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Thanks for advice ? hopefully I won't have to pay the fines for the DVDs I couldn't take back late last night.

Hi Can anyone tell me if big dulwich library is open today (Thurs). The phone number I have is the main southwark council number and I've just spent ages on hold there. thanks

Huguenot - you didn't sound confused to me - you sounded as if you doubted Tibby's story and were suspicious of it in some way. If you didn't want to sound like that you could have maybe written your posts in a more sensitive way. PS. I have no connection whatsoever to Tibby/ITATM.

Try and use the "Strangers on a Train" technique - find someone else On the other side of SE22 with the same issue - maybe via this forum?- and agree to move each others cones. That way neither of you will be recognised or rumbled because even if you are spotted you won't have a motive. Hey ho, the perfect murder...

Did it myself a few weeks ago. Herne hill to victoria, district line to hammersmith then Piccadilly line from same bit of platform so no walking. Depends how close u r to herne hill though if you've got to get a bus to ed station u might as well get 37 to hh. Thameslink to kings x then metropolitan is another viable option tho.

Just for the sake of balance can I mention that on the same night (last Thursday) at around 6.15pm the police were mob-handed at Peckham Rye station too. Maybe one of the reasons for doing heavy-presence random spot-checks is not to apprehend fare-dodgers on the night but to stop people thinking they can risk bunking through unattended stations without buying a ticket in future. Though why they needed intimidating dogs too is questionable. One of them sniffed me quite aggressively (a dog not an officer) but that may have been because of the cheese in my bag.

Why is the car even parked there? Is it just to nab anyone in the loading bays opposite (see various complaints about getting tickets in loading bays - what exactly are the regulations for using them - can you park there if picking up an envelope from Ralon or does it have to be something over a particular weight?) Also judging from that photo it looks as if the flower van which I have heard persistently parks on LL by roundabout without punishment was on the pavement too - I hope they got a ticket.

Gimme - I just got your joke do I win a prize? A pint in the castle perhaps?

The other end of Calton Ave at the junction with Townley Rd also needs sorting. Until recently Calton Ave had right of way and though it has now been changed no-one seems to pay attention. Coming down townley towards the traffic lights one has to be prepared for Calton Ave cars shooting straight out, regardless of road markings.

Surely this is similar to the case in the news last week of a dog off the leash attacking a blind woman's dog which made the news and prompted a search for the owner?

jubilee line from north greenwich to london bridge then overground to ED/Peckham etc. Or taxi.

And there in the last two posts you have ED in a nutshell. A nation divided. (see also posts on CPZs, William Rose, any curry house you care to mention, etc). About the only thing that unites us is the brilliance of SMBJones.

The roads towards Herne Hill station do that "no parking between 12 and 2" thing, and while of course that does cause some displacement to the streets further out it keeps the commuters at bay. If it works there why wouldn't it work around ED station?

I was at home last summer when there was a large crash in the kitchen. A window had been smashed and there was a piece of apple on the floor. Given the position of the hole however there was no way the apple could have been thrown through the window from a neighbouring garden. The glazier was also flummoxed. The best guess was that it had dropped out of a bird's beak while flying at speed. Unlikely but the only viable possibility. We should have got the core dusted for beak-prints. I hope there was no malice in the original incident here. Strange things do happen, not always with evil intent.

Re: this problem - no need for any more advice - as usual SMBJones has ridden to the rescue and sorted this out pronto! SMBJones Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Cath > > I have just sent a PM to you > > For those reading I will resolve personally > > Regards > > Barry > > cathg Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Hello, > > > > You have been so fantastic on this forum I hope > > you can help me out on this one. My very > > distressed 17 yr-old daughter has just returned > > home having lost her monthly 2 zone travelcard > > which she bought at north dulwich station > > yesterday. What does she do now? Can she get a > > refund or replacement or have we lost ?31?

Hello, You have been so fantastic on this forum I hope you can help me out on this one. My very distressed 17 yr-old daughter has just returned home having lost her monthly 2 zone travelcard which she bought at north dulwich station yesterday. What does she do now? Can she get a refund or replacement or have we lost ?31?

Surely scope for some joined-up thinking here - why don't the ticket-happy traffic wardens on work-related bonuses head for the schools at 3.30pm - they can make a killing and still get back to Lordship Lane in time for the lucrative 4.01pm restrictions. They might even be a bit more popular?

Don't hold your breath. i remember plans for a a Camberwell Bakerloo Line extension when i moved to SE5 in 1983. i even remember seeing plans which showed that the proposed station was going to be on the Father Redcap side of the green and that they were going to have to extend the green south onto Church Street because medieval grazing rights meant that the green had to stay the same size! Never saw any cows or sheep there though. Or signs of a station being built...

You think that was a nuisance? We once inherited the phone number of a clearly very popular male "masseur" - could've retired years ago if I'd taken up all the offers we got on the phone at all hours of the day and night. woodie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > we have inherited the number of a previous dentist > from around there.Man there is nothing weve been > able to do except lose the number to shake em off. > which we havent. there are surges as new databases > are re sold and it all starts again. Responses > have ranged from the polite to the bizarre. offers > of string and door and a cassette tape in the > background a while back. with screams. That was > the winner in an online competition to 'find the > best solution to the dentist calls'. Mind you the > amount of spam calls dentists get is pretty > awesome. as we know. Once ( I know its juvenile > but.. there was so many) a suggestion of hypnosis > instead of injections got quite a long way before > the guy went 'hang on your winding me up here'. > Once there was about 7 calls a day. Down to 3 a > week now at most.

there's a big do at dulwich college tonight - could've been connected.

Depends on which end of ED you live, but we always get direct trains from Herne Hill - via 37 bus, bike, walk or be a lazy sod and drive to station, still a few pockets of unrestricted parking nearby.

Anyone remember La Careme, which i think is either Chardon or Sema Thai now? i went there for sunday lunches around 1980 and got all excited when they served a little bowl of nuts at the start and then brought the vegetables to the table in a separate dish to the roast beef. I was very young though.

great - maybe we could also get the putting green back that we also used to have next to the tennis courts.

I hope the police are more precise in pursuit of villains than they are at giving out information. I cycled past Melbourne Grove at 11.20 last night and the street was already well cordoned off with two patrol cars on the corner near ED station. Don't think it could possibly have been someone getting off the 11.18. Terrible thing though, regardless of time. boswell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just saw a policeman walking down Melbourne Grove > on my way home from work and stopped and asked him > about last night - he was carrying a clipboard > with the details written down on it, so guess he > was walking around to 'reassure' the local > community. He told me it happened at 11.40 last > night near the junction with east dulwich road - a > man came up behind her and grabbed her bag, there > was a struggle and he had a knife. I mentioned the > other muggings that have been talked about on the > forum and he said they have had a spate of 'street > robberies' up the other side of lordship lane > recently. He didn't say whether they were > connected, but that this was one guy rather than a > gang. > > I always feel safer getting a train back late at > night because you walk down the street with a load > of other people (as opposed to being one of the > only people getting off the bus) but the timings > suggest this was around the time that the 11.18pm > would have got in. >

Just to stick my belated oar in, it depends how you get to camberwell - if i was on a 40 or 176 i'd stay on til elephant and get bakerloo line to paddington rather than risk a long wait for a 436 at camberwell. Likewise if i was on a 185 I'd stay on til victoria and get bus to paddington from there, or get the circle line from vic - paddington.