DulwichLondoner

Yes, I did look at the open issues on the k9 github page. This was first reported in November, and the case hasn't been assigned (i.e. AFAIK no one has even acknowledged it ): https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/2922 I also tried with Maildroid, and I get the very same behaviour. I am reluctant to try other clients because most other clients store passwords or messages in some way ( https://androidforums.com/threads/email-which-apps-keep-it-private.935578/ ). What is the experience of other forum users? Do links in email work on mobiles? If so, with what app?

Champ Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The housing market has without doubt stagnated > over the last few months. Could we please, please pretty please, at least for a moment, stop pretending that ever-skyrocketing house prices are good for all, and adjust our language accordingly? How about 'stable' prices rather than 'stagnant', for example? If you have a 2nd property you wish to sell, or if you want to move somewhere much cheaper (eg abroad), you want prices to go up. So do you if you need your LTV to come down in order to get a better rate on your mortgage. But, in all other circumstances, 'stable' prices is not necessarily a bad thing. Let's not forget that one reason the previous generations managed to buy more easily is that inflation eroded the real value of their debt.

The Albrighton centre off Dog kennel hill. The softplay near the Peckham library (same building as the swimming pool). Most churches in the area.

Email notifications about new replies show links to the forum in the form of: , i.e. the address is enclosed within the "" characters. This means the link fails to be recognised as such (i.e. it is not clickable) in some email apps. I have seen it with the popular k-9 email on Android but I understand it also happens with other clients. Could you please remove the "" characters, so that links are recognised correctly? Thanks!

Average price indices are utterly unless you know how they are constructed and how they adjust for property size or characteristics: with a flawed methodology, the ?average? may go up simply because more large detached houses than one-bed flats were sold in a given period. For example, the ONS uses a geometric mean and adjusts for a number of characteristics. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/about-the-uk-house-price-index/about-the-uk-house-price-index Southwark is also a very broad area; London Bridge, Borough, East Dulwich, Gipsy Hill etc are all in Southwark but are all very different markets. My impression is that, for 2 to 3 beds below the ?900k mark, prices have stopped rising but have not plummeted. Maybe gone down slightly but not plummeted, whereas volumes have collapsed ? i.e. considerably fewer properties are being sold. However, this seems to be true in most of London. It?s hard to tell how much is Brexit, how much the stamp duty, how much the new tax treatment of buy-to-lets, etc. I have also seen quite a few properties, in Dulwich but not only, that go on sale for a certain price, get reduced a few times, then get pulled from the market altogether; checking the land registry after 4-6 months shows they have not been sold. This makes me wonder how many of the properties advertised as ?sold? may have, in fact, simply been pulled from the market. It will be interesting to see how many units in the two newbuilds in the area (one next to the gym on Crystal palace road, the other next to the ED train station) will be sold, and at what price. I seem to remember asking prices of ca. ?600k for 2-bed flats, whereas most 2-bed flats seem to be on sale between ?480 - ? 520k. Also, no first-time buyer would ever pay, say, ?510 or ?520k, because by going above ?500k they?d lose the discount on the stamp duty.

Thermomix is very expensive (ca. ?900, I believe), but very good. It saves loads of time for all those preparations that require lots of continuous stirring: risottos, sauces, bolognese (the real, dry bolognese sauce - note that spaghetti bolognese is a foreign invention seen as an abomination by the good people of Bologna!), etc. Whether it's worth the price only you can know. I have seen it in wedding lists, precisely because it's so expensive, and I know of people who have had it for decades.

Every time I go to Herne Hill or Brixton I always pass by this: http://theillusioneer.co.uk/ No idea what they're like, though.

I have an old motorcycle helmet I want to get rid of. I heard that some bikers donate old helmets to hospitals and emergency services, so that first-aid teams can train. Does any one know if there is any such service in the area that would accept an old helmet? I have tried contacting a few email addresses of King's College Hospital, but I have had no reply. The helmet is still perfectly functional, no accidents, but I find it heavy and with poor ventilation - despite the pinlock, it fogs up way more than others. Understandably, there is no market for 2nd hand helmets - I would certainly never buy one.

"as and when funds become available to achieve this" could well mean when hell freezes over.

But now we're going to get ?350 millions a week for the NHS. Ah, no, wait, it was a blatant lie yet lots of people bought it. (Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

How about bringing the discussion back on topic? :)

Which is why many passengers, including myself, no longer trust what's displayed on the screens, and tend to wait on the footbridge, by the lifts, till a train shows up!

