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Yes mirabelle or cherry plum. They make sensational jam, especially if you use the tarter, firmer less ripe ones. Nothing like it in the shops. You need to de-stone them but can use an olive/cherry pitter before boiling. Alternatively, boil without pitting and fish out the stones.

Is it council property? They might put a gate stop on it to quieten it if the noise is a problem. Not sure who to ask though..

They don't have the conical shape of Christmas trees (Norway spruce). Not entirely sure but I suspect they are young cedar of Lebanon as they have long boughs with hanging foliage and spreading out as they grow. When mature their branches form a shelf like pattern and are very beautiful, so sometimes planted as ornamentals in parks. I could be wrong..

poshflooring.co.uk is also good value. Order free samples before you commit. Check any engineered samples are proper multilayer birch ply and not just 2 or 3 layer spruce ply. The best london showroom is The Natural Wood Floor Company in Wandsworth. You can see a very large range on display. Expensive but some of their finishes are very good. Others look a bit fake/plastic. It's hard to beat unfinished oak with a neutral, non-orangey treatment like osmo clear oil, but it's never prominent in showrooms as they charge a premium for extra finishes.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blackcurrant Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Not necessarily that fast. If it's caused by > space > > junk re-entering atmosphere it would move a lot > > slower than a shooting star. > > Possibly - not a meteor then though! > Depends how pedantic you want to be..

Not necessarily that fast. If it's caused by space junk re-entering atmosphere it would move a lot slower than a shooting star.

Ronnijade Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Now I'm thinking a meteor - or aliens! > Anyone know what this could've been? Peering out > of my kitchen window at the evening sky (around > 9::50pm/ish) and I spot this orange streak in the > sky, slooowly 'falling' downward and further away > into the distance. Lasted about a minute before > disappearing out of sight and then reappearing a > lot smaller, and to be honest with you, I have no > idea what I saw! Any possible explanations would > be greatly appreciated. Fireball meteor. If the second one was following the same line, it's the same meteor possibly after fragmenting. Lucky to see it.

MissKing Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cyclemonkey Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > What do you mean by "period house"? Every house > is > > "period" given it was built in a specific time > > period. There is a perfectly decent 1960s > four > > bedroom terraced house with garage and garden > on > > my road currently on for ?620,000. If you want > > coving, a fire place and higher heating bills > > some Victorian speculative build will probably > > cost you a good ?50,000 to ?80,000 more. > > Don't be pedantic. We all know period houses are > victorian, edwardian, georgian styles etc. You > sure can get houses built in the 1960's for > cheaper - because they are less desirable. 60s houses are actually getting seriously trendy. Just check the prices of genuine midcentury furniture - now highly sought after by the many people who've bought midcentury houses after being priced out of period stock. And values of 60s houses have held up better than Victorian over the last year or so. Ex-council properties are also losing their stigma. Victorian houses still desirable but have reached unsustainable prices and hit by the high-end slowdown. Also more expensive to refurb and maintain than younger vintages - often a host of problems hidden behind the skimcoat.

https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/03/buy-a-home-get-a-car-free-offers-galore-as-london-estate-agents-struggle-to-sell Been falling at the top for quite a while now. Anything over 750k probably down 5-10%. Outer boroughs and cheaper properties have done much better but the slowdown could spread. Having said that, mortgages are getting cheaper. Buy to let definitely over for now due to the onerous new taxes.

> Thanks for that, contrary to popular opinion I'm > not entirely stupid - of course going by Southwark > Bridge is shorter (only by about 0.7 of a mile, or > about three minutes for a very moderate pedaller) > but although there's a segregated cycle lane on > Southwark Bridge there's none leading up to it, so > to get there the OP would have to mix with heavy > traffic and cross several busy junctions, > something s/he specifically said s/he wanted to > avoid. Cautious, as requested by the OP, but not, > I would submit, daft. Anyone who can get to Rodney place without segregated lanes can cope with the backstreets leading to Southwark bridge Rd. Incidentally I wouldn't recommend E&C to a nervous cyclist. It's much improved but not fully segregated and definitely not for the faint hearted. There are very easy ways to avoid it on traffic free backstreets.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blackcurrant Wrote: > ------ > Not to be contrarian, and yes going via > Elephant/Blackfriars will add about an extra 1.5 > miles to going directly over Tower Bridge, but it > will all be on totally segregated cycle lanes. I > would most emphatically not recommend Tower Bridge > or London Bridge, nor the junctions at both ends > of them, to a nervous new rider when adding ten > minutes to the journey removes the need to share a > space with motor traffic anywhere between Elephant > and Limehouse. Even if you want to stick to segregated cycle lanes, looping via blackfriars is daft when you can cross at Southwark Bridge.

