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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.

We want witha Bugaboo Bee as a good compromise between portability and being usable from day zero. Our hope had been to have that as our only pushchair ever, but the nursery only had storage for umbrella strollers so we have a lightweight one of those too. PM me if you want more thoughts.

John Lewis (underwriten by Royal Sun I think) insure us, but we're towards Peckham Rye so perhaps it's not so much cuteness of an issue here.

I think you're going to have to foot the bill for a surveyor. However if you just agree to use whichever surveyor they nominate you can at least keep your costs down by only having to pay for one.

We always take 1 nappy per hour of travel, plus a full pack of wet wipes. The other things to carry on are a couple of changes of comfortable clothes (babygrows, tracksuit trousers NOT jeans) and some basic medicines (sachets of calpol etc). We took to checking the stroller at the main check-in counter and just using a carrier through the airport; packing up the stroller at the gate was always a hassle especially when juggling a baby. Some airports (e.g. Dubai) do have 'courtesy buggies' when you get off the plane.

We've been going to Tenerife since our son was 9 months old. It's a good balance of being far enough south you're guaranteed good weather but still a manageable flight time with a baby. We stay at Baobab Suites in Costa Adele, full cooking facilities in the suites as well as a couple of restaurants on site and room service. We also find having a separate bedroom and living area means you don't need to go to sleep when your baby does.

My vote would be for a Roku stick as it supports the widest range of service and is cheap. I have two at home and have no complaints.

Personally I avoid London Bridge and Southern Trains at all costs, they've been terrible for over a year and show no signs of improvement. The overground/Jubilee route is quick and reliable on the way in though you'll let a few trains go by at Canada Water. On the way home you sometimes have to wait 10-15 mins for a train at Canada Water which can get fairly crowded, but it's still fine. I get on the 7:44 at Peckham Rye and a few people do get seats so you might get lucky at Denmark Hill. On the way home I get a seat about once a week.

James - whilst you're talking to the legal department could you ask them why my complaint that double yellows appeared on the north side of the Adys/Nutbrook junction despite not being in the consultation was ignored?

We just had our entire house (5 beds) carpeted by Stephen and he's been nothing short of fantastic. We had found a couple of carpets we liked elsewhere and using his carpet detective skills he managed to source the exact carpets for us significantly cheaper. His fitting costs were very competitive too. The quality of the workmanship is first rate and he worked very quickly. We wouldn't hesitate to use him again.

It's a bit crap where we are in Adys Road but O2 are no better. EE offer WiFi calling on the iPhone which means that if reception's not great at home you can still make/receive calls.

Jasmine - thank you for joining this thread and I hope you'll continue to be engaged. I've unfortunately found my local councillors none to responsive so far but hope this is changing.

My experience with the Adys Rd/Nutbrook St junction is that it has made parking much more difficult and led to an INCREASE in incidents as cars now try to cut the corner more regularly and predictably hit the bollard. I haven't even been able to get a response from my ward councillors who clearly don't care.

sally buying Wrote: > I understand that Cllr Barber, but to ease your > pain I have emailed my local lane ward Cllr many > times on this since the start and have never ever > received any acknowledgement or response. > > If the local Cllr cannot be bothered there is no > reason for you feel bad, I don't think the Lane Ward Councillors actually exist, none of them ever respond to email at least.

I wasn't at the meeting last night (got stuck at work) but I was at one of the workshops that occurred over the summer (also not well publicised but they did drop flyers through the door of Adys Rd. My understanding is that the proposals shown last night were the result of inputs from a small group of local residents (two workshops of about 20 people) plus a survey of local primary schools. I think some of the problems they're trying to address (e.g. the Chadwick Road junction) are real issues, but it does seem like a big scheme without a huge demand. Unfortunately from my perspective fixing the jams around the lower part of Bellenden Rd and the reduction of traffic (especially HGVs/Coaches) on Maxted, Nutbrook and Adys is outside of their scope and nobody in the council seems interested in engaging.

Does anyone know if any of the Lane Ward councillors are active online?

I think BrickHouse is the best near East Dulwich station.