Penguin68

I have just checked my broadband speed (BT Infinity 2) Ping 14Ms, Download 31.78Mbps, Upload 16.2Mbps - I did not clear down my system or turn off other things etc. to do this, I am connected to my router through the power network (3 pin plugs). I use the BT Homehub 5. If I connected directly through my router (using Ethernet) it would be faster, but my PC is two stories away from my router.

As I understand it, Southwark's plans are to use only ground which was originally planned and designated for cemetery use - even if it has not been used recently (or at all) for burials. This will include clearing scrub growth - although all the cemeteries have well planned tree plantings within them as part of the cemetery landscaping. There are a plethora of actual, managed, woodlands and 'wild' places around the borough which are not designated for burials - we are actually peculiarly blessed with such public spaces. I find walking in the managed cemetery areas very satisfying - and appreciate the new memorials as I do the old. Curiously cemeteries are a fascinating living use of landscape - as funerals are the expressions of the living, only notionally on behalf of the dead. I keep posting here (and on similar threads) not because I expect to change the minds of those who have created the myth of Southwark Woods (which these have never been) but in case those new to the thread(s) should consider that an unchallengeable case is being made by those who keep these issues open. Edited to add - Otta - funerals have always been about what is necessary for the living to cope with their loss etc. - never really about the dead or the remains. Many people (I'm not one) find huge comfort in visiting the graves of their loved ones. And many people (quite wrongly in my view, but I'm not a dictator) believe that the dying wishes of their loved ones (or their beliefs) should be pandered to in their corpse disposal. By not doing so, real emotional and psychological distress can be felt by the living, and this I am sympathetic to.

Actually my comments were more about regulation than technology. I have no idea what Virgin's trouble is - but I'm guessing it has far less to do with technology than investment. The problems you have described sound very much as if they have too little modern capacity to deliver the data service they have promised (and are charging for). They may need to invest in both cable and 'switch' (actually line-card) capacity - this will involve actual network build - which takes time and money. They may even need to buy more 'big pipes' from BT to push their data traffic out on. Many service providers, particularly mobile, will use BT wholesale network capacity to link their local networks (or mobile cells) to the rest of the communication world - this is offered by BT Wholesale rather than BT Openworld, which offers the same wholesale services, but within the local network, and regulated differently. The fact that they have put a time-scale in months rather than hours suggests investment, not technical, issues. As investment (or lack of it) is strategic and also commercially sensitive I suspect that's why you're not getting much sense out of them. They would not like to admit investment and build issues as this might have an impact on how their performance against licence is judged. Edited to add - I have not had the problems described above with BT Infinity. My PC does occasionally hang and drop out - but when checking my phone and tablet connection I note there are no problems, suggesting the issue may very well be at my end.

My possibly overly simplified view is go to the company that runs the infrastructure. If there's a problem it can be identified and fixed with no buck passing. I am afraid this is over-simplified - the local (telephone based) network is run by BT Openreach as an arm's length operation providing equal service to all retail Service Providers - of whom BT Retail is but one. BT Retail has no more access to BT Openreach than any other ISP - but the buck has to be passed between the two as a matter of public policy. BT Openreach is not allowed to show favourable service to BT Retail over its other wholesale clients. The Virgin media (cable) infrastructure is wholly separate from BT's phone and internet infrastructure - and doesn't have to offer services to other companies under any terms. In fact Virgin is the one-stop-shop (when using its cable network) rather than BT Retail (from whom you buy service, it then buys services from BT Openreach on your behalf). So it actually ought to be easier for Virgin as a retail operator which owns and manages infrastructure directly to offer better service than BT - forced to operate as two separate companies. Go figure!

As usual big business gets their own way. As the numbers of Sainsbury's vehicles using this feed-in are relatively minimal, compared with the numbers of shoppers cars using it, actually the benefit (if there is one) is to ordinary people, not big business. I doubt whether we would use the shop less if there was a longer wait to get out - certainly if it has changed, when I first used the shop, when it first opened, such a wait was not too onerous. In my experience DKH still gets the longer time - actually extending it would make it far easier to get into the shop from the direction of Goose Green - which is the most common entry point - and thus to the benefit of the store which wants people arriving rather than leaving.

The advice posted from Ofcom is relevant if you have ADSL broadband delivery over your telephone service. If you have cable delivery (Virgin media) or any of the Fibre to the cabinet services (FTTC) (i.e. BT Infinity) then some of the advice is not relevant. All fixed delivery into the home (i.e. mobile wireless apart) will have infrastructure either from BT Openreach or from Virgin Media. Many internet service providers now have their own racks (terminating equipment) in BT exchanges - although some services will still actually be carried entirely (sub leased) over BT equipment. One problem that is faced is that the arm's length requirement between BT Openreach (who provides the local network) and all service providers, including BT Retail, means that identifying exactly where a single customer fault is occurring (BT Openreach equipment or service provider equipment - or indeed your own equipment) - can be problematic. Bigger service outages are easier to identify.

