Cyclemonkey

Cloth ones have different levels of effectivness depending on how they are made and what they are made of. Whereas the paper surgical ones are a known quantity as hospitals have used them for years.

We walked from Forest Hill to Dog Kennel Hill Sainsbury's yesterday evening. The smell of woodsmoke was very noticeable around Goose Green and the station.

Do a lot of people drive to Melbourne Grove to visit the shops there? I would assume most people walk.

At the moment 500 people can go in to our office(you have to book in advance and people who struggle to work from home are prioritised.). It usually holds 5000 people. I would be happy to go in but I am not in the priority group

There is a pretty large Spoons less than four bus stops up the hill in Forest Hill though.

Chaos and havoc!

Small outdoor socially distanced events are legal surely? If you can go to the pub why can't a few older people sit apart from each other and listen to music outside? Honestly this is the most mean spirited post since people threatened to report the ice cream shop for legally selling ice cream. We need to be careful but you get the feeling some people aren't happy unless everyone is miserably sitting at home eating their "essential food".

May be try Helen Hayes, the local MP. I understand she was very helpful when Dulwich Hamlet had problems.

Signed. I think this is a great initiative improving a very neglected and run down space.

Ummm ......

I love blackberry bushes but they grow like weeds everywhere in SE London. We have one at the corner of our garden that no matter what we seem to do keeps on returning.

This was imposed on TfL by the government as a condition of the bailout. Also you don't HAVE to go in to the CC zone if you don't want to.

Ahh nasty. Then yes surely the Council should arrange cleaning. And surely in the meantime residents need to stop using them.

Maggots will arise from flys laying eggs in rotting matter, particularly meat. Has a reason for these infestations been discovered? Are the bins being emptied and cleaned properly? Are individual residents keeping their properties clean and rubbish free?

Masks are already compulsary on public transport and have been since mid June. As you say there is a practical issue with masks in pubs and restaurants. In theory you could make people wear them except when they are sitting at their table.

There is a huge difference. Like saying why pay chips from the chippie when you can buy oven chips and make the at home.

The Fox on the Hill is a Wetherspoons pub now.

Oh. Was that funny scruffy concrete thing in the Horniman Gardens a paddling pool? I have always wondered why that was there.

Not true pubs, bars and off licences have always been allowed to sell alcohol to takeaway. What is not allowed until July 4 is drinking it on the premises. Now i'll grant you in recent days I think some places have been pushing that a bit by allowing customers to congregate outside.

Yep I realise that! I think all this current debate is good and positive as it allows us to question assumptions. It should also make us examine our own assumptions. People like Thomas Guy saw nothing wrong with investing in companies who intended to sell slaves. How many of us think too deeply about where our cheap clothes and electronic goods come from and why they are cheap. History may judge us just as harshly

Agreed it would be a fine memorial to a remarkable man. Thomas Guy, like many many people at the time, invested in the South Sea Company which was primarily a government debt holding company. The company was also awarded the monopoly on selling slaves amd goods to the Spanish colonies, but due to the Spanish war of succession the company never really got this trade underway or made much money from it. Guy's money was mainly made in trading government debt and being lucky enough tl get out before the South Sea Bubble burst. His main crime in my view was he did not care or perhaps realise how the company he invested in intended to make a profit on his investment. Something many of us continue to be guilty of today. I don't think it totally negates the good he did by using the money he made to found Guy's Hospital.

I think that is a good idea. However it is not quite the whole truth to say Thomas Guy profited from Slavery. It was more complex than that.

We once had tenants in our block of flats who were leaving used nappies in the communal gardens. Whem challenged about their behaviour they said they did not know they could put them in the bin. So the garden was a reasonable alternative???

Well quite. So are these bush poo-ers people who just like al fresco pooing? I can't imagine people in local parks are that far from home and if you have an upset tummy it's probably best not to go out at the moment.

I would get advice before you do anything, a lease forfeiture over a debt of a few thousand pounds sounds wrong. Have you tried to arranged a payment plan with them? You could sell the flat with the outstanding debt with an agreement to settle the debt once you complete (eg use some of the proceeds of the flat sale to do this) Also did they send all communications to this email address you could not access? You have a responsibility to ensure you inform them if your contact details change but sending official communications by email only seems a bit wrong. I am a director of our freehold company and we tend to send two chasing letters for outstanding charges and then send the debt to Solicitors for collection. It would take a huge debt or no engagement from the lessee for a very long time to get to the point of lease forfeiture.