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Shield bug nymphs

I've got some if you still need it. PM me if you want details.

Seen lots on Bawdale Road this week. Even seen them going into the roof space of a couple of houses. They land on the wall just under the gutters and crawl up behind the board the gutter attached to.

Dulwich Test and Auto Centre, Tyrrell Road have always been excellent.

I sent an email a few days ago to the counsellor who has responsibility for leisure in Southwark, Portia Mwangangye. I also copied the generic leisure email address and received a reply from Phillipa Gillespie, General Manager of Dulwich Leisure Centre. She apologised for the lack of updates and explained that the there had been an unforeseen and catastrophic failure of the filtration system. The replacement system has been ordered and they are awaiting delivery and installation, but she could give no timeframe for this. All very disappointing.

If you mean proper nurseries where they grow plants and not just garden centres there are several on Woodmansterne Lane just south of Wallington. I prefer going there as you get a lot of plants you don't see in garden centres. The two I go to most often are Flittons https://www.flittons.com/ and Barnes https://www.barnesnurseries.co.uk/. There are a few others on the same road and a large Dobbies if you want a garden centre that sells other things.

The dome was Sir Henry Bessemer's Observatory.

Greendale/Green Lane is an ancient thoroughfare that connected Dulwich Village to Camberwell. This allowed for easy access as Dulwich was in the parish of Camberwell and the parish church was St Giles. It would have been used as a track for foot and horse drawn vehicles. The bridge was built on Dulwich College land, and they leased building plots on both sides from East Dulwich Grove up to the bridge (see attached picture). So, the track would have been widened for this. If you look from the bridge in the direction of North Dulwich Station, you can see another bridge built by the railway company for a road that Dulwich College planned but never built. The old Dulwich College Estate maps right back to 1806 show Green Lane as a road that joined, as it still does to Champion Hill. The estate map of 1886 shows the college proposed widening Green Lane all the way to the top and connecting it to Denmark Hill, but once again this didn’t happen, and the widening appear to stop about a third of the way up the lane. When Camberwell Borough Council acquired a lot of the land on the upper portion of the hill, I assume they decided that the path could be narrowed from Wanley Road up to Champion Hill to maximise space to build the housing estate. The attached photo is of Green Lane looking up the hill with what would be Wanley Road on the right.

Called in this morning and was told the filtration system may take up to four weeks to repair.

Sue, I received my leaflet today. I see that they don't mention a caddy liner, which as you say would mean the bin gets messy so I used the link on the leaflet to see what that said about food waste. The website says 'You do not have to line it, but you can buy your own compostable liners or use newspaper'. Pity that wasn't mentioned on the leaflet. As for general rubbish the council website says 'If you have a bin you must put your waste in a bin bag first'. It's a pity the leaflet specifies black and the website doesn't. I assume they want it bagged as the examples of general rubbish on the leaflet such as crisp packaging and nappies would need bagging. Small items could fall out during rubbish collection and soiled items would need bagging to prevent contamination.

Cesummers, I think you may have misinterpreted the Southwark Council guidance document. I have downloaded and read it. Paragraph 3.6.1 refers to 'permitted development' and restates the statutory law which say planning permission is required if a loft extension is greater than 40 square meters in a terraced property and greater than 50 square meters in a semi-detached of detached property. Under permitted development the extension should be set back 20cm from the existing eaves (not 100cm). Paragraph 3.6.2 applies to loft extension that fall outside the scope of permitted development. Under these circumstances the council require the set back from the eaves and boundary walls to be 100cm and the extension roof to be 50cm below the existing roof ridge. I would imagine that most loft extension in our area fall within 'permitted development '.

If by small you mean narrow, I don't think you will find any front loading machines less wide than the standard 60cm. You could look at top loading machines. These are about 40cm wide, but you'll need access to the top to load the washing. There aren't many for sale in the UK but Appliances Direct advise some. https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/ct/laundry/washing-machines/top-loading

Park in the Lidl carpark in Peckham and walk over the road to the Alex TLC charity shop on Peckham High Street