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Thread: Train travel
Post: RE: Train travel
| Traffic and train loads both appear to have got heavier in recent days although I was assuming it was a combination of poor weather and back to school.
The back to school doesn't entirely explain... |
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11-09-2008, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: Point of origin.
Post: RE: Point of origin.
| I'm Scottish - have lived near Stirling, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle before coming to London. Stayed near Wandsworth Common initially which I liked aside from lousy transport (or let's just say in... |
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07-09-2008, 04:14 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23
| Don't think you'd need much security - these things didn't have electronic consoles or anything. They were literally the bare mechanics of what's needed. I'd guess health and safety might be more of... |
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07-09-2008, 12:01 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23
| When I was in Macau earlier this year, we went to a public pack which in addition to children's play areas also had an outdoor gym - exercise bikes, elliptical trainers and a few other pieces of gym e... |
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06-09-2008, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: Holidays without air travel
Post: RE: Holidays without air travel
| I get the train at Christmas - precisely for the baggage reason as it means there are less restrictions on gifts and less likelihood of damage.
If you book far enough ahead, you can get a first cla... |
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19-08-2008, 09:22 PM |
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Thread: Holidays without air travel
Post: RE: Holidays without air travel
| I like flying and fly reasonably frequently - usually up and down to Scotland to visit family for weekend trips but other holidays too. I've done some UK trips but, to be honest, as a single or when t... |
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19-08-2008, 05:22 PM |
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Thread: Recycling
Post: RE: Recycling
| There's a clothes/rag bin in the Harvester car park next to the bottle bins. |
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19-08-2008, 05:12 PM |
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Thread: Duffing
Post: RE: Duffing
| I think I approached duffer status this morning while sitting with my pot of tea, scrambled eggs watching the Olympics with a tear in my eye... Thankfully, I didn't get round to doing the ironing whi... |
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18-08-2008, 12:06 AM |
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Thread: Bread makers
Post: RE: Bread makers
| Surely not - at least single, you can choose the bread you want and happily eat your way through it.
In couple/familydom, you can end up with 'discussions' over whether you're buying white bread or... |
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16-08-2008, 11:03 AM |
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Thread: Crime map of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Crime map of Forest hill
| I was playing with this tool yesterday in the office and you can take it right down to sub-ward level. I stay 'above average' until I do that although the other side of the road is High.
The num... |
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16-08-2008, 11:01 AM |
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Thread: What is there to do?
Post: RE: What is there to do?
| It's worth noting that the Hob is closed for weekend comedy until September since the majority of the country's comdedians are up in Edinburgh. The Thursday pub quiz is still on though.
How new to... |
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05-08-2008, 01:53 PM |
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Thread: Train travel
Post: RE: Train travel
| To play devil's advocate a little... if the trains had sufficient carriages and doors, then perhaps it would be quicker for passengers to alight/board thus avoiding those delays due to people trying t... |
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03-08-2008, 06:21 PM |
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Thread: Local Mobile Signal Strength
Post: RE: Mobile signal in upper Forest Hill
| You can use the Ofcom site below to find where the mobile masts are in your area and which operator they are for.
[url=http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/]Ofcom transmitter maps[/url] |
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02-08-2008, 10:00 PM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: Water problems Honor Oak (Sat a.m. 26 July)
| I was away on Saturday night/Sunday morning but after some spluttering of the taps yesterday evening, it did appear to be particularly fierce in the shower this morning. I was trying to decide whethe... |
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28-07-2008, 09:24 AM |
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Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23
| I'm pretty sure that the first scheduled flights into Heathrow are well before 6am. IIRC, there's a BA flight from Hong Kong that's scheduled to arrive around 5am. So if there's a law against it, it... |
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27-07-2008, 08:22 PM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: Water problems Honor Oak (Sat a.m. 26 July)
| Argh! Must have been what was left in the pipes. Just back in and now no water... |
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26-07-2008, 11:46 AM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: Water problems Honor Oak (Sat a.m. 26 July)
| I heard on the radio that a water main had burst somewhere along the South Circular but I thought it was nearer Dulwich - still, I wonder if the change in pressure there is affecting other nearby are... |
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26-07-2008, 09:38 AM |
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Thread: SE23 v SE22
Post: RE: SE23 v SE22
| I have bought alcohol at 9am before although wasn't intending to drink it until much later in the day - wouldn't want to make a separate shoppign expedition.
