rendelharris

Had some great trips to the Forest of Dean in recent years - really beautiful/almost mystical feel, fabulous cycling (on and off road) and walking (Wye Valley down to Tintern Abbey highly recommended), great pubs, plenty of towns around the fringes for supplies, Brecon Beacons/Black Mountains a short drive to the west for more walking and cycling, amazing wildlife, especially birdlife, and all about a three hour drive from ED.

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uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > about time- he has only EVER told the TRUTH Jolly good. He was certainly telling the TRUTH when he pleaded guilty to the charges on which he was convicted and apologised saying he felt "deep regret" after realising that the consequences of his actions could have been to let guilty men go free and necessitate retrials costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. If he was so innocent, why did he plead guilty and apologise? He's been released on procedural grounds and legal experts fully expect him to be reconvicted at a new trial. He has not been found innocent, he has been sent for a new trial. If you have room for just one thing in your bile-filled hate-boiling Islamaphobic skull, make it this: the men accused of paedophilia were on trial. They were found guilty and given long sentences. The only person who risked them not receiving the sentences they thoroughly deserved was the many times convicted (amongst his convictions are drug possession, assault on a police officer, common assault, threatening and abusive behaviour and mortgage fraud) Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Still, nice to see you coming out as the filthy EDL supporter we all know you are. And spare us any squeals of outrage, if you say that all SYL aka TR has ever done is told the truth, you support the EDL and their ilk.

mattm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Put it simply, there aren?t enough anywhere in > south east London - especially now the ULEZ has > hit the boundary of the south circ. It hasn't yet and won't until October 25th 2021.

Excellent news that he's been found - now he has been wouldn't it be a good idea to take down the thread or at least remove his name and picture, if he's being bullied? Anyone can see this forum. Just a thought.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i > > > > Were you thinking of Billy Connolly? > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055vwcr (58" > > video) > > > Perhaps subconsciously! Ha! I remember the gag well, maybe I was channelling it! Seriously though, they did make the towpath an ugly mess.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > edcam Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Please stop calling them Boris bikes. I'd > rather > > not be reminded of that dangerous oaf. > > Ooooh- if he is dangerous he MUST be doing > something right! (I voted for him twice btw) Of course you did. The fact that he's a crypto-fascist buffoon who cares about nothing but his own power and continually switches position depending which way he thinks the wind is blowing, who's been deeply involved in a number of extremely dubious/corrupt deals (announced today that investigators are looking into whether to levy chargebacks on the absurd garden bridge), that he is on record (literally, a recorded telephone call) that he would give his convicted criminal mate Darius Guppy the address of a hostile journalist provided he only had him roughed up but not killed, that he has continually broken the ministerial and MP codes for his own personal profit and that he has the personal morals of a sewer rat would clearly make him deeply attractive to your sort. Ooh yes, he's all dangerous, must vote for him! Idiots like you are precisely how Trump came to power and why we're sleepwalking into disaster. Despair.

The Green Chain Walk is also accessible (and permitted) for cyclists and is a brilliant way of exploring some of the nicest parts of SE London, with numerous entry and exit points not too far from ED. Avoid after very wet weather, and best done on a mountain bike or hybrid: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/green-chain-walk On a Sunday morning one of my favourite short(ish) rides is to go via the Surrey Canal path to Burgess Park, up Portland Street to Elephant, then onto the superhighway to Blackfriars, left along the Embankment to Westminster, up Birdcage Walk and Constitution Hill to Hyde Park corner, lap round Hyde Park, back down Constitution Hill and down the Mall (closed to traffic on Sundays), back the same way or if feeling fit you can go on to Greenwich (superhighway to Tower Hill, then cycle path down Royal Mint Street/Cable Street, along the river past Canary Wharf), through the foottunnel and follow Quietway 7 back to OKR just outside Burgess Park. If you go really early it feels like you have the whole of London to yourself, you see a totally different side of it without traffic and tourist hordes. If you go a little bit later (when it's still pretty quiet) the Life Guards leave Hyde Park Barracks at 9.28AM to ride down to Horse Guards Parade, and you can ride alongside them on the cycle track as they ride in the road a couple of yards away, which is quite an experience.

Absolutely agree with James - it's not the smell (which personally I find rather evocative) but the particulates, I have a friend with seriously nasty asthma who is in severe danger of a potentially life-threatening attack if she is near these things. Confounds me why anyone still feels the need when the garden waste collection service from Southwark works a treat - is it just a case of "sod it, can't be bothered to bag it up so to hell with the effect on everyone else?"

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Someone on twitter did say if the "yellow bike" > app shows the bike close to the river - don't > bother as it will be in the river. Funny you should say that, we rode a 92-mile route round the towpath to Windsor today, saw over a dozen of them basically dumped, some with bits removed, and yes, two of them in the river. It's a shame that we live in a society where this will happen, but until something changes these bikes are just going to be a PITA.

