PeckhamRose

It just said, "Your Results _ _ _ " and never gave me an answer. I assume it thinks I should be dead.

I'll do that yesterday.

For the last eclipse I thought it would be interesting to go to Surrey Docks Farm and watch how the animals react. They went back to their pens as it got dark and cold and all the pigeons flew back. The Blacksmith lent out his visors so we could all look directly at the sun through them. How kind. This time I thought I would head for Mudchute City Farm. If I get up early enough. Putting a pure circular hole through paper and reflecting the sun against the wall reflects the image in black so you can see a black circle appear. Either that or it burns a hole in the wall. Can't remember now.

I thought the idea of basically doing your self employed accounts and uploading them to HMRC every month - that is a bit scary.

It is right to say above Drive according to the conditions. There is no need to do twenty along a long clear wide piece of road that you can clearly see no-one is on. This is London wide, by the way, but there has to be a test case to be brought by someone brave and rich enough to test the legality. We need a rich footballer's legal team to test this one. They can get their clients off anything, and indeed taught us for example that if a double yellow line is not 'ended' properly with two lines perpendicular to the road, it ain't a proper double yellow line. I would always cite the Institute for Advanced Driving/Motorcycling because you can not be expected to ride according to more than one set of rules. If one person rides at 20 while everyone else is doing an otherwise safe 33mph, you are the one causing the danger!

Yes and they pay cash. Similarly at Bournemouth Road. Lots of people queuing to pay cash. If they can't have bank accounts I can't imagine what they'd do.

A nice point!

Fair enough. I misread!

Triumph do NOT have the bra for the way you are.

Yes, I know Paypal means you have to have a bank account. That wasn't my point. Some people can not have bank accounts for various reasons. Cash should always be an option. even if it means they take you to court and you hand over buckets of cash there and then saying it was the first opportunity you have had since they would not accept cash!

Is your Aunt's property a flat or a house? Southwark bangs on about its commitment to Cleaner Drier safer nice warmer yadder housing but missed the last deadline in 2010 and has never achieved it 5 years later. if your Aunt is in a flat and the windows to the flat are replaced any time soon (unlikely) she will then of course be liable for the charges. Secondly of course I worry for her that social services may come along and decide she would be safer in sheltered housing for which she would have to sell her house, if she is deemed to be able to live more safely in such a place. It is a horrible situation; I feel for you and hope for the best for your Aunt. And yes, it is a political situation. Everything is.

It wouldn't affect anyone on here I am sure, but I do think it's a sad sign of the times that the last two cash offices in Southwark are closed. Many people at the bottom of the ladder can't get bank accounts, or choose not to, and could pay their rents and so on in folding green. Also, some people choose only ever to use cash. I do, certainly. I wonder if they shouldn't offer us the chance to use Paypal!

Rather like Thames Indian restaurant. Their Mango chicken is deelish!

Sounds like kids and an opportunistic situation. Cover your bike with a good cover, cut two holes where the cover goes either side of the front and back wheels, then thread D-Locks/other good locks through them so the cover can not be lifted up so easily. Or try and hire garage space. Sorry this has happened; assumed you told the SNT.

Write to Leaseholders Association of Southwark (I assume you are members) and also write or phone the Leaseholders CAB. Google it for Southwark; you'll find it.

That's unkind. dontpanic came over as being genuinely concerned and caring.

Saw two women in a communal bin near where I live. I questioned them. They glared at me. I was in too much of a hurry and also probably not brave enough to photo them. SHRED your papers people!

Meanwhile, instead of concentrating on the road we are constantly having to take our eyes off the road to look for signs. They may be in peripheral vision but they may not. This is in direct contravention with the recommendations set down in the Advanced Motoring Guidelines. "Always drive according to the conditions."

What if they suffer autism and their dog is the only being they can relate to?

I do not have a problem at all with any dogs in any space I inhabit as long as their owners are trained and well behaved.

There's a great cobbler on Gipsy Road, at the bottom of Gipsy Hill along the small row of shops by that big black pub. Been going there for my motorcycle boots annual re-soling but also other shoes and boots. He's excellent. Once his glue let him down so obviously he re-glued for free.

Excellent article. I know of a woman in her 80s who lives on that street who bought her house dirt cheap many, many years ago and is now pissed off she's too old and frail to enjoy the money selling the place might give her. She loves it there.

Primark Peckham (Claire Dowie did an excellent show about it). Packed busses when you hear more than one person sneezing. Bus stop at Shopping Centre section of Elephant and Castle. Hospital. Any hospital. Any department. Parents house. (Elderly parents both nearing the end of their lives.)

There's a great comedy show at the Comedy Museum theatre in Bloomsbury starting 3rrd February. Starring Jonathan Hansler and Clive Greenwood it's called the Afterlife of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. I saw an early draft version of this and it's hysterical. The full length show should be a scream.

Is this Sheldon in disguise?