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I was dismayed to find my post on my trip to see the damage caused in Lordship Lane this morning deleted by the Administrator! Is this some sort of censorship, where only the Administrator can post comments about the disturbances in East Dulwich? I had a few valid points to make about what i saw and some safety advise for the community also. So i would like to know if you are restricting local residents from talking about what is genuinely happening in their area and ultimately safe advise for people to heed.

I'm totally devastated this morning as i walked the dog along Lordship Lane and other parts of Dulwich/Peckham. The scene looks like something out of a war zone! Tesco Metro looted and ransacked and set alight as well as shops along Lordship Lane heading to East Dulwich Station, the station has been closed. All buses suspended. I saw on television that its rioting over London indiscriminately. Leafy suburbs of Hampstead, Ealing, Richmond, Clapham, Camden, Kingston, Croydon all devastated and ablaze. No Police to be seen anywhere. I just raced home with tears in my eyes, as our communities are being trashed, looted and pillaged and any Authority seems to be impotent and lacking. I pray no-one gets fatally injured. Please all be aware and take care coming home from work in the night.

Thankyou for the post and alerting everyone. Hope you are o.k, as it is not a nice experience to be mugged - you should report all details to the police,so they have a record incase the thief turns up again. Well unfortunately our streets are slowly becoming muggers paradise, badly lit, no police presence. Everyone must be vigilant especially outside Train Stations.

Has anybody been watching the Channel 4 programme '24 hours in A&E'? It follows the daily life at Kings College A&E department over 24 hours. I could'nt believe the sort of dregs of the erath people that are treated there, byt that i mean, drug addicts, alcoholics, hooligans. All of them wasting NHS funds - OUR taxpayers funds.... i really felt sorry for those dedicated Doctors/Nurses/Porters that have to deal with all those low-life scum everyday. There really is a case for all these self-inflicted ailments they come in with (dragged in with, by the Police mostly...)- should be made to pay for the medical treatment given - if its possible!. The abuse and violent threats the Staff have to put up with there on a daily basis is very sad and unfortunately symptomatic of some parts of our society. Unfortunately Kings Hospital is the main reception point for certain areas all around East Dulwich/Dulwich Central/Village, which have higher crime figures, especially when it comes to stabbings. It receives the highest stabbing victims of any Hospital in Europe apparently! That was a shocking and sad fact. Now i know where some of our NHS funds are wasted on..!

Thats a terrible thing to happen, but alas, not uncommon. If i was a 6ft man, sprint runner and martial arts expert , i would hesitate at taking on some of these hooded thugs wandering around! I'm a 5ft dumpy round disabled woman, so no use in giving chase....! I see those young hooded boys (and girls) on bikes observing potential victims walking across parks/streets , especially at night time. They have no morals, parental guidance,sense of community - the ones caught commiting crime should be thrown into boot camp - American style, then paraded around their local area with a signboard attached to them. Of course thats not going to happen, because we have too many lily-livered do-gooders around, politicians/magistrates who say we should respect their human rights....the thing is , they are'nt human!. Stay safe and keep eyes peeled at all times.

Thanks for all the tips! I might just try out some of them, i did'nt even realise they done a moth spray.

Does anyone know of an effective way of getting rid of clothes moths - they've eaten a lovely cardigan of mine (again) and now there seems to be a plague of them flying all over the house!

I'm not sure what was wrong with her,but she was in the dairy aisle holding a pot of yogurt - maybe Sainsburys did'nt stock what she was after, but she was'nt very happy bunny!

I was contemplating a lovely day out on Saturday, but first decided to pop into Sainsburys on Dog Kennel Hill in the morning to stock up on provisions. When i got there there was a lot of shouting and screaming from this one woman, who was screaming abuse at anyone who was near her, the poor shop assistants did'nt know what to do, and everyone else did'nt know where to look, finally the Manager (i think) came and with security and escorted her out the store. Did anyone know what was her problem or had any similar incidents like that?

I saw an accident on Friday involving a cyclist and lorry driver - the cyclist, poor thing was knocked aside by this huge skip lorry racing along. Luckily it was non-fatal. I seem to be encountering more and more accidents involving pedestrians/cyclists/motorists and wondering whether its just our roads getting busier every year or people just becoming more blase' about safety these days?

I woke up this morning to find that my big planter pot outside my front door had disappeared! it was big and heavy, filled up with a Yucca plant and did'nt seem like something anyone would want to steal - but they did....they must have ahad a van or large car to have taken it in, unless they lived locally. I'm now wondering whether i should nail and chain down everything in my small front garden! So everyone beware of plant thieves...

I've had door knocking and bell ringing on my door before,it happened over a space of a month then stopped suddenly...I did did found out that it was a bunch of pesky little scoolkids playing 'knock down ginger' n peoples doors, as they done the same tomy neighbour and she spotted them. I live along a route that people pass through so i guess can expect things like that to happen - but next time i'll be ready and waiting....!

Just a warning to everyone to be very careful when you buy second hand furniture. A few weeks a go i bought a leather sofabed and a victorian cast iron bed base (without mattress, all bought inexpensively secondhand and good quality. Had it delivered and setup etc. I spent the first few nights on my itching and scratching, in the mornings i'd wake up with red bite marks across my neck and legs. I did'nt realise what the cause could be until it clicked that i'd just got a bed/sofa. To cut a long (nightmarish) story short, i called in the Pest Control experts and they confirmed it was a infestation of bedbugs! i was totally shocked and very upset. They treated the sofa/bed and the whole bedroom by sealing and steaming the whole room to 70 degrees!.I had to leave the house for a week and move in with a friend till it was finished being treated, in all the total cost was ?750.... So what i thought was a bargain secondhand furniture, ended up costing me hundreds of pounds in the end! so to everyone,just be careful and check before you buy (if one can), as to avoid the 2weeks nightmare i just experienced.

Well i found out that in Australia they are treated as pests but largely left alone, same goes for the yellow-crested cockatoo and other parrots that are considered a nuisance there!. I would swap lovely multi-colored parrots flying around for pigeons anyday...: )

I had no ides that Rhododendrons were considered a plague in Scotland! - they are so majestic and the blooms are wonderful, i can understand Knotweed, as that just takes over a garden once established. I know they are starting to cull Grey Squirrels as i saw it on the news a little while back. Its any wonder how these exotic species survive our harsh winter climate.