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The photo booth in Sainsbury?s Dog Kennel Hill. It is ?6 for 4 but you also get a code which when you do your passport application online you just pop in when asked and automagically your approved photo is there. Went a couple of weeks ago so defo open in lockdown. Tried taking photos at home with phone but couldn?t get any without shadow etc. The booth shows you what the photo will look like before you accept them so you can make sure they meet all the criteri.

Hello councillors. The recycling collection on Bawdale road was missed last Tuesday. It?s now been 3 weeks since the recycling was collected. I put in a missed collection report so mine was collected last week but the rest of the street still need a catch up collection. I can?t work out how to report this. Can you help?

Good luck with it all AnnieC. Rent is going to be your biggest outlay, so as tomskip says I would use https://www.rightmove.co.uk/ to have a look around. You can set the search for South East London and filter by property type, minimum beds. maximum price etc. If you could go down to 3 beds it would make quite a difference in price and perhaps not that much difference to your lifestyle. Just a thought. A car will probably make your life significantly easier. If only for ferrying the kids to and from activities. Obviously it will depend on exactly where you live and if you're all stay at home sorts - but for most SE London families I would say a car is a necessity. You can budget by having a look on https://www.autotrader.co.uk/ On our narrow Victorian Streets most cars get quite a few dents and scratches. We've generally gone for a 2-3 year old Ford with reasonable milage and then not worried too much about the paintwork. The biggest supermarkets where you could budget a monthly shop would be tesco.com and sainsbury's.co.uk For transport costs have a look here https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares?intcmp=54646 If you are going to be going to Old Street 5 days a week, you're better off with a monthly pass. For anything less, you can just pay as you go with any contactless bank card and you get all the benefits of price capping etc. This is useful for info https://visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-around-london/do-kids-need-an-oyster-card

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- .... > any difference in the ****router**** performance, .... > Why? BT owns Plusnet and they use the same kit in > the exchanges. The BT router is better spec'd than the PN one, so that's why you'd perhaps expect to notice a difference. Sue didn't, I certainly did!

You can't pay with cash, so it's either an Oyster or just use a contactless bank card. Just be super careful to always use the same card to make sure you get charged the correct price and benefit from daily and weekly capping. NB: monthly capping doesn't apply to contactless yet, so if you're going to be travelling several times per week a monthly travel card might be better value and you can only get that on an Oyster as far as I know.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And outside the gym and cinema Yes. The angles are deceptive. Looks like there's five paving slabs between ESPH and the bus stop and six between the PO bust stop and the dry cleaners. The difference being that there's often a queue of people outside the post office in that six tile space, whereas at the stop outside ESPH people queue alongside the road for the bus.

I hammer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes I saw him one morning cycling over London > Bridge. > He's a man of the people. I saw him on London Bridge once. Wish I'd chucked him in the Thames now.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The pavement is very narrow there and when there > are people waiting for a bus it is impossible to > walk by and maintain social distancing without > walking in the road. Street widening on the other > side of the road is irrelevant. It?s no more narrow than the stop outside the post office. Especially when there?s a queue of people along the wall for the post office

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > TfL have done the correct thing in closing the bus > stop to safeguard pedestrians. It?s in a part of > Lordship Lane where traffic is heavy, regardless > of what?s happening on the other side of the road, > and pedestrians should not have to walk in the > road there to maintain social distancing. Outside > Mrs Robinson?s would be a far better permanent > position. > > ETA Someone said further up the bus stop shouldn?t > be closed because it meant the elderly and > disabled would have further to walk. Should just > like to point out that pedestrians trying to pass > those waiting for the bus, and the actual > structure of the shelter, also include the elderly > and disabled, and people with push chairs, who > should not be forced out on to the road. The bus stop is on the other side of the road from the street widening. No one would be forced into the road by the bus stop being open.

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The bus stop affected is considerably narrow, so I > understand why they've done it, but I would like > to see it reopen or replaced to a wider part of > the pavement as a temporary measure. Do you mean there's no indent into the pavement where the bus stop is? That's true. But the barrier they've put in to widen the pavement on the east side of the street is only half as wide as the cars and vans that used to be parked there. So as a driver heading south you've now got MORE room than you had before, not less. Plus being barriers rather than vehicles there'll be no pedestrians walking out from behind parked vehicles. So all in all I would say it is now safer to have the bus stop there than it was before.

Is there a means to complain about the closed bus stop? I cannot find anything useful on TFL?s site.

Is it permanently closed?

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > cyclists and pedestrians spend > more money AFAIK that's not true but a misinterpretation of a TFL study - from the team set up to encourage cycling - which fails to account for weight (frequency) of visit * spend.

march46 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People walking and cycling spend more time and > money in local shops It isn't as straightforward as that, sadly. The research published by the TFL team !NB: set up to promote cycling! that has led to this broadly held misinterpretation of the data actually says that pedestrians and cyclists spend less per visit. They spend more over the course of a month, but that's because they visit more frequently. So for example ... Anne lives local, walks to Ye Olde Hi Street Shoppe 4 times per month and spend ?2 per visit = ?8/month vs. Sue who drives once per month but spends ?6. If you know of other data, I would be keen to see it.

