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while we are at it, on the north easterly bit of Peckham Rye today someone had dumped catering sized quanitites of spaghetti bolognese on the grass. Encourages rats and makes well behaved but inheritantly greedy dogs go and stuff their faces before recapture.

they told me when they deliverd mine that if I ring number on card they will take it away again. Ive given it 24 hours and it impedes my view from front window so away it goes.

I have a green bin and a blue bin, but no longer a front garden as they take the whole thing up.

Malleymoo, sorry havent read through every post so someone may have said this, but why doesnt your child block this boy and unfriend him. If blocked you wont see his messages.

A couple of years ago, my daughter received some abusive emails from a boy. I replied to them as me her mother, with copies to his parents. He got the fright of his life. I got a letter of apology from the boy who was gated for a month. I think it was apt intervention and that was the end of it. You know it was a boy from her last school, inform that school, write a letter. It was easy in our case because I was able to track him down through mutual friends but othewise I would have taken it to the school too- even if it was only my child's school. Even when stuff is 'out of school hours' it's important for a school to have your written record as then they can put together a picture if there are other complaints. When parents do not intervene it is all child heresay and no one can act. You want to establish a paper trail that a school can refer to in the future. There is press coverage at the moment of a court case involving an abusive internet troll and he has just been jailed- so when in doubt, contact the police. They have the computer technology to track down the culprit.

thanks all! my car is so ancient it doesnt actually have air conditioning but it does have a couple of slits in the windscreen facia shelf bit. I have used all your arguments in my appeal with copies of voucher and penalty notice. I have offered to provide originals 'when I go to court'. I do wish my friend I was visiting hadnt rushed out and called him a rude lady part word. Its just she says lots of her visitors have had fines even when they have bought vouchers for various obscure technicalities.

can we be responsible for freak weather?should we penalised for it. DJKQ is right, we paid for the parking. For all we know the warden may have tapped the window till the voucher was displaced. Lambeth do not use adhesive ones so they are easily moved.

eh duplicated myself then

thanks DJ, should i send them the voucher or will it 'disappear.' my friend called the warden a bad word.

parked in road next to ruskin park with proper paid parking voucher from machine displayed inside windscreen. It is an extraordinarily windy day. Lambeth parking have just given me a parking ticket after the tailwind of hurricane Katia blew my parking voucher off from inside my windscreen, through closed windows, and onto the seat where the warden photographed it. He was waiting by his bike. I was well inside my paid for time. How do I deal with this? advice please.

best ever Zippo show, really funny clowns, loved the gauchos, the motorbike finale was amazing- and really was the only motorbike bit- this was Zippo not Archaos!

has anyone else had terrible problems with Parentpay today? hours of logging in, website crashing, logging in and making payment, website crashing before its cleared. No contact number. No contact email.Looks like my son isnt going to get any lunch today. Ive been attempting since 8am. this morning.

ah Martin I once auditioned for you as a clown when you were a small circus probably in the late eightees /early ninetees. I remember you gasping at my 'acrobatic display' possibly not in wonder. How wistfully I sit in your audiences now with thoughts of what might have been as opposed to now being a stand-up comic housewife and mother in Peckham!

e dealer do you mean big round fenced flower bed with path around leading into park from the common land area...that bit def allows dogs. otherwise i am most confused.

I thought the only bit that was absolutely no dogs was the picnic area. Which is the floral garden? Sexby gardens they are allowed on lead and across the japanese gardens. I think I have missed the floral gardens altogether!

hi I didnt meet my husband till my late thirties, had my first baby at 40, conceived naturally and delivered vaginally, then had my son very quickly afterwards via mother nature and vaginal delivery at 41. My husbands 7 years younger than me. It wasnt a question of me putting off motherhood, it just happened that way. and I was more relaxed as a person anyway. They are teenagers now so it seems to have gone OK! One of my bestest friends is about to have first baby at 46- again a spontaneous act of nature involving a new relationship and a complete surprise. You never know.

Mallymoo, that was a Pull The Other One audience I assume- known for its integrity, honesty and yet individuality!

