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But that's what Residents Only parking usually entails. I'm quite certain that parking rates for non-residents is cheaper in the SE postcodes than almost anywhere else in London.

Yes. You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. And all the time that well-meaning and kind hearted EDFs bring this man supplies and gifts and pots and pans and help him build a makeshift shelter with a hardboard door he isn't at the point of desperation that might possibly see him go to the Salvation Army (or one of the other several organisations for rough sleepers) for the night and possibly start to tackle his addictions. While he has meals, sleeping bags, wooden doors, cooking equipment and candles then he is being encouraged to subsist in inhumane conditions. Encouraged or enabled. Are Streetlink still going and are they in touch with him?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42322526 BBC link. What happened here is so incredibly shocking. I just cannot imagine it! I find it hard to comprehend that four different drivers hit this woman and drove on. How do the police know it was four? I do hope there were witnesses and all the drivers are already close to arrest.

Are you sure it wasn't the smell of earth? that stuff that vegetables grow in.

I think this is a good question, OP. How are people who can't get to the council dump several miles away supposed to dispose of toxic waste such as old paint?

goldilocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for flagging this Saffron - think that one > of the disappointing elements of this is how > useless the CCTV footage is for identification > purposes. Absolutely. The images are just awful. It's really surprising that technology hasn't moved on in this area.

More details would be helpful. Do you mean on the common, OP? I thought the area surrounded by fencing (ie. the park) was locked shut at dusk.

No one is in catchment for 6 schools, those forms are very silly.

I can't imagine why you would walk past a very good primary school to go to another one further afield. Make your life easier if you can! It only gets more difficult and more complicated as your children get older.

Is it on Lordship Lane outside Foxton's? (trying to decipher picture)

If the dog who crapped under the table didn't belong to the women in the cafe, I'm not sure what you expected them to do? Clean up after a stranger's dog?

Don't like 'em

Free range eggs are so cheap that I do think only the desperate or ignorant would buy battery eggs now. Infact all food is inexpensive as a proportion of salary now compared to say, 30 to 60 years ago. And before everyone starts I know that is nowhere near offset by housing/childcare/stagnated wages costs! I would just like a decent alternative to M&S on Lordship Lane. M&S is fine if you want to treat yourself to a ready meal but not great if you prefer to cook from scratch. The shop is overcrowded and frustrating with a disproportionate amount of junk food and everything packaged in plastic to the nth degree. I agree with the pp who said that if Co Op are sinking slowly without a fight then that's a shame. They could properly up their game and have plenty of custom from those of us who aren't completely hoodwinked by M&S.

Really not a fan of M&S food and I hate that tiny new shop with a passion, so I try to remain loyal to the Co Op when doing my local food shopping. But, seriously, are they running that shop down with a view to closing, or what? The temperature in there has been arctic for weeks! Today I went in at 5pm and it wasn't specially busy. There were no trollies whatsoever and none of those slightly larger baskets you can wheel around. Dead flowers in a bucket just by the door. Dead chilli plants for sale on the shelf. Most shelves half empty. It looked like a store in serious decline but then it often has from time to time over the years. Does anyone know how they are affected by the arrival of M&S?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > tomskip Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > It will be a significant loss to Lordship Lane > if > > it goes, but I can't see how any independent > > bookshops stay open these days. > > > Well there are quite a few independent bookshops > staying open round here! > > Apart from Chener, there is Rye Books in Upland > Road, the bookshop in Bellenden Road, one in > Dulwich Village, one in Crystal Palace. That's > just off the top of my head. > > ETA: And four of those are within easy walking > distance of my house. Yes, and one in West Dulwich too. I am surprised they can all stay open, given Amazon et al. Something like 50% of independent bookshops have closed in the past 10 years.

I find the tap water in London tastes absolutely fine. Where my inlaws are, in rural Suffolk, their tap water tastes vaguely of bleach! Yuck.

It will be a significant loss to Lordship Lane if it goes, but I can't see how any independent bookshops stay open these days.

We should have a stickied thread in here about school admissions if at all possible. The same questions come up every year. Clearly people aren't getting the information they need from their primary schools or from the secondary school prospectuses.

Am very curious. What do you eat if you can't cook?

Sorry but groooooooooooooooooo

Poor Mary couldn't face it!

Yes, Sydenham School is in the borough of Lewisham and The Elm Green School is in Lambeth. You can apply for places at schools outside your home borough but since most schools admit on distance (or catchment) you are unlikely to get a place at a school in a different borough unless you live right on the border. My daughter goes to Sydenham School but we live quite a distance from you, much closer to the Lewisham border. Having said all that, you might have some luck with Elm Green School in Lambeth. You are not too far away where you live.

I don't think the catchment for Sydenham School extends to Red Post Hill these days.

Its not a monkey puzzle. It's some kind of weeping cypress, there's one outside the library too.