Sue

They weren't my pics! We were too hungry to take pics!

There's a great big space, but where's the link?!

39 Grove Vale SE22 8EQ 0208 693 9749 It's on the other side of the road from ED station, on the left as you go from the station towards Goose Green (or on the right as you head towards the station from Goose Green). See the photo someone posted above! I don't think they have a website - it's a small place - but their Instagram according to their menu is @chernthai though I haven't checked it out yet. They are closed on Tuesdays, otherwise open 12-3 and 5-9 or 10. I think that varies at weekends.

We went there yesterday for lunch, which was really delicious and excellent value. A starter plus a main is £11.95 for their "lunchtime special". Just a main is £8.95. We had excellent gyozas to start, then I had pad thai and my partner had a stir fry, both with tofu. They were large helpings, freshly cooked, with fresh veg. There is the option to have chicken or beef (prawns are £2 extra) Also they now have Thai beer (Singha) on draught or in bottles (previously it was bring your own alcohol). The service was also good. We were sorry and surprised not to see more people in there, particularly as there was a match on. It is really worth the short walk from Lordship Lane!

I remember farthings. And threepenny bits I used to buy balls of wool at a shop in Streatham for sixpence three farthings.

So does anybody know why all these police were there, apart from doing their shopping at Tesco and keeping warm with their car engines running (to be fair, you can hardly blame them for that, this weather)? Are they still there? How many of them are/were there? Has nobody asked them what they are doing there, rather than asking on here?!

Which end of CPR? The leisure centre end presumably, if they're shopping at Tesco?!

Yes, ED were definitely involved in previous years.

Ah, thanks, I hadn't realised that!

John Prescott. R.I.P.

But the sign being discussed here is a joke sign, not an official sign! He gave up using this website because some people on here gave him a really hard time.

I think this could go on endlessly, so I suggest we finish it here! But why don't you track down the makers of the sign? Which hopefully has amused a lot of people, as well as brightening my bus journey. Tell them that their directions to Dulwich are not only wrong, but they do not seem to know where the "real" Dulwich is 🤣 I'm sure they will be delighted 🤣

Which junction is this?

Eh? Straight ahead of what? If you turn left at Goose Green, as you also posted above, you end up at the library. Then the Grove. Then, unless you turn right at the South Circular, you end up at Forest Hill!

On another thread it says that the next meeting is in the evening. But I'm any case, there must be other ways to ask the question rather than direct to the police, eg via councillors, MP or mayor's office.

It's easier to turn left at that junction than to go straight ahead, though, because if memory serves there are only two lanes, and buses turning right (there is no right turn for cars) clog up the right hand lane. And the distance driven is probably about the same.

Why don't you do something constructive and take your views to the police, or attend one of the local meetings with them, instead of posting on here? Then I expect they will be able to explain to you how and why they allocate their resources, and you can discuss it with them. Venting on here might make you feel better, but it will do absolutely nothing to change the situation you feel so strongly about. Given the lack of statistics, I would have thought face validity was sufficient reason to speak to the kids concerned Depending of course on what happens next. Are the kids concerned given counselling (if that is thought appropriate) or asked to attend some suitable kind of course? Are their parents involved?

How do you know it's madness unless you know what they plan to replace its services with? And isn't Mount Pleasant a Royal Mail sorting office? If so, that's nothing to do with counters. Royal Mail is a completely separate - and privately owned - business.

I think you will find they are investigating potentially illegal comments, which may or may not be "hurtful" . And to the best of my knowledge, most of the demos which "seem to be happening every weekend" are attended by people who do not want to just stand by and watch whilst thousands of innocent people just like you - except they happen to live elsewhere - are being illegally slaughtered. You think there's no possible link between "non-crime hate speech" between kids in school and one school kid later stabbing another school kid, then?

Surely increasing profits are not the reason? It's more about preventing massive losses? You can't keep things going at vast expense because a few people still use them. We would still be in the stone age. There are always going to be some people who find it hard to use "modern" technology (which has been going for decades). I would have thought the answer was for those people to learn how to do the things they need to do? I'm sure lots of help must be available? I'm one of the ancient ones, and around the end of the nineties I went on a free course to be taught how to go online and use the internet. It was quite a steep learning curve, but so is learning anything new. So in previous years was learning to use a PC and word processing. So was learning Excel and spreadsheets. If you need to use something, you have to learn how to do it! Some people may not have the mental capacity to do this, but in that case surely they will be getting support in other areas of their daily life already? And as regards the possible closure of the Crown post office (note - possible) we don't know what alternative arrangements may be made should this happen, so it seems a bit premature to be protesting about it at this point.

PCSOs may not need specific qualifications, but they go through a reasonably rigorous recruitment process. Or at least they used to. It may have changed.

Or turning left, continuing on down Forest Hill Road and turning right further up. Google maps has Dulwich marked at the junction by the old Grove, where the South Circular heads off towards the rest of Dulwich. But whatever, yes you can definitely get to Dulwich by going in the direction shown on the signpost! I'm not sure you would get "anywhere" by going straight down, though, let alone 23 miles down 🤣 I like the "Now here" though!

My grandchildren would be most bemused if they were sent a cheque! And what a faff! They would have to pay it into a bank anyway, wouldn't they? How does that work, if they don't have a bank account? Even if they do, sending money by BACS is quicker and easier. You don't have to spend an arm and a leg to buy a stamp, and the money can't get "lost" or delayed in the post. They have the use of the money immediately, buy something they want with it, then tell me/show me what they bought. Better all round for everybody, in my opinion, though I accept everybody is different. I know people who still want to bring back pounds shillings and pence 🙄

Depends which route you take!