civilservant

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Totally genuine question here. Why if the body > needs to be buried in order to keep its > integrity, is it then okay for that to be time > limited? Surely it either needs to be buried in > one piece or it doesn't? I just don't understand > it. neither do I and I'm not even trying to understand it because I suspect there's no logic to it if it's about taking a perfectly decent bit of wooded green space and turning it into a graveyard because the pious are worried about disturbing the long-dead in existing graveyards, then that just doesn't compute - other pious folk have no qualms about digging up their dead and repackaging them to fit the available space; it's done even in the best churches e.g. Westminster Abbey or am I missing some element of religious orthodoxy here?

in places like Greece, Italy, Spain, where they believe strongly in the need to preserve the physical integrity of the body after death i.e. bury not cremate, it's quite customary to lease a burial plot for a fixed period of time. When this time is up, the bones are disinterred and re-buried more compactly - hence the catacombs and the ossuaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossuary you see in many European cemeteries - so they can manage with a limited amount of burial space. It's only in England it seems that it's your bit of green and pleasant land for ever and ever, or at least until they build a car-park on top of you

After the lengthy shenanigans at the Elephant to give cyclists their very own space, I was bit bemused last night to see a cyclist in full Lycra barrelling along on the pavement, right next to the cycle lane. Does anyone wonder why the rest of us hate cyclists? It may be just one bad apple but since most of them are masked by their helmets and Lycra, with no number plates or other ID, no one can tell which one it is.

measuring in cups - so long as the same cup is used throughout - is no problem at all, and preferable to having to weigh everything out. if the recipe is properly written (and tested!) to ensure internal consistency, the size of the cup doesn't matter at all I note that a lot of the responders say 'buy this' and 'buy that' - good to see the level of disposable income in Dulwich has kept up! but how sustainable is that? and exactly HOW precise do ingredient measurement need to be? will one's cakes really suffer if you're +/- 10gm out? re. "cupful of chopped walnuts" v. "cupful of walnuts, chopped" - that's a poorly written recipe if it confuses the two, not your own fault if you can't distinguish between the two

Franklin's farm shop have them

the cultural norms argument is so off the mark - Penguin is usually a reasoned and reasonable commentator that i am truly surprised at his post in any culture, a grown man hitting a child is considered unacceptable, whether it happens in Glasgow or Ghana or Gloucester. what might vary is whether people consider it their business to intervene. I note that the OP comments that none of the people passing intervened to help the child. Does that imply that this man's behaviour is an ED cultural norm? I do hope this man and child have been identified and the social services have been involved.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Alan Medic Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The Man in the High Castle is currently a > I have the book... yes its a good read but it's > not really my idea of sci-fi. no? the author and his readership agreed it was SF, to the extent that it won the Hugo - it's a classic alternative universe novel but you're right that it's not "sci-fi"!

it depends on what his bag is - the ones recommended are all good and i read and enjoyed them when they were still new and fresh, but they do not really work when re-read by an older and presumably more demanding reader of the newer writers, Iain M Banks is very good, and I highly recommend China Mieville the new William Gibson (The Peripheral) is also a great return to form what about George RR Martin i.e. the Game of Thrones guy! and another good newer writer is Paolo Bacigalupi if he likes cyberpunk/hardboiled, then Walter Jon Williams or Richard Morgan and if he's into hard SF, then try someone like Alastair Reynolds or Kim Stanley Robinson or Stephen Baxter

i'm local too and I haven't complained! neither has anyone else in this household i'd have thought that the mirror was valuable for precisely the reason EDmummy mentions

True, and it does create its own congestion, with people queuing for their morning latte or wandering into the oncoming commuter hordes carrying their cups of dangerously hot liquid! I use the Thameslink service for its convenience - if I manage to squeeze onto a train at PRye or DH, i can get to the Elephant in 5-10 minutes. I could of course take a bus for the same journey, but that means that I'd have to spend 30-40 minutes travelling instead. How many of the commuter hordes, like me, are shaving minutes off their commute by crowding into DH station? I bet there'd be many fewer if Camberwell and the Walworth Road were less congested with white vans, builders' lorries, school drop-offs and slow cyclists in the bus lanes!

