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It's a separate thread but why on earth would you move to Langley Park? Oh it;s the schools my dear. Oddly enough there are frighteningly good schools around here. But far more diversity, irrespective of how the area has changed in the last 25 years.

Wow, I use Langley Park as a milestone for one of those places I'd least like to live. Insular, parochial, monocultural. I am happy to take the P out of Dulwich and the area, but ultimately far happier living around here than Beckenham. And cycling policy is awful, only poor people cycle around there, the ones who can't afford a car.

You can get a really good and cheap holiday at caravan sites early or late in the season using vouchers from The Sun. Well worth paying the fine for. I think it is where Martin Lewis holidays The Sun is popular in East Dulwich too as it was featured: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21722594/we-dont-want-a-poundland-in-our-posh-neighbourhood/

Nope that is boring, I want something creative. Maybe turn them into Xmas cards. I understand from those daytime television programmes that don't involve buying houses, DIY, antiques, bargain hunting and the second World War that this is called 'upcycling'. AI suggests: Upcycling old cheque books can involve repurposing the paper from old checks into creative items like notebooks, journals, art pieces, gift tags, bookmarks, decorative paper, or even small boxes, by cutting, decorating, and assembling the paper to create new functional or decorative objects, while ensuring any personal banking information is properly obscured or removed. And there is vid too

Any ideas, the more novel the better, I've found loads, all still valid but I'll keep one just in case. I could use them as wallpaper, like they do with maps in cool houses. Send them to America where they still use them. Confuse a young person by asking them what they are for, or keeping them to placate a mugger, here you are mate have all of them. I've got a good idea that is not wasteful, but give me your real and/or odd suggestions. No, not toilet paper.

Duncan Norvelle, who had brief fame in national variety programmes before returning to the piers and winter gardens. I sort of worked with him once upon a time. Is that a mars bar in your trousers. A different time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77jn31nxmdo

Are you on the PPG? They appear to want others to engage but they also acknowledge that such a group will never be fully representative of users There is lots on line, but it was interesting to find the last inspection report of the CQC who quote a survey done my the PPG. https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-544424476/inspection-summary

Do you Chair this group. I provided some direct feedback, including supporting much of the on line stuff, particularly where they made this more user friendly

After the situation in Palestine deteriorated there was a concern about Jewish communities in London being subject to hate crime. BBC London had a crew in East London to interview the local community about this. In camera two guys in orthodox gear cycled along the pavement. The presenter said nothing, nobody walking on the pavement was bothered. The article continued, moving to speaking with people about community tensions. My point? Two cyclists were on the pavement. They shouldn't have been. But in the great scheme of things it was trivial compared to events in Israel and Palestine. Hence my continued point about a mild irritant not deserving the rancour from a small number of you.

In deed I'll enjoy turning a blind eye. I've got the T shirts printed. Glad I can be of service.

My only collision between a bike and a pedestrian is when I ran out into the road in Westminster without looking. The bike caught my hand, I apologised and the rider said no worries. Very different if it had been the other way round where I may have used choice language. On the opposite I have had numerous times when pedestrians have walked out on me without looking, I'm now far more aware of pedestrians on their phones etc, but the first times were before mobiles let alone smart phones when I worked off Fleet Street, or I'd cycle down Oxford Street. I sense that some of you want conflict to happen so you can then post about it to support your anti-cyclist views. Me? Pavement cycling when pedestrians are on it is a nuisance. If someone wants to scoot through a red light it doesn't bother me, if they cycle when I am crossing the road on my green light then that is out of order. But I wouldn't feel angry enough it to go on a mission. I'm far more angry about those speeding on Perry Vale, particularly when the school kids were leaving, and those parking outside the schools on double yellows. Hats off to Southwark, that unlike Lewisham, have a much better policy including school wardens. And Lambeth, is even better. Bromley have a compulsory 40mph outside schools for their residents.

Perhaps some of you are unaware of the damage that the coalition did to our economy through their unnecessary programme that f'cked public services and led to a massive drop in real term pay across the public sector. Or maybe your teachers, doctors, nurses do not deserve a decent wage. Quite shocking if you are into this American way of thinking.

chimney breast in deed, yes no side alcove and a flush, well supposedly flush wall This sort of thing, although all the pictures on line are of working fireplaces

Good stuff with a happy ending. I've really enjoyed the thread too.

