full of literally hundreds of predominantly black people just milling around, and an eerie 'murmuring' where they were all chatting, but not loudly. Some music, but not very loud.

Lots of BMWs Mercs etc, all double parked, but you'd have trouble driving through the crowd.

It felt really creepy, because you'd normally expect to hear loud music and 'party' level conversations and shouting etc. Instead you just walk around the corner and into a vast crowd in the dark.

Is it some sort of vigil, silent disco, dogging even?

Well said! For those of us who have lived here longer than five years there is a community of real people.

Well things have really changed then. It used to be policy that staff could tell you the provenence of everything they sold, and they should be able to really.

Sorry, hadn't seen Randi's reply. Well done.

It's still East Dulwich, only recently gentrified. There are no borders to cross, people from all over town can move around freely, especially to pubs and parties. A friend of mine was stabbed at the Kings Arms when it was still a pub in the eighties. Just read the forums, still plenty of muggings, violent burglaries etc go on here.

Last year someone was shot dead in the back of the head 100 yards from my front door. Most of the deaths are not random, just a result of something somebody has got involved in. It's not Disneyland people; though the estate agents would have you think so.

Interesting what you say about planes not affecting signal, as I can only get a signal on O2 when outside my flat (in the garden) and that drops every time a plane goes over. Also when I hear a plane overhead I just know that my Freeview is going to pixelate or squelch. Happens every time. What happened to the EMC regulations in the 90s where I had to ensure That any electronic device I sold (security) did not interfere with anything else?

It's often parked directly outside my window and a pleasant thing to admire. Please tell me they did not damage it

Why would roadworks affect SKY it's delivered by satellite?

I find on a breezy day in summer that trees streets away dip down and block the signal from time to time; worse if it's raining and the rain keeps the branches weighed down. I was told by an engineer that now being digital it's either all or nothing. With old analogue system you could still get a usable, if poor signal to work with.