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Huguenot: It would help your argument if you were to introduce some evidence to support your "general conclusion".

> and then we discover 'D' notices are no more binding than a girly squeal This is the silliest comment in Huguenot's latest posting. The point is that DA-Notices are "advisory" and a warning in the sense that the weight of the State might be brought to bear down on you if you do not follow the advice.

Do you do confidential demolitions? I have a little list.

I'm sure skidmarks can explain this better than me, but the transitional curves look all wrong, and deceptive alignments can be dangerous.

I smell the whiff of euthanasia around here. All I want from the NHS is a working morphine driver and a sufficient supply of diamorphine.

Mr Miyagi has a neat move - the honking of the nose. One week vacation in East Dulwich would see Mr Miyagi wipe out all the East Dulwich Killer Klowns.

It seems that Mr Biggs has had his very own Pinochet moment.

In the particular case you've used as example it seems like an irrelvance. Over the next few years the health of the convicts will depend on the goodwill of their fellow prisoners and the vigilance of the prison warders. The more general point of the State with-holding the names of people it holds in custody is a very dangerous slippery slope.

I was down that way and I've now seen it with No.1 eye-ball. It looks incredibly dangerous. Accidents waiting to happen. Did Southwark Council do a rsk assessment before agreeing the work?

Ronnie Reed, a family man, who was Zig-Zag's case officer lived in Court Lane Gardens. That was a job with a real conflict of interest.

?500,000 is such a small amount of money that it would have spent on something frivolous. I would erect a very large bronze statue on a plinth at the centre of the flower bed at the entrance to Peckham Rye Park. The tablet would read: MACROBAN EAST DULWICH MISANTHROPIST It would stay in place for months as no part of Southwark Council would realise it hadn't been done by another part of the council.

Three off-street parking spaces for 16 houses? How did this developent get planning permission? They also look like they have a lifespan design build of less than 40 years. Someone tell me I'm wrong.

A thought struck me from reading the thread about the 2009 applications. If I read the posts correctly there are one or more "black-holes" as illustrated by the rough and ready JPG I have attached. Current policy seems to be that if a child lives in a "black-hole" the child will be "leap-frogged" out into the white borderlands. This strikes me as an irrational policy and is therefore capable of a legal challenge. Can anyone draw an accurare map rather than the illustrative circles I have used to stand for catchment areas? Is there a lawyer here who can comment on the process for challenging an irrational policy? MacRoban

All has been revealed.

All tube train driver cabs air-conditioned since the introduction of the 1972 stock?

Canadian soldiers at Dulwich Hospital in 1916.

The Lights! The Lights! Have you seen the Lights?

Standing DA-Notices are published - see here. Individual DA-Notices are not.

HAL9000 There is a footnote on page 521 of Nicholas Wilkinson's "Secrecy And The Media: The Official History Of The United Kingdom's D-Notice System" which was published this year which says "The full text of [...] 1982 [...] notices is available to the public from the DA-Notice Secretary's Office [...]." You might like to check when the 1983 notices will be available. MacRoban

DORA sits in the background ready to be introduced within a couple of hours. Orders in Council can also do interesting stuff.

The chance of getting to well over 1000 degrees C in a domestic grate in any circumstances is negligible. Melting points

We used to giggle when the baseball caps first appeared on the streets of East Dulwich. We called them brain constrictors.

Odd. Is this your fault TLS? Last night I tried to listen to Annie Haslam's "Blessing In Disguise" album. The CD now has a whole series of clickity-clacks - just like a snare drum. I need to get a replacment CD. Will you give me your copy?

Shorty: I've been digging around and only (so far) found one refernce to East Dulwich non-communual air raid shelters - by which I mean the ones you would run into if caught out on the street in an air raid. These [sic] are in Michael Smith's books "The Dulwich Catholics 1879 to 1973" and "The Story Of St Anthony's School 1883-1983". The second book just has an edited repeat of the information in the first. Smith writes from contemporary sources: [1] Father James O'Donoghue's Parish Notebook, [2] The St Anthony School's Log Book. As an aside: I think it was Fuschia who wrote how useful school log books could be for putting a human face on local history and was thanked with a sarcastic comment from one of the usual suspects. Unfortunately Smith was not a good writer. He muddled chronology and his style is garbled. In April 1940 one of the St Anthony's School rooms had to be closed for works to build a public shelter. This involved bringing bricks on to the site to reinforce the building. Later in the war the school windows were blown out several times which suggests to me the shelter was in the basement. I visited the old school several times in the 1950s and early 1960s but I don't have personal knowledge about the basements/cellars (if any). MacRoban

I'm still struggling with HAL9000's reference to Godel and hence Anselm. Meanwhile I would like to distinguish two types: [1] Those who believe in a "god" and search for evidence to support their belief. [2] Those who rake over information to see if anything points towards the existence of a "god".