I think t might be less to do with Covid logistics and more to do with money https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/10361

See this ... https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/10361 Doesn't bode well, I'm afraid.

In normal times, I would daily take the 07:50(ish) from ED to LBG and would not only expect to get on the train, but would expect to be able to get a seat, and mostly without someone in the seat next to me. This, however was due to an extremely cunning strategy I developed, which almost no one else seems to have alighted upon (excuse the pun) of boarding at the back of the train - the last couple of carriages rather than the first couple of carriages! You'll be fine.

As various have pointed out the fibre bb I the area comes from BT?s pipes regardless of who you buy it from. Some people will notice a difference between provider because - the routers are different - they?ve signed up to an unlimited deal whereas before they were throttled or vice versa - when the changes were made at the exchange a problem in previous set up was corrected Most people can vastly improve their wifi speed by doing a search on you tube and following a few tips about where to put your router and how to set it up. I have flip-flopped between BT - Sky - Plus Net over the last 10 or so years based on who would offer the best deal. The plus net router is horrible if you have a place on different floors or lots of stuff between it and where you mostly use the wifi. BT?s is probably the best router and Sky?s is close (and this May have changed recently -they do sort of go neck and neck). But I?d advise anyone with a house to invest in a mesh router (easily bought on Amazon or in Argos). I bought a very basic system for ?200 and the wifi is like a rocket all over the house. Just plugged it into the PlusNet modem and followed the prompts on the phone app that goes with the system and that was it. The same system will work regardless of which provider's modem you are attaching it too.

We had 2 Maclaren Techno XTs https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maclaren-Techno-XT-Stroller-lightweight/dp/B078WW18HQ Really not fashionable. It will do nothing whatsoever for your yummy mummy / yummy daddy creds. However, it is sturdy, light, does not require an evening being briefed by the engineering department at UCL in order to assemble it, has no unnecessary bulk, lasts forever (ours went from lay flat baby to 'crikey, they really should be walking on their own now') and with a soon learned knack it is possible to put it up / down with one hand and one foot whilst holding onto a child, a take away coffee and waving at the 176 with the other foot. Good luck. All that is well over a decade behind me. So perhaps check for more up to date facts.

Argos has them. ?19.99 In stock at Doh Kennel Hill. Just checked. I think it probably does mean you'll have to queue to get in, but the website is saying order now and collect from 10am. This is what you want ... https://www.argos.co.uk/product/1168790

I am not sure they do exist as a going commercial concern. If you are all Apple, life is quite simple. You set up all the kids accounts under family sharing and can control access from your iPhone. You can set some things to be allowed all the time (maybe phone calls for example) and other things limited to within certain hours and with a time limit too - so for e.g. Instagram can be used between 8am-9pm for a max of 90 mins. The limits work across all devices they are signed into with their apple ID, including iPhone, iPad and Macs. The kids can request extra time from the app they want to use and you'll get an alert on your iPhone and just allow / deny from there. It can be handy if you know it's for homework etc. You can make an appointment for a call with an Apple Genius and they'll sort you out over the phone. Just look up support on the website. I have no idea if there's an Android equivalent, but possibly so. Your Internet Service Provider should be able to tell you over the phone if you can and how to create a second network from you router and how to set-up when it's in operation. I have no idea about Sky or PS4 etc. Hope you get something sorted.

Both seem to be great community schools. If your gut is telling you Heber - then go that way. Are all the open days done? If you have specific questions or concerns you could email the schools and see if you can go back for a revisit. Ours went to Heber and had a fantastic primary education there. They seemed to be fantastic with kids who needed extra support. But I am sure others would say the same about GR. If you are really unsure which, go with the nearest. Good luck.

Try http://www.spanishandcoffee.co.uk/

I have a daughter there in year 9. She didn?t go to the junior school (went co-ed state) joined Syd year 7. She?s been very happy there. Pastoral care has been great. Academically I think they do push kids who they think will respond to it. It?s certainly not a pressure cooker, but like any school, they are Very well aware of the kids they can squeeze a couple of 8s and 9s out of. Like all schools they publish their GCSE results, which seem to be very good an improving. I think Mrs Woodcock does have a plan and ambition to strengthen the academic side of the school overall. It?s a very small school but they offer everything most would want at GCSE and promise to be super flexible for GCSE choice. Though of course there are limits. We?re happy enough with it. Though it?s not without its faults - but then nowhere is. Overall I would recommend it.

EDmummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why not just restore the original ticket hall and > use the existing entrance for exiting only? Am I > missing something? I think they?d be reluctant due to the money made from leasing to the cafe and the pub.