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  Thread: 30 degrees and bus heating on
Post: 30 degrees and bus heating on

Last year you and yours on radio 4 investigated why some of Londons buses had the heating on during a heatwave. It was established that on many buses the heating can only be turned off by an engineer,...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 4 4,830 30-06-2010, 04:44 PM
  Thread: 30 degrees and bus heating on
Post: RE: 30 degrees and bus heating on

It is a big design flaw twitchyarmadillo, but having been challenged with legal ramifications last year, they gave a public assurance to the bbc they would get all heating turned off ( as I said befor...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 4 4,830 30-06-2010, 05:42 PM
  Thread: Black and white cat missing in Kilmorie Road
Post: RE: Black and white cat missing in Kilmorie Road

I have two small cats. In the five years I have lived here I have seen them frequently see off foxes. On one occassion I saw a fox definetly being aggressive to the cat. I think on balance I would be ...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 13 12,687 11-10-2010, 10:12 PM
  Thread: Bogus Window Cleaner
Post: RE: Bogus Window Cleaner

There was a similar scam in Haredon Close/ Dunoon rd last year. The window cleaner managed to get the name of one neighbour....and then went knocking on the doors saying ' I do mrs .... windows regula...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 42 50,853 08-05-2010, 03:24 PM
  Thread: Bogus Window Cleaner
Post: RE: Bogus Window Cleaner

I will say Roz that when the earlier scam happened the police had a very different attitude to you, they stressed no one should feel bad that they had been trusting and had been tricked, and it is a t...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 42 50,853 08-05-2010, 03:28 PM
  Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...

I'd be interested to know if the snt has done anything. I see 3 off the lead ,staffies? using a small grassy area off dunoon rd everyday. There are 20 separate turds there today ( I counted them) I ha...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 68 56,755 17-08-2010, 08:53 PM
  Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...

It's perhaps not so easy to ignore it when you see over twenty craps in an area perhaps four feet by four, and when ,despite seeing the three staffies and the 3 people regularly together letting their...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 68 56,755 19-08-2010, 07:36 PM
  Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...

I saw the same two men with their staffies at 6.50 pm yesterday letting their dogs foul the grassy area at Dunoon rd /Haredon close. I have called the snt three times this week and emailed them. Still...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 68 56,755 27-08-2010, 08:00 PM
  Thread: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & Bovill
Post: RE: Dog c**p around Garthorne, Gabriel, Ackroyd & ...

I tried contacting the snt because I was advised by Lewisham council to do so. As dog fouling is an offence, and as the same 2 or 3 men were here twice a day at a regular times with 3 staffie? type do...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 68 56,755 02-09-2010, 10:16 AM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Hey Roz two great things about going to Dalston are the bagels, Ridley rd market shopping ( and if you get off a bit earlier ) the Geffrye Museum.
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 18-05-2010, 06:23 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Is it opening on Sunday as a one off or is this the real opening for good? thanks
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 20-05-2010, 04:17 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Its good to hear it all went smoothly rbmartin. I enjoyed the trip too but it wasn't quite as smooth as yours, I waited 10 mins at Dalston for a train, there were two on the platforms, the one I was o...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 23-05-2010, 06:31 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

I think using public transport the surrey quays one will be the quickest, but thanks for the suggestion
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 23-05-2010, 07:33 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

actually thinking about your suggestion maybe crystal palace poolbecomes more accessible, I think the surrey quays station is nearer to the pool than crystal palce but it might be worth a try.
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 23-05-2010, 07:38 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

yes you are right, I always get the names of those two stations muddled up.
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 23-05-2010, 10:50 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Does anyone know why does the air con seem to stop when the trains stop ( according to these reports ). My journeys on the ell have been very cool but it seems worrying that as soon as there is a prob...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 25-05-2010, 09:00 AM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Today I traveled from HOP to Mortlake, going HOP to LB Waterloo East, Waterloo to Mortlake. On the return I went Richmond to Waterloo, Jubilee line to Canada Water then Ell. Will I have been charged m...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 25-05-2010, 10:32 PM
  Thread: East London Line
Post: RE: East London Line

Thanks for that, I thought I had been charged more than when I have used London terminals but done the whole journey on NR before the ell opened. I only came back on JUbilee line and ell to see how ea...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 281 296,348 26-05-2010, 11:00 AM
  Thread: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?
Post: RE: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?

well I actually agree to some extent with your sentiments baggydave but I also will be enabled to make the move I have been hoping to make and life style change I have hoped to make for a while, if as...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 30 30,373 20-05-2010, 04:15 PM
  Thread: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?
Post: RE: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?

