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Hope you had it registered with the bike register. https://www.bikeregister.com/ Many go straight onto Gumstree (that fact, not defamation) but couldn't see it there https://www.gumtree.com/bicycles/uk/boardman I hate having bikes stolen and the thieves that do this (and the people who then buy them because they are getting a 'bargain')

I expect all mice around here are house mice, think the species evolved due to contact with humans. We've had them inside and out, but never felt like we were infested. And ta for the link to the bird watch. Not lot to do at the moment.

Interesting blog from Sustrans on health streets with loads of links. Worth flicking through at your leisure https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/opinion/2021/january/it-takes-both-bollards-and-behaviour-change-initiatives-to-change-how-people-travel/?utm_source=Sustrans&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12086381_The%20Network%20January%202021&utm_content=Lucy%20Saunders%2C%20public%20health%20specialist%20and%20transport%20planner%20explains%20why&dm_i=6EB,771WT,A1PZC8,T5JZB,1

I was so excited by this conversation that I ejaculated (definition: to shout or say something suddenly)

Got a great vid of a robin puffing out its chest spring before last, see if I can share on this (not sure if I can put videos on). It was almost ball like.

The robins are in close proximity but don't seem to interact. We get magpies, crows and jays, far more of the former, and I shared earlier a crow off once with all three species arguing on our lawn. We've big trees behind often home to wood pigeons, crows and green squawky birds, the garden isn't a mecca for crows and fortunately the gkt's haven't invaded yet.

Getting quite a lot of birds in the garden at the moment, including robin/s and dunnock feeding from the feeder, which shouldn't happen! The black caps are back, thrush and possibly a redwing, but certainly saw one in Sunray gardens. I thought robins were very territorial but see two in close proximity. And a bird of prey overhead, assume a sparrow hawk (bins aren't good enough to ID). Need to get the goldfiches back, see flocks of them on trees at the front, but rarely in our feeders at the back

Ex - keep up your rational posts, hope others take notice. Abe - all your posts come across as angry/bitter - that's not trolling but fact. Not gone far enough back in the recent thread to see how Rocks is doing. Right, I'll clear off now as probably not helping to calm things down. PS don't live in a gated community and shocked that we have them here, only a mile or so away from the Village. That's for another thread.

Its easy to throw rocks at Trump, I've thrown enough, but his legacy includes Biden adopting America first, in terms of jobs, and not curbing fossil fuel use and some exploration. OK the positives outweigh the negatives and pleased that he lived for his inauguration. Hopefully to see out his presidency too. But doesn't feel particularly radical..

You will probably need structural support ie RSJs (steel joists) as the house may not be designed to bear the load of a loft extension. Pretty standard.

I'm watching a documentary on the Beeb on Sunday evenings about backpackers being murdered in Thailand Feels much safer here.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There has been an improvement in terms of soot related to wood and coal burning, but a rise in particulates and noxious gas associated with vehicles. Data has been poorly collected and consultations across boroughs have ignored > guidelines. Heartblock and others, if you are going to talk about pollution then please do your homework. By all means express your concerns about the LTN. I'm a road user both on two and four wheels, and half my journeys are through Southwark. I'm also a strong believer in that action must be taken to reduce car use, because of climate change. That will screw the planet up and have a much greater effect than pollution hotspots on local roads. And for those with asthma and other respiratory disease there is a text alert for poor air quality days: https://www.airtext.info/ A repeat of my previous post, please take time to read including the reference material: We've had particulates in our air since the world was formed. We've had anthropogenic pollution ever since we've discovered fire. There was pollution pre and post industrial revolution. It didn't start in 2020 with LTNs. Worth having a read of this [www.gov.uk] As a society we decide what is acceptable in terms of the balance between quality of life (including the basics of food and shelter) as well as mobility, and the health risks that this presents. There is no such thing as perfect air quality as there is a background from natural sources. We legislate (as we can't achieve this must through good citizenship) to reduce pollution including the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s, removal of lead and sulphur from road fuels from the 1980s, caps on total emissions from different sources, maximum roadside concentrations of pollutants, and pollution reducing technology including vehicles, energy and industry. Even if you moved to an agrigarian way of living you would still get pollution from animal waste and someone would still have to smelt iron for your horse shoes, and the nails and implements to build your houses and harvest your crops. I'm happy to see less vehicles on the road as it improves my life in many other ways, and if that is a bit of a inconvenience to some I feel that this is a price worth paying. To say that Southwark don't care about your health is just absurd. Southwark have to monitor air quality and take action by law and have pollution monitoring on the OKR and E&C - I expect as these are the busiest roads in the borough [www.southwark.gov.uk] Closest national monitoring station is Honor Oak, which I expect would be a good proxy for LL. [uk-air.defra.gov.uk] Separately we've met legal limits for streetside particulates for a number of years in the UK. We're also blessed with predominantly westerly winds bring in clean air from the Atlantic rather than polluted air (coal burning and heavy industry) from central Europe. Latest levels of PM10 = 27 microgrammes per metre cubed [www.iqair.com] - against the maximum (mean) of 40. For the UK to be more ambitious you need to ban the most polluting vehicles - which the ULEZ will do (in addition to the strengthening of the Low Emission Zone for heavy vehicles) and address other sources in particular by banning burning of all wood and liquid/solid fossil fuels in the home

