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There seems to be a second hour of it at 7pm today BBC1.

nunhead bodger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do I shrink a JPG of my caped snow-lady to > send? She's the one from Kirkwood Road in Nunhead > and is a bit saucy... Free Irfanview will do it, and a lot more if you want, if you're running Windows. http://www.irfanview.com/

p_in_ed Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah, perceptive Reg. So this will be a great > Roosevelt style public work. The Hoover Dam of > south London. We could get a modern day Diego > Rivera to come and repaint the William Blake > mural. And the Goose Green Fence will be visited > for generations to come by people who want to see > the project that sparked global financial > recovery. Don't leave it all to public enterprise. Does ED not have its own Joseph Williamson? http://www.williamsontunnels.com/intro.htm

DeptfordDiva Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Citizens arrest line sounds good to me, I'm > sure some of you forumites will have a set of > handcuffs lying around the house ;-) Make the wrong call and you're open to both criminal prosecution and action for damages. Do you want to gamble on, say, whether your assessment of 'reasonable suspicion' is accurate and provable, in such a piddling case? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_arrest

Every so often there are threads here about objects lost or found locally. How many of them result in a successful restoration? Do the police still handle lost property?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there a pic? I missed it, being a miserable sod > and glued to my computer instead of out sledging > and building things with snow :)) And too busy to read the forum toboot. ;) There are some at both http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,217691,page=2 and http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,218223

I've concluded that the Nat Rail Journey Planeer shows just the standard timetable, with maybe a red flag linking to any updates. Both up and down trains seen at ED at 15.30, but none at 15.45. That's suggestive evidence of the Croydon branch running, and the Beckenham Junction branch still not.

Did the additional ?101.84 debits go to different payees? Or perhaps rather, were they all shown as cash withdrawals at this place?

Minitoots Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What a shame that someone knocked the igloo on Goose > Green down last night or early this morning.... That's dreadful. Here are some commemorative pics.

honk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Igloo on Goose Green was v impressive. > > An ED dad screaming at his children 'IRIS! > JONATHAN! DO NOT GO NEAR THE IGLOO!" was a > highlight of my day. And the entrance was carefully boarded up too. I trust not too many forumites lost in snow drifts. Tomorrow a greater danger, boredom, may begin to show. Perhaps there'll be even more walkers into work. I came across this btw, from Paul Terry, in a uk.transport.london thread today: "My grandfather, who was station master at Monument, once walked 15 miles to work in one of the impenetrable smogs of the 1950s - he got up at midnight and left home before 1am, and was only a little late in opening up the station soon after 6am - I always remember him complaining that he had to walk slowly because visibility was down to three feet in places."

The National Rail Journey Planner doesn't seem to be any use as a primary source. It seems to just show the trains as per the usual timetable (eg Bromley S->Victoria and ED-LBr trains for tomorrow still listed), with an added red flag pointing you to the all-important updates. The train companies' sites (Southern, as above, and http://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/main.php?page_id=5) seem to be the authoritative ones, with the national local stations' Arrivals and Departures pages (ED's as above) as a useful confirmation of the current state.

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > These guys were organised, dressed as removal men, whistling, > broad day light (Wed lunchtime) on a nice central ED street > before systematically emptying my flat into their van. That's interesting. Can I ask how many flats in the building? I'd have thought it would be rather risky for them unless they knew that all occupants were out for some time.

Nicholas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Enjoy while you can,Credit crunch,who knows in a year or two > might have pound shops and even a Lidl on the lane! But there is, thankfully, no premise big enough for a large supermarket. I think the nature of LL would drastically change, imo not for the better, if there were.

Miles Wrote: > Saucy Wrote: >> Intrigued to meet you Miles, you seem to have cultivated a strong harem going here! >Applications to join will be vetted at the next EDF drinks :)) Southwark are having a Celebrating Women month in March. There are even grants available (max. ?250) for those wanting to run a related event/activity. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouthwark/EventsSection/InternationalWomensday/celebratingwomen.html

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are loads of ways of getting involved; the > cynics amongst us say that whilst that is true, > they actually take very little notice and the > Community Councils are very re-active not > pro-active. > They even have their own forum! I tried joining the "Southwark Councils Discussion Forum", of which the forum you mention is part, a few months ago. I soon came to the conclusion that the whole forum is more or less moribund, nothing like a live discussion, and essentially of little use to man or beast. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/SouthwarkDiscussion/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2373. If anyone's had a rosier experience, please do say.

