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After experimenting on several routes, I think the best way into the city is Get onto Camberwell Grove. Benhill Road. Across Burgess Park. Portland Street. Carry on right to the end where there is a new u-bend cobbled cycle path. Cross at the zebra crossing and follow the new cycle path to new Kent road. Cross new Kent road at the lights opposite Falmouth Rd. take Falmouth Road. Left onto harper road. Right onto brockham street, round trinity church sq, left onto trinity street. Great Suffolk street. Right onto Southwark bridge road. Cross river. Follow cycle path to guildhall

This used to happen on McNeil Road in Camberwell. This resulted in the council removing the recycling bins and replacing them with large boulders.

Interesting times for buses. I've pretty much given up using buses because they take too long and are very crowded at the times I want to use them. I'm sure they're slower than they used to be, probably because of Uber, Amazon Prime and population/economic growth. I now have a belt-drive bike which is very little maintenance and I'm sure e-scooters are going take off in the next couple of years. This essentially leaves buses for the elderly, disabled, ill, parents with small children and drinkers.

I would be surprised if the density of offices around the Blackfriars end of the city is anywhere near as high as the density of offices around the London Bridge end, particularly with all the new towers going up. So it doesn?t make sense to me to substitute one for the other, particularly when Thameslink already serves Blackfriars from South East London.

You could just order an Uber for them. Or offer to go and buy them a bottle of washing up liquid or whatever they?re after. If their collecting for charity, ask them for details of the website and give online Etc

Nice one. Thanks v much.

I assume this is verboten. Other than politely asking the person doing it, what measures can I take to discourage this happening again and filling everybody?s gardens with acrid smoke?

I recently discovered that the brilliant Which Local? has been shut down and been replaced by the much inferior Which Trusted Traders. Which Local? was fantastic because it was funded by Which? subscribers so it mitigated the chance of fake reviews and there was no incentive for Which? to advertise terrible tradesmen. All the local tradesmen I found on Local were brilliant. Conversely I can see that on Which Trusted Traders there are tradesmen with great ratings whom I know from experience to be terrible. Which Trusted Traders is just like Checkatrade, rated people and all those other questionable websites: funded by the tradesmen themselves, which presents an obvious conflict of interest. Does anyone know of a website similar to Which Local? Or would anyone be interested in helping set one up?

Who does decent charcuterie around Dulwich/Peckham/Camberwell? Christopher's on Red Post Hill? Can't remember if the Cheese Block does meat. I imagine Bellenden Road must have some. Perhaps Duggard and Daughters in Herne Hill? ED Forum seems to be missing a charcuterie thread so I'm starting one.

Thanks James Barber. How will they know where to put additional bike parking if there is no facility for people to report full bike racks? How much do you think it would cost to create a website where you can upload a photo of a full bike rack with a time and some GPS coordinates?

I suspect it is just an outlier, unless all the other classes show a similar imbalance.

What types of academic researcher would be interested in this? Medics, health economists, anthropologists, geographers... Fascinating I think.

Good calcs by njc97! 1 in 971 chance of 60 boys or more if picked at random and the population is 50/50. But I think a "fairer" test is what are the odds of >=60 children of the same sex. So 1 in 486.

Is there an online facility for highlighting inadequate bike parking in a particular area? Have been to several bits of central London recently where every bike rack was full.

If temperature is a problem, just buy a wetsuit.