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TheTruthisOut Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Dog walkers have > told me that if a dog ate one, it could well be > fatal and, at the very least, require a ?4,000 > operation to remove the tie. ?4,000??!!??!!

:) The confusion has arisen because some people have answered a post without quoting the original, and another unrelated post has got in between. Easily done :)

I think two separate sightings have got confused in the thread! Some people are talking about a stag beetle sighting, others about a rose chafer.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good News. Thanks You attached the original "missing" poster? Has he been found? Hoping so.

I don't like most of their strongly smelling products, but I have the greatest respect for their ethics.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > intexasatthe moment Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > It used to be a practice to leave a car in > reverse > > gear when parked on a hill in the belief that > this > > would counteract movement if the handbrake > failed > > .I've no idea if this would work in practice > ,but > > might be worth a go . > > Wow yes - that's what I was taught a long time > ago. I always do that!

So have I got this right? You have to pay to go to this if you want to sell anything, and you have to pay to go to this if you want to buy anything? And it's all second hand clothing?

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > funny how obesity is an issue now but not so much > then..... No computer games. Hardly any TV channels. Fewer people had cars. More sports in school.

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was speaking to one of the gardeners heroically > battling the weeds in the Sexby Garden . He told > me that they now have only 5 gardeners .Down from > 30 or 40 ,I'm unable to remember which .And I > don't know over what period the decline has taken > place . It seems to me that it is only over the last year. I'm sure it was nothing like as bad as this last summer, in fact my recollection is that it was pretty well maintained at that time. I'm wondering if it's just lack of staff or lack of qualified/experienced/knowledgeable staff. If the head gardener has sadly left that would make things worse, as at least presumably she could tell her team what they needed to do if it wasn't obvious to them.

alex_b Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Friends of Peckham Rye Park has a website at > http://www.peckhamryepark.org/opportunities/ Thanks, I just found them on Twitter. If any of them are reading this, could they (or the relevant councillor) comment?

sunbob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where's the walled garden? Used to go daily with > children but less now so I can't remember that > part. It's in the park quite near to the lake. Actually it may not be walled, I may be confusing it with the one in Brockwell Park, but it is enclosed. It is the Sexby Garden. It was renovated with lottery funding a few years back. It was very well planted, there are pergolas with climbing plants and until recently it all looked lovely. It is now a really horrible mess, as is the pond in the middle, although obviously there are still flowering plants as well. Many of the beds in there, and also elsewhere in the park, seem to be infested with Mare's Tail, as well as many other weeds. It looks as if it would take many days of work to get back to looking good, and the longer it is left like this the longer it will take. There is a Friends of Peckham Rye Park group. Can anyone shed any light on what has happened? This is far worse than a bit of damage to grass caused by the festival, in my opinion.

I am really sorry to be writing this, as in past years I and others have posted on here to say how well kept the park was and how lovely it looked. However this year everywhere is full of weeds, including the enclosed Sexby Garden, and the whole place looks really run down, apart from the beds at the main entrance and the plants round the old fountain (?) near the lake. Has the park lost funding, or have staff been cut? It is very sad to see.

Davide runs a jam once a month (I think). I think it's at the bowls clubhouse on the South Circular. The next one is this coming Wednesday. Starts 7.45.

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Thank goodness your boyfriend is OK. That sounds really scary.

Churned up mess?

Surely there must be some software which can stop this kind of spamming?

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I fell out with Roxy in the 7 stars which at the > same time was expanding and losing some of its > charm. At one time I felt a proper regular Sure > it is still good. Crikey, which bit has expanded? Please don't say they've put a room upstairs!

Eh?

Bob Buzzard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone still go to The Bishop, and when?s the > last time anyone actually from ED was in the EDT? I sometimes go into the EDT to use the loo, does that count? :))

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you realise that this thread is an easter egg by > the OP. designed to provide side splitting mirth > for the poster for weeks to come. Indeed. Wounds she has healed ..... Convention she has ripped apart ..... dull and pointless agreement .... If anybody still thought Louisa's posts were intended to be taken seriously, surely her first post on this thread must change their minds?

Stag beetle? Ooops sorry hadn't seen other posts.

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malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A good ten years ago three of my faves were > shortlisted for the Time Out best pub award. The > Seven Stars close to the Royal Court of Justice, > the Royal Oak at Borough and the Greenwich Union. > The first is very much changed ??? Bloody hell, what have they done to the Seven Stars then?? I haven't been there for while, but it was one of my favourite pubs of all time :(

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > and does anyone have any humane suggestions for > getting rid of snails (besides tying them up in a > dog-poo bag and sticking that in a bin?) Take them to a wood or something far, far from your house :))