Sue

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Just as a guide for me, you understand, could you > possibly calculate how many people, man hours and > other people's cash you'd like to pee up a wall in > order to satisfy your stampy-footed demands? > xxxxxxxx What a nice person you are. Just notices on lampposts in the road affected, or leaflets to residents, would have been sufficient. Stampy-footed? I think not.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry Sue, I was trying to intone light-hearted > mock exasperation. xxxxxxxx Didn't come across like that to me :-S xxxxxxxx > > What with big councils, little councils, lamposts, > newspapers, public, private and popular websites I > wasn't sure what else a community team could do to > engage with their demanding public other than a > barber shop quartet? > xxxxxxxxxxxx 1. Put it on lampposts in the road in question (you mention lampposts, but there have been no notices about it on any lampposts in my road that I've seen - and I'm the sort of sad person who would have stopped and read them :)) ) 2. Put leaflets through the doors of the road in question 3. Knock on doors of of the road in question and talk to residents 4. Put leaflets under windscreen wipers of cars in the road in question 5. Put in free newspapers delivered to the road, rather than local papers which people actually have to pay for (and anyway you would have to buy every copy to be sure of seeing it) 6. Put a thread on the East Dulwich Forum. To the best of my knowledge, none of the above were done. As I say, I'm not against the car club space at all, far from it (though I haven't seen a car club car actually using it for a very long time). I just don't think the consultation methods used were sufficient except for people already involved in attending council meetings.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm staying in Peckham. > > Think the blurb writer is a frustrated novellist. > > 'Nam xxxxxxxx I so want to live in that house :)

jaybee82 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To be fair though Sue, if having one Car Club car > prevents the need for several households from > having to own a car each and having to park them > on an already congested stretch of residential > road I think I'd just let them get on with > implementing it. xxxxxxxx I wasn't intending to object, I just think residents of the road should be consulted where a parking space is being taken away. Just because a Car Club space appears doesn't mean suddenly several households in the road will give up their cars and join the Car Club!

Townleygreen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >. It was > made of currugated steel. You had to dig down to > construct the sheltering/sleeping area. Is this > what you have? > xxxxxxxx Guess it must be, but a previous owner of the house must have smashed it up, but then just left the rubble there and shoved a load of soil on top. I remember as a child in the fifties going to houses which still had the air raid shelters in place, but as it was not long after the war that wasn't surprising. I just would have thought they'd have either removed it completely or kept it as it was for storage, rather than smashing it up!

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue you can't expect people to come and kneel at > your door. If you want to know what's going on in > your community, go to the Community Council, > that's what it's there for. > > If you can't be bothered to go or obtain the > minutes then whingeing is ridiculous. xxxxxxxxx It wasn't a matter of "knowing what's going on in my community", it was a matter of knowing/being informed about something going on in my specific road. How do I obtain the minutes of the Community Council? And where are the dates and agenda advertised? There's little point in having such a Council if members of the community in question don't know about it, or don't know what matters will be discussed at each meeting. I don't have time to attend meetings on the off-chance that there may be something relevant to my life being discussed!

I found out last week that a large part of my tiny garden has a smashed up air raid shelter underneath it - I'd always wondered why the garden was on several levels, despite its miniscule size. Did every house in ED have its own shelter? Seems rather excessive! I live in a terraced house and at least one set of neighbours also have one beneath their (equally small) garden.

BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anyone not entirely enamoured of the impending > nuptials might want to get in a supply of these... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx If you click on the sick bag you can see that it says "throne up" at the top :))

Saw it yesterday, my daughter said I'd love it and I did, so do my granddaughters. Has replaced Third and Bird in my affections :)) I don't think it's racist at all (stereotypical maybe), I think it's showing kids cultural diversity, so all power to its paws and tails :))

brightspark Wrote: -The Hospice > should have stored this problem from day one. > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Maybe they did and that's why they've got no storage space for donations. Sorry :-$

I did think it was a bit odd that she PMed me within about a minute of my posting, because the books were quite specialised diversity titles and I didn't think there would be much interest.

louisiana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Another option would be to take stuff to the > Dulwich Going Greener Give & Take event on > Saturday 5 March. > xxxxxxxx These are a great idea - I've been to a couple in Oxford with my daughter, both giving and taking. They weigh stuff on the way out to see how much has avoided going to landfill. My daughter once got a lovely cupboard :) Good for the environment, but not for charity, however.

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I too have trudged down there with good quality > saleable items only to be refused at the counter. > I felt quite affronted, but also very sorry for > the charity itself that had just missed out on > making a possible ?50. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Same here. They told me there was a notice in the window stating that they weren't taking goods, but the notice consisted of a large sheet of paper containing closely spaced type, as in a letter - who would stop and read that?! Afraid I lost my temper and shouted at them :-$ Wasn't going to lug it all back home again (I was on foot) and dumped it by a bin. Wasn't there when next I passed so hope someone could make use of it. Haven't dared go back in the shop since in case they recognise me as The Shouting Woman :))

I gave away three books recently, had a few people interested and gave them to the first person to reply. When she arrived to collect them, she looked in the bag and said "Oh, I thought there were more than that, I thought you said five to ten"!! That was it - not even a thank you. I had clearly listed the titles, authors and publishers in my post, so there were clearly only three books. I was well pissed off, wished I had given them to somebody else as I could probably have sold them online and got twenty quid or so and now suspect she is going to do the same as she only seemed interested in quantity rather than content and clearly hadn't read my post properly, just saw "free books" :-S

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Hi Sue, > Lots of consultation took place at the Dulwich > Community Council. Notices in newspapers and on > lamp posts. I also twice posted a map of East > Duwlich with where they were proposed to go. > > xxxxxxxx I wouldn't have objected to the space as I think it's a great scheme, but I don't recall seeing anything on lamp posts or on the forum, and most people won't attend the Dulwich Community Council meetings. I don't buy a local paper but I do glance through anything free which comes through the door :)) and don't recall reading anything about it. Maybe I'm just unobservant .....

dukesdenver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Seconded, I often take stuff to the Trinity > Hospice shop on Walworth Road. The lady who runs > it is lovely xxxxxxx You can also take any amount of stuff to Trinity Hospice directly. Bit further to go (Clapham Common) but you can park in their carpark no problem.

I live on Ulverscroft Road, we have a car club space at the end of the road and to the best of my knowledge nobody was consulted about it, it just appeared one day.

:))

minkturtle, that's a lovely description of your experience.

benwiggles Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sod all this chitter chatter its a street party! > Whats not to like, I'm and I know many of my > friends in East Dulwich are fully behind it, xxxxxx So you and many of your friends will be organising it then, yes?

Thanks Louisiana :) I see Infinity Foods are mentioned. I find them hugely expensive. My daughter gets a bulk order from them every few months and splits it with friends, but I find I can get most things cheaper or around the same price locally, eg from SMBS.

The Snow It Melts the Soonest - Anne Briggs

My congratulations too, I really appreciate your involvement both in matters concerning the community in general and also small personal matters (I don't think I'd ever have got the tree replaced outside my house without your help).

I'd be very happy to come to a meeting to discuss possibilities.

Hope they're cheaper than the Mind shop has become for many things :-S