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looks like bindweed.

Maybe it's the big lorries and buses coming all the way down and reversing all the way back up again when they get stuck. The cone is now accompanied by a man in a yellow fluero jacket.

There's now what looks like a small sinkhole protected by a single traffic cone in the middle of Maxted Road.

Ayres have just brought out a new pressing or whatever you call it of the honey, newly harvested.

Rah Rah yes that's what I'm saying too!

I haven't yet checked the bollard's current status, but in the space of two hours today, two huge lorries and one large coach have failed to negotiate the junction with Adys Road and have reversed all the way back up Nutbrook Street to Maxted Road, where residents have had to guide them back on their way after they became getting stuck, without hitting all our cars. Time for a sign to stop them coming down this way, surely.

if they had taken up the resort's '' listening service'', would that really have made her any safer?

Andreas, opposite them, is pretty useful and a nice little deli counter.

the current bollard is much much closer to the actual junction

so as you negotiate it, you cannot see it. It is in a blind spot. And this is me in a tiny low car. If you are in a people carrier, van or lorry, maybe the spot at which it becomes blind is much earlier. Yes, you should have seen it before you reached it but you should be able to see it from your car, surely.

I've just checked and you cannot see it from drivers side of car when your bonnet nose reaches it and you are parallel with it. and it is differently positioned to its colleagues on Amott and Ondine Roads, in that they present a group of bollards following curve of road at junction.

Right, I live in Nutbrook street and have done so pre-bollard. I have questions. What is the point of the narrowing of the road where the bollard is? is it to put off large lorries? Too late, they have got this far, via Maxted and Bellenden, led by their sat navs and with no signs to put them off, though the council have been begged to put them up; and now they arrive in Nutbrook Street and can't negotiate the narrow junction. So massive fail. Is it to protect pedestrians? it is actually making them more vulnerable with no clear delineation of pavement from road. Parking on Adys Road right up to the junction with Nutbrook, often edging up to the corner itself, makes traffic on Adys turning right into Nutbrook take a large swing, to take the corner, forcing Nutbrook traffic turning left into Adys to hug the corner. Somebody here suggested putting up cameras to 'catch' the poor people who are weekly gouging, disembowelling and scratching their cars on this bollard. Are there really so many bad drivers, or is it the bollard itself that is creating the bad driving? I will confess that when the first original bollard went up, I immediately scratched the side of my car on it. I am not a corner- cutter, a speeder, or reckless: but I didn't expect the bollard to be there and having not expected it, I didn't see it. Since then I haven't repeated the mistake, because I know it is there. It is badly placed. The markers on the parallel Amott Road are many and taller. They lead the eye to the narrowing of the junction they are protecting. The Nutbrook one is just a nasty surprise. -the pavement disappears and to some, could look like road. What about those traffic calming measures where the road is painted red? It isn't painted anything. How about a Road Narrowing sign? how about just not narrowing the road to such a ridiculous degree? The number of times this bollard comes down points to a problem with the position of the bollard and the functioning of the junction.

Hope Festival is fantastic and am sad that this year I can't make it.

as well as the blanket under the blow up bed, put a blanket between you/sheet and blow up bed. They absorb the cold from the ground and you need to insulate as much as poss. A lidded bucket (available from AJ Farmers for emergency wee wee's - the lids clip on to avoid spillage. Lidl in Peckham are currently doing single flower solar garden lights- they spear into the ground. Good for marking outside of tent entrance. plenty of spare containers to keep food dry/insect proof. I take a couple of those flexible builders buckets- great for washing up, carrying washing up to sinks, carrying anything really and then can be used for keeping fruit and veg off the ground.

I heard it happen yesterday as I was unpacking my car. A white van. Didn't see it actually hit the bollard but it was an almighty sound!

I'm liking the Dorset Tea from Sainsbury's, or their Kenyan tea. Both are nice and strong, yet mellow and a good dark golden colour. I was luck to visit Darjeeling recently and went tea tasting, but I think British tea has ruined my palate as all those 'new tip/first blush' teas tasted like weak yet pungent Badger wee to me.

Our builder managed a proper set of stairs by chopping a bit off the original first floor front bedroom so that they had a longer run. The front bedroom lost only a foot or two and the stairs make all the difference in the feeling that the loft is an integrated part of the house, rather than tacked on. we also had our bathroom set under the eaves rather than cramped over the stairs, and it's big enough for a bath too. Under the eaves is a dead space so it made sense. We are behind Goose Green and you are welcome to have a look.

was anyone else tormented throughout the weekend nights by the interrogative/ufo landing light/football stadium brightness of security lights in St John and St Clements School playground? they seem to be turned off tonight thank God.

Ayres do a fabulous sunflower gluten free bread now. I am a champion farter- could this be gluten/wheat related?

noise abatement at the council. They will come round and measure the noise. Ring them when it is happening.

I have sent you a pm. This sounds like Mickel who is Israeli.

what about the confusingly strange statue on it's prow-like corner?

Hampstead, Highgate and Primrose Hill are upper middle class, or whatever you call millionaires nowadays.

Brixton Lido has become profitable and fashionable, as has London Fields. would be fab!

green bins this week!