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Thread: Weeds
Post: RE: Weeds
| I agree it can look shabby. It's been going on since austerity measures hit local authority budgets. BUT not spraying allows all the wild flowers to seed as well - there are lots of poppies and other ... |
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25-06-2015, 04:19 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Mr_Numbers - did say I was sure it wasn't you. :cool:
Lots of places around London already use licence plate recognition for parking. Paying by mobile even without recognition systems has been arou... |
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24-06-2015, 01:38 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| When you say 'pick one up on the way in' to Perry Vale car park, I'm sure you don't mean you are one of the people who stop their car on the entrance ramp (thus blocking cars coming in behind you) hop... |
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24-06-2015, 08:52 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| Do people even know the Sainsbury's car park exists? I'd lived in the area probably a decade before I worked out where it was. |
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23-06-2015, 01:53 PM |
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Thread: Black paving maintenance
Post: Black paving maintenance
| I need an area of my block paved driveway re-laid where a sink hole appeared after the very wet winter two years ago. I need someone who knows what they're doing to take it up and create a new stable ... |
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21-06-2015, 08:19 PM |
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Thread: Pedder & Co advertisement boards
Post: RE: Pedder & Co advertisement boards
| Blaming the agency is no excuse - Pedder employ them, they are responsible.
If they did it to me I would do two things:
Notify them via Twitter (nice and public) that they (or the company they emp... |
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19-06-2015, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: Pedder & Co advertisement boards
Post: RE: Pedder & Co
| The whole street? Something has gone very wrong somewhere. I'm sure they're not allowed to do that. I'll be interested to hear what they say about it. I shouldn't think the school involved will be ver... |
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19-06-2015, 07:07 AM |
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Thread: Pedder & Co advertisement boards
Post: RE: Peddler & Co
| I would hazard a guess it was a genuine mistake and they got the wrong house. |
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18-06-2015, 10:32 PM |
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Thread: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
Post: RE: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
| Okay, I've read that, I'm still not convinced it's at all common. The thrust of the argument is that you get to the brake more slowly if you use the same foot for the brake and the accelerator. It's j... |
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17-06-2015, 05:20 PM |
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Thread: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
Post: RE: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
| What makes you say this is 'common', though? Are there statistics? I've been driving an auto for ten years. If I hit either pedal in mistake for the other, I wouldn't KEEP ON pressing it in confusion.... |
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17-06-2015, 03:21 PM |
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Thread: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
Post: RE: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
| Assuming by throttle you mean accelerator, I don't see how this would happen any more with automatics than manual cars. In both cases, you use the right leg for both brake and accelerator, and both ar... |
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17-06-2015, 01:49 PM |
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Thread: Southwark 20 mph speed limit
Post: RE: Southwark 20 mph speed limit
| There's nothing so much fun as slowing down to 20 mph (not that I do much more than that, honest) for the speed camera on Sydenham Hill only to have someone behind honk, flash their lights then roar p... |
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15-06-2015, 02:37 PM |
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Thread: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
Post: RE: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
| And how fast do you have to be going to flip your car by clipping a stationary one? In a Quashqui?? |
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15-06-2015, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Youths - not pejorative. For example, many of the services for young people are referred to as 'youth' services. If I wanted to identify a lad (not a girl) who was neither a boy nor a man, I might ref... |
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14-06-2015, 05:39 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Is this in reference to my usage of 'yoofs' elsethread? Because it didn't refer to any ethnic group, and I don't think of the terms excluding white kids. |
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14-06-2015, 04:23 PM |
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Thread: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
Post: RE: Accident on Perry Vale NOW (Friday 12th June p...
| Not that I could tell. One car on its roof. Gaggle of 'yoofs' hanging around, but I have no idea if they were involved or not. Police hadn't closed the road when I went past, I don't know if that indi... |
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12-06-2015, 06:06 PM |
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Thread: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
Post: Accident on Perry Vale Friday 12th June pm
| Some smart-alec has turned a car over half-way down Perry Vale. Police are in attendance, traffic snarling up as of 5pm tonight. |
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12-06-2015, 05:18 PM |
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Thread: No Post for 4 days Ewelme Rd
Post: RE: No Post for 4 days Ewelme Rd
| On a perhaps related issue, did anyone else notice that after the Post Office in WH Smith's was refurbished (to add the completely unused and unnecessary finaincal services room), almost all the staff... |
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03-06-2015, 07:53 AM |
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Thread: Attempted break in, middle of the day
Post: RE: Attempted break in today, middle of the day
| I have been burgled (or attempted) three times over the years, always during the day. It's when people are most likely to be out, or in but with doors unsecured. |
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24-05-2015, 10:45 AM |
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Thread: Love Letter to Forest Hill
Post: RE: Love Letter to Forest Hill
| I read this on the FH Soc Facebook page. It's wonderful. |
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19-05-2015, 09:02 AM |
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Thread: Ice Cream Van Chimes
Post: RE: Ice Cream Van Chimes
| I wish they were allowed to play the chimes for a little longer. I hear it from my back garden, but can't quite locate from there where it is. I go back into the house, get my keys and my purse, ask t... |
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14-05-2015, 09:30 AM |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
| George Whale 44. Jim Dowd must be very pleased with himself for refusing to stand on a platform with such a dangerous person. |
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08-05-2015, 08:32 AM |
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Thread: So Who To Vote For
Post: RE: So Who To Vote For
| So, unlike in the real election, you can vote as many times as you like in that poll. I voted five times for my preferred party and pushed their result up by 2 percentage points. So also a very small ... |
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06-05-2015, 05:51 PM |
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Thread: So Who To Vote For
Post: RE: So Who To Vote For
| Oh, so it's a poll of people looking at the ITV website? Yeah, not exactly scientific, or immune to being rigged, or people taking the proverbial.
