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Hi, I was wondering if anyone else in ED has new moth companions in their houses. These are the little clothes-eating ones. I knew we had a problem when child asked to be taken to see the family moth collection! If anyone else has or had them, how did you get them to move on (preferably at least to Camberwell or perhaps even further afield)?

mmm, rum

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So c80% of the population are registered > electors? > > Has someone been eating the children? They were making too much racket in the pubs.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...could those of you living in West East Dulwich keep your eyes peeled please? "West East Dulwich" -- how very dare you? It's south North Dulwich, as any ful knows. You could try cross-posting on the westdulwichforum...

mattindulwich18 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...withoout ... a mother breastfeeding her baby. Oooooooh, 'e's 'avin' a go at the birds now.

lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi my name is Cactus Jack > I run the company MrCactusFlapFitter.co.uk... I think perhaps Michael Palaeologus has got confused between this company and the albeit similarly-named one MrFlatCatpusFitter.co.uk, whose owner is also mysteriously called Cactus. So please all, make sure you're complaining about the correct company!

Pickle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps you should move to somewhere like > Canary Wharf, you won't see many kids there. Au contraire, it's pram*-city every weekend. Which is fine, but I'd not want Mr MattInDulwich18 to move there and be disappointed. * not to mention cacti, cats and leaves. hmm, could be a book-title...

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HB, could you please advise whether we are still > allowed to use the words 'dummy', 'scummy', > 'slummy', 'scrummy' and 'yummy'? > > Many thanks > Moos > > P.S. Also please confirm status of 'crummy' Not to mention 'mummy'

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes comade. It's like that interminable play about the new PM: Waiting for Godon

Marmora Man Wrote: > Britain had a good working education system in the > 60's: it needed some minor improvements but it was > ruined by political ideology - and some of the > rhetoric on this thread smacks of the same > ideology. Nationalising education isn't the way to > go - greater freedom is the future. Hear hear.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Text books in state schools?? Surely you mean > scrappy bits of photocopied pages. Scrappy bits of photocopied pages? Luxury! We had to make do with reading chicken droppings left in the schools's hen-house, both ways! (sucks teeth)

david_carnell Wrote: > I'll ignore the thinly veiled personal jibe. No jibe intended! That bit was meant to be tongue in cheek.

The Telepgraph are going overboard on Dulwich Mum's, this one is also there: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2008/05/03/fahappy03.xml Odd that all these appear in the "education" section. Perhaps it's the Telegraph's version of the class struggle.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But the fact that fee-paying schools still attract > a tax-free charitable status does stick in the > throat rather. Perhaps they'd give up the tax status in return for education money following the child, whichever school he/she happens to be in. Of course that might cause some of the state (some LEAs perhaps) to wither away. (Ducks and waits for the howls) > Of course, I offer no answers. :( Did that every stop a revolutionary?

citizenED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The people > who need to be sent to the best public schools are > the educationally challenged from the sink > estates. Society should say to these children, OK > so you got dealt a bum hand in life, crappy > homelife, living on a shitty estate, terrible > social problems, so here you go laddie, we'll give > you a decent education. We could call it, oh, I don't know ... the "assisted places scheme", perhaps.

> How can we track the crime rate within 1/2 mile of > Home Secretary-ville to see what happens? We can't now, as we don't have data from pre-Smith. We can track if it increases outside the magic circle though. case in point: Just under 1 mile away from Ground Jacqui (ED in other words). Awoke this morning to smashing windows to discover a couple of enterprising youths had broken in to neighbour's to steal a laptop. Impressively, the cops were there in 5 minutes, guess it's just a short drive from Ivydale. Can it be right that these cabinet members move in and displace these crims from their hard-fought stomping grounds of Nunhead?

From East Dulwich's council forms page: https://securesite.southwark.gov.uk/DeptForms.asp?dept=5 "This form is to get some understanding as to what the 11 to 19 year olds want from there libraries." I was thinking they (the mysterious "the") might want some grammar from "there" council, but perhaps they just want CD racks where the literature used to be. If one clicks through, one discovers that one can also "loan DVDs and CDs". I went and tried to lend some to people but they chased me out, saying it was a place for people to borrow stuff. Go figure. Enough grumping now, thanks.

jimbo1964 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it still the case that any grudgingly praise > worthy South London restaurant review in Time Out > is prefixed with "In an otherwise barren area of > London....." ? yes

dc Wrote: > Are you sure you don't live in Southwell, Southend or even South Park? Ah, screw you guys.

Dirty Bird Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Update: 7pm ... No plod outside the house of the > MP "for Redditch, Inkberrow, Cookhill and > Feckenham" but I did see a woman (poss. Jackie > Brown) going into said house when I scampered > past. It's weird ... plod there whilst she's > indoors/sleeping etc and then no plod at all and > her, just brazenly going about her business, like > she's normal. > > Or something. So just her, four armed officers, and stab vests all round when she pops out to buy milk then?

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *Seems to be alot of priapic symbolism around > here* From such upstanding folk as us?

EDOldie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's the best coffee Hmmm, maybe it's better during the week. On the weekends the coffee at Au Ciel is atrocious, I'm always disappointed (but daughter prefers their cakes). Give me d'Oro's coffee any day.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Turkish Delight anyone? Spot of hot chocolate?" mmm, turkish deligh.......

trinity Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My kids are at 2 different private schools in the > immediate area and I have noticed that there are > very few children with SE22 postcodes in their > classes eg in my daughter's class of 24 children, > only 2 live in SE22. The situation is similar in > my son's school. In fact more children live in > Wandsworth than se22. You don't say what age they are. Anyway, yes at first it will be Balham-city, but each year that goes by, you'll find that more are local. With the selectivity of the schools, it is sensible to get those places secured then move locally.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: > *Grabs DM around the waste and sweeps her off her > feet* Which part of DM is the wasted bit?