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It's an ongoing problem /forum/read.php?5,2228764 I got a package today ,posted from Havant on 12 August .

Thank you hpsaucey . I just feel so much for the poor woman who had been so viciously attacked and who then experienced not only a null response from the police ( who said they could do nothing with the statements from the witnesses ,the photograph of the attack or the information regarding his first name ) but then patronised her with the "Gone are the days when we can put up wanted notices comment . She doesn't like revisiting the area but did so because she'd been told there was this event .And then it was cancelled with no notification to her . At least the lack of general publicity may have saved others who having personal or related experience of assault might have turned up and been disappointed .

Thanks for replying rch ,no worries about trying to stay in better touch .I don't think it's down to you to inform the public about a violence against women event ! And it sounds as though you have your hands full . I just ...think it's cr*p .Almost as though there was no motivation . Let's not publicise it ,might add a few people to an email list and let them know about it .But who cares if we cancel it ,no need to advise people .

"cancelled at the last minute due to the Wayne Couzens trial concerns" Yes of course ,might have meant staff attending would have been faced with tricky questions . out of interest Where was it publicised rch? I only knew about it because I bumped into a woman who was very badly assaulted on Peckham RYe in 2019 .Despite having a photograph ( taken by someone who witnessed the attack ) ,the first name of the attacker and two witnesses ,the police were spectacularly unhelpful,telling the victim "Gone are the days when we could post Wanted notices " .. The attacked woman was looking for the event as she'd been notified it was on .Imagine how she felt circling the park looking for it and now knowing that it wasn't worth the police's time to let her know it had been cancelled?

Well that's an hour of my life I won't get back . And a further decline in my confidence in the police and commitment to engaging ( never mind serving ) the community .

Although this event was mentioned the evening before in the What's On section it doesn't seem to have had any other publicity . Did anyone pop in ? What was it like ? I was walking with a friend on Peckham Rye yesterday and did look out for this but could see no sign .Possibly because the only location details my friend had were that it was to be held on "the east side of Peckham Rye Park "

DulwichFox - this is a great read if you care to download it https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1104819&recordType=GreyLitSeries

I'm sure this can't be the reason in your case but when this happened in an elderly friend's garden it turned out that someone in a house in a road running at right angles had a tap with attached hosepipe not completely turned off . Have you looked at old maps (local authorities often have these on line ) to see if there are any water courses ?

Enid lived up the top near the library didn't she ?

Did your grandmother live in ? Thinking if you PM'd me her name I could look for her in 1911 census ,1939 register ?

which practice ?

I think tradespeople, who tend to know more about what they are doing than the person who requires their work ,can get a bit irked by the "job shouldn't take long " comments that are made . I don't mean that to be a particular dig at you Slinkissimo,it's just a little bug bear of mine .

Oh dear ,I always put my blister packs in the recycling .

isn't something SOuthwark arranges once you've applied to them ?

The more you read the more horrific this becomes . Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/19/what-lessons-should-the-west-learn-from-the-defeat-in-afghanistan David Vine: This was a corrupt war to its core Since it invaded Afghanistan, the US has fueled corruption in Afghanistan through CIA and military deliveries of bags of cash to Afghan power brokers and a system of bribes to ensure US troops remained fed and supplied. Absurdly, the US government has spent billions paying the Taliban not to attack convoys supplying troops sent to fight the Taliban. The vast majority of the $2.3tn the US government has spent or obligated for the war has gone not to Afghans ? corrupt or otherwise ? but to US military contractors (and those who bought US debt): a reported 80?90% of US outlays ended up back in the US as a ?massive wealth transfer? from taxpayers to firms in the military industrial complex, which have seen their profits and stock prices skyrocket. Beyond President Eisenhower?s worst nightmares, the military industrial complex has become defined by spiraling expenditures, fraud, and contracts lacking incentives to control costs. To keep the funding flow?ing, contractors have paid Washington DC lobbyists millions and made millions more in campaign contributions to Congress members who have inflated military budgets beyond cold war highs. The military industrial complex has become a system of largely legalized corruption revolving around entrenched incentives to wage endless war for financial and political gain. If we don?t end this system and the corrupting belief that war is a legitimate and useful policy tool, the United States will keep fighting endless wars. David Vine is Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. Vine is the director of the American University Public Anthropology Clinic and a board member of Brown University?s Costs of War Project.

pretty scary ,it's been known about for some time but I think some retailers have been slow to respond and remove from shelves . [www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk]

pretty scary ,it's been known about for some time but I think some retailers have been slow to respond and remove from shelves . /forum/read.php?20,2218254,2224816#msg-2224816

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Big congrats to your daughter .And to you ,though of course you're fretting about the practicalities. Something will get sorted.All well be well .

Thanks Ilona ,I wasn't aware of this .As said in linked article you might only find out when reordering a large package i.e. in a few weeks time and after your cat has been exposed for sometime .

A friend has just received same on a phone she only uses to contact her 2 sons .She's puzzled as to how her LA got her number .

It was a lot of rain in a short period but I swear I've seen that amount in the past .Without the resultant flooding . But maybe I'm wrong!

I know we had heavy rain yesterday but I'm surprised by the flooding .Perhaps the rain was significantly heavier in Eg Camberwell and Battersea than we had in ED ? I'm wondering if drains were blocked ,possibly the recent dry spell meant a build up of debris that regular rain would flush down ,and if this was a factor . I feel sure ( often wrong when I feel like that ! ) we've had similar downpours in the past which haven't resulted in this degree of flooding . What do others think ? Oh ,and I understand about the heat meeting the cooler air and climate change .

Excellent .No date given though .Thank you JohnL.

"Most people who live and work in an area know more then highway engineers who possibly commute in from outside the borough." Attending a consultation /? pre consultation meeting at Dulwich library a couple of years ago I was shocked at the presentation of A4 sheets depicting maps of the area with no attempt to combine them to give an overview of the whole area under discussion . But even more shocked that the individuals running the session had no knowledge of the local area so it was impossible to have a discussion involving street names ,it was back to rifling through a sheaf of A4 papers . I'm getting so old and pedantic !