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I don?t understand - you?re not referring to a GP surgery which usually texts or phones you with an invitation if you?re in a certain category of patient.

Has anyone had one yet? Please reply with your GP surgery name. I?ve not ? DMC.

Many of these shops have vandalised frontages that drag the area down. Councillors don?t intervene to offer cleaning or ask business owners spruce themselves up, probably lest they ?offend? them. I won?t use a business that is tatty and disregards its neighbours, especially when they shut up shop and leave at end of business leaving tatty and uninviting shutters, etc.

The National Insurance is in effect a 2.5% rise because employers match the employees? contributions, as stated and the 1.25% shares tax is new so it?ll add up to a fair bit, most of it going to health service shortfalls for the first year, I think.

There?s nothing stopping anyone going solo. The more of the merrier. Just pick what you can and bung it into a nearby bin, or a recycling bin that are handily left out do many pavements! The group idea is also very welcome but don?t underestimate the usefulness of one-human bands.

Agreed that walking (or using a wheelchair) is underserved. Very little is done to improve walking routes - jud5blook at how puddles form because drains aren?t cleaned and ponding develops on cracked pavements (already a hazard when dry) or at drooped kerbs. Households are not asked to trim bushes and branches - especially bad for blind or disable? people - and trees? limbs are left to grow as low as the height of an adult. Yes, this would cost a bit to address but it?s not with-it and the stuff of ad campaigns. If you?re not keeping your bins off the street and your privets, etc. tamed, then please do so because it?s your responsibility as much as mine to keep pavements in good shape for pedestrians and wheelchair users.

Fish bits were always on offer at the chippies I knew and loved. They were just the scrappy bits of batter or tiny, crispy chips that were skimmed off the fryers. I think they were free and I never go5 more than a handful.

On two days on the trot I have seen what I think were clumps of (I guess) pigeon feathers on the ground at two different locations near the lake in Peckham Rye Park. I have seen them nearby on other occasions. What, do you think, could have caused the birds to shed their feathers? Is it possible a fox could have got them or a bird of prey?

A not-really-needed reminder that car/other vehicle use causes congestion and pollution as witnessed by the substantial numbers of cars on the roads due to the schools being back, at least some of them. It is the people wot do it!

DMC used to be fine, then it got really bad vis-a-vis the phone line. They somehow managed to go from about 7 people in the Q to 25+ when they changed the format or tech. (It now sounds different from before, with different voice and prompts, etc.)

https://members.parliament.uk/member/4510/contact - write and leave your address and phone number and email address. I am sure she woudl be interested.

Gotten - yes, I know it is actually a form of old English and that we in the U K got rid of teh final syllable so maybe we are in the wrong, but GOT has been the acceptable past participle for at least 150 years. (Apple and YouTube, etc. and all the social media are partly responsible, especially when the hardware is often set automatically to U S English. This is how cultural hegemony starts out, people!

British Heart Foundation may accept it. There are branches on the Old Kent Road and, I think, Camberwell.

I understand now,thanks. There's me thinking they were going to spruce the frontages up a bit!

I think a crossing there is a good idea because there are two schools very nearby and the road, although it has two names, links Lordship, Barry and (kind of) Forest Hill Roads so is pretty busy. Perhaps when the buses are replaced the operator will choose a slightly smaller, more compact one? The P13 is really valuable but it's noisy and seems to be very mostly 1/3 or 1/3 full.

I looked again. I never have success in uploading photos on this site so I transcribe: Article 4 Direction: Shopping Frontages SF46 (2--46 F H Road) The Direction applies to development in Southwark's shopping frontages outside of town centres noted in the following class of the GPDO: Class MA, Part 3 of Schedule to the said Order as it relates to changes of use from Commercial, Business and Leisure Class E to a dwellinghouse (Class C3). This Article 4 Direction will come into effect on 1 August 2021. Development of the descriptions set out above should not be carried out on the land shown edged red...unless planning permission is granted or an application made under Part 3 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended). Could someone please translate and apply it to reality! Thanks

A yellow, Southwark notice on a lamppost at Dunstan's/F H Road shows a map with the shops from (I think) the newsagent opposite the park to about halfway down the parade of shops (perhaps a bit further) highlighted in read and talks of improvements. I think it said S46 - does anyone know what this could mean in practice? Uniform paving outside the shops? Cleaner shop fronts? Trees? Planters?

You could offer them as potential shredding fodder for people who need paper for pets, compost, etc.? Rip off the spines and let them collect the pages.

Thanks, heartlblock. Perhaps now alice could fill in the gaps so we are even more aware of the facts.

Alice, please point to your sources so that all can be better informed. Thanks

Where to build much needed, much demanded social housing?

Much more pressure needs to be put on the schools - state and private - whose huge number of pupils means that there are above average road trips in this 2 or 3 square mile area. Nobody can deny that traffic is always less dense by at least 10 percent (I am being conservative) during school holidays. Why not demand that the schools do more to effect positive change, such as more perks for staff and or parents who don't drive there and back? Crude but effective, even if it means some will feel "disempowered" or victimised or some such...

What about a taxi? Have an account and they could offer you a discount. I know of some elderly people who did have cars who do this and found it much less expensive and almost as convenient.

Agree with P68 - it is a good/very good service with occasional bad experiences in my view. I mostly get first class mail, even sent from hundreds of miles away, the next day. Covid and other factors have made it very poor at times but it is good now.

Please let the local police know - [email protected] . They may be aware of a pattern and it could help them. (Goodrich School has security cameras, which may also help.) Thanks!