Doesn't with my BT service. I have noted lags on some sites in the afternoon (but not on others at the same time) suggesting that it is their service which may be laggy, rather than mine (if it was mine any lagginess should be site independent)

In many places on the Continent, burial is always only for a short time, with plots constantly being re-used and bones placed in ossuaries. In this case Southwark is trying to find 'missing' plot owners before re-use. These cemeteries are I believe well documented (unlike older graveyards). All grave sites are recorded although for a few, where bodies have been found and not identified before burial (John Doe-s) this may only be by number. Because of the records, I very much doubt that 'untold numbers' of paupers graves will be re-use, the numbers buried being well documented. These posts are, as ever, a mixture of unwarranted hyperbole and misinformation. A public (municipal) graveyard is to be used for burials, and old and now uncared for graves will be re-used, for the public benefit. It will be possible to apply for burial if not recently resident (but the chances are there will have been some past or current family connection, I am guessing) although there will be a financial penalty for so doing - i.e. 'resident' dead (their heirs and assigns) will be offered beneficial rates. There is much I hate about Southwark administration - but the cemetery plans seem orderly and sensible, and help repair previous damage by neglect. There are, clearly, issues going forward e.g. as to what will be the best re-planting strategy - whether native trees or ones now better suited to a changing climate, but these are issues of tactics/ implementation, not strategy, which seems sound. Clearly we still need careful oversight into how what is being planned is delivered, but this is a different order of concern.

People who are 'Friends' of the Gallery will have untrammeled access - a lot of people joined up just to get to see the Ravilious exhibition - and I think have also done so for the Escher. Annual membership is good value, if art and an excellent local gallery are your bag. It's a good place to introduce visitors too as well - the permanent exhibition is manageably small but with top quality paintings. You can join and enter on-the-spot.

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I wonder what Southwarks stance was on the consultation. OKR, camberwell and peckham are all in Southwark but regeneration Other than trying to push CPZ and cycling policies as revenue earners and part of their anti-car stance, Southwark has never shown any real interest in the lives of its constituents in Camberwell and places south, even Peckham. When it comes to either actual financial investment, or investment in officer time and energy we are a lost cause. Most of the activity you see locally is a function of works by Thames Water on flood control or Transco on gas pipe replacement. Road works are desultory and patchwork at best (I think the South Circular work was TfL not Southwark). Don't expect any effort to be paid on lobbying for improved transport infrastructure; what little we have is done by local councilors, often fighting against, not in concert with, the aparat in Tooley St.

Can I suggest, edborders that you start a new thread with the headline you have given your recent informative post, and re-post the information you initially posted in this thread. That will get discussion, hopefully, about the council's specific plans about a few grave sites, and not other matters.

In general market researchers are asked not to research after 9:00pm (this was before). If you are researching working people there is thus a small window (perhaps 2.5 to 3 hours) when you might hope to catch people in. The initial question asked wasn't unreasonable, possibly to check he was in the right type of property for his research. From what you reported as occurring this is not something you should necessarily be worrying about.

I think that one of the problems with the Underhill/ Dunstan junction is that the roads are not at right angles, Dunstan?s actually curving (like a shallow U) across Underhill so that, if travelling south (towards Forest Hill) Dunstan actually curves back away from Underhill ? so that it is difficult, particularly if the corners are parked up) to see much oncoming traffic (conversely, from the other side, crossing towards Whateley, you can see well down both sides of Dunstan?s). This means that travelling south you often have to pull out into the road before you can see that it is clear to cross ? and this can cause problems to any fast(ish) moving vehicles, particularly motor bikes, travelling along Dunstan?s ? particularly as there is no reason for them to slow down. The next crossing up (north) from this (Upland) is laid out as a roundabout (again the roads do not cross at right angles) and this is much easier to negotiate as traffic on both roads must slow to check it is safe to go ahead. Maybe reconfiguring the Underhill/ Dunstan?s crossing as a roundabout would aid safety here. The problem is exacerbated in sunny winter mornings when the sun can be directly in drivers' eyes crossing towards to the south.

A traditiinal no frills type restaurant is needed still. But not, apparently sufficiently needed (by enough people, often enough) to make the one we had economically viable

What is to be gained by advertising (for example, to North Londoners) that Peckham actually isn't that bad? How does the area directly benefit from that? Well, sometimes it is nice to hear envy, not pity, when you tell someone where you live. Maybe if we get a better reputation someone might think we are worthy of proper public transport, rather than being an unruly rabble best kept away from decent folk (the best way of doing that is to make sure transport links are vile, broken and frequently suspended).

A local festival in the Rye, even though it will probably have enclosed concession spaces, will almost certainly benefit local hostelries, restaurants etc. with the influx of people - indeed they may take such concessions. It is generally beneficial for the locale to be seen as a destination venue, if only for a weekend, and it would continue the trend to undo some of the bad reputation that Peckham still has in minds north of the river (and elsewhere). There always seems to be an undercurrent of trepidation and fear of the new and different on the forum - enjoy and welcome change - a society happily set in aspic is a society with a death wish which has every chance of being fulfilled. See the festival as an opportunity, not a threat, as a potential for joy, not dismay and despair. NB - I have no links with the organisers or indeed any aspect whatsoever of such a festival, in case of doubts.

