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I completely agree with this last from DJ. Community is everything and takes nothing away from the individual at home.

Libraries open with servies expanded to include whatever can be imagined. Litter picked up and pavement kept tidy by fronting house or shop What exactly am I missing Save 9 million closing libraries which are the bedrock of civilized society while spending tens of millions picking up litter which anyone can do in a few seconds and as a part of social pride should do without being asked What exactly as I missing here please explain

It sounds like a young man I spoke with some weeks back on Upland Rd and then met again on Dunstans where he sold several pictures: Part of a start-up Gallery with other mixed European students? Does landscapes? shows work from the group as well as himeself?

Also Gumboots on Darrell Rd in the East Dulwich Community Centre http://www.newgumbootsafterschoolclub.co.uk/NewWelcome.html Has a full day summer camp

The Herne Hill Velodrome has classes all summer http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com/ excellent value

If you want to close down the private schools bring back state grammars. This time link each to a comprehensive: JAGS to Charter, Kingsdale to D.C., for example, and make sure the movement up as well as down stays open and transparent. At the same time equate plumbing with neurosurgery demanding the highest training good benefits and social recognition Not everyone needs or wants to go to "university" want they want and society needs is they do their job at the highest modern level Does Britain have the worst trained builders in the developed world? JAGS at least, Alleyn's as well? started life as a grammar. No one really wants to pay for education after they've paid their taxes. What they want is quiet in the classroom and a guarantee that their child gets exposed to material at the top end of their ability to learn. Private schools also "set" btw and kids resit exams they flubbed

In point of fact (I don't really remember the survey but non the less in general) I completely agree to your point that a great deal of interactive community responce touchy feely government is crap. The way I see it is the best people should be hired to do a job and best means knowing the subject at a 360 degree perspective in a modern ever changing world and then they are hired to show and explain leadership. Leadership here means what is the best practice for taking out these small bandit groups that arise like foxes in a territory (one dies or leaves and another comes in). Leadership here also means knowing how much infrastructure needs to maintained in a permanent on going basis. Infrastructure like land and buildings cannot be bought in or replaced at whim. Once it is gone it is gone forever. The replacement cost for a building sold today to raise however many pounds simply cannot be replaced if a mistake is made. Downsizing government tends to be permanent and the consequences of selling public assets long term could be astronomical. Is the answer to these profound questions really found by poorly asked questions that in the whole country at best 400 people answer? At the community council meeting a question of out patient services was also covered as a matter of urgency as one space will be sold and the patients moved to join others in another space. The arguments were solid but short sighted: the space is costly to maintain and has a large value on the market. In the same breathe the future needs of an aging population were discussed. So if this building and others are sold off... where will those not so far in the future patients be accomodated? The police station is a huge interesting property in the heart of a bulging population hub. While the council is not a "business" there must be innovative ways to fill this space and cover costs

http://www.met.police.uk/contacts/public_access_survey.htm Please everyone respond to this police questionnaire asap! Last days At the Community Council meeting last night this questionnaire came up as the way they decide on what the public want so, fill the questionnaire in today Generally and separately I read these posts about crime and I see possibly no no more than 20 people who are preying on a geographical area that suits them. I say this as this puts the problem the other way round: a "gang", a group that thinks they've sorted their how to make a living problems is targeting "us". In a way, it is a finite problem. These people can be targeted themselves and stopped. Report the crimes to the professions and help them clearly see the look for patterns: casing houses, open backdoors. I do not want criminals to stop me, make me afraid. I want to help the police take out people who have decided crime pays. It does go back to other social issues and finally families but I don't want to start that Fill out the questionnaire. This area has the highest responce rate to the survey ... am I right? In the whole of England! Wow, you rock!

