malumbu

This is how I feel about the country (will we be Sale of the Century in coming years?). A hark back to happier times, with the expectation of a new progressive government. Britpop over Brexit any day

In deed, got to hand to the ERG frustrating May on the matter of the back stop. When their bigger aim was to frustrate the electorate, so that they would be so desperate "any deal will do" irrespective of greater damage and doing the dirty on the NI.

I've got about 10 Gold Finches on the niger seed feeder. Where else do they get food? They are eating so much of the stuff I'll have to start charging them. Get my bird food from pound land - unless you do serious bulk buying it is the cheapest and they eat the stuff. Where else to buy? The finches spread the niger seed everywhere, it starts sprouting on the grass. Any views about trying to catch it off the feeder? Birds, mainly finches, feed of the suet pellets and balls. The seed feeder isn't touched and wasn't planning to branch out et peanuts. Again any views?

Watching Newsnight filled me with dread. The Tory independents veering to voting for the deal. A growing number of Labour MPs in leave constituencies indicating similarly. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/pro-brexit-mps-represent-remain-constituencies-509736 I've totted up those constituencies that voted over 52% remain with Leave supporting MPs 25 of which 19 were Tories including Grayling, Rabb, Redwood and Brady. I doubt whether any of those will reject the bid so no reciprocity there. And Hooey of course as the most notable of Labour. Ouch. Got this off BBC comments - incredibly patronising/superior etc but amused me Brexit really is like watching your library being burned down by people that can't read.

And funny as you go to the London Stadium the big change from the Boleyn Ground is the number of hipsters, bit like Dog Kennel Hill....

I walked to Canning Town once after a West Ham match and it was truly scary. A lot of East Enders moved out to Basildon, Barking and the like, but many seemed to have stayed in a little enclave. Parts of Bermondsey are similar but it doesn't feel quite as frightening. I'm talking football here but also a bit of a social commentary. Not that I am agreeing with the post above, just that in the great scheme of things probably wasn't the smartest place to take what is now starting to feel a bit extreme/desperate.

Can the 52% tell me what they voted for (a) Leave no ifs no buts and hang the consequences (b) This nasty shiity deal that upsets most apart from the harder right that was to leave but understand that option(a) is too difficult, and is the closest that they will get to the UK to become a new Singapore (that special relationship with the US doesn't look great at the moment) © the dog's breakfast of the May deal which compared to the two above would be damage limitation (d) Norway or Norway+, Labour's default which economically would appear far more sensible but would be howls of surrender. What a mess. Need a referendum on what ever comes up. Far worse than even leaving, is having that duplicitous loathsome person running the country for another five years.

We can make massive strides by changing our behaviour - 20% reduction in road transport emissions at bugger all cost - using cars more efficiently, lift sharing, ownership models, better choices about on line purchasers and how these are delivered. We just can't be rrssed. It shouldn't need a big stick. Stuth JohnL, 33 miles in a year? That isn't just the need to change behaviour for environmental reasons, but financial as your costs of ownership would cover an Uber driver in a gold plated Rolls Royce on that sort of mileage (with a back massage thrown in too). Cella et al, sorry our debate is so boring. Sad that you don't have anything to say. I don't necessarily agree with some of the posts but I am prepared to debate with the contributors.

Entertaining match on Saturday and fair result but had to watch through a sea of umbrellas. A rain hat was fine, whimps, and agree with the comment on banning them! Well at least I didn't have to fight my way through the mass of buggies like last time (I've taken my kids to footy before I start getting hate mail). http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2019/10/goals-and-umbrellas-as-dulwich-hamlet-draw-2-2-with-weymouth-in-torrential-rain-sat-12th-october-2019/

That's great thanks. There's on an on-line retailer that do kits with a lining too. I sensed that the cheap ones would be a false economy. I never worked out why my molded pond was much less wildlife friendly than the featureless rectangular one it replaced, think it was because the simple one held much more water and the new one become too cluttered with flora. Or perhaps newts and frogs are declining in the area?

Thanks Malumbu, not really a fan of that garden centre - others may disagree. There is a pet shop in Sydenham that stocks fish and other aquatic things but not sure if they do this sort of thing. I'm avoiding Pets at Home as they are selling Halloween outfits for dogs. That is just to odd, and deserves a thread in its own right. https://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/halloween-feature Anyone else apart from Malumbu and I have any views?

