
PeckhamRose
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Even more annoying aircraft noise?!
PeckhamRose replied to Rosyprimrose's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Yes indeed I had to close the windows last night, no not because of the noise you lot were making from across the park, but because the planes were flying in every minute wayyy past 11.00pm. Hey, this is life in the big city! -
Wasn't it the pesky Americans that broke the news anyway?
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High street hanging baskets this year?
PeckhamRose replied to Big Tone's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
For those of you who really want to try and get hanging baskets at locations, the Southwark council Cleaner Greener Safer awards are currently up for grabs. Ask for a form from the website and, as they say, follow the links to Cleaner Green SAfer awards. I can't be arsed to do it for you, because here in Nunhead and Peckham Rye traffic light junctions there are loads of baskets and also flower/plant troughs along the railings! Luverly jubberly. -
mikese22 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps someone needs to look at this laterally - > as virtually everything the Post office ever did > is now available elsewhere. Err - what's the equivalent alternative to sending parcels off? Don't suggest DHL or FedEx or such companies, because the convenience of going to a Post office (ie one place) to post all my parcels off (not to mention the ebay ones) is greater than going somewhere in a different part of London to take said parcels via FedEx or DHL. Those companies won't come to me and why should I set up an account for a few parcels now and again?
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Thinking of moving to Maxted Road
PeckhamRose replied to luca9853's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Welcome to the area Again! Is that area part of the nightmare one way system around the west side of Rye Lane? I'm always getting lost round there, as there is a paucity of appropriate signposts. But the houses look nice! -
The White Company would be nice?
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Someone nicked it and took it to the Library? (Well, makes a change from the other way round!)
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Even more annoying aircraft noise?!
PeckhamRose replied to Rosyprimrose's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
I must have been drunk when I volunteered, but volunteer I did and today I went off to T5 as a trials volunteer. A fabulous building. Big glassy etc etc. They said they'd treat us as if we were regular passengers on a flight out. And the exercise today (there have been a lot of these trials days) was to work out what happens when the computers go down and we all have to be herded about without computers but with the staff (cough splutter) writing things down, like our boarding passes for example. And sure enough, we were indeed herded. No-one explaining the delay on the tannoy system. Out "flight" (and indeed we did get to go on a plane and then off again!) was over an hour late with no explanation. We had far too small a space on our feedback forms for feedback so we all wrote where we could on the forms to say what we thought. An interesting experience. Remind me not to do it again! I'm sticking with Virgin; BA will be the ones using T5 mostly. I know this is not quite the topic in hand. I can't make up my mind about 3rd runway. If we all didn't want to fly, there'd be no need. Just like, if we didn't buy the Sun it wouldn't be published. If we didn't watch crap TV they wouldn't make it. etc etc. Too tired to make any more coherent points! Ohhhhhhhh and JUSt like the real thing, the air conditioning and herding made me sneeze. Why on earth did I volunteer? Just a goodie bag handed to us, an electric adaptor for Europe/UK/USA and a cheap plastic wallet and a name tag holder. Seriously. -
Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Oh good. How helpful. -
Do You Know Anyone Who Has Been Mugged Recently?
PeckhamRose replied to gerry's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
There is more to crime than being mugged by crackheads. Crime is also a company paying an accountant two thousand pounds to make sure they get out of paying, say, three thousand pounds worth of tax. Doesn't hurt as much though. Just thought I'd throw that in. gerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I agree Sean. Certain elements of kids are > growing up with little or no regard to others, and > that is where I would like to see a crime > crackdown... -
Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Just had to go down Rye Lane and then up Lordship Lane. Saw two sets of two Community Wardens doing their thing up both Lanes. Now stop whinging about what you think they should be doing on HERE, where they can't defend themselves whilst they're out there, and get out and see them and talk to them and tell them what you would like to see them doing. Phone numbers are around somewhere including Southwark's website, where you can contact them and tell them and/or their managers where the trouble spots are. Just doing my best here! -
SeanMacGabhann Wrote: "I pity anyone dropping into this thread with it's seemingly innocuous title! giggirl Wrote: You've got a point there. PeckhamRose! Look what you did. Yeah sorry about that! But I DID state the date just in case... I am glad it sparked debate though. I did not get around to seeing the film when it came out and was sad to see not many people in the cinema last night despite the director Chris Atkins' presence for Q&A after, either. He was nominated for a BAFTA by the way though did not win it. Incidentally, my role was edited so I remain on the cutting room floor....! But a prestigious cutting room I think. I'm not surprised at all, my role was distasteful though funny. After all the discussion about Churchill I was at the Parliament Square mass / lone demonstration playing a spiritualist medium and was filmed at the base of Churchill's statue improvising my socks off, saying I was hearing him saying how appalled he was that Blair had done what he had done - and then I said, "And I think I'm getting Airey Neave too - well, bits of him". The film was indeed shocking, and sadly has not got USA distribution which is truly sad. I am sure it would get a lot of interest.
