ruthmct

If anyone needs to contact me, this is my own forum account. Ruth

The Gingerbread lady who comes to our end of Underhill Road is called Linda. She's just been round (my stuff was collected this afternoon). The same lady has been doing the collection for years. Ruth

I wondered why a 185 was heading along Underhill Road about 6.15pm Ruth

I'm pleased to report we have a large family of blue-tits - there were 7 teenagers feeding on the suet balls and peanuts this afternoon. Ruth

I hadn't realised the Lambeth one had changed to recycling only - a bit daft if you've got stuff that isn't recyclable. I went to Manor Place about a month ago, and they definitely take real waste as well Ruth

In my experience Manor Place is better organised, with more recycling, and the staff are more helpful than at the Lambeth one. To answer Musowriter, they aren't just for recycling - you can dump virtually anything there.

Our next-door neighbours in Underhill Road have previously had cellar flooding which turned out to be an underground spring. We've had a spring in our garden, which caused no end of trouble when we were having a path laid as the concrete wouldn't set! But since the dry summer a couple of years ago our spring hasn't reappeared. (We're near the junction with Belvoir Road).

My favourite is to cycle to Greenland Dock in Rotherhithe and catch the Thames Clipper to Canary Wharf. (I then continue along the canal to Bow). Ok, so it costs, but the ferry beats the tunnels or Tower Bridge anyday, and only takes 5 minutes. You can take bikes on the ferries, no problem.

I can do buxom - a bit old for a wench though R.

I went to watch last year, claiming I'd never be able to do anything like that. But I've been going to ESPH during my career break, and can now jog over a mile, albeit rather slowly. So my target is to join the rest of you and actually run/jog the Barry Road race this year. And Barry the station manager, I agree - you're a star! Ruth

I was just thinking how awful the potholes in Dunstans Road were as I cycled along it. Glad something's being done about it. Anyone who thinks they have a hard time with speed bumps should try it in my Smart car - the backwheels are going up one slope while the front wheels are coming down the other, and of course there's no way it's wide enough to straddle the cushion. And Smart cars have "firm" suspension at the best of times. The speed cushions in Underhill Road are worst, as they are particularly tall :-( R.

The iron stretchers in the fence look just like the one we used to have when I was a St John Ambulance cadet back in the 1960's. You have to know what you are looking for though - it too kme a while to spot them when i first heard about it. Think of a tubular rectangle, with four V-shapes bent into the long sides, which acted as the feet when the stretcher was put down. (haven't been able to find a picture on the web yet) Ruth

Our green collection should have been Monday 11th but was postponed for obvious reasons. The Christmas tree disappeared from our drive today. Ruth

I abandoned my car in Goodrich Road (well, parked it at the side of the road) after discovering every road with a hill seemed to have a car stuck on it. Except Underhill Road close to the Dunstans Road junction which had a bus slewed halfway across the road near the bottom of the hill. Basically the roads are like icerinks. I skidded 4 times on Goodrich Road in the space of about 100 yards, and finally gave up when the car in front of me skidded into the back of the car in front of him! Ruth

We get long-tailed tits occasionally, usually arriving in a gourp of about 5 to raid the bird feeders, then they disappear for a month or so. We live on the border of East Dulwich, almost into Forest Hill. Ruth