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If I could respond to "personal alarm". What you are talking about is something called MetTrace which tags all the goods in your home you don't want to lose to a burglar. There was a confusion that has nothing at all to do with James who is an excellent councillor. MetTrace will be rolled out and the clue is in the name "Met". It has to do with the police. Unless you are in fact talking about an alarm you have on your body for personal protection due to circumstance? In which case my bad and I'm sure social services have just made a scheduling mistake! Call them again!

You do not need to stand at a reused hole in the ground to remember . Throw ashes into the wind. Plant a tree, they live for hundreds of years and have babies. Because land in a field in 1850 was called a cemetery we have a miracle gift from the past exactly when we need it: a place to leave wild and let a seed bed from the ancient past regenerate

And yes this bit of land that happens to be where the 63 turns around and another bit to the east where an old lady in perpetual mourning for a husband who died young might have have once had a picnic, these two bits together 98 acres hence a "hundred acre wood" in a part of a sprawling metropolitan polluted mega city where this forum rants and raves about minutia (and I love it! get loads of up-to-date information and good ideas here!) this "southwark woods" does have a seed bank which links the past and the present if it was allowed to germinate and it has heritage trees which all the new committees and wise academicians have come and measured and pontificated about. This left over undeveloped land suddenly in the public eye as we watch a power game played out with us tricked and played as idiot pawns in a game that ultimately funded by us with profits and rewards in jobs to the politicians when they award unnecessary work to the contractors. When you inhale you are inhaling bits of just about everyone and everything that ever lived. That is a fact not a metaphor. There is no reason at all you need cement and plastic flowers to mourn your dead. Save this left over land from commercial exploitation and development because the traditional 1890 cemetery is just another built cement development. Declare it a nature reserve and a green lung forever. Horses with plumes can drag memory hearses with songs and celebration. Stone masons can carve plaques to make memory walls. No one will be out of a job if we make a woodland park out of this land. We are being conned by politicians who don't build safe streets, who drill unnecessary tunnels with public money for private profit water companies where they then get jobs, who sell public land for nothing and then, yes again, take jobs and pensions from those lucky development firms. Politicians who cannot get housing right.. It does all seem to trundle along day to day and year to year until I guess one year the wheels will just come off and the whole show will stop. Probably not in our lifetimes. Our children? theirs? So save this bit of left over abused land and go and sit in a dense green canopy

The issues undertaken by SSW are not the ones used to distort and manipulate public opinion. The issue(s) is global warming and over population and poor governance and all the attendant problems there of. Global Warming Fact Loss of open wild space Fact Loss of trees Fact Over population in how the bio diversity of the world is affected with attendant mass farming etc ad nausium Fact Read the Guardian today: destruction of the Seas these are Facts "Southwark Woods"? Cemeteries are land presents from the past to the future. It is insane to put every separate person into a rectangle of cement in an oak coffin so that maybe someone can "mourn" for a few years and then forget and that is what always. Always happens and the cement and dead earth and dead oak tree in the ground remain. Cemeteries as we have used them for a millisecond in human history are insane. Mourn in a wood a remembrance wood. Bury under a tree. Buy a bench for people to sit on.

How can people help on Barry Road James?

On Wednesday I'll bring canned goods like the ones you have listed Bluerevolution to the Dulwich Hamlets Football. I'll help sort. Please post here if anything changes. I've read that for space reasons they have to be very careful to get only things that they need.

Consider cycling through Dulwich Park of good weather days. This does take getting used to and careful practice if you and your children are not used to city cycling but from all points East Dulwich it's only the South Circulae that you have to practice getting across safely.

Yes Penguin68, the MET do burglaries. Please call 101 if you missed the burglars and 999 if you can still see them running away. And tell your neighbours, that's called "cocooning" because burglars hit groups of houses so forewarned is forearmed (with telephone to hand)

