hellosailor

Wrongly or rightly I assumed when the OP said ?perched? they meant precariously balanced not in a child seat. My point was very much about adults who balance kids on their bikes without seats which is not an uncommon sight, not about cyclists who use child bike seats. I meant my doc friend said he and his colleagues were appalled by that, not children in proper seats to be clear..

I?m confused, have you read the original post? I?m responding to the exact subject raised..

Can you really not see the difference between someone cycling with a helmet sitting on the seat and someone perching a kid on the handlebars with no helmet? You genuinely feel that putting a child in the back seat of a car with a seat belt on or walking down a pavement with them is the same in terms of the risk you?ve exposed them to? If my kids were hit by a car walking down the pavement I would feel horrified but not that I?d done anything that was a mistake but if my child was injured because I balanced them on my bike with no helmet on I?d feel absolutely stricken with guilt. So no, In answer to your question my friend has never mentioned despairing of the parents decision when a child has been injured by a car mounting the pavement or while strapped into the seat of a car because it?s sinply incomparable. Presumably you think proper safety seats for children to ride on a bike with an adult are for snowflakes and a waste of cash when the kid could just balance and grip onto part of the frame? I genuinely can?t get my head round this viewpoint.

When I see someone cycling on a busy road with their child perching on the cross bars or getting a backy my mind boggles. It?s especially bizarre when only the child or only the parent is wearing a helmet yet the other isn?t, what?s the thought process? However good a cyclist you are you can never trust that a bad driver or even a good driver who is distracted by something doesn?t hit you. I have a friend whose 4 year old son ended up seriously injured in hospital because they were cycling on a road with the boy perched in front of the dad on his bike and they were knocked off by a car. I can?t even begin to imagine what they said by way of explanation to the paramedics or to their child who presumably assumed he was safe because his parents were saying it was ok. No parent is perfect but it blows my mind when I see this. Another friend works in Kings A&E and says they genuinely despair when kids get brought in because an adult has risked this. Edited to add : this isn?t an anti cyclist thing, I?d think the same if people drove around with kids sitting on their car bonnet or boot. I?m 40, I can?t drive, I haven?t got a pro car / anti cyclist agenda. It just seems nuts.

When I walked past earlier the tank and terrapins were gone.

Admim I know this should prob be in the Wanted section but I need it asap so posting here where it will get seen by many more people in the hopes I can find one asap, hope that's ok. Looking for a duffel coat for a girl in size 5-6 ideally but could be 6-7. any colour in good conditon considered, thanks! x

when they're older this might work (expensive!) but not sure what you can do in the meantime unless you put the 5 year old in the front and the adult passenger goes in the back for a few months.....? https://multimac.co.uk/home

Would you be prepared to say where you live Sol? I?m curious about how far charter ED catchment is going to go with the shake down of places xx

Thanks bodsier, where did you find that info?

He came to ours as well, also on Upland, and was arsy when I said I couldn?t talk because my 4 year old was having a sobbing meltdown, which he could see for himself as it was happening in the hallway!

What's the furthest kids have got in from? Does anyone know? Thanks

My friend, a local shop owner enquired and was told 70k a year by the estate. Perhaps they?ve brought it down to 50k now, still ludicrous, especially when factoring in the low passing trade in the village

Lucy the goodrich catchment was unusually small this year due to an unheard of amount of sibling places. It's likely to be bigger this year so you stand a very good chance of getting in.

He knows that he's being discussed on the forum because many of the people who have taken him food / blankets / clothes / sleeping bags (sleeping bag was destroyed in the fire, someone earlier in the thread was asking about giving him a sleeping bag) have told him that they found out about his plight by reading the thread. He was also interviewed for a local newspaper which was how others found out about his situation. He doesn't feel offended or patronised, he says he feels very touched that people are doing what they can to help him.

That's precisely what some people have said.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Colluding with an ill person will keep them a > rough sleeper and increase their chance of dying > this winter. > A blanket won?t stop pneumonia. Let Streetlink do > their stuff. Alice, he was in a half way house for a while, he says he was placed with a heroin addict and a paranoid schizophrenic and couldn't cope with that environment where he felt less safe than on the streets. If people find it galling that others are trying to make sure he has blankets, food etc then perhaps best to avoid this thread because I really can't see why anyone would follow it if they felt that way. As others have said, helping Paddy does not preclude helping others, volunteering or giving to charity. It depresses me that people have come on the thread to patronise and talk down to those who do care enough to help. Rather than asking admin to close the thread maybe just don't read it? Might be a less drastic solution than locking a thread about something that lots of people do care about just because you don't feel the same.

Sweetgirl if you don't have a spare room but would feel comfortable asking him to live with you then I'm sure he would be very grateful for the sofa

Just as I ask. He was a legend. I think he?s still doing the blackheath coach run.

What an utterly bizarre sentiment, being concerned about one person doesn?t mean you?re not concerned about others. People aren?t ?fascinated? by him. They?re worried about him. Because he?s homeless. And unwell. And has one leg. And it?s freezing. And the sparse shelter he?s made for himself has burnt down just after he?s had an operation.

Hi admin, I posted this in the general section (as the other thread about this man is) specifically because I wanted the most people to see it. I?m not a naughty plumber who has posted in the wrong section. I understand that you might not deem this to be strictly speaking a general East dulwich topic but I hoped on Christmas Day, when a homeless amputee has had their possessions burnt to a cinder in our immediate area you might be a bit flexible. You live and learn. The thing is homelessness in our area IS a general issue not a lounge issue.

Sorry, to clarify, I?m talking about the homeless man who has made a makeshift hut in the wall of the uninhabited grove tavern / old harvester

Hi, Keen to find out where he has gone to if his ?hut? has been destroyed by fire so I can take him stuff, if anyone sees him and where he?s set up camp could you please message to let me know so I can take him stuff, many thanks

So there?s definitely been a fire in his hut? Does anyone know if it?s habitable and he?s still in there?

You can choose to have an elcs for those reasons now xx

I was in the queue when it reopened too, no carnage at all just a queue of people waiting patiently in good spirits