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They guy who came round to us was late teens or very early twenties. I don?t think he was a scammer, just a guy on commission following a script.

The TfL website says: From Saturday 26 until Monday 28 May: ? There will be no service between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction, due to Network

I?m more inclined to think they?re on commission than it being a scam. Just like the chuggers you avoid on the high street at lot of door to door fundraisers are paid by the charity based on signups. I personally dislike it, but charities find it more raises a lot more than it costs.

ed_pete Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You may not be aware of the impending Southwark > Spine changes that will increase parking pressure > along its route. The council are pushing this > through in spite of the majority of the > Consultation respondents being against it. > Total loss of on-street parking spaces across > Adys, Oglander, Crystal Palace, Goodrich and > Landells Roads = 55 > > http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetail > s.aspx?ID=6454 Ironically the loss of parking opposite the Adys/Nutbrook junction will encourage larger vehicles to use it as a rat run. At the moment coaches and lorries get stuck at the corner because of the parked cars.

Mscrawthew Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know of no known pro's to a CPZ apart from > Southwark Council's bank account. Those of you > under the impression that it will make the area a > more pleasant one to live in are very much either > under a very false illusion or have never lived in > a cpz. I think it would put an end to the semi-permanent dumping of commercial and recreational vehicles in Adys Rd and the surrounding streets.

Lettsom Gardens at the top of Camberwell Grove? http://www.lettsomgardens.org.uk/index.html Edit: Actually some googling suggest you might be thinking of Dr Harold Moody Park on Consort Rd.

We've been to lots of kids parties at the Francis Peek centre in Dulwich Park. I don't know if it's cheap though. As it's July have you considered having something outdoors? We've been to parties at the American Garden in Dulwich Park and the Japanese garden in Peckham Rye Park.

I think the Grove Vale library used to stock them.

Also be aware the Villa is only pre-prep, so you have to plan for where your child will go for prep. All of the other schools you?ve listed go through to 11.

I got a very odd flyer through my door the other day. A photo of a dug up skull and lots of broken up graves. Not sure whether the photos were real. It was asking me to contact my councillor and raise concerns.

I thought the point with dormers is that they were within the party walls and so shouldn't there be a brick's width between the two dormers?

Ok that?s really embarrassing. I don?t know how I divided 134.4 by 6 and got 6.4!! If you work a 6 hour day then 134.4 hours is 22.4 days. This also works if you say you do 4 out of 5 days as 28 divided by 5 and times 4 is also 22.4.

If you?re doing part time that aren?t full days then you need to work it out on an hourly basis. From https://www.breathehr.com/blog/zero-hours-contracts-holiday-pay-and-entitlement it states ?Your worker is entitled to a pro-rata amount of 5.6 weeks holiday, which is equivalent to 12.07% of hours worked over a year. The 12.07% figure is calculated by taking 5.6 weeks? holiday and dividing it by 46.4 weeks (which is 52 weeks less 5.6 weeks). So, holiday is accrued at a rate of 12.07% per hour.? This is the same way the government calculator works it out which I linked to previously.

John Lewis have a good and inexpensive collection called ?House? that?s what we use instead of the Ikea frames now.

James I hope you will a good job for your constituents. I also hope you?ll speak to your colleagues in neighbouring wards (particularly Rye Lane) and ask them to at least answer constituent emails if not also post on here. The most disappointing things about the Labour Party is they seem to take the electorate around here for granted.

Have you used the calculator on the UK Gov website (https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-holiday-entitlement)? According to this you're entitled to 134 hours and 24 minutes holiday. If a bank holiday falls on one of your usual working days your employer can deduct those hours you'd usually work from the entitlement. Nunheadmum - The entitlement is 5.6 weeks (pro-rated for part time) if a bank holiday is usually a working day they can deduct that from the allowance but they can't give you less than 5.6 pro-rated.

Casa in Bellenden Rd should be able to help.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks. It has always seemed odd to me that one > can just walk in without even a polling card, give > a name and address and get a ballot paper; I know > in France one has to show ID. But in France you have a compulsory National ID card scheme. After the Windrush scandal it should be obvious that there are legitimate citizens in the UK who cannot access ID through no fault of their own. Edited to stay more on topic.

We?ve used the valet parking purchased direct from the Gatwick website on a few occasions and been happy with the service. You drop your keys in to the office in the short stay car park and pick up your keys from the same place when you get back. My only complaint is when we used it in the middle of the summer holidays there was quite a wait to drop in our keys, the other occasions have been fine. This is only for the ?official Gatwick? service, I?d be more nervous of other providers.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do you find the taste in tea, Mick Mac? > Whenever I've come across one of them the water > didn't taste like freshly boiled water should if > you're making tea but perhaps the institutional > ones aren't cleaned as often as they should be. > Also, how do you find the cost of having it > running all the time compared with a kettle? I find the taste to be absolutely fine for tea, coffee and herbal tea. We're more coffee drinkers than tea drinkers though so you might be more sensitive to taste. We did have to turn the heat up from the initial setting to get it nearer to boiling, it might be that ones you've used are turned down a bit. For us not having bench space taken up with a kettle was a big plus. We also use it all the time for cold filtered water and to fill pots for cooking so it gets a lot of use. Just to set expectations on noise, you do hear the tank heating up occasionally. It's much much quieter than a kettle, but it comes on at random times rather than when you're using water. Energy wise, we haven't noticed it being particularly expensive to run. The tank is really well insulated and there's a benefit of not boiling too much water from cold and then letting it cool down. We have an InSinkerator unit with a tap that matches our main kitchen tap. I ours is rated to 98 degrees, there are ones that do true boiling but they have obviously different tap styles.

James - Nutbrook Street is developing potholes despite having been resurfaced really recently. I wonder if there is a problem with the construction.

buggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it really a problem with the council as you > have quite pointedly suggested James, or as > others have pointed out, is the issue with the > school (and have the school admitted this?) > > You seem to be being very quick to blame/point > everyone towards the sitting councillors - seems a > disingenuous attempt at point scoring with the > election coming up - especially as neither of the > labour councillors on/mentioned on this thread are > in direct competition with you. I can?t see anywhere in James?s posts where he blames the situation on anyone. He does state that the council?s statement about communications was inaccurate and quotes a parent?s communication to back it up. He doesn?t mention councillors at all.

I use a service called Flipper, they move me automatically when I can save money. It costs ?50 a year but they'll only charge you if they save you more than ?100. They've moved me twice in the last two and a half years and I've been very impressed with the service.

I never found our combi washer/dryer very useable, the drying function wasn't very good and was energy inefficient; it also tied up the machine for hours. As soon as we had the space we switched to stacked separates. We bought the entry-ish level Miele machines and find them really excellent after a year and a bit of use.

fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Peckham is already hard enough to navigate with > the ridiculous one way system. That's why we get > trucks and coaches down residential streets, > sometimes desperately trying to pull off a > thirteen-point turn. I suspect it's got much more to do with coaches and trucks using consumer apps rather than HGV approved sat-navs and relying on them to navigate. Anyway my suggestion would be to have an area wide set of restrictions that ensured traffic stuck either to Champion Hill in the West or Copeland/Consort Road in the East, rather than using Lyndhurst, Bellenden, Maxted, Nutbrook and Adys as a rat-run. I understand that if there was just one restriction then traffic would just shift over (as it did with Ogglander, Ondine and Copplestone) hence why a joined up approach is needed.