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on another note, while waiting for new oyster, how is he meant to get to school?

thanks all, he's fine but annoyed. The police said you just can't tell if theyre chancers or not. He could have said no and they may have walked away...or they could have punched him or worse. So although he is annoyed he is not traumatised. But it was ever so subtle.

today at 4pm my 14 year old son was asked for his oyster card and phone which he immediately surrendered. Police informed, everythng cancelled but just to warn. He was on his phone. Robbed by older boy, tall, thin, round 17, mixed race, blue and grey cap, blue zip up, who asked which school he went to, accompanied by white girl with blonde hair, tallish, slender who melted away just before the encounter. Son ok, did sensible thing.

today I saw all the traffic coming from Nunhead lane with a green light completely stuck at the next red light on 'kings on the rye' crossroads. Can these lights not be coordinated so that when they let cars through they don't immediately stop them so there is a blockage ?

this man is the very useful man '[email protected]'

When developers next to us began to dismantle our boundary fence and encroach on our property and raise the level of their garden on foundations of rubble three feet above our fence, we got in touch with Southwark council who stopped the work till it was sorted out.

yup no mention of Peckers!

Kwik Fit have always been brilliant pumping up my tyres and changing valves for free .

Grove Vale pavements like an ice rink this evening!

thanks Bic Basher. Done so now.

As Ive posted in the rail replacement bus thread, the rail replacement buses were a disaster!

The rail replacement buses were totally uncoordinated in relation to the east london line trains they were meant to be interfacing with. On returning to Surrey Quays tonight, passengers were given completely mistaken timetable, then waited fifteen minutes in blinding snow, a bus arrived, but it was coming from Clapham not going to Peckham, the guy said it would be another half hour for the other one. This meant that actually we had just missed one and that the previous bus hadn't waited for the train that was coming in! I got on the bus anyway to stay warm till it returned the other way! At Canada water the bus was not allowed in the bus station as it is not a 'normal' bus and so the replacement bus stop was some way away. when we stopped at this canada water replacement stop there were no passengers..presumably they never found the stop! We then returned to the stop the bus had picked me up from and then back to Peckham etc. Deposited at Peckham Rye well over an hour after I had alighted at Peckham Rye.

I'd have wrapped it in a snowball and thrown it back to her.

Dalston is completely different. It has some amazing houses, some very very old houses, some picturesque bits, right on top of the city (the closest residential bit to the city besides Bethnal Green area)and some nice parks. It has a history of being posh in it's early days (like Kensington and Islington which both had times down on their luck before they rose again) so it has form. Stoke Newington always looked attractive even when it was rough as dogs. It also benefited from the overspill from Islington in the eightees' sky high house price rises. There had always been excellent housing stock in Dalston, the east end started to get a bit trendy starting with Bow, and Stoke Newington (dodgy when I lived in Islington in the 80's). Also Dalston and Hackney had lots of middle class young squatters and artists in the dilapidated council properties that the council showed no intention of doing up and were not habitable for council tenants. When those people grew up/got jobs/diluted their radicalism, they tended to stay in the area, many having the right to buy. And the cafes and hang out places that these consumers wanted had already begun to happen, whether collectively or commercially. Are any of those perfect storm ingredients present in South Norwood?

My car isn't going anywhere till it's all gone after last year's excitement of it skiing, sliding, shuffling, all the way down from the Horniman.

First they came for the putter-ups of lost cat posters, and I did not speak out, because I hadn't lost a cat, then they came for the putter-ups of primary school fete posters, and I did not speak out, because I didn't have a child still at primary school..........

The council is already going around swiftly fining ordinary people for advertising their little fetes and local shows with 'unauthorized' notices, do you really want to collaborate with this municipal oppression?

in which case you can use the twenty quid to bribe them to take you to a different one.

East Dulwich people are always pointing things out about East Dulwich when same question is asked on the forum of East Dulwich.

Peckham Rye is a great area. Even dodgy seeming bits like late night Rye Lane have been transformed by buzzing things like the Bussey Building, with its queues of ravers on a Saturday night.

just had a quick look and it seems to have all spanish threads in the general bit or is it being spammed?

your builder may have meant that down to level of taps would risk rot to the wood if it was in contact with water on a regular basis. Although water might not run down back of a sink, there is a lot of damp stuff happening there, hence tiles. I had an extra window put in where the side door used to be as there was already a lintel. I noticed in a lot of knocking through of these rooms and opening up at the back, the old door would just be bricked up, missing a trick of extra light. They are slightly higher than the sink, but I am now going to tile the inset shelf, as even though it is higher it does get a bit wet from splashing around washing up.

You said you hate laminate, but have you discovered real lino? it's wonderful but very expensive. how about two windows?

my floorboards were painted with a diluted emulsion,(something basic like dulux fern green I think) when dry they were lightly sanded so the grain showed very slightly and then varnished. The result is hardwearing and attractive. I attach pic for your interest. Taken before we finished decorating it and still with junk in the garden so looks much brighter now.

these are very annoying! The other evening my heel went into a narrow but deep one one crossing the road at Peckham Rye just below Nigel road and I went flat on my face, as my foot was caught. Luckily no traffic.