If the results come in on Friday morning in those ... |
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06-05-2015, 05:25 PM |
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Thread: So Who To Vote For
Post: RE: So Who To Vote For
| I must be blind, I still can't see it. Can you click on the story and post the specific link? |
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06-05-2015, 05:10 PM |
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Thread: So Who To Vote For
Post: RE: So Who To Vote For
| What poll? I can't see anything like that on the ITV website. |
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06-05-2015, 04:43 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| I was looking at the space outside the Sylvan Post the other day and it is very deep indeed. The tables only take up the back half. Of course, the problem is that the unused half provides a buffer are... |
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06-05-2015, 02:07 PM |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| By the time they are eleven, they can take themselves to school. Yes, even if it requires public transport. Mine have done a journey involving two buses since that age. The issue is really about young... |
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01-05-2015, 01:57 PM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| The current length of red-route marking is ridiculously short, ending well before the road narrows at Bunka. It then goes to a single yellow, which is what causes problems in the evenings and weekends... |
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29-04-2015, 02:35 PM |
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Thread: Idiot drivers, this time Mayow Road
Post: RE: Idiot drivers, this time Mayow Road
| Thinking of getting a dash cam myself after a London bus ripped up the side of my vehicle while I was stationary and then spent six months refusing to admit liability, 'losing' the CCTV footage from t... |
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28-04-2015, 07:25 AM |
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Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
| I beg to differ. A certain trader frequently has their van parked half-on, half-off the pavement and causing an obstruction. As someone who uses the road frequently, I know that as many problems are c... |
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27-04-2015, 05:36 PM |
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Thread: Idiot drivers, this time Mayow Road
Post: RE: Idiot drivers, this time Mayow Road
| There is an issue on that part of the road as to when you should filter into two lanes. If there is nothing coming the other way and you are going for the right-hand lane, at what point do you move ou... |
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25-04-2015, 07:39 PM |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
| Well, exactly. I'm betting that up until now, every public appearance made by such people is to a room full of people who already support them. Put them in a room of general electors and let them espo... |
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25-04-2015, 11:59 AM |
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Thread: Bird identification
Post: RE: Bird identification
| If you have a smart phone, you can get a bird ID app that records then analyses the sound. |
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24-04-2015, 07:18 PM |
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Thread: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council Homes, Demands MP Candidate
Post: RE: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council ...
| Your assumption is not reasonable. It is baseless.
Was it the University of Westminster that awarded your doctorate? If so, I'm sending mine back. |
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24-04-2015, 03:16 PM |
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Thread: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council Homes, Demands MP Candidate
Post: RE: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council ...
| I'm not denying your right to free speech. No one on either forum has. I'm also free to say I'd rather not read your fictious claims masquerading as facts, and to apologise to like-minded forum member... |
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24-04-2015, 01:43 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Maybe he actually meant 'debate me' i.e. they have a debate on the subject Ed Miliband.
No? Okay, maybe not. |
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24-04-2015, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council Homes, Demands MP Candidate
Post: RE: Evict Foreign Nationals from Lewisham Council ...
| Dr Whale has been very busy posting fictious statistics on the Sydenham Town Forum and robustly challenged on it. I fear it's my fault he's turned up here, as I mentioned the hustings thread here on o... |
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Thread: Sainsbury's Forest Hill - Sunday Opening Hours
Post: RE: Sainsbury's Forest Hill - Sunday Opening Hours
| It's swings-and-roundabouts, though, Mr_Numbers. We have Sunday lunch rather than dinner and a 10am start would suit us better! |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| I agree, it's hard on local families and really no one's fault except those who have failed to provide enough school places.
However, have those of you who are against the sibling policy for prima... |
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17-04-2015, 10:13 AM |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| Okay, having taken a quick look on Mumsnet (not my favourite place, but just for the purposes of research), it seems many people DO take rentals for a short periods of time to get into schools then mo... |
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16-04-2015, 04:09 PM |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| I've just looked at Graveney's admission policies and they are bizarre. They take up to 63 children into Year 7 on ability (according to a test done just in Wandsworth) and the rest on the usual state... |
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16-04-2015, 03:11 PM |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| There's a whole lot of issues there, foresthillier.
Did that MP subsequently move away again once he got his daughter in but continue to send his younger children there? Because that's the behaviou... |
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16-04-2015, 02:30 PM |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| I suspect the new policy has more to do with councils finding it difficult to place children, and the rights of siblings places a restriction them they could do without. If they exclude siblings where... |
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16-04-2015, 01:47 PM |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| The question is: how does getting your child into the school then moving serve as an advantage to you, the parent? A small minority might do it for selfish reasons (such as reducing their housing cost... |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| i don't have a problem with your use of which or that, but the correction may have been offered for clarification. As it stands, it's not clear if the 'which' is going to refer to the labour pains, or... |
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14-04-2015, 04:41 PM |
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Thread: Snooty Charity Shops
Post: RE: Snooty Charity Shops
| I've pretty much given up donating to charity shops too as I'm doubtful that things don't just end up in landfill. That's not to criticise the shops - they have limited resources and staff. But unles... |
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Thread: Snooty Charity Shops
Post: RE: Snooty Charity Shops
| British Heart Foundation also do collections, especially for larger items or if you have a large quantity to donate. The Catford branch collects from SE23. |
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Thread: African Restaurant opposite FH station
Post: RE: African Restaurant opposite FH station
| What is encouraging is the fact they have already have experience running a successful restaurant, and that they have chosen FH for their expansion. Bodes well, I think. |
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08-04-2015, 02:16 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Roz - are you referring to Louise House in your last paragraph? Or some other building? Because Louise House isn't derelict. |
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