Penguin68

I'm afraid that 'Dog Kennel Hill Woods' (pace the eponymous 'Friends' of the same) are a 'woke' construct - belonging to the same mind set as the notorious 'Wood' Friends that plagued us over Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries. People now believe that strapping 'Wood' to an area gives it a sort of legitimacy which the real place name doesn't - much as 'villages' have been invented all over London to supplant the few real villages already here. Estate agents invent villages, eco-warriors invent woods. In both cases they believe the words add a (spurious) legitimacy to their cases. It doesn't. But it's all part of the 21st Century fake news apparatus. Ignore the 'wood' element and focus on the real facts, would be my advice. I don't live that close (other end of ED), so have no dog in this fight.

There are many reasons why this food may have been thrown out - including possible contamination or the inclusion of the 'wrong' ingredients or mix. This is a high level of simple wastage - an uneconomic level if repeated, so I would suspect a good (understandable) reason for this. If it is a one off (and the bread was OK to eat) it is likely that the Bakery didn't have the necessary contacts to find a good home for it - which again suggests this may be an unusual event.

Exactly - it is the glacial pace of workmen in the UK employed by the State (at council or national level) which is the issue here. E.g. the closure of Crystal Palace Road for close to a month to achieve (I would guess when we see the finished job) a minimal change. Or the well-over-a-year to reimagine the Lewisham roundabout. When I travel abroad I can be held up by a mile long section of roadworks on the way down south, to find the whole thing complete a fortnight later on my return. In the UK we would be seeing 18 month warnings about delays.

A news report today suggested at 10% of High Street locations were currently empty/ closed. At the moment LL seems (generally) to be bucking this trend; it will be interesting to see if this continues past the CPZ implementation.

Just a thought, but is it possible, in the high winds we've been having, that the bin was simply tipped and blown away, with the contents falling out? I know that I've had the large bins (if not fairly full) overturned by the wind before now, and I've certainly seen the small kerb side and kitchen caddies blown about on collection days.

It would have been an act of kindness to have kept it safe. But for how long? - A day, two days, a week, a fortnight (they could have gone off on a holiday and forgotten the the scooter in the rush to prepare)? The shopkeeper wasn't to know. Once again - space in small shops is at a premium, a scooter cannot be kept in the aisles (for obvious reasons) and room behind the counter or in whatever limited storage they have is at a premium. 30 minutes is often long enough for something as large (and treasured?) as a scooter to be called back for - or did the OP have something else urgent to get done? No shopkeeper can manage such an open ended storage commitment. Very different for a small, valuable, item such as keys or a wallet, which can be stored conveniently. Perhaps if the OP had called the shop (if they couldn't get back in 30 minutes)? And given a firm time to collect?

TLAs are however far more frequent.

Admin has posted for the last couple of days that there is a problem with the e-mail system - maybe why you haven't received a PM?

My Veolia mole again - problems with some collections may be down to the removal of a (blue/ green bin) lorry from the circuit, and then its replacement (when there was found to be too much work) by an entirely new crew - just given a map of where to collect from. So they have no 'crew' knowledge of their routes and therefore aren't replacing bins correctly because (if they're using runners ahead of the lorry), they don't know where exactly they've been pulled out from. I found 3 blue bins in my drive on Tuesday, only one of which was mine! I think I re-homed them correctly. Normally crews are replaced piecemeal (except where an emergency crew is on) so route knowledge is passed on within a team. Hey ho!

The same Tessa Jowell who?s husband - a corrupt lawyer - was banged up for accepting bribes from Burlusconi. From Wiki:- He was accused of money-laundering and alleged tax fraud involving Silvio Berlusconi; he was convicted in first instance and on appeal, but the conviction was quashed by the Supreme Court of Cassation. (my emphasis). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mills_(solicitor) Probably that statement made by the OP is thus actionable under English Law. His appeal was based on a statute of limitations defence, but certainly he was never accused of accepting bribes (indeed the question would suggest itself, 'bribed to do what'?) Anyway, it triggered me to vote for Tessa as choice one.

I suspect that it is important that a hospital's name should be clearly understandable and without confusion so that any call to the Fire Brigade will be correctly directed. If the name is too close to another then the appliances may be misdirected. The Brigade should be able to estimate what confusion levels, if any, sit in any of the names that might be chosen.

I paid. Not received a label yet. This morning they took my bin away! No contact details on southwark website. WTF am I supposed to do now!! Contact your local councillor. This is clearly just an administrative error, but no the less irksome for that.

Petition against this https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-cox-s-walk-footbridge-oak-trees?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1565107690&utm_campaign&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Mvw9o2MHDm3gmo1jMs0lDsYSQe5XF7dBWeNSLsuvUGghoebULdxBFJ-8

Tree Preservation Orders are issued by the local council who can also over rule them. What are your guesses about what will happen?

