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Nigello

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  1. Menus on a board or in the window are a big boon. Noone wants to go in, ask for a menu, then walk off with an awkward "no thanks" when you find out it's ?27 for a main course with sides extra.
  2. It looks impressive and has that French bistro air (like a classy/non-commitee-designed Cafe Rouge) sp I hope it is good and that it does well.
  3. It is bad that people steal dogs. It is bad (but much less so in the grand scheme of things) that some dogs are left to yelp and yap outside cafes/shops whilst owners do things that don't necessitate bringing said animals along in the first place. Both realities can and do exist. Open your minds, man!
  4. Space Invaders - the ones in the yellow/blue packet - were delicious. Hula Hoops are a nice treat every now and then. Golden Wonder chicken flavour (veggie friendly, I think) were very nine.
  5. I fail to see how cycling - sometimes at speed - through an area of pavement that is meant for pedestrians/wheelchair users can ever be seen as the best option. There has to be another choice: Get off and walk with your cycle, but don't use the tragedy of others to justify potentially dangerous cycling involving pedestrians.
  6. Dogs outside Gail's in the Village, tied up to shiver and yelp and yap whilst "mummy" is warm and cosy inside, are a perennial pain. I don't think dogs should be left tied up anywhere where the owner can't keep an eye on it: just organise your life to not have to take your pet with you everywhere. I hope dogs and owners are reconciled because losing a pet is not nice at all.
  7. Better delineation and better polcing of offenders, please. Lots of people of all abilities (children, old people, buggy-pushers) use the pavements at the corner and not all are nimble enough to get out of the way of footpath-riding cyclists.
  8. Rancherors Discos Spicy Nik-Naks Monster Munch (yellow packet)
  9. Skips, anyone? Fish 'n' Chips, too?
  10. Some of them rarely get emptied anyway - Hmm, not sure that using an omission of responsibility (ie. not emptying the bins as they ought to) by the council should be used to condone it's new policy of getting rid of them! Better, no, to make sure the bins are regularly emptied. Whether there are tens or hundreds of them, people leaving their dog's muck on the pavement/grass will always be with us as there will always be witless, selfish individuals.
  11. PSOs and traffic wardens ought to be able to fine drivers of stationery vehicles who leave their engines running. Khan said as much, but I fear that it was a reflexive, sound-good tweet that he won't follow through on.
  12. I am really confused as to what and what isn't allowed. I think that, like it or not, wood can be burned in wood burning stoves but NOT on open fires. Coal is not allowed in either, I believe, but I would like to know for sure. I agree that stoves and open fires are popular and also that the smoke they produce is irritating, even dangerous, to some people with lung and breathing problems. I doubt that such concerns will stop most people from carrying on burning as they have been doing....
  13. All we need is a guided bus, not a tram or a Tube. Guided buses have done wonders for big, densely-populated cities in Asia and LatAm and they also exist in parts of the UK. Councillors and developers here tend to pooh-pooh them because they don't have the "sexiness" of trams/light rail. Can't see the public transport situation from SE22 into SE1 via SE5 and SE15 getting any better soon (which is why I walk a whole lot more than I used to).
  14. The premises near to the Co-op (the former William Hill, I think, or maybe it was the launderette) on FHR will be offices, according to a man who said he was in charge of the work there.
  15. I think it is such a shame that OKR won. Both options should have gone ahead: Camberwell and its environs are so poorly served by anything other than buses. Even an extension to Denmark Hill and nothing else would have helped enormously, especially with all the new builds in and around the Green and down W'worth Road.
  16. It is not horrible if done well, and that is the main concern about choosing a "GP" of the dentist world to do it. I would ask straight up whether the dentist in question had lots of experience and whether your particular problem was one extra tricky or just routine. If not, consider asking for a referral or forking out to go private. You get a couple of injections, a lie down for about half an hour or more and the rest of the day off work: not bad, really!
  17. Sorry - did not see you had reported it. Glad you did and hope you get results.
  18. You have to report this to the police. It may be that she will do this again or has done it before. Get well soon but do ring 101 or 999 and report it.
  19. I would say scrap the badly-signed path and widen the road a short width with an aim to stopping the plenty of cyclists who cut the corner and then ride over the pedestrian crossing into the (pedestrian) piazza at the library. Shared spaces can work, but not here.
  20. Something about aesthetics and shared space This phrase, with its vagueness, verblessness and jargon, condenses so much about public sector/committee-led life into such a short space
  21. I do not understand why buses finishing half-way through its usual route should help regulate it. Why not just run the fullest route possible and wait at any given stop when necessary? Any bus driver have the answer to this!
  22. I walked past here this morning and saw a few people in hard hats going in and out of the "door" made from the temporary walls that have been put up, so it would be worth putting your head around and speaking to someone there.
  23. THanks, Renata. Could you turn your attention to the cafe, near to the Herne pub, whose front is full of tagging and which has encouraged tagging - I think - on the green, pulldown shutter at the newsagent. It just seems a shame when other businesses are trying hard to give the strip a push that some shops simply CBA to clean themselves up - even if the council is doing it for them at zero cost.
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