Sue

Well they may have fixed it, but there's still apart of the road fenced off and no parking all around it, with a sign saying the work will be finished tomorrow :(

Someone has done exactly that tonight.

What has Ayres got to do with anything, anyway? It isn't even in East Dulwich!

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just now, on the very narrow patch of green near > to the Tesco/Banh Banh etc., I noticed that the > room-sized patch of wildgrass/flowers has been > mown away! I thought these little pockets were > purposely left to grow wilder. Maybe the mower got > carried away? The other patches, in the park > itself, remain. Wild flower meadows have to be managed, and do have to be mown at certain times of the year. They can't just be left. I can't remember the exact timing. So it might have been intentional.

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Thanks for calling and posting Fox, thank goodness for forum,saves me calling Thames Water too!

I gave via the Red Cross in the end.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw on TV recently someone (cannot remember who > it was. Police / Politician ) suggesting that the > increase > in Acid Attacks was due to the demand for more > Stop and Search for Knives. Knife Crime. and > therefore > Stop and Search needs to be reduced even further > to prevent more Acid Attacks. > > Does That make sense. ? > No :) Please explain!

Inbound Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes and even worse you have to have a Yahoo > account!! I'm not sure that's true? I have a Flickr account but to the best of my knowledge I've never had a Yahoo account!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue perhaps he had some refrigeration in the > vehicle ? > Sometimes such a facility may be just a part of > the rear area, not all (although any modern > insulated cooling chamber should be able to handle > a couple of hours of no power). Yeh that's true, though in that case I don't know why he couldn't have just said he needed it for refrigeration or whatever. I'll probably never know.

Calsug Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Clearly I don't follow this forum enough to get > the sarcasm posts! :)

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Surely high strength acid is only needed by a very > very small number of people. Controls can be > imposed. Yes. As always with these things, somebody has started a petition asking for exactly that.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just load your pics to Flickr and then you can cut > and past the Embed code with a choice of 8 or so > sizes. > Don't you have to set up a Flickr account to do that?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wild flower seeds mainly. :)) :)) :))

Calsug Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks fantastic, my wife was mentioning that the > long grass on Peckham Rye should have something > similar done > It has had in previous years, has it not this year? Usually there are several places on the Rye where the grass is left long and is full of wild flowers. But when they flower depends on the type of plant, so it may be that they aren't flowering at the moment.

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Should be quite fertile soil there after the > winter of discontent when you could smell the > rubbish tip at Goose Green roundabout. Actually wild flowers do better if the soil isn't fertile! And I think Louisa is well aware that KK was joking :))

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Caesi01 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-406040 > > > 02 > > > > the media are missing the point however. > > Acid is used to steal the motorcycle. It's > about > > the motorcycle theft and motorcycle theft > related > > crimes such as robberies, phone snatching, etc. > > > > Something needs to be done there and the > > authorities made aware. > > > The two young people of Asian origin who were > recently attacked with acid were sitting inside > their car when acid was thrown through the > window. > > Nothing to do with motorcycle or other theft. > > It was a hate crime, which unfortunately seems to > have given other people ideas. ETA: And it's also possible that these other attacks wouldn't have been reported if the first attack hadn't happened. A bit like suddenly the news is full of fires, which wouldn't normally have been reported if Grenfell hadn't happened. Same thing happens if someone is badly hurt by a dog. All of a sudden the news is full of dog attacks.

Caesi01 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-406040 > 02 > > the media are missing the point however. > Acid is used to steal the motorcycle. It's about > the motorcycle theft and motorcycle theft related > crimes such as robberies, phone snatching, etc. > > Something needs to be done there and the > authorities made aware. The two young people of Asian origin who were recently attacked with acid were sitting inside their car when acid was thrown through the window. Nothing to do with motorcycle or other theft. It was a hate crime, which unfortunately seems to have given other people ideas.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I suppose, Sue, the bad news maybe that this links > to another of your posts - I can remember, as a > child. having a very bad asthma attack (with > accompanying hay-fever) after walking in a hay > meadow full of wild flowers - I learned to dread > the sight of poppies in the fields as it meant I > would be confined to the house for the duration, > until that season had passed. At this time of year > pollens can blow in from Kent meadows and > precipitate histamine responses. My childhood > summer asthma was triggered not by pollution but > nature. That's possible but I'm not convinced it's the case here. I do get hay fever like symptoms with tree pollen, but that's sneezing and a profusely running nose. What I'm getting now is a tight chest and a dry cough and sometimes difficulty breathing. And regarding engines running, the other day I spoke to the driver of an extremely large vehicle who was delivering stuff to Londis at the end of North Cross Road. He was unloading stuff from the back of his lorry but had left the engine running while he did so. I asked him why he didn't turn the engine off and that he was contributing to pollution. The answer I got was that he would leave it running "as long as he needed to." Why would he need to? Have I missed something here? I wasn't in the mood to pursue it with him ......

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ive been a bit wheezy this week, but wasn't sure > if it was cos I'd been hand-sanding the stairs. Well yeh that could account for it if you didn't wear a mask ......

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't mention it Sue, I thought they'd look nice > there. Blimey KK, how public spirited you are :)) :)) :)) Did you plant all the daffodils as well? :))

There are several free picture resizing sites online, but I've found this one really quick and easy: http://www.picresize.com/ You just upload the original pic, put in the setting to make it no more than 614kb (the limit on here) and then download it again. It automatically renames it with rsz at the front, so the original pic stays the same if you want to use it for something else. I can't believe I used to mess around for ages with Photoshop .....

Photo of part of the meadow attached, taken yesterday :)

Not like the fumes I originally started the thread about, but again pollution locally seems bad over the last week or so, despite the rain. My asthma is normally completely under control. I have probably used a Ventolin inhaler fewer than half a dozen times since the asthma was diagnosed some years ago, mostly before I had to give a presentation or something involving a lot of talking, but I've had to use it several times recently due to shortness of breath. And my cough is definitely much worse. Is anybody else suffering?

I'd just like to thank whoever is responsible for the little wild flower meadow at the other end of Goose Green from the roundabout. It's looking lovely at the moment and it's really good to see these flowers in the middle of London.