Penguin68

No doubt the council will be treating their silence as 'votes' in favour of their proposals.

As indeed do the residents in the other alternate streets. As do I in Underhill. Suddenly a rush hour street for those having to access or leave the South Circular as other routes have been sealed.

For the avoidance of doubt this falls outside my area of expertise.

The thing to remember is that Mal can have no impact on Southwark elections, at least as regards not being a Southwark resident or elector. His constant commentary on what is happening in our borough is wholly disinterested, in the sense he has no 'interest' in Southwark, at least as regards residence.

You wouldn't like it. It points out the costs to the public of extended road works and lack of joined up planning to reduce time when roads are not available for use, a consideration you have railed against - such as the time the A205 junction with London Road was being worked on.

There was no sign either of workmen or indeed of any work having started, other than fencing off a section of the road. I do know it can take time to get teams together, but the statement from Thames suggesting everything was actively being addressed was simply not true. Nothing had yet been done other than blocking the road, and far more of the road than seemed impacted by any leak. Had Thames said the area had been secured and work would start as soon as a team could be assembled that would have been true. But, like so many in officialdom nowadays, a lie seemed a better choice.

Thames writes: - Our teams remain on site and are still working to fix the broken water pipe. At 10:30 this morning they weren't on site and they weren't working to fix the broken water pipe. Just saying.

Actually, in my late 70s and with a long term condition, yes. Or do you believe, as other council supporters do, that if I'm not fit enough to live in East Dulwich and walk everywhere, then I should move?

Oh good, well I'm glad that's what you expect. As someone who actually lives a block away from the road, and uses it very regularly, my expectations are somewhat different. Indeed I can't imagine even Southwark closing a road apparently as infrequently used as you imagine. But then you're hardly local, are you? As regards the shops in Forest Hill Road being your closest shops, and surgery, and pharmacy, and post office. So being cut off from them, effectively, isn't really your problem, is it? But then we all know that Southwark Council can do no wrong in your eyes. For some reason.

The same thing happened to my wife - not at that junction but another also in Southwark. They simply say that if there were two pictures there were two offences, and you're bang to rights. My wife was recovering an error she knew she'd made - she should have just driven through and then she'd only have triggered the camera once. Southwark are greedy b@st@rds - but then we knew that anyway.

Underhill is closed off in the section just south of Barry Road - the road works (well, there's no work going on, obviously, but the blocking fencing) looks to be in exactly, or almost exactly the same spot as in the autumn - so no P13s (yet again) and the diversion via Friern. I'm looking for our Mr Cheerful to find the bright side in this again. For me, the words incompetent, lazy, and clowns spring to mind.

Too kind!

I had assumed that was the area where low or no pressure may be being experienced - that is the local area being fed by whatever main might have to be interrupted, or which was already interrupted or with low pressure.

I find it interesting that even the usual council cheer leader suspects are finding it difficult to leap to their defence this time.

It's a terrible idea, will damage trade in Forest Hill Road and is just creating a nice private road for someone to enjoy. Congestion in the road is caused mainly by delivery vans, well, let's help stamp out those scourges. And an 18 month trial is at least a year too long if you are just interested in judging impact. And there has been no consultation at all, save, perhaps, with the privileged Rydale-ers. I live a block away in Underhill and I've heard only via social media.

My tree was collected with the normal garden waste collection on the normal day this week. Other trees left out, including by those without a garden waste brown bin were also collected. From Underhill.

If your tree is over 5ft you are meant to cut it short. Not that in the past I've seen over height trees rejected.

Yes, but not on a daily basis. The incidence of bovine TB is now very limited, both through testing and through pasteurisation, but an old (and I also mean relatively aged) friend of mine did get bovine TB as a child (just post-war) and it was no laughing matter,

Raw milk is meant to make better tasting cheese. If you don't mind getting bovine TB.

However, some would particularly like to avoid reviews of the 'there are far too many mice'; 'the cakes are deteriorating badly' nature. If you consider that a 'Negative Nelly' response. My experience was that the hot drinks and the varieties of e.g. teas on offer, were generally a positive element. As were the staff serving.

Flouting?

As they have been closed, either as an antique shop or a cafe, for a number of years, the words 'go whistle' spring to mind. They are history now.

There was a Saturday afternoon crowd of enthusiasts, and at other times the owner might have been off acquiring stock. He also repaired air guns, which he also sold. He stocked edged weapons, uniforms, including antique uniforms, air guns and ammo and starting pistols and shot. Some medals and other militaria. Quite a lot of ex service chit chat on a Saturday. I had an amateur interest, didn't deal a lot, in English pattern swords and other mainly 19th century militaria. And made some good purchases there. I'm afraid WWII and later events was the major focus of most of the regulars.

If a food outlet has a mouse problem then it's likely to stay there until the outlet runs out of food, unless it's adjacent to other food outlets. Why would the mice move? And mice can be dealt with. If you are prepared to pay for it. Which, with some proprieters, is a very big if. I have no evidence that the problem has reoccured in its new inception, although obviously good owners keep the focus on good hygiene. You win the battle but the war continues.

As a cafe, yes. And they kept all the chandeliers they hadn't sold as an antique shop still hanging up. They had a real mouse problem, quite well covered up, however.