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Thread: (Cancelled)
Post: RE: The Future of the Jerk Cookout
| Yep. I've just voted the wrong way too.:mad: I thought I was voting "yes" to keep it. So the totals are wrong and the "Noes" should outnumber the "Yeses".
It's like one of those LBL consultations ... |
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14-08-2009, 05:21 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The moves over the Pool and Louise House are so depressing, but I wonder what is going on. Incompetence might be one way of explaining it, and the tragedy/farce over the new school in the north of the... |
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08-05-2008, 11:11 PM |
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Thread: Dog mess
Post: RE: Dog mess in HOP
| [quote=Neighbour]
I have caught a dog and his owner in the act once.
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dog AND his owner - that really is beyond the pale |
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08-05-2008, 11:15 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I would use the new pool if it were built, although I notice that the showers arrangement on the new plan appear to be along the lines of the miserable two public dribbles which constituted the old sh... |
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01-08-2008, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: One Tree Hill
Post: RE: Dog walkers on One Tree Hill
| The commercial dog walkers are on One Tree Hill every weekday and whilst I think there is no malice aforethought, it is pretty inconsiderate to other people using the leisure space. It is ironic to th... |
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01-08-2008, 12:26 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The trouble with 'whatever' is it might just be housing ... at some point, when the market "picks up" ... and this is clearly dreamt of with the coming of "rail improvements".
I think it is right t... |
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01-08-2008, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: One Tree Hill
Post: RE: Dog walkers on One Tree Hill
| I've just found this photo of the "meadow" which has been churned up by the packs of dogs let lose on the hill.
The issue is about balance and the purpose of the hill - a community facility and Loc... |
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01-08-2008, 11:37 PM |
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Thread: One Tree Hill
Post: RE: Dog walkers on One Tree Hill
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01-08-2008, 11:41 PM |
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Thread: One Tree Hill
Post: RE: Dog walkers on One Tree Hill
| I think there is widespread concern about the commercial dogwalkers, which extends beyond the limits of this thread. Many people have said that they have been/felt harassed by 'packs' of dogs, and whi... |
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07-08-2008, 01:05 PM |
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Thread: Parking problems questionnaire
Post: RE: Parking problems questionnaire
| [quote]we had survey in Devonshire Road and they [LBLewisham] said afterwards most people did not want any change so there would be none.[/quote]
Mmmm, they did the same in Hengrave/Boveney and sai... |
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28-10-2008, 11:45 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Rail Station
Post: RE: HOP train station ticket machine
| [quote]Wow. I feel like breaking into song.[/quote]
I feel like breaking something, but not into song. It took over 10 minutes to buy a ticket this morning, just missed a train as a result, the one... |
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kipya |
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28-10-2008, 11:54 PM |
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Thread: Snowing!
Post: RE: Snowing!
| Snow joke! I've just looked out the window! |
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28-10-2008, 11:57 PM |
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Thread: Parking problems questionnaire
Post: RE: Parking problems questionnaire
| A couple of parking wardens along Devonshire Road, junction Honor Oak Park, at 9:30 in the morning would cover their pay for a month or two in one swift hit.
It would be parking ticket heaven.
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29-10-2008, 03:23 PM |
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Thread: Parking problems questionnaire
Post: RE: Parking problems questionnaire
| I guess that people with cars will be upset to be told they can't park them where ever they like, and as we know, LB Lewisham are extremely loathe to upset anybody.
