rendelharris

Good on you Jim. Hopefully this incident is as isolated as it is disgusting.

Doesn't surprise me in the least. I daresay America will start having the same problems when they find they're running short of crop pickers. There was a myth peddled by the Brexshitters that these people were over here stealing "our" jobs, when if fact way more often than not they were doing the jobs "we" didn't want to do.

I must try this place, that's the second person it's inspired to register on the forum and immediately big them up with their first post - must be great!

Interesting item on Radio 4 news just now about how immigration from Europe has significantly fallen and how business leaders are deeply concerned at the effect this will have on UK growth.

Toffee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Suffernot. Be prepared for all the liberal left > on this forum to tear you to pieces. How bloody > dare a British soldier look after his mates? Good > job the guy was totally disrespected. Wow.sorry to > both my grandfathers who lost their lives. I can't beat that, I only lost one grandfather, though the other was wounded in both the first and second wars - once as a soldier (WW1) and as a London firewatcher in WWII. The surviving one was outspoken in his criticism of "forced patriotism" such as people being criticised for not wearing a poppy etc. As he said, if I was fighting for anything, it was for people to have the freedom to do things I don't agree with.

"...this will impact on where I breakfast moving forwards"? Please tell me you didn't write that with a straight face!

Aren't we conflating two roads here? Lyndhurst Way runs south from Peckham Road past Harris Academy and I agree very seldom seems to have traffic problems. Lyndhurst Grove runs west off Lyndhurst Way towards Camberwell Grove (turning into McNeill Road before it gets there) and the parking on both sides means it is only wide enough for one car, and it's frequently blocked (particularly during the school run with parents dropping off to the private nursery and pre-prep near the brow of the hill). Sorry if I've misunderstood what people are saying but there appears to be some talking at crosspurposes.

I'd be rather more afraid for our future if people weren't permitted to make whatever gesture suits them within the limits of the law, whether one agrees or disagrees with it (see also the Irish footballer who gets berated every year for refusing to have a poppy on his shirt).

Unfortunately you won't get much for the lead as a raw material - current prices are around ?1 a kilo for scrap, and I doubt an ordinary sized leaded window has more than about a kilo in it. If they're in good condition and especially if they have coloured panels they sell quite well on eBay or Gumtree, but in terms of scrap lead nothing worth the effort I'm afraid.

Didn't realise it could be disabled, what a clunker you'd have to be to turn it off! I think I've mentioned on here before somewhere that when I was very ill a few years back I bought an electric kit for my bicycle so I could stay on the road, it was a brilliant way of getting about, cost pennies to run and no storage problems beyond those of a normal bike. I'm convinced that one day there will be an explosion in electric bike/trike popularity (as has happened in China where there are currently (ha!) 200 million ebikes on the road) - in fact when we went to buy the aforementioned Smart at the weekend there was a very funky looking electric bike on offer in the showroom.

Mrs.H just bought a new Smart Forfour which has auto stopstart for lights/jams etc. I assume most new cars now have this, surely it should be made compulsory, at least on new cars - is it possible to remap the engine management systems of older cars (obviously not really old ones, but ones with computer engine management) to make them do this? If so maybe the GLA could offer to pay to have it done as an incentive. NB I have no idea of mechanics beyond what's needed for bicycle maintenance, so perhaps this isn't possible.

Named in the '60s when the estate was built to commemorate a "friendship link" between Camberwell and the Dutch town of Deventer. More info here: http://www.dulwichsociety.com/journal-archive/69-winter-2010/582-dulwich-estate and here: http://www.dulwichsociety.com/local-history/465-dulwich-roads-and-place-names Cheers, Rendel

titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People that go searching for their oyster cards > once they've arrived at the oyster card reader > rather than having it prepared in advance. > > Might as well turn this into a moan about > commuting: > > People that leave bags on seats next to them until > someone asks them to move them. > > Able bodied people that refuse to go upstairs on > buses causing congestion downstairs (see also > refusing to move down the bus). > > None of these are irrational are they? Yes to all of these, but also, slightly on the other side of the coin, the people on the railway platforms who scream out "move down inside, people are waiting to get on" when it's quite obvious that every available inch of the carriage is filled with people, sometimes there just isn't any space unless people are going to climb up on the luggage racks.