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As you know, M, I'm a great advocate of cycling and by no means a car fan. I don't think the way to get the non-cycling public on our side is to encourage a scheme whereby the streets get littered with bikes irresponsibly dumped wherever the whim of the user takes them.

Haven't been there nor have any link to it, just thought this might be of interest to local gourmets - certainly makes it sound good. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/29/forza-win-peckham-an-exceptionally-brave-venture-restaurant-review

Do it! Anyone with the app can discover the location of the bikes, so if one hasn't moved for five weeks if they were on the ball they should know something's going on.

Passiflora Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, I've seen them dumped everywhere over the > past few months and can't understand the concept > (somebody please let us know). I think it's > something about the power running out and they are > then just left where they stop? > > Seen several on the Denmark Hill Estate and in the > local parks. Just yesterday there was one just > left on a crossing on Red Post Hill! They're not electric - you can release the lock on the backwheel via a smartphone app if you've signed up, then they're 50p per half hour, when you've finished just leave it where you stop, theoretically for the next user to pick up. Personally I find them a bloody nuisance, either they get left in bike racks, where there often isn't room for all the "normal" bikes that need it, or they're left in the street posing a nuisance and a hazard for all concerned. In Wandsworth the council seized hundreds of the bikes saying they were causing an obstruction, hoping that might be a more common action across London. When cyclists are faced just about everywhere in London with hostile signs saying that we'll have our bikes removed if we chain them to railings, the idea of people just being able to leave a rental bike in the middle of the pavement seems absurd.

Quite funny if the OP is referring to Louisa, as the OP represents all the middleclass whining and entitlement ("and why haven't we got a Waitrose???") Lousia was/is so vehemently against round here!

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > JoeLeg Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Surely it?s Louisa and Foxy...? > > Spot on. Louisa hasn't quit, account still up and > running. Just lurking....for now I know she's probably still reading (*Hi Louisa!*) but she did say she was never commenting again.

And Louisa quit a few months ago after being confined to the Lounge.

moondancer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > An area gets the shops/services it deserves - > maniacal laughter as I pack yet another box of > books ... We get it, you're moving to France (chiefly because you seem to need feel the need to tell everybody). Good luck to you. Not sure why you feel the need to affirm your decision by making snotty jibes at the area you're leaving though.

Elphinstone's Army Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Would like to point out something which should not > be necessary - > that Paris does not represent France any more than > ?that London? represents England, I know - I've lived elsewhere in France. However, as the OP is complaining about service in "that London" a comparison of capitals seems fair.

With all due respect (genuinely) James, you're being more than a little disingenuous: so the budget in 09/10 was ?315M and the budget in 18/19 321M? Using the handy inflation calculator at this is money (http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html) you can see that ?321M in 2009 is equivalent to ?403M in 2018, so in real terms the budget for Southwark has been cut by 26% (the 75% figure, as I mentioned, is for all London councils - I believe outlying councils have been hit harder).

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > these spaces should be on the far side of the car > park as far as I'm concerned. When you are > breeding you are at your most fit. Those of us in > our 50s and 60s have NO sympathy because we had to > get on a bus after having to fold up the push > chair with a baby under one arm and shopping as > well What a truly unpleasant individual you are. What you're essentially saying is that because your generation had things, in your opinion, harder, you don't want it to be easier for any succeeding generations - just out of pure spite, it seems. Please don't claim to speak for all fifty- and sixty-somethings; I turn fifty myself in a few months, and I'm sure as hell not going to adopt the deeply unpleasant worldview you espouse.

You can still get "Made in England" Docs, there's a section on their website.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is a lot of difference between local > government and Central government. Unfortunately > when they are opposing parties (as now) they tend > to use the public services as a political football > - they get the money from central government but > they can use it exactly how and when they like- > because you voted for them- and then they blame > stuff on 'government cutbacks'. Oh change the record for God's sake, you've been banging on about this for years and it remains utter nonsense. London councils have had their budgets cut by 75% since 2010, but you continue to spout the same ridiculous claptrap, claiming councils could really provide the same services as before but they're deliberately not doing so to irk the government. You clearly judge everyone by your own standards; fortunately the majority of local councillors and officials aren't as spiteful, paranoid, bigoted and downright foolish as you.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ironically these will be the same OAPs who make up > the largest proportion of the 10,000 premature > deaths from air pollution in London each year. > > Although, as the emissions standards as regards > petrol cars are primarily about carbon dioxide, > one must wonder how many OAPs are being > slaughtered by an excess of that gas. The much > younger NOx diesel vehicle ban is a different > issue. Petrol cars still emit particulate pollution. This article may be of interest: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03714-9