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Louisa, Hackney was terrifying and shit in the late eighties to nineties, even Stoke Newington despite its quaint looks; it didn't start from a higher ground than Peckham. Crossing Southgate Road from Islington to Hackney,identical residential streets but in postcodes just separated by yards, filled us with as much bourgeois trembling as ever beset an East Dulwicher venturing across East Dulwich Road into SE15. Every dog has its day and every part of London will experience up and down. I am old enough to remember Notting Hill in the sixties and seventies and it was very down in the mouth. I expect the Kensington crowd were apoplectic with mirth when the 'pioneers' started talking about it as interesting and eclectic.

Which.server has been almost dead for 48 hours with few emails squeezing through

they are in stage one of dealing with my complaint. If I have paid and other challenges have won, I think I should get my money back! Specially as, if I had known I wasn't allowed to park there, there were plenty of other parking choices at the time.

Went to Peddler for Mother's day, booked about three weeks in advance, totally delish Sunday roast and not more expensive than a lot of the pub lunch offerings. was in Artusi in Bellenden Road last night (I don't go out like this all the time - had a visiting relative) and they rustled up a veggie dish for me which was sublime.

It's possible a blocking lorry in Adys waved her through a gap on the wrong side and she took the corner slowly on a clear road. That does happen with huge vehicles getting stuck and encouraging drivers to squeeze around them. She was quite a young driver.

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I don't know how people manage to do this, but for the third time in a month, a driver has cut the corner, driven over the bollard and become totally stuck. She was definitely on the wrong side of the road, but it has happened to people going the other way. OK of course you shouldn't cut corners, but if this bollard is to be a preventative object rather than a retributive one, its got to be a lot more visible/taller. We used to have a series of standing posts which did the job a lot better. ...before that we had an actual pavement! old fashioned concept I know, but quite effective.

Thanks seagal, i will use that!

Hi Gudi, i paid up but still have the ticket and think i should retrospectively challenge it.

I was fined for parking here a couple of momths ago. I have parked there for years and didn't relate the new lines to the crossing at all. My car back wheels were not on the zog zag. I didnt challenge it and paid up- but i didnt get any points either which you would usually gey fromparking on a crossing. So i think a money making machine rather than a visibility issue.

This is a great post office!

we were stuck in the jam approaching this. Relieved it didn't look serious, we thought someone was trapped under the car!

Not the fuel, the size of battery is different, but woops yes it can be done http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-jumpstart-a-dieselpowered-automobile.html

we have always asked neighbours and used jump leads. Never try and jump a petrol from a diesel and vice versa and get your positives and minuses the right way round.

Drop the ceilings underneath a bit?

Adys, Oglander, Maxted...will bring you out just by the new choc caff. Also And a lot of people using bellenden road live around bellenden road.

If you are walking to bellenden road from east dulwich you almost certainly will walk past the new melange.

does it take dogs? a friend from the seaside is visiting with a small lapdog and wants to meet for lunch.

Farmers, Greetings for unusual sweet gifts, the 'med' shop for delicious veggie samosas and St Christopher Hospice shops for random treasure.

really though, any level of rudeness from staff to 'clients' /customers /patients is unacceptable. Ok they sometimes get horrible people, but so do hoteliers, shops, pubs, other places where the public interact with staff. You wouldn't get it in any other service- hotel reception. I think its a terrible to try and justify it via a bad experience you don't know if they have actually had.

It's been awful tonight!

today -11am, not peak time- had to drive daughter to Euston as she had so much luggage. Approached elephant from New Kent Road, huge queue, then at the actual Elephant it seemed there was only one tiny lane curving round to the right, the other fork seemed to be cut off. Then once across the Elephant and round the one way system to Blackfriars/Waterloo it was ridiculous. Not that much traffic but all of it made to wait for about twenty minutes to get through lights. You cannot take left to Waterloo until you have crossed the lights for traffic to Blackfriars, as it is all bus lane up till then. About three cars could go through green at a time. It seemed to be deliberately artificially manufacturing a traffic jam. Once through to Waterloo, hardly any traffic. I kept thinking why? is it pleasant for hotel residents to have all that traffic snarled up under their windows, or local residents? Bus lane completely empty which explains my lightening bus journeys from the other direction of late. And cyclists using the one way system? Back to your expensively laid out cycle superhighway please!!