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  Thread: Deceased cat
Post: RE: Deceased cat

No-one claimed the cat yesterday, and concerned about it being dragged around by foxes etc i reported it to Lewisham's Enviro service and they removed it earlier today. Should anyone need to contact t...
Red67 SE23 Topics 1 2,878 22-05-2017, 02:18 PM
  Thread: Deceased cat
Post: Deceased cat

Sad to report that there is a dead cat (quite large, black and white short hair) that has been hit by a car about half way along Sydenham Rise on the Triangle Park side of the road just up from the bu...
Red67 SE23 Topics 1 2,878 21-05-2017, 08:30 PM
  Thread: Forum confusion
Post: RE: Forum confusion

Not due to any particular preference of platform, but more from some of the ill-informed and occasionally borderline (or over the line) offensive things i have read on both forums by particular people...
Red67 SE23 Topics 41 30,279 10-05-2017, 12:21 PM
  Thread: Forum confusion
Post: RE: Forum confusion

...and from the link above, the part that i think says it all is the comment: "I'm always ready to be condescended by Guardian readers trying desperately to establish their moral high ground and fi...
Red67 SE23 Topics 41 30,279 10-05-2017, 11:22 AM
  Thread: To today’s mattress flytipper on Horniman Drive
Post: RE: To today’s mattress flytipper on Horniman Driv...

..you can add the 'every weekend like clockwork' flytippers who keep dumping stuff on Sydenham Rise. Probably the same people doing a 'i'll clear your cr*p for 20 quid, no questions asked' number who ...
Red67 SE23 Topics 8 10,405 04-04-2017, 06:54 PM
  Thread: Solicitor recommendation pls?
Post: Solicitor recommendation pls?

Can anyone recommend a solicitor in Forest Hill or Sydenham please? Don't want to use Armstrongs, but are there any others locally, and can anyone recommend? Thanks
Red67 Businesses & Services 0 1,779 08-03-2017, 05:17 PM
  Thread: Tree down - Sydenham Rise
Post: RE: Tree down - Sydenham Rise

Road now clear, and well done to the muppet in the white van (quelle surprise?!) who drove right through the area coned off by the tree surgeons whilst they were trying to work in difficult circumstan...
Red67 SE23 Topics 1 3,274 23-02-2017, 03:49 PM
  Thread: Tree down - Sydenham Rise
Post: Tree down - Sydenham Rise

There's a large tree down in the road on Sydenham Rise, which has crushed a parked car on the Triangle Park side of the road near the bus stop, so please avoid the area if you can - some pretty stupid...
Red67 SE23 Topics 1 3,274 23-02-2017, 02:05 PM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

Well, the ugly, ill-conceived towerblock on an open, green space part of the plan has been shelved.... (from the official Lewisham Homes letter, sent 25th Nov): [color=#0000FF] "Priority will be ...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 29-11-2016, 01:39 PM
  Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road

BUT... "Can anyone explain the benefits of this project?" A good question that deserves repeating....
Red67 SE23 Topics 211 153,902 29-03-2016, 09:46 AM
  Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road

Yes, i understand that P1971, but those of us living a bit further up the hill are concerned that the effects of the traffic management on Dartmouth Road will inevitably push traffic attempting to rea...
Red67 SE23 Topics 211 153,902 25-03-2016, 10:35 AM
  Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road

"A 'one stop pedestrian crossing' at the station would presumably slow it down even further." Yes it would, and no-one, including Cllrs, seems to be addressing the valid question (raised in the con...
Red67 SE23 Topics 211 153,902 25-03-2016, 09:34 AM
  Thread: Volunteers needed for Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Volunteers needed for Forest Hill Library

"V22 don't look at all suitable as a partner to run a library. They are an Art organisation and one that is just finding it's feet with little track record" Umm, i'm not sure what info you are lookin...
Red67 SE23 Topics 64 52,337 15-03-2016, 10:01 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

Well, it's all just a bit of harmless speculation isn't it? The Mayor (or rather a letter from his office) testily asked if there were any 'alternative suggestions' as to where to build, so this is ju...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 08-03-2016, 02:36 PM
  Thread: Garden Waste Collection Service
Post: RE: Garden Waste Collection Service

