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Maybe toasters and gas hobs should be subject to taxes, given that they too produce particulate matter? Same goes for tyres on motor vehicles.

Three (unflashy) car windows smashed, all in a row, on Court Lane near the junction with LL a few weeks ago.

Leave your dog at home, please. It’s not going to enjoy it, at best it’ll endure it. If you’re blind, then of course bring your dog to the pub/cafe/office and expect lots of good wishes and respect, maybe even a treat for Rover, but if not, please don’t (or sit outside). Not everyone likes dogs and some are thoroughly frightened or allergic and to ignore this is solipsistic and self-centered. (I like dogs a lot but only in the home or the park.)

If the local authorities did the job thoroughly then another parallel authority wouldn’t be needed.

Then speak to the headmaster or headmistress and ask them to monitor it. Also, CC Helen Hayes MP.

Parents can also get up earlier and/or let children take the bus or cycle or walk. It’s a choice, possibly hard to swallow, but still a choice.

? Dunstan’s is a school street so, quelle surprise, the usual suspects just sit on the DYLs on nearby roads instead, leaving a v short portion of Dunstan’s clear for a v short space of time. No care given to causing blind spots and hazardous obstructions just as long as little munchkin can get home in mum’s taxi. I’d like planters or trees in big pots placed on the DYLs. At least the school makes an effort now to deter the offenders by putting out portable bollards. I fear there’ll be an accident.

It’s not good. Mind you, it’ll fit right in with the established (and accepted, unfortunately) “vibe” of Rye Lane…

I’ve had them in my garden only the once - though that’s only when I’ve seen them. Is it only Niger seeds they’re into?

https://report.southwark.gov.uk It’s a good facility to report grot spots, broken tree branches, litter, fly tipping, dog dirt, etc. You can post anonymously if you prefer. It allows you to get graffiti removed from most places/buildings, even private property and cable/phone roadside cabinets.

Yeah, ok. Race to the bottom and victim blame at the same time. Public transit is a public space. Neutral behaviour should apply. Stink your own house out as much as you like but have the respect and decency to abstain from scoffing smelly scran for the short time you’re on the bus. Especially if you’re travelling free (ie. on the back of taxpayers and fare payers).

It’s a long time ago, agreed, but pets in the last 1/4 of the 20C didn’t get the same kind of healthcare they seem to today… Is it a bit of a swizz? Nobody wants a poorly pooch, etc. but the vet care plans, treatments and consultations seem to me to be of a cost that suggests that.

Or do they select an empty (or almost empty) big brown bin and then bung in the contents of all the little ones?

The water works mean long queues in both directions from GG to NX Road.

It’s not. It’s a reasonable and rational assumption, as is pointing out it could also be a danger to wildlife and humans. Both are more likely than suggesting it’s just a council officer’s whim to destroy a fully healthy/non-hazardous tree.

Execution? For heaven’s sake, it’s a tree that’s very likely diseased and/or hazardous to humans. The council will replace it and there’s nothing at all stopping anyone from planting their own either. Go to the Wildlife Centre on Marsden Road and buy £3 treelets and plant away! Or grow them from pips/acorns etc. These are much better forms of action than typing something to send into the ether.

Melanie Reid - tetraplegic writer - said in a recent piece that badges are given out too readily to people with non-physical disabilities (explaining that unlike a person with, say, ADHD or parent thereof, she absolutely cannot walk to a supermarket entrance from a standard parking space and needs the space up front in a way others don’t). I have great sympathy for her and would hope more badges be made available for those with the greatest need.

Nah, not buying the harassed mummy (daddy/nanny) line. Saying thanks or even just nodding to signify gratefulness ought to be hardwired and reflexively automatic from childhood.

It exists. It’s everywhere. People listening to music/having phone conversations on speaker on the bus, day-glo mummies and daddies on cycles on footpaths with the portable excuse of kiddywink on board/in sidecar, oafs who CBA to put their bibs back in. Don’t let them win!

The council will plant new trees to compensate when it has to remove any. Trees are great but none can be left to rot or cause damage to other trees, buildings or living creatures. The tree department does a good job in Southwark, on the whole.

Most dog owners/walkers let their animals off the lead but I’ve never seen any squirrel/crow/goose getting caught.

https://limebike.typeform.com/CommunityReport?typeform-source=www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk#bike_plate_number=GLXQAZ where to go to report badly parked Limes.

Four?!

Bus lanes don’t all need to be 24/7. So much congestion and therefore pollution (and wasted money and time) is caused by blanket bans. It seems to me that those who impose the rules like to be seen as uncompromising rather than pragmatic in a mistaken belief that this will get the results they want. Opening up some lanes more of the time would help get the city moving.