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They have emergency dental at Kings as well I'm quite sure

I'm curious James if the council cleans, or doesn't clean, all streets of the borough equally. I.E. if they're cutting back on street cleaning to balance the budget... are they cutting back equally?

Of course you are correct... edible stuff rots in most gardens I'll hazard a guess. There's the most amazing pear tree at the U-bend Upland makes with Friern. Fruit like photographs slamming onto concrete and rotting bruised and broken on the cement. And a note: a lot of the trees on East Dulwich streets are edible crab apples.

jam/ chutney/ sorbet/ crumble/ sweet edge to a salad?/ stuffed into roast? .... add sugar and eat. I just made rose hips and not great apples into jelly

I think that Peter John should in fact log on here and explain some of the allegations put forward by campaigners for the Heygate area of Elephant and Castle. My quotes are from campaigners for the Heygate. You are absolutely right, I do not know that they are true. Can I repeat them here? Mr John is an elected official. I am only saying he accepts lunches from developers and likes tall buildings. These allegations cover in part the nature of buildings proposed, Mr John's cosy relationship with the developers including gifts that might be small: invites to the Olympics for one, but nonetheless should be explained: Southwark Council has now sold around 12 hectares of prime public-owned land at the Elephant & Castle to Lend Lease. This is an area approximately the same size as Kennington Park. Following an article about Lend Lease's recent conviction for fraud and Peter John's gifts from the developer, local people are starting to ask questions about what the council is getting in return for its commercial interest as land owner? And Mr John is on record as loving high building. And its policy on tall buildings is clear: Southwark's leader Peter John recently announced that he 'unashamedly loves tall buildings' and his 'favourite place to visit was New York'. They can be 'beautiful and practical' he went on to say and looks forward to working with Sellar for more tall buildings along St Thomas Street. "If you come to me with an iconic tall building in the right location you will have my support; Southwark is open for business and looking forward to change". http://heygate.heroku.com/pages I certainly do not want this piece of land in Southwark built on. It's not easy to question Mr John and others making high profile decisions in Southwark. It is true that he and others were given their power at the ballot box for their campaign promises. The issue is are they acting on those promises in ways that bear close scrutiny. Are they spending our money, really investing it, for us in infrastructure technology planning architecture design that will bear the test of time. I don't think so. I think the people spending hundreds of millions so casually on landscape changing mega projects should show a tad more humility and reflection on their legacy.

oops as my son would say my bad

and he lived for 142 years which is all the more reason to give him a blue plaque

after reading the rest of you: you are all much righter than me, much better advice. I shot from the hip... what I wrote would have been much more nuanced in person and would have covered your points in a wide ranging conversation starting with the real person and her needs and situation. I really meant to give a virtual bear hug

After 4-5 years you must have considered moving "home" until you get back on your feet maybe in a new place and new job? Get on the social housing ladder? Move somewhere MUCH cheaper than London and just try something completely new? Split and sell here (if that's an option). Sisters / brothers willing / able to share for as short a time as possible? Sit and look at a map: cheap and cheerful and an adventure near a school. What's the least you need to cover costs? Sit in a library where it's anonymous and quiet with a pencil and clean paper and a map and dream.

I think you will be swallowed by a blizzard on this post but here's my 2p: We're bi-lingual and the rule is one parent, you, only speaks (French) to your child. English to the world/ your partner but French to your child. And, and this is the trick, you must not allow her to speak anything but French to you. When she responds in English (I'm sure she understands French) you "pretend" you do not understand. If she wants something from you she must speak French. As with a lot of this sort of training advice it only hurts for a very short amount of time. Just say "I don't understand" (in French!) and then give her the French answer and wait until she repeats it. She will. And of course French books and DVDs etc. You have to force her to talk.

unfortunately I wasn't able to go to the meeting but I'd like to say that as a resident I am really happy to see/ hear politicians of all stripes working together. I have had a nagging fear from posts here/ watching the US elections and from my own experiences in Southwark recently that politics had degenerated into partisan mud throwing name calling: you're with us or against us. No sane person elects a representative to stone wall and hurt initiatives to better everyone's life. To have problems with a politician's record/ manner of delivery/ lack of ideas has first to do with that person and only a very long second to do with a political party (in a country like ours). Thank you Renata and James and Robin for posting here under your names and working together to solve really difficult problems in straightened times.

or the Chinese watch maker on Peckham High Street indoor market near Argos

so who are you mr dealer? tessa's gofer? confidant? advisor? ghost writer? lover!? are you a councillor here in southwark? do you labour for labour? I just look out of windows in a house on a street. party affiliation? I voted once for tessa and then I didn't any more.

If this is really TJ, which I doubt, her writing style is very curious: for the avoidance of any doubt TJMP Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dear all, > > Thank you (MOST of you!) for the kind and generous > comments. > > For the avoidance of any doubt I'm certainly not > standing down as MP for Dulwich and West Norwood. > It is my great privilege to continue to represent > East Dulwich and the other diverse and vibrant > communities that make up my constituency. > > As always you can get in touch via > jowellt@parliament.uk. > > Many thanks > > Tessa

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Which company was awarded the contract? > > John K Just curious what your thinking is here ed?

