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Actually greenfinches..not sure.. Also if your niger seed is old, discard it as dry seeds won't attract birds.

And/or greenfinches

Siskin, redpoll? But you would be very lucky to get those. Goldfinches are usually in groups - maybe your one finch is keeping his discovery to himself!

For lots of goldfinches put up a niger seed feeder and they will find it, I'm always amazed how quickly they appear when it goes up every Winter. My favourites in the garden have to be coal tits though. Occasional visitors unfortunately. Parakeets and squirrels quarrelling over the sunflower seeds always amuses :)

I am Dave.....

I'm a bit cross they killed him...Bastards!

A Jewish bakery could refuse to bake a cake that says Vote Corbyn as this would not be illegal discrimination due to race/ gender/ religion/ sexual orientation, so if they wished they could say no and despite what the Daily Fail says the Jewish population in the U.K. do have a range of political beliefs. http://www.jlm.org.uk/cable_street_80. If a bakery made a cake that prompted race hatred it would be against the law, so they could also refuse. No can of worms.

M&S this morning opened late, only one (very pleasant) person on the till and no cherry cake! Might start going to the co-op again if it gets its act together.

Brickhouse makes a good coffee and the bread is great too. The staff are either charming or rude depending on the phase of the moon though.....

My front garden pots and planters are all recycled junk... The plants look pretty in them, but no one can be bothered to nick them. Although a couple of years ago someone nicked a chilli plant in a nice pot. I hope they made the mistake of eating them because they were volcano hot.

The park is fine to cycle in, just need to be a bit careful at the weekends as dogs and children will run across the road without any warning. I tend to cycle slowly anyway and usually everyone is very good natured and I like watching the dogs have fun in the park. The only two times I have witnessed angst is a woman on roller blades going very quickly having a go at a dog owner because she had to swerve to not hit the dog and a pedestrian who had a go at me (a bit sweary in front of his kids) when I rang my little toy town bell on my bike to warn them I was behind them. No accounting for shouty people really.

This is such a brilliant idea. Some of us don't like heated pools or swimming inside. I don't think this is a 'hipster' thing Louisa/ Foxy, I'm over 50, not a 'hipster' whatever that means....and have lived at least half of that in ED. Brockwell is great, but it's not my local. The thought of being able to walk 10 mins to an outside pool is inspiring. My younger friends who train for triathlon would use the lido all year round and the people who swim in the Serpentine all year round are a real mix of ages, ability, cultures (and 'class' if we have to bring such a thing into this). I really hope this happens - it will be good for everyone in this area. Come on get behind a great idea, swimming is a perfect way of keeping fit and healthy - money well spent I think.

The guy who offered on ours. He offered less than the asking price before his house was even on the market and he badgered us and the estate agent to take ours off the market so no one else could offer on it. We kept ours on the market and had another offer at the same price but waited for the original guy to give him a chance as he was so super-keen. Our house is an older Victorian house with an untanked Victorian cellar, that is occasionally a bit wet on the slate floor, but has never flooded in the 30 years of living there and there is no damp damage. It has guarantees and wood treated recently. He viewed our flat 5 times and was told on each occasion the cellar was not tanked. He eventually had an offer and we accepted his. He pushed for an early completion, so we arranged to stay with friends. After the survey he wanted extra off the original offer price because the cellar was not tanked After Brexit he pulled out of the offer 1 month before his proposed moving in date.

Good article which I agree with entirely, but difficult for many leave voters to swallow as they would have to admit to having the wool pulled over their eyes.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/10/southern-commuters-plan-victoria-rush-hour-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Complain to PALs on both fronts A&E and DMC anyway. - Kings A&E can write a script for antibiotics as can your GP, both could have given you antibiotics to cover you in case it was cellulitis while you waited for results. Meanwhile go straight back to an Emergency A&E ASAP, if they won't see you today go to Kings and sit it out and don't leave without a treatment or a diagnosis.

Uncle glen. Do you think their suffering will be less or more now. I suspect more. The point that Matthew Parris was making is the Leave Camp - Boris, Gove et al, were quite happy to use racist slurs to further their cause. If you think that this wasn't disgusting, then I wonder....

Great article by Matthew Parris - I agree with him entirely. The leave campaign definitely used the racist and xenophobic argument and are now trying to distance themselves from it. They are disgusting.

Thanks Seabag a really good post. I have a love/hate relationship with London, it can be a hard place to live at times, but I love the general tolerance of others that I haven't witnessed anywhere else. We were planning to move near Ludlow and lead a different life, this is still a long term plan, but we have both decided to stay in London a bit longer now. The leave vote has almost made it ok for people to express there underlying racist and xenophobic views. My friend who is Portuguese/Brazilian works in a famous hospital near Cambridge and since the leave vote he has been told to 'go back home' by staff and patients. He has phoned his contacts in Australia and is leaving in December, when he does the hospital will either have to pay for an expensive agency specialist or cancel his list of 30 patients undergoing treatment a week.

Well I think Farage is scum, but he won't care what any of us think of him as he is still an MEP - he hasn't resigned from that...and as he is paid in Euros, his salary has now increased when converted to sterling. He was one of the laziest MEPs anyway and his attendance and actual voting was appalling.

Maybe to make the exercise a bit cheaper you could dig up the speed humps on East Dulwich Grove - that don't actually slow the traffic, but just cause more noise as skip lorrys and vans speed over them.....and move them to Melbourne Grove instead - they are welcome to them.

Thanks Jah, I'm a fan of Mr. flame proof moth, song about pencils v. good. It's ok boys, women are actually part of the human race too.... And just as fallible, amazing, incompetent, intelligent, dumb, hardworking, lazy etc. etc. as the men.

I'm really sad about JC, I've always admired him and I do believe he hasn't got a dishonest bone in his body. It hasn't worked for many reasons, some due to the lack of support from Labour MPs and some due to a lack of his leadership skills. I'm hoping he has changed the party for the better and he has encouraged lots of young people to become involved. I'm really happy about Angela standing, I think she is great, she certainly told it like it is to George Osbourne in Parliment a few times.

Gove, Boris and May then - all three worry me.

What, the smell of weed, the pork pie or the flag....