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congratulations to you all!

do the dodgy people have to come from outside of ED? I'm across the track in Peckham and we are getting a bit fed up with being denigrated in this way. We have lovely people around our way and a fervent neighbourhood watch. Mugging is pretty opportunist and your crims most likely going along that way because its their locality and seeing their victim rather than hiking from over here. Complacency about 'lovely ED' makes you more vulnerable. There are a couple of roads in ED coming up again and again in these mugging threads and its naive to think the muggers are not from round there!

agreed re parking, but I was going in and out twice, making the journey four times, in one day and time was a premium. It saved me oodles of time compared with peckham rye london bridge and tube. The quicker it comes to Peckham Rye, which was promised yonks ago, the better.

eh, no, I really did glide; or it felt like that compared with the normal trains.I'm sorry if my enthusiasm for the simple things in life draws your jaded ire.

this was a successful experience! I risked it and drove, immediatly parked HOP end of Devonshire drive in the only space in existence and glided effortlessly into Londons glamorous east end. I cant wait for it to be connected to Peckham Rye .

thanks very much everyone!

I'm going on my maiden voyage to Shoreditch via the east london line tommorow morning. Does anyone know of any parking restricitons around residential streets of Honor Oak Park? Also I am assuming HOP is in zone 2 and I can use oyster?thanks.

not in this bit of nutbrook which is adys end.

RSPCA in Norwood high street are always very grateful. Also i found the loveliest hospice charity shop near Greenwich railway station- the ladies kept the shop open past closing time while my daughter and friend tried on everything.

we have a wire cage around our letter box. Also our house is very untidy and if I can never find my car keys, bag and cards I am hoping a burglar can't either.

ballet on mondays, tap on thursdays in the units off Gowlett Road- Ballet taught by Fiona Foster and tap by Jenny. There are several classes for different ages. There is also an adult class for both.

she may not be eating because her belly hurts....

PeckhamGateCrasher I used to ogle internet pictures of that beautiful house a couple of years ago when it was 650 thousand. In that time it's doubled, unbelievable!

We are only the third people to live in our Victorian terrace. Our house remains pretty original with rooms arranged without being knocked together. The sisters of the builder were the first owners. Followed by an old lady who ended up living with her sister in an informally divided house. The two things we changed, eventually, was to move the huge bathroom at the back to the middle of the house. I think they were just stuck on the back of the houses when bathrooms became de rigeur. Also adding a window to the back of the kitchen overlooking the garden. So many houses we looked at were ''blind'' at the back, with ony french doors from the ''back sitting room' overlooking the garden. This is because no one wanted to be in the garden and have to look at the skullery maid in the kitchen working away. A couple of years ago, to make room for a piano, we knocked away a very solid looking corner''shelf'' in our dining room- it turned out not to be a shelf, but the chimney from the old copper boiler in the kitchen running to the main dining room chimney. Some of the original wallpaper appeared when a radiator leaked onto it and we have exposed it all in the hall. We have succumbed so much to the original spirit of our house that sometimes I think it is us that are haunting it.

East of The Rye, I wonder if your child goes to the same comp as mine.(Two words, first word four syllables) We have had offers of exorbitantly priced trips several times over the three years she has been there- overpriced skiing, ridiculously expensive short trips to the States and recently an art trip to Morocco- we said no to all of them! And so it seems did many others- the american trip was cancelled because of low uptake. Instead, My daughter went on a budget skiing trip with her (very active!) granny last spring half term, at a quarter of the cost for twice the time. She is not bothered at all about us dismissing these school trips. There doesnt seem to be big peer pressure- I dont think many are in the financial position to accept them and even if they were-they are clearly overpriced.

re KIDS COMPANY, I went to the Royal Academy exhibition on fashion this weekend and there is an extra (free entry)exhibition at the back of the academy from Kids Company. There are shoe boxes, each expressing the home life and the aspirational home life of a child made by the children. I found these very moving. More moving than the sad desperate backgrounds of these kids was their vision of something better, their hope that things could change and turn out OK. The exhibiton also had some of the t- shirts and other clothes made by kids company kids on sale. I highly recommend this exhibition, as for the first time I got a glimpse of the human hearts of the children who can get so swept up in the gang thing .

take em back.

sillywoman i think he meant because your partner is a potential witness to murder and you don't know who reads this forum.

em, it's not suggesting weaning before 6 months but to add solids earlier surely? I breast fed mine for a year but also introduced solids at 4months. I think this article is being misinterpreted as encouraging mothers to stop breastfeeding when it certainly isnt.

maybe they are just selling loft insulation...in which case they will look a lot less dodgy if they say so instead of talking about doing surveys and being sent by the government.

well either to persuade old ladies that their houses needed unnecessary work to fit in with 'regulations' (''you should have received the information blah blah in the post'')or worse case scenario to gain entry into your house with one of them as a distraction person.

men saying they are on govenment emmission surveying team currently ringing door bells in Nutbrook street(Bellenden area)yellow jackets and vague id citing ''head office''. I said 'so which department are you from in the government.' He said 'emmissions' I said 'environmental agency?' he said yes. I said 'I think you are a private ecompany' he said 'yes.' 'So you are not from the govenernment?'....They may not even be that. Anyway, sent them packing.

we've had a few recent cases of children being knocked over, killed even, crossing at green man crossings locally- where lorries have shot the lights or snuck in an illegal turn- so personally I am very glad to have lollypersons even if they seem superfluous to you.

I'd love a Waitrose in Lordship Lane and would still shop regularly at small grocers, greengroces in Lordship and Nunhead Lanes. The only place I would no longer go to would be sainsburys. Also I like the ethics of the workers owning Waitrose as part of John Lewis Group and can imagine it might create some more permanent employment too.

How extradordinary- so they went for residential planning permission which excluded nursery use and then are opening as a nursery anyway.. I wonder if it has been sold for nursery use- a lot of people live there. How very wierd.