The New York Times had an article on the hospital a few weeks ago, but it was more on the impact of Brexit on staffing and recruiting than on the hospital's financial difficulties. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/world/europe/nhs-brexit-eu-migrants.html

The only (partial and insufficient) mitigant I can think of is that, in an emergency, some people would probably be able to use the coffee shop as an alternative escape route.

Good point about the potential dangers of railing in an emergency. Another appalling behaviour I see is cars and motorcycles doing u-turns on Champion park, just before the bend and the corner with Grove Lane, where the road becomes uphill. Since that's just behind the bend, it's impossible to see these geniuses coming from Grove Lane. Indeed, coming down from Grove Lane, I always approach that bend very slowly, even if this often means vehicles behind me shouting comments I won't repeat here. I'm not sure all of those idiots could be avoided at the already low limit of 20 mph.

Cardelia Wrote: > We're also in a particularly vulnerable > position because only one line runs through ED and > there are many pinch points in South London which > affect our services (Tulse Hill, Selhurst, East > Croydon, Beckenham). If any of those fail then our > line gets taken out of service and all our trains > are screwed. So yes, we are disproportionately > affected by infrastructure failures and delays. Thank you, that?s a very interesting comment. In the absence of detailed performance statistics by station and time of day, as per my previous post, is there any way to get an idea of which stations/lines are disproportionately affected when something goes wrong, for the reasons you mentioned? Other than saying that stations which have multiple lines running through them are less vulnerable because there is an element of ?redundancy? (if one fails, the others can still work)? For example, multiple lines run through Balham, and it has 4 platforms, of which 2 used by trains stopping there and 2 used only (AFAIK) by trains which pass by without stopping. Maybe all of this adds some flexibility when things go wrong? E.g. if there?s a problem on a platform trains can use another one? If the line from Crystal Palace goes KO, there?s still the line from East Croydon, both of which go into Victoria, and viceversa? Or, similarly, and ignoring the Southern vs Southeastern differences, I?d imagine the Earlsfield to Waterloo services are less vulnerable than ours because multiple lines converge at Earlsfield and continue to Waterloo? PS The publicly-owned TFL does public detailed statistics by line and by peak vs off-peak: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/underground-services-performance#on-this-page-0 The privately-owned rail companies do not, AFAIK.

I wholeheartedly agree it?s an accident waiting to happen. And it?s even more dangerous for those on two wheels, as they?re less visible than a car, plus can (legally) filter. When I used to ride my motorcycle along those roads, I used to always be on the lookout for suicidal idiot pedestrians in the morning: there are those who don?t hear you honking because they have headphones on, those who cross against the red man, those who cross exactly after getting off the bus and run into the road without looking, because their train is leaving and they can?t be bothered walking 20 metres to the traffic light ? but how on Earth am I supposed to see them if a big red bus was hiding them from my sight? I am sceptical about education campaigns and fines; however, installing small fences on the sidewalk, so as to force pedestrians to cross only at the traffic light, might help. Oddly, I never notice the same behaviour at the East Dulwich station. Maybe because most bus passengers come from south and don?t need to cross once they get off the bus?

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this impression wholly wrong and unfounded... ? > YES It would be interesting to have access to performance statistics (delays, cancellations, etc.), by station and by time of day (peak vs off-peak). However, AFAIK this data either does not exist, or, if it does, is not public. There are aggregate statistics on Southern?s performance on the Brighton line vs the ?Metro? line, but this level of aggregation is useless: East Dulwich and Balham are both on the ?metro? lines but my impression is that Balham?s services have never been as bad as ours. Clapham Junction is on the metro line and on pretty much all suburban lines into Victoria (except the Gatwick Express which doesn?t stop there), so there?s no way to tell how services from Clapham Junction into Victoria have been affected. Also, averaging peak and off-peak services is a very easy way to conceal abysmal performance. There are always more off-peak trains than peak ones. From East Dulwich to London Bridge there will be, what? 80 trains a day and maybe 20 during peak hour? I don?t know the actual figures but I hope you get the idea. If half the peak services are late, Southern could still claim that 87.5% (=10/80) were on time, whereas in fact half the trains that mattered to most travellers were not. If they then mix the ED statistics with those of other, better lines (e.g. Balham) then they could easily claim even higher punctuality figures. I remembered the story of this commuter, who kept track of delays on his journeys, and noted a stark contrast between the 82.5% punctuality reported in the Public Performance Measure, and the 37% he experienced in his commute. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/may/13/rail-companies-trains-on-time-delays-cancellations-punctuality Maybe he and I happen to be the unluckiest Southern Rail commuters ever; or maybe, just maybe, these official figures don?t mean much.

