LadyNorwood

Pretty sure he already owns the Mexican in Beckenham, so a repeat of LL (Mexican out, Turkish in)...

Have you been to the knitting shop opposite Herne Hill station (http://www.sharpworks.co.uk/) or John Lewis??

17 year old boy was shot in the stomach, life threatening injuries; happened on South Croxted Road - air ambulance landed at Paxton Green and the police helicopter was overhead for ages... http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/teenager-fighting-for-his-life-after-being-shot-in-west-dulwich-10131071.html

Ashleys bar on Copthall Avenue - the owner put his hand up my skirt, I threw my drink in his face, he barred me...

Premium bonds (parents will have to apply on his behalf)....

Mea culpa - I thought it said "Eurovision loons"...

Unctuous - every "chef" on telly uses it to describe their food these days.....

Called Nick and asked him to mend my leaking shower tray - he rang me promptly, gave me a quote, suggested I buy the sealant so I could choose what I wanted and would keep his costs down. We agreed a time/date (36 hours after I first contacted him), he texted me to say he was on his way, did the job well and cleaned up after what is a very messy job! He was very polite, professional and was done within the timeframe and quote. I would thoroughly recommend him and would certainly use his services again for small jobs; I'd also ask him to quote for larger painting/decorating jobs in the future....

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Guess what, I already did. Why even optional? This > isn't Twitter. OP's post - OP's rules...

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why the bleeding hashtags? Read the OP - it says hashtags optional....

#binraiders

christgill Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LadyNorwood Wrote: > > > > I appreciate that, but TfL/Southwark have gone > to > > the trouble of marking the road and putting up > > speed signs for the width of the South Circular > - > > by the time you've accelerated from 20 to 30 > > you're back in the 20 zone (if you even have > the > > time to do that) - an utterly pointless > jobsworth > > piece of crap.... > > Is this a joke? > > The 30mph signs are there so that drivers know > that, turning onto the South Circular, the new > speed limit is 30mph - not to provide a two second > opportunity to floor the accelerator... No it's not a joke - the signs should be on the South Circular not on Croxted Road.....

wulfhound Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Wulfhound. You state the arguments for twenty > are only strong because of the very minimal impact > on journey times. Yet the only way in which it can > have minimal impacts on journey times is if it has > minimal impacts on speeds in which case it is a > pointless waste of money. A limit 50% higher is > obviously not minimal but a huge difference. > > > Think about it - most of our journey *time* (as > opposed to *distance*) driving in Inner London is > spent waiting at lights, or queuing in slow moving > traffic (unless you do most of your driving after > 8pm ish). The journey time average speed for > driving in London during the day is about 12mph, > and has been for years. So there's an average > speed and a peak speed. Bringing the peak down > doesn't affect the average by much at all, but it > does greatly reduce the likelihood of *severe* > collisions, which, for cars/vans/taxis, tend to > occur at or near peak speed. > > The figure quoted by bawdy-nan (10-25 seconds per > mile) suggests 2 minutes on a 6 mile journey - 32 > minutes instead of 30. Journey time *reliability* > actually *improves*, because the > worse-than-average journeys are affected less than > better-than-average. > > > If so what are these costs? > > > I'm basing on DfT figures, which are approx as > follows: > Fatal accident - ?1.7m > Serious injury - ?200k (AFAIK this means injury > requiring at least an overnight stay in hospital) > Slight injury - ?15k (injury requiring hospital > treatment but not overnight stay) > ( see > https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa > ds/attachment_data/file/244913/rrcgb2012-02.pdf > for how they figured it out - it appears to have > been prepared by civil servants with no particular > axe to grind, not lobbyists ) > > These figures are averages - individual cases will > vary enormously. > > And LB Southwark STATS19 (police road casualty > data) for 2013: > Fatal: 5 > Serious: 82 > Slight: 905 > > ... which in fact yields a much larger number than > ?15m. No doubt these figures are debatable, but I > think they help get a handle on the scale of the > problem. > > > Croxted Road is 20mph; then increases to 30mph as > you cross the South Circular; then reverts to > 20mph on Croxted Road - what a complete and utter > waste of resources and time for a 10 yard stretch > of tarmac.... > > > Because the South Circular is a Red Route, i.e. > it's regulated by TfL not LB Southwark. TfL has > decided that the limit on Red Routes should stay > 30 for the time being.. you'd have to be pretty > brave to try and cross that anywhere apart from a > designated crossing, and they've legalised cycling > on the pavement along most of it, so it probably > makes sense for it to stay 30. I appreciate that, but TfL/Southwark have gone to the trouble of marking the road and putting up speed signs for the width of the South Circular - by the time you've accelerated from 20 to 30 you're back in the 20 zone (if you even have the time to do that) - an utterly pointless jobsworth piece of crap....

Croxted Road is 20mph; then increases to 30mph as you cross the South Circular; then reverts to 20mph on Croxted Road - what a complete and utter waste of resources and time for a 10 yard stretch of tarmac....

We used panels in our wet room - can't remember the make but went to Bell's on Lordship Lane.... Our walls are neither flat, nor square, but the ones we used have a tolerance in them - no leaks, easy to clean, sturdy and look good.... Not sure how to add a photo - but PM me if you'd like me to email some pics...

It was a wonderful day - no traffic (until about 8pm), people ski-ing (yes really) along Park Hall Road, his Lordship managed to get from work as far as the Dog in the Village and then 'had' to stay there for a few pints and a spot of dinner until he could get a lift the rest of the way home... BrandNewGuy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Louisa Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I can't bare people who won't live and let live > > over a snow day. After all it's only once in a > > blue moon! Some people are just members of the > > killjoy police. Retired here so free to look > for > > bargains, get angry at the world and drink > copious > > glasses of wine and pints of beer. > > > > Louisa. > > There was a terrific Monday "snow day" about six > or seven years ago. There was no traffic, so we > walked down the middle of the road to the Bishop > at lunchtime for a swift pint. By three o'clock it > was packed. Ended up spending all afternoon there.

It was always pronounced HArass until Michael Bleedin' Crawford came along and then everything changed - it makes me want to stick my head between railings and pull my ears off! El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I dunno ladynorwood. > > It's a common pattern in BrE, where you have a > stress shift between noun and verb, think COMpress > (noun) vs comPRESS (verb); REsearch (noun) vs > reSEARCH (verb). > This fits nicely into that. And it seems AmE > speakers are just as confused about how it should > be pronounced, so it's just one of those things I > reckon. > > Although, going over and over, harASSment feels > more natural than HArassment, so it's an odd bod.

Apologies if I've posted this before, but the (fairly) recent mispronunciation of the word "harass" (and/or "harassment"). Michael Crawford in "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" has a lot to answer for -oh how the audience laughed when he emphasised the "rass" rather than the "ha", but now it is commonplace.

"What is a sentance?", pondered the pug....

Funny Smelling Goose

David Bowie (was dragged along to Town & Country in Leeds in 97ish - I walked out, bored rigid)...

the word "totes" - as in this thread (at least it wasn't followed by "amazeballs") http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1458307,1458359,page=1#msg-1458359

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I didn't say it was relevant - just that when I > heard about the WD40 they seemed a slippery bunch. Very good maxxi, very good....

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Salsaboy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > You do know that this is the East Dulwich Forum > > don't you? > > > There are only forty members of the West Dulwich > Forum... Even if that were true, how is that relevant - the fact is that West Dulwich has an event and it would be lovely and neighbourly to get some support and input from ED businesses and residents....

Salsaboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You do know that this is the East Dulwich Forum > don't you? Loads of ED businesses post on the WD forum but aren't booed off - why can't we call just get along?