And the nail bar on London Road is marv... |
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22-07-2008, 02:22 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers and Gates at FH Station
| 16% more tickets being sold which is good... but potentially 84% of people with tickets being delayed... so the majority still suffer. I'm curious as to whether overall volume has gone up or down - i... |
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21-07-2008, 02:40 PM |
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Thread: Quiet Coach
Post: RE: Quiet Coach
| Long distance trains tend to have one quiet coach - nowhere near 50% of the train. And it's rarely that much quieter unfortunately. Quiet coaches make sense if you're travelling for an hour or so wh... |
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18-07-2008, 09:41 AM |
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Thread: Did the binmen strike today?
Post: RE: Did the binmen strike today?
| Southwark came and emptied mine as usual yet but across the road, the Lewisham bins were left behind... |
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17-07-2008, 11:31 PM |
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Thread: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
Post: RE: Any tattoo'ed amongst us?
| The closed-mind brigade are also strong on this site. ;)
What happened to live and let live? The process of having a tattoo won't make someone more likely to be aggressive, have criminal tendencie... |
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16-07-2008, 10:27 AM |
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Thread: Pedestrian crossing by WH Smith's
Post: RE: Pedestrian crossing by WH Smith's
| [quote]Perhaps you should bank on-line? [/quote]
Unfortunately they won't let me print off my own banknotes though! ;) |
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14-07-2008, 01:43 PM |
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Thread: Pedestrian crossing by WH Smith's
Post: RE: Pedestrian crossing by WH Smith's
| Agree entirely. They're really not particularly useful for pedestrians and it can be downright dangerous if someone sees their train and tries to belt for it (although with the gates they might miss ... |
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13-07-2008, 12:46 PM |
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Thread: Local Mobile Signal Strength
Post: RE: Mobile signal in upper Forest Hill
| My T-mobile was bad. My Orange was a little hit and miss - particularly in the summer (I have no idea whether foliage makes a difference to signal strength but there you go).
I've got O2 now and g... |
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08-07-2008, 11:42 PM |
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Thread: Traffic Lights Honor Oak Road/London Road
Post: RE: Traffic Lights Honor Oak Road/London Road
| Agreed that it would be useful to have a crossing there - although might also make it easier for the bagsnatcher... :unsure:
I suspect TFL would tell us pedestrians that we should use the crossing ... |
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01-07-2008, 09:33 AM |
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Thread: Bag Snatching incidences at Honor Oak Road
Post: RE: Bag Snatching incidences at Honor Oak Road
| Thanks for the warning. I pass that way on occasion and will make sure bag is safely tucked under arm.
One thing I never realised until I had my bag snatched once before is that should you decide ... |
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30-06-2008, 10:31 AM |
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Thread: Jogging in the area
Post: RE: Jogging in the area
| eesh... hate running on a treadmill because the only thing that changes is the time... so you see every second. I can only manage about 20 minutes on a treadmill but can happily do an hour outdoors.
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26-06-2008, 10:38 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23
| It does appear to be grossly underused currently - while the hedges screen it from the traffic, I don't think they encourage people in particularly.
I'd love to see them build a water park there - ... |
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26-06-2008, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: Jogging in the area
Post: RE: Jogging in the area
| I've got a couple of routes that I like to take - but need to expand the range since I'm aiming to do a half-marathon in October.
I really enjoy running down to Dulwich Park and round the loop the... |
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26-06-2008, 10:17 AM |
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Thread: Bogus workman in Forest Hill?
Post: RE: Bogus workman in Forest Hill?
| That's also a favoured way of finding out if anyone is in to see if it's worthwhile breaking in.
The converted house I live was burgled in Jan and I found out recently that another few converted ho... |
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18-06-2008, 02:13 PM |
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Thread: Doorstep scam or fraud
Post: RE: Doorstep scam or fraud in HOP area
| And next time someone does genuinely need help, you'll probably be less likely to help in case of another scam.
That's the worse thing about chancers - they make it more unlikely that those who gen... |
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09-06-2008, 10:41 AM |
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Thread: Dog control
Post: RE: Dog control
| Sorry, I hadn't realised that the SE23 forum required the same debating skills as the Oxford Union.
Without access to statistics, both our arguments come down to personal views. Yours seem to su... |
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05-06-2008, 10:24 AM |
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Thread: Tube pricing
Post: RE: Tube pricing
| I love my Oyster card - so much so that I gave up my Forest Hill rail discount to get one at one point.