I am just putting my house on the market and the news from the agents is that some parts of FH is reaching 2007 prices and things are very bouyant here.
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 30 30,373 18-05-2010, 06:18 PM
  Thread: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?
Post: RE: ELL Line to HOP: Will it boost house prices?

I agree it is totally unfair and difficult for younger people, people wanting to trade up, move from a flat to a house etc. I bought my first flat in Hackney and second one in Dalston, I was unable to...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 30 30,373 21-05-2010, 11:23 AM
  Thread: Extension of Lewisham's Garden Waste Collection
Post: RE: Extension of Lewisham's Garden Waste Collectio...

can you inroduce a free collection service for those who choose not to own cars? from their own homes or failing that how about a service I know of in a rural Conservative council where residents choo...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 5 8,385 12-04-2010, 08:23 PM
  Thread: Extension of Lewisham's Garden Waste Collection
Post: RE: Extension of Lewisham's Garden Waste Collectio...

I did pose the following idea to a recycilg officer once. She had told me that the reason Lewisham did not collect garden waste, ( unlike Southwark ) is that it is environmentally unfriendly for a lor...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 5 8,385 13-04-2010, 01:43 PM
  Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Flight Paths over SE23

I thought we were only supposed to have flights for approximately half the day ? On Wednesday I was woken at 4.50 am by a flight and they were constant all morning. That evening I spent time with nei...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 72 70,374 25-06-2010, 08:11 PM
  Thread: General election forum
Post: RE: General election forum

I think Buddhism predates Christianity too, the Buddha lived about 500 years before Christ was born.
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 104 88,847 30-04-2010, 09:19 PM
  Thread: General election forum
Post: RE: General election forum

you are right Jon14 that Buddhists do not believe in a parent figure Sky God, I was suggesting Buddhism was older than Christianity taking the Buddha as the founder of Buddhism who lived 500 years bef...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 104 88,847 01-05-2010, 04:12 PM
  Thread: General election forum
Post: RE: General election forum

Well that is debatable Jon14 unless you still are arguing the creation thing. There is very firm evidence of Hinduism going back 5000 to 6000 years in a very similar form to now let alone what was the...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 104 88,847 01-05-2010, 08:21 PM
  Thread: General election forum
Post: RE: General election forum

I wondere why you asked the original question jon14 if you know the answer ?
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 104 88,847 02-05-2010, 03:59 PM
  Thread: General election forum
Post: RE: General election forum

I think if he has served as a councillor and put effort into that position, then he should be able to stand as an MP without forfeiting his role as a councillor if he is not successful.
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 104 88,847 03-05-2010, 03:27 PM
  Thread: General election forum
Post: RE: General election forum

I don't understand why he would ( until very recently) have had a strong sense of conviction. Many Labour supporters on here have described it as a safe labour seat and it is 85th on the liberals I th...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 104 88,847 03-05-2010, 08:32 PM
  Thread: Honor Oak construction site
Post: RE: Honor Oak construction site

I thought this work was due to the illegal dumping as newforester says. I also thought this was what was causing the subsidence rather than trees which in general stabilise soil. I watched diggers pul...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 12 10,077 18-05-2010, 07:44 PM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

I sent an email to Jim Dowd re traffic calming on Devonshire rd ( see thread) but received no response.
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 11-04-2010, 07:52 PM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

Hello Dylan, I do not know Piglet's situation, nor do I know much about Mr O'Dowd. I can say I was a Labour Party member for many years and gave a large commitment of time and effort in three general ...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 12-04-2010, 08:13 PM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

I left an earlier post which has not had a response, explaining that I do not know Piglet's situation, but that having had a very poor response from Steve Bullock, I had forwarded the correspondence t...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 15-04-2010, 09:27 AM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