"Would anybody object to transferring SE23 to Southwark? We could have free garden waste collection and a proper staffed library" ...and we'd probably (possibly?) get fewer fugly private towerbl...
Red67 SE23 Topics 44 41,191 08-03-2016, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Mr Dowd MP
Post: RE: Mr Dowd MP

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10176/jim_dowd/lewisham_west_and_penge Below average..... "Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2014, accor...
Red67 SE23 Topics 14 11,411 02-03-2016, 11:24 AM
  Thread: Life in SE23 - Shops
Post: RE: From the Forest closed

...the 'original tenant' needs to sh*t or get off the pot, and the landlord needs to develop a bit more of a sense of civic duty, eh?! (apologies for the coarse analogy)
Red67 SE23 Topics 177 111,600 19-02-2016, 03:07 PM
  Thread: Local wildlife
Post: RE: Local wildlife

Sydenham Hill Wood for Tawny Owls and also Blackcap, the latter of which we do see in the garden. Saw a Tawny Owl fly right over the house once too, but have heard more often than seen one...
Red67 Wider Topics 24 17,801 02-02-2016, 09:21 AM
  Thread: Ignore List
Post: RE: Ignore List

Costa Rican footballer Umana? What? He's Labour? Blimey, those goddamn lefties get everywhere.... [attachment=3935]
Red67 Wider Topics 69 48,117 01-02-2016, 10:31 PM
  Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road

You're certainly right there, Michael! I agree that parking is the main problem in terms of how traffic moves along the road at the moment, but i would still like to see some more detail and a wide...
Red67 SE23 Topics 211 153,902 15-01-2016, 03:20 PM
  Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road

Thanks Anotherjohn. I hope you are right about it being about improving flow of vehicles rather than discouraging traffic as much as possible... I think i'd like to see a proper traffic flow study ...
Red67 SE23 Topics 211 153,902 15-01-2016, 03:02 PM
  Thread: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road
Post: RE: Highway improvements to Dartmouth Road

I know it's not a stated aim, but is there an expectation that these 'improvements' will decrease the volume of traffic using Dartmouth Road,? If so, where do people think all those extra Sth Circular...
Red67 SE23 Topics 211 153,902 15-01-2016, 02:12 PM
  Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification

Wow. Thanks for the politics 101:2016 beginners guide. (yawns....leans over, picks LP out of stack - vinyl, natch - takes it out of sleeve, pops it on stereo, cranks it up to 11, settles back in ch...
Red67 Wider Topics 133 85,890 04-01-2016, 06:22 PM
  Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification

Dunno why, but i can't help but think of this.... ....'succeeding'....??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1C95_8q8s (well, it makes me laugh every time...)
Red67 Wider Topics 133 85,890 04-01-2016, 01:13 PM
  Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification

ha ha, you beat me to it, Robin Orton....! [quote] It's the Tory party who help people that want to get on in life and be independent. [/quote] Because life is a level playing field, isn't it??!...
Red67 Wider Topics 133 85,890 04-01-2016, 10:16 AM
  Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Anyone been to Bona Pizza?

@BOnA_Sourdough Not been yet myself, but it's looking good....
Red67 Businesses & Services 122 114,788 02-01-2016, 03:00 PM
  Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Running for local Councillor

Lewisham Council is indeed hamstrung and (apparently) unable to either resist the imposed cuts or think their way creatively round the current situation, so they are effectively the Tories lackeys at ...
Red67 Wider Topics 133 85,890 02-01-2016, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Running for local Councillor
Post: RE: Running for local Cllr

http://beacouncillor.co.uk/ The site above might be useful.... I wouldn't do yourself down by saying you're 'not clever enough'... what makes you think that any of the Cllrs we have now are the ...
Red67 SE23 Topics 23 19,697 28-12-2015, 07:57 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding

"The cuts are surely not a surprise to anyone are they? Lewisham have been telling us about them all year and ran a long consultation exercise where they asked us to go onto a modeller and choose were...
Red67 SE23 Topics 159 130,404 13-12-2015, 01:33 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding

P1971, a well said and painfully relevant question at the start of your last post.... In light of that question, if anyone is still in any doubt, the amount of cuts Lewisham are being forced/are c...
Red67 SE23 Topics 159 130,404 11-12-2015, 10:25 AM
  Thread: god help us if trump becomes president
Post: RE: god help us if trump becomes president

