Nigello

My last tests took much longer than either the old Dulwich Hospital or King?s. Is there any reason anyone can think of how come that might be? Do they all get sent to King?s anyway?

You can rent a tree. It?s delivered and taken back after Xmas. It?s replanted. Sounds like a great idea. https://www.londonchristmastreerental.com/

The people in the cars are often young and wealthy (given the cars they drive). They can afford to drive and pay.

Several young lads (no older than fourteen, I?d say) were put into a police van with their bikes (that had just been unlocked by them on instruction by officers) about an hour ago on Dunstan?s near the school. A police car was there before the van.

Another reason to pick up leaves near where you live, if you are able: /forum/read.php?5,2164837

You could fold it and ask your new neighbours whether you could use theirs this once. It's a reasonable request and a decent icebreaker!

Yes - open those windows. It is rarely bone-chillingly cold in London so get them open!

You do exaggerate for effect (not achieved, IMHO). Nobody says "all I hear is that the solution to all our woes is an e-cargo bike". Change is achieved by give and take, not blanket hyperbole. I sense a certain level of zealotry in your posts - number and content - on this topic and it makes me less likely to be convinced by your arguments. It's a tough crowd!

I hadn't even seen you had used the phrase, petrol-head, it was just my way of using a phrase most people know. Also, I heard on Today that you may well be able to "fill up your tank" of green leccy for ?3.50. Great - but what about the congestion aspect if you have cheap fuel?

An easy fix would be for the council to A Ask its tree department which trees drop their leaves when and to what amount B Ask street sweepers to work on certain areas with the heaviest leaf drops at a certain time, and/or prioritise streets with heavy leaf drop near to schools, hospitals and high streets.

I wonder what Fran The Nanny was doing here? It was a fun show.

Malumbu - I am not a petrol head (or battery head?) at all, not having driven for more than twenty years, so how come hybrids are not all that good for the environment?

It is going down in our areas, mainly. Two weeks ago the colours were darker.

I have noticed the parakeets much more this past week or so. I rarely see them where I live or in Dulwich Park but they are more apparent now. I am not a fan but they're all doing their best, so...

I saw the leaf sweepers this morning on Jennings. One said the bags are often collected same day. I?d prefer it if schools swept away/collected the leaves from the footpaths rather than wait for a once-in-a-while sweep by the council. The paths near Goodrich are slutchy and slippery. The PTA may have ideas on this.

Truth is good, facts often better.

A contractor came in and out several times with no mask there three weeks back. It was very early morning and I wasn?t up to confrontation so kept well away. He worked for Hunter, I think it was.

Waiting for a council to give you a paper sack? Just use a carrier bag and put it in a litter bin or your green bin. Also, I don?t support using neighbours? bins without asking which is why I suggested doing so ⬆️ there. Stop making excuses, would-be do-gooders!

The plastic covering the red sign ahead of the Court Lane on LL has come away revealing Mon?Fri and 0800?1000 and something else but I couldn?t work it out.

As long as they?re disposed of correctly people can take it on themselves without ?permission?. I?ve had to report bags of collected leaves, split with contents rotting, to Southwark because the collection was never made. Keep it simple is my motto. Adding a layer of council bureaucracy adds to time wasted, I think.

Anyone?s ears burning? Sadly, there is a vociferous minority who don?t want us to do this. They want our residential streets to remain a convenience for others to drive through. I share their outrage ? but my vexation is at the fact that we have to defend and campaign for these things; to get back what we should never have lost in the first place. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/13/children-britain-residential-streets-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-roads

Minority of noisy dissidents ? Yes or No? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/13/local-councils-advised-to-push-ahead-with-traffic-reduction-schemes

Still coukd do with fewer parents driving their kids to school, full stop. Pretend it?s the seventies or eighties before people got so ?busy?.

Sweep up, bag and stick it in the nearest rubbish bin or your normal bin. Or ask a neighbour for the temporary use of a brown bin. Solutions

Maybe because the school hasn?t got the staff or has but doesn?t see why it ought to help. Remember that the school objected to the shutting off of Dunstan?s and Goodrich, even though it?s only in use for a portion of the hours in a year.