fake grass is divorce material in my world. The kids played on muddy gardens and were made to enjoy it. Ah many the Saturday football training in a swamp on the Rye. Of course all weather pitches are a good thing, but plastic grass in your garden? And the Dulwich Woodhouse....

I've written to my mp about Tim Martin of Wetherspoons - not so much a denier but he has/had a campaign questioning lockdown. Tory party keep strange bedfellows. https://www.standard.co.uk/business/wetherspoon-boss-tim-martin-blasts-reckless-government-b112812.html

Heartbeat - look at my previous posts where I have put informed pieces on how London air quality has generally improved since the second world war. I find it ridiculous that anyone says that a local authority has an agenda of 'killing people. It's a shame that the article on the then Mayor of London is behind a paywall, as he had a number of good points and ambitions. Facetious comments tend to be in reaction to daft posts like accusing those advocating cycling, and its multitude of benefits, of being in a cult.

Exactly Abe, four wheels good, two wheels better. Repeat after me. I thought that my dear readers would be interested in an article from the now PM in 2014 about how wonderful London air will be as clean as the alps. Sadly behind the DT paywall. And what was it again? Yes, four wheels good, two wheels better. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/forget-saharan-dust-londons-air-can-pure-alps/

Wow I've never seen this word before: excoriating - from the Grauniad article. More seriously has this thread run it's course/evolved into the bigger issue of US democracy, the evolution of the Republican Party, populism and the US's place as leader of the free world? Now that he will be out shortly. OK that is four threads....

Sylvian Sylvian RIP

Disappointed that the alliance included this: Are those against the current closures anti-cyclist and pro-car? No. That?s just propaganda ? a way of trying to set up division. We are all in favour of reducing traffic and increasing safety for both cyclists and pedestrians across the area as a whole. Some against LTNs will be anti bike. Don't think it helps the cause using the words above and ironically is divisive - which isn't the intention of the campaign.

Didn't quite get your politics or is this just to provoke the champagne socialists?

As I get older I become more tolerant, apart from persistent anti-social drivers where I would happily crush their cars!

Two places I shop are Forest Hill Road Supermarket - bit cramped but more space that the Co-op, and Lidl in Sydenham, about 20% non-mask wearers. Expect compliance is a Lidl thing, rather than the specific store. Both stores have the habit of blocking isles with stock and/or staff. Lidl generally has the space to give non-mask wearers a wide birth. It's not a demographics thing in that people of all background are guilty, young and old. The post above takes me back to a story a few years ago of a couple having it off in an old compartment train. Other passengers are trying to ignore it, look the other way etc but it is only when a post-coital cigarette is lit that someone complains. I think it is a genuine story and gave me the chance to say 'had it off' which is a term from my school days/sit coms.

Wasn't really aware of Quietway 7, which is a shame as Q1 is pretty good. For others quietways link up existing quiet streets and don't need a lot of specific cycle infrastructure. They can be less of a race track than the superhighways and attract more leisure cycling. But the fact that I am ignorant shows they are failing if they are not well publicised and worse still have poor signage, which is very common on cycle routes. Sad that they are not on Google maps too. This is a TfL and government issue and third sector - Sustrans - less so the boroughs although Hammersmith and Fulham, and Wandsworth, tend to be the bad apples

Think you need a 'Guy' to burn too. Burning Catholics is no longer appropriate. Tory ministers and the PM seem to be fireproof so that is not a runner. Trump feels to obvious. Others may have good ideas.

Just wondering where you get display fireworks? I thought that the sale was illegal, unless you know a man under the arches.