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All members of the Dulwich Society received details of the AGM by email.

Up date on my relative - he is still in hospital - I have no idea of the diagnosis. His sister spoke to him on the phone yesterday, and his other sister, on the spur of the moment came down from Scotland - not sure if they are both going to visit him in hospital. I hope they identified the cause of his 3 week old sore throat and high temperature and that he is being helped with his panic attacks. Since he is spending more time in the Dartford area, he may decide to change GPs. He kept his ED GP as he was under Kings since he had a burst ulcer in 2019 and they found other significant medical conditions which reduced the quality of his life.

Many thanks for your replies. My relative went to stay with his girlfriend in Dartford and on Tuesday she found him collapsed and unconscious (his panic attacks can be very severe and he can faint from them)called 999 and he was admitted to Darenth Park Hospital where they kept him over night.We advised her to insist on seeing a liaison psych before he was discharged. He is registered with a Dulwich GP whose practice has been quite good upto 2020. He is under 2 specialist consultants in Kings who have been monitoring him with regular brain CT scans since 2019. Not sure as yet the diagnosis from Darenth Park.

BARA has been registered with EDF since 2010 - originally linked to my work email. We now have a dedicated email set up for the organisation and wish to use this instead. We cannot remember the original password set up in 2010. We still wish to use BARA as our name please advise as to how we go about this. Thanks

Had to contact a relative's GP last week as he had a temperature of 39.7 and a sore throat for more than 3 weeks. He has a history of anxiety and depression which manifests itself in panic attacks. As a recovering alcoholic who has been dry since 2019 prolonged series of panic attacks results in him returning to drink. He also has a diagnosed medical condition of pre cancerous cells of throat /stomach. He spoke to the GP asking for a face to face appointment to diagnose the sore throat if strep throat/mumps (as swollen glands) etc or whether his medical conditioned had got worse. My relative explained that he was having numerous panic attacks a day and that unfortunately had returned to drinking again, he wanted reassurance that his medical condition had not deteriorated. GP not interested so I spoke with her and said regardless of the drinking and panic attacks - having a temperature of 39.7 over several days needed investigation. He had done a covid test which was negative. GP refused an appointment and told me to take him to A & E as he was dehydrated. I explained that the last few times he went to A & E the long wait brought on panic attacks and he had fainted. If after examining him she was still concerned we would go. She refused again to give an appointment With high incidents of poor mental health, I would have expected more sympathy from the GP who had my relatives full medical history over the past few years and even a recent letter from Kings dated May. My daughter who works in a mental health unit was not surprised at the GP's reaction as admissions to her ward had increased over the past few weeks as patients unable to get face to face appointments with their GPs were turning up in A & E departments as last resorts. Unfortunately to get referrals to a mental health professional, you need a GPs letter. There are Liaison Psychiatrists based in A & E at Kings but from experience it it the few hours wait in A & E before you see them. I am in two minds as to whether to make a complaint re GPs reaction - all my relative needed to calm the panic attacks was reassurance that he had a sore throat which could be helped by medication.

Gumboots Holiday Play Scheme- The play project will be available to primary school age children and will operate from the East Dulwich Community Centre. ? The daily fee is ?37.00 per day per child ? Times and dates - 8am - 6pm for 4 weeks from Monday 2nd August to Friday 27th August 2021. ? More info: [email protected]

Heliport at Kings, police helicopters monitoring areas.

Wood Vale is under 2 boroughs - the Horniman side is Lewisham. Not sure whether Dulwich Hill or Wood if Southwark, Try contacting Tom Cornish. Alot of the Police have been allocated to monitor open spaces, pubs etc in view of the Euros. Inspector Tom Cornish | Neighbourhood Policing | Southwark | AS BCU | Peckham Police Station, 177 Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5SL tel: 0207 232 6495 | mobile: 07917 133162 Twitter: @InspTomCornish

Was asked to put this on Forum. Could you mention our summer club on the forum? As follows: ? The play project will be available to primary school age children and will operate from the East Dulwich Community Centre. ? The daily fee is ?37.00 per day per child ? Times and dates - 8am - 6pm for 4 weeks from Monday 2nd August to Friday 27th August 2021. ? More info: [email protected]

I do like fireworks but think in this day and age, the only acceptable display is where the public are charged a notional sum to watch a public display. Remembering when the children were young we paid for tickets to see fireworks at Crystal Palace park - It was something like ?10 for a family group of 4.

Hubby went there today - was informed that if you take a book from the shelf, you need to take it on loan. Grove vale and Peckham have boxes where if you remove a book from the shelf and decide you do not want to read it - you place it in a box where it goes for a 48 hour quarantine. Some of the non fiction books have been re allocated upstairs.

just trying to think where there are pedestrianized shopping areas. Lewisham - no but they have the centre, Catford - no but they have the centre, Penge - no, Beckenham- no, Camberwell- no, Walworth road - no. Peckham needs to have buses running down it's shopping area, Admittedly bad parking did snarl up the traffic but some short term parking bays (30 mins max) could help shoppers who need to transport heavy goods.

From reading entries on this Forum - I get the impressions that there are long waiting lists for all nurseries. There is one in Barry Road on the junction with Goodrich - cannot remember it's name. Gumboots on Crystal Palace Road but they always have a long waiting list. There was a nursery in Upland Road near Goodrich School not sure if this is still open.

I ended up going to Grove Vale library yesterday afternoon and got out 5 books. In terms of space I would say it is roughly the size of Dulwich Children's Library. Whilst i was there saw 3 members of staff actively engaging with 'customers'. There were a family with 2 children, 4 adults and myself. Plenty of space to social distance. Noticed that all the bookcases were in wheels so space could be easily adapted.

