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sweetgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > gimme... if you don't drive any other road > vehicle you obviously will never know!! cyclists > CAN be very difficult to see, SOMETIMES they just > appear from nowhere! > No, bikes cannot possibly 'appear from nowhere'. If you are turning out from a side street onto a main road it is entirely your responsibility to check that the way is clear and not to pull out into another vehicles path, regardless of the type of vehicle.

I'm not sure it's urgent enough to go to A&E.

I have what i suspect to be a tibial stress fracture. I would like to get it checked out by a doctor, but I am registered with Dulwich Medical Centre (4 week wait). I'm thinking of just paying to see a private doctor, but not having done this before I have no idea how you go about finding one. Has anyone got any recommendations? Thanks.

Soupdragon, The Mag, Green & Blue, Grace and Favour and Jacks all recently closed. Is the area beginning to go into decline?

It will shortly need a good independent wine shop, with Green & Blue closing down after Christmas. Really gutted that they're leaving the Lane after all this time. :-(

Iceland is a false economy. Individual items may carry a low ticket price, but that isn't the same as saying they are good value. When you actually analyse what you are getting for you money in terms of the nutritional value of many (not all) of their offerings, it's could actually be considered very expensive. Adding in the cost to health of eating heavilly processed foods off balances the equation further. M&S isn't a whole lot better to be fair, but if you want value, then one can buy relatively low cost cuts of meat and plenty of cheap vegatables from many of the nearby independents and street markets. Iceland / M&S are both chains specialising primarilly in heavilly processed, pre-prepared foods. The latter has a mildly better quality offering, so I would prefer it personally, but it's all much of a muchness. To hold Iceland up as some kind of working class hero is silly though.

I heard that they're building a block of 900 luxury sleeping shelves for young professionals. Prices start at ?350,000.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live in a road just outside a CPZ and it's > absolute hell. Loads of vans etc. parking in our > street and people doing all sorts of sneaky things > to hog/block spaces for themselves. Does anyone > know how we would go about asking the council to > extend the zone into our road? And there is the problem. The ever expanding CPZ, as parking problems just get pushed out to the next place.

HollieES Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > currently following the 24 week beginners > programme from the Virgin website. I'm on week 3 Shouldn't you be on week 2, or have I got th race date wrong?

Mrs E Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps this happened to the dry cleaner by the > roundabout? According to its owner, last week he > was locked out of his shop by the landlord who had > reviewed his rent and hiked it and there is now a > new person running the shop. A real shame - they > are a local family who couldn't have been nicer... ....And Soupdragon, which is now empty, so not sure what the landlord got out of turning the screws.

Oh, by the way, check out the post on Home Run London. If any ED marathoners fancy adding their vote for a new route, that would be great.

I got a place too! Currently running around 20 miles a week with a 9 mile long run. I read somewhere that your long run should be between one quarter and one third of your weekly total, but certainly not as much as a half. Is this right? As I progress in my training, I really only intended to increase the distance of my long run (with the other runs remaining relatively short, but increasing in intensity). Any advice appreciated. This is my first marathon (I?ve only been running since May), so I don?t have any experience of training for something like this. Thanks

Quicker to cycle

Here's a link to the timetable: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/highbury-and-islington-west-croydon-clapham-junction-december-2012.pdf

I had never heard of Home Run London, but it sounds great. Have requested a Waterloo to ED route. Hope they start one. I encourage others to add their voice, if this is something you would like to see.

Why would you ask a Big Issue seller whether they are looking for work, whilst they work?

jimbo1964 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Clapham Juction and the High Street are noticibly > more urban Clapham Junction and Northcote Road are in Battersea.

Lady delia - what are you talking about? By your standard any course of action or behaviour that is not explicitly fobidden by / written into law is an entitlement?

Don't be silly. This is South London. They don't provide public transport this side of the river.

More parking just means more cars

Like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7803997.stm

@Lowlander - I agree with this to an extent, but actually you could make car manufacturers bare the costs rather than all taxpayers, through the mandated incorporation of relatively simply technology to all new vehicles. It would not be difficult to limit cars so that they were incapable (without alteration) of surpassing the speed limit. Of course no government would pass such legislation because, despite it's inescapbable logic, it would be political suicide.

The way to stop it is to remove the speed bumps and *shock* police the roads, targetting bad drivers.

Although I couldn't find the new timetable online anywhere, if you put in a date after 8 dec on tfl journey planner you can see what the running pattern is going to be for the new line. 4 trains an hour peak. 13 - 16 mins to clapham junction. Edited to say "that's from Denmark hill BTW"

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm looking for somewhere other than Dulwich park ideally (for some of the reasons stated already). I want to run 10k plus, but happy to do circuits. Never been to one tree hill so will try that out. If anyone has any other suggestions please let me know.