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Caught him a few years ago at a bizarre gig in Canterbury and know his London agent. Sad but he wants a well man. It was a pleasure to have seen him a few times, always different! Hadn't realised he had been a local.

Stewart Lee, who I have seen numerous times, played a gig 18 months ago in Peckham, turning up late and doing around 12 mins of an expected headliner slot. He has no social media presence and is uncontactable. I complained to the ticket agents and promoters to no avail. Obviously I wouldn't boycott a paper due to this incident. With hard copy print declining more liberal media need support irrespective of how easy it is to pick holes. The decline of regional and local papers has compounded the issue of so many drawing their information from the right wing/populist press, and unverified reports on social media.

So have you reported it?

Why are you blaming pavement widening on cyclists? If it was more bike lanes, secure bike parking and the like then that would be different. Can you show me proof that the pavement widening is all due to LCC/Southwark Cyclists. Being a member I'm not aware of any campaign.

Never heard of anyone who has put poisoned meat down in urban areas. You will find the vast majority of the population are nice people. Illegal killing of animals that take game happens in rural areas but that is a different issue Did you report the dumping of the meat to environmental health and the police? By all means speculate, I expect that it was fly tipping. Where it came from and why is athe question.... Foxes have great digestive systems and will eat most foodstuffs.

I was a late starter, just 17, when I started to go to pubs regularly. I'd been bought a drink by a family friend before that. We had several pubs that catered for under age drinkers, one 15 +, one 16+ etc till we graduated to the 18+ pub and felt really grown up. And at those young ages alcohol tolerance was low so you could nurse your drink for an hour or so. The curse of binge drinking came later.....

It was a better world where 15 year olds could get away with buying alcohol in pubs. They can still get hold of the stuff but better drinking in a pub with some adult supervision IE bar staff than in the park after dark

Why? Reviews of the Ford engine are OK. The mpg of the small direct injection engines is very impressive.

Did you complain to the manager? That's the starting point. Before going to the socials.

Maybe consider a stealth operation? Move your boundary a few cm every few months and hopefully they won't notice. They sound unreasonable in any case as your need us no doubt greater. Alternatively if they like cards and a flutter on the gee gees you could have a game of poker, start with pennies and if it is going well up the staked. Risky and may backfire which is how I came to live in a caravan, with only the clothes that Iwas wearing. But I would have regretted not going for it.

You have other threads to complain about cyclists and cycle routes. This thread was intended to be a constructive one.

I do like the Nunhead Gardener. Shannon's was cheaper but that is academic. Garden Centres have not benefited from Brexit, one reason that Shannons closed. The wildlife centre is good for native hedging, fruit trees and bushes and the like, and worth a stroll down to in any case.

On the matter of gender, raised early in the thread There were a couple of male tailors in the area, first generation Carribbean, I think there was a time when many emigrated with these skills Go back 60 years and you may have had a suit made by a Jewish male tailer in the East End Not sure if it is common to have males in this field of work nowadays although I expect Saville Row is still male dominated.

Surprised nobody has recommended Peckham wildlife centre: https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/nature-reserves/centre-for-wildlife-gardening Very close. Also the greenhouses at Brockwell Park Greenhouse, Google it, another wildlife garden, open some weekends.

Good heavens. There are always traffic works and congestion across London. It's not a wile conspiracy, it's been happening since the horse and cart

I've not had any success over the last three years. Repositioning it this year. I heard of some twitchers homing in on a nest as they could hear a swift, only to find out that it was a recording which attempts to lure swifts in. We only have a small number above Horniman Gardens. I've seen them close to ground in Sydenham and Clapham I think half the issue is disruption in and from their wintering grounds where there are less favourable conditions than in years gone past.

Most of us are not demonising drivers as a whole. Happy to demonise selfish, dangerous and inconsiderate drivers Incidentally it's a shame that you do not feel safe on public transport at night. I and our family have never had any serious issues over the years. Sorry realised that I said I would post about motoring on a thread that is about a pavement.

No sympathy, collect rain water, reuse grey water from the house. Plant drought gardens. Have yellow grass in the summer, it will turn green again,. Not sure why on earth we have this term hard working families - suggests that everyone else is lazy. Kids cost money and that can continue until they are well into adulthood! You make your own choices, and it is right that if you use more water you pay more. I expect most of us have cut our water usage since going onto a meter.

Has been cheaper due to the exchange rate, although now well up since 2020

@bilksy how's the renovations going? It seems a bit slow in recent times when I have cycled past. Will you be doing a launch/open house/Grand Designs - only saying half in jest I expect a number of us would like to see what you have done.

That's good news as I expect the Russians, North Koreans and Chinese authorities will have tried to destabalise SE London. Hmmm, thinking about it, how many are you are agents for these regimes if actually human? Those not from the metropolis will recall the trades fortnights in the summer when factories would coordinate closing down for a couple of weeks for the summer hols. With the quiet roads every day in the fortnight felt like Sunday. I think this is what Morrissey was thinking.

He was sadly attacked a few years ago and this may have contributed to moving on. He had a fairly long commute too,

With our road network there is always a balance to strike between the flow of vehicles, encouraging sustainable and active transport, pedestrian safety and access to amenities, Transport planers will do fine tuning with respect traffic controls, restrictions such as one way or no right turns, traffic calming, bus and other road user priority, traffic light sequencing etc etc. But ultimately it is the sheer number of vehicles on the road that leads to congestion. Which is my point that if we made smarter choices that would be beneficial for a number of reasons. Traffic calming is a whole subject of its own, and it is a shame that this is needed as too many would speed without it. Worse still there can be a negative impact both due to the severity of some traffic calming, and the simple reason that too few know how to drive smoothly over both traffic calmed roads and sadly on urban roads as a whole. It's right to prioritise pedestrians, over bikes, over buses, over essential transport such as deliveries, over motorists as a whole. Not sure how a simple widening of a pavement has led me and others to discuss road congestion. That's me lot. Just adding after seeing Angelina's post that many will automatically drive due to actual or perceived convenience, often incorrect cost assumptions (fuel used rather than whole life costs) and as it is is a habit. And a hard one to break.

If people made smarter transport choices there would be less pollution and carbon emissions. Whether they drive at all, how they drive, sharing journeys, the car they drive. As I have said numerous times. Why do some people insist on going on about the LTN at every opportunity?

Reminds me of being in the US many years ago where they have got rid of pavements in many areas as so many people drive to their local mall etc. Cars are responsible for pollution not pedestrians