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Yes, It is an important bus route. It is difficult to go towards Brixton any other way. Sometimes I have waited rather long but moe people would use it if it was reliable.

There have been kestrels in the area for years. Could it be a kestrel you saw?

I have been waiting for this blossom all winter!! I bet it is because the funding for pruning trees will come out of this years budget if they do it now. But how silly, when it is absolutely the wrong time!!

Spent

This is a well used passage and I have lived in Ivanhoe Road for over 30 years. I have never had a problem or heard of one. I mostly use it during the day but have used it in the dark and it is fairly well lit. The more people who use it the safer it will be.

NO, I don't want one. There is far too much of our money wasted on the outdated royals as it is.

Re bays falling down. I have been told that many Victorian bays generally do not have sufficient support at the base and often pull away from the house. When we bought our house we had the bay properly bricked up from beneath. We now have a beautiful huge silver birch just outside, but it is causing no problems.

We now have a greenfinch on our feeder. My tomatoes are cropping well but unfortunately these recent downpours are causing them to split, if I can keep them from the woodlice they'll be ok though.

Many of the side streets have crab apples and rowan berries. Sorry can't think of particular ones at the moment, but you could cruise the streets........

I think it is ok for the children to cycle, however only if they are chaperoned. Children under nine are not good at judging the speed of traffic. These days roads are busier. It is also too much responsibility for the 8 yr old to be caring for the 5yr old in these circumstances. (I don't think that stranger paedophiles are the issue here, there is too much fear about this, when, in fact children are more likely to be abused by someone they know)

I am on talktalk and I thought my recent slow and difficult connections were due to lots of people being online because of the football..........

Really nice!

I noticed the fresh pastries seemed to have been sold before I got there. I am hoping it is just teething troubles as I want to support the co-op. I was annoyed that the chemist went, I went there on principle too.

Try the Facebook Group "Save the South London Line between Victoria & London Bridge" They have good info re this.

Sorry hate the idea of the words, dull and rigid and unimaginative. Can't we get Banksy to do something? Or a really good mural. Or an idea that has actually been thought through, artistically speaking!

you could try calendula(marigold) cream, from a herbalist,very soothing and healing or chickweed cream.

No.

smacking children, (who are smaller, dependant and less powerful)is still legal, but I am not allowed to smack someone my own size ???? Smacking children teaches them to smack in turn. There are many better and more respectful ways of teaching a child social skills, caring for others, right and wrong etc. It is hard for us to realise that perhaps our parents were wrong. I am a counsellor and have seen many examples of where physical assault on children has affected the lives and happiness of the adult they became.

Ivanhoe Road north end, and cul de sac, still very icy and slippy to cross, haven't risked taking car out as returning down Grove Hill Road would be dangerous as it is still iced up on the bottom half.