PeckhamRose

To be fair, it only has ED safer neighbourhood team info but quite a bit of East Dulwich is actually in the Peckham Rye safer neighbour team area as shown on the maps which are in my links above. And therefore they have different email addys and phone numbers. Mark/Admin, please could both safer neighbourhood teams' details go in the information? (Even if no-one knows to find it!)

OK I'm blushing. Never noticed it. Sorry. So why do people keep asking and PMing me? Because they didn't notice it either. Hmm

Thanks - I asked about this ages ago. Things like this, and local hospital numbers and useful stuff for the community. Seems there wasn't enough interest and/or the admin wasn't keen. I'd have thought it really important!

Peckham Rye Safer Neighbourhood Team, map and information Their telephone number is 020 8721 2443 East Dulwich Safer Neighbourhood Team, map and information Their telephone number is 020 8721 2447 I wish there was a place all this informationcould be found on our forum for everyone.

"when a young man stepped out in front of me and appeared to be commanding me to stop. (Which I was forced to do, with all the rush hour traffic behind as well) Then a group of around 8-10( I guess), all of school age, stepped out on the road, and it was clear that they were dominating the road and crossing wherever they wanted, however they wanted" If he had not have stopped or could not have stopped he would have been at fault. The man stepping out had no regard for anyone's safety and is at fault.

Dean - I am so sorry about what has happened but every time the Piolice Ward Panel meet - which anyone is invited to come along to - they beg us to beg people to report what happens to them whether they think they can't identify the perpertarors or not. If more people reported everything that happened like this then the police could collect the info and rightly demand more resources. Every panel we attend we are invited to suggest three areas for them to take particular action and concentrate on - and then at the next meeting we find that they have often sorted the problem. You must - please - report this crime.

Just look at the sand in those Broadstairs Bays! OK SOME have a few bits of rock and rockpools, but mostly sand. And Kingsgate Bay has great caves and that fab pub on the top. Might go meself. No, wait, I did that last weekend!

EDMummy I think your post was unhelpful and also it did come across like you were blaming him for daring to confront. If they'd have done it to me I would have just video'd them on my phone to - those that's difficult on a motorcycle. I would have probably followed them and phoned the SNT which number is on my mobile. What a terrible thing to have happened to you. I shall try to remember to raise this and also the Cheltenham Road situation also mentioned above, at the next Police Ward Panel to which everyone is welcome to attend but hardly ever anyone does! PM sent to rgutsell

Whitstable has crap beach though. No sand. Thanet is fab for sand.

Someoneon here is called eat more crisps. It's her or his fault.

As I said in a diff thread, there was a heap of bark chippings unloaded in the park the other day and they are being spread around the park. There has been rain in the night so this would have set off the smell. Maybe.

Hit the A2 then M2 then A2 then A299 and in 80 mins get to the little roundabout at Birchington, turn left, then a bout a mile down take a right and find thecoast then with the sea on your left, just follow it round all the way to Ramsgate and pick a bay, (in not the right order) you'll find Minnis Bay Westgate, Broadstairs, Viking Bay, Louisa Bay, Joss Bay, (great Captain Digby Pub restaurant on the cliff above), Palm Bay, Walpole Bay Cliftonville (Newgate Gap) and there are the beautiful beaches aplenty. And they constantly win the Blue Flag clean beaches award, probably mainly because no-one goes there anymore since everyone started going to Spain for their summer hols! Just get to the far end of the A299 where it hits .

A large supply of bark chippings was delivered to Peckham RyePark and distributed by men with shovels and wheelbarrows around the park. No idea if that has anything to do with the price of fish.

Have you a link to the article? I can't find it for some reason probably due to my uselessness today!

Didn't wanna be greedy, like. Meanwhile, I remember the wonderful Simply Sausages shops. There was one in Victoria, one in Berwick Street and other places. They made great sausages and at 4pm on a Saturday they'd sell for half price. But then the supermarkets cottoned on (I must find out where 'cottoned on' came from) and brought out their specialist sausages so Simply Sausages sort of closed down, I think.

I have but I could only cram in about 8 inches.