Malumbu - I wouldn't go for the PVC ones, as well as being environmentally unsound, not as reliable as a synthetic rubber. You could try Shannons in Forest Hill

You mentioned the word instagram, which is hardly how I think of the people I saw on Tuesday. But you'll have to help me out here. I've mixed with Greenham women, road protestors, New Age Travelers and the like over the years with a fair amount of sympathy and occasional more active involvement. I expect that some on ER are drawn from these previous environmental/alternative lifestyle/peacenic campaigns. Are they too virtue signalers. And you also seem to be falling into the Brexiteer/populist trap of despising people because they are middle class. Many including me were the first in their family to get higher qualifications and enter professions. Yet now education and social mobility seem to be loathed for the first time, as for some (not all) some sort of jealousy that they couldn't do similar themselves. Having worked all around the country and similarly family well distributed I get grief about being the London political class etc etc. I'm the first to have a go at some of the stereotypes I see in this area and the extremes of gentrification (wasn't like that when I lived off Coldharbour Lane in the 80s!) but you appear to tar all those on ER with the same brush.

They closed down the Department for Transport for a morning. Most of the campaigners there were past retirement age. I've not done my research but that sample does not align with your views above.

Irrespective of your views some wonderful costumes, and I bet they also could advise me on relining my garden pond too.

Relaying garden pond - advice and experience. We inherited an oblong featureless garden pond, made from brick which seemed to be lined by plywood. The ply was aging. But it attracted numerous newts and frogs. So I replaced it with a sculpted plastic one. Yes plastic - pretty leak proof but never attracted the range of wildlife and will soon be found for sale on the EDF (tenner and its yours). I'll simply get some pond liner and use the original brick one Dome some research but not found out the best time to do this. On the flora side, pond weed and water irises have done very well, so well I've had to cull some of this and give away via this site. Can't stop the duck weed. Great to hear views of SE22 and beyond.

There's numerous changes that we can do to reduce our carbon footprint, essentially more effective use of resources. This is not just about technical solutions and what governments should be doing. If XR gets this over (irrespective of maybe their bigger political agendas and criticisms) then this gets my support. And this is from someone who lost two hours of work (until very recently I was a professional tree hugger). Government nudges and bigger interventions wont to amiss and BJ worries me with this populist shite - starting with suggestions of reducing fuel duty. His environmentalism as Mayor (the ULEZ is his baby)was no doubt just another sign of his naked ambition rather than a true belief. In parts of France they just banned plastic carrier bags. No consultation, no wavering, just do it. And now fruit and veg sold in paper or biodegradable plastic. Small measures but the right direction.

I've just seen Juliet Stevenson on the news. She didn't look like she wanted to seize control of the British State. I don't see how ER will ever achieve the critical mass to achieve this aim. So main outcome appears to be increased publicity/profile rather than a coup. The more intelligent, rational and humane Peter Fiekowsky seems to be about carbon capture - which to me suits the beliefs of the sceptic, ie that we can engineer our way out of this if absolutely necessary. I couldn't bear the razzmatazz of the broadcast so only listened to the beginning. Not sure if I agree on population growth either - growing population, more land for farming, carbon sinks lost, pressure on water resources, and that is before we get into improved standard of living. Good to challenge, but not convinced.

Full version. Hopefully there will be a new version for the current leader of the free world

I've got an elm. dunno to allow it to grow and see if it is Dutch Elm resistant - it was a present from a programme looking for resistant species, or to keep it down to a hedge. I'll long be dead by the time it is a proper tree.

Overpopulation - a complex discussion. UK has an aging population, and without immigration population may even go down. But who is there to wipe the bums of our old and infirm. I'm using this course example as I did exactly this one summer working on a geriatric ward and may well be in need of someone to do this for me one day. So whilst in the west the birth rate is low and population aging, we need developing countries with higher birth rate to provide the workers for our health and social services. Saying this from a perspective of a very interesting presentation by an academic, rather than pub talk. I'll leave that one open for discussion. Or we can do was the Japanese do and use robots for company of our older generation. Yes population control is a massive factor, raising of living standards etc.

I saw Treacle Jr premier at the London Film Festival. An enjoyable evening made more fun by spotting the various locations close by, Camberwell Old Cemetery where there is a sex scene (not gratuitous/pornographic), the tree he runs into on the Rye and the like. They also go from round here to Waterloo in about a minutes walk, but of course films don't need to respect the urban environment. Its shown occasionally on that London channel you find by mistake, in-between British football and gangster films. On second watching it wasn't so great, makes a difference seeing it in a plush cinema (BFI). Mr Bean drives up Westwood Park and all he can see is the sky. Peter Davison was in a drama also filmed on Westwood Park, but can't find it in IMDB, also featured Dulwich Park and Horniman School (obsessive husband who wont let his wife leave him). And Babylon thingy about the Met Police filmed a shoot out again on Westwood Park - I came home to find police everywhere, but the mobile canteen gave it away.

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