civilservant

mangy young fox - very thin - visiting our garden of late does anyone have any sensible advice? i've googled the links above but none of them are still active

agree with KK why focus on park gates when everything else out there also poses an identical risk of cross-infection? that includes the stuff on supermarket shelves that other people have picked up and put back!

Boulangerie Jade had a few on sale at ?3 a half-dozen this afternoon

wondered about eh squirrels myself but the,n one morning, saw a couple come down from our tree and go out for the day haven't seen them since but hope they're ok there used to be dozens of the blighters in the past, but hardly any anymore

it's ok - it's not great art but not objectionable either it's all spelled correctly and it certainly brightens up that corner what did you expect to get on a council budget?

I used our small brown bin for the first time yesterday morning to dump old teabags and vegetable peelings, neatly done up in a compostable wrapper later that day, i see that the brown bin had mysteriously vanished - but its contents were left sitting in the front garden has this happened to anyone else?

i wouldn't go so far as to call the noise on P Rye 'music' it's carny noise, and it is loud, and by some meteorological aberration, sounds just as loud on CP Road as it does on the Rye itself. i won't say anything about the 'free' fireworks on saturday no doubt people enjoy all of that, but thankfully for the rest of us, it's only a few days a year and DFox is right - helium is being used faster than it's being produced (by radioactive decay) and there is now a global helium shortage so it could soon be a choice between taking SpongeBob home on a string and having working scanners in hospitals not miserable, just realistic!

good to hear that the SE London hedgehogs seem to be rallying our fences are more holes than wood, so they're welcome to come live in our garden and snack on our pet slugs and snails any time

a few years ago i contacted the British Hedgehog Preservation Society when they launched their hedgehog campaign they confirmed that for some reason hedgehogs are rare to nonexistent in SE London i don't think they are much more abundant in other parts of London but i do know that there a few surviving in Regent's Park https://www.royalparks.org.uk/managing-the-parks/conservation-and-improvement-projects/hedgehogs they are little inoffensive creatures and i am sorry to hear they are struggling to survive ETA more recent data on London sightings https://bighedgehogmap.org/ they seem to have left ED for Penge!

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > civilservant Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > anyway, people who trouser taxpayers' money > must > > accept the risks that come with that > > > for example...like accepting that you will be > mocked if you are a member of the royal family?:) quite, and as i pointed out, they do take it in truckloads in The Windsors (which is Ch4, not BBC, sorry) and Spitting Image and elsewhere DB quoted as saying: "Minutes later I was alerted by followers that this royal baby was of course mixed race and waves of panic and revulsion washed over me... What had I done? I needed no lessons on the centuries slurs equating simians and people of colour. Racism at it's basest." where has he been these past few years, i wonder, that he 'needed to be alerted'?

your contributions to the forum are (usually) thoughtful and considered, so coming out in support of DB, malumbu? really? he could have thought a bit harder before he pressed Enter, don't you think? this wasn't about poking fun at sitting ducks like Beatrice or Eugenie - not so long ago, this new kid would have been tucked away somewhere as a dark family secret (i use the word deliberately!) and if DB couldn't see that there was cause to celebrate this particular birth - well, what can i say? anyway, people who trouser taxpayers' money must accept the risks that come with that, even if they've been a professional jackass all their lives (and given that the BBC broadcasts The Windsors, its bar isn't really as high as all that) and of course, organisations are always on the lookout for legit ways to clear out expensive deadwood, so maybe DB just walked into it...

prof still's calculations are based on static crowds. for those who have been on these marches, it's really interesting to see the rate of flow these are dynamic crowds, in the old days, marchers converged on a central point and then stood around to hear speeches but no longer - the new style marchers turn out to be counted and then leave, making way for more people to flow into the space they have left - otherwise the numbers could never be accommodated in central london the other interesting thing is how peaceful they are, these marches - no pushing, shoving or gilets jaunes, minimal police presence and not a broken window in sight

mine's just got back radiating holier-than-thou, but also admits to having had a great time i gather that teens and tweens up and down the country were up all last night painting slogans on old bits of cardboard good on them for sparking debate, and hoping it'll make them think harder about their own consumption habits

the teens are revolting in Parliament Square from 11 today https://www.facebook.com/events/449200659154173/ see also https://ukscn.org/ys4c-where

looking good, thanks!

not the answer, but a way towards a solution using peer pressure to make it uncool to do the things that j&b lists is probably the quickest way to get there btw i was appalled at how much food the kids threw away every time i ate school dinner at a local school - taking them out of school for a day will def help cut back on food waste

thanks for the pointer to the Southwark Spine, rendel - the plans are here https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/environment-leisure/eastdulwichtopeckham/supporting_documents/Consultation%20Plan.pdf it does look as if there will be some loss of parking on CPR, but not excessively so but i need to be convinced that removing the traffic-calming islands on CPR in the interest of improved cyclist amenity is a sensible suggestion

i wasn't aware of that, singalto - which quietway is this and when will it come into operation? nothing on the TFL quietway pages to indicate this

yes, agree, it is an animal welfare issue, but the rspca aren't always very prompt or helpful - as my experience has shown. you may have better luck reporting it as a noise nuisance to the council, although whether that'll help the suffering dog is another question.

Passiflora Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh come on civilservant, what are you a leaver or remainer? didn't realise i had to spell it out, given that i was clearly agreeing with Joeleg about the ridiculously slender margin - as the woman on question time pointed out, you wouldn't change the rules of a golf club on that type of knife-edge vote. fwitw i voted remain and would do so again if ever a second vote came to pass i am not into self-harm, nor do i get a kick out of harming the future prospects of the people i share this country with

JoeLeg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Really? Why? > > It was a pretty close vote, and there were some pretty dodgy claims made by the Leave campaign. > I?d say ?skin of their teeth? is fairly close to the truth. YMMV, as the yoof say... yes, pretty close to the truth - closer than most of the Leave campaign's claims, even

i remember being quite anxious about taking our first dog out, but it all becomes more straightforward with every day that passes Goose green is good, but do watch the railings and also the gates - make sure that they are properly shut the rye is good too, but there are a few wooded or overgrown areas where you'll need to keep an eye on your pup i would advise against an extendable lead - it frustrates the pup when other off-lead dogs are around, and some dogs can bully other dogs who are on-lead. it also gets in the way of learning recall. anyway, as you point out, your dog will stay closer off-lead than on, so an extendable lead is counter-productive in all sorts of ways as for vaccinations - they are a good thing! there has been some forum chatter about the lepto vaccine, but given the amount of open water we have around ED, the balance of risk tilts towards vaccinating (and i have often wondered whether EDF anti-vaxxers would advise against the rabies vaccine as well)