civilservant

i've watched a fox walk past our kitchen window with a squirrel in its jaws i expect that the fox and its family would have eaten all of the squirrel, and nothing wasted - unlike the people who chuck out the stuff that makes it worthwhile for foxes to go bin-raiding

interesting so a Labour-led council rode roughshod over neighbours' objections to help a dodgy geezer and his offshore friends build some houses which remain unsold more than three years on, while property all around them is changing hands overnight in a sellers' market

teddyboy23 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Denny dyer real name Malcolm dyer fcuking knob so is Jeremy Paxman a 'fcuking knob' too? he does seem to be on exactly the same page as Danny Dyer

it's been sorted - I didn't need to stoop as I went past this morning, and the hedge hasn't been too badly hacked about I can see that the ground floor flat needs some kind of screen from the street as the garden behind is not a garden at all but more of a strip of land.

i sympathise entirely with oopnorthpup's wish to keep the wildlife safe and happy in the hedge all it needs for the hedge to be trimmed back so that people of ordinary height can pass - perhaps you could influence the owner of the hedge to cut it back a bit, as little as possible, before the council come in and do their usual hack job

FightingFit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps someone should just pop round there with some shears and give the bushes a prune instead of > this drawn out moaning No 'someone' has the right to do that. However, the council must sort it out - they can issue a formal notice for the work to be undertaken, and if that is ignored, they can do the work and charge the owner/occupier.

agree, i have to duck under those bushes on my way to the bus stop and i see loads of people with children, buggies, scooter, bicycles etc having to do likewise there's also an overgrown privet hedge in front of a house halfway down the same stretch of CP Road that encroaches onto half the pavement - bird-nesting season is over so no reason to keep overgrown hedges i thought that the council had the power to cut-back hedges to clear obstructed pathways - maybe something for new councillor MacAsh?

Susbo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Appears to be Dulwich Holdings Ltd, which has a named officer (Nicholas Weston) and a registered address > at an accountant's in Upper Norwood only since March 2018. company was offshore before then. ETA i see you wrote about Hayles Street - i used to live around the corner from there. A different set of issues the video of Come On Eileen, shot on the corner of Hayles Street and Brook Drive, gives an idea of what it used to be like

EDmummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 6 new houses built well over a year ago in the development on the corner of Crystal Palace Road > and Upland Rd. They took several years to build, caused a great deal of local disruption and now > lay empty! Each are 4 bed homes and at least a few have been bought but remain empty. Makes my blood > boil. just seen this thread, hence delayed post these houses are still empty, 2 years after completion. absolutely no takers even though i hear the price has been reduced from 1.5 mill to 1.2 mill, and this in spite of housing demand in ED outstripping supply the developers' company is registered off-shore, so no idea who they are. Southwark council gave strong support to them to bulldoze through neighbours' objections and build a hideous four-storey terrace with no car-parking or gardens.

they are lovely little beasts - but we've never had any of our own, as our dog objects i know that one guinea pig will be sad and pine, so you need to get it a friend or two do make sure they're all the same sex, though, or you might end up with more gps than you bargained for

oh no, he will be missed RIP John aka EDhistory

why would they bother me? and why are you even posting (boasting) on this thread about trapping them?

are you sure they are parents, RPC, it might just be clumsy awkward fledglings? (a long shot as I'm sure you can tell an adult from a teenager, whether human or avian) after listening to a load of Youtube birdcall videos, I think my churring brown visitor is actually a female blackbird and our bold robin hasn't been seen for a while. I fear it may have fallen victim to a cat that chances its paw every once in a while in our garden. but I've seen a new young robin, so young that he hasn't even got a proper red breast yet - I do hope that he moves in and manages to avoid that cat and our jay couple have been sighted recently, who take turns raiding the suet dish. hopefully they will avoid this fate! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-44518962

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Despite it's exotic name, a rather dull sounding bird, with it's feathers easily ruffled. oh dear, diable rouge, you seem to have come down with a bad case of Greengrocer's Apostrophe-itis it's deadly unless you've been vaccinated against it in childhood anyway, the magpies were taking their child for a walk again this evening there's also a plain dark brown bird which looks like a bit like a female blackbird - it has a soft churring call and comes looking for suet pellets. it's too shy to be photographed, unlike the robin who just sits there bold as anything looking back at me. what do you think it could be?

magpie couple frm two or three gardens over were showing their newest youngster around our garden this morning e.g. where to find suet etc the robins have stopped collecting suet and flying away with it, so expect that their children have fledged and flown the nest i'd love to have some thrushes move in and lend a hand (wing?, beak?) with the snails

entirely appropriate that this should be discussed on the EDF ED has strong form in terms of dodgy coppers, such as the nest of vipers that operated out of the old police station (opposite the Actress) before it was shut down - see https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/06/nickhopkins or http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586486/The-Met-corruption-files-A-chilling-investigation-police-links-botched-probe-Stephen-Lawrences-murder-axe-killing-private-eye.html and of course the killings of Daniel Morgan and of Stephen Lawrence have never been properly resolved

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Take them to a wood or something far, far from your house :)) some have indeed been deported far far away - if you've noticed happy thrushes in Dulwich Woods, that's probably why!

that's bad news - because if they (blackbirds) did eat them (snails), i probably wouldn't have a gardenful of bare chewed stalks - and good news - because me getting rid of the snails hasn't left the blackbirds to starve. well, i hope you see what i mean... and does anyone have any humane suggestions for getting rid of snails (besides tying them up in a dog-poo bag and sticking that in a bin?)

... and snails? I must have picked off half a stone of the blighters, by hand, over the last week do blackbirds eat them?

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > as for 'mansplaining', all the women i know find it such a useful word, it helps them be clear > about the behaviour they're objecting to - and believe me, there are mansplainers lurking everywhere out there RH, that's my post above, and i was actually responding to AM what makes you think i'm accusing you of anything? of course, if the cap fits, do feel free

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You make this sound like it's an everyday occurrence. Who are these people boldly using the word 'lady' who don't like being corrected? i occasionally (and always reluctantly) refer to 'ladies' if i think that the women i'm referring to would feel slighted by being called 'women' - but i'm very happy to be corrected at any time as for 'mansplaining', all the women i know find it such a useful word, it helps them be clear about the behaviour they're objecting to - and believe me, there are mansplainers lurking everywhere out there

nicely said, cella, especially this bit "It's more significant I feel when, if gently corrected, the user makes a big issue out of it - speaks volumes." and pace RH's tutor, saying 'gentleman' doesn't imply that one's referring to a toff, any more than mealy-mouthedly referring to the 'lavatory' elevates the purpose of that facility.

not offensive, just patronising, and also dated - it marks the user out as being of a certain age and mindset so s/he who springs to the defence of 'the ladies' can't, pretty much by definition, be taken seriously by 'the ladies', unless s/he pleads extreme age in his/her own defence just say 'women' - problem solved

hi, robbin, where would you draw the line at offensiveness? if I replaced 'rats' in your last sentence with 'meerkats'/'gnus on the Serengeti'/'football supporters'/'hipsters in Shoreditch' all of which scuttle about in numbers and compete with each other for goodies (albeit of different kinds) would you still be offended by them?