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terminates at Canada water so at least we had the option of picking up the Jubilee line at Canada Water The Overground from Forest Hill or Honor Oak will get you to Canada Water. I now rely on access to the Jubilee Line to get me into town, you can interchange with both Northern Line Spurs (London Bridge & Waterloo), District & Circle (Westminster), Victoria Line and Piccadilly (Green Park), Central Line (Bond Street) etc. It's crowded, mind you.

The 3 (from West Dulwich) goes to Brixton both quickly and quite regularly.

SW London extends along the Thames Valley, whilst we have a much more varied topography - it may be that this causes problems with line integrity (no idea, just speculating) - we are wholly reliant on Network Rail managed and maintained lines, whilst SW London has tube services - the lines for which are TfL managed I believe. What annoys me is that no account is taken of the poor services to SE London, for whatever reason, when London wide planning is concerned. It is assumed that everyone is at the same starting point and thus all changes have an equal impact. Making life more difficult for road users across London has a far greater impact on those more reliant on such usage.

Most Overground track (and signals) are managed by Network Rail, and a freight train would also not be managed by TfL so it is probably true that they are not directly responsible for these failures.

This seems to describe what they do:- Little Village provides good quality baby clothes and equipment, donated by local families, to local families who need this kit. We promote sustainable living, and make it easy for local families to help one another in a respectful, non-judgemental, non-patronising way. We came together as a group of local parents, and we now run it as an entirely voluntary enterprise. They seem SW17 / Camden (?) based. The Southwark bit may be an offshoot I suppose. They work out of churches (or seem to).

Either we will, as customers, support this, or we won't. LL is still an area which is mainly supported by relatively close residents - it doesn't have a large commuting population - and it isn't, yet, a destination venue. So, if we, who live here, want a Costa we will patronise it. If we don't, we won't and it will lose money. We already have a close Starbucks, in Dog Kennel Hill, and a Caf? Nero - as well as numerous non-chain caf? venues. If there is a market for yet another coffee shop, then fine. I doubt whether what (another) formula chain has to offer will provide sufficient differentiation, on price, quality or 'innovation' (product range) grounds to be compelling, but if it does, well the market will have spoken.

1970 I think. Entirely plausible. It had a very settled in its ways feeling (from the outside and reading its menu) in 1988. As did Mr Liu. They were the 'chinese' and 'indian' bookends to LL in those days.

It's certainly one of the oldest - at least 20 years? It was well established (well it seemed so) in 1988 - so 30 years ago. Probably rather longer. In all that time I've never visited it! (but have visited most of the other sub-continent restaurants in LL). Its then proximity to a foot clinic was oddly off-putting.

The Bikes penetrate as far into Southwark as Tooley St is interested in. The old borough of Camberwell is a very poor relation in the Peoples' Republic of Southwark.

Some sorts of cognitive therapy may be helpful, where something is distressing you that isn't/ wouldn't distress others, since you may be over-focusing on it, and can 'think through' why that might be, but genuine loud noise doesn't fall into the category that e.g. CBT would help. CBT assists phobias (i.e. irrational fears) but not fear itself (rational fears). If you think that unknown people are watching you and may attack you that's probably irrational, if you are a victim of domestic violence your fear of your abuser is not going to be addressable through cognitive therapies. If your neighbours don't believe that their noise making should be effecting you, perhaps record the sounds from your side so that they can experience it - even invite one of them over to hear what you are hearing. If they do have hearing problems these can be addressed, maybe they are in denial. But, from what you say, I don't think you need therapy, or would benefit from it. [Problems, e.g. of a screaming child going through '3 month' colic are always more difficult, as the neighbour can neither help that, nor probably wants it either - barking dogs left on their own are similar - but too loud TV?...]

Which is not to say that CCTV might not be being used for other purposes there than dogs-off-the-lead nicking!

There are in fact people with extraordinary facial recognition skills who are employed by police and security forces - they can often match or beat computer driven facial recognition technology (which requires matching the angles and distances of key facial points against a database.) This technology is what is used in passport scanning applications - where your face is matched against the stored data on your photograph. The computer is comparing points, distances and angles, not the whole photograph. There are no such databases held on dogs.

Number plate recognition...oh wait...

I have a funny feeling that I remember what was behind the concrete reinforcement in this location... from memory, Thames Water installed a very complicated underground water sewer reservoir in this location (in the mid to late 1990s) to address some of the sewer floods in the area and they bookended the reservoir with concrete supports under the road so that vehicles wouldn't bash away at the underground structure over time, which could cause it to fracture and flood. If this is right, then Conways is undoing what was presumably necessary remedial and protective work by Thames Water which could then lead to more disruption etc. Including sewer floods. So they will be creating a problem, not solving one. Terrific. - In this case responding to local complaints, of course. But nonetheless... I hope that when peoples' homes are flooded by sewer water Southwark will take full responsibility for compensation and restoration, as it will have been their work which undid Thames Water's restorative work.

