PeckhamRose

There's usually one at Dulwich Village, I think, each year.

Nice post, giggirl and also good to read you do not take your comfortable life for granted. I know you work hard. So how about volunteering somewhere, local hospital or somewhere. Course, you'll probably need a CRB check but volunteering may make a difference to not only how you feel but will help the people you're volunteering for. And I am sure you'll be able to drink coffee and keep your mobile with you, too.

Oh great, yes, bring in more speed humps! Nooooooooooo! But aren't there traffic lights up Forest Hill Road? Yes there are!

I do not think that the richer folk in society should automatically get child benefit. Equally, I do not think that the richer folk in society should automatically get free prescriptions when they reach 60/65. I think all prescriptions should be free. I also think that child benefit should be stopped after the 2nd child for those who received it. But that's me!

Yay Sam! You're in business! Hope the walk proves useful taking into account other people's comments here, and I am sorry I can not come with you. I hope other folks from here though who can attend, will come along and meet you and identify problems along the way for you or your colleagues to sort out.

Some of the people living on Cheltenham Road (the road that continues south after it has finished being Peckham Rye SE15) claimed that their property was being damaged by the large trucks that go down there. It's now 20mph but the 343 never keeps to that speed. It would be interesting to hear if people on that road have any opinions, because road humps would surely make it worse. The road dips down in the middle anyway. As for 20mph being comfortable over the new humps, try doing that on a bike when you have a bad back, or a broken limb in an ambulance?

I am going to ask this thread be deleted. I am sorry everyone. It's just that this country has unreliable postal service at the moment and my cousin is going through hell and I wanted someone to take a parcel to USA and send it to her from there. How daft of me. Sorry.

I am so naive and forgetful. I apologise profusely. I would, of course, be happy to show the courier all the contents of my cousin's gift. My stress for her is not making me think clearly. Maybe I should ask to have the thread deleted. I am sorry.

A kind and thoughtful suggestion - I already have the parcel... it was just a thought if anyone's going. Thanks again x

I'm serious. She's having a double mastectomy and I don't have a lot of money to send her a gift, but I will if I have to. American dollars of course. Thanks.

My Californian cousin's in hospital in LA - and I want to send her a gift but what with the mail problems here AND postage - if anyone is going over there I would be so grateful if you could post my parcel to my cousin when you get there. I'd pay you in dollars if you prefer!

I thought it was funny. Seriously, I did.

Hi Sam The map is not attached but I think we know where you mean. Thanks for posting this.

Last year if I remember correctly there were complaints that we could not HEAR the PA. I can't be ar$sed to find the feedback thread for last year but I am sure that those complaints were heard and BoosBoss said he would take all the complaints and considerations and suggestions on board.

Ditto hear hear etc. More excuses to take our eyes OFF the road and on to the countless signs and so on are not good. Not to mention more signage 'furniture' on the pavements - we don't need it!

Yup this happened to a mate of mine. A man walked up to him and took his attention whilst another man approached from behind and held his arms whilst the first man stole passport and wallet. At the police station the police basically calmly told him to wait behind all the other people in the queue reporting the same thing. The police gave him a piece of paper with information on it to give to the airport for his flight back. That piece of paper was a waste of time and was not going to let him fly home, and he had to visit immigration. So the police did not know what they were doing. Apart from that - he said it was a lovely city!

There is a bubble on the bus? Is the bus ALWAYS on Peckham High Street? Does it just stay there? Is that because it has a bubble in it?

Another real ale drinker here. First started when I used to go to the Firkin Breweries and had DogBolter the strongest of their three ales. Now I am partial to Fullers and the darker of the real ales, but am also partial to cherry beer!

In the early 1980s I had the displeasure of attending the Moscow State Circus, in Moscow, with all the animals who clearly had to have been cruelly treated to do some of those awful dreadful tricks they were made to do, involving a bear on stilts juggling a cat. I Kid You Not. I took loads of photographs of them, too. I was so traumatised by what I saw I vowed never to go to a circus ever again. Ever. And now you make this posting. It may be about time I had a Good Circus Experience!

Good for you! But beware of some on here who aren't used to actually complaining to the right people and prefer this site as their home to whinge. if you actually ANSWER their concerns they won't know what to do with themselves!

Thanks Eileen. Indeed I have not been elected by anyone to do anything. I just turn up to meetings. Anyone can. Kids have turned up too. It's Good. Sorry it's not being run like you'd want it mate. You and your rules and regulations, eh? "Go away and have a look at this concept." Such arrogance. I shall just go away if that's okay. "It is to educate and is an awareness tool, not to punish..." And that is so not true.

