malumbu

It's a sad state of affairs where lying/misleading is common practice, it wasn't so long ago that we expected integrity from our lords and masters. But now (Trump/Johnson) it no longer seems to matter to many of the electorate. Not that others didn't tell fibs, massage the truth etc but endemic now.

Sue, is your partner named after bird food? How very peculiar. Nyger/nyjer/niger seeds. Think they are similar to nigella seeds, which of course the cook Nigella Lawson is named after. It's nice that we get named after seeds, like flowers (Petal, Daisy, Rose etc) although don't know any blokes names that are botanical.

It's so communal/community there is no lock on it so you can put whatever c*ap you want on it, I'll be monitoring closely now that you are aware of it, may put a camera disguised as a nest box to spy on you.

Sorry I carried out my own censorship today, a poster in the community notice board outside Sainsburys near the Plough. We have a right to decide about our own health. OK fair point. Coronavirus is less harmful than the flu, with a reference to the Daily Hate of all places. Not Nature or the Lancet but that beacon of truth the Mail (to be fair I've Googled and not found the article). Go and die of Covid by all means. But don't give it to me. It's not about protecting yourself, its about protecting me from you. You get it by taking risks, you kill me, manslaughter. Just through it on the floor for others to read and hopefully walk over. Thanks for listening!

Nothing like a good whinge! The new sunflower seed feeder is a revelation - gold finches prefer this to Nyge's and also chase off the tits that try to feed on it. The Aldi fatballs were a disaster but RSPB ones (haven't been to poundland for a long time) from Sainsbury's great. Female black cap back. Three robins together the other day. Just about keeping the rats with furry tails, and green tails away. Aquatic plants hopefully to start to shoot soon, and I expect the amphibians will be back soon. More soon.

On frog, dunno where the newts have gone, and no tadpoles. Very sad. Had spawn last year but not fertilised. Usually the newts eat it. Well fingers crossed..... And as there is so much building work going on that may put the birds off nesting.....

In fact I am now having to go through the portal to the other side (East Dulwich issues) you may need to drag me out (think Poltergeist)

People who do not put an appropriate subject matter on an email or a thread, and/or just rely on a link without explaining what the communication is about. Not being facetious, it really winds me up!

Can we have some words please Siouxie and some views on what this initiative is, as not clear from the title

Do me a favour boys and girls. Stop making insinuations challenging the integrity of academics/researchers. I expect that most social scientists knit their own muesli, cycle on sit up and beg three speed Sturmey Archer bikes and live in Yurts. But that doesn't infer bias, and papers are peer reviewed before publication. I'm sure it is not intentional but this takes me to the whole populist agenda and for the first time in my life we have some leaders across the western world who consider it right for society to despise experts and bettering your through education.

Yes sad when builders and others, including private individuals, feel that it is fine to drive to a country road (or Camberwell old cemetery) and dump building waste, tyres and the like. I don't go with any of the argument that it is due to the cost/hassle of using local authority tips, including difficulties during Covid. I know of geezers and the like driving around with old vans, caged trucks and the like, offering services, which are totally ligit, so don't always go by looks! But if you are having cut price building or gardening work will be worth checking for your own sanity/sleeping at night that your trash wont end up in a verge.

We had a nice kids bike nicked a few years ago, having briefly left it on the street outside. It was naughty teenagers, who ended up throwing it through a garden hedge a few streets away following an altercation with some locals. I put up a poster and low and behold some kind person contacted me to tell me about the fate of the bike. When I went to pick it up at the cop shop found that the police had recorded it as the wrong colour. Not a scientific study but a good/bad example of why bikes may not be reunited with their owners. None of my adult bikes have ever been reunited with me. There was a thread ten years ago about my last theft, that ended up the same evening on Gumtree, but the police were not resourced to take action. Very frustrating. Do you want to hear more? It was taken from Northumberland Avenue, they cropped the lock, back of a van, onto Gumtree. Very difficult to get anyone to share CCTV.