You have to consider the circulation space around an obstruction to calculate the effective area taken up by a scooter. Particularly if lying prone on the ground in an aisle.

According to my Veolia mole, the lorry collecting the large brown bins has a maximum capacity of 260. They are then taken to Colchester for containerisation and recycling. So only 260 bins taken at a time. I don't think Southwark was expecting the low uptake they have got on this scheme.

Be interesting to see what he'd of done if the person had left/dropped a large quantity of cash in the store, somehow i doubt he'd of put it outside after 10 mins. Unless the large wedge of cash occupied a couple of square feet I'd guess he'd have had ample space to store it - hence my original comment that it would have been different for a bag, wallet, purse, keys etc. Nobody 'dumps' cash, people do dump unwanted or needed children's toys. Granted this wasn't unwanted, but the store owner didn't necessarily know that. Equally, leaving a scooter outside a store (many people do, or bikes) isn't quite the same thing as leaving a heap of cash!

Yeah a child?s scooter, which in my experience is often very precious to a child Yes it was a mistake that it was left behind, but things get forgotten sometimes I think that giving it a day or two would?ve been reasonable and kind Giving it 30 min is very likely to get end up with an upset child, so seems a bit mean The point I was making is that it was a scooter - these (even for small children) are not trivial in size - their footprint is significant, and small traders judge their effectiveness (as do large ones) on sales per sq ft. A scooter takes up at least a couple of square feet, effectively, more if it is lying on the ground. Giving it 30 minutes for a forgetful mum to return to collect it seems more than fair. After that it is causing trouble and costing money. And small traders have far less manoeuvre room than large traders. Granted we are plagued by thieving toe rags but putting it outside the shop (not, for goodness sake, throwing it away) seems a reasonable action. And (if the shop had shut before the owner returned, assuming it wasn't the 24 hour Londis) a potentially helpful one.

The decent thing to do would be to put it behind the counter. Why could the shop owner not do that? IT WAS A SCOOTER! Not a purse or a wallet or a handbag or some keys - it was a scooter. Just how much room do you think the average small shop has 'behind the counter'? Or in their aisles? This was causing an obstruction (just by what it was and where it was). Frankly leaving it in the shop would have been to cause a hazard (how easy would it be for someone elderly or infirm, or with a push chair, to navigate round it?) And shops like this do not have infinite storage space behind the counter or in their very limited stock rooms. Without any idea when it might be called for. The shop keeper gave it 30 minutes for the OP to return and collect it - not unreasonable I would suggest. For all he knew it was being dumped. After that he put it outside for collection. Not his fault if we are plagued by thieves.

...and once again I ask, can you trust the council? And once again a thread gives the obvious answer...

I don't think anybody is "blaming the council" ? Well, I haven't been (not posted before on this thread) - but simple (a) training and (b) rules and © enforcement of these rules are up to the council, and as described (for the time claimed by the OP) there can be no 'excuse' for the actions apparently taken (or innaction allowed) by the council-employed driver of the vehicle in question. Of course, the action is the 'failure', strictly, of just one individual, and there may be (though if the timing is right it's difficult to see what) a reasonable explanation, but the council necessarily takes management responsibility for the actions of its agents, and is ultimately to blame here, even if other council employees may have been unaware at the time of what was happening. That is what corporate responsibility is about. If no council rules were broken, for instance, that is a failure of council rule-setting.

Contact BG (the distributor) immediately and make sure any gas appliance is turned off.

The entire point of the CPZ was deter commuters No, the entire point of the CPZ was to raise revenue for Southwark and was a formal part of Southwark's declared plan to massively reduce car usage (ideally stop it) within the borough, without regard to who is using the vehicles. There has never been clear evidence that the 'commuters' to be deterred are not those coming to work and serve the ED community, and certainly little evidence as to the scale and scope of the dreaded 'through' commuter. This was all hearsay and guesswork. Many people who 'voted' for the CPZ may have thought they were detering commuters, but this was a supposition only.

I found out a few years ago that the frame was attached to the build structure with only half the number of bolts required and a shoulder charge would take the frame out. For an internal, upstairs, door, that sort of construction makes sense in case of fire - when you absolutely want a fireman to be able to gain access. That's the problem with some conversions (if yours is) - what makes safety sense doesn't necessarily make security sense. You have to find your balance.

i really cant see how this system is going to work ! It'll work for the council all right - they'll get their 'off the books' money - and if you don't get the service, or other people 'steal' it from you - well your problem to sort out, not theirs. This isn't all about you, you know, indeed it isn't at all about you, It's about them.