I'm getting confused now. In what way are the 'Apex Promotions' people (Dave337's post onward) a police matter rather than inept and possibly objectionable cold callers, getting potential contacts for a 'real' salesperson to make the real pitch? Is there any suggestion that they're not in fact who they say they are? Has anyone asked them what happens with the phone number and why a mobile one apparently won't do?

Apex Direct Promotions as above are registered at Companies House: incorporated November 2007. The Andura might be Andura Coatings Ltd of London E1, who seem from their former names to be in masonry paints. The only other names beginning Andura are registered at one Bicester address.

Anon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know what to do about cars that have > been dumped? Well, there's a direct.gov page on the subject http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/WhereYouLive/NoiseNuisanceAndLitter/DG_4001703 , and that refers to a DEFRA document http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/localenv/legislation/cnea/vehicles.pdf which advises councils on the law and of factors that they might consider, given the absence of any legal definition, in deciding whether a vehicle is 'abandoned'.

> [email protected] Ahem, there is also an [email protected]

There have been some previous threads in September http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,170005 and August http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,159108,page=1

microbite, did they not at least pay you the maximum compensation for ordinary mail items of value (currently ?36)? http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=14000176&mediaId=3100011

annaj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fractionater, I did take a picture of the number > plate and I could, obviously, get the police > involved and find her that way. Or via a DVLA information request: http://www.dvla.gov.uk/foi.aspx

Tatty Mum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I also phoned that number and got the poor guy who > has recived loads of calls because of this post. > PLEASE can Acedout and Jaws edit their posts to > remove the number? I know Jaws that you said it > was wrong in the post but the number is still > there! Indeed. The correct number of the ED sorting office is (020) 8299 9471 (as obtained from this forum in July http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,145281,151760#msg-151760)

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's horrific - I thought it was just my > imagination that they were so frequent. I suspect that snapshot will be close to the _current_ maximum density for ED, and that there's a large amount of variation, both within and between days. Perhaps I should ask BAA if there's an easier way of abstracting data, to get a fuller picture of the current load and distribution ... Perhaps one of the campaigning groups has already been down that route ... I remember inbound flights in the mid-70s going over Kew up to every 90 seconds. From Wimbledon Common nowadays, you can see them slipping into a stream with just a minute's separation.

You can see at least the previous day's flights charted at http://lhr.webtrak-lochard.com/ , at up to 10x real-time. Selecting Lewisham gives you a map showing the ED area. Here are the ones appearing 03:55-05:30 on Sunday 9/11. I've listed time, height in feet, transit point, and approx bearing. None of these early flight tags included a flight number. The Avondale Rise ones tend to be just north of AR and of the top of Dog Kennel Hill. The 05:00 one is probably on another, more southerly, main westbound path that we sometimes notice over ED. The ones going over the Dulwich park area were coming from the SE. When I looked at some daytime paths, there was another very steady stream filtering in just north of Camberwell Green. I wonder if both the Camberwell and Avondale streams are shifted south in some wind conditions, giving us the stream over the LL/EDGrove junction. 4:30 4500 Avondale Rise 270 4:33 4400 Avondale 270 4:36 4400 Avondale 270 4:39 4300 Avondale 270 4:42 4200 Court Lane 285 4:51 4100 Burbage Rd 295 4:57 3700 Avondale Rise almost due west 5:00 3200 Jn, LL + ED Grove ~ 275 5:03 3800 Avondale 270 5:05 4500 Avondale 270 5:09 4500 Avondale 270 5:13 4000 Avondale 270 5:16 3900 Avondale 270 5:19 4500 Avondale 270 5:22 4300 Avondale 270 5:30 4400 Just s of Avondale ~ 270 Cor, this don't half beat collecting train numbers. [Edit: addendum: note that the site seeks to log only Heathrow flights; any others will be incidental extras]