Robert Poste's Child

Yes - probably elf n safety.

Maybe I'm a bit confused but Network Rail shows a service as running so I thought it must be back on already. Perhaps it's going from another platform or there's a reduced number of them? Would be good news if so as those new routemaster-style buses are like ovens in the hot weather. They have what sounds like airconditioning, but no cool air and no windows to open. Bearable during the day but not funny when traffic's slow.

How about overground to London Bridge then change onto the Charing X train that stops at Waterloo East? I think they stopped it for a while at one point but looks like it's back on now anyway. Around 30 mins in total if all working as it used to.

Barbecues. Should be banned in built-up areas. Also my new swimming goggles, which are trying to suck my eyes out while somehow leaking at the same time. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but now worried I look like a victim of domestic violence.

Mind you, if that huge bee mural didn't constitute visual harm I'm not sure what would.

Ghostface?

How lovely. What breed and is it male or female?

I just want them to sort out the cleanliness issues, particularly the viscous and dirty water in the pool. Would love to use it regularly again.

Surely a law firm should WANT to take it down once they realise they (perhaps inadvertently - maybe they just asked Londis for permission?) have infringed a law. I don't see what else they could do but take it down themselves, otherwise they've compromised their own integrity.

Just heard this campaign is going to be featured on the Robert Elms show on Radio London (94.9) this morning. Should be interesting.

Nowhere like the lounge for dismissing someone else's lived experience... Why I don't really bother with this section any more but I felt for the OP; steroids have horrible side effects and I sympathise with her wanting to get back to normal.

The last time I did a week at HG, above, which was earlier this year, several people lost 10lb or more. Never sure if I really believe in the detox theory but you do seem to lose weight differently from on a normal diet. It's as if the body lets go rather than burns fat.

Or for a half-way between residential detox and doing it all on your own, there's a therapist called (I think) Emma-Louise Arden based in Balham who does a 'detox in a box' where she gives you instructions on what to juice/eat plus supplements and a couple of colonics, and then you do the rest at home.

If you have the time and cash, I'd suggest a week at Homefield Grange (http://www.homefieldgrangeretreat.co.uk/). The basic programme is juice detox plus exercise but it's more spa than boot camp and they'll tailor a programme to take into account your recent health issues. It'll get you off to a quick start and give you some ideas you can use to carry on afterwards. Failing that, you could juice at home for two meals a day and have a salad or home-made soup in the evening. A week of that will take off a few pounds. Or google the old British Heart Foundation 3-day diet. A lot of people used to swear by that for losing 10lb. (Eta link.)

It's safer than it used to be. I have vague memories of it being a mugging hotspot ten plus years ago, and a couple of shootings further up Melbourne Grove, but it's mellowed a lot since then.

Village way still closed off with police at both ends. Incident seems to have been close to the bridge. Poor guy involved. Do hope they'll be OK.

Can't see anything in the village. Looks like more over to HH/Denmark Hill. Even more sirens just went past.

In a way the helpline shift did make me realise even at the time that it was superficial, transient stuff, but revolting's certainly the word. Also annoying that the cleaning spray has taken the surface off the shiny bits of the bike. Oh well, at least I know it's clean.

Coming home from a tiring shift on a helpline late last night, unlocking my bike in Brixton only to realise from the slimy feel of the D-lock that someone had vomited all over it. This was shortly after a silly, attention-seeking girl had been pestering me all the way up from the platform to amuse her equally pointless mates. Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Brixton.

There's another thread in just the last couple of days about would-be burglars nearby, and not long ago the police did house visits to warn people that it's a hotspot (apparently the area in the UK with the highest number of insurance claims for burglary per capita) and to up their security, so maybe they've increased their presence. Or maybe it just happened to be a quiet morning and they all responded to a general alert. Who knows? The ones who weren't needed pushed off pretty quickly. Deeply unfashionable as it may be to say so around here, I think the police did a great job. A bit more of that might turn things around. Still got a warm fuzzy feeling about it and a general sense of being a bit safer.

9+ vehicles. More like 20 to 1 in officers. Though with all due respect the 1 could have improved the odds dramatically in his favour by not attempting to break in to someone else's property.

Just witnessed hugely impressive swoop, I think to arrest a suspected burglar - hard to tell due to number of police (I stopped counting at nine vehicles) but looks like nothing more serious as they were all grinning. Like the Sweeney, it was.

I think he just meant that weather forecasts can be unreliable. Often taken in myself.

Yes, it has good lifts to both platforms. It's only a few minutes' walk from the church, even with a toddler.

If by recent you mean the last two and a half years, I'd say yes.