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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.

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....

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).

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.

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.

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!

Sorry - did not see you had reported it. Glad you did and hope you get results.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

I understand that the movie was, although made in the mid-nineties, actually set a decade earlier, which would make the current sequel ten years out of date. Not that keen on seeing it, either way.

I asked - very politely and smilingly - a man to consider turning off his idling van engine as he sat and smoked a cigar in the driving seat. He told me to ask the same of all the people who were driving and wound his window back up. You win some, you lose some (probably many, if I continued around here!)

The ice this morning seems to be slippery - almost "greasy" in a way. I saw (from afar) an elderly lady with a stick fall just on the corner outside Dulwich Library, and others skid. (She was all right and was tended to by passing teachers with a school group.) Can ice take on different forms? The ice yesterday seemed thicker but "drier" and didn't cause me to skid (in the same shoes).

Uncleglen is right. It is OK if the smoke is white (ie. burnt via an approved stove or coming from the burning of smokless fuel). On cold, still days even one house burning wood/coal etc. against the rules can really have a bad effect on those with breathing/lung problems, so if you are really enjoying the hygge glow you get but making "bad" smoke, just think of those whose health you are harming. That way, everyone wins: simple.

The Spanish place on NXR - the one that didn't actually ever open, I think - is going to be a clothes shop, according to two people in there last week.

I am glad more houses are being built but a bit dismayed to see that these ones looked very small. Why not build an extra storey to compensate for the narrowness and lack of depth? Hope they get finished anyway.

Knock on window, politely ask for driver to be more considerate/lawful, take picture, send to local councillor.

Rendelharris - I'm almost certain it was not a new Routemaster, just an normal-style one. Luvvies, eh?

I always say "hello" to the driver when I get on but very rarely say thanks on the way out. I doubt they can hear you on most services, though on the smaller vehicles they may well be able to do so. Speaking of etiquette, it's a bit annoying when folk get off at the front of the smaller buses. I get it if they are elderly/carrying children etc. (Dr Watson and his fellow passengers on the bus in the last episode of Sherlock did exactly that, on a double decker. Makes me wonder whether any of the production staff or actors have ever ridden a bus in London!)

Sounds like common sense - a rarer thing these days! TBF, the P13 new buses are better - bigger and with rear exit doors and they do nearly always arrive when the TfL text/online/Countdown service say they will. Would still like to see (and ride) an extended 63 service to HOP station to be able to use the Overground more easily - the holy grail of bus transport!

ZT - enough of the virtue signalling. I am well aware of other people's disabilities (including anxiety) as I stated in my post above when I said "*some* people". I stand by my claim that a lot - most - folk simply think of themselves rather than others: it is unbelievable to even consider that most of the ones refusing to go further down and/or upstairs fall into the disabled/semi-lame/anxious categories (as would be denoted by any reasonable person). (Three serious back injuries with periods of inability to walk followed by restricted and very painful movement means I can say I am aware of *some* people's lack of full mobility. Oh, and I keep an eye out for people who need the seat I am sitting in more than me, so I feel OK with my pulling up others for being selfish.) To bring it back on topic - the area's bus provision and general transport situation ought to be assessed because right now, it is not working as well as it could be. We can (almost) all help that out by being considerate passengers.

I am sure that *some* people genuinely feel anxious in certain situations on public transport but would argue that most simply CBA to do the best thing for everyone. I don't like having to go upstairs for a few stops, lurching down the top deck to squeeze into a seat, but because it is *public* transport in a *massive* city I just get on with it, knowing that it's not that really a big deal. If people aren't moving down/up, just ask them to. It may just work! As for the 484, it is nearly always busy when I use it and think that more at rush hour would be a good idea.