PeckhamRose

I also love Peckham Rye Park and am a member of the Friends of Peckham Rye Park which has a website and they have a meeting at the cafe next week. The fete was fabulous. Did you not go? Oh - and I am part of the urban squalor that lives on the SE15 Nunhead/Peckham Rye side of it, overlooking it, so I do so hope you're not too offended or put off but that's London for you :)

I loved Lynne Truss's book. But then I don't know if you should start a sentence with "but".

So. Lynne Truss. Heroine or just smug and annoying person?

No. I was working in the end. But well done for trying to nag someone about it. But the council does not learn from anyone ever. You should see the mess they're making of the big contract they have going with Apollo Housing on our estate. They should have learned from past lessons on that but they haven't. That's another topic. Anyway, so well done for what you did Wed evening.

I got told I look like a dog. I asked the man who said it to me if he thought I looked like a particular famous one. He couldn't answer.

And Sarah Palin could be the world's number two. Ohhhhh dear. But no, I have no problem whatsoever with the thought that the minute I die, everything about me ends. We have one life. It's here and now. That's all we can know for sure. So why do people waste it and make other's lives hell? Because many of them think their God tells them to. I'm off to make a Living Will!

Saw a documentary on this years ago, and those folks who invented it according to the position of the stars in the sky at that time - well basically the stars positioning has changed since then meaning - ummm - there's actually fourteen star signs. But two got lost when the stars moved position. Having said that I did get someone to cut out the names of the star signs from the descriptions, and I do have all the Taurean characteristics. And I am a Taurean! Bollox tho, really.

Lizziedjango Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes but PeckhamRose, depends what type of > roundabouts you mean. Mini ones are a nightmare. > Most drivers aren't aware - or don't care - that > they should give way to the right. Not quite true. "Most drivers" obviously are aware or there would be more deaths. Are you saying everyone obeys red lights? Course they don't. But the advantages roundabouts have are: 1) The traffic progresses, and you don't have to stop just because a red light tells you to. 2) You give way to traffic on your right. Some people don't but when there is a lot of traffic they have to. And in my maybe naive opinion, if everyone knew that they could get to their destinations without unnecessary waiting for no other reason than a red light told them to, and everyone got into the regular habit of giving into the traffic on the right, then as a result I believe there'd be less road rage. But I shall reiterate a point I made elsewhere, the reason cyclists go through red lights is because they choose to take a calculated risk (they know they'll hurt if they come off), and they are making a decision. We are out of practice of being able to make a decision for ourselves - judgments - common sense - it's all going slowly as more laws tell us what we can and can't do. A roundabout is a small way for us to be polite (give way), and let's us progress when traffic allows and not because some arbitrary electric coloured light tells us to. A small or large roundabout? Depends on the size of the road! I ride around a lot of London regularly. Other boroughs (and even in some areas of Southwark) use roundabouts more and they're successful. This junction under discussion is just another example of more control and causing more traffic jams so that those in charge can say "There's more and more cars and more and more traffic jams on the roads let's CHARGE everyone more money!" Since you asked ;)

Andy Partridge of XTC. Bless him. He wrote in a song, "Darling, don't you ever sit and ponder, about the building of the hills a yonder? Where we're going in this verdant spiral? Who's pushing the pedals on the season's cycle? I really get confused on who would make all this in a day. Everybody says join our religion get to Heaven I say no thanks why bless my soul I'm already there!" But for me, having worked in a funeral directors and seen a lot of deceased people, sorry if I upset anyone but I've seen the crazy things people do to their deceased relatives in the name of religion. We're meat. The animals know it and would have us if we were in the desert or in the forest. And we're certainly more useful as their dinner. But to discuss "soul", oh who knows. I'm not counting on it.

I hate the time wasting, traffic-jam-causing, traffic lights everywhere. We need roundabouts. And pelican crossings for people to cross at. And not just there, but everywhere there are currently traffic lights. :D

Ooh ohh ooh and the other thing that gets me is, someone arks: "Have you got...?" and then the answer is "No I don't", though it should be "No I haven't". Yeah. Arksing. Grrr

Not that anyone was arksing, but does the fact no-one really knows that the word is "ask" anymore, bother anyone?

Peckham Rye and Nunhead (or should that be Nunhead and Peckham Rye?) Community Council meeting tonight. However, I don't think it's in that area. Still, I shall see who's there and ask if they're going to the meeting.

Thanks for telling us about this meeting. I LOVE how Southwark Council is so reactive/reactionary. Can we have the actual man (or woman) who made the decision to paint over it without asking anyone, to be there too? Having said that I'm working so I won't be able to take my own blue paintballgun to aim at HIS bottom half...

"Just doin' me job innit".

A contact at the Council sent me this (attached). Might be useful for anyone who is part of an environmental group or want to apply for a grant towards making some area look prettier and nicer. Maybe buy another tree to keep the one on East Dulwich roundabout company!

Thanks! And wow!

No!

I don't care if they study humanism or atheism. The point is they should be allowed to study the possibility that (a) there is no God and all this happened by geological physical chance (I'm reading The End of Mr Y at the moment and it's doing my head in but I so recommend it), and they should be allowed to study it without religiously biased teachers (ie. not a faith school, then) telling them that it is perfectly acceptable to do so. There MAY be a god. I just choose to live my life assuming there isn't, and I choose to try and be nice NOT because I am scared of hell, but because, oh it's just a better option. I'm not an angel though ;) Not even a hell's angel.

What does a grandma look like then. Little old lady in a rocking chair with a grey haired bun nape of her neck, sat knitting? ;)

That's the fella. By the way what is 75 + 26?

Tee Hee Brendan. Pubs indeed. However, that is the point of the original posting. If kids have to study religions (and they should) then it is only fair they should "have" to have the opportunity of studying humanism, ie. the possibility of living a good life without the need of carrot-heaven or stick-hell to live by. Like what it would seem a lot of us do, here. With creationism and intelligent design being drummed into kids and American religious hot-houses pooling their interns into the White House, we have a lot to be worried about.

Bed bugs are common and not a sign that one lives in a tip. They - like cockroaches - can be brought in to a dwelling as eggs on people's clothes or shoes, and of course 2nd hand furniture and the like. I highly recommend a company called, believe it or not, www.bed-bugs.co.uk They'll sort you out. If you look at their very informative website, it even states that there is a high volume of bedbugs in SE22!! (But - phew - not SE15!) Edited for information and spelling!

I've tried the link every day for a few days, now. But I keep getting Error 404 message. Dunno why; everything else works.

Saw John Beesley today (he who's written history of Peckham and is editor of the Peckham Society Newsletter). They're on the case, too. It will also be mentioned in the forthcoming edition of the Peckham Society News (a lovely little magazine which won the second prize for the best local society magazine in the UK, a few months ago).