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Sorry, Louisa, don't know types/styles/makes of prams. I'm a bit of a golden oldie now and wouldn't know the first thing about them, other than it had four wheels ( I know some only have three) and had a child in it.


Hey, I've inadvertainly contradicted myself!!!

NunheadRising Wrote:

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> Ha Ha what a wally. Getting annoyed by lack of

> pavement space. You must have a very relaxed life

> if this is the all you have to worry about.


Just because someone finds something irritating doesn't mean it's their most pressing concern. Weird - perhaps wallyish - idea !

Sometimes I just 'opt out' if there's a group coming towards me taking up the pavement like the 'Magnificent Seven' and obviously going to carry on that way - I just stand still and let them sort themselves out around me. Stops them 'messin with my zen thing'.


HP

MelonSmasher Wrote:

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> the worst is cyclists on the pavement the next one

> I see is getting kicked back on to the road



lol often felt like doing this myself. It happens all the time on corner of Barry & P.Rye. They come off the road onto the pavement & don't get back on the road till they reach the crossing of P.Rye & ED Rd. Drives me mad!

I've come across selfish cyclists on the pavement, one chap, with a Camera attached to his helmet mind, forced a woman with a young toddler out onto the road because he refused to get off and move in a little and wait. Shocking behaviour. My street etiquette is spot on when it comes to moving out the way for disabled, disadvantaged or much older folk.


Louisa.

Nigello Wrote:

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> It happens at least twice a week to me in and

> around SE22/SE15 and at least once a week when I

> am in W1, WC1 etc. Perhaps I walk about too much

> and should stay in, leaving the pavements for the

> cyclists?


I walk and run around London a lot. I just can't believe that you have cyclists pass you on the pavement twice a week.

I would estimate around 3/4 times a week in Camberwell/Denmark Hill, as with Nigello 1/2 times a week in Peckham/ED increasing to a staggering 5/6 times a week if I venture further into town which is rare these days, but when I did it was constant. Suffice to say, I didn't happen to me once in the Grove Park area of Bromley.


Louisa.

Louisa Wrote:

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> I would estimate around 3/4 times a week in

> Camberwell/Denmark Hill, as with Nigello 1/2 times

> a week in Peckham/ED increasing to a staggering

> 5/6 times a week if I venture further into town

> which is rare these days, but when I did it was

> constant. Suffice to say, I didn't happen to me

> once in the Grove Park area of Bromley.

>

> Louisa.


Ah, but how many fatties did you have to negotiate in Grove Park

RRR - Today, Herne Hill at around 1600; last Wednesday, Old Vic; week last Saturday, N X Road (with baby in papoose around neck; fortnight ago, The Cut.... It happens a lot, and I always challenge them (and often get dull, predictable invective back: when people know they're wrong they tend to turn nasty).

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