JohnL
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When they pour past my flat at 11:00am and back up at 8:00pm plundering Tescos like marauding vikings - they just get dirty looks - surprised they don't ever comment on the unfriendly locals.
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I used to be able to go to Melbourne Grove - chat to the receptionist and get a same day appointment - I guess it was a cancellation but one was available if I hung around or went for a coffee - this was maybe 10 years ago.
I guess this is banned in the new surgery.
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There's a hint on what happened here but see nothing else
https://www.cio.com/article/2069427/payment-processing-outages-at-uk-retailers-raise-reliability-issues-for-cashless-transactions.html -
So who actually checks that the above is followed - are there going to be "surprise" inspections ?
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2 hours ago, first mate said:
Can anyone explain why an events space is needed here at all, when Dulwich Park is literally on the doorstep?
Loads (and it was loads) came down through rye lane - I saw them go down and come back up (around 10:30 pm) - so businesses in Peckham get a boost I guess. The council see the park end of Rye Lane as a nighttime cafe/bar area too so they all come here after the park event
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Rye Lane was crazy on bank holiday, there was some kind of drill music rave in the Angel Oak and shopping in Tesco Rye Lane was full of festival goers.
The Nags Head seems to have a 3am license on weekends that something happens too.
I sometimes think that the suburbs beckon and I'm too old for here.
But Southwark council just said they will give me 60 quid towards my Electricity bill - maybe the festival subsidized it 🙂
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Just popped down to Peckham Rye
Overground cancelled - looks like more cancelled than not. But its better than getting us to work then saying no trains to return I guess.
Popped back to WFH
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Spartacus Wrote:
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> This all strikes me of vigilantism.
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> Taking the law into their own hands because they
> think driving a car is a crime and some on here
> seem to publicly support it.
If we had a unlimited supply of cheap energy which didn't have any effect on the environment.
I wish that test tube really had contained cold fusion :)
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Angelina Wrote:
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> Nothing to do with the government policy then, or
> overseas investors?
I'm coming to believe that cut in Stamp Duty caused a lot of issues that haven't worked through yet.
Overseas investors is a problem in some areas - not so sure it is in SE22 and SE15
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If you're in Shared Ownership and you move to get a job you'll find
- its difficult to sell as there are issues with cladding (this is the same for many flat owners)
- You're not usually allowed to rent out as a term of the lease but with all the issues Housing Associations are relaxing this.
- I've seen flats left empty.
Ask a housing association as so many people seem to want to move out and can't - they must have a load of flats to rent out.
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The Daily Mail made him out to be a radical, a liberal .. a marxist .. well something like that.
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Alan Medic Wrote:
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> Anyone hopeful there might be a friendly take
> over?
Elon Musk ?
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Lets go for mine; Crouch End (scary in its way but a mate liked it), Canary Wharf (Macho), Barnet (Some nice pubs but its not the south).
The worst Gentrification has to be Elephant Park - rather than a gradual gentrification that was a big bang.
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Really strange interview where seemed full of beans and sniffed consistently
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I suppose if you know your customer base you know which flags to put up and which to skip.
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I can't work out what he means below.
?Can you look me in the eye and tell me you haven?t lied in your political career?? asked interviewer Paul Brand.
Johnson responded: ?Absolutely not. Absolutely not? ? apparently meaning he can look Brand in the eye and say he ?absolutely? has not lied.
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Spartacus Wrote:
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> KidKruger Wrote:
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> > ?another layer of mostly impotent roles?
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> > A bit like the royal family, no ?
> > Should there be bunting for the mayorship, too
> ?!
> > 🤣
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> Have you never seen the Lord Mayors parade Kid ?
I saw the documentary "The Spiders Web" - exposed the City - its not all ceremonial.
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They are talking about extending the 148 to cover Peckham->Camberwell I notice after reading the whole thread .
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Cauliflowerear Wrote:
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> DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote:
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> The 12 is
> > iconic too.
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> Iconic? No it isnt, catch yourself on. Its just
> another bus that hardly anyone outside of East
> Dulwich really cares about. Once you are a few
> stops up the road to Peckham, there are loads of
> other buses going the same way you can jump on,
> which is probably exactly why its getting canned.
Actually 12 goes via Camberwell whilst the 63s, 78s and 343s don't.
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I liked parts of the jubilee but didn't spend the weekend watching it - I went out, I played Just Cause 4 on PS4. I also completed watching the Boys first three episodes - poor Timmy.
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first mate Wrote:
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> Thank DuncanW.
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> JohnL, legalalien kindly explained that it was
> likely this was not wholly sinister, in that the
> request was so the company did not have to go
> through the rigamarole of applying for a licence
> each year. That said, I think there is more
> control and accountability if they have to, which
> it seems they now will, if DuncanW is correct in
> what he has heard.
Fair enough - I guess a legal term and not meaning until the world ends :)
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Jeremy Hunt
I haven't even used the abusive word from when he ran the NHS :)
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In Perpetuity is actually a long time.
Like my Sky contract is 18months and that seems long.
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Spartacus Wrote:
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> Sep
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> Looking forward to a cashless society and how YOU
> will cope if there's a cyber attack on the
> instututions that handle transactions and your
> ability to pay is compromised.
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> Then cash will 100% be king.
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> Far fetched? Maybe but possibly not impossible.
We had an issue with VISA once (a few years back now) but that was a temporary glitch and Mastercard worked.
If the banks are in permanent trouble than bank notes may not be worth much either as they are just a promise on a piece of paper.
GALA 2024
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That white building outside Peckham Rye train station has been graffitied during the festival.
You can see they're scared to take down the security fences as it will become a grafitti wall - theres a security guy and a dog in there but what are they going to do.
I think its mainly non locals- I see them coming down Rye lane and returning later - they don't stay for long afterwards (except a few) - they don't catch buses just walk to the train. They stop at Tesco to buy beer (good for Tesco then). Angel Oak had a juice bar on Saturday but not sure how well they did.
There was a load of paper scattered around this morning by Nigel Road - not sure what from.
A load of police/private security were escorting them across East Dulwich road on Saturday night - not sure whether something happened or they just needed escorting.