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pepsi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think it's really irresponsible of the police to > do something like this without warning and without > providing more explicit reassurance. I don't > blame you for being suspicious and you shouldn't > feel in the least bit foolish. xxxxxxx I agree

How awful. I would have thought it should be clear to an expert from the type of hole etc what had made it and where it had been fired from?

computedshorty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about a Junk Exchange, you take your unwanted > things and exchange them for something of the same > value that you would have to pay a lot more if > new. > It works on the same principle as a Car Boot Sale. > with no money exchanged. > xxxxxxxxx I believe Southwark Council already run these, maybe they would do one in ED on request?

fidgetsdad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Right. Rather embarrassing this. Apparently the > men were detectives taking part in an intelligence > operation. We got a call from the Southwark Intel > office and they thought it was rather amusing that > we took their men to be polished criminals. > xxxxxxxxxx I don't want to worry you, but how can you be sure that this call came from a bona fide source?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi > > Can you help re a street tree issue? > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hello? Anyone there??

Doomed, we're all doomed .....

Doomed, we're all doomed .....

Well the Brockwell Park fireworks were brill, and much better than I remember Crystal Palace being last year (and free, too!) but getting out of the Park afterwards was an absolute nightmare. I was so glad I didn't have kids with me, and amazed if noone got hurt. Total bottleneck at both tiny entrances at the Herne Hill side, with no pedestrian crossing at the main entrance (Railton Road end). People were trying to climb over the railings to get out, and apart from a few police etc at the actual exits, there was nobody apparently to give information about what was happening to the massive queues. Buses were rammed too, had to walk back to ED :))

Well the Brockwell Park fireworks were brill, and much better than I remember Crystal Palace being last year (and free, too!) but getting out of the Park afterwards was an absolute nightmare. I was so glad I didn't have kids with me, and amazed if noone got hurt. Total bottleneck at both tiny entrances at the Herne Hill side, with no pedestrian crossing at the main entrance (Railton Road end). People were trying to climb over the railings to get out, and apart from a few police etc at the actual exits, there was nobody apparently to give information about what was happening to the massive queues. Buses were rammed too, had to walk back to ED :))

Fuzzyboots, hugs.

Fuzzyboots, hugs.

Why do you want to know? Are you going to ask him for his autograph? Leave the poor bloke alone! Or is this thread a joke?

Why do you want to know? Are you going to ask him for his autograph? Leave the poor bloke alone! Or is this thread a joke?

But do you actually know why the clinic was running late? Maybe the consultant had to save someone's life or some other - er - unavoidable delay?

Well I don't mind the noise, I think it's great we have animals living in a city, and it's better than the noise of screaming creatures being carried off by owls I used to get when I lived in the country. I have a young fox asleep in my garden as I type, and I think it's great. Live and let live unless they're actually harming you, that's what I say. Edited to add: And if someone was shooting at them intending to hit them, I think that's bloody disgraceful, frankly.

Hi Can you help re a street tree issue? In August 2008 (sic) I called out the council because the tree outside my house was split down the middle and I was afraid a branch might fall on someone. They came the same day and cut the tree down to a stump, and said it would be replaced. By the end of January nothing had happened, so I phoned them up and they said a new tree would be in by the end of March. By the end of May - no tree, still a stump. I phoned again and they said that according to their records the case was closed and in any case the tree planting season was over! They gave me a new reference number and said they would be along to remove the trunk, and would then replant the tree. I even requested a particular tree, which they noted (Betula jacquemontii, a type of Birch which is used locally as a street tree). I phoned again yesterday, as - still the stump is there. They didn't seem to know anything about it. Yet again I was told someone would come along to have a look at the tree, and yet again I was given a different reference number. I asked for the number for the tree department and they said they didn't have one and that the department had been disbanded. What's going on?!?!?!?! I was fond of my tree, and would like to see another one there. Preferably within the next decade.

Southwark Council recycling tip off the Walworth Road has place for batteries and paint and I think electrical items. Can't remember the road name but it's on the left as you go towards the Elephant, just past East Street (on the right) I think. You could phone their environmental services section 020 7525 2000.

Went to see Fantastic Mr Fox on Sunday. Monday Tuesday and Wednesday went out into the garden and found a young fox there each time, today found my fairy lights chewed into tiny pieces (lucky they weren't plugged in) and now have discovered he has a cosy bed right under my kitchen window. My garden is only tiny, so I feel quite privileged! He seems to be getting used to me. Bit of a distraction from work though, I have to keep looking to see what he's doing :-S

Honey just isn't the same though :))

Several threads on the forum here already. Dulwich tennis club (I think), Brockwell Park, Crystal Palace are three I noticed. Brockwell Park free, Crystal Palace a fiver for adults, don't know about the other (smaller) one.

Call the police - better safe than sorry

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Locale worth a mention, Ive alwasy had good > service and food there. They do winemakers dinners > which too which are really good. xxxxxxx Not everyone would agree with you about Locale, I think

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The geezer in Zenoria Street, last time I shopped > there which was a while ago, was just that - one > geezer. Not a competitive market or what I call a > market. xxxxxxx Things has changed, PGC :))

oldsocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep. it's being refurbed, and should be open again > within the next four or five days with a much > larger shop space and beer and wine selection. xxxxxxx Never mind that, will they still have Stella at six for a fiver :))

Weegee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- the front of it looked quite > classy and un trashy like a typical Foxtons branch > would be xxxxxxx Are you serious? Edited to say: Hopefully not :))