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Those helicopters are a long way up and you can be forgiven for thinking they are very close to you. I was in Honor Oak Park this afternoon at 5ish and that helicopter seemed to be hovering directly above us.

I am sure you can dispute that Taran. Agreed - very frustrating!

Hi, I'm sorry you had a traumatic experience giving birth. I had to really press for a birth debrief when I was at King's. I was in for 5 days and finally saw someone on the 4th or 5th day. I had a meeting with the consultant at the time but he hadn't actually been present during the birth. Of course we appreciate people are busy but to have a near catastrophic experience and then just be left to get on with it is unsettling. It was difficult for me to have approx 10 people in the operating theatre before I was given a GA and then to never see any of them again, except for the anaethetist who checked I was coming round ok. I think it is important for mothers to find out what went wrong in traumatic births (and in my case what actually happened during my crash c-section). I really hope you find the answers you are looking for. Was the birth recent and are you still being visited at home by midwives or health visitors? Perhaps ask them what is the best way to approach this.

Those photos are shocking.

Hello Dave. We decided not to this year after the 20% price increase and the sobering thought that it could cost ?600 to fill the album (without any swaps). But we've missed doing it, the Mr especially :(

We've got to get over our love affair with water in plastic bottles.

If anyone on this thread actually needs a good tree surgeon, I am very happy to recommend Tim Doidge at Sakuratreeservice.com, who did a great job here last year.

It would be lovely if you could find a friend for your single guinea pig. There is a local rescue charity, GBH Rescue, based in Beckenham, who will let you bring your piggy in for a few days and see if he or she bonds with one of their rescues. Then you can have a happy pair. http://gbhrescue.webs.com/

That's a very good image. Best of luck with catching him.

Interesting that there's CCTV. Where are those cameras?

Thanks everyone. Kind offer Passiflora but I'd gone out and bought a Radio Times, but thank you anyway.

I don't want to download or print a freebie at home, I want a proper biggun to stick up on the wall. Where can I get one locally please wise ED forumites?

Southwark Council, like all the others, is absolutely strapped for cash. I'd be all in favour of having speeding fines on Barry Road and don't understand why automatic fines aren't doled out more often. Is the registration number recognition equipment really expensive or something? I've had a few fines for straying into the occasional yellow junction box or bus lane in Camberwell/Crystal Palace/Old Kent Road etc.

Such a useful thread. Wish I could store it somehow for future reference! I've put my name here to make it easier to search.

My husband sent a text from Peckham at 17.52 to say the traffic is a nightmare. He's still not home at 19.15!

Yikes at that homophobic op. Hopefully your wife will be able to get over the trauma of being verbally abused while dog walking in the park, but the possible sexuality of the person(s) who abused her isn't really worth a mention here. If you are arguing that other people might recognise them and report them, how likely is that to happen? "Hello, is that 101? I've just seen a couple who appear to be gay walking their dog in Peckham Rye Park. And I'm reporting them because someone posted on our local forum about a gay couple who verbally abused his wife a few days ago and I just thought I could give you a call and ... "

Nice tribute to Badgers there, Burbage. We'll also be sad to see them go. There were some cold winter days when the lure of a sausage roll was just too much to resist.

My daughter is loving her time at Sydenham & Forest Hill Sixth Form. I'm not sure a lot of people will be able to help you op as few of us have experience of more than one Sixth Form to be able to compare/contrast.

There is fly tipping all over East Dulwich. If we had a new thread about every incidence of fly tipping we'd be here all night.

Temporary PA to the owner of a classic car auctioneers in Clapham. I just couldn't stick the man. He had been looking for a PA for ages and been through loads of temps. When he offered me the job on a permanent basis, with a flourish and a self satisfied look on his face, it gave me enormous pleasure to turn it down.

No, I'm not talking about resources. I don't worry too much about my intake of meat and dairy as I'm sure it's way below average for a westerner. And what I do eat is free range or organic. But I do worry about eating highly mucked about with manufactured food that spends much of it's life in a lab such as, I suspect, vegan "bacon" and vegan "cheese".

When and where? Cities, towns, villages, gites, chateaux, Eurostar, ferry, campsites, caravans, air b n b, any and all memories/recommendations are very warmly welcomed. Merci!

Don't you vegans worry about the enormous amount of food processing that goes in to manufacturing something called vegan "cheese" and vegan "bacon".

Sidmouth in Devon is a really lovely seaside town. Can't recommend it enough.

How old is your son? Should they have charged him ?14.00? I had similar with my daughter at Village Way, East Dulwich. I spoke to them on the phone beforehand because I wanted to make sure I sent her in with enough cash. They then asked her for more money than they'd told me on the phone. She had some extra in her purse and gave it to them as she wasn't confident enough to challenge them. Shan't be booking any more appointments for her there again! lesson learned.