Going via Elephant will add some unnecessary distance as it takes you in the wrong direction from Portland St/Burgess Park. I'd look for a cycle lane or quiet route through Borough/Rotherhithe to London Bridge or Tower Bridge. Or go via Greenwich foot tunnel, but that's a less scenic route - lots of suburbia and not much Riverside.

Nice idea to keep the main building as the central focus. http://i65.tinypic.com/23mk6z5.png http://i68.tinypic.com/beapft.png http://i68.tinypic.com/35ba7i9.png

Yes, at six stories tall it's enormous and very unattractive. The "linear park" is laughable. I fully expect it to get approval though.

I've been trying to log on to Southwark's planning website for the last few weeks for a different application. I usually get this, whichever phone or computer I use to access the site: http://i65.tinypic.com/685vr9.png 155 dwellings seems excessive for a plot of land the size of a football pitch.

The 3% stamp duty rise for buy to let that comes into effect this month caused property investors expanding portfolios to rush through purchases in the last few months, propping up prices, but now demand will fall back somewhat. Prices are at precarious levels but mortgage rates are incredibly low and will sustain things until rates rise, whenever that might be. Prime London has been stagnant for a long time and all the growth in the last year has been in London's least desirable areas or outside London.

You can do what you want on your own land, but if you want to put a new fence on the boundary you need to check whether you're responsible for the fence on the left or the one on the right. However, the best course of action is to speak to your neighbour. You're likely to anger them if you put up a fence without discussing it.

Train from Peckham/Denmark Hill to Elephant, then Bakerloo Line to Paddington.

I was shocked by the sheer scale of the new building, which remind of Eastern European housing projects. They will change the character of area from low-rise housing & green space to dense, overdeveloped urban. Use of the ludicrous phrase linear park" tells me everything I need to know about the developers. I agree with comments about the cynical management strategy used to corrode support for the current configuration.

Why not do Kensington instead, it was at the top of the chart too. The Robin Hood angle is more fun, the people are weirder and the houses will look more interesting.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ETA: Ah. I have just realised you are talking > about the app and I'm talking about google .... Same thing - Google bought Waze and incorporated the traffic data into their maps. I use Google Maps on a phone. > Thanks, I didn't know you could set it to avoid > the congestion charge. You can only access it just before starting navigation - don't know why they've hidden it. > It once sent me past the front of Buckingham > Palace, which was quite fun :) Me too. It's interesting where it takes you to avoid Embankment traffic.

Sue Wrote: --------------------------------------------- > Just make sure it doesn't take you into the > congestion zone, like blooming google satnav did. > Yikes! If you choose "avoid tolls" in settings before you hit the blue chevron icon to start navigating, it will avoid the congestion area. It's great fun using it as it takes different routes all the time, revealing parts of London you'd never see otherwise.

Through central London is usually quickest. If you're coming from NW, take M4 and continue in to Earls Court. From M1 it's trickier but via Park Lane and Victoria is best. Whatever route you take, a traffic-avoiding app like Waze can usually improve on it. Much better than a dedicated satnav.

Yes that's a fair point. Buses could travel both ways around a circuit from Denmark Hill, but you'd need to know which one you were catching if you caught a southband 42 from north of DH.

And this is what it might look like if the proposal was amended to loop through East Dulwich, rather than going backwards from Sainsburys: http://i63.tinypic.com/20uzb02.jpg