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Time for the school to take more action - they have a duty of care to their children and need to invoke some responsible parenting in their numb-skull clientele. The selfish attitude of some of the parents of kids who go to that school is beyond belief and someone needs to take a stand before someone gets hurt. Other parents at the school who do not cause these dangerous situations need to challenge those who do.

The idiots were at it again this afternoon. Following a large Merc 4x4 to the school this afternoon and it stopped in the middle of Goodrich near the narrower crossing bit and a woman walks towards it, opens two doors and starts loading her kids and bags into the car. I could not believe what I was seeing - the driver stopped in the middle of the road blocking the street. I hit the horn to register my disapproval and the woman gave me a look as if to say how dare you suggest I might not stop and block the road in a dangerous place to put my darling kids into my 4x4. After quite a while the final little darling managed to load herself into the car and stuck her tongue out at me as she shut the door! And I blame the parents....

In fact you should wipe the screen if you have used a suction cup as it leaves a tell-tale ring that you can see from the outside thus advertising the high probablility of a sat-nav being in the glove compartment. Also, never leave your home address on the sat nav - they nick the sat nav and then know if your car is not around you are probably not at home.

I spoke to the council as ours had not been emptied for ages and the bin lorry came past, collect some from the street but not all. They said they would recollect in a few days, I said that was not good enough and they were emptied that day. THey are days behind on their collections but said things were getting back to normal.

Same thing happened to us yesterday (we are on Hillcourt) and then at about 10pm we lost all power that came back on at about 1.30am. According to EDF Energy there are problems at the local sub-station.

The postie turkeys just voted for Christmas. Lots of companies are now switching away from the royal mail, understandably so - the unions don't want modernisation so they have opted for extinction. The strike was over ages ago yet the parcels are not arriving - they are now on a go slow but let's be honest the East Dulwich sorting offices were awful before the strike and are now absymal.

Hmmm, are the posties expecting a change of government very shortly and are trying to force management to concede to their demands before they get privatised per chance???? The deliveries in East Dulwich have been shoddy and sporadic at best in the past but are now a joke and the excuse of the strike is laughable - the posties are just working on a go-slow to force management to pay overtime for a problem the posties created by going on strike. Anyone ever tried calling the Silvester Road sorting office - the phone rings and rings yet no-one ever picks up - why, cos they unplugged the phone ages ago?

Gimme, The plane is doing a photographic survey and has been doing it for weeks. Unfortunately, ED is under the flightpath of two airports and there's not a huge amount we can do about it. It's going to get worse from Tuesday from City airport as BA is starting flying Airbus planes from City to New York and unlike the current planes flying from City, they are not designed with quietness in mind. Gotta hope they get routed over north london rather than south.

It has been doing it for weeks - every weekend back and forth, back and forth. Apparently they are doing a photographic survey - one hell of a survey - it's Google Earth gone crazy!!!!

Be careful - this is how wars start......

I think two mains have gone as there is water pouring out of a hole in the road on Goodrich. Water on again on Hillcourt now.

Came on for a few minutes on Hillcourt and now gone again.

I suspect six hours is their stock response in these situations and if I remember rightly from the last time this happened they just add another six hours after the six hours is up.

Was it a London City plane or a Heathrow plane? Fuel is only ever knowingly jettisoned during an emergency situation to reduce weight and only in the most dire emergency is it jettisoned over land. The plane would have had to declare an emergency and would have been given clearance priority. It would be unusual for a plane to jettison fuel on approach given the high risk of fire on landing. There have been cases of fuel tanks being overfilled and then fuel spilling from them.

Just spoken to Thames Water who say that there is a mains burst in Friern Road and it is affecting a large area of ED. They are saying that it could take up to 6 hours to get the water back on.

Anyone else without water this morning. We're on Hillcourt Road and the dribble from the taps first thing this morning has now completely dried up.

It was flying around yesterday as well - I think it is an Islander, often used by parachutists. Not sure what it is doing, seems to have stopped now though.

They never answer the phone at the sorting office........

Internal aerials wont cut it - external is the only way to go to guarantee good reception.

themaninblack - perfectly legitimate question if you ask me - are you leading the charge for the "Sensible Brigade"? ;-) Very odd to see the air ambulance sat in the park next to the hospital. One presumes that when it lands at a hospital it does so on the roof, not in the park next to the hospital. Thanks for clarifying buggie. Are they planning on building a helipad at the hospital if it is now a major trauma centre? The kids in the park at the time seemed to think having a helicopter parked near where they played was great fun and they were all waiting for it to take off again.

The helicopter was down in Ruskin Park yesterday afternoon - was it responding to a call or just resting in the sun?

Summer's coming = Tube strikes! Bob Crowe gets on the TV more telling us what an awful life Tube drivers have, how passenger safety is their No.1 concern etc etc - funny how when everyone else is getting laid off, getting pay cuts and generally having a miserable time of it the tube unions deem it appropriate to start taking strike action and making things even more miserable. Put a big sign in each cab saying - Wake UP! Put down the newspaper. Pay Attention. Do not open the doors on the wrong side

As a comedian once said: Listeria is the list of things the media talks up to cause hysteria. I just returned from a trip to San Diego and in a week there I saw one person wearing a mask (so naturally I sneezed and cloughed close to her!!! ;-) ). This sense of impending calamity is laughable and probably a neat ploy by governments around the world to take attention away from a faltering economy, drug companies who want to produce more anti-flu drugs and newspapers who want to fill pages at a quiet news time. Perhaps we should all go and congregate around Alleyns and get a dose to build up our immune systems for when the angry brother of Swine flu returns in the winter...... Now, where are those truffles.......

Those three-wheelers bikes do seem to pose something of a problem, no-one ever seems to be in complete control of them - but it also tends to be show-off fathers racing sons and wiping out in spectacular fashion. Saw one dad roll one once and hurt himself quite badly - both his sons drew up alongside the bloody wreckage and laughed at him!!! I regularily cycle in parks in London on my way to work and it's not dogs but suicidal squirrels you have to watch out for - they will quite happily stay perfectly still allowing you to pass at a safe distance only to then throw themselves towards the front wheel of the bike in a manner that suggests the nut harvest is not what it once was.

Those three-wheelers bikes do seem to pose something of a problem, no-one ever seems to be in complete control of them - but it also tends to be show-off fathers racing sons and wiping out in spectacular fashion. Saw one dad roll one once and hurt himself quite badly - both his sons drew up alongside the bloody wreckage and laughed at him!!! I regularily cycle in parks in London on my way to work and it's not dogs but suicidal squirrels you have to watch out for - they will quite happily stay perfectly still allowing you to pass at a safe distance only to then throw themselves towards the front wheel of the bike in a manner that suggests the nut harvest is not what it once was.