rendelharris

DulwichLondoner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It depends on where you live. If you live by the > Dulwich library you have plenty of frequent buses > to get to the big Sainsbury on Dog Kennel Hill. > > If you live, say, near the North Dulwich Station, > your public transport options are much more > limited. Apart from four trains an hour to ED station, right by Sainsbury's, taking two minutes, the 42 bus every ten minutes, or (with the usual caveat about the elderly and disabled) it's less than three quarters of a mile, taking the average person about fifteen minutes to walk or two minutes on a bike! Not the best argument for "I have to use my car" I think!

When I lived down that way I would lock up at the hoops outside the police station, on the assumption that being overlooked by the station and with lots of police coming and going would put off all but the most brazen thieves. Never had a bike nicked or tampered with there.

Sorry for your experience, sounds foul. It is a crime under the Public Order Act (threatening behaviour/fear or provocation of violence). Probably worth police knowing about it, contrary to the "can't be bothered" idea often put out in the media etc, a copper I was talking to at a social event recently said they like to get lots of information about what's going on in the area so they have at least an idea of what to look out for and where bad things might be happening. If you have time, call 101 and get it logged with any description you might have, it might well help.

I know it's probably a bit prurient, but on the other hand one does like to know what's happening in the neighbourhood, especially in the next street to mine...when I went to Peckham Rye station at 12.30pm, Bellenden was sealed with "Police line do not cross tape" from the junction with Holly Grove down to the Highshore Road roundabout, and when I came back at about 5.45 it was still closed off and still several police officers about (they looked busy so I didn't want to bother them with my nosiness). Anyone know what happened? Nothing in any news I can see.

Why thank you, don't mind if I do. Just another rather amusing thing about your post, "their freedom would be curtailed with out [sic] their own transport" - rather revealing that you regard having a car as a "freedom" issue - the freedom to pollute and end 10,000 Londoner's lives prematurely each year? To be responsible for stunted growth and development in children? For some people freedom means clean air and safe streets, not the "right" to drive a polluting machine around.

sally buying Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rendell Harris > > I am sure you realised that housebound did not > mean they could not get out but their freedom > would be somewhat curtailed with out their own > transport So you were using a term that didn't mean anything like what you meant? Why? By the way, re your post, it is pretty possible to carry shopping on the bus, I've done it lots of times.

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i do this to give you an opportunity to avoid > making a fool of yourself. it is advice not an > instruction. How kind. How silly. How utterly up yourself.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 46% of London households do not possess a car at > all. Are 46% of Londoners housebound? > > It would be interesting to know what proportion of > this 46% either (a) do not have a qualified driver > living there, or (b) cannot afford to run a car of > whatever vintage or ©live close to decent tubes, > buses or trains so that they can get easily across > London. Or if you wish to put it this way (d) > don't live in SE London! I have no idea. The point is that 46% of Londoners are not housebound despite not having cars.

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > stop No. I believe it's been pointed out to you before that you are not the moderator of this forum, much as you seem to believe you have a right to tell everyone else what not to post whilst posting whatever you like yourself.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ireland could now reach number 1 in the world > rankings by beating the All Blacks by more than 7 > points in the autumn. Not sure about that - Ireland have three matches before meeting the ABs (albeit against Italy, Argentina and USA) and the ABs have six games to play in the Championship beforehand, all of which can make a massive difference to the rankings.

sally buying Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Many people will > just not be able to buy new cars. > > Which render them house bound. Ever tried carrying > shopping on any London bus route? 46% of London households do not possess a car at all. Are 46% of Londoners housebound?

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Me too, Pugwash. The only place on LL I can think > of where I'd feel comfortable going in just for > that is the library (where the facilities are > often in a horrible state and sometimes closed) > or, further away, Sainsbury's DKH. > > When the indoor market existed, where Brick House > is now, you could walk in there but I can't think > of anywhere else. In Peckham there's MacDonalds > and Morrisons at least. I don't want to speak for the Cherry Tree but a couple of times after getting off at ED station I've nipped in there for a "comfort break" and their attitude has always been "go ahead, no worries". I do drink there as well, but staff I've never seen before don't seem to have problem.

teddyboy23 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > John the owner of chener books LL Oh, very sorry to hear that - only knew him as a customer but he made Chener everything a proper bookshop should be, instead of a coffee and souvenir stand with a few books attached. RIP.

