PeckhamRose

So phone the Environment department of the Council. 020 7525 2000

They HAVE joined forces with Guys and St Thomas's. It's a good thing. Sharing skills and expertise and knowledge and the best of the best students for all our benefits. Become a member of Kings College Hospital Foundation Trust, read up on it, go to meetings. Meet and ask questions of Those In Charge. Then offer your own suggestions to make things better too. (I had this info in my signature till some mean individuals got all snippy with such helpful information and banned my signature outright. Was just trying to be helpful.)

Is there a Vegemite version I wonder?! Not keen on Marmite (proving that there is a 3rd alternative to either loving or hating) but prefer less salty Vegemite taste.

How come my surgery doesn't need to do it then? They are an independent practice The Nunhead Surgery and they are not owned by a big American company like some of the GP practices are (I think Melbourne Grove is one such). Please don't come out with patronising statements such as "if you really knew the cost of providing healthcare". Just because some people can afford to pay does not mean everyone can, and those that can may not be able to in the future.

Oh just be happy. Laughing is good. Anything else and they wouldn't have changed what they did so you may as well be happy with your happy reaction!

Change GPs. Nunhead Surgery does not play this game. Soon you'll be able to register with a doctors of your choice.

Peckham is not lponger what it was because it has evolved into something different. It has become for the while anyway, Little Africa, which is fine. Africans don't have as much money and that is reflected in the shops and goods being sold therein. Do you not like their shops and what they buy and sell? Well they do which is why those shops are busy. Just because it is not like how you want it, and you want it back to the 1970s when M&S and posher shops were there, doesn't mean that if you got rid of all the shops that were there now people would come flooding back. The shops that are there now serve their purpose. Market forces.

Could you say your interest, TOm Chance? Green Party candidate or something? Market forces mean that Peckham's Rye Lane has become Little Africa just as Southall has become Little India. They seem happy with it. The nail parlours are also social centres and open all hours of the night. Why should white liberals stick their noses in. Let market forces decide. Just my tuppence worth.

My Sympathies, mate. PM sent.

Well that was the Clockhouse last night and the barman apologised as he asked for the money which is lovely of him. ?7.35 (just so it appears on this page too) for one pint Youngs Special and One Pint of Cranberry juice.

One pint of youngs special, one pint of cranberry juice. ?7.35. That's what I said. ?7.35. Have a nice time all!

How I miss seeing Mrs Squirrel at her tree hole, but happy she has a bigger place for the five liluns a few trees along and not facing me. I await the new leaseholders and will report accordingly!

The news item was dated 2008. Did she win? Did she (eat) cocoa.

Ha, we call it the Penitentiary! But that's unfair and is not meant as being mean to the good folks who live at Dawson's Heights.

Then call the council's environment department as a matter of emergency if the rubble is blocking fire engines, ambulances etc. from getting in. Please do this. People on here may not be able to help. Here's the number. 020 7525 2000

I live in a third floor flat with a cat too afraid of its own tail. You know when you see cats and dogs running round chasing their own tail? Mine runs backwards away from it. Don't tar all cats with the same brush. She saw a squirrel on our balcony and ran AWAY. We heard the squirrels laughing at her from the rest of the flat.

It's true. When my mate was ill once in the mid eighties she wrote to him and told him how his art and clothes and music and attitude had had such a positive effect on her. He was in an Eastern European country, in a hotel one night and read her letter. So he rang her up for a chat for about an hour. She was so moved by that and they had a lot in common.

Mother and 5 baby squirrels moved two trees away. I discovered their new hole in the tree when I went out this evening to meet Chick. I can't see the hole from my flat as it faces the other way. As far as I am concerned it's five more potential plant trashers, so I shall regrease the drain pipe with motorcycle chain spray - as that seems to have worked so far!

Mrs Squirrel has given birth to five live baby plant destroyers, I mean baby squirrels. And in the last hour she has been given a 5 bedroom council tree flat and carefully gently transplanted each baby squirrel by mouth head first down, from her cramped damp little tree hole 20 feet up, to her new abode in the next tree along. I could not photograph it however. My camera ran out of battery. I got camera two. Its battery had died a long while ago and I could have wasted time putting new battery in or just watching the scene unfold. Whilst she was carrying one down, tiny little paws and a head emerged from the tree hole and I worried one might fall out! I'm exhausted! I guess the tree hole should now have a For Let sign put by it. The parakeets have had their beady eyes on it for a while so when they return from their mini trip in Forest Hill they may make it their own again.

I can also recommend a book called World's End. This is an area of Chelsea, slums and tenements, and the writer talks of his time as a kid there during the blitz and being evacuated. It is such a powerful book to read. If you can not find anyone, do read that book aloud to your kids. They will also realise that the things they do that may now earn them ASBOs were a matter of life and death and survival for kids in the war years! As a side note - I once auditioned to play a character who goes to speak at a school (I did not get the role, not just because I was about 30 years too young!) who talks of her time in London in the war, and then she casually but unexpectedly starts talking about why we were fighting the war and her talk all turns a bit nasty and racist though she has no idea she's doing it; it's so ingrained in her. My Mum who is 83, is like this, too. When I left home she told me she didn't care who I brought home as long as he was not Japanese or German or black (which had nothing to do with anything but there you are...) The play, by the way, was based on a true story if I remember. So - and to get back to topic - be careful who you hire!!

Well done on calling the police. Terrible thing to have happened. Just been down there myself. Best wishes to you and I hope you have someone you can talk to if you need to. Peckham Rose xx

Willfox that is a great piece of work you have done. Hugely impressed. AND I can see my flat too! The photos from my flat I posted on a similar thread a while ago, called something like Views from your house. I ride round London quite a bit and also frequent skyscrapers.com. Love London!

Today MrsSquirrel has decided to get rid of red screen door because she could hear even the bluetits laughing at her. She's in SE15, not SE22, and the blatant show is clearly embarrassing. She's found a piece of bark that fits nicely and also flips up so acts as a porch floor. She was out earlier than normal this morning but the pesky humans on the flat opposite have put the squirrel proof bird feeders up and also lined the drain pipe with motorcycle chain spray so she can't climb up. Lots of new buds on the trees though; they will have to do. Oh this pregnancy is tiring!

And one of London - the Heron Tower construction so far! OK, thanks for letting me share! Do add your own!

Margate, where I grew up. Can not wait for that Turner Centre to open! Taken from end of the Stone Pier with the shell lady sculpture. Sea front from Stone Pier - Dreamland on the right by Invictor Tower, it may reopen as a theme funfare - theme NOT being urban degradation(!) but of old fashioned funfare rides.