Penguin68

Most good repair garages will be able to deal with most electrical problems, although those related to misbehaving after market alarm systems might be an issue. You need to check with the garage whether they have the diagnostic software for your car. Problems with the ECU itself may be expensive to fix. But failing sensors can more easily be replaced. I would consider a Fiat main dealer. More expensive than an independent garage possibly but they will be able to identify the problem quicker. And know the resolution. The older the car the more likely an independent will be of use to you however, as electrical complexity is a feature of the most modern cars.

I have noticed this year that those plants of mine that 'berry' have berry-ed up excessively this year, particularly the mahonia. Old wives tales suggest this would suggest a harsh winter is in the offing - it will be interesting to see if this saying bears fruit (see what I've done there?).

I believe if he is 'promoting' anything it is a thread on cyclists who transgress. Unless you are of the opinion that transgressors within a group then represent the whole group, which if applied to people of a particular race would be seen as racist, then I cannot see what your problem is here. Unless you would argue that cyclists as individuals are unable to transgress. One might as well argue that those posting about out of control teenagers harassing people in parks should instead be concentrating on writing about the joys of being teenagers instead.

This has been on the local agenda for years, and always ignored until now as TFL objected, as I recall. The existing housing estate just up from the site would have been sufficient to trigger engagement, had that been then possible.

Whilst clearly 'a crime', I don't think this necessarily sits with the other things you have described. A tragic and awful incident certainly, and dreadfully traumatic to the victim, but not part of any 'crime wave' as such, I suspect. It's the sort of thing which, sadly, can happen anywhere (I, again, suspect).

I'm still unclear, are we talking about wood pigeons or the descended rock doves (the Trafalgar Square pigeons). I hear wood pigeons a lot and one pair has nested in my garden this year, but I rarely see rock doves at all, and haven't for many years.

That's simply not true. In New York, famously they introduced a zero tolerance policy and substantially decreased the incidence of crime. I remember a time when the UK police used to make arrests of shoplifters, even attend reports of such crime. Now they don't. 30 years ago the police used to respond to reports of burglaries. Now they just issue a crime number for the insurance. Indeed virtually the only crimes it seems regularly responded to are thought crimes nowadays, which very much are the remit otherwise of totalitarian police states.

I've just had notification, as a customer, that EE are doing work in Honor Oak on Tuesday 16th (next Tuesday). This will also impact anyone with a virtual mobile operator who uses EE as their underlying operator. Just a heads up that service may be problematical then.

Sadly the actions as described (unprovoked frenzied attack by a stranger) suggest psychotic behaviour, possibly drug induced and therefore, if so, possibly not the result of an inherent wickedness. If he is locked away for a long time it may be section not sentance which achieves this.

Council decisions such as the introduction of CPZs should be in the public domain, yet a councillor appears to have made a public statement to the press which has no available confirmation from the Council itself, in the public domain. The OP has every right to complain, publicly, about this. And to ask, publicly, what it's all about. I understand that those who have drunk deep of the council Kool Aid find this is difficult concept, but there you go.

Unless you live in the ward where one councillor is in maternity leave and the other apparently (see relevant thread) never answers.

So your remedy for anyone harming an animal, amongst which I assume you include at least all insects, is, well, to kill an animal. Good and logical call. Hyperbole only gets you so far, you know.

Slim to none - unless you can demonstrate force majeur like hospitalisation.

This was the height of the Covid lockdown period - where nothing was normal

You don't welcome them, you think they shouldn't be welcomed, but evidence suggests that some will welcome them.

What may be defamatory is not asserting, Rockets, that you are One Dulwich, or know who One Dulwich is, but that you are being duplicitous (lying) when you assert the opposite. To publically accuse someone of lying is defamatory. It is not in fact defamatory, although it may be innacurate, to say that someone belongs to, or supports, a legal political party. Or a legal local action group.

The problems my daughters faced when they were 18 was finding a venue to celebrate their birthdays where they weren't already known as customers! But that was 20 years ago!

Some P13 drivers appear very risk averse. I live in Underhill and on that road drivers are forced to back away, often considerable distances, from buses to allow them to pass, even when the bus has an immediate space it could back into. The driver at the time said that buses 'weren't allowed to back'. So reports of cars 'blocking' P13s might mean simply that the car was legally parked but the road too narrow,or the bus driver not prepared to risk advancing. NB some P13 drivers are both skilled and courteous, but not all.

I believe Conway;s has a call-off contract with Southwark (and perhaps many other boroughs) - this nominally avoids the costs of tendering for each job (costs for the Council as well as for Conways) - the idea being that Conways has competitively tendered for an unspecified range of jobs (either to an overall annual sum or perhaps at a ceiling cost per job) which includes 'emergency work' which allows for a quick response and which in theory gives the council some budgetary control, although that depends on them exercising that control and remembering that construction work has always been an area as regards Council (and many other operations) where corruption is rife and back-handers very common. It's an industry, not an employer issue, in the main. I am not suggesting Southwark is corrupt (save where it has been shown to be) I am saying that construction is an area where corruption, in general, is common. Please note I am not saying that call-off contracts are necessarily corrupt (although the frequency of the tendering process to let such contracts may be an issue) - I am saying that they need proper, effective oversight which includes an assessment of how good the job was that was done. How quickly did, e.g pothole repairs, then fail?

Mal, like everyone else on this forum,makes sensible choices for him which are wholly justified to him, the difference is he chooses also to be the arbiter of our choices. And to decide, himself, which are good or bad. And he's not even been elected with a mandate, whatever that is taken to mean (again, for some folks, quite a flexible definition).

Is this the home for the blind and partially sighted at the south end of Underhill?

Sorry, yes, you can park but it's unlikely you will find a space. I meant to say 'you can't park with any certainty' - and if you go past Stradella Road getting back to where you can park is a bit of a bind.

You've said 'no' and then mention narrow roads (I said they could be wider) and roadworks (a point I made) - the only area of difference appears to be that in rush hour you note the roads are more congested, which I'd have thought was fairly obvious, but I apologise for not mentioning it. You post disagreement and then seem generally to concur. Strange.

Parking is only restricted to residents only between 12 to 2.00 Monday to Friday. But you can't park north of Stradella Road.

They are not defending driving across the pavement, they are noting that certain types of pavement obstruction are positioned to disallow any overhang across pavement areas for certain types of vehicle when their wheels are only on the road. Which is a function of narrow roads and modern vehicles. Which can be exacerbated by the imposition of build outs and central bollard islands as additions to existing narrow roads.