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Heathers and lavenders are tough plants and will attract bees and butterflies, etc. Hang a basket or three with a tradescantia and/or spider plant. (Karavan has lovely macrame ones, holding one or two pots.) Ivies are fast growers. A hydrangea - climbing variety, like petiolaris - could work along a wall.

I think the process of making prosecco is cheaper than that of Champagne; the former is secondary-fermented in large tanks. Dry sherry is nice and a real palate sharpener or "craft" English cider could be good if you want to stay local.

The train from Marylebone is great: it takes about 50 minutes or so and runs regularly. Bakerloo line will get you there.

Good for intervening, but bad for the detailed description. I would have asked anyone who could legitimately show a connection to a much vaguer description to get in touch with a view to sharing more information. It is just too dangerous to go pinpointing people like this/ Who's to say someone won't see her, pap her, then post it all over social media with the information gleaned here as a caption?

Which end of CPR? If it is the part nearer to Goose Green, I would walk to PR station and get the train to St Pancras, which goes every half hour, I think. If nearer the library or mid LL, a bus to DH station and then Victoria line - though it can be very congested so perhaps the 185 to Vauxhall and get on there? I would allow at least an hour to get there at that time, so leaving at 8 would be better, especially if you do the latter.

Kind of related: Peckham Rye had an ice cream van (diesel) with its engine running today. I am guessing it would be like that for the duration of its being there. The van in Dulwich Park is electric; it parks up near a power point close to the car park entrance. Ice cream is great but should all Southwark parks demand vans there be electric. If so, should the council provide the power as an incentive? Seems odd that an environmental asset - a park as beautiful as Peckham Rye should allow, even encourage, such pollution.

When the Chinese medicine place opened at the Plough end of LL I asked the new owner not to rip out the old tiles. She thought it an odd request, and I don't blame her in part because what do decades old decor with a butcher theme have to do with oriental medicine, but she left it intact - ready for when the next but her arrived. It's worth asking the new proprietor to do the same. Anyone want to volunteer?

Surely the individual householder also has a role to play. Invest in a deadlock or two and a timer for lights and even an alarm; spread the word of suspicious activity on social media and - gasp - IRL; use intelligent water (supplied free by the police)to mark property; ensure hedges are cut down so as not to allow a burglar to be hidden as he tries to gain illegal entry. It's important to realise that we're not helpless.

Bang activity

Too late on a weekday, even if warning were given. It's not necessary to be so late in the evening in such a densely populated area.

French

Bajanbelle, I hope you told them there and then. This is fair comment but I would like to think that pointing failings out to the person who could actually do something on the spot is better and fairer.

As someone who had 2 family members that were dairy farmers in Wiltshire put out of business in the 1970s I never begrudge paying more for British dairy produce.....I agree: dairy produce, especially milk, has been too much of a loss leader for the big supermarkets for it not to be corrected somehow at some time.

we are often in close proximity to others - agreed, but all the more reason to act with your (very close-by) neighbours in mind.

Yanis Varoufakis, no friend of the EU but someone who knows all about negotiating with the EU, says there will be no negotiations, just stalling and the demands that the UK must yield on everything before there is a discussion of what the UK wants/needs.

- The B-52's Summer of Love (version)

Will those who have been against new residential buildings, especially high-rise ones, now revise their opinion, at least on a case-by-case basis? It's now more apparent than ever that there is a need for much more housing than there is at the moment. There's a dilemma, too: if you don't want it, does it mean you don't want more people to live here (either from the rest of the UK or from the rest of the world)? For the record, I would like to see mid-rise housing that is rented by the council or a housing association, and for empty spaces above offices and shops to be turned into housing as soon as is possible.

Just about to post that: sparrows - the hardiest of bird, surely - were taking sips from water in a plant pot (which I will now change as it must have been there some time).

Why not report her? If she is on your property and taking your item, then that is a crime.

If you do it online you can leave your contact details and they will send you a confirmation and a progress report. Having said that, one particular light goes on the blink very regularly.

Glass

Take a pic of aforesaid anti-social behaviour and send it to the press office of Deliveroo, saying you will be inclined to publish it on social media if you do not get your complaints addressed within five working days.

Oh, come on: this is a city of several million people. Perhaps if it had been on the night after the fire or the next night, a cancellation or muting would have been appropriate, but going into a kind of mawkish hibernation is the very opposite of what London (and life) is about. We don't live real-life enactments of Twitter feeds or tabloid headlines!