BanJo

Ive pm'd you RCH.

Further to my initial complaint about Barry Road speeds to Southwark after the accident last month, I have received an encouraging response (see below). I think we can be reassured that our issue is definitely on council agenda. I guess we just need to keep vocal about it and hopefully we'll see traffic calming measures put in place soon. "Following on from the 20mph review report we are currently working on a proposal for Barry Road, which will include a mixture of traffic islands, raised tables (similar to a road hump but with a longer plateau), road markings and signage, as well as increasing the number of interventions proposed in the report, to enhance the adherence to the 20mph limit. The proposals will also consider the pedestrians and cyclists that use Barry Road. Speed, and average speed, cameras are not being considered for Barry Road primarily due to the road configuration of Barry Road having many exit and entry points and, to a lesser extent, the parked cars and vegetation that would restrict the camera's line of sight. As a result the cameras would be less effective in catching all motorists who are exceeding the 20mph limit. With regard to the incident you raised, I am waiting on further detail from the Met Police that I hope will help inform the proposal. Currently we are scheduling consultation of the proposal in early September 2018, shortly after the school holidays."

Hi Annie - I've PM'd you

Agreed sally - accidents will always happen but the impact and damage done in a collision is less at lower speeds as we all know. In general, if every car was actually going at 20mph rather than nearer (or over) 30mph, it would certainly make it easier for vehicles emerging from the side roads and safer for those driving down Barry Road itself.

Unfortunately there has been another crash on Barry Road this lunchtime. A car pulled out of Silvester Road in to the path of an oncoming vehicle which then rolled and landed on the opposite side of the road by the driveway to the church. Only one person was in the car travelling down Barry Road apparently but both airbags were activated and the car is very damaged - the driver I understand has been taken to hospital. I hope everyone involved is OK. I drove down Sydenham Hill this morning and noted that due to the 3 or 4 speed cameras, NOBODY does over 20mph and that road similar to Barry Road, has buses going down it and no speed bumps that I am aware of. I'm going to write to the council and I'm happy to organise a petition if there's interest. We need some speed cameras on Barry Road to stop any more people getting hurt.

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It is truly horrible. I took cyclizine during my 3rd pregnancy (suffered with no meds for the first two) which did stop me puking but didn't take away the nausea. You mentioned diet coke - I found normal full fat coke was better - and ready salted crisps. Whatever you can manage really - it makes me smile wryly when people talk about healthy pregnancy diets when I lived on junk and not much else for 9 months! Still they are 9, 7 and 3 now and seem to be completely normal! Best of luck - hope it stops soon.

Happy mummy, I am going through exactly the same thing as you as my mum has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. My children are 7, 5 and 1. Our Macmillan nurse recommended a lovely book called The Lonely Tree by Nicholas Halliday which my (just) 5 year old has really responded to. Its about a young evergreen tree who befriends a very old oak tree who dies. The illustrations are beautiful and you could probably simplify the story for a 2.5 year old. Macmillan also gave us a very useful booklet on explaining cancer to children which is probably available on their website or definitely through their drop in information centre at Kings. I suppose the best piece of advice I have been given so far is that we are their parents, we love them and so we won't go too far wrong when trying to explain to them what is going on ie not to analyse what you say to them too much or beat yourself up about it. Good luck and feel free to drop me a pm if you want to.

With my second, i had some acupuncture at The Vale which I think helped a bit. I could eat something and keep it down after a session there. Didn't do acupuncture with my third as got too weak to get out of bed during the bad months. Cyclozine helped me with the vomiting but not the nausea. It did knock me out though which was great as at least you can't feel sick when asleep! Really feel for you. It was the hardest time of my life (3 times over).