85volga Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a crazy solution ............... > > Lets decamp the "Phoenix" pub from the original > train station entrance, return it to its original not crazy at all, an excellent solution! but not likely to happen any time soon, I fear, given that Network Rail, the NHS etc are being encouraged to lease or sell off 'unproductive' estate to fund activity and deliver savings...

RobMiller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > seems that the three firms who are working on > sites near the junction might be ready to > coordinate a bit more effectively together. hi, Rob, would you be able to share what the three firms have committed to do? we live nearby, so it is of interest to us

I'm at a loss to understand what this forum or indeed any other bystanders could offer - or should offer - that wouldn't be available via the school support network. This sounds like disaster tourism to me - so move on, nothing to see here.

we discovered that some of our mail was being delivered to Ulverscroft Road to the house with the same number as ours, even though the address on each piece of mail clearly said Crystal Palace Road.

Pat Lanips Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > just a feeling and a sense that you dont wanna be > getting involved. Thats it really. thanks for clarifying, pat but i agree with first mate and others that we need to know why they seem to feel they can be so cosy with the council

i'm sorry I don't understand your point, Pat Lanips are you saying that MYN http://www.mynproperties.com/index.php/contact have put the frighteners on you, on the council and on James Barber, so that they can make a public nuisance of themselves with impunity?

our bus stopped for a while to allow the ambulance to attend the incident - from what i could see, it involved a pedestrian. it didn't seem right to hang around - i do hope he's ok.

blah blah has nothing to apologise for the idea of making reparation - financially, not just saying sorry - is a big issue, and the long-term impact of conquest, plunder, slavery etc on native peoples has been a serious and enduring one. JohnL, you might really appreciate the irony in our treatment of President Xi last week if you look at the history of the 19th Century British opium trade with China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China which ultimately led to the rise of the Chinese Communist party - yes, it all happened a few years ago, but one would have to be rather stupid to say it has no current impact on us at all

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The problem is that the cube in the middle with > dimples is a electric sub=-station apparently > celebrating Michael Faraday. so that's the story from TFL is it? pretty ironic that,James, since Michael Faraday was born at the Elephant and the cube is the only monument in the UK to probably the most significant British scientists ever speaking as someone who goes through the Elephant every day, it's not the roundabout which is the problem the problem is the roadway-narrowing and the ever more complicated road layout that's trying to accommodate the cycle route malarkey on top of the complex geography of the many roads that converge at the Elephant

there was just one south-bound lane of London Road open today around 7 pm and it was packed full of buses - every bus i've been on this week has taken over half an hour to get from the Waterloo Road roundabout (the one with the obelisk) to the Faraday monument roundabout - a distance that should take less than 5 mins. the roads are now so narrow and the turns are so tight, it's like a slalom run for buses all around there as for changing buses at the elephant each morning, going the other way, it's a new game of "hunt the bus-stop" every day as the road layout changes on a daily basis hoping it'll get better over half-term, but not holding my breath...

yes they are

just seen 'publically' used on the BBC website in a news item. (sigh!)

I really can't see how Denmark Hill station could cope with more peak time traffic than it gets at the moment - this morning for example, one of the turnstiles was out of order and the staff seemed unable to manage the mass of incoming and outgoing passengers. The result was a jostling crowd spilling off the pavement into the path of oncoming buses and other traffic. and wouldn't it be lovely if Thameslink could make its current service work? Trains that arrived on time, weren't cancelled at random and which allowed passengers to travel without being jammed in like sardines

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have always found their in store baked > bread to be really good. Co-op seem to be able to > consistently bake good bread in store. agree - the Co-op baguettes are particularly good

i see today that the bus stop has finally re-opened