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Ruskin

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  1. Surely they should be reported anyway, not because it's 'in the news at the moment', but because it's plain wrong.
  2. It'll be interesting eventually to see how Southwark and Lambeth folk voted. So far, it looks like it's Remain.
  3. *Googles the word merfolk* Actually, no.
  4. Well that exchange cheered me up this morning! More happy outcomes here, please.
  5. We would love to have been given a service with Virgin. They installed the cable (incl under the floorboards) and THEN decided that the cable couldn't be brought to the house at all - despite neighbours 150m up the road already subscribing. So we felt we had to go with BT. We get drops in speed after 6.00pm and sometimes I have to reset the router during the day.
  6. We've just signed up with BT (rather than Virgin, but that's another story) and the same seems to happen after 6.00pm.
  7. Copied from another burglary thread but still very relevant to this one! "Sifting through all the burglary threads this morning makes for grim reading. We've been done over several years ago (a 4.00am break-in while we slept upstairs and we didn't hear a thing until the stairs creaked right outside out bedroom) and my wife didn't sleep properly for months, years afterwards, imagining noises of all sorts in the dark. But I would agree with others in that if you leave things in sight of a window or letter box then it will eventually lead to someone having a go and all the devices and locks won't make the slightest difference. As a result of our close escape from injury, we've gone to almost bonkers lengths to avoid a repeat but which I won't go into here and it's not until you've been through the same thing that you realise just how naive/stupid you were."
  8. Sifting through all the burglary threads this morning makes for grim reading. We've been done over several years ago (a 4.00am break-in while we slept upstairs and we didn't hear a thing until the stairs creaked right outside out bedroom) and my wife didn't sleep properly for months, years afterwards, imagining noises of all sorts in the dark. But I would agree with others in that if you leave things in sight of a window or letter box then it will eventually lead to someone having a go and all the devices and locks won't make the slightest difference. As a result of our close escape from injury, we've gone to almost bonkers lengths to avoid a repeat but which I won't go into here and it's not until you've been through the same thing that you realise just how naive/stupid you were.
  9. I swear I saw Simon Day in the yoghurt aisle the other day. He was last seen in the briliant Cradle to the Grave by Danny Baker. Tweeted him after the show but he hasn't replied. Can't think why. R
  10. Yes, the Chinook did some circuits around Denmark Hill then landed in Ruskin Park at 2am and for perhaps 10 mins. Those rotors really clatter so triggered a broken night's sleep. The RAF often send in Puma, Merlin and Chinook helicopters for practicing evacuation and extraction in times of 'emergency' .. whatever that means.
  11. If they're there to monitor bus lane misuse, then I say go get 'em. In fact, if they want more business, simply go to the Sainsburys left turn on Dog Kennel. Plenty of queuejumpers who can't wait to get in to the trolley track. *Puts on tiin hat and takes cover*
  12. So THAT'S the reason for traffic backed-up at the lights on the hill. Been diverting left and going round the houses to Peckham Rye.
  13. The link works fine for me on a Mac/Firefox. Anyway, this is the first I've heard of this closure so thanks for posting it. Havoc is one way of describing it.
  14. Clearly a malfunction! Footage here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30315650
  15. I saw the Dawson Heights scenes as well as those shot in Dulwich Park - and more incredibly, they actually said they were in Dulwich Park.
  16. Those work clothes are worn in eastern Europe and Germany.
  17. This is s great thread - thanks to those posting their routes. Here's our 4 parks 12k (7.4 mile although the app says 6.4. We don't believe it!) loop that 2 of us do every week and which takes us about 50-55 mins - little heavy traffic, green spaces, funny incidents to spot so lots to laugh about - even as we as we stagger up Greendale. http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/375980925
  18. The offending (or offensive) poster is now down and the pavement cleaned - replaced, ironically, by an ad for Travelodge.
  19. Voters and non-voters have been defacing posters or images of politicians for millennia (and remember the brilliant artistic merit of the turf on Churchill's statue in Parliament Sq?). I've no objection of them doing so in the name or art or democracy but Southwark, at some cost, will have to clean up the pavement.
  20. I photographed it over the weekend: http://richardbaker.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/A-Main/G0000eCmPxfuw7AI/I0000d2dAQ52KBCo/C0000b8Wt9e454WA
  21. I took a walk along the boardwalk with a friend yesterday, telling him about this thread as we walked. He told me where he usually sees them but tragically, I didn't see one - not one. Cheated.
  22. If that's the case, I'd be interested to know its route from the A205. Turn right at DC into the Village or via the Norwood Road and under the existing HH bridge?
  23. From TFL's Easter Roads section: "South London area ? On Sunday, from 08:00 until 12:00, an abnormal load will travel under police escort from the M23, via the A23 and the A205 South Circular Road to the Herne Hill area. During this time roads in the vicinity may be busy." Anyone know what this might be? Not a bridge, surely!
  24. Oh, well - in ancient times they had plagues of locusts chewing the delphiniums so a little dust on your chariot isn't going to change civilisation.
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