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Thinking more of this. As a pragmatist less developed parts of the country doing well out of the EU irrespective of a democratic deficit is a good thing. Noting that much of the above is infrastructure or supporting business thay may not instinctively appeal to the masses. Great to have a more considered view.

A serious question. Was chatting with a friend yesterday who was very involved in introducing them a few years ago, but disappointed with the outcome. I approach them from time to time to point out a motorist who perhaps deserves a talking to, and they show no interest and seem to be pretty ignorant (Highway Code etc). I say don't stand on Lambeth Brige North side roundabout as there is nothing happening. Go and do something useful and sort out the traffic on the South Side. And they look at me all confused. A cut out of a copper with a fluorescent vest on the North side roundabout would be just as effective. The full sized cut out of the middle aged copper in the shop in Peckham is great (easy to scoff but this does have an impact on reducing shoplifting). So before I write to Sadiq great to have views. Am I being mean or a moaning Minnie?

Exactly, harebrained and unwanted.....

Hardware shops have pleny of candles, but they may be rationed due to panic buying. I understand you can only ask for four candles.

Info on powercuts can be found here: http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/ Only found it when we had an annoucment in my central London office that we may have a powercut due to exceptional levels of demand. Funny as it wasn't a high demand day - no international sport, royal wedding or significant plot line in Eastenders. There was me wondering whether we were having a return to the three day week. What I suspect is that there was a local supply problem. Which happens. Rather than a collapse of the National Grid.

Why all the ranting when there seems to have been an injection of common sense in recent times? My simplistic assumptions on many parts of the country who benefited from EU support, or had the low levels of immigration seem to be countered by those, well at least one on this forum, who has awarded them hero status, whilst tarring most of us in London as champagne socialists. Its still all poo I hasten to add, but I have to grab the odd crumb of comfort. Right back under by duvet. By the way ranting refers to those who are so angry about recent events, rather than us whingers/moaners.

I was enthralled by the wonderful Monkey Planet on BBC last night. But one bit sent me into panic. The Battle of the Apes series of films in the early 70s prophesied a future time when apes would take over from humans. (I am not sure if the remakes did similar). I recall one scene when they were talking about how it all happened. There was a great plague that wiped out the cat and dog population so people adopted apes as pets. But they were much more useful and did work to support their human captors - and there was a clip of an ape cooking and preparing food. Imagine my shock when they showed yesterday a gorilla that could build a fire, light it with a match and toast marsh mellows. Now all we need is the evolutionary leap with a human like voice box so apes can talk too and the future of the human race will be under threat. I am sorry to spread panic and alarm but somebody needs to. What should I do to prepare for this?

All sounds quite exciting - as long as there is some attempt to retain characteristics of the ares. Everyone in the restaurants I pass by seem to be under 30 and white. Anyway I digress. More relevant is changes to the Peckham Platform arts space, and some redevelopment of that area. Heard about it on Robert Elms but I was only half listening. http://www.peckhamplatform.com/news/whats-next-for-peckham-platform

Am I the only one who keeps reading where to go for for a root canal? Bolney Court in Sydenham.

Sharing economy should be a great thing. AirBnB was about letting out a room, or house, when you don't need it. Now commercial letters are using it, which (I understand) has driven up rents as you can get more renting by the day, and is not in the spirit it was designed for. Anyway my take from a few articles I have scanned and my experience in looking for places in a Spanish City.

I quite liked a few of them (what they weren't allowd to do). Surprisingly progressive (my take on rules that are probably anything but). uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They are not allowed to study psychology (mmmhhh > says it all imo), biology and they are not allowed > to do any of this > http://truthrundown.net/jehovah-witness/141-things > -jehova-witnesses-cant-do/

Well, what a thought, I may (depending on my gender) have fathered everyone in the world who is 12 years or so younger than me. Reminds me of an old joke about a bet, a man and a dog, two wheelbarrows and a naturist beach. Was tempted to tell it as it is not offensive (in terms of against another group) but I am sure I would have been told off. So, in the old days of bumper stickers there were only two that amused me. "Retired, spendng children's inherentence" And "diver self pleasuring, no hand signals"

Good heavens. Are you an expert in bus driving standards? I cycle amongst dozens each day, that is perhaps about 50,000 a year. About every other year I have an issue and have either taken this out with a rant, or if I feel strongly enough by e-mailing a complaint to London buses. London buses who oversee the franchise - I think that there are four large bus companies. Bus patronage has boomed in recent years so they must be doing something right. I hope that you all thank the driver when they do a good job. Can you all come back when you have something to say? Sorry this comes across as a bunch of middle class whingers. Of course I am free to ignore this thread, but life would be dull otherwise. Move down the bus please, nothing happening here. Peace and love. M peckham_ryu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If TfL took this as seriously as rail industries > do "passing a signal at red" incidents, it simply > would not happen. > > Say what you like about Southern, on the odd > occasion they manage to run a train, they don't > take chances with our safety! > > (Edited to try the avoid bold. No idea what's > going on there)

