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We have booked the lighter area (by the windows) Upstairs at the EDT (East Dulwich Tavern) on Wednesday 16 July from 7pm. Thank you to several people who suggested this space. The upstairs bar won't be open, so please buy a drink downstairs before you come up. If you have mobility issues, or otherwise need help getting up and down stairs, please message me on here BEFORE the night. One of us will arrange to meet you on the ground floor and help you negotiate the stairs. Looking forward to meeting more forum members!

As I just posted on another thread, surely the bridge cannot have been fit for purpose in the first place if it has to be replaced so soon. Either the contractors or whoever in the council approved the spec must be responsible for this, and if the contractors, surely they should rebuild it? I would be interested to know exactly what is making the bridge unsafe. If it is the materials used, similar bridges over water in the Wilderness Island nature reserve in Carshalton have been (re?) built using a strong man made material which looks virtually identical to wood but is not slippery when wet, and does not rot. Surely this must have been available when the Dulwich Park bridge was built. I don't know the financial implications, but hopefully Southwark Council did not put cheapness before safety.

Is that still allowed?

I stand corrected! Apologies! In that case I have no idea why the bridge hasn't been replaced. Given it hasn't been there long, I would have thought the council should have some claim against whoever built it, as on the face of it, it can't have been fit for purpose. Maybe there is some dispute going on behind the scenes. Who knows.

When I use satnav, it informs me if there is a mobile speed camera ahead. This is useful, and does make me check my speed, but seems a bit pointless in terms of actually catching speeding drivers. How does satnav know?

Yes, it seemed to have an underlying agenda, and a strange first post. That's really good that you took photos and gave them to the police. Hopefully the kids can be identified before they physically hurt someone (or cause further damage or distress).

I'm a bit confused here. How are things like bananas from "local farmers"? Aren't all farmers local to somewhere? What proportion of your fruit and veg is imported? If the scheme is non-profit, are all the people who work for it volunteers? I'm sorry if I sound cynical, but I genuinely don't understand.

Why? Unless there were distinctive features such as unusual clothing, how is that going to identify them, and even if it did, what would be the point, without photographic evidence that they had done anything wrong?

Well, some of it is! I'm still getting some post. I see my regular postie out and about quite frequently. I imagine that on top of all the other issues, Royal Mail is now well into the summer leave period, so there must be fewer staff available to sort and deliver the post. Though you might also think that that could mean more overtime opportunities for the ones not on leave. Who knows.

Much as I hate to defend Royal Mail, I am finding things like medication and printer ink arrive very quickly.

Both domestic coal fires and the power stations were to blame. I remember the smog. It was awful.

Yes, it was a total non event. My understanding was that it was supposed to be to give potential stallholders a chance to try out a stall there, but either nobody was interested or available, or possible people were never actually asked. Or stallholders bottled out due to the heat.

I'm not sure why you have resurrected a thread from November 2024 to post this As noted on at least one other more recent thread, the bridge in Dulwich Park is not economical to repair and has to be replaced. I'm also not sure on what grounds you state that the initial problem "has been made ten times worse by doing nothing". What evidence do you have for that? Certainly there are questions to be asked of whoever it was who signed off the original spec, as I assume the materials used weren't fit for purpose. Your post raises a number of other issues. 1. Why do you call the DV junction a "vanity project"? Many people would consider that it definitely "does something for the community." 2. Why do you call LTNs " vanity projects " ? Again, many people would consider that these definitely "do something for the community". 3. The money to replace the bridge will come out of a completely different "pot" to the money used for what you described as "vanity projects." So not having the DV junction or LTNs would not have released money to replace the bridge.

So did I. It was impossible to pass it without walking into the road.

There wasn't much to publicise (unless you mean publicised to potential stall holders). An additional stretch of road was closed off, but there were only a couple of stalls on it. Otherwise the market seemed much the same as usual.

Ruskin Park summer fete was good!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/21/not-an-attractive-place-to-shop-how-poundland-lost-its-appeal-to-shoppers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Sorry, wrong thread!

Why would you have parking restriction signs on a pavement?! It is quite clearly a pavement and not a road. It was very pleasant coming off a train yesterday and walking down to a nice open pedestrian area at the bottom of the slope. Or have I missed the point (probably) and your comment about pedestrians being well taken care of was a joke?

"Sitting around doing job related things". Do you mean sitting and doing their jobs? "have you had your COVID jabs?" Perhaps instead of spending your time on here insulting other posters, in this case me, you would be more effectively employed contacting the practice management with a detailed description of exactly what you say you saw and when. And then see what they say. You have made a lot of assumptions with presumably absolutely no idea what those people's jobs are or when their break times are. I am not defending the practice, which seems to have some problems I just don't like seeing people who aren't here to defend themselves being publicly attacked by someone who apparently doesn't actually know what those people were doing and why.

If you have evidence that people are not doing their jobs, how could you be accused of "being racist"? What on earth is the point of venting on here? Why don't you just register with another practice? But maybe the people sitting at their desks had other job related things to do apart from speaking to the people in the queue? At The Gardens, a lot of what presumably used to be done face to face is now done online or on the phone.

Yes, I've had no problems along there when getting a 37. If you are near the Lordship Lane end of EDG, it would surely be quicker to get a bus from Lordship Lane than get a 42. More choice of buses and a quicker journey to KCH. No idea what "I'm alright Jack" has to do with anything. Lordship Lane is the main thoroughfare for East Dulwich, and I would guess that most people in SE22 live within easy reach of it. The 484 also goes to the hospital.

Have you complained? Are the GPs aware? Are you sure that what they are doing on their phones is not work related?