Let me rephrase: the fact remains that these incidents seem way more frequent on our lines than on other lines run by the same Southern Fail. Is this impression wholly wrong and unfounded, or is there a logical explanation as to why that is? Are the tracks and the equipment on our lines older? Are our lines used by less healthy and less well-behaved people, who are therefore constantly falling ill on the trains, trespassing on the tracks etc, way more than passengers on other lines? Yesterday there was a fire at Waterloo which caused a lot of disruptions. However, as far as I remember, and based on what friends and relatives commuting into Waterloo tell me, this kind of incident is, luckily, very rare, so yesterday's delays are not particularly representative. Today's delays on our lines are, instead, way more frequent and more representative. Just a case of bad luck?

This morning, at least 3 consecutive trains from ED to London Bridge were cancelled; on the Denmark Hill to Victoria line, at least one train was cancelled and those which weren?t were very late. Indeed, the Denmark Hill station was dangerously overcrowded this morning, with people dangerously stepping in the middle of the road on Champion Park. I say ?at least? because I don?t know if more trains were cancelled after I took the 185 bus to Victoria. In the meanwhile, other Southern Fail lines (e.g. Balham to Victoria) were running almost normally: a few minutes? delays, but no cancellations. Is it too much to ask why? Am I too paranoid in thinking that Southern has decided to sacrifice our lines while minimising disruptions to other lines, or is there a logical explanation as to why that is? Are our tracks older? Or what? Have local councillors or MPs ever brought up the matter? I?ll be leaving the area for this very reason, but 1) not immediately 2) I?d still like to understand what on Earth has been going on.

Lots of articles in the press about it, but I still fail to understand what it means. Will services be cut? Will employees be fired? Will the government step in somehow? Will some creditors not be paid? Does any one know? https://www.ft.com/content/327f49c6-de80-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52f9c https://news.sky.com/story/kings-college-hospitals-in-special-measures-11166678 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42304490 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/10/quit-hospital-boss-nhs-chair-kings-college-hospital-london

I wonder if there is only one access (on Champion Park), and if they didn't build another one closer to the hospitals, to simply save money: would a second access mean that Thameslink would have to pay for staff to be present there? Also, surely it wouldn't be a huge cost to build at least some fences on Champion Park, to make sure passengers stay on the pavement and not in the middle of the road?

Abe_froeman Wrote: > Alternatively the train form ED to London Bridge > takes 15 minutes and it's a further 8 minutes on > the underground to bond Street. I did it myself > this morning. That's very much a hypothetical, best-case scenario. Even if trains are not cancelled, run on time, London bridge station isn't packed, the tube entrance is not closed because of overcrowding, you can get on the very first Jubilee line train at London Bridge, etc., it will still be AT LEAST 35 minutes before you make it from East Dulwich to Bond Street. In reality, it will often be way more, especially at rush hour, because of at least one of the factors above; I know this from very direct experience. There have been times when it took me longer to get from the platform at London Bridge to the Jubilee line platform, than from ED to London Bridge. In fairness, with the exception of the ridiculous delays and cancellations which plague our line more than others, all other issues are common to the whole of London. Ever tried to take the tube from Victoria at 8am? You often can't! But the fact remains that 15 + 8 minutes is very much a hypothetical, not a real-life scenario. I find that, in order to get to Marble Arch - Bond street, the train from Denmark Hill or Peckham Rye to Victoria, then one of the many buses to Marble Arch is a better option: roughly the same time (sometimes more, sometimes less), but less stressful, and it's surprisingly easy to find a seat even at rush hour. Also, taking another train from London Bridge to Charing Cross, now that they have reopened the line, is a decent way to get to the Strand - Covent garden area.

I wonder if these rules are counterproductive, though. I'm not going to dump it illegally, but how many people would, given that the council doesn't collect it?

To be fair, relying on the bus for more than a couple of miles at rush hour is going to be a nightmare pretty much anywhere in London. I think the problems are more the unreliability of the trains, and the rarity of som bus services (176 and 185 are OKish, the 37 to Brixton is a nightmare, you could wait for it 25 minutes).