dougiefreeman

Mal you clearly have strong views however you seem to only have one perspective (your own) with which you use to justify / reason which I don’t think is at all helpful in this discussion. My perspective, for example, I can say with absolute certainty that getting out of london as a family of four is definitively more economical and significantly more straightforward in our car. And I can also say that having it makes life locally more bearable as well when we need to make a trip to the supermarket, garages where we store stuff, doctors if we have a child with us, nursery if we have to drop one but have the other because our partner is at work etc etc. With the best will in the world, online grocery shopping etc, being human and that doesn’t always equal perfect organisation so although technically not a necessity, there are times where we do ‘need’ to make local journeys in it for non-urgent means. I don’t mind admitting that. I should also say that both my wife and I are gigging musicians requiring a car to transport larger gear for work - I’ve tried to do it on PT but it’s usually not remotely viable. The car is expensive to run already and can be an absolute pain in the proverbial when it goes wrong (as it just has with a £1900+ bill) - so believe me when I say we’d rather not have to use it, but life without it would be fraught with complications (we’ve just had a taste of that as it was in the garage for over a week). If the council impose more costs, sure we’ll just suck it up and pay them because we have no choice (that seems to be your solution for people like us right Mal?) - but it will just feel punitive. I, like HeadNun, don’t agree that owning and using a car is a sin, it is a very necessary part of our lives. We’re not your typical dulwich millionaires either - we love this area and feel fortunate to live here but we don’t have an endless pot of funds for the council to increasingly dip their hands in. Maybe open your mind up a bit Mal and try and think from other peoples’ perspectives. Oh and before you suggest Zipcar, we’re both members (have been for years, it’s how we went down from 2 cars to 1 being both self employed). The service has deteriorated drastically and the thought of trying to exist purely using it is a bleak one at best, completely impossible at worst.

…. In your opinion.

We live on barry road, there was a dreadful crash outside our house a few years ago (thankfully no-one was hurt but 3 cars were written off and property damaged). Young guy doing 60-70mph - it was late in the evening , I shudder to think what would have happened had it been earlier in the day since he shunted a car across the pavement into a wall. Its my understanding that a standard fixed speed camera would do nothing to improve the issue of speeding since people just slow down and then speed up once past. Average speed cameras are the only way to ensure a limit is adhered to consistently but owing to the multiple different entry and exit points to the road, it would be extraordinarily difficult to actually enforce average speed checks. Theres the added problem of large poles And cameras lining the streets being an eyesore. Technology will eventually solve the problem with much smaller cams mounted to existing lampposts with computer systems that can cope with all the different surrounding roads and junctions too.

Thanks for your reply, we just booked someone this morning for this though.

On Barry Road 2 or 3 panels and posts need replacing as per photos. Like for like with the rest of the fence.

We are having some issues with our central heating. The system is noisy with lots of crackling and gurgling in all of the rads as the boiler fires up (particularly from cold in the night). We live in a ground floor 2 bed flat on Barry Road. There are just four rads. I have bled all the rads several times but not really any air came out - there are no cold spots. The water that comes out though is quite fizzy so I’m assuming that means there are lots of small bubbles of air trapped in the water. From reading the suggestion is a system drain or a flush. The boiler is a Worcester Junior 24I mk4 and it was last serviced in 2020. We have had times (although oddly not recently) where the boiler bangs after it’s been on for a while. We have also had vibration problems which I believe is caused by two of the rads having had the thermostatic valve installed on the return end rather than the flow. It wasn’t an issue until we swapped the thermostatic valves for hive valves. The hive valves clearly have finer increments on how open they can be because when the valve is nearly at temp, the rads rattle like crazy. The return valves are leaking on both of those radiators also. Looking for a rough estimate for: 1. Swapping the valves around on two radiators 2. Drain or flush of the pipework 3. Boiler Service And anything else that you think it might be? And also a rough idea of availability.. Many thanks

There was a helicopter circling last night for hours. Felt like right above and we’re on barry road. Could be linked.. although could be something else. Always feels disconcerting when it’s up there for so long.

Yeah was going to say, I looked on that map also earlier in the year and there were definitely no 2019 data points. These must have been added recently. Once again, digging beneath the surface reveals just how bogus these ?official? council data figures are.

goldilocks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dougie - try not to come on and mansplain. > > I've even given sources - because unlike > Heartblock I'm a fan of that > > The data shared showed a fall on EDG Central - > this is based on actual data, not made up. There is no mansplaining in my post. Plenty of it (and general condescension) in yours though which is just a bit odd given how misinformed you appear to be.

All you?re spelling out Goldilocks is that you don?t understand the data sitting in front of you. Try again.

kiddie_coach Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi there! > > Has anyone / anyone's partner had a baby recently > at King's? I'm due next month and just looking for > some local personal opinion on how it went, what > the ward/ midwife led unit was like, what > interventions were offered or pushed? > > Any info greatly received. > > Thanks so much! My wife had a baby at Kings last August and the care was second to none. She wasn?t in the suite as she had to be induced - but the midwives were all superb. If you join the east dulwich mums group on Facebook there?s loads of discussion about this so you might find it helpful.

Waseley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Ps written upstairs on number 12 bus ..which is conveniently having its frequency cut yet again. #progress

I shouldn't think rahrahrah will be on again any time soon now that their post has been exposed for what it is. It does seem to me that their trend is to post fake news at times of relative quietness on this thread presumably in attempt to sway fleeting readers who perhaps skip to the most recent page. Then once the fact-checkers come on and put right the swathes of mis-truths in their posts, rahrahrah disappears again for a while until the opportunity arises again. I don't recall any attempt ever by rahrahrah to address questions posed by anti-LTNers on this or the other threads - just statement after statement of 'their truth'.

Goldilocks I thought you placed your steadfast trust in all of the council's information and data online? Yet here you appear to be very suspicious of the information they've put up stating there was no counter before... Epiphany perhaps? ;-)

Anyone know what's going on? Should I be locking doors and windows?