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As posted by James Barber at http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,336529,467901#msg-467901 [typos corrected] "I did check some weeks ago with officers about people in yellow hi vis waste coats checking rubbish in the middle of the night. Categorically told not council officers. I then referred the matter to our local East Dulwich Police Safer Neighbourhood Team. IF you have more instances please report it to them."

Many thanks James. Apologies if I missed an earlier one. I'll copy your remark to the relevant threads.

I've asked James Barber in the Councillor thread http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,336529,467872,page=27#msg-467872 to check whether _any_ checking of waste is done by council officials. This one definitely sounds not. The car description sounds to me a useful enough piece of intelligence to pass on to the police. They are meant to have people who collate information. Car numbers, of course, are even better.

James, have you seen this thread, and another one I mention in it, about characters dipping into waste/recycling bins at odd hours? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,467780 I think it would be useful for someone to get an authoritative statement from the council as to whether any checking goes on and if so, what the protocol is in what circumstances it happens. That would then leave the way clear to reporting any other sightings, with car numbers etc, direct to the police.

This recent thread's more relevant: Shread your docs - Paper recycling bags are been rifled through at night

Is this about anything more than the discovery that flat shoes are actually healthier and more comfortable than ones with a built-in tilt?

This board seems like a game of Pelmanism sometimes. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,294776,297220

I've cycled down that way to visit Darwin's house at Downe.

In Jul-Dec 2009 there were only 2 appeals against Southwark bus lane infringement decisions, as compared with 742 for London overall. I'm wondering whether this indicates that Southwark made few such decisions, or whether they were seen as indisputable. I suspect it's the former, and wonder what the figures will be for this half-year. Is this camera car a fairly new arrival?

The parking appeal statistics for Jul-Dec 2009 are in the March 2010 PATAS newletter. http://www.parkingandtrafficappeals.gov.uk/newsletters.htm. 971 appeals were submitted against Southwark decisions; 713 of them were allowed. Some of the column headings (eg DNC) don't seem to be explained anywhere, so some qualification of that figure might be needed. I'm emailing them to suggest that more explanation would be useful.

Lovely> I am going to go back tonight and look Why not check the photograph on the Southwark website too? Perhaps best start here. http://www.parkingandtrafficappeals.gov.uk/TMAAdjudicatorsHome.htm

Two robins happily wandering about the garden and feeding. One of them presumably a juvenile, as no red breast yet, though not much smaller. And the redbreast still occasionally chose to take tidbits to the other and feed it, beak to beak.

> And they have used the picture we took to post here... Without your permission? Send them an invoice.

Traffic Management Act 2004 s.86(3) (Prohibition of parking at dropped footways etc.) "The second exception is where the vehicle is parked outside residential premises by or with the consent (but not consent given for reward) of the occupier of the premises. "This exception does not apply in the case of a shared driveway."

>ring fenced That's what the nice man at Equitable Life told me once.

Couldn't find the story on the Sun site, only an Australian papaer that's picked up the story. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/runaway-parrot-returns-to-london-home-for-a-tipple/story-fn3dxity-1225863867791 The story seems to have a twist that didn't appear here. Perhaps we should cobble together our own version to sell. "Parrot's rehab flight foiled. I just want to go dry, says Reggie".

Mellors Wrote: > It was really early, so I was half asleep and not thinking straight, but I noticed there > were a couple of bikes and a kids trike on the back which I later thought was strange... Can you be any more precise about the time? Even thieves can have routines and habits.

This guy might be worth contacting. http://www.theparrotsocietyuk.org/lost-parrots.php

>Deputy Prime Minister I don't think we have one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom

I've saved Admin's attached pic, 012-1.JPG [554 kb], quickly resized it in Irfanview (free at http://www.irfanview.com/, one of several free packages of the type) to 45% and quarter-size, and saved each as a new file, also in JPEG format. Here are the resized versions. Original: 2200 x 1650 pixels 554 kilobytes 45% size: 990 x 743 pixels 94 kilobytes 25% size: 550 x 413 pixels 45 kilobytes My browser even rescaled the original to half-size of its own accord, to fit it all within the screen, but some may not. I doubt that, for most purposes here, uploading anything above a single screen resolution is going to add value, and it's potentially going to make things less easy for anyone using a smaller one. I guess that many users are using 1024 x 768 screen resolutions, and that some may still be using 800 x 600.

Presumably no-one's asked Southwark.

Currently a limited M-F 'preview' service, Dalston Junction - New Cross [+Gate]. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/5011.aspx

Maybe just her birthday, or spring or summat in the air. There was even an article in yesterday's Indie about the pastime. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/strip-club-why-are-we-obsessed-with-getting-our-kit-off-1950366.html That article mentions Spencer Tunick's naked photo shoots in Dulwich in 1986 -- there's more on the web, eg http://photoslaves.com/spencer-tunick/. Did anyone here take part?

HAL9000 Wrote: > HAL asked (paraphrasing): do we really need a new, GPS-based, speed-averaging surveillance camera network in Southwark? We don't have one. It's being trialled for HO approval, and then it'll be up to any relevant authorities whether they want to use it for any particular purpose in any particular location. Those decisions will presumably be based on criteria such as usefulness, cost and efficiency. You probably owned a computer ten years ago. Did you really need a newer one? The memorandum from PIPS Technology on which the news reports are based (there's also one in yesterday's Southwark News, http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/00,news,19201,185,00.htm) can be found in a House of Commons Transport Committee report, dated 30 March. It's at page Ev 73 of the PDF version downloadable from http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtran.htm#reports. The camera unit seems to be the one already used for London congestion charging, with a GPS receiver added.

The zoopla site that someone mentioned estimated a rental income for this house as a figure that I calculated as roughly 5% of purchase cost. While it's unrented, the owner is forgoing that.