Dogkennelhillbilly

There was a concern about toys containing small magnets a couple of years ago, wasn't there? Kids were swallowing them accidentally...?

Give over. The number of threads and comments against CPZs on here has zero relation to real life. Active posters on this forum are a tiny and unrepresentative sliver of Dulwich residents.

https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/340029-37-and-42-diversion/

This also affects the plucky little P4: https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/p4/

Live updates here: https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/37/ and https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/42/

There does seem to be a lot of it about. Our neighbour (not on Trossachs) had their car stolen the other week.

Reported crime statistics are generally a good indicator of the change in incidence of crimes, even if - for obvious reasons - they do not map to the actual incidence. But in any case you can always refer to the British Crime Survey, which isn't calculated on the basis of reported crime.

Probably a good occasion to train for human rescue in realistic circumstances too 🙂

I think they should pay a fiver to go on the lake like everyone else

Did you even read the post to which you are replying?

Water is already a limited resource. You seem to be unaware of the investment obligations imposed on water utilities as a condition of having the monopoly. Your suggestion that water shortages in SE England will be alleviated by melting snowcaps is...innovative.

As an aside, day-drinking cheapskates - I mean, those looking for a friendly tavern to replace the Spoons should have a look at The Hill around the corner. It had a sign up advertising a lager and an IPA at £3.95 a pint all day every day last time I passed.

@Rockets has been called many things for his <cough> quirky views, but I will not accept any suggestion that he is anti-Semantic.

Screwfix is ramping up its one hour delivery service through the app. They're going to be the Deliveroo of hardware. It'll be very popular among tradies who won't have to leave site because they've run out of flanges or sealant.

Your use (abuse) of elipses suggests otherwise.

Agreed on West 16th - went last week, and it has good coffee and a nice ambience. Very cool interior. I think it will do a lot to jazz up that little strip of shops opposite Judith Kerr Primary School, which will work for all the businesses there - including Gusto Italiano, which has a lovely little garden and great paninis. Meanwhile, in Forest Hill: a nice little coffee shop has opened up in the old Internet cafe (!) next to the old Wetherspoons. Galao is at 27 London Rd in Forest Hill.

I know this topic gets Googled a lot and EDF comes up so: there IS a photo booth at Herne Hill Station, in the ticket hall. It does normal sized passport photos as well as some novelty photo prints. It does the UK and Ireland scheme where it gives you a code for download of the photos and uploading them directly to passport applications etc. £10, card only.

Special Patrol Group hasn't existed in 35 years, I'm afraid. They were replaced by the Territorial Support Group after the Brixton Riots. They still have a reputation for antagonistic conduct and unnecessary violence. The man who killed Ian Tomlinson floated from disciplinary charge to disciplinary charge before he ended up in the TSG. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Support_Group

There's been a drop of anonymous leaflets criticising the council on Burbage Rd. A lot of hyperbolic stuff about a "war on motorists" (a cliche so tired even Jeremy Clarkson recognises it's nonsense) and "discriminatory" permit fees. Interestingly, they have been affixed to cars but not delivered to houses, as if it were the cars that matter, and not the people that live here...

Yeah, pretty much. Also: everyone who showed up after me is a gentrifying bastard.

Crystal Palace fitness centre has weightlifting sessions. Whether it's Olympic depends on how good you are 😉

I looked reasonably recently and there was. Weirdly, the photo booth company doesn't have the one piece of information you would expect on their website - where they are located!

1) I think the conversation about "the park doesn't make much money from the festival" is an irrelevance. If green space is to be rented out to a private company, I want the council to squeeze them until the pips squeak and make as much money as possible for all its critical services - social care, libraries, social services, housing, rat catchers, whatever. Obviously parks generally should get their fair share of that, but the fact that all the rent doesn't go back specifically into Peckham Rye Park doesn't bother me at all. 2) do we actually know how much rent the festival organiser pays the council, and how much the council spends on cleaning and restoring the park after? It's impossible to have a sensible conversation without knowing that. 3) the festival promoters are in it for the money. That's fine by me - but I don't want to hear any more of their cockwaffle about community participation or local trader opportunities.

If the police are just asking, it is not. If they have a warrant or are exercising a statutory power (eg s19 of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984), it is. But I expect the cop on the spot would know that better than us random people on the internet. Let's not get carried away with second hand information and start demonising shop workers. It wouldn't surprise me if a big company had a policy that CCTV requests had to be made in writing and that has - through Chinese whispers - turned jnto a story about how a manager had refused to cooperate. It's not like these are old fashioned systems where the manager can just eject a VHS tape from a box under the counter and hand it over.