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dc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The first Blue Mountain Cafe was on Peckham Rye > (the road, not the big open space) - opposite the > end of Nigel Road. Very near where lots of new > food places have opened recently. Really? I always thought the one in North Cross Road was the first one, in the early nineties?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ....and one in Forest Hill opposite the Hob. that > wasn't there long and is long gone.. > > Foxy When was that, Foxy? I don't remember one in Forest Hill?

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I know I shouldn't laugh but .... I was just going through my Christmas cards, and came upon one with just three kisses and no name, so I have no idea who it's from. When I looked on the back, it was a charity card in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. Had they forgotten their name? I know the feeling ....

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > edborders Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > There needs to be a discussion about burial > policy and cemetery management but every time we > try to > > post here we get abuse from people who don't > know jack about it and don't even know they don't > know jack. > > That's because everyone suspects you are only > interested in the subject in order to try and stop > a few trees being removed. If you stop > intertwining the subjects, you may have more luck. It's also because, unfortunately, you lost credibility quite early on by using unnecessarily emotive language, giving misinformation, inventing names for things and places, and starting multiple threads all over the forum on basically the same subject. And also by telling others that they know nothing about the issues involved when quite clearly some of them do.

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not another one, please can admin inter-seed and > stop multiple threads on basically the same thing. This is a completely separate discussion to all the other overlapping threads. Or was. ETA: Spelling police here. It's not inter-seed!

edborders Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Undertakers is who - they told the > "stakeholders" group that there was no demand for > burial with flat headstones and for using other > people's headstones. > Well no, undertakers sell new headstones, don't they. It's hardly in their interests to mention to people that old ones could be used, and people aren't likely to think of that option for themselves, are they? I don't suppose for a minute that any unbiased person has researched this by putting the options to a reasonably large representative group of people in a way devoid of emotional language. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

edborders Wrote: > But "reuse" is digging up graves and dumping what > is left of people somewhere else. > Oh FFS. "Dumping". Yet more emotive language. So what if bones etc are moved? They're bits of DEAD people. It's like scattering the ashes of somebody who has been cremated. The ashes are bits of DEAD people. And you say "People who want a headstone want their own new headstone." How do you know? How many of these people have you asked? I think you are making things up to suit your case. Unfortunately you seem obvlivious to the fact that - whilst claiming that nobody is listening to you - you don't seem to be able to see anybody else's point of view, however logically it is put to you.

edborders Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- with a nose for hypocrisy. Do tell us more

This has indeed already been posted elsewhere by another forum member, on a thread in the lounge on which you are already discussing the issue. Why are you confusing things by posting it here, on a thread supposed to be about "a new opportunity to save the woods" thus probably starting off a duplicate discussion about the same thing? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1619517

edborders Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there anyone else who agrees that Southwark > would be a better place if Nunhead Cemetery were > cleared for new graves? Please, speak up. Join > Sue and dhboy (whoever these people are). > > But you know perfectly well who I am! That's just more misinformation. Not only am I "out" on this forum but you know who I am on Facebook and in real life, since you have informed me on Facebook that we have several local friends in common! ETA: "tossing the monuments"? Is this along the same lines as your posts about the council "ripping up the Angel of Southwark", or words to that effect, when it turned out that actually the monument/statue on a grave which you chose to call by a non-existent name was being removed in order to be restored?

The other one was the day before :(

bawdy-nan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're absolutely right to identify the excellent > provision that is made. I have a friend who has > described wonderful, thoughtful and kind treatment > and support from the GPs at the practice. > > I do worry, though, that, especially for patient > groups already "reluctant" to attend with early > symptoms the almost impossibility of getting to > see a doctor may have dire consequences. > This is my concern as well. I know more than one person who died due to putting up with symptoms until it was too late, and that was in the days when getting an appointment was easy. I have found the GPs at DMC absolutely great, and I had a recent phone consultation about test/scan results which was excellent and useful, however it seems that actually getting to see a GP in the first place is getting more and more difficult. But I don't think this issue is confined to this practice.

WHY isn't spelling properly checked by people who can SPELL in magazines, papers etc? I have just been leafing through the latest ridiculous free magazine to come through my door (coat for nearly three grand, anyone?) and beneath a headline "Made to Last" (it's about a shoe designer. Hoho. Now puns I don't mind) a sentence starts "Since taking the reigns of Robert Clergerie in 2011 ...." REIGNS? FFS. AND another thing, people who write TOW the line when it should be TOE the line. Oh, and I have irrational rage at myself for posting on here when I've got many many other things I should be doing :))

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Sorry if I've been rude, but I am quite fed up with the new threads constantly being started on the same subject, the inaccurate and often unnecessarily emotive language used, and on some occasions just plain misinformation being given by Lewis and others. I love trees and woods, and the amount of green space locally was one of the main reasons I originally came to live in this area, but I just cannot support the views of this group.

edborders Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Come to the Benefit to Save Southwark Woods > February 14, 2016 at the Ivy House So you're having a benefit to save "Southwark Woods", which don't exist? What will you use the money for? The Goose Is Out! is holding a benefit concert to raise money for Help Refugees (a volunteer group providing direct help to refugees in Calais and Lesbos), January 15, 2016 at the Ivy House. http://thegooseisout.com/benefit-concert-for-refugees/ http://www.wegottickets.com/thegooseisout http://www.helprefugees.org.uk/ Come and help live people, not dead people and non-existent "woods".

Oh, the little snug with the lovely glass was really cosy :)

It isn't intuitive that Dunstan's has the right of way, because Underhill feels like the more major road. And I may be wrong but I think the right of way was changed at some point, can't remember when. Very lucky nobody was badly hurt, and very sorry for the car driver :(

Do google customer reviews as well as price. I always do a price comparison at renewal, but I choose to stay with my current insurer because although a bit more expensive they have much higher ratings for customer service. I do always phone them to try to get them to reduce the cost. Sometimes it works!

Good post, dbboy.

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bloody hippie... :))

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd love a Nando's to open nearby! There's one in Denmark Hill! Not that far ..... > (for the Flying Pig its owned by the same people > who run the 3 Locale restaurants in London). I > prefer that approach though it obviously doesn't > allow you to capitalize off of your previous > success as easily. Wasn't the Flying Pig called Locale previously? I didn't realise it was owned by the same people, or possibly I've forgotten. I imagine they changed their name because the local Locale ( :) ) was not exactly successful if memory serves, so they didn't want to continue to be associated with that name, which is the other side of the coin I suppose .....

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > dbboy thank you for doing that post; that took a > lot of time. Great that he found it and posted it, but I imagine since it's the full text of a council notice that it was copied and pasted in one fell swoop aka a couple of clicks?

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Honestly? If the grave houses the remains of > someone who could not possibly be remembered by > anyone now living (so, say, they died more than > 100 years ago) then what is the harm? No! According to edborders/Lewis Schaffer above, these are "your loved ones". You love them even if you never knew them, I guess. And "they" are not currently "resting in peace" in their graves, edborders. "They" are hopefully resting in peace in the hereafter, but presumably that is their souls or whatever you believe in, or don't. I don't think a body rotting away in a grave can be considered "resting in peace", myself. There will probably not be much of it left to dig up, let alone for its restful peace to be disturbed.