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Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
| My impression is that it would in fact be very difficult for councils to raise council tax next year by more than 2% (allowed by the Chancellor specifically to pay for more adult social care.) I'm no... |
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robin orton |
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12-12-2015, 12:26 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| Embarrassing typo in my post of yesterday. 'He argued forever' should have been 'he argued however.' Apologies to Mr Derby Hill Crescent, who was in fact admirably succinct. |
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robin orton |
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12-12-2015, 12:16 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| Interesting discussion about this at last night's FH ward assembly. I think Cllr Hilton said that the closing date for consultation was today - I see it says here that it was last Friday.
Clear im... |
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robin orton |
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11-12-2015, 08:56 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Thanks, lacb. There is even clearer evidence that in this country the aggressive alien 'train station' is driving out the native 'railway station' [url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=... |
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robin orton |
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24-11-2015, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Wells Park Practice
Post: RE: Wells Park Practice
| I've messaged them too.
I expect the practice manager's email address is a closely guarded secret. |
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robin orton |
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14-11-2015, 06:22 PM |
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Thread: Wells Park Practice
Post: RE: Wells Park Practice
| I told the doctor how awful the new phone system was and how it inhibited me from recommending what was otherwise, in my view, an excellent practice. She sighed and said, 'I know!' I had previously me... |
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robin orton |
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13-11-2015, 10:44 AM |
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Thread: Wells Park Practice
Post: RE: Wells Park Practice
| I agree about the new telephone system (which you have to use if you want an appointment with a nurse or to have a blood sample taken - you can't do that online.) I miss that woman with the American a... |
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robin orton |
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11-11-2015, 11:20 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Why should we have to 'recommend' cuts to the council? Surely that's what we elect them (and pay them and their staff) to decide on our behalf. We, the voters, are not equipped to propose, develop and... |
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robin orton |
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02-11-2015, 11:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I agree with nottinghillbilly. I am an old person with chronic back problems who finds walking long distances, and most other forms of exercise, increasingly tiring and sometimes painful. I have been... |
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robin orton |
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01-11-2015, 09:15 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Thanks again to Cllr Paul Upex. The details of the proposals to end free swimming are [url=http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/documents/s38761/APPENDIX%201%20SECTION%20A.pdf]here[/url] - see parti... |
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robin orton |
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30-10-2015, 01:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Thanks for the offer, P1971 (may I call you P?), but I'd rather continue the discussion in an open forum if possible. |
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robin orton |
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25-10-2015, 06:42 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Thanks to Cllr Paul Upex for referring me to proposal A16 in the document entitled [url=http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/documents/s38308/04SavingsMainReport090915.pdf]Lewisham Future Programm... |
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robin orton |
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24-10-2015, 08:51 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| ''spergy' just noticed on the SE26 forum. Apparently it is usually spelt 'spergy' and means 'socially inept' - a contraction of 'Asperger's'. New to me. |
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robin orton |
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12-10-2015, 03:42 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| Thanks, P1971. I wouldn't have guessed from the description given that the area between Dartmouth Road, Kirkdale, Sydenham Rise and London Road (which is where I live) was to be included. No doubt we ... |
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robin orton |
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10-10-2015, 09:32 PM |
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Thread: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Consultation on Controlled Parking Zone in For...
| Can anyone explain what exactly is meant by 'a network of streets bounded between [by?] Tyson Road, Sydenham Hill and Forest Hill Station'? I have looked in vain online for a map showing precisely whi... |
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robin orton |
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10-10-2015, 03:45 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| That's disappointing. I'd hoped that the answer would be the former in each case. However. You can't stand in the way of progress. |
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robin orton |
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27-09-2015, 08:40 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| 'Saffrn' or 'saff-ron'? 'Hurricn' or 'Hurri-cane'? 'St John's wert' or 'St John's wart'? |
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robin orton |
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27-09-2015, 10:26 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I have just had another go at one of my ward councillors using this modern Twitter thingy, which I gather sometimes gets swift responses. |
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robin orton |
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24-09-2015, 04:43 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| A deafening silence, I see. I have made enquiries of two Forest Hill/Sydenham councillors (who I will not yet name and shame) but have had neither acknowledgment nor response.
I got some more helpf... |
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robin orton |
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18-09-2015, 05:43 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I see on p. 180 of the document to which Philip posted a link it says: 'NB – a separate savings proposal within Public Health suggests the ending of free swimming provision.' Can anyone advise us on ... |
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robin orton |
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07-09-2015, 03:04 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| I have put a cross-reference to this in the FH pools thread - http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=650&pid=70614#pid70614 |
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robin orton |
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05-09-2015, 04:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I see there are proposals afoot which are likely to mean higher charges and reduced services at the pools - see http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=11921&pid=70612#pid70612. Is there any cha... |
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robin orton |
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05-09-2015, 04:38 PM |
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Thread: Cox's Walk closed - man found dead
Post: RE: Cox's Walk closed - man found dead
| Some more detailed information [url=https://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13641]here[/url]. |
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robin orton |
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28-08-2015, 10:47 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| But, on the other hand 'fantastic' (US 'awesome' = 'wonderful') is a Britishism - at any rate according to President Obama, in his recent interview with the BBC . I didn't know that.
