Lynne

There's quite a solid one just been dumped on NX rd, near L Lane

25 rooks(?) in a tree on CP Rd.I don't remember this many in the past?

By Vladi's argument no-one in Britain should ever complain about anything at all because there are always other people suffering more than we are somewhere in the world. Perhaps its just me, but when I waited 12 hours in Kings A and E with a heart attack the thought that I'm lucky to have an NHS wasn't much comfort at 3.00am in a hard plastic chair. Sorry, Vladi, try to remember your argument next time your train's cancelled or you wait 12 hours in A and E. Sometimes complaint is the only way to effect change.

They weren't exactly overflowing with sympathy at HQ. Said the staff had no right to ask a member of the public to complain on their behalf. So I said that instead of grumbling about their staff they should reward them for loyalty in working in such conditions

Di anyone go there this morning? It was bitterly, bitterly cold. My hands were numb by the time I'd finished. The poor staff. When I remarked on it they asked me to complain to Head Office (which I've done) as they've been waiting since August for the problem to be sorted out It must have been well below any legal limits for temperature, if such regulations still exist. Why the staff didn't walk out, I don't know. Perhaps that would mean the end of their jobs.

Antique shop opened bottom end of Uplands, near the Crystal Palace Rd junction

I could do with an energy surge, weird or otherwise

Got a huge bundle of post today (Sunday!!! - extra pay?) having not had any for nearly two weeks. Including, of course, the new bank card we'd cancelled after it didn't arrive for 12 days.

People used to go to RL for an enjoyable, useful shopping experience. Difficult to believe.

A small bird of prey came and sat on a TV aerial in Crawthew Rd. I couldn't see it's colouring distinctly. Smaller than a pigeon, bigger than a blackbird. Sparrowhawk>?

I quite agree that RL is dirty, covered in graffiti and heaped with rubbish, but I feel that the inside of a bank is not Southwark's responponsibilty.

Going to the branch in Rye Lane is a pretty horrible experience. It's too small, there's graffiti over the windows, it feels grubby and the first time I went there was someone begging inside the bank, unhindered by staff. Not something you want when dealing with cash. insecure, shabby, cramped. Not what a bank should be.

Best thing about it would be a bit of publicity for the Chartwelll charity.

I wondered about a publicity stunt. Not that he needs it

Three men, masked and in black. Nobody tried to stop them, even when thy ran off. I didn't realise at first it was a robbery. If you see 3 men on a roof doing a job, you don't automatically think they're stealing something. Well, I don't. There were news cameras there already which I thought was odd. The camera man said he'd expected something to happen so he'd just waited. Odd. They got the dish down the ladder and then ran off down the Rye. If there's ever an Olympic event for running along a crowded street carrying a large satellite dish and a ladder I can recommend this lot. Not Only Fools and Horses as they didn't drop it.

just watched the latest Banksey artwork in Peckham being nicked, A very smooth operation

"Sweet" wasn't the word that came to mind when I found the enormous hole the foxes had dug in our back garden in order to exhume the nibbled dead rat I'd buried there the night before. The stinking corpse was left right outside our back door. No, not sweet

I took the advice of the sauce - I used mustard- and it was in place this morning. They don't get a shock if they chew through it. I've now seen them living in the jungle that is a neighbor's garden - fence high in brambles, bindweed and buddlia. The kitchen windows and door are now completely covered. Perhaps the foxes will keep the rats down

Every night a fox is dragging our small solar powered pump out from the pond and chewing through the cable. Two questions. One, of course, is why? What does it gain from it? Second is how can we stop it . We've tried taking the pump out at night but since most of the cable runs under the path, we can't put it very far away. We've tried weighing it down after removal but the fox, after a couple of days has learned to push the weights away. It seems to be enjoying the contest. We're not. Any fox experts with suggestions would be welcomed.

Avoid it today, the internet has gone down and the queues are building up Just when you think it couldn't get much worse

Aviva. They wanted a survey first but then they cut our bill by two thirds

I've started going to Morrisons in Peckham and have been pleasantly surprised at their range of products. Shopping in Sainsburys DKH is such as trial now, no staff, inconvenient malfunctioning machines and a general feeling that customers can go and take running jump.

Kites are very big, Nigello