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James has previously linked to this "If you have a comment or a complaint about a GP, dentist, pharmacy or optician contact the London office of NHS England at [email protected]. You can also contact NHS England on 0300 311 22 33. There is more information available at http://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/complaint."

Hi John K, I have an email somewhere that explains it all but it really will be a needle in a haystack finding it - so don't hold your breath but I will find it. do keep looking James . I'm very interested as well . Implications of this are important .

Ha - fourth time lucky ! "Southwark Labour introduced new rules that all new dropped kerbs must have 2 metres (6?6″) of double yellow lines both sides of them.That means that the dropped kerb reduces on street parking by one car length and 2 x 2m = by another car length of parknig removed with each dropped kerb. Ouch! Last night at the Dulwich Community Council we had 4 such dropped kerbs to approve. I persuaded the committee that this Southwark Labour Council rule is silly. That if we must have double yellow lines they should be abslutely minimised. I?m grateful that all three parties agreed we should recommend 0.5m of double yellow lines OR the decision comes back to the committee to be looked at again with an officer to explain the minutae of these rules. Fingers crossed this is the first step to getting more sensible dropped kerb and double yellow lines policies in place." Great news that dropped kerb applications are being considered at Community Councils . Do you know whether applications will be treated like other planning applications and neighbours consulted ?

James - your link didn't work for me .Could you copy the content here ? I'm all agog with anticipation !

I always think how desperate for work they must be to take on such a frankly difficult unrewarding job . And why don't the charities make it easier to give a one off card donation as opposed to it's sign up for monthly contributions ( which of course I understand the preference for ) or nothing . And yes I know it's possible to sign up for monthly donations and then cancel after one .

Does this picture help ? http://windwardconstruction.us/wp-content/gallery/remodel/ne-12th-stair-construction.jpg

Spot on wulfhound .

I understood BB that you weren't expressing a wish for your child to be hot housed . My point - poorly expressed ,sorry , was experienced /well educated staff would know better than to hot house .Child not being hot housed ,ergo staff = experienced /well educated . But of course lack of experience and education doesn't mean that someone isn't highly intelligent . Hope the Frozen week goes well for all those involved .It's stressful holding down a job and bringing children up ,themed weeks could tip one over the edge .

As a postgraduate who has worked in a number of preschools my judgement is that this sector is not peopled by inexperienced or uneducated staff . The sentence "I'm not convinced they are experienced or particularly well educated." seems to imply a belief that they are . But I apologise if that's not what was meant and I've misunderstood .

" I'm not convinced they are experienced or particularly well educated. And most of the time that doesn't bother me - I don't need my child hot-housed aged three" just to say that experienced and well educated staff might possibly be aware that hot housing is not an appropriate or recommended form of education .For any age .

"It may be that the staff are not very well educated and therefore have to resort to this type of thing." what a patronising ,offensive and unintelligent comment .

"NB. Southwark Labour cllrs have waived through lots of planning applications on Metropolitan Open Land for private schools in Southwark for permanent structures." James -can you give details of these lots of planning applications on MOL granted to private schools ?

I think I'd put them in my green general household bin .

But it wasn't all you were saying James . " Harris feel neglected and my take is these proposals are one sad result from that. " I quite agree that there should be dialogue between schools and Southwark .Out of interest have Harris made any requests for meetings with Southwark that have been refused ?

I'm sure you're right James - about there being roads with no shops ,houses or schools - but i can't think of any .

" roads with no homes or shops or schools " golly ,do such roads exist in East Dulwich ?

I use Napisan a lot on colour fast or white fabrics and it's excellent at removing stains . I'm not sure about it removing colour dye that's run though . But good luck and let us know if it works .

Interesting read ,thanks fuschia .

Oh for heavens sake James ,Renata said it was a good school not that it's Ofsted rating was good . You're suggesting that Harris want to move to a lottery system because Labour councillors aren't polite enough to them and because they feel neglected ? If Harris are allowing factors such as rudeness and " neglect " ( imagined or otherwise ) to influence how they formulate admissions policy what kind of educators are they ?

"I wonder will there be sufficient health facilities to serve this increase in the population? Where will those facilities go....?" I share your concern firstmate . But I've found that raising such concerns in advance of a crisis is met with silence . I campaigned against all of Southwark's secondary schools being taken out of l.a control and handed over to private enterprise . No one on here was interested ,few people on Lordship Lane were interested . Now we have multiple admission criteria ,a large chain which seems at best not to be advancing the public demand for a secondary school on the hospital site and causing concern by a low profile move to change the admissions policy at ED girls school .

Nunhead cemetary ?

Maybe it's the introduction of the traffic light/crossing over lordship Lane that's increased the danger to pedestrians crossing EDG .

Aah such a lovely car ,it's owner must be absent/ill/worse to abandon it .

Surely it's not really the lifeguards business to police swimming etiquette ? Unless of course the behaviour is life threatening ?

Excellent news .Hope you are succesful .