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did you see Nuts in May last night and take the beardie bloke as your role model then?

...what... they thought the snake was your...now that's unfair. specially as it has spots.

it was deadly to those with wheat allergies.

It's been recaptured now. It was a corn snake. It was wedged behind a radiator so sadly it's Keep Fit regime had not been working.

There's a coral snake roaming around JAGS sports club. Or was yesterday. The pools open but everything else is closed. So he likes the treadmill, he likes pilates and he likes yoga but he doesnt like to get wet?

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The fear of crime is greater than the experience of crime; fear of crime immobilizes people; telly 'specials' can indulge this, actually leading to an increase in fear and even an increase in crime. Every potential mugger who sees a tv interviewee saying how they just handed stuff over, how scared they were, is encouraged. Just as every news article reminding us about how hard it is to prosecute rapists encourages rapists.

One of the main problems of moving out is you will have to ferry your children everywhere unless you are moving to another town. I was very protective of my children when small and could never imagine a time when I would feel relaxed about them transporting themselves across south london- but they do and I am. Their access to all the wonderful things and different people of London is invaluable. There are huge parks for recreation if the garden is too small. They have been able to exercise sensible independence in a way my brothers children never were- they had to wait for their driving licences! I was at a party in stoke newington recently talking to a couple who had relocated to the wilds of Herefordshire. They were going on about nature, and quality of this and that and their organic hens, but after a couple of drinks the woman started saying she dreamt of Stokey every night, found the countryside stultifyingly boring, they were lonely and isolated from like minded people and everyone was white. They could never afford to move back into London because the gap in prices between countryside and town and she was positively grief stricken. I think they felt about Stoke Newington pretty much how we feel about our neck of the woods. Be careful what you think you are getting. Schools? My friends who have moved to Kent are lucky if their children get into the grammar schools because if they don't they go to secondary moderns. There is masses more demand than supply and it's a real argument for a mixed system. Another friend who moved to an idyllic village said it was two years before anyone spoke to her at the school gate- and she is a really bubbly outgoing person. I love it here and have no plans to go anywhere. We are building upwards so we dont have to leave our house. If I had to dig downwards I would do that too! There are some wonderful places to move to- they are the ones already full of Londoners- Whitstable, Broadstairs, Brighton....

-Steve T says he was attacked by a pitbull. They are by law required to be muzzled. It wasnt. So how would a law on muzzling have protected him? It was unaccompanied- that was the problem. -The dog that rushed out of the house and attacked the OPs dog would also not have been muzzled under any muzzling law, since it was in its own home from which it escaped. -no muzzle will protect you from a serioulsy aggressive dog- especially if unaccompanied. They can get them off, they can bite through them. -if you have a serious fear of something which is impeding your peaceful progress through the world then you need to address this perhaps with a cognitative behavioural therapist. A fear of lions may be evolutions way of making you sensible when walking through the savannah, but a fear of all dogs is just screwing your life. - lastly, the sight of quite a few muzzled dogs is misleading. Many dogs are muzzled periodically to stop them eating all the chicken bones.

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and to add, dogs really do want to be like you-hoo and can easily turn into emotional amplifications of all their owners neurosis, prejudices, paranoas, hostilities and fears. Hence, so important for calm training...for both!

The point of the original incident is a dog- whatever breed- was out of control in the street without its owner- it had rushed out from its house. It sounds like a very territorial dog that probably guards its door. Knowing this, the owner was a fool to let it dash out and confront whatever it believed was 'on its land'. Whatever the breed, this would have been a very frightening experience. If the dog really had not teeth, and this was a one off, an apology and explanation might have assuaged her fears. Instead the man hurled frightening abuse. To me the most scarey thing is the man more than the dog, using horrible language to a woman and her child.

fitting them with a tracking device at a one off cost of around four hundred quid might be a good idea.

Yes Eater 81, it so much pleasanter being harrassed by druggies in Devon.

brilliant!

If I genuinely cannot find my dogs poo, I pick up someone elses.

I pass the gym everymorning with the dog and it is always busy with adults using it, often under the tyrranical gaze of a personal trainer.

Pull the other One cabaret got fined too. But Gerry Cottle didnt.

There's cubs at st silesius(?)ivydale road. the scouts have moved to rye hill residents hall opposite peckham park so maybe the cubs have too.

My sister-in-law got into NLP in a big way and imposed its deconstructing ways on all the family. Instead of it helping communication it just became a bullying device. Her labelling of everyone and intense interpretation of everything brought no wisdom, no honesty, no compassion to family dynamics but oppressed, suppressed and frustrated everyone. My brother, who had been married to her for 30 years, buggered off and eventually married someone who wasnt full of sh**. Be unpredictable. Sit somewhere that confounds him- cross legged on the floor perhaps so you can 'see things laterally'.. Drop into the conversation that youve just read an exposee of self help books and say anyone who can't have an independent thought without being told how to think by a book shouldnt have any responsibility. Then chuckle as if you are all on the same side. Fight bullshit with bullshit.

Yesterdays Guardian cited five incidents of fox to human attacks so it's not that unusual.

We Bellenden Villagers want to stay in Peckham.

wouldnt it have been more sensible for him to have called an ambulance while he was running to the scene instead of having other time wasting conversations on the phone?

Does anyone know who did their carpentry? The library stylie bookshelves are awesome.

what , did they have to go all the way over to East Dulwich?