Cyclemonkey

We'll have none of that dangerously foreign "attractive shop fronts" nonsense here thank you. It's been high 20s low 30s pretty much all week South London. Identical weather to many areas of the South of France. In that scenario it is reasonable for the shop owner to want to shade their soft fruit from the sun.

I mean in the last few days we have had pretty much identical weather to the South of France.

Unlike the supermarkets their fruit isn't kept constantly chilled by air conditioners and refridgeration units, so they need to keep it covered in the hot sun to avoid it spoiling. Covers like this (and misters) are common in traditional greengrocers in southern French towns. Perhaps applaud them for their environmentally friendly solution and stop moaning.

Yeah at the Horniman the parkie walks around ringing a handbell about 10 mins or so before closure starts. Simple but effective.

No involvement with Gala at all. For full disclosure I have attended Gala as a punter and enjoyed it - I have also attended many other festivals and events in various local parks . I never said I was a festival organiser - I said I have been involved in public consultation events over the years both as an organiser and attendee and gave my view that the way this is being run is pretty normal and not some sort of conspiracy. Anyway I will leave you guys to you misery and carping. You seem to enjoy it.

Oh come on "being forced in to the Peckham clubbing and entertainment area", however will you recover from the horror of having to go to *gasp* Peckham on a weekday lunchtime. You are just taking the piss now. Also Peckham Rye has an SE15 postcode so it is Peckham *bangs gavel* More seriously, as a veteran of running and taking part in these types of events, I suggest that all of these concerns are sent to the Gala team part of your feedback - including fears of going to Peckham. I would also venture as is not the King's Garden Party, if you were to forward on the invite to interested friends and neighbours who would also like to attend, it probably won't be an issue.

It does sound like you are finding things to complain about - the event was held in Peckham, they are holding the consultation in Peckham. Peckham Rye to Rye Lane is not a long walk for goodness sake. For those with mobility issues there are plenty of buses. I understand and appreciate the concerns people have, but the eyeoreish determination to relentlessly criticise a generally well run festival that is keen and willing to engage with the community seems a bit baffling to me.

They they can't do right for doing wrong for some people can they? Two sessions is surely to allow as many as can attend, some people may find evenings difficult due to work or caring commitments. Longer drop in sessions rather than one meeting at a specific time also helps people with constrained time or those who may feel intimidated by the thought of speaking up at a large meeting, planning consultation sessions are often held this way. Peckham levels is local surely - it's about four bus stops from the Peckham Rye area or a nice summer evening stroll away. Anyone would think some people were determined to find fault in everything.

No they will get extra training for the cosmetic stuff, but my point is dentists are already experienced in carrying out facial injections.

My dentist offers this sort of stuff. It doesn't unduely bother me as I just decline. It is an easy additional income stream for dentists as they have the expertise and equipment for cosmetic facial injections.

Oliver Bonas mainly seems to be at big main line stations these days. Perhaps that is where they want to focus in future. They started off selling interesting household nick nacks, affordable jewellery, and cards but increasingly they are a clothing retailer. The ED store is too small for that really. Obvioisly their main claim to fame is the owners wife left him for Matt Hancock. Poor chap.

Hello from Lewisham West. Ellie Reeves is a decent constituency MP and a local (she grew up in Sydenham).

Weekend clothes for management consultants.

Superdrug sell loads of little plastic bottles and pots. I think they even sell a compliant see through bag packed with appropriately sized bottles.

Wouldn't it be easier to get the bills emailed to you or use direct debit?

Cross the Tracks festival was on in Brockwell Park on Sunday (and Wide Awake festoval on Saturday) - much more likely it was that you heard that than Gala in Peckham Rye park over 2.5 miles away. Cross the Tracks is also a much bigger festival than Gala - 25k capacity to Gala's 10k so likely to be noisier.

The wind does do strange things to the way sound travels but I would be astonished if people could hear noise from Gala in Herne Hill. We were there on Sunday as well and left a little early (9pm) and walked home via Lordship lane and you could barely hear a thing on the lower end of Lordship lane.

I am not surprised by that. We went last year (a friend had free tickets theynwere unable to use so gave them to us). Now we are not the target audience I suspect, but we can usally find something to enjoy in most events but this was dire - terrible music (I've seen better wedding bands), uninspiring corporate food, terrible alcohol offering. Everyone we talked to seemed to be, like us, there on some sort of freebie.

SHE did said it was prejudice. People can often prejudiced against dance music and dance music festivals. I said nothing about race. That was entirely your own interpretation.

Exactly @Dogkennelhillbilly. My point was it is a festival with a very mixed crowd of women and men, a fairly good age range and a strong LGBTQ contingent. Those kinds of crowds are usually a low risk for violence. Violence and bad behaviour at events tends to be driven by large groups of young straight men sadly. As for litter, noise and environmental impacts, they are entirely legitimate concerns but it is not my place to comment as I do not live right on the park any more (long since priced out 😂) But tell you what - I'd swap you three days of dance music for the constant 6 days a week drilling and construction noise we have being enduring from a building site next door since January.

Thank you for your informed contribution.

Mate you are the one who made unfounded and unevidenced statements about mass lawlessness and potential stabbings. I was just pointing out the composition of the crowd makes that very unlikely. I have been to a lot of music events and festivals in my time and have a feel for such things. As I said no mass event (music, sport, political etc..) is without risk. Anyway I have a nice sunny day to go out and enjoy.

It is pure prejudice and hysteria, probably based on tne type of music at the festival. It is a mainly young (but not exclusively) very mixed gender and sexuality crowd. They are generally well behaved and just want to dance and have fun. There are always risks with large events of any nature, but I would say as music festivals go it is a well behaved crowd and a pretty low risk event.

Neither of which are Dulwich private schools though. I also wasn't being entirely serious.

We are just having a little fun with the OP. I am sure someone who is planning to send their children to the Dulwich private schools need not consider the horror of "downgrading" to Forest Hill and our dreadful child exhausting geography.