Well Piglet, Im not going to agree with that statement, you might be right but I have no idea in truth. I can only make the point that my own attempts to engage with both Steve Bullock and Jim O Dowd ...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 15-04-2010, 09:37 AM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

To be fair Roz, you are right, in my case I should give Mr O'Dowd the benefit of the doubt in that correspondence was not dealt with which could be due to a variety of reasons. It is good to hear he ...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 16-04-2010, 10:37 AM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

Well shzl, it is true I have made an error with a letter in his name but in reality if emails are not delivered they are usually returned to sender as undelivered and that did not occur to mine. Also ...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 21-04-2010, 04:23 PM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

There is an asda on old kent rd, not too far from Downing Street,geographically at least.
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 26-04-2010, 10:33 PM
  Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP

I am not sure Gillian whatshername is making money from this and I'm not sure even if she did it would make up for being branded a bigot/ becoming a lead on the news when she had no intention of that ...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 135 123,530 29-04-2010, 09:50 PM
  Thread: Parking Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking Devonshire Road

Sorting out parking on Devonshire rd by stopping the cut through speeding traffic along it and the feeder roads such as Ewelme, Benson, Dunoon etc, and intoducing a controlled parking zone would ena...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 37 35,439 31-07-2010, 07:49 PM
  Thread: Parking Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking Devonshire Road

I think there are plenty of ways to stop the cut through traffic rhsdunlop. Maybe you are concerned about the effects of stopping it ( on other roads)? Residents of Manor Mount probably have a better ...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 37 35,439 31-07-2010, 10:17 PM
  Thread: Parking Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking Devonshire Road

Yes I understand rhsdunlop, it seems to me most of the cutting through traffic leaves Devonshire by going up Ewelme, Benson, Tyson, Dunoon Rd with a little of it going along to the far end of Devonshi...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 37 35,439 01-08-2010, 11:12 AM
  Thread: Parking Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking Devonshire Road

Hi rhs dunlop. I think your poat shows why consultation is important, it seems you feel you werent consulted and were unhappy with the result. It's interesting you talk about Upland Rd. I walk that wa...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 37 35,439 04-08-2010, 02:22 PM
  Thread: Rubbish in Honor Oak
Post: RE: Rubbish in Honor Oak

I have had long conversations trying to get Lewisham to take action against a particular property, rubbish left out in open containers put out half an hour after the rubish lorry has been and being le...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 6 7,001 30-06-2010, 10:39 PM
  Thread: Sun readers
Post: RE: Sun readers

I think Roz has made her ambiguous remarks about sun readers in other threads. I think much of the Hornimans grants comes from taxes paid by sun readers and many sun readers can see through the line t...
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 23 20,852 24-05-2010, 11:29 PM
  Thread: Owl Spotting
Post: RE: Tawit Tawooo, I'm an Owl

I have frequently heard what seems it might be an owl from Haredon Close off Dunoon rd. Maybe it's the Tyson rd one? I always assumed it might have been from One Tree Hill
tripandfuschia Wider Topics 16 17,850 17-06-2010, 08:53 PM
  Thread: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd
Post: RE: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd

Thanks for the one way suggestion and other contributions. My worry about a one way system is it speeds up the traffic, having just achieved a 20 mph zone. It seems illogical to me that cars park on t...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 70 62,439 09-04-2010, 12:13 PM
  Thread: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd
Post: RE: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd

Well I wish I could oblige Roz, but I think I'm probably moving out of the area soon. Its good to hear that others have tried before. I had the correspondence with the Mayor as described and the discu...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 70 62,439 10-04-2010, 05:39 PM
  Thread: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd
Post: RE: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd

I wonder if the average speeds are so low because at peak times the cars are sitting in traffic jams?
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 70 62,439 21-04-2010, 08:16 PM
  Thread: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd
Post: RE: Traffic calming for rat run on Devonshire Rd

with regards to the idea that people on Devonshire rd should have the final say as it is them who may be inconvenienced by traffic restrictions I have a few points to float....... Many people on Devo...
tripandfuschia SE23 Topics 70 62,439 22-04-2010, 09:42 PM
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