Nigello

Why are you not as equally bothered by women telling other women what women are? To be logical in your outrage ou really ought to say you are bothered that a human is telling another human what to be. What about a woman changing to be a man, thereby escaping at least some of the difficulties women face? Does that person deserve less respect and concern because they are now becoming part of the "oppressors"?

Karavan sells bamboo lunch boxes with an elasticated band (which, to be fair, loses its tautness over time). Pret give you 50p off your hot drink if you use your own cup/mug, so that makes it 49p! I think, though, that a tax on single-use plastics or plastic-based products alongside a deposit scheme is needed to really change things.

If they really posh it up, it would not be in keeping with the rest of Rye Lane. - Talk about race to the bottom/lowest common denominator. Being grubby is not "cool" (whatever that really means; I don't know so don't use the word), despite what umpteen style columnists will tell you at the drop of a snap-back cap. If you need to get your "cool-kicks" by walking past rotted apples, urine-stained walls and homeless people, then you ought to rethink your values. I don't want "posh", just a reasonable amount of cleanliness, safety and regard for the taxpayer.

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Bad driving is not to be endorsed but being a less-than-clued-up pedestrian is also a problem. It is really hard to see people when it is dark and when you add text-walking or just being stupid - like walking across a road without any checking - then driving is made less easy. (I am a pedestrian with no car.)

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.