There is a car parked on the cor... |
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05-11-2008, 04:37 PM |
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Thread: Parking problems questionnaire
Post: RE: Parking problems questionnaire
| [quote]What?[/quote]
Precisely what I wrote in my posting ... nothing. |
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05-11-2008, 05:27 PM |
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Thread: Parking problems questionnaire
Post: RE: Parking problems questionnaire
| [quote]Perhaps we ought to ask the council Health and Safety dept what is their definition of a pavement and who should use it.[/quote]
That's a good idea. I'll send my collection of pavement parki... |
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05-11-2008, 06:27 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| If you think the rush hour is bad, I travelled into town yesterday afternoon. The 16:02 was cancelled, the 16:14 was cancelled and the 16:25 was late. 1hr10min to get to Waterloo. Crazy. |
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27-11-2008, 12:26 AM |
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Thread: Economic slowdown
Post: RE: HOP Delicatessen
| Some small businesses struggle, and some don't. Economies of scale give a lower unit price and probably some greater freedom of movement for development, but big companies go under too - eg MFI, Wooli... |
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kipya |
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09-01-2009, 10:59 AM |
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Thread: Pool Poll: Which pool option do you prefer?
Post: RE: Pool Poll: Which pool option do you prefer?
| I'm not sure what statistically valid means in this instance. Any sample is only as good as its degree of representation of the parent population. In the case of opinion surveys the only things that c... |
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14-02-2009, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The Council has been at best inept and at worst mendacious. It is clear that the strategy, described many years ago by Jim Dowd as I recall, is to keep having a vote until people get the right answer.... |
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01-04-2009, 11:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| So the vote went the Council's way? Hm.
A case of repeating the vote until it comes up with the 'right' answer?
It has been clear from the outset that the Council is only interested in building... |
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21-06-2009, 02:02 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
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21-07-2009, 03:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
Post: RE: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
| I think that 20mph would be a very sensible limit in residential roads. Oddly the maximum throughput of traffic through a single lane and keeping safe distances is achieved at just under 20mph. That m... |
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28-08-2009, 12:26 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| Hanging around is precisely the problem. I travel frequently in the winter from Waterloo to HOP in the evening 8:00-9:00pm and it is easy and pleasant to aim at one of the two trains an hour from Char... |
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28-08-2009, 01:42 PM |
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Thread: What's happening on building site by HOP station?
Post: RE: What's happening on building site by HOP stati...
| It's clearly a brownfield site (it looks pretty brown to me). It's not a back garden so ... an ideal spot for some tower blocks. It would be in keeping with Tyson Gardens development. |
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10-08-2010, 03:57 PM |
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Thread: What's happening on building site by HOP station?
Post: RE: What's happening on building site by HOP stati...
| That sounds like an excellent idea.
The cult of the dead seems to be a growing phenomenon with this extension to the necropolis being one further example. The proliferation of benches in memorium ... |
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10-08-2010, 04:45 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| At the risk of muddying the waters, I have recently received a form from Lewisham Hospital which declares it is recording patient diversity. It asks you to choose from 70 different "ethnic" options.
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10-08-2010, 06:26 PM |
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Thread: Has the P4 bus been running?
Post: RE: Has the P4 bus been running today?
| There were lots of P4s yesterday, and some had a party at the top of Honor Oak Park [attachment=473] |
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02-12-2010, 08:01 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
| This is a seriously good idea. The twin lanes over the bridges are clearly not needed since either side of the bridges the traffic is squeezed into one lane or less (going up Honor Oak Park is often h... |
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01-01-2011, 12:11 PM |
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Thread: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Woolstone rd square
Post: RE: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Wo...
| Ah the cat burglar (see thread 'Burglaries'). The cure, it would appear, would be to catch the cat and punish severely - with the cat? (pace Brian). Some would simply have the cat left to rot in a whe... |
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01-01-2011, 12:25 PM |
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Thread: Devonshire Road - residents parking
Post: RE: Devonshire Road - residents parking
| Returning to the original post by devonshoreroad then parking in Devonshire Road (HOP end) is a real problem. It doesn't stop there, of course, but spreads into Boveney Road and Hengrave Road (and I d... |
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11-01-2011, 11:17 AM |
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Thread: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Woolstone rd square
Post: RE: Clever cat of the Shipman/Siddons/PerryVale/Wo...
| Have you considered that it might be a squirrel? Even worse than ratsncats. |
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24-01-2011, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| the argument seems to have become somewhat confused. In terms of economics it makes no difference whether a service is provided by the public or private sector. Production takes place and and a cost a... |
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20-10-2011, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| What has "Labour" got to do with the issue?
