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What would you have done? Let him go away and be possibly attacked? Good on you, Hilary, and thanks for sharing on here so we are aware of it.

lavender27 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nothing else to put on a piece a bread, we were > poor, and then the sugar butty was born. I used to get given sugar sandwiches. Made with white sliced bread. But they had butter on them as well so maybe they were slightly nutritious :))

People who do that automatic "love you" thing at the end of every phone call. It just totally devalues it for me. It reduces it to "OK I'm going now, bye." Oh, and Fox, Whitten Timber in Peckham are brilliant. I ordered a load of fence slats on the phone early one morning and they had them loaded and delivered within the hour.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are many places where photography is not > allowed. Nunhead Cemetary is one such space. > There is a notice inside the gate that clearly > says No Unauthorised Filming or Photograhy > Allowed. > That is surely only for professional photographers, and not for people taking the occasional photo on their phones? People might want to take photos of a relative's grave, for a start.

It does give you an easy guide at the end which it says you can use on any roses. If this makes you feel better, some years ago someone did a controlled study of pruning roses. It found that just lopping the tops off with a hedge trimmer had just as good results the next year as carefully pruning every stem individually above an outward facing bud :))

Pickle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... And when I was a kid, my Nana used to cut the > rind off raw bacon and give it to me to eat while > she cooked. Loved it! Oh yeh, my mum did that. But I wasn't allowed to eat raw sausages, because she claimed it would give me worms.

Surely the library staff would have told you the reason if you'd asked them?

P.O.U.S.theWonderCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Posts like Calsug's last one remind me why this is > a great forum. Agreed. Unfortunately some of the other posts remind me why it sometimes isn't.

Sorry for some strange reason the forum allowed me to post a duplicate post which was still showing on my phone as unposted.

Great post, Nunsuch (the first one). I

binkylilyput Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Children from Harris Academy were seen throwing > things at the travelling community on PR > > Well done to those ED parents who have > successfully taught their children dubious values Where are all the people condemning these children and saying what do you expect, all ED children are bad and do this? It would have been a different story if it had been Traveller children throwing things at ED residents. Posters on here would have been falling over themselves to comment and complain. Wouldn't they?

It depends on the type of rose. What are they? Climbers, Ramblers, HT, shrub? https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=186

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > But always sad to see the prejudices confirmed. Prejudices are always confirmed. Because if a group of Travellers had left no litter, nobody would be posting about it on here. We only hear about the "bad" things.

TE44 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Scotlands travellers have a long and very diverse > history. And unfortunately suffer the same > prejudices. I used to live in a tenement in Dundee, and every year a group of "tinks" as they were locally known used to come to a patch of waste ground nearby. To the best of my recollection they neither caused any trouble nor left any litter. But still people used to talk about them in derogatory terms. It's sad that so many people seem to want to live in a world where everybody else is just like themselves.

robbin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yawn! There it is again! Grow up. Please.

Sardine soup

Easy to cook poppadums in a microwave, Fox. Get some from Khans and keep them for future similar emergencies :)

Odd that nobody has yet mentioned the thread linked to below. Ah. Could it be that it doesn't conveniently fit their prejudices, as presumably Travellers aren't involved? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1623662,page=1 I haven't seen anybody condemning all the residents of East Dulwich on the grounds that a few of them leave a load of rubbish which is an eyesore and which others have to clear up.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a tired recipe now this programme. Overstayed > it's welcome by several years. I agree. They've made some minor changes over the years but not enough to keep it fresh. And this year's participants are even more awful than usual. I expect I'll still watch it though ....

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > numbers Wrote: > > > think I @#$%& up the parallel parking as well. > > Ah sure that would have been expected, you being a > woman and all. They must take that into > account........ > > *runs for cover* Parallel parking wasn't part of the test when I took it, back in the dark ages. Just three point turns and reversing round a corner (I think .....)

ED - NAGAIUTB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- And for every Sue there are dozens of > respondents who have real life experience of our > travelling chums and the misery, cost and filth > they leave in their wake. Doesn't stop the Sues of > this world buying their copies of the Guardian, > mind you, but their contribution soon tails off > under the overwhelming weight of actual evidence. OK. First off, I don't buy the Guardian. Second, please post on here "the overwhelming weight of actual evidence". I'm not holding my breath.

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > A number of people are very welcoming - and that's > great. > Some people are very wary. > > It's funny the former have all gone quiet now that > that the fears have been realised. Speaking solely for myself, I have"gone all quiet" because I have had a very busy day and checking the East Dulwich Forum has not been part of it.

It is not good, obviously. But just because one group of travellers has left a load of rubbish does not mean that all travellers are the same. It is lumping everybody together which is wrong, not criticising the behaviour of one relatively small group of people.

ED - NAGAIUTB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Its the thieving messy 99% that give the 1% a bad > name. And it's nasty prejudiced posters like you who give this forum a bad name. ETA: There is lots of mess and litter left after music festivals, for example, by many people who are not from the travelling community. But you don't rush to condemn them, on here, do you? They don't conveniently fit your prejudices, do they?

It is not just Lordship Lane. I was taken by ambulance to A&E after falling literally flat on my face after tripping on an uneven paving stone in Bellenden Road last December. A passer by told me she had broken her arm on the same spot. It seems there is a general issue with the upkeep of pavements in Southwark, and probably London in general.