Bring up the topic at your local Community Council and/or Police Ward Panel. I agree with someone above that such problems are in many streets all over the world! I use that road to cut the corner when heading up to the top of Lordship Lane, and when coming back I use it so I can park outside the Co-op and nip in to get milk. At a local Police Ward Panel someone came along and raised this about a year ago saying they were sick of big lorries and others going down it. I suggested their satnavs may be telling them to use the road so they are not to know.

Maybe they were on quieter areas or closer to popular schools? There could be many reasons!

I filled it in. I made a comment about how I sometimes feel that some people come across as having a heightened sense of importance or that they feel this forum does, but that anyway it is incredibly wonderful and useful.

And do it by motorcycle.... Anecdote time: Bestest memory was being stopped by CHiP (Californian Highway Patrol) for doing a little over the 50mph. I saw the lights in the rear view mirror and pulled over and he got out his car and I got off my bike. He watched. I pulled off my helmet - I'm female. I also happened to have some makeup on but not tacky-like. I then opened my mouth and out came my best female version of High Grant accent. "I am so sorry Officer, I realise I may have been going over the speed limit". Covering his amusement and shock, a little, he asked me for my documents. My documents were at the bottom of the rather large bag tied with a hundred bungee cords to the back seat. I explained this was the case and as I started undoing everything, I told him I had a British passport and British driving licence (they have drivers' licenses, we have driving licenses), and realising this would take some time and that there were rather a lot of speeding car drivers he could be chasing - he said "You take care ma'am and enjoy the rest of your vacation but stay within our limits, yeah?" "Thank you so much Officer, I shall". All the way back to LA I could not wipe the grin off my face. Another place to stop north of San Francisco is GUERNEVILLE. It's a male gay town basically, and as friendly as you could imagine. I went with MrPR and stayed in a fab riverside guest house run by a great couple of guys and absolutely everywhere we went, from the supermarkets and even the gay bars in the evening, we were welcomed warmly. But I think I was the only woman in the town!

Ohhh is this a political thread?

The reason going south to LA from SF is best because they drive on the right so you're closer to the coast. I would drive to the Canyon, but then I'm a motorcyclist so it's all good! I would definitely recommend the north of San Francisco though. One of my rellies lives in the Sierra foothills. It's not famous up there but so pretty. What a well travelled lot we are here!

3rd floor flat, balcony front and back. Flower troughs and hanging helmets / baskets front and back. Recent scaffolding gave us the opportunity to go out and put 8 bird boxes around our windows and our neighbours' windows. And this week the blue tits are checking out their property options, checking for best light options, best positions, comparing notes in the trees. The one closest to our back balcony - they have decided - is not an option. SpaceyCat sits on the window cill licking her lips. Meanwhile, the squirrels have finally met their match. They would climb up the drainpipes and ruin all my planting. But the crocuses have survived popping their head amongst the red winter berries. Having tried everything to put them off, we have finally discovered motorcycle chain grease sprayed around the drain pipes is preventing them from their aims. I love reading this thread!

I've sent a PM of a link for you. I have been to California many times as I have rellies there, and also done road trips around USA including Las Vagas and the Pacific Coast Highway and so on. If you can, I would highly recommend trying to find a reason to go down the 395 which is a sort of north/south road inland and through the desert. Las Vegas is such fun, if you're not a gambler! On our road trip Las Vegas gave us some of the most comfy places to stay yet were the second cheapest after Alabama! Do try and take a helicopter ride if you can stretch to it, and go over the Hoover Dam. When driving up Pacific Coast Highway visit Big Sur and the Hurst Castle. I quite like Santa Cruz (and Littlehampton, come to that! Great point though, woofmtd!) and Monterey, but when staying in San Francisco try and take a sea plane ride around it, which is based in Sausalito just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. If you can, ride the coast north of San Francisco, go into the Redwood forests and see the Sequoias. Ohh I know you'll have a great time! Send us photos! PeckhamRose

In the antipodes the travel thing is just part of growing up. They either go on a year's travel in between school and uni, or go between uni and work, or both. In this country it is not so common, mainly I suppose because we have less money for our kids but also because we don't have that go-for-it attitude those fab Aussies and Kiwis have. It is an educational thing. Travel is a great educator. What on earth is wrong with that.