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Just now, on the very narrow patch of green near to the Tesco/Banh Banh etc., I noticed that the room-sized patch of wildgrass/flowers has been mown away! I thought these little pockets were purposely left to grow wilder. Maybe the mower got carried away? The other patches, in the park itself, remain.

Sue, Perhaps take a daily antihistamine - a generic one from Boots or CoOp will do the trick at 1/4 the price of a branded version. Also, use vaseline or a menthol version to line your nose: it'll help you breathe and trap particles, though it can't work miracles. Wash your pillowcases and undersheets often and even vacuum your mattress! Breathe easy (and continue to ask the selfish idlers to turn their engines off)!

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That will line up with the answer to the question of how many people fancy paying their cleaner 13-14 an hour instead of 10? Indeed. Let's have a straw poll. Me - No (because I don't have, nor never have had, a cleaner). Over to you!

The thing I take from this is that most people agree that everyone should pay tax. So, how many people will stop paying their dog-walker/cleaner/window cleaner/mobile beautician** in cash and demand a receipt? **Not all of these kind of workers are by default tax defrauders.

With the advent of smartphones it should be very easy for everyone - even your cleaner - to be able to charge a fairer/more expensive price so as to accommodate taxes (and use another app to process the payments and NI and tax, etc).

Where The Streets Have No Name? Oh, you said Woodwarde Road...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40561807 Agree?

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/05/virgin-trains-advance-tickets-rail-fares You can now buy advance-perchace tickets up to ten minutes before your chosen journey.

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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.

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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.

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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.