It's so much easier to have in the bottom of a bag and just touch it rather than having to ju... |
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04-06-2008, 04:25 PM |
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Thread: Dog control
Post: RE: Dog control
| I'm not a dog-owner but I'll defend them since the majority of people walkings dogs that I see in this area seem to have them well under control and pick up any poo. I did see one guy with a husky-ty... |
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04-06-2008, 04:23 PM |
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Thread: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
Post: RE: Who is the laziest driver in SE23
| I have a neighbour who drives from his house (near the Wood Vale junction with Melford Road) to the butcher's on Wood Vale - that can't be much further than a couple of hundred yards. I once met him ... |
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03-06-2008, 09:59 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers at FH Station
| I wonder what % of people don't pay to justify the inconvenience of trying to force a hundred of so people through just 2 barriers and presumably the extra cost of having someone manning the barrier s... |
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03-06-2008, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: Springwatch
Post: RE: Springwatch
| I have blue tits (fnar fnar!)
For the past 4 springs, I've had blue tits nesting in my kitchen wall. When I had an old boiler removed, a pipe left a small hole to the outside that's way too high u... |
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29-05-2008, 09:26 AM |
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Thread: Big BBQ chimney
Post: RE: Big BBQ chimney
| Sorry - had missed the bit about 5am!
Yup... I'd say that's unreasonable. A loud party til midnight - or even occasionally until 1ish as people lose track of time is understandable.
Suspect I... |
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28-05-2008, 12:18 PM |
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Thread: Big BBQ chimney
Post: RE: Big BBQ chimney
| We live in a city where our neighbours are relatively close to us without us having much choice in who they are. You kinda have to live and let live while having some respect for each other - don't d... |
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28-05-2008, 11:19 AM |
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Thread: Things to do Locally with Visitors
Post: RE: Things to do Locally with Visitors
| Hmm, I've taken Mum to the Horniman and the Picture Gallery. She also enjoys the walk through Sydenham Woods and then down to Dulwich past the Mill Pond etc. Makes her forget that she's in London.
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20-05-2008, 11:38 AM |
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Thread: Conservation area breaches
Post: RE: Conservation area breaches
| I thought you couldn't have them on the roof if they disrupted the skyline? Having them on the back doesn't work if your line of sight to the satellite is at the front of the building.
And while... |
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19-05-2008, 10:32 AM |
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Thread: Oyster Cards and FH Station
Post: RE: Oyster Cards and FH Station
| I just want to be able to pay for my zone extension on my Oyster rather than having to queue up for a ticket that's 60% or so dearer. Since I go to work from Denmark Hill, I can get away with having ... |
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07-05-2008, 11:06 PM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: RE: Buses
| I quite like that you can get on/off from any door since it does make it quicker to load them up.
But as a non-driver and non-cyclist, I still would rather they weren't there. Why? Since they clo... |
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07-05-2008, 09:48 AM |
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Thread: Buses
Post: RE: May mayoral election
| Oh but those 'lovely' 176s now tell you the name of every road you're passing and that you're on a ONE seven six to Oxford Circus - drives me absolutely batty. They need to turn the volume down a lit... |
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06-05-2008, 10:38 PM |
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Thread: May mayoral election
Post: RE: May mayoral election
| It's that executive committee that made me think twice about Boris. Who are they? And would I just be voting for a figurehead? I know that Ken also had a team of people but I had the impression tha... |
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04-05-2008, 04:24 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: We should ban all dogs from the Horniman
| Perhaps I have been lucky but I've obviously missed them - or sit in a different area of the Gardens.
I did say that part of my post was tongue-in-cheek but while I deplore aggressive dogs and feel... |
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25-04-2008, 12:33 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: We should ban all dogs from the Horniman
| Or alternatively, keep the kids on harnesses to stop them picking up poop and banish them to the Triangle where there's already a perfectly good swing park to stop the neurotic non-childrearing majori... |
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24-04-2008, 04:42 PM |
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Thread: Bridge or Underpass?
Post: RE: Bridge or Underpass?
| I use the underpass when I come home from town but only after they closed in the bridge which made it downright depressing and not particularly well-lit. Plus, the other exit and underpass is wider w... |
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23-04-2008, 01:29 PM |
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Thread: SE23 v SE22
Post: RE: I wish...
| Lordship Lane, although busy, isn't as busy as London Road which has all the South Circular traffic on it.
It's also more pedestrian friendly with zebra crossings and because it's narrower, it's ea... |
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