I hope you called the police? Call the police no matter what the details. Patterns of things happening are what makes effective deterrence. It's never a lot of people but from this post we "know" that some people are finding the summer holidays hard to fill and are trying the oldest break in technique around: test if doors have been left on the latch and not bolted shut. Bolt doors and windows at street level back and front and call the police every single event: 999 only if you see the person back or front of your house or a neighbour's. 101 if it is too late to do more than just have the incident recorded. Patterns make effective policing. Www.ourwatch.org.uk for neighbourhood watch tips and joining. A call to 101 should get you signed on to Neighbourhood Watch. I run a NHW on Upland Road as do at least 2 other people. NHW just means you know your neighbours and aren't fussed about noticing things that seem wrong. PM me if you want to join awesome3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just a word of warning to everyone...We live on > Upland Rd and yesterday, in broad daylight, 2 > youths 15 - 20 yrs old, tried to kick our front > door in. Luckily we've got 3 good locks and they > failed to get in but annoyingly have damaged the > door to the point where we need a new one. > > Apparently very common as they think people are > out at work. > > Secure your houses! > > Thanks

Great stuff fizzmoll. I've reposted on Stop Killing Cyclists FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/stopkillingcyclists/

I hope Mrs Dadof4 challenged them. 10 years old is still smaller than she is? And it was the middle of the day? Lots of people? Very important to stand up to them and make a lot of outraged noise at the same time. Please don't think I am minimising the shock and upset to Mrs D!

It must have been a misunderstanding. I heard it Chener Books

Just curious as I heard Admin didn't like Local History posts? If this is true, why? Thanks!

Thank you IngridB

well consider this: Save Southwark 100 Acre Woods (aka Camberwell old and New Cemeteries) The Next Event is Monday the 25th at 11am to 1pm in Camberwell Old Cemetery off Forest Hill Road For Save Southwark Woods [email protected] www.savesouthwarkwoods.org.uk @southwarkwoods Facebook Page Save Southwark Woods To support the call to Save Southwark Woods, sign the petition here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-southwark-woods Contact campaign co-ordinators for images and info: [email protected] Or go to: Twitter: @southwarkwoods Facebook page: Save Southwark Woods www.savesouthwarkwoods.org.uk

Huge cake to the force at Camberwell he's a part of delivered Thursday I'll be there today at 12:30 to 13:30 Northcross Rd Mosque across from Jeanie Advent Gallery

I didn't go anywhere but my own purse and neighbours the other ideas were floated and with that I'm floating off line on this one

Pugwash I'll put that out where is the 22nd meeting? Otta and Red Devil don't do anything, don't say anything, don't read this thread. I personally don't know that anything other than a digital photo and a cake that I won't even deliver personnally: the Camberwell Force will eat it with their tea. And I wonder who will be right you both or me in a few years for Mr Crust looking back

Thanks Pugwash. Slip away. Hmmm 30 years? And we don' t recognise someone who's helped us while, say loud mouthed politicians or fat chequed business honchos take credit where it isn't due and get feted and written up in books to be studied in schools. I'm doing a huge amazing cake and card for Thursday. And we did the photo attached above, please do more photos! I'd say: keep small gestures coming and be sure to talk to him when you see him even if he blushes

Burbage you are one hundred percent correct

Thanks Pugwash. I heard again today he's retiring and I heard it from the police at Camberwell Police Station. Here's a photo we took on Upland Road. I'll post it on the Met Facebook page. And I'll buy a cake to take to Camberwell Police Station. Please everyone post photos ? where? I'm not quite sure I've sort of shelved the meal voucher idea. It's photos posted on-line, cake to Camberwell and maybe Pugwash's Party at the East Dulwich Community Centre. And stop him when you see him in the street this week. send photos and messages to The address is [email protected]

Pugwash do you want to restart the plan for a party you shelved? And then post it here? I heard a story about PC Crust intervening in a residential matter that without him knowing all the people involved and knowing how to speak to them might have a taken a very ugly turn. With his intervention it's nothing more than a story. I didn't get to restaurants to price a voucher for 2. Pugwash what do you think of that idea? Upland Road is doing a group photo at the intersection with Goodrich Rood with people waving and the school and road signs and signs that say THANK YOU. We'll send the photo digitally and/ or post it on the MET Facebook site

Have you rebooted, restarted? Unplugged and replugged the device? Mine works fine but right after the power cut everything had to restart. Call them and upgrade to faster if you haven't done that already

I'll walk down Lordship Lane Sat and see if I can get any gift meals from any restaurants. I'm thinking the marginal cost isn't high for a shop? We don't know each other, how can we chip in? This just in from a photographer: get a load of neighbours to stand on the street and take a photo with the street name! Fabulous and easy and "free" I'll put an email on to send photos of streets and neighbours waving and blowing kisses Post neighbours blowing kisses and waving to the Met Facebook!!! What a great idea! He'll get happily ribbed