With all this rain the Dawson Heights slope is likely to be treacherous. Wear shoes with studs or cleats if you go.

Hi P68, You're right and wrong on recommended hours of sleep. Babies up to 17 hours a day/night. 11 years olds 9-10 hours. [www.nhs.uk] How do you think parents should organise 10-12 hours of sleep for a typical kids in reception, years 1 or 2 at school if they can't get to sleep until 10pm and need to be up at 7.30pm to get ready for a new school day? And talking to teachers the last thing they need is sleepy kids. As you point out, 11 year olds may 'need' 9-10 hours (I have my doubts)- and that is because they are entering puberty, which is a tiring time. Babies certainly sleep for long times, and are not normally roused or disturbed by outside factors - they are little solipsists at that age. You haven't been able to find a 10-12 hour range in your searches, I suspect, otherwise you would have quoted it. I don't think you will find that 'sleepy' kids aren't getting 10-12 hours sleep. Far more likely is that their household (not the environs of same) is disturbing to them - perhaps with a younger child who is going through 3 month colic, perhaps with fighting parents. As I have already said, when kids are sleepy, they tend to sleep. And they are not then readily woken (or kept awake) by extraneous events. This is less true for adults, who have more worries and are more readily distracted by noises from sleeping, or think they are, when it may be other things which are actually keeping them awake. It is easier to blame, then, someone else being noisy, rather than your relationship crumbling or your bank balance imploding.

Admin Is there any chance of including the link to this blog of 'locally accessible' walks mainly in Kent (link in OPs original post) in the 'blog' section of local info? - although the walks aren't precisely local they are put together to be accessible for those of us who live locally and seem to have been well done. Although those of us reading the post now can bookmark the link, I believe it is of genuine value to those coming late® to these threads.

Yes, I do know this is very much Business Studies 101 - but then quite a number of people who post in this forum do seem to believe that because a business is doing something they like, that they thus have some 'right' to survive. Or that, if they fail, this is the result of some wicked capitalist plot. Sometimes businesses, however 'good' their intrinsic product is deemed to be, are just in the wrong place at the wrong time, with insufficient customers for their product.

To put it very simply - a shop with relatively low value items (i.e. fish and chip suppers) needs to generate a high throughput if it is to pay its fixed as well as its variable costs. I suspect the profit margins (before overheads) are quite low on fish and chips, if only because there is am obvious ceiling above which punters will be unwilling to pay, however good the offer (and views have been mixed about that). So unless you have a high throughput (as Franco Manca still does) the ability to meet the same overheads as shops with higher unit prices will be problematic. There are good fish and chip shops around ED (if not in the main shopping drag) - the one in Forest Hill Road, for instance also only cooks fish to order. So, if the shop is relatively empty, with relatively few punters (in a road which offers a multiplicity of eating opportunities) then its ability to meet what may only be a 'commercial' rent will be compromised.

Firstly, it is simply not true that children ?need? 12 hours of sleep ? children do of course differ, both between each other and over time, but it is normally the parents who ?need? the children to sleep 12 hours, to give them some evening time free of them, rather than any children?s need for sleep. Children can readily sleep a normal adult sleep cycle (7-8 hours) and perform well during the day although often in their early teens they do become tired earlier. I am often amused when friends tell me that they put their children to bed at 7:30 but then are regularly disturbed by them waking them in the early mornings (by which time the children have had all the sleep they need, even if their parents, going to bed much later, haven?t). Secondly, once asleep, children (particularly young children) are not easily disturbed. You can carry them up to bed, change them into pajamas and they hardly rouse, once they have fallen asleep. So a little noise is not actually going to wake them up, although it might disturb them (particularly if they see their parents disturbed) if they are still awake. Going into their rooms and asking them if they are having a problem sleeping is normally a good way of ensuring they do have a problem. A counter-noise (say music that they like, on a loop) is a good way of over-riding any disturbing noise from outside. I think, once again, Mr James (Dean) Barber is in search of a cause. Once again he has chosen a dud.

Southwark council must be benefitting from increased taxation on business lets? Very unlikely - corporation tax is centrally collected - and if the beneficial owners are an overseas corporation they probably don't pay any tax anyway (!) Southwark will benefit directly from business rates next year, but these would only be paid by the property owner if the property is unlet, and are not directly linked to actual rents, but to a nominal land value.

..if rents are going from 25k to 50k.....the the high street is farked. For commercial rents it is relevant when the rent review period is - a doubling in a year would be terrible, doubling over 10 or 15 years possibly more acceptable. I cannot remember when the Sea Cow first opened, but if this is the first rise in that time it may well be too high for their business model, and yet not, given the overall market, wholly unreasonable. It does depend what other businesses moving into the area (and some have) are prepared to pay for that site. If it is an uneconomic rent then it may well fall. That is how markets work. LL now serves households who are paying far more than they used to for domestic rents and mortgages. And who may be able to afford to keep going more expensive establishments. But fish and chips, however nice, have a ceiling price which is not that flexible - and may not be sufficiently revenue generating to 'pay for' what the commercial site is now worth.