Anyone can go the Police Ward Panels. How daft of you to suggest it is an attempt to control, on my part, just because I attend Police Ward Panels. I have no wish to control anyone, which is why I think volunteering to use a speed camera is a bad idea. It's not behind the back of my neighbour, either. My neighbour is more than welcome to come along. And dear SteadyEddy, I am not angry, just making an argument against most of everything you said; that doesn't make me angry. I am a happy motorcyclist just trying to get from A to B - if only the over-regulation and designing in of the criminality, and designing out of my ability to use common sense - would let me. Cllr Barber will you attend the next one? I shall alert people in the What's On in East Dulwich section when the next one is due. It's on Thursday 3rd December 2009 at Harris Girls Sports Academy School college whatever the heck it is! Note this is for Nunhead and Peckham Rye, though, but parts of East Dulwich do figure in it, around the Gardens especially.

Just read all this thread. I was at the bus stop by Goose Green the other day with about seven other people. A bulky male barged through all of us as the bus arrived, and nearly knocked a woman flying. I immediately pushed him so his momentum to thrust forward was directed away from others, after he had gone into her, so he could not barge into anyone else. He turned on me and threatened me with all sorts of nonsense, swearing and telling everyone what he would do to me, then he walked away. The bus drove off before he had finished. There were now just three of us at the bus stop as this man stormed away. I asked them if - if this man had have physically attacked me - would they have intervened? They did not answer, but I hope they thought about it. I have intervened also, but I always check my escape first!

Then go to the Police Ward Panels and demand it! Seriously, that's what they're there for. They highlight three topics each meeting and we all discuss which ones should be highlighted and then the police act on our suggestions.

At my local Safer Neighbourhood Team Police Ward Panel meetings, I have stated that I am absolutely opposed to the idea of volunteering to use the speed cameras on car drivers. If I were to catch a Mum, for example, driving her kids to school, or a guy going to visit his kid in hospital, or someone off to an interview, and they make the decision, based on their perfect vision and the fact there is nothing in the road, and the road is wide, and it is a clear dry day, to drive 8 mph over the limit, and I catch them, the effect on their life and maybe their finances could be devastating. Basically I suppose I am saying that if I catch someone who is speeding, the fact they are at that time going over some arbitrary speed limit may be because they have made the decision, based on all the evidence of their surroundings that it is the appropriate speed, even though it may exceed the limit. In my mind they are not criminals. We are having our ability to learn common sense, and our ability to make good decisions from evidence, bashed out of us by the ever increasing laws that say 'Thou Shalt Not...' Cyclists who go over red lights are making a judgment, based on what they can see and their abilities and so on, and those who ride dangerously will usually result in only them being harmed, so they know the risks. In my opinion they merely prove that there are just too many (mostly unnecessary) traffic lights in London. The fact most cyclists go through red traffic lights safely without any collision with anyone (seriously, it has to be 'most' since if it were not, we would be bombarded with reports every day and cyclists would have to have registration plates) - proves that it works for them and we should not be concerned about it. In another part of the world one can turn right on a red traffic light (or in our case it would be left), so it is merely a matter of opinion that stops them (or anyone else) legally doing it here. Carrying a hand held speeding machine and aiming it at speeding car drivers is not the answer. Education at the beginning of the process - is, but designing in the criminalisation of motorists along the way, (for example by putting in traffic lights at the bottom of the park that do not give people any time to do a right turn so they HAVE to go against the red light and break the law), along with ridiculous road humps and bumps and traffic angering measures, is making us all really irritated and thus more inclined to drive in what some may perceive to be dangerous. I would never imagine that I would go over a red traffic light but sometimes it is the only way I am going to turn right to get up Peckham Rye! Having me aim a speeding camera at you will not make you drive any better. I am a pedestrian and a motorcyclist, and never owned a car, but I feel the car driver is really being unfairly bashed right now and I refuse to be a part of it. Now, if you think of the very fast driver who is usually blaring out music and obviously being very dangerous in their road use, then yes the millions of already fixed cameras should be taking note, and in fact we already all have the power as citizens to simply write down their details the date time description of driver and the registration number and description of car, and report it to the police. And we can do that when those cars will inevitably find themselves at a red light somewhere. Off you go then! But if you all really care about this, why not attend the Police Ward Panel meetings and discuss it with the police around a table? I always state in the What's On In East Dulwich section when the next Police Ward Panel is for Nunhead and Peckham Rye (which covers some of East Dulwich). We invite Councillors, too, but they rarely if ever come along.... (Please note, these are my opinions only Sean McG so leave it, eh?)