The President ... |
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robin orton |
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24-07-2015, 10:42 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| 'Back in the day'. Heard this three times yesterday on the wireless. Only recently noticed the expression, although I see there was a film of the same name in 2014 and I have just discovered from the ... |
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robin orton |
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22-07-2015, 04:20 PM |
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Thread: Water problems
Post: RE: Water problems in SE23 and SE26
| We (up behind FH library) seem to be back on again OK now. |
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robin orton |
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06-07-2015, 02:26 PM |
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Thread: Water problems
Post: Water problems
| Major leak near Wells Park. Apparently Thames Water say should be sorted by midday. |
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robin orton |
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06-07-2015, 07:10 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| If you swim regularly at the same times, as I do, you tend to get on at any rate nodding terms with people who swim at the same time (although with much more difficulty if they wear goggles, because i... |
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robin orton |
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01-07-2015, 03:51 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Actually, it's the women in goggles, not the men, who really frighten me. |
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robin orton |
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30-06-2015, 08:25 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I wish it wasn't necessary for so many swimmers to wear goggles, particularly the ones with dark lenses. The trouble, it makes it very difficult to interact with them - to exchange a cheery smile or g... |
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robin orton |
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29-06-2015, 10:54 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Indeed, but what I was wondering was whether if for any reason (cost, shortage of space) it was impossible to provide a ramp it would be unlawful to build a bridge at all. |
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robin orton |
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26-06-2015, 10:31 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| [quote][b]Michael said[/b]:
Unfortunately all new public footbridges apparently need to be fully accessible (unlike existing ones such as Sydenham Park footbridge), this would mean including lifts ... |
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robin orton |
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26-06-2015, 09:36 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| So the Mail seems to assume that John Humphreys has some special authority to pontificate on matters of English usage. I don't see this myself. I've always regarded him as a linguistic reactionary of ... |
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robin orton |
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24-06-2015, 05:52 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| My wife thinks I'm wrong too. [i]Roma locuta est, causa finita est.[/i] |
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robin orton |
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14-06-2015, 08:05 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| 'Youth' (or 'yoof') as a collective noun (youth club, youth culture) clearly hasn't any ethnic connotations. But as applied to an individual person - a youth/yoof, youths/yoofs?
I first came acros... |
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robin orton |
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14-06-2015, 05:29 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
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14-06-2015, 04:17 PM |
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Thread: The Hob Closed
Post: RE: Future of The Hob
| But not a church please! There are plenty of churches in the area for those who like that sort of thing.
A cinema on the other hand would be really cool! |
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robin orton |
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11-06-2015, 03:18 PM |
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Thread: The Hob Closed
Post: RE: Future of The Hob
| Not a betting shop, tattoo parlour, nail bar, estate agents or fried chicken shop? |
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robin orton |
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11-06-2015, 02:42 PM |
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Thread: The Hob Closed
Post: Future of The Hob
| Someone told me today that they had heard a rumour that the owner of The Hob and of the shoe repairer next door had plans to demolish the building and redevelop the site. Does anyone know whether ther... |
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robin orton |
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10-06-2015, 09:23 PM |
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Thread: Naked neighbours
Post: RE: very odd
| What are the figures for Forest Hill? Nil return from me, I'm afraid. |
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robin orton |
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08-06-2015, 09:25 PM |
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Thread: East Dulwich Picture House
Post: East Dulwich Picture House
| We paid our belated first visit yesterday (to see 'The New Girlfriend - very enjoyable) and were most impressed. It's great to have at last a good cinema so close to FH and so accessible (by 185 and 1... |
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robin orton |
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26-05-2015, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| 'Do sit down.' 'Do try a Duchy Original.' 'Do shut up.'
Is 'do' here (= 'I strongly urge you to') old-fashioned, posh, polite or just British?
'Do debate me, one on one' doesn't sound quite r... |
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18-05-2015, 10:55 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
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06-05-2015, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I still try to remember to write, and say, 'Marseilles' and 'Lyons', and even 'Leghorn' and 'Constantinople', but I recognize that this is looking increasingly affected or eccentric.
A movement in ... |
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06-05-2015, 09:54 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| It says that's the 'local pronunciation.' Are we obliged to use it? |
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05-05-2015, 09:23 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| 'Nepaul' (which is what I was brought up on) or 'Nepahl'? |
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05-05-2015, 07:59 AM |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
| If anyone's interested, I have written a report on tonight's hustings [url=https://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=111364#p111364]here[/url]. |
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robin orton |
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30-04-2015, 11:01 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| My wife and I frequently use the road, during the day, during the evening and at weekends. While it is true that the pub/restaurant customers who park in the evening can cause obstructions, particular... |
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robin orton |
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27-04-2015, 05:54 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| I suspect a significant proportion of the inconveniently parked vehicles at the north end of Dartmouth Road are delivering to or from the shops there. If parking were absolutely banned there, their b... |
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robin orton |
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27-04-2015, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Thanks for 'brachylogia', lacb (although the OED only recognized 'brachylogy' - ='conciseness of speech, laconism; a condensed expression') - a term new to me.
I am sure you are right, that Mr Mil... |
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27-04-2015, 03:46 PM |
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