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Just been down Nunhead post Office. Manager said it's a done deal. He'll be gone in a few month. It's not for discussion. :((
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Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
I always discriminate against scary types! -
It all started with the Enclosure Act. That was the beginning of all this mess....
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Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
As I said, they're not stupid! Would you? -
Do You Know Anyone Who Has Been Mugged Recently?
PeckhamRose replied to gerry's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Lived in the same flat in Peckham Rye 25 years this August. I'm female. Never been mugged or had the flat broken into. Know no-one who has been mugged but sometimes when walking across the park get asked by a kid or two kids if they can walk with me so as to be protected from bullies. Refuse to be ruled by fear but I do try and take responsibility and walk confidently and be aware of surroundings and so on. -
Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
I have just returned from a trip down Rye Lane shopping and opticians and stuff. Whilst there I saw two Community Wardens (to give them their correct titles) and approached them about the subject de jour. They said - if you pay within ten days it's ?50. They are not stupid. They told me they do not carry money around and so the fine was issued in the form of a ticket (like parking ticket) and if the person gives a false name or address they follow it up and obviously they are good at recognising faces. They approach people who are not looking like they will attempt to kill them. If there is trouble they will call the police. If the police don't come because it's not a priority there's nothing they can do. If you are asked for your name and address by someone in authority EVEN a community warden it is an offence to lie. Clearly you did not and you were fined. For the information on Police Ward Panels of which I am a member and anyone can be in their locale if they can be arsed, you should come along and state your case. Phone the safer neighbourhood team numbers given above and ask them for details of the one in your area. Admin: I started a topic a while ago which I hoped would be a useful topic listing all the important such phone numbers of safer neighbourhood teams, police support community officers, ward panels and community councils and so on and hoped everyone would add to it and put relevant numbers in their phones. Could that topic be "stuck" to the top of the forum please? It just might be useful, that's all. Good luck in your appeal, seanmlow. -
Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Don't be naive. They do. I've witnessed it happening too. *Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know if they're sending teams of > RedJackets into Peckham and Camberwell to clamp > down on littering? -
Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
If that is the case then the answer to your original question is: No. ?75 was not fair. And thus I stand corrected. -
Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
No idea. Just saying I was at a council meeting where the environmental team discussed their work. And that I hate litter. Don't you? Clearly you thought it acceptable or you would not have done it. No idea about how much to charge. I am not a councillor or council officer having to make that tough decision. I am the crazy sort of person who will go up to kids I see on the street dropping stuff and literally, politely, whilst smiling and relating to them, ask them to pick it up. Sometimes they do and tell me they realise they were wrong. If they're in a group I chat with them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. You can't tell the longer effect on discussing it. And sometimes they tell me to fcuk off and so that day I lost. So what. But in your case a ?75 fine worked, didn't it. I hope! I doubt anyone reading this will drop their cancerstickbutts or anything on the pavement, and we'll tell others in turn. The word will spread. seanmlow Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pechkam Rose - you think ?75 is what the fine > should be for dropping a cigar then? > > How do you justify this amount? -
Fined ?75 for dropping a cigar butt - fair?
PeckhamRose replied to seanmlow's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Nero, "They" do do other stuff as well all the time. I remember attending a council meeting about this ages ago - and the environmental team were discussing how they go out and, in their shifts, get the registration numbers of cars where they witness people inside throw their rubbish out the window, amongst other things. And I can't blame them for going out in twos! One reason is for evidence, and the other is for support if someone gets physical. I HATE litter crime, and yes, they DO report all the other things you mention. Nero Wrote: "They ought to be doing other stuff, like reporting grafitti, getting overgrown trees and shrubs cut down, reporting dog dirt etc. There are other thigns they can do." -
Working. One day, one day ...
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I suppose this is an advert as I had a small part to play, but I profit not from telling you about it, and it is "a good thing". Tonight at Clapham Cinema TAKING LIBERTIES (12A) Followed by a Q&A session with director CHRIS ATKINS Tuesday 26 February, 6.30 This is a film that purports to show the shocking truth about the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties by Tony Blair's government. It argues that the five pillars of liberty - the right to liberty, to privacy, to a fair trial and to free speech, plus the prohibition of torture - have been systematically destroyed by New Labour in a climate of fear generated by the government and the media. Tickets ?8.50 / ?6.50 Members http://cityscreen.newman.artsalliancemedia.com/static/newsletter/latest/cph.html
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Junction of East Dulwich Road, Peckam Rye is hell!!!
PeckhamRose replied to jocelyn's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Why should I? You have their email address above. YOU do it. Dodo1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes quite agree with advice from Val Shawcross. my > neighbours and I were a pain in the a**e to our > cllrs until they dealt with a similar issue. > Whilst you're at it can you get them to deal with > the junction of Court Lane & Lordship Lane!
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