Dorothy

I think you were a little bit rude to glare at the child. You said you were splashed a bit (on purpose?) which prompted the glare. The soaking came after the glare. Yes, the parent was very rude to you. But you were a little bit rude to his daughter. Perhaps your thread title should be very rude man and slightly rude me.

Water back on in Upland Road and Goodrich School confirmed open.

Condolences Pugwash - Gerry sounds like a little treasure. What a shame.

Chick - I had the honour of meeting Capt Maurice Seddon when he was a motorcycle courier. He undid his leathers to demonstrate his wiring to me.

Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey being pressure washed to clean them up - half white, half black. Reject Shops. Heaven on Villiers Street. Pollo on Old Compton Street. Yes, I remember the little old protein = passion man on Oxford Street. And the scientologists who would jump out at you and offer a free "personality test". And the Indian canteens up round the back of Warren Street tube where you could get a good Indian buffet lunch for a couple of ??????s.

Its all a bit Balamory ...

Don't worry! I've worked it out. Ignore me/as you were/apologies.

I've been searching for instructions on attaching photos in a For Sale ad on this fine forum. I think my picture is too big (1.26mb) - am sure I have seen instructions on re-sizing somewhere? Can anyone talk me through it using vocabulary suited to a 3 year old (or 48 year old technophobe)? Cheers.

Can I have your recommendations please? Nothing fancy - its just lunch for me and a friend, but we are quite foodie. I love Brindisa but probably won't even attempt to go there cos you can't book, can you? and its always ridiculously busy. So anywhere else, which is not Wagamamas, or any of the other chains. Thank you.

You have made the mistake of being too fixated on being close to the station. Most of SE22 is not within easy walking distance of ED station at all. The station is right on the border of Camberwell. Those houses which are close to the station are the smaller 3 bed types (Crawthew Grove, Frogley Road, St Francis Road, Matham Grove) and they have small gardens or courtyards. Four bed houses with good sized gardens within easy walking distance of the station are RARE. That's why they are pricey.

Any experience/thoughts?

Also one in the car park by the cafe in Peckham Rye Park.

No one looks in the What's On section.

In the Harvester car park.

I'm afraid my favourite takeaway comes from outside SE22. Its Babur in SE4 (I think) - I was tipped off by someone who has lived hereabouts all her life.

Ha haaah at the cafe closing for lunch! Reminds me of the time I lived in exile in Devon and friend came down for a job interview at Exeter prison. I was all excited at the prospect of a London friend living nearby. But she decided not to take the job, whether offered it or not, because she went to an Italian restaurant for lunch at 2pm - and they had run out of pasta! She felt she could never live in such a backwater, and who could blame her. Yes, am an admirer of the lovely farm.

Who/where did that report come from please MrChas ?

Admin - why not delete the thread rather than move it? I don't find the Lounge section depressing. I was referring to the general ED issues/gossip section (of which there appears to be none of any note) where I first posted. Just delete the thread if it offends you so much.

It is slow-moving and dull. Anyone moving to the area, finding the forum and clicking on General ED Issues/Gossip will be sorely disappointed, surely. There is more life in the Businesses and Trades section and even, heaven help us, in the Family Room. I will wait stoically until this thread is moved to the About This Forum graveyard.

Monkey: do you have a child at Goodrich school? Have you visited the school?

My last word (please don't let this thread be deleted) is that I am sure the poster was not intended to represent the KKK surrounding a black victim, but it does depict an individual being surrounded by an angry mob. The head of Goodrich took this to represent herself (irrespective of colour?) whereas the person who created the poster says it was supposed to represent him. I'd suggest that the symbolism is at least ambivalent, but also rather provocative for a poster inviting parents to attend a primary school parent/governor's forum, and it is hard to see the "joke" intended. Clearly the police should not have been called and maybe if things hadn't got that far then the governor would perhaps have apologised for causing offence and the whole thing might have blown over. Its a bit chicken and egg.

A disproportionate number of parents at Goodrich are journalists. Any one of them could have supplied the story. Or, indeed, someone entirely unconnected with the school could have done so. Or even someone on the school staff themselves. Or perhaps someone who knows someone who is the cleaner of the gardener of the personal trainer of a parent at the school. Or even maybe someone who has randomly trawled this very Forum. Who knows, and it really doesn't matter. It would be interesting to hear Mrs P's pov, but I think the most likely thing is she now knows she over-reacted and whatever she says from this point on will never be right. She will be playing it by the book.

The parents and governors who would like to see changes at the school (from what I can gather this mostly amounts to a less rapid turnover of staff, less staff absence, more consistency for the children, better playground supervision and a generally more positive atmosphere - sorry to be vague, its the best I can come up with) have backfired rather badly in trying to achieve this. Again, just from my standpoint as a parent who has been to the school more or less every school day since 2006, the head had indeed endured many months of ill feeling towards her before this tawdry episode.

I wonder how it got in to the National Press. But the Daily Mail does love these political correctness gorn mad stories. Like many other Goodrich parents I am heartily effedoff that this issue has caused so much bad feeling within the school.

Were you there peeps? Surely the driver will be found, there must have been many witnesses.