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nununoolio Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > It really isn't "a few" though. Yes, there are a > few deliberately irresponsible dog walkers, who > should face the toughest possible sanctions. For > every one of them there are also many who feel > they are responsible dog walkers, but have little > or no ability to control their dog(s), pay little > or no attention to what they are doing (especially > in parks and open spaces, where they tend to feel > more relaxed, hence the amount of dog faeces found > in such places, directly attributable to people > who are chatting/walking ahead of the dogs, > texting, clueless as to the whereabouts of the > dog(s) etc.............), and have little or no > consideration for other people (including other > dog walkers) who may not want to be barked at, > greeted with muddy (or even shitty) paw prints on > their clothing, have their food snatched away or > their kid's football burst. I saw this in Peckham Rye Park on Saturday morning. A terrified toddler (with some food) being chased around by a large-ish dog that was off lead and not under the owner's control. Eventually the owner ambled over and took control of her dog and seemed quite apologetic, but it could easily have wound up with an injured child. I don't see why parents should be constrained to concrete playgrounds if we want to avoid our children being chased or covered in dog mess.

Snappy Snaps on Rye Lane is who I have used before for our toddler. They'll do the right size for foreign passports/visa too which is handy.

Snappy Snaps on Rye Lane is good.

We had a megaflow fitted as part of our loft conversion (1 bath and 2 shower rooms) we find it really good and it allows us to run multiple showers at once in the morning. The other benefit with a cylinder is that we have an immersion backup so we still have hot water if the boiler dies for any reason. My experience with combis is that although they theoretically can deliver the volume of hot water required, they are very dependent on incoming pressure and flow and often don't deliver on the promise.

I agree with first mate that the dog poo on pavements is a far greater irritant (especially with a pushchair on narrow pavements) than in the parks. It's strange that the council seem so disinterested in policing that and other existing rules.

Having an out of date address on a drivers licence carries a ?1000 penalty, so it's a good idea to get it updated. However, the guys checking paperwork at the RRC seem to only be interested in checking you have a Southwark postcode and always seem very reasonable.

Snappy snaps on Rye Lane were really good with my son when he was that little.

Thanks for trying James. It's really not a great website and has followed the general UK.gov approach of making very basic information easier to find and ensuring detailed information is impossible to access.

James. There is a thread (http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1809847) on the dangerous state of the toddler play structure in Goose Green playground. Could you raise this with officers please? Also what is going on with the council's website, the new 'stylish' design makes it almost impossible to find useful information if it isn't in the top five things the website designer thought I'd want to look for. For instance, I cannot for the life of me find a contact email (or webform) for the parks team to report the damaged play equipment.

We have three simple pendants from Urban Cottage Industries (http://www.urbancottageindustries.com/made-for-you/simple-pendant-lights) with big squirrel cage bulbs in them. They're each of slightly different lengths so they spiral down towards the table. Simple and really effective.

early_doors Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brick House Bakery is opening a new cafe/bar by > Peckham Rye station this month. It's in the old > Baba unit. It opened this week (card only and limited menu) and signs said a larger breakfast/lunch/dinner menu coming soon. I had a pastry and coffee this morning and it was really good. It only has bar stools/counters so probably wont be taking custom from Andersons & co but a great takeaway option.

JohnL Wrote: > I hate an hour as that's about the time commuters > from outside > London take - so you feel you're gaining nothing > by living here. But that's an hour from home station into a London terminus, not door to door.

For negatives I could never find a cost effective option for sending them out. I bought a Epson v500 negative scanner and although it's really really time consuming it is very effective. It has IR scratch and dust removal that seems to work pretty well. I have a little air puffer to clean the negatives before I scan them and a light box to weed out the out of focus photos of hedges and flowers that my gran used to take to use up a roll! I've done about 3000 35mm and medium format negatives (20+ years of family photos) and it was a year long project. I still have a thousand 110s/16mm to do which is a project for this year.

I think it depends where in ED you are. I'm near Goose Green and walk up to Peckham Rye. I can reliably do my front door to my office (in Marylebone) in 50 minutes which I don't find bad at all. Likewise I can get to the wharf in a little over 30 mins which is pretty good although the Jubilee line is crowded at Canada Water in the mornings. On weekends we mainly use buses (principally the 176) to get into town as they're more convenient than lugging a toddler up and down station stairs. If you're looking for other areas with decent-ish connections into the city or the wharf, the Forrest Hill or Crystal Palace are options and both have nice spots on their high streets. Otherwise you'll be paying the high prices of SW London and potentially putting up with Waterloo which has its own share of problems.

At that age we used a moba wrap, we moved onto a Tula with an infant insert when he was 6 months or so. I loved the Moba and thought out son felt really snug and secure in it. My wife never got the hang of it though.

It might be a little bit too old for her, but have you looked at the micro:bit (http://microbit.org/about/)? Cheap and mac compatible.

Adys Road and Maxted were really bad this week. I agree I wish people were more considerate.

Up and down like a yo-yo today in SE15

I got a pathetic email from Harman trying to justifying voting in favour of Article 50. It basically boiled down to Labour needs votes in the North so I have to vote in favour even though I think it's a really bad idea. Hopefully people will work to deselect Harman and/or unseat Labour in Camberwell and Peckham next election.

One thing that Virgin seem to have a huge problem with is the reliability of their DNS servers (in layman's terms the phone book of the internet). It's fairly trivial to switch your DNS server to point at GoogleDNS or OpenDNS. I've found that this improves the reliability of my broadband considerably. By way of illustration one of my machines at home has been unable to access the internet for a couple of days, after wasting a couple of hours troubleshooting I noticed it was still using the router for DNS, quick setting change and everything's happy again.

Rugs on the floor should deaden the noise as would you ripping up the floor and installing carpet. Not wearing shoes indoors etc would also help. However if they really want to get decent noise reduction they'll need to create an air gap between your floor and their ceiling and install some acoustic material. The best way to do this is by them lowering their ceilings not by anything you can do.

We are at Little Unicorns in Canary Wharf and those seem more punitive than their terms. They do have two months notice to leave, but to be honest since it would take a good 4-6 weeks to arrange alternative childcare I'm not super worried about that. I am not a lawyer but I suspect that them demanding 2-month's fees in lieu of notice after kicking out your kid would be unenforceable under the Consumer Rights Act. My biggest concern would about giving them an unsecured interest free loan of ?700 for 3-4 years! It might be worth speaking to Trading Standards or Citizen's Advice to get their view.

Billy Hunter http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,1321936,1771191#msg-1771191

Exactly, 90% of the time I went to drop off clothes the bins were full with bags of overspill dotted around the place.I'm not surprised Sainsbury's got fed up with their carpark being scattered with waste.

Try "No Bad Kids" by Janet Lansbury.