PeckhamRose

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Yeah I saw you in your Shard apartment thinking no-one was watching.....

Thanks folks!

Grander scale with Shard on right. Never did work out how to put the photo in the picture instead of the link!

Hi all, hope you like these. Taken from my 3rd floor balcony yesterday (flypast) and today very early (balloons over London). They set off from Battersea Park, though there were so many we couldn't figure out how there would have been room for all of them! Another photo follows this.

Which begs the questions: 1) Were you speeding 2) Did you go on the red light? Either way Appeal and show them the photo from the location. Let us know what happens.

According to the signpost as you come south from Peckham, after taking the left fork where the 343/78/P12s go, and Peckham Rye Park is in front of you at the lights, where you can turn left for Nunhead and Right (where the 37 goes) for East Dulwich - according to the signpost there IS NO road straight ahead (to Brockley/Honor Oak Crematorium). Only left or right. However, I can not quite make out where the OP was describing. Certainly it is badly signposted around all those junctions, but clearly signposted that when travelling south towards Peckham Rye where you've taken the right fork (where the 63/363/12/197 go) that you can only go straight ahead towards Forest Hill Road, and not left or right.

Humdinger that was outrageous. She works in a shop. Doing her best to survive in the big city. Stop lumping all ED / SE22 people as all the same. They are all different trying to make a difference and get on with their lives. As for me, well personally I am delighted the 343 will be extended to Aldgate, but I don't need it for work and am sorry that so many of you are being disadvantaged as you try to get to work and that it is going to be that bit harder. The other day I was being taken to a job from the airport in a limo (long story - wasn't even for a funeral! - and the limo driver said he is actually a paramedic and does the limo driving work to top up his pay, as he wants to try and remain in central London as long as he can. Life's not easy for so many people. You don't know their struggles. They don't need your anger.

Is theft still a crime? Why are we all so upset that this woman told us about it? I don't care that she did so in a way that may have upset you all. She recorded it and doubtlessly told the police and showed them. And yes, MLE is a 'thing'.

PLEASE PLEASE try and attend local safer neighbourhood teams at which your local police will attend. Then discover what they DO do. Who they DO catch. And tell them of your concerns. Seriously, they are trying hard and their budgets are cut. Google Met Police SNT and find the details of your local SNT meetings. They happen every two months or so.

I read it and I wear hard gas permeable lenses. I keep mine very clean and they last a year or more. Yes I get my eyes checked regularly and have done this since 1978!

I must be really lucky here. My friends love my husband and his friends love me. And I would not DREAM of telling him who or when he could see and he wouldn't dare tell me either. But a great example of how our friendships have worked is as follows. I recommended a Humanist Wedding Celebrant to my husband's friend for his son's marriage in Wales. Me and hubby were unable to go. Two days after, husband's friend calls and I answer, and he tells me how beautiful the wedding was, and this man cries down the phone at me with happy tears. Cries. I pass the call on to husband who has not heard any of my side of the conversation. I hear my husband saying, "So how was it? ... Oh that's great! .... Oh really? ... well done ... 1950s? I didn't think there were any of those around! I had one of those. Yeah sold it a few years ago. What size engine? No, the two stroke....." Bikes. That's all he and his mate talk about. His mate cries down the phone at me and after a few words to husband they're talking motorcycles. Cracks me up. To answer the opening poster, if you want to keep your mates, then keep your mates! If she doesn't like them that's one thing, but to make you stop seeing them? Buh Bye!

They're expensive, but I bought me these. They are made from moulds taken from yours ears. It's weird having the moulds taken, and before that the specialist took a little wax out my ears to make for a better fittings. I had motorcycle earplugs, and they really are excellent. Then I had another pair made for listening to music / phone, which is the best quality I have ever known. But for great noise cancelling made to measure fitted earplugs, I would highly recommend: https://www.ultimateear.com/products/squidgy

Mallard Ducklings are there. And getting bigger each day. They love the spinach I give them, too.

Sorry this happened to you but well done for the photos. I hope the police were grateful.

We live on the other side of the park from the festival. It's Monday evening as I type. It's REALLY noisy even behind closed double glazed windows. We attended meetings about this and the organisers said they would lift the speakers and aim them down. Methinks the sound is bouncing right out again! Anyway, personally I think a park in a residential area such as this, with housing so close to anywhere that the festival might be based, is inappropriate. But it is happening. Please email [email protected] if you think it is wonderful or too darn noisy. They need to have feedback. (Edited to give a better email address)

See?? the Council ARE doing something about crime; they're cutting down trees so crims can't hide behind them.

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On my phone recently I have been seeing ads for a plant identification app called PLANT SNAP. It's free. You photograph the plant and the app is supposed to be able to ID it. It tells you how to proceed. Good luck! I won nothing on the plant side but a bag on the gifts side, which I really did not like, so gave it to the MIND shop across the road! Great fair this year I thought.

Have you actually been to any of my plays? lolol I am not reading any more of this. Open a Facebook page to discuss it or something. Buh bye.

At the public meeting to discuss this, I asked if all utilities and building works would take the opportunity of the road being closed, and the answer was yes. So maybe more works have to be done within the 63 week schedule. It would truly annoy everyone if say the P13 used the route for 3 weeks and then was not allowed to do so for another 2 months whilst more planned work went ahead. Imagining the whinging! Anyway, let's hope that all the works are done ahead of schedule. It was the gas company SGS who asked Southwark for a long time to be allowed to do this work. SGS said there had been 81 gas leaks since 2011 if memory serves, and finally Southwark gave in and agreed on the year long closure of Rye lane. It is my opinion (not related to any party in any way) that we need to let things go through their course and hope that all works are indeed completed by all interested parties before the road is allowed to fully open.

Yep Pugwash I mentioned that. It was a darn site cheaper than the one in Nunhead too working out cheaper than buying a new box of bran flakes or whatever. Sadly I can not afford to get my shopping at this shop.

You cite two points in a poorly written text. First, you talk of dissonance with an example of a parent proud of its child's death in a war in which said parent has a belief system, ie. maintaining that belief that it died for a good cause despite other points of view claiming it was a pointless war (in effect). Fine. So what. That is clearly what would happen. What parent of either gender would want to change their belief that their child had died pointlessly in a pointless war? I mean, such cognitive dissonance could kill through grief and shock. You would be devastated that your original belief was wrong or faulty, and that therefore it would have to follow that you would believe that your kid died pointlessly. It would be reasonable to continue with original belief out of ignorance but for the reason of self protection. Secondly, your point about assuming gender. Well so what? Casting directors have done that for years and they are slowly coming round to learning to be gender blind and actually fighting any writer's description of, for example, a doctor as a male doctor when there is no reason in the script that said doctor should be male. What is a blind spot to many casters, is disability casting and race casting. If a writer writes "Doctor" then that doctor could be any human who could believably be a doctor. ie. an adult past the age of 28. The more examples of this we see, the more we see our world having more possibilities. As far as self diagnosis is concerned, well again, so what? My experience is that I don't think I suffer from it, but maybe having worked as a playwright and actor, I am more sensitive to it. The question is: why are you raising it here?

The word "trends" literally makes me shiver even in a hot day. What colour do you like? Can you see it being fabulous on the front of your house? Will it annoy the neighbours? Do you care that it will annoy the neighbours? Go for that, then!