And here is some earlier advice http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1638971,1639003#msg-1639003

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued draft guidance on measures to improve air quality . This includes improving driving standards (few people know how to drive well in traffic calmed areas). Autonomous vehicles - bring it on! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/01/nice-proposes-smooth-driving-measures-to-cut-pollution-and-save-lives

Was stuck in traffic going to a footy match many years ago and a 14 year old opened the door and got in. What are you doing I asked? Getting a lift to the match he says. Fair enough. In modern terms I broke at least two rules there.

Tecnological advancement combined with competition. Defence technology will also play its part, and competition (eg Formula 1). It's going to improve our lives, but there will always be unintended consequences (eg the wonders of the sharing economy then the fall from grace of AirBnB - incidentally Uber will be at the forefront of adopting new technology). But to break my rules and digress, I may not be an early adopter but appreciate technology and innovation. But what improvement to my quality of life have self service tills brought at the supermarket? I certainly didn't ask for them.

Jetpacks? Flying cars?? Nah it aint going to happen

East Dulwich covers it's ears and says "la la la la, I am not listening" Well it's going to happen. It's going to happen. Happen all the time. (with thanks to Fergal) Cars already talk to Satelites. That helps you get around. Many have cameras. Proximity sensors. Self parking. "la la la la, I am not listening". And anything remotely new will be recording what you do so manufactures can download all the important stuff on maintenance, profile you and other nefarious stuff. How many of you have a smart phone? Who uses a landline nowadays?? Full autonomy is going to take some time. But meanwhile more and more stuff's going to happen. And when your insurance drops as your vehicle is safer maybe you'll take notice. I'd personally crack on with the car asking "you are driving like a wonka" "Would you like me to take over?". Artful - it sounds like you could do with an advanced (safe and efficient) driving lesson. In fact most of you could (professional women 30 - 50 tend to be the exception). Trust me until you've had this you wont appreciate how many bad habits you have Here's a local one: https://www.yell.com/biz/aa-driving-school-901146178/

Ah so it was you Grok - my apologies for being such a middle class namby pamby and not saying anything at the time, but interesting to hear what it was like going to the labour exchange. "So Mr/Ms Grok, why were you sacked". "Because I am a misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobe." Mind you there may be some work for you in the US. Keep us posted. Interesting that I wasn't aware of the derivation of namby pamby (thought it was homophobic, but wrong) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Philips

Mate went to a Catholic Boarding School. Funnily enough the priests did a lot better at explaining sex education than the head teacher. That isn't saying anything more than what you said above (ie just because you don't partake doesn't mean you can't advise)

Love all the expert comment! I've just got rid of a BTL and now totally out of the business after almost 30 years. Hooray. I've seen the market change in so many ways. I started with a mate buying terraced houses for students to live in. It had many ups and downs, and I started getting rid 15 years ago. This is outside London and I charged below market rent for a good family as tenants until they had a messy split and the messiness also applied to the house. When I did all my purchasing it was bloody hard to get a loan and none of the usual lenders had BTL products. Then everything changed and everyone became small landlords. Well not quite everyone. Used to love the Grauniad "invest money in BTL for a good return" one week, and BTL landlords, scum of the earth the next. I paid my income tax and CCT so I did my bit to return the money to good use. So back to expert advice - government of course gets it wrong on occasions but please don't make simple assumptions about our democracy with the checks and balances through our elected members, Select Committees and (he says quietly) the Lords. Most policies have been analysed throughly and it is only ocassionally that vanity/foolish projects get through (think Poll tax, and for balance bendy buses and Borris buses). If you don't kike the clunky democracy here then try a single party state. Of course polices may not be for the benefit of the right parts of society, but government is not voted in by all parts of society and will not want to bite the hand that feeds. Am I the only one already getting fed up of the term JAM? It all comes across as very patronising.

I'll watch the whole thing another time. From my perspective much of it is driven by endorphins early in a relationship. Difficult to keep that going all your life! Here's a nice clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_kI5Xh4zxo I hope I haven't offended anyone, not this time at least!

Watched Prof Phil Blythe (Newcastle Uni and Dept for Transport Chief Scientific Advisor) talk about future transport networks last Tuesday at the Turing Institute/British Library on a live stream. Sadly they don't seem to show this on Youtube post event but I'll see if I can get hold of it.