I agree with Brian that "We must expect to save ourselves for old age". There is nothing to be gained from dying beforehand. However, having gone throug... |
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21-10-2011, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| Reduced pensions, higher university fees, cuts to schools, the breaking up of the national health service and so on are fundamentally about an ideological stance which asserts that markets are better ... |
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26-10-2011, 12:22 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| What is "the state gold plated pension"?
The "state pension" usually refers to what people draw at 60-65 resulting from the NI contribution system.
What does "gold plated" mean? The repetition ... |
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28-10-2011, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: Parking on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking on Devonshire Road
| The parking on Devonshire Road is awful and, now that the roadside is full up with cars, moving completely onto the pavements is the obvious next course of action. Here is a photo taken the other day.... |
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02-11-2011, 12:14 AM |
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Thread: Parking on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking on Devonshire Road
| ... and while I'm at it, on bin days the pavements are all but impassable. Another picture here showing not a lot of walking space. I've no idea how people with push chairs, or anyone with mobility pr... |
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02-11-2011, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| confusion all round, but not helped by commentators in the press who want to suggest that the cause/cure of the current crisis in the public sector.
The application of 'gold plated' to pensions was... |
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02-11-2011, 12:48 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| There's nothing like making it up as you go along, eh?
Brian quotes £250m for bombing using old data - or just making it up?
Andrewr says "The fact is that the private sector has recognised that... |
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04-11-2011, 12:35 AM |
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Thread: Parking on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Parking on Devonshire Road
| [quote] Like it or not, we now have far more cars and far fewer pedestrians - so long as there are pedestrian facilities, let's not unnecessarily obstruct cars.[/quote]
This is not quite the case, is... |
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04-11-2011, 01:00 AM |
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Thread: Occupational Pensions
Post: RE: Occupational Pensions
| The point about elections is that the 'winner' is based on who actually votes, not who could vote. If the 50% rule applied to local government elelctions then in the main no councils could be elected.... |
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04-11-2011, 07:34 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| It looks like Lewisham are taking the opening seriously offering an opportunity for people to [i]watch[/i] others demonstrating and showing off the facilities. However nice all this jolly stuff is, it... |
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01-09-2012, 07:41 PM |
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Thread: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
Post: RE: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
| I have to say that this is pretty unnerving - I walk up from the station at all times in the evening. I have also noticed that there are no lights on the west side of Devonshire Road between Honor Oak... |
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12-01-2013, 06:13 PM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Park station staff
Post: RE: Honor Oak Park station staff
| I think that many of the staff at the station are there to signal the trains are able to leave. Since longer trains have been introduced there must either be a visual system for the train driver to se... |
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12-01-2013, 06:24 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| I don't like the new lamp posts much either, and the sharper focusing of the light gives a more patchy and less holistic feel to streets. Still, I'm sure they will be cheaper to run, which I guess is ... |
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14-01-2013, 12:08 AM |
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Thread: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
Post: RE: Robbery honor oak park - be alert
| I don't like the new lights. I was quite happy with the old ones, which always seemed bright enough to me. My house now has every room lit throughout the night with a lamppost at the front and another... |
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14-01-2013, 12:21 AM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| The council resurfaced and repaved our road so that it looks really wonderful. Prior to that the pavement had been pock marked with splodges of black tarmac which looked really ugly. The tarmac only w... |
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11-02-2013, 06:13 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| yeah, and there has been so much rain since they announced the drought last Spring. Let's hope they don't announce another one before Easter.
Street furniture and paving make such a big impact on t... |
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11-02-2013, 07:40 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| RHS - I contacted Lewisham who put me through to Skanska. The person tasked with fending off enquires is marc.zahra@skanska.co.uk
However there replies are badly written and intone 'energy efficien... |
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12-02-2013, 11:22 AM |
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