I know who you mean Nancysmum, and he has got very forgetful of late. A lot of dogs will chase cats, jack russells in particular, with chase instinct, and that is one of the reasons they need to be on the lead in the street- they could knock over a cyclist, cause a crash, anything, in pursuit of a cat. My own dog when on lead, cannot bear onlead dogs, and gets very stressed encountering these two dogs, though is fine with them in park. This was obviously a horrible and traumatic event for the OP as well as for the poor cat, and while I think this man must control his dogs on the street, I do not think - if he is the one we know- he is a deliberatley cruel man, he loves his dogs -but possibly has the beginnings of a touch of dementia.

I was there and I can tell you Beyonce was wonderful. She read the crowd, she was a show woman and she understood why she had been booked unlike McCartney a few years ago who thought it was OK to do new material. Beyonce opened with her two greatest hits, a courageous start showing she had a full pack of aces. We knew we were in for something - unlike the long dreary set of others when you know its gonna be one hour 25 minutes before you have a mass euphoric singalong. Beyonce made a lot of fans that night, she committed to the speficic environment, she was in the moment, she was genuinely touched by the adoration of the huge crowd, she worked hard. And I knew nothing of Beyonce before except the two singles. Glastonbury evolves every year. The music stages are just one part of it, and the main ones will reflect the taste of the day, which may be middle of the road. Elsewhere you will find eclectic wierd things all over the place. It's the only festival that treats its festival goers as grown ups who are allowed to have fires, cook with sharp inplements, be responsible for themselves. Worrying about the weather is like going to the men's finals at wimbledon and being disappointed there isnt a Brit playing. You're there arent you! Sorry didnt read the whole of this thread, so hope not repeating what others have said.

Mrs TP the paintings prob all the same size because he consistently used same size canvas to work on.

he visited us too -he was very polite and as soon as I said I wasnt interested he thanked me and left.

Cuppatea, currently our cleaner is a woman yes and has been with us 10 years. Why would it be more likely to be a woman? Possibly because its self employed work that can be fitted around the cleaners own childrens' school day. So I'm not sure that your 'i bet your cleaner is a woman' is an assumption that I am discriminating against men or that only women take the job. If a woman is paid a proper wage for her job - and it's not a situation where a man would be paid more- I see no conflict with feminism. Or are you assuming cleaning is only womans work? In fact thinking as cleaning as something you cannot outsource without creating a social unfairness is the very opposite of what it is. In reality you are passing more money into the economy. I get paid something for my self employed work, which I have time to do because I have a cleaner, and I pass some of that wage to someone else to do the thing that otherwise I would do for free, which would mean I would earn less and the money I earnt would not pass to anyone. When I did my economics A level I remember a teacher saying a huge irritation to the economy was the d.i.y enthusiast who caused an cash flow cul de sac by not passing on part of their wage to carpenters, etc. Though you could argue it is passed to B&q- which is why we are a nation of shop keepers. You'll find that a more regulated cleaning day demanded by care homes for instance, will often be worked by men. Sometimes people work as cleaners while they are studying or it can be just a work stage in someone's life. My sister was a cleaning lady for a couple of years- she is a brilliant re-inventor of roles and described herself as a 'gentleman's help'. That was not a feminist definition of herself at all. On the other hand she could charge loads of dosh for doing a cleaners job.

I believe in old fashioned feminist ideals of wages for housework and so feel no guilt in paying a proffessional to do it for me. As long as that person is paid a proper and not exploitative wage.

Bawdynan the feedback I am getting from east end school assistant head is that it is anything but distasteful and our good outgrown school shirts and trousers would really help desperate families at school changeover time. These families cannot wait for govenment changes and are not consoled by our political anger on their behalf. they need stuff now. I think crocs are irrelevent and that's why I am focusing on school clothes. I'm not talking about dumping our old stuff on the poor but a general recycling school clothes and shoes exchange. This thread has already been picked up by a woman in the west midlands who was googling the subject after the programme and she has been in contact re this idea. Womens institute may be a good conduit for channelling such an exchange as they are already doing something re the oppressive economic burden on children of fashion To put it bluntly, we have lots of stuff and others dont. IF your child has three pairs of trousers they will be less worn out by the time he has grown out of them than the trousers of a child who has one pair. Also womens institute, which already has established networks, may be a good conduit through which to operate this.

I tell chuggers I don't have a bank account as I beleive they are the work of Satan. I find they evaporate rather quickly after that.