Dame Jowell was "run" (I came to realise) by some thuggish party line towers who live locally. They fed her projects ideas names and places while she nodded and signed as directed here and at the cabinet table. The thing is to not hire in another hack again. Hold tight to the pictures of Berlusconi in his little rag cloth hat hiding his hair plugs on holiday with Mr Blair by his side. With his porn parties and underaged girls he hosted Mr Blair many times and his media have only this week published the "topless" photos... another political Murdock jerking politician puppets on strings. Mr Dealer you started the thread! Have a nasty go if it makes you feel important but you clearly cannot take it, even without nasty personal derogatory comments, the way you dish it out.

Could someone post minutes or summarise the meeting.. I had a conflict and when I went by on the bus at 21:30 and saw you were still there! I was too tired to arrive for the last few minutes.. how late did you go?

There was a Happy Face/ Sad Face posted speed electronic sign exactly there a few years back that had its electrics cut by campaigners for cars' rights. Never fixed or replaced. Obviously

This is complete since 2001. Dame Jowell did not "bring us the Olympics". I just like numbers.

Voting record (from PublicWhip) How Tessa Jowell voted on key issues since 2001: Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes Voted strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes Voted moderately against increasing the rate of VAT. votes Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes Voted moderately for introducing ID cards. votes Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes Voted moderately against encouraging occupational pensions. votes Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes Voted strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes Voted moderately for a stricter asylum system. votes Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes Voted a mixture of for and against university tuition fees. votes Voted against raising England?s undergraduate tuition fee cap to ?9,000 per year. votes

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ooh I want to go, I think it's next to the Flat > Earth Experience, the faith pavilion and the > astrology/homeopathy/crystal/psychic-ghost-hunter/ > life-after-death stand....behind the Bach Rescue > Remedy tent (you don't get away either you deluded > boody hippies) > > Mocking... more a pitying shake of the head... > then mockery. I agree with you Maxxi

It cannot be nature alone. It has to be nurture as well. Love, libraries, museums, parks, culture and inclusive society from the paralympics two family stories of adopted children: Perhaps one of the most inspiring tales comes from Iraq-born Ahmed Kelly - a swimmer who was born without arms and legs and abandoned on the doorstep of a Baghdad orphanage. and two wheelchair racing adopted sisters: .... a woman who was born with spina bifida and spent her toddler years in an orphanage. The orphanage had no funds for basic needs, let alone a wheelchair, so Tatyana was left to her own devices and used her hands as feet and her feet as hands to move around. When Debbie, then a commissioner of disabilities for the U.S. Health Department, traveled to the orphanage as part of a business trip, she became smitten by the young child. Debbie wound up adopting her, and Tatyana came to the United States when she was 6 and was raised in Clarksville, Md., outside of Baltimore. Debbie was told that Tatyana did not have much of a chance to live long, but Tatyana definitely has beaten the odds. ?Now she?s studying to be a child life specialist in college,? Debbie said. ?Both girls have come a long way, and this is an exciting time for them.? Hannah, the youngest athlete on the U.S. Paralympic Track and Field Team at 16, was born in Albania and is an above-the-knee amputee who also has a congenital bone problem in her hip. Both sisters race in wheelchairs and, despite the age difference, a sister rivalry does exist on the track. ?She?s my sister and we always wish each other luck,? said Hannah, who will race in the 100-meter sprint in London. ?But when the race starts, we don?t hold back. We?ll see what happens.? Their mom is not about to choose sides.

These words are not an opinion about recycling as organised in Southwark at the moment only a suggestion to this post and others like it: What if you walked down your street on the day your bins are collected when you have "overflow" and used an underfilled bin in front of another house. These bins aren't owned by a house they're used for recycling. I'm not suggesting filling someone else's bin before they've used it. I'm saying, on the day when a bin's been used by its allocated househould, then use it for your extra. Is there some huge moral problem I'm missing with this idea?

First: Eileen, you are a local treasure. I lined up to thank you on Saturday but the scrum was too intent on talking to you and keeping you for themselves Second: communities do not start and stop. Possibly an intersection and a slab of broken paving is truely local but everything else fits together like films and books that get bigger and bigger until you have the universe and smaller and smaller until you have a higgs boson Third: There are 3 councillors that post by name. Very clear and I think all three of you are wonderful and brave and honest. I'm just a resident in a house on a street as I imagine most of the rest of you are. I pay taxes and have opinions based on how my life has played out to this point. I just wonder who the handful are who say things with the implication that they have amazing political connections and power and insights that cannot be shared but which make asses out of x or y or z. Is the third group councillors who chose annonymity? Do you work for government and have an instictive fear of ideas that aren't yours? I'm referring to comments like the one directed to me elsewhere when I opined that not enough has been done over the years to connect parts of Southwark to high speed transit. Yes, I understand this might be a difficult problem but certainly I am allowed to voice my observation, felt everyday by hundreds of others. And I would think a great politician/ thinker would rollup their sleeves and enjoy the intellectual/ fiscal/ spacial problem of improving and correcting an historical oversight

mostly I think rye lane is wonderfully clear after the fight to get rid of cars but I agree that cycle lanes and right of ways are used for parking and strolling the rights of competing groups are still not clearly understood or taught http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-19420354 a paralympic medal winner was hit leaving him out of this summer's games