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Red67 Wider Topics 6 5,745 09-12-2015, 12:00 PM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

Never been a Stones fan, but.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDMzhlefMs See you up on the viewing deck, Londondrz!
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 27-11-2015, 07:28 PM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

"The obvious solution is to build them all up to 30 floors." Duh, of course...genius idea, Michael, why didn't i think of that?! I am totally lovin' your style Londondrz, do you work for Lewish...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 26-11-2015, 07:06 PM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

You misunderstand Woody, i meant you'd be hard pushed to find anyone who supports Corbyn in Lewisham Council or who would favour his supporters! A long way to go with the Eliot Bank development ye...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 26-11-2015, 12:01 PM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

..sensitive to the scale of the buildings around it... Why not make it 30 floors?! [attachment=3873]
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 26-11-2015, 10:21 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

What a lovely view of a local heritage site.... [attachment=3872]
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 26-11-2015, 01:56 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

"Now I am afraid if you aren't a Corbyn comrade even that option has gone" Umm, you couldn't be more wrong...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 26-11-2015, 01:52 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

Local landmarks... [attachment=3869]
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 25-11-2015, 02:33 PM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

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Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 25-11-2015, 10:59 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

No, that previous comment is insulting to pigs, apologies to my porcine friends. Anyway, I look forward to this process being conducted with nothing less than scrupulous democratic transparency, with...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 22-11-2015, 11:48 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

That is not the actual architects design, just a mock up made by residents concerned at the proposals ....actually the image used is an improvement on the actual, really pig-ugly, poorly conceived mon...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 22-11-2015, 11:07 AM
  Thread: Betting limits in Lewisham
Post: RE: Betting limits in Lewisham

Not suggesting Labour aren't culpable here, as they are (or were). They've admitted it, and so they should. I do, however, object to the Torys being portrayed as the saviours and guardians of the po...
Red67 Wider Topics 14 12,662 19-11-2015, 01:48 PM
  Thread: Betting limits in Lewisham
Post: RE: Betting limits in Lewisham

Yep, the Tories really have always stood up to the betting industry and they regularly champion the poor... http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/dec/25/tory-mp-benefits-gambling-industry
Red67 Wider Topics 14 12,662 17-11-2015, 10:36 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

There are three options proposed - 7 or 10 or 15 storey. 'We could build this enormous bl**dy great block (if we can get away with it) but ok, we'll just build this smaller block (which is equally un...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 30-10-2015, 12:30 PM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

No, i can't believe it. At the moment i'm hoping i've just woken up from a bad dream. Even seven storey's is unreasonable given that the other blocks near to it are much smaller than that, let alone ...
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 30-10-2015, 09:45 AM
  Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Best takeaways?

Spot on, Newbie...glad it's not just me that thinks that! How do these places keep going?! Must be a lot of people who think their food is great...
Red67 Businesses & Services 122 114,788 28-10-2015, 12:51 PM
  Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Best takeaways?

Ah yes, Silk Road....thank you for reminding me, i had forgotten. Very good. Haven't been for a while as i don't often go Camberwell direction. Has anyone ordered from Barakah (Indian) in Sydenham? It...
Red67 Businesses & Services 122 114,788 26-10-2015, 02:00 PM
  Thread: Life in SE23 - Eateries
Post: RE: Best takeaways?

Wish, wish, wish there was a decent chinese takeway round here... we tried Tse's once when we first moved here 15 yrs ago (thought it was mediocre then), have had 2 takeaways since (both times willing...
Red67 Businesses & Services 122 114,788 26-10-2015, 10:38 AM
  Thread: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Close
Post: RE: Proposed New Homes at Eliot Bank & Knapdale Cl...

Any chance you could post the planning application reference number please, Herbparis?
Red67 SE23 Topics 43 39,701 22-10-2015, 04:21 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Library - Proposed Cut to Funding
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library

Eco Communities now runs the other libraries so i presume it is the same organisation that the Council are referring to with reference to outsourcing the running of FH library... https://localgiving...
Red67 SE23 Topics 159 130,404 20-10-2015, 11:22 PM
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