Rockets

Pedestrianising LL could be the death of it as we know and love it. Whilst us folks lucky enough to live within walking distance are able to amble down to our favourite eatery/coffee shop/bar/purveyor of fine baby buggies (delete as applicable) LL thrives off passing trade. The easy parking on the Lane itself ensures folks use our local shops instead of the Sainsbury's. Northcross would work much better and I would be all for it.

Bet they were raiding someone's house; they often go armed with riot shields to keep dogs, angry spouses and have-a-go kids at bay!

Is BARA campaigning against the pharmacy as a whole or just the needle exchange? I, for one, think a late night pharmacy at the surgery makes sense. Anyone who has tried to order a repeat prescription at the Co-op and the debacle that can be will surely support any move. The fact that they will offer a needle exchange is irrelevant, as far as I am concerned; addicts will currently frequent the surgery so what's the issue? I live near the Forest Hill Road pharmacy but have never seen a discarded needle or anyone who looks any worse for wear than a skinful of ale.

Read with interest the cloth bag debate in an earlier thread and the ongoing Foxton's chit-chat and whilst shopping on LL today noticed that some of the shops have been given Foxton's plastic bags and are giving them out in lieu of their own bags - I was offered one in the stationer's near Goose Green roundabout. May I suggest that anyone seen over the weekend with one of the said offending bags be derided with a cry of "shame on you" and a public flogging on the roundabout? ;-)

Domitianus, My girlfriend just had her card skimmed in East Dulwich - I will PM you and let's compare notes. We have narrowed it down to two places in the vicinity. Everyone else beware! In my girlfriend's case the numpty used it to order from Tesco's direct and booked three flights to Italy - they better hope they used a false passport!

Depends on where your house is - I used to live on Chesterfield Grove and it was continuous, that area seems to be the junction point for planes coming in from the north, east and south and just about the point when they change their flap configuration and speed, which results in a lot more noise. Now live on Hillcourt and get much fewer planes overhead and they are much quieter. I often gaze out of the window of the plane as we approach heathrow, spot my house and long to be in it rather than heading to Heathrow and the arduous journey back to ED again! BTW another factor is when they are landing towards the west (over ED) they designate one of the runways for landings and one for take-offs and will switch between the two during the day - so this means the planes are lining up in different places throughout the day.

I had two go a year or so back and my neighbours reckoned it was the slightly, ahem, eccentric old woman across the road who would "collect" them!

I am not sure whatever happened started at the video shop as earlier a woman was ranting and raving from the window above one of the shops and a police car and van pulled up and double parked outside the flat. They later had moved down to outside the video shop.