Gym & swim membership for adult ?40 a month plus ?60 joining fee, which I guess if you swim every weekday works out to a very reasonable ?2 a swim!

Days are the same length throughout the year - 24 hours! Except for the occasional December 31st when they have to add a quarter second or whatever. Otherwise, all days are 24 hours, otherwise all the clocks would have to be reset every day...

Yes, sorry I meant the rate of change increases by a few seconds a day, it lengthens so that at the end of June we're losing fifty seconds a day, end of July three minutes a day - then it slows down a bit, end of August nearly four minutes a day, then after the autumnal equinox (September 23rd) the rate of loss slows until at the beginning of December we're only losing two minutes a day, and then at the winter solstice we start gaining again.

Midsummer is a bit of a redundant term these days as (I recall from very dry Old English lectures) it comes from the time when spring and autumn weren't recognised as seasons, so summer was anything that wasn't winter, i.e. between April and the beginning of October, which made the end of June (and the solstice) a sensible midpoint. Now summer is generally seen as being June, July and August, midsummer really comes mid-July, I suppose. diable rouge - the sun doesn't stand still for a couple of weeks! Daylight gets shorter from now on - tomorrow will have three seconds less than today and daylight hours continue getting shorter by a few seconds per day until the winter solstice.

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it better now and can you just pay for a swim > deal with them or do you have to pay for swim and > gym. As far as I know the only options are swimming, gym and exercise classes in a bundle or swimming and gym together, no swimming only membership.

We could always find out if Peckham's Artful Dodger is still working...

mikeb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @ Bels123 - thanks for being so open. CPZ is not > about improving parking but about discouraging > driving. I think some people are not as open as > you on this point. Why can't it be both? And why, in a city where 10,000 people a year die prematurely as a result of pollution and children in some areas are growing up with stunted development, both physically and mentally, as a result of same, is taking steps to reduce pollution seen as a bad thing?

Siduhe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Has anyone else see the similar Forest Hill > installation - not street art of this sort, but a > "Welcome to Forest Hill" which was crowd funded: > > https://se23.life/t/forest-hill-mural-crowdfunder- > 2-500-raised-successfully-in-75-hours/7656 > > I appreciate the plan is a bit different here, but > the Forest Hill one makes me smile whenever I go > past it, so hoping this one will do too. > > The attached photo is from SE23.life. Never seen that, looks fun. The similar signs (sans walrus!) look very good in Herne Hill too. Must say that looks better (to me) than the proposed alternatives for ED.

Quite - in the whole transport debate there's far too much "I'm all in favour of reducing car use - as long as my specific car use isn't restricted."

Just for the record the original publicity said funded with a grant for ?2,000 from Southwark Council, which seems fairly reasonable to me (given that our dear council would probably give Conway ?2k just to emulsion it). Not sure why EDAG couldn't just say this instead of the evasive "The project funding has been covered clearly in our previous posts and also on our website. Just have a look back, check it out online, or put in a request to Southwark Council." Re the Ingrid Beazley question, I think her initiative was tremendous and I love seeing it, but I don't see why that precludes any other public art in ED. No connection with EDAG and not very keen on any of the proposed designs, but we are talking about a mural under this bridge, it's not going to ruin a lovely vista exactly, is it? 



Sounds very like a chiffchaff to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyOHbLlSu0

Jacob Rees-Mogg has just tweeted that "The Brexit dividend is obvious, if you spend less on one thing it is available for something else." Felt compelled to reply "I spend many hundreds of pounds per year to keep up my subscriptions with various agencies and professional bodies. If I ditched them I would indeed have hundreds of pounds extra - and I would lose tens of thousands as I wouldn't get any work."