Just to say I'm worried because my 16-year-old refuses to wear a helmet and he cycles all the time and has done all the courses and the velodrome and heard people he really respects in cycling insist on the need to wear a helmet he also has a big head and looks great in a helmet.... any cycle shop will walk you through them ask Bon Velo Herne Hill

Of interest to many including the police is .. is this the same person who acted against the woman in the other mugging thread. Could you describe the person who attacked you and could the woman in the other thread describe her assailant? Is it the same person?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery over 29 million slaves today in the world have a look rather than discuss an at best tasteless doll and a vendor who probably would like to disappear, rather than discuss which countries have made efforts to atone for their historic crimes and the far more numerous others which have made no effort at all let's discuss modern slavery today and sex trafficing and crimes against children and other vulnerable people; what countries today abuse their citizens and take their neighbours as slaves and do not value, educate and safeguard their children let's be modern and include animal abuses and ecological abuse because it is all on the same continuum and it all stems from human arrogance which is geometrically more tolerated in some countries today than in others

Am I right to think this is run via Facebook?

On the subject of my no fruit pear tree... It seems very healthy. I "fed" it at the "beginning" of the growing season and it seems established with enough water. So you do not think I need a second tree, just to find out what makes this tree happy?

"A glut of pears" just made me think that I get loads of flowers on my one tree and then the pears never mature... just drop off. I only have one tree although it was sold as "self fertile". How many trees do you have? Just wondering... I guess I have to buy another tree?

Does anyone want plum jam in exchange for vegitables?

A bit back my husband and I sat for hours waiting for a van to arrive to load a metal shed we'd sold. The woman who had bought the shed was waiting with us for this van she'd hired. She walked away for the briefest moment and exactly then a van arrived, pointed to the shed and we, thinking: Finally! said Yes. In 30 seconds the shed was on the van and the van was pulling off when the woman came back and in that instant we knew it was the wrong van. The shed was taken off the van as I yelled at the driver. And another story: a friend gave me an old tin washing tub. Quite nice. I left it out front right up by the house ready for planting. Well you know the rest.. off it went in a van to be sold on for scrap. Don't leave anything of value in front of your house.

My father was in a wheelchair as a consequence of MS for 30 years and as a City Planner he helped rewrite the law for accessability on streets, in buildings and of course.... parking places. Absolutely right, there was a time in living memory when there was no law on accessibility and the right of everyone to do as much as possible without a struggle.

The sign at the top of Lordship Lane, at Upland Rd junction, has been broken for some time. I actually saw two men break it but by the time I realised what I was seeing they were gone.

My son had lice from Year 4 almost continually through Year 6... First Conditioner to comb them out Then VINEGAR which disolves the glue with which the eggs are stuck to the hair shaft With a boy I shaved his head!

After 3 replies this dropped off everyone's radar. For interest alone I note that parents drive what children learn as England is currently run. For anyone reading this last note run your eye along what people want to talk about: new babies, cute babies, aches and pains, baby milestones, little babies. Babies are easy and fun. Instilling a love of learning and accepting family responsibility for how children learn is harder. As parents we demand learning from teachers like a commodity and when kids fall short it someone else's fault. But in the end, or at the beginning, learning is what we ask our children to do and what we expect from them at home not only at school: Memorise your ABC's, Want to read and learn the basics, Times Tables to 12 by 12 memorised and always always ask questions and think and take responsibility for your own leaning and actions. Schools will not teach Chinese unless parents ask. It is not that hard for a child to learn. NO GRAMMAR and the writing is pictures. Just my opinion.

A bathtub makes a fantastic instant pond: dig a hole and sink the tub if it is ugly or if it is elegant and you want it as a feature let it stand regally

But your son or daughter...... must everyone speak English? It puts us at a disadvantage in business: "they" can talk about us and we cannot understand.

The Chinese teacher who has been teaching my son privately for the last 6 years has asked if I think parents would like to be offered classes for their primary children at Goodrich after school. This teacher and her colleague are young highly trained native speakers. Their lessons are top modern fun standard. And, if your child keeps it up, in Year 11 they can take the Chinese GCSE and have that important "edge" that might make all the difference. Chinese is going to be the world language with English of course in the future. This "thread" is a test of the waters: What do you think? Would you be willing to have your child take Chinese after school at Goodrich for a few ?'s? Would you like classes for yourself? For an older, Secondary aged child? Give it a think and post here!

You are all wise, thanks

Does anyone know how to get the really sticky label glue off? Some labels just come off and leave a clean surface but some manufactures use a glue designed for an endworld scenerio.... almost impossible to remove and then leaves an ugly smudge. Thanks for your collective wisdom!