Nigello

Surely it is best to not have any spaces that are other than shared - totally unisex at all times. That way, anyone can legitimately say "this space is for me and for everyone".

A letter to the people responsible would help you get a response and even a result. Good luck

Does anyone know when the revamp of PR station/forecourt will begin? I hope it's tomorrow at the latest as it is truly a midden. Never mind about risking life and limb on icy pavements when there's already rotting meat or squashed fruit or hairball foot lassos in the Quatermass-like passageway to the rather lovely station building itself.

Not SE22, but St David Coffee oppo FH station does a good one for a fiver. (It also serves tea in tin pots, which is nice as you get at least two mugs out of it!)

I think at Goodrich, Friern and Dunstan's they are useful: parents who drive their children to school (not great in the first place) have a tendency to park in places they ought not to - even on double yellows. Hundreds of children, parents (and pets) use these footpaths daily at least 2/3 of the year, so I am happy for them to be there, at least. I am just puzzled as to why they could not have been done properly in the first place, by warning drivers that painting was due to take place.

Likewise around Dunstan's/Goodrich/Friern

I saw lots of young people/children scurrying over Barry Road from near Sylvester Road adn think a zebra or other type of crossing is needed. They were going to events at the church just off Barry, which hsa to be more than a weekly event.

And, naturally, a portaloo is too hard to install so that service can continue.....

Redwing about a week ago (it took me a while to ID it on Google) near Goodrich School, eating crabapples. Have they all gone now?

A kilo of salt costs about 40p or so from Asda or Tesco, so why not DIY? I don't absolved the council of all its duties but, come on, we're not helpless. Sweep your path, ask your neighbour whether they'd like theirs done too, throw salt or ash down and at least some of the problem is fixed.

People can put other people on the moon so I think a method could be conjured up, should the will be there. It is not jsut an SE22 problem: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5444791/Drivers-blast-councils-cars-skating-icy-roads.html

It should be the case they can fetch vehicles in ahead of such a weather event, if you want to use that rather "in" phrase. Grit/salt boxes are there, all they need is a couple of workers to distribute it onto pavements. Keeping all roads clear is unrealistic but the main roads really ought to be kept clear. We don't need to keep them on standby throughout the year, just hire them in when necessary or tender the work out to specialists who have been primed to be ready with in X hours' notice. Perhaps I should be a council officer and earn my bonus, or - better still - a consultant to earn the big bucks for my radical plan!

is it Southwark or the Highways Agency? Either way, I am not surprised.

Bloody daft not to have gritted the main arteries, such as LL. Assistant heads will roll....

I remember the salt banks dotted around Southwark years ago but they seem to have disappeared. - There are a few, still - outside Goodrich School, for example, and on the corner of F Hill Road/Dunstan's Road. Don't have to wait for the officials to come - just take some and spread it if you think you are doing the right thing, I'd say.

I saw one heading north on Walworth Road about 0545.

A bus - double-decker - has got into trouble just opposite DKH school. I was there about 0530 and had to make a diversion in my black cab, which then got caught up in snow on the hills behind the school. (No gritting on the main road, on a hill = ??!!) It may well be rectified now, but it would be best to check if you can.

I hope you asked the driver to switch off.

At least Costa, a UK chain set up by Italo-Brits some forty-odd years ago, is doing a little to combat the scourge of plastic/paper cups by recycling them - whatever coffee shop they came from. It also pays its taxes fairly and squarely in the UK - something that Starbucks, for example, didn't always do.

Maybe this is the way to go? Trialling free public transport in some German cities to combat pollution. I think it is acceptable on a small scale, such as hopper buses (ideally electric) to take people from pinch points to larger stations or points of interest but I would hate to add to the crowdedness and sometimes unpleasantness of the daily commute. We'd all do a bit better if we walked more. Sitting on a bus going nowhere is no fun and walking liberates you and sometimes is only marginally slower. In the meantime, the Mayor ought to do more to fine engine idlers. The problem is endemic and I have never seen a police officer or warden or PSO asking drivers (often of diesel vehicles like vans, lorries and taxis) to turn off their engines. (I try, but it's not much fun being sworn at by selfish morons.)

Our friendly, neighbourhood pavement contractors have left five - yes, five - of those raised covers/gangways strewn outside the bus stop, dry cleaner's and PO. Watch your step!

I also noticed the lack of traffic and was pleased, especially since half term was last week. Still not surprised at the big amount of traffic at school opening/closing times, though and glad I am a pedestrian and not a driver.

Goose Green

It looked a bit fuller than a normal rat and had that golden/yellow tinge to its coat. I was too far away to see its tail in de-tail....

https://ptes.org/get-informed/facts-figures/water-vole/ Is this what you sawy? I saw something like this a couple of weeks ago on the pond bank. "Status & conservation Native and locally common but vulnerable to extinction in the UK. They are a priority species in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. A reintroduction programme is currently underway as well as our new National Water Vole Monitoring Programme. Water voles are fully protected under section 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(as amended). Schedule 5 of this Act makes it an offence to intentionally damage or obstruct access to water vole burrows."