Jennys

We got eggs thrown at our windows as usual. I might be a spoilsport but I don't like trick or treat at all.

There are lots of fire engines etc along by the East Dulwich Tavern in Lordship lane this morning and there is warning tape around the pub. What is happening?

Mary Russell newsagents at Herne Hill on Half Moon Lane sells "Stationary" accord to their painted sign across the front.. and I love the interesting plant name spellings at the flower shop at the roundabout by Goose Green

I too have been very shocked to see excellent, dedicated doctors leaving this practice and the introduction of the hopeless and potentially life threatening telephone consultation system. I have also recently experienced mistakes each time with the repeat prescription service as the practice seems apparently to lose prescriptions or give them to the wrong person or pharmacy.

Maybe you'll be on their cctv system and will be seen buying and placing your ticket and also speaking to the person who gave you the ticket...?

the merryfields man has mended handbags for me too, as well as my son's sports bag. And, as other people have reported he has not charged for things like extra holes in belts.

It could be the guy was just after a nice Sunday roast. I have been told by my son, who lives in North Wales, that Welsh sheep-rustlers dropped their trousers so they would be hailed as sheep-shagging nutters and left to go their own way instead of being caught as sheep rustlers and hanged or sent to Botany Bay... hence the myth about the Welsh and sheep.

Yes, I have always done them by email (see their website which offers this) but was told on the phone today that they would like it by fax or post.

has anyone else had trouble obtaining repeat prescriptions? They used to do them by email but now I believe one needs to post or fax them.

It was going to be open to the public a while ago for Open House Weekend but wasn't at the last minute because of illness apparently. Who knows, though, maybe this September it might be.

We certainly have moths. I have read recently that conkers put in the bottom of the wardrobe will get rid of them so I am waiting for the conker season.

Oh and I forgot C.S FORESTER lived at 58 Underhill Road, Dulwich, SE22

does it have to be strictly East Dulwich - if not how about Phyllis Pearsall, who lived in Court Lane Gardens and who started the A to Z. Didn't William Blake have his vision of angels at Peckham Rye, and there is a blue plaque to the actor Boris Karloff at 36 Forest hill road.

No I haven't reported this to the police (either East Dulwich or even Chiswick) though I phoned and asked the companies who sent the goods to take the matter up with their carriers, given that I had asked for the parcels not to be left on the doorstep but given to a neighbour or taken to the sorting office or depot if we were not in.

Last week I was expecting a parcel of books to be delivered. On Thursday evening I discovered further down the road a large empty box addressed to me which had obviously been left on our doorstep by the carrier while we were out and then stolen, torn open and the contents removed and taken. Earlier in the week another expected parcel had supposedly been delivered but was nowhere to be found - I now assume that must have also been stolen from the doorstep. Yesterday I also noticed a couple of piles of clothes in the next road to ours and torn open charity bags which had obviously been taken from people's doorsteps. So please be careful, there are thieves about, sadly, who would even steal from charities.

I assume Barry road is after the architects,Barry, father and son. welcometodulwich.co.uk has this entry about them: Much of Dulwich as we know it today was laid out or built in the reign of Queen Victoria. During this period first Sir Charles Barry, and then his son, known as Charles Barry junior, held the post of Architect and Surveyor to Dulwich College. The two Barrys left their mark everywhere in Dulwich but especially on the old and new College buildings. Sir Charles Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament, designed the charming Old Grammar School, in a style rather like a Tudor building. The Old College looks as it does today thanks to Charles Barry junior, who added the cloisters and steeple. But Charles Barry's most famous achievement, the grandest of all Dulwich's Victorian buildings, is, of course, Dulwich College, College Road. The College Estates had gained a large amount of money from the sale of land to the railways, when they constructed their lines through Dulwich. Barry was therefore able to make the new College as magnificent as he wished. He put into it ideas from various places. The general style, the campanile or bell-tower, and the terra-cotta decorations on the exterior, are modelled on North Italian palaces and cathedrals he had visited. The Great Hall resembles the mediaeval Westminster Hall which he had helped his father to restore. As Dulwich spread out beyond the old village, following the arrival of the railways, it was Charles Barry who was responsible for planning the development. Blanch, the Camberwell historian, wrote in 1875,'either from his designs or under his supervision have been erected those numerous mansions and villas which (much to the advantage of college revenues) have in a few years, converted the quiet woodlands of Dulwich into a busy, though still pretty, and even rural, suburb of the great metropolis'.

east Dulwich to Streatham - if you can get the 37 or walk to Herne Hill or Croxted Road you can get the 201 to Tulse Hill, Streatham, Mitcham and Morden.

there is an interesting article in the Observer today ((Cash section of the business bit, it may be on line also) about school admission policies and how to appeal.

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that only Dulwich Village infants was any good. I totally support state education. I was state educated and so were my children. There are lots of really great primary schools around here and state secondary schooling is getting better all the time. You just need to do your research. I am also fed up with people wingeing on about the cost of private education. If they want to do it and can afford it fine, but in my view they are selling the state system short. The more parents backing the state schools and getting involved on the PTA or governing body, the better.

Please, please, consider using state system. There is a good choice round here. Your children will still get a good education and end up with lovely friends. Son - totally state educated from Dulwich Village infants onwards - is now part way through a doctorate having got a first, so the state system can't be totally useless.

the card shop near Somerfield the pet shop on Northcross road the market on Northcross road the florists at the roundabout near Goose Green, opposite EDT the garden centre Plough Homecraft Mostg importantly: our lovely supportive neighbours

Last year I saw a naked man striding down Denmark Hill near King's, carrying his shoes (but no clothes). Was quite crowded but nobody batted an eyelid.

Gosh, sorry, it had escaped me that it was very sadly no longer free on Fridays, as I'm a member and so go whenever I wish.

the Dulwich picture gallery is free to enter on Fridays if you can go then.

I agree with Siduhe, parents should attempt to keep their children behaving reasonably. If they are seen to be making a bit of effort to do this (talking to the children, bringing a few small toys or books or pencils a paper for the children) we can all empathize when the children do (occasionally) have a scream up. But no longer having any small children myself I think there is also the place for a few child-free restaurants around here.