Helping a family friend. Fireplace and fire breast removed leaving the rectangular base of the hearth. Reasonably flush with exposed wooden floorboards. Anyone have this in their gaff? Simple thing would be to paint it with brown floor paint, other options are jazzy Victorian self adhesive vinyl tiles or put some quarry tiles on it. Latter two both a feature but not sure a raised surface works. Place came like this. I'd be happier with an original Victorian fireplace.

I doubt if this conversation has moved on one iota in the last few years. If you collectively feel so strongly that Southwark has not followed proper process then you have a complaints procedure and ultimately judicial review. The ballot box indicates that the masses weren't concerned enough on transport policy to put another government, and other councillors in. You can say till your blue in the face that a monkey (thinking of Hartlepool) could have stood as a Labour candidate and still got in, but it doesn't change things. You can also consider statutory guidance on parking enforcement, which Ms Reeves can raise with the Transport Secretary if there are issues here. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-enforcement-of-parking-contraventions If this was being considered in my street I would lobby to make it fair and proportionate - costs, enforcement, timings, visitors, tradespeople etc. but I'd be in the minority as my street would also be up in arms. And it would probably happen in any case

Then why did they not do all the streets in the original area? After consultation they reduced the size of the CPZ. Does it affect you by the way?

It is what they said in the newspaper. Have a go at them, the police, the media and everyone else you consider woke who uses this term. What a dreadful word is woke is, a lazy term, indicative of how populist right wing organisations and individuals hate those of us who care about society, the environment and the world as a whole. We don't wake up in the morning angry. I'd stick to GB news, Nextdoor.com, X and the Mail on line rather than this woke forum Unless you are being facetious. If so, got me 😜

I've posted the above question many times over the years and a number of you refused to get into any debate. I get it that you don't like the ULEZ, LTNs, CPZs but driving is a lifestyle. You should be prepared to have alternative options, or just say that you don't want any restrictions. Here's some arguments you can use - not for government to tell us what to do, I can't make a change on my own without everyone doing similar, deaths from air quality and road traffic collisions aren't that high and don't justify measures, it will hit my pocket and national growth, nationally we can't do it all on our own if the big polluters don't do similar, last two are Farages arguments, and technology will sort everything out ,(Trump). You could also argue that we have passed the tipping point on damage to the environment so we may as well keep playing our fiddle whilst Rome and the world burn.

Why the personal comment? I do bugger all driving, occasional holiday, very occasional shopping. Nothing leisure or work, all by foot, bike or public transport. Like virtually alI of us i could do more on all aspects of lifestyle but that is for a different thread. I can also look back on my unenlightened past. I know people who went to school with Faridge, where that is how his name was pronounced. It amuses me that he has adopted the French soft g. So the question is what should we be doing not what am I doing. Fuel duty/motoring taxes overhaul still seems to be some way off so meanwhile local authorities have to do government's job.

The Climate Change Committee report that we are missing our carbon targets. What are the alternative proposals from those that oppose measures that should help reduce the number of car journeys? Asking people nicely doesn't work. The car manufacturers want us to super size our cars then bleat on that targets on EVs are unfair. Carbon reduction targets are set in law that all the main parties but one support. The alternative is Faridge (the name is pronounced with a hard g, not the soft g as he pronounces it) and co who would ditch net zero. Just be honest if that is your view

That is an official term that the authorities use. I will put it in quotation marks next time. I hope my post is helpful in stopping speculation and rubber necking.

Good news is that injury was not life threatening or life changing.

Great suggestion for letting the environment recover. We tried the biblical plague but that didn't work. Not sure if holding your breath is a solution to over-population, pollution, species extinctions and loss of diversity, erosion of the earth's crust, increase in climate change gases, extreme weather events, melting of glaciers and land ice, warming of the oceans, changes in currents, and perturbations of the atmosphere and natural environment, but we could give it a go. Glad to hear that Mr Farage is right....

Is this an anti Starmer, anti Miliband or climate change denial thread. Or all three I'd love to know, I'm all ears.