A friend living in SE22 was offered her 1st jab at either Guys or Lewisham Hospitals.

Seek an Assessment of Needs from local Social Services - they will highlight what her needs are. She could be eligible for a Personal Budget - where the social services would calculate the cost of x number of hours care, look at her income and savings (over ?14,250 will need to contribute ?4 per ?1,000, over ?23,250 full costs) and to arrive at a personal budget which she could use to pay towards a private carer or use a recommended agency. From what you were saying, it looks as though your aunt needs 24 hour care and help with toileting/personal care/food preparation/ mobility/household tasks. Does she have Attendance Allowance either at the basic or enhanced rate? Having done some research for a friend who has dementia - his local social services base their home care costs at ?14.88 per hour with Day Centre costs at ?39 per day (Each local authority will have different rates) Get an OT Home Assessment (if not already done so) for aids around the house. Seek out Tele Care options for the area - i.e falls alerts,intercoms,sensors in rooms etc. Live in carers - will need at least 3 as they work a rota system and break times need to be covered i.e. Carer A will need 3 hour break during day so carer B will cover.Carer B takes over full time caring whilst A has week or so off, so carer C will cover B's daily breaks etc. My friend who now has dementia, had a live in carer for his mother who had reduced mobility and dementia, he was out working as a taxi driver during the day and evening, so carer got mum ready for the day and gave breakfast, carer then had a break which was covered by my friend as he did not start work until 1pm, and then carer did rest. This worked well for around 3 years until Mum died at 101 years

intexasatthemoment Agree with you entirely - 400 hundred m with even light shopping is tiring for me. Arthritis in knees, hips and back mean that unless dosed up with pain killers etc 200 m is more likely my maximum. I could manage a walk from HSBC/Primark upto stop by Khans to get bus back home, And would often get of at the station to walk down to Boots/Argos etc and pick up 12/197 near Primark back.

From Cllr McAsh Dulwich Library The layout of Dulwich Library means its full opening is not yet possible. I do not have a date for when it will be but I understand that the council is working hard to make it happen as soon as possible. More info here: [www.southwark.gov.uk] Cheers James -------------------- James McAsh - Labour Councillor for Goose Green ward [email protected] [www.jamesmcash.com] [twitter.com] Whilst I can understand the reluctance of opening up the reference library and study area upstairs at Dulwich Library, I see no reason for not opening up downstairs adult library. There is plenty of room, OK the computer screens are close together but they can be moved around to give more space. Given that Grove Vale a much smaller library is able to operate, there is no excuse why Dulwich cannot open. Last time I was there, there were 2 men sitting watching people return books and a librarian sitting behind screen. Nothing appears to have been reorganized in the adult section. Given the fact that the library has been closed for best part of a year there is no reason why work/reorganization could not have been undertaken during that time.

Whilst I can understand the reluctance of opening up the reference library and study area upstairs at Dulwich Library, I see no reason for not opening up downstairs adult library. There is plenty of room, OK the computer screens are close together but they can be moved around to give more space. Given that Grove Vale a much smaller library is able to operate, there is no excuse why Dulwich cannot open. Last time I was there, there were 2 men sitting watching people return books and a librarian sitting behind screen. Nothing appears to have been reorganized in the adult section. Given the fact that the library has been closed for best part of a year there is no reason why work/reorganization could not have been undertaken during that time.

Had to deal with a client many years ago, who was very vague about her finances and it turned out that her husband had taken out an equity release many years ago before his death. Her property in ED needed considerable repairs which had not been done since his death. The property was worth considerably less than the amount originally awarded by the Equity Company- it got so complicated that we advised her to take legal advice. Never found out what happened.

Last bus stop coming from Barry Road is by Nigel Road, buses are then diverted either to near bus garage/Peckham Hill Street. You need to get a 12 bus if you need to get to the lower part of the Lane i.e Primark/Boots/HSBC etc. Coming back towards Barry Road nearest stop is by Pub (Drovers?) or a walk up to Heaton Road near Tesco Local.

I wear a mask but I could easily come into the exempt category due to a physical disability. At times I have forgotten to take mask with me when popping out for a few minutes, in this cold wind I am wearing a pole neck top so I just pull up the neck to cover mouth and nose. This obviously only effective/practical just for a few minutes. My son in law suffers from panic attacks and has done since he was a teenager. He wears a mask at work but informed me that he has had more panic attacks since wearing a mask than before covid. Last attack lasted several hours and he had to go home from work early. I was surprised as he had not had an attack for almost 2 years.

Getting fed up having to go to Peckham Library which is a bus ride away when I could walk to Dulwich Library in 5 minutes. Every time I have been in there to check when I can browse, I am told they are opening shortly. They have been saying this every couple of weeks since April!!!

Hubby had to take a taxi from town yesterday as all bus routes he needed to go on were not going south of the river (he could not find any notices/people to ask where they had been redirected to) Chatting to the taxi driver, Croxted Road was mentioned - it would appear that many taxi drivers will not take fares if they have to use this route as delays are up to an hour some days.

Many years ago when we had dogs, they went in the garden around 8 am, both muzzled but able to bark. They were out there around 10 mins or so during which time they barked. Neighbour adjoining garden complained to the 'Noise Team' at Southwark who visited us. Since the barking was only for a short duration in the morning and not any other time of day, they could not take any action and dismissed neighbour's complaint.