Rocks - you surely must know about me by now, and a polite request to you and others that there is no need to fill up screens quoting earlier posts. But just in case others have not picked up on my views. Yes I have a driving license. Yes I have a (now rather old) car. The only relevance is that I can see things from the perspective of the driver, the cyclist, the public transport user, the walker, and through community work the abled and disabled. I also know shed loads about cars and technology so have happily challenged many of the myths about air quality. Emissions have to be tackled if we want to meet climate change objectives. As many drivers will not respond to this environmental emergency, then there needs to be carrots and sticks. On the latter making it more inconvenient, and/or more expensive. I believe that road user charging is the best means, but when this was seriously considered in the 00s there was a massive backlash, which following on from the fuel protests of 2000 put the wind up successive governments. Fast forward to now and we have relatively unsophisticated measures at a local level. Drivers can no longer be expected to drive when they want, how they want, where they want, without taking into account the environmental damage. If this means some level of inconvenience, to drivers including me, so be it. This can be fine tuned but there still needs to be measures that will cause you to think about car use. Road closures, traffic management and access charges have affected me in the past and will continue to in the future. Maybe more of you will think like me in months and years to come. Northerner, not quite sure what you are getting at. Devs - the bigger picture will eventually be less cars and a more pleasant experience walking. In decades to come less ownership which means devoting street space to other purposes. Can't get around the South part of Lordship Lane, it is grim, but it is a main road. I've gone through the park (Court Lane entrance) and come out at the telephone exchange to cut some of this out. Or up through Dawson Heights and then to the back entrance of Horniman Gardens. To give you another example, Brenchley Gardens which does not have high volumes of traffic for much of the time. But what an unpleasant road, demonstrating the entitlement that most (not the majority, but most) drivers feel, where they have to put their foot down, at double the speed limit or more.

Fahrenheit. Never got it. I've only heard it once in recent years when Attenborough used it on one of his programmes, obviously for the backward Americans. Not just Fahrenheit, all those stupid imperial units. Should have gone whole hog in the 70s when we started to enter the modern world. Deport all the metric martyrs to the States.

Petrol cars are allowed up to around 16 years old for that purpose (ie those who can't afford a more recent compliant diesel). Could argue that they are just as polluting as other cars being taken off the road. That proposal was under the current PMs watch when he was Mayor.

Restaurants that use the Lounge as a sort of Facebook page....

They are not carrying an oil drum on their heads though. I remember fondly three on a motorbike but didn't do that too often, and of course about three dozen in a mini!

Ah good it is back. Continual building works. Circular saws and masonry drilling into the long hours ever since lockdown #1 (and petrol driven garden tools). Those that have building work but move out so only we can enjoy the pneumatic drills.

Scooters are powered two wheels so essentially should be treated like motorbikes in terms of the law - licensed and insured. This is why the government trials are for scooter hire. All other scooters are illegal, whether on the road of pavement. But they are here to stay, have some advantages (environment and personal mobility). And if I was in a hurry and offered a lift may be tempted to say yes. (oh the fun of two on a moped, having to walk up the hills, and 'backies' on a pushbike!)

Glad you are enjoying your cycle along Court Lane Rocks. Here's an interesting article about decarbonising road transport, including technology and behaviour change. It doesn't discuss local measures as the main focus is on electrifying road transport. I'm not sure how 'poor public transport' is a 'measurable fact'. Surely it is all relative - we have better public transport than many of the metropolitan areas and worse, say, than Budapest. To radically improve public transport you either need a communist government or a good war when you can rebuild your transport infrastructure. Not sure if I agree with either. https://www.transporttimes.co.uk/news.php/Why-Do-Some-Environmentalists-Oppose-Decarbonisation-of-Vehicles-616/?utm_source=Transport+Times&utm_campaign=93ec0d0636-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_30_11_03_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c0cafa3f39-93ec0d0636-250793593 As for catalysts to ditch the car, where there is a will there is a way. I've probably explained about how my perspective has changed - I'd marvel at those with young families that would not have a car, so don't accept that this is a must. On basic economics if you are down to say around 5000 miles a year, then it is costing you ?2000 - ?3000 a year. That's a lot of Ubers, Zip cars and public transport. Perhaps the ULEZ will lead to a step change when many round here face the decision of whether to replace the car - from casual looks down the street well over half the parked vehicles are not compliant. Unsure if ULEZ is more or less divisive than LTNs. Another poster called for enforcement of 20mph zones, something I agree with but I can imagine the howls of protest.

It would be better to discuss which section of this forum moans most. The ED issues one is much more whingey than the Lounge. Not sure whether this is explained by demographics, perhaps there are more Daily Mail readers on the other side. PS what happened to the irrational rage thread?

It's a national museum and therefore supported by government, DCMS, so you could write to them, copied into the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen.

Calm down, it's only a day. Although hopefully you posted this in jest! Southwark have enough bother at the moment.

U Roy, Jamaican toaster https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/23/u-roy-obituary

Wow that's amazing. I thought that SE23.com had bitten the dust. Bit overzealous on the moderating, but perhaps it has changed hands. Did anyone else used to post on that site?