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I don't mind teenagers letting off steam and I don't really mind annoyingly loud parties just not midweek. I'm not annoyed with them: unreasonable and inconsiderate is their wont, especially post exam. I am annoyed with the parents who obviously decided that it was perfectly acceptable to let their kids have a party that went on well after midnight and outside mid-week. That really is not ok and its very un-neighbourly. Why not do it on a Friday or Saturday night - or at least be in the house to shepherd the hormone addled poppets indoors at a reasonable hour. Not especially keen on the example set by the very drunk teenage girl who was bragging - very loudly and very explicitly - to a group of boys about how many times she'd shagged her boyfriend that day with rather a lot of unsavoury detail. Felt a motherly urge to intervene on that one. But didn't.

I don't fancy it and not sure I'd get anywhere. I'll go and meet their parents tomorrow when the steam's stopped coming out of my ears. Why shouldn't I complain on here? Perhaps their parents read it - or perhaps the parents of these teens do? very glad mine are not yet quite so rowdy ... Yet, I assume. Though I'm picking up lots of tips about what to talk to my kids about (deluding myself I guess about my parental influence).

Sounds like its teens - thanks irresponsible parents who are no doubt snoozing somewhere across town. just had the unfortunate displeasure of hearing your children discuss their sexual habits in loud drunken voices at the bottom of my garden.

Weeping child unable to sleep all night. I'd call Southwark Council but they have to come into your house in an hour to check on the noise and we're all knackered. Go to bed or go indoors you drunk, inconsiderate, unneighbourly loons at the top of Barry Road.

What brilliant and reassuring posts. Thank you so much for sharing your views.

broadstairs very doable by train and lovely - especially for those ages I'd say

check out http://m.cyclestreets.net for very good route suggestions - you can also get it as an app - MUCH better than tfl or googlemaps

Annasfield - where are you trying to get to? I go into town and the city quite a lot and almost all of my journeys avoid big roads and bus routes. There's a very lovely route to the Elephant (via CP road, Adys, Bellenden, Surrey Canal Path, Burgess Park, Portland Street and then a choice of two bypass routes which take you around the Elephant without using the roundabouts. Thereafter if you're going to Waterloo / West End there's a quiet route which brings you up onto the bridge and then over it back onto a quiet route and if you're going to the city you can follow a pretty decent "blue path" cycle superhighway along Southwark Bridge Road. Further east and you can take a slightly different (but still quiet) route which takes you over Tower Bridge and onto a segregated cycle path heading east towards mile end etc ... I'm sure there are plenty of people here who could help you with your route or even accompany you on your first few forays envelo...

have you thought about taking two smaller (aka lighter) tents? might be easier to manage on the train. Even if you don;t go for 2 x 2man / 3 man you might want to consider a small light 4 man PLUS a small tent to keep your stuff in. The problem with camping without a car is where to keep your stuff...

Hopefully, this should help too: http://www.tessajowell.net/uploads/f00a48ee-7141-f7f4-994c-6433c2027fb9.pdf

oh god - thank you for this. Have been looking the other way on this as I can't bear to get down and dirty with the paperwork to understand what gives. Cursory glances at IPSEA suggest doomful outcomes ...

Hello Simon Thanks for your direct reply. I'm really glad to hear that The Charter campaign had nothing to do with planting press stories. That's very reassuring. Thank you for making that clear. I'm not at all trying to sling mud. I'm not involved in the HABS campaign other than wanting to see a new school. My sense of disease has arisen from reading comments made people identifying themselves as being governors. Perhaps they weren't. But I really don't want to resurrect any ill-feeling. As I've said on many occasions I know that Charter has an excellent reputation.

Hello Simon I agree with you that it's great news that there will likely be a new school in east dulwich and I know that charter has a great reputation locally and certainly amongst people whose children attend. I have to say that I have been rather shocked at the tone and some of the tactics apparently deployed in pursuit of charter's bid. I appreciate that you are trying to secure support for your campaign but I really hope that the campaign was not responsible for pushing the story about your rival organisation' having to deal with a crime to Private Eye, where sources aren't published. The locality is peppered with journalists so perhaps it wasn't part of an explicit strategy but it is very off putting and smacks of unprofessionalism; and not necessarily in the way you might imagine.

blimey - low tricks

It's funny that "never returning after one incident of rudeness". I haven,t been into William Rose for about 5years or so since a really horrible experience.

Yes - but there's. Not an awful lot there .... Quite small. We dropped in on the way back from somewhere else

Yes, same thing for my friend who has French nationality but lives in London. She is voting in the local elections but will also vote in the French European election.

I had prompt bush action from the council when I reported one that had fallen into our road. Did it online.

Your survey is flawed - impossible to proceed if employed as you *must* give reason for unemployment before leaving the page

MrsMcc and thecaptain- there are clearly differing views on this. Personally, I find it pretty disgusting - both the sight in the street and the smell. I wonder, would you mind letting me know your address (dm me if you'd prefer not to post it in a public forum) and I'll direct the men with weak bladders to your door when I come across them in my street. Perhaps we could provide a "we love piss here" map?

I saw a poor learner driver crunch very, very slowly into that squat bell bollard today.

Maybe those of you who celebrate the right to piss in the street could feature a "urine welcome here" sign in your windows, doorways and on your walls? And for those of you who says it's perfectly fine, I just don't like the smell of stale piss in underpasses, car parks and nooks. (So, yes, I'm an admirer of the urban pissoir to avoid the revolting stink). I think there's a difference between pissing where there are people (or there are going to be people) and, say, behind a bush. I don't understand, medical reasons aside, how people are so unable to manage their bladders.

Well ?80 fine or the price of a drink / packet of nuts? Come on gents, use the gents and wash your hands and stop pissing in my street. Alternatively, leave your address and I'll arrange for some cordial reciprocation. http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/First_court_conviction_for_urinating_in_street.asp

I live in a small street, right next to pub (ie with easily accessible toilets) and quite often see men pissing up against the wall. What's that all about? Laziness? Weird cat-based territory marking? Exhibitionism? Barely repressed urge to get knob out at any chance? Put it away chaps and if you're incapable of managing your bladder take a look here: http://www.tena.co.uk/men/products/

our 9 year old goes to bed at 8 and our 11 year old at 8.30. I actually think the elder one needs mores keep than the younger one