Many people find that fitting a shower pump improves things - if you have a shower in the loft space (i.e if you've had a loft extension) then you will need a 'negative head' shower as the water tank is likely to be at the same level or below your shower head. Because ED is very hilly mains water pressures can vary, particularly where the mains flow is compromised (as it so often is locally) by leaks. HOWEVER most showers are run not from the mains but from water tanks - unless your tanks and hot water cylinder are also shared the fact that the mains stopcock is on the other owner's land should be irrelevant to your water pressure, and particularly when it comes to shower pressures.

It does sometimes feel as if Conway's acts as the military wing of Tooley St. in their fight against the kulaks of Dulwich. Disrupt people's lives, but do a bad job anyway, taking as much time, with as little pre-planning, as possible.

Ah, OK. So the substitute team did not know that they were supposed to take the bags? Possibly, or, if they were operating a front-man who was meant to pull everything to be taken into the road, the front man may have simply missed the bags, as I suspect he did my bin last week. Regular bin-men are more aware of what to expect, and not to expect, on their 'own' runs.

The brown bin team today (in Underhill) tell me that they were not on last week - it was a substitute team - which might explain why my bin was missed, and perhaps your bags. Anyway, my collection was fine, so I hope your will be also.

If you have seen numbers together I think they are more likely to be actual rats rather than water voles. If their tails were hairless they certainly were. It would be great if there were water voles about.

1. The councillor was not directly responsible for the choice, simply explaining why it was made. 2. The lamps being replaced were themselves repro, not original Victorian, as I understand it. Their operational life was shorter, and the costs of keeping them in operation more expensive, than the replacements. In times of straightened budgets that seems a good choice to be made. 3. The light thrown by the new lights is less disruptive to wild-life, and I assume reduces local light 'pollution' - these will be seen by many as benefits. This is not about 'modernisation' as a policy, but is about replacing lights which are now decrepit and not fit-for-purpose with lights which meet criteria of operational, environmental and future replacement costs. I doubt whether, in reality, that many sensibilities will in fact, and over time, be that offended. Indeed, only a few years ago Victorian tastes would have been replaced as a matter of policy, and that replacement welcomed, by modernity. In this case the reasons for replacement appear far more simply practical.

I have reported before about watching (and complaining about to TfL) a P13 driver who forced an ambulance on blues and twos to back up and pull-in as he (the bus driver) wouldn't give way. On another (similar) incident just involving a motorist the refusal was accompanied by a claim that the buses could not be backed - clearly this isn't true, nor is it true that a bus driver isn't (or at least should be) trained to back their bus. So generally good drivers driving in difficult circumstances, but a few (very) bad apples. A double decker also hit my wife's car (stationary at traffic lights) and claimed that my wife had backed into him (since it was clear where the damage on my wife's car was, and to 'get off' the only possibility was that she had viciously started backing at a traffic light)! It took 18 months for that claim to be settled (in our favour) when the bus company failed to turn up at court to defend the action.

incidence of Weil's disease Contracting Weil's disease is most frequently associated, I believe, with bathing in contaminated water (i.e swimming or splashing about in rivers or ponds) - not a lot of that goes in in ED, I'm guessing. There are apparently about 60 leptospirosis cases in the UK yearly, of which about 10% may develop into Weil's disease, the most severe form, which itself has about a 10% mortality. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/staff/wellbeing/oh/guidanceandadvice/leptospirosisweilsdisease/ https://patient.info/health/leptospirosis-and-weils-disease

The brown bin men missed my brown bin this morning - others were emptied but not all - I suspect at least one crew is having issues. My brown bin crew sends out a scout to consolidate waste and put it into the road for the lorry following to collect - if something is missed by the scout then it will be 'overlooked' by the following bin men - who will assume the bins etc. are empty, or not appropriate waste for them. Amended to insert missing text - see below.

it's always, ALWAYS a dodgy grown up - usually someone you know. I wouldn't go that far - although oftimes the 'dodgy grown-up' will be someone misinterpreting (in good faith) a perfectly natural event. And undoubtedly dodgy-grown-ups are responsible for the most pervasive of 'supernatural' scams - indeed they are ex-officio members of the House of Lords (some of them) on the back of it.

It strikes me that, compared with the very ad hoc arrangements of the 'jerk-off' event in The Horniman, this is being very carefully organised and safeguarded. With lots of scrutiny and clear rules of engagement. Of course, it could all go wrong, but the level of care being taken (and the involvement of planning and regulatory authorities) suggest that it also may very well not. I think it's great that events should be being planned locally - and if it does go OK I hope there will be many more. An area which isn't alive quite quickly tends to be dead. It's not something I'm likely to go to myself, although my adult children might. But just because it isn't my taste doesn't mean I think it should be stopped. It's just one weekend in 52.