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Peckham Rye was my commuting station when I travelled to Victoria for work 20 years ago (prior to maternity leave and career change after having children). Since then I've travelled from East Dulwich or Forest Hill for years. This week I had to go to Peckham Rye for a London Bridge train (as Southern have stopped providing the service from Forest Hill for reasons best known to themselves). I was quite looking forward to seeing the old gaff as I heard big things were planned for the station and surrounding areas. Couldn't believe how dismal and filthy it still is! After all this time! and the graffiti wasn't there 20 years ago either. Nasty.

Thank you for the update sweetgirl. An appalling murder in our neighbourhood, barely noticed on the EDF. I think about Beatrice's daughter every time I walk past that flat.

Christmas card received today, franked in Greenford on 9th December. Wondering if I win the thread?

The BBC London news item doesn't give the full picture though does it? It's not just about Covid as we all know. If it were all about C-19 then you'd expect postal deliveries to be roughly evenly affected across the whole of London.

I got caught there and was offered a speed awareness course instead of a fine.

Wow things are improving. Daughter's birthday cards received today - only 6 days late!

This message hasn't reached some of my neighbours :( or maybe they don't care.

Our postman knocked on the door and apologised today before handing over a large envelope posted on 10th Dec by my mother-in-law containing Christmas cards for all the family. So that was a complete waste of her money, not just the postage but the cards themselves as everything Christmassy was packed away here yesterday. About ?10 of her money and effort wasted. Infuriating. The postie said (and I quote) "It's mad down there, post piled up everywhere".

It's probably been linked before in this long, long thread but here's a thread started over 3 years ago about Royal Mail problems in SE22. Like others, I wonder what the heck people are supposed to do now after numerous complaints and interventions. Is it time for someone to do a sad face photo shoot in the Daily Mail? /forum/read.php?5,1984285,1984285#msg-1984285

Thanks Penguin68, that's really interesting information. Where can I find it, have you got a link?

:( Garage has said they can phone a scrap yard, is it worth trying to negotiate with them over the four tyres? Wwyd?

kiera Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was surprised to receive a phone call yesterday, > Monday, in response to a letter I'd only posted in > a pillarbox in the street on Saturday morning. My > letter would have been collected at 7am on > Saturday, yet it was delivered to the rural > address near Guildford on Monday - I'd only put a > second class stamp on it! > It just shows that some delivery offices are > still operating an excellent service on a par with > the one we were used to before our excellent East > Dulwich Delivery Office in Silvester Rd was taken > away from us. Yes, lots of areas of the country have a good postal service. Unfortunately East Dulwich isn't one of them ... it has been dire for maybe 4-5 years now.

Please let us know if the police do anything. There have been a number of crimes described on EDF in recent months where the police seem not to have the resources to investigate.

I'm getting increasingly concerned about the number of crimes the police don't deem eligible for investigation.

I had my booster last week at the pharmacy on Rosendale Road. Although I had booked mine and was just past 6 months by a few days from my 2nd jab, there were people walking in and being accepted into the queue.

What always amazes me is that glass goes into our general recycling bins. How do the myriad little bits of smashed glass get sorted from the rest? It can't be by hand.

I drove past the site opposite the Harvester which has been referenced a couple of times on this thread yesterday ... and there were no trees. If you're going to buy a sawn off Christmas tree, leave it until mid December at least. How else is it going to last until 6th January?

So very sorry for the loss of your dad misssee22. I have experienced someone close to me revived on the street through CPR and I know that it was extremely rare (something like 5% of patients make it through) and he was so lucky on that day. How lovely that people nearby tried their very best to help your Dad and I am sure they will feel his loss enormously. My sincere condolences.

mrwb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How did you get a speeding ticket outside Harris? > Police with speed gun? There isn't a fixed camera > there? Of course there are speed cameras there. Do you think I'm making it up? I'm all for 20mph zones if they are actually enforced. What happens in reality is that people tail gate you and get road rage. Why Barry Road can't have those warning signs that detect the speed you are doing and warn you to slow down, I don't know. Similarly on Lordship Lane driving down from the Harvester to the library, there used to be one of those signs before the bend at Court Lane. That has gone but it was useful for slowing drivers down at a point where lots of people are trying to cross the road (to walk down to Goodrich School for example). Why did it go?

Received a speeding fine for going above 20mph (25 actually) in that stretch along Peckham Rye outside Harris Boys School recently, fair cop, will pay up. So now, as you can imagine, I'm very mindful of the 20mph zones. On Barry Road tonight an A-hole was so impatient to get past me that he actually overtook when I had stopped for a zebra crossing and very nearly took out a family with toddlers walking over the crossing!! Why aren't there cameras on Barry Road? I can't even have the satisfaction of that idiot getting a fine in the post, can I?

There seem to be a lot of woodburners near me judging by the smell outside post 6pm on a winter night.

If bonfires are going to be banned why not ban the ubiquitous wood burning stove too? I'm sure they spew out far more particulates into the atmosphere all winter long than bonfires on one night.

10 min wait at Tesco near the Horniman this evening. I ended up buying supreme at my pump rather than bog standard petrol (as there wasn't any) but never mind.

Hooray! my birthday cards are here ... 8 days late. Cheers Royal Mail.

2 birthday cards arrived today. Funnily enough they were the ones posted late (I got text messages from the culprits apologising) but the ones posted well on time still not here. I know one was posted from Kew on 27th September, another one several days before that.