Absolutely - by frontline staff I meant to imply all working on the actual practice of medicine and/or patient management.

titch juicy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not so much the funding, but what's done with > the funding. > > This is anecdotal from two NHS docs (one a renal > specialist, one an anesthetist (sp?)) that I was > on a walking weekend with a few weeks ago. The > amount of bureaucracy within the NHS is costing > millions and the external contracts (maintenance, > office equipment, security etc) are an horrendous > waste of money. > > For example, a window on a ward needs fixing. Only > one company can do it, and that company charges > way more than ten other companies. Same with a > new printer. Sounds the same as in teaching, at least ten years ago - need a new packet of board markers, put in a request to the head of department who in turn puts in a request to the bursar who orders them from the only approved supplier at a higher price than the stationer's round the corner - most of the time one would go and buy them out of one's own pocket to save the hassle, but obviously that's not quite so practical for an MRI scanner. I infest King's a lot and I'm continually surprised at things which have obviously cost a fortune and aren't needed. The check-in terminals are a case in point: 60% of people just ignore them and go straight to the receptionists (who are lovely and obviously see it as part of their job) to check in, 25% of people try to use them then give up and go to the receptionist, about 15% of people actually check in with them. As for ?2K 70" TV sets in waiting rooms tuned to Bargain Hunt which nobody's watching, why? I'm continually bewildered by the costs quoted for the NHS, for example that a ten minute GP appointment costs ?45, not including any prescription, which bumps it up on average to near ?100. Now assuming a GP sees around thirty patients a day that's ?1350 a day, GPs take about ?350 of that, still seems to leave an awful lot over for admin staff and buildings etc. The frontline staff in the NHS, both medical and admin, are brilliant and have literally saved my life at least four times, but there must be some ways of cutting costs without affecting frontline staff.

Reg Smeeton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Somebody please explain, why does this American > political journalist/broadcaster Keith Olbermann > have Dulwich Hamlet listed in his profile? > Is he the most > followed Dulwich Hamlet FC supporter on the > planet? He became a fan ("Finally I have found my Isthmian League club") when DHFC tweeted a picture of Trump's inauguration with the legend "We've had bigger crowds at Champion Hill."

Automatics can be harder than a manual to drive in slippery conditions as the gearbox will keep the revs at a normal level, when ideally you want to keep them low. Check if there's a low ratio button on or near the gearstick, it'll be marked with an L or a snowflake, that will drop the revs for any given speed. ETA it's been many years since I last skied when arthritis reared its head, but I have fond memories of Andorra. The skiing's not exactly as extensive or challenging as one finds in the Alps, but the hotels were cheap, the food good value and booze and smokes at tax free prices made up for a lot!

christgill Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > P.S. I'm not a crossing junkie - I remember this > because it was a round on "Pointless" many moons > ago... I am happy to confess my error to superior knowledge! Worth knowing, ta.

Do they do an Iceland one?

Agree with all the above re bad design. I'm wondering, is there any reason lights can't be offset, i.e. could the eastbound light be moved back a few yards until it was outside the Drovers? That would create a ten yard wide "pocket" when the lights were red which would avoid pedestrians and cyclists mingling on the crossing, and it would mean northbound cyclists could go straight on and across to the plaza access ramp without having to curve round to the lights (or cut across the pavement).

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe all pets should be banned in London except > these > https://pethelpful.com/dogs/Top-10-Dog-Breeds-Idea > l-for-Catching-Rats > I can personally vouch for the Cairn terrier Correct me if I'm wrong Uncle (but I'm not) - wasn't it you who was recently bewailing in these very pages how selfish cat owners are to have pets which do such damage to wildlife? Yet there is a scientific consensus that if all cat predation on rats suddenly ceased the rat population would increase fourfold within a year and continue to increase exponentially thereafter, with disastrous consequences not only for human living conditions but also for the avian population, as cats generally prey on weak/ill birds which would not have survived anyway while rats prey on eggs. Just a little food for thought.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whilst I agree that people can't be held > responsible for where they were schooled, what > that individual chooses to do afterwards with that > education,is the key difference between Attlee and > Blair. Attlee was the father of the welfare state, > a decent principled man who helped a war ravaged > nation back on its feet. Not even a whiff of > career based narcissism about him. Blair took a > very different path, courting spin doctors and > adopting Tory light policies to win numerous > elections. For me, politics is about using your > education to better the greater good of the > masses, and not self indulge your own interests. > > Louisa. Yes of course, Louisa, that was kind of the point I was trying to make, that a public school education can produce someone as praiseworthy as Attlee or as loathsome as Blair ? so just using it as a catchall insult as was the case above is meaningless.

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just another champagne socialist. Schooled at > Fettes in Edinburgh. Claims to speak for the > people but amassed a huge property portfolio and > now charges vast sums on the lecture circuit and > for advising dictators among others. > > When will people learn? I hold no brief for the public schools, having been state educated myself, but Clement Attlee who is surely the greatest Labour Prime Minister ever went to Haileybury... to castigate a person for the school to which their parents chose to send them is as silly as putting somebody down because they went to a comprehensive.