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A recommendation for the really fab Kirkdale Fabrics! Passed by today looking for a very specific type of fabric. Great place, a real treasure trove. Lovely and very knowledgeable owner. Very affordable as well. The shop is open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Just had the most lovely dinner at Cafe G and just wanted to make people aware that this lovely place is now open for dinner on Thursday-Friday and Saturday. On the menu are burgers (meat and veggie), wings, salads and some other nice dishes. The burgers are homemade and absolutely delicious (and huge), the service is fantastic and the prices are very good (we had two huge burgers, both double, fries and a beer and paid £27). Go and support them, such a great place! It’s around the corner from The Gardens.

No post or parcels for close to two weeks now. I'm in Sydenham Hill area and the sorting office is in Forest Hill. Apparently they've got 27 people off for various reasons.

I?ve heard that Alleyn?s holiday club is great. https://www.alleyns.org.uk/alleyns-enterprises/holiday-camps

My son used this company and it all worked really well. You collect the test, register, do the test at home and return test by 2pm. Results next day. https://tests.medicspot.co.uk/products/bromley-beckenham

Like Dulwich College, Alleyn?s is also using their DT lab to make masks and visors. Grateful to the staff at both schools, and any other schools doing this, for working during the Easter Holidays to provide these vital pieces of equipment to NHS frontline staff. Alleyn?s top field is the one sandwiched between Townley Road and Calton Avenue btw.

Saying Alleyn?s is a parasite squatting in our midst is quite a strong statement. As you were wondering if they give anything back to the community I thought I?d sent you this, which is on their website. https://www.alleyns.org.uk/community-partnership https://www.alleyns.org.uk/community-partnership/sharing-facilities https://www.schoolstogether.org/case-studies/?schoolId=81899&page=1 (7 pages) Alleyn?s gets a lot of bad publicity on this forum and some of it is well justified. However, they also do good and I think that?s sometimes worth mentioning as well.

Ferndene Road has paid parking from midday till 2pm only (not sure if it?s like this for the whole of Ferndene but certainly for part of it).

My neighbour?s front door was kicked in in the middle of the day last week and jewellery and other possessions were stolen. Luckily she wasn?t in at the time. This was in the Sydenham Hill area.

If it doesn?t work or for anyone else with verruca problem: try the apple cider vinegar method. Many years ago when my son was little he had lots of warts/vertucas on his hands. Was looking for a more natural way of getting rid of them and came across apple cider vinegar method. There are lots of different ways of doing this but I just put his hand in some vinegar once a day for 5 minutes or so. It was like magic; they all disappeared within 2 weeks and they?ve never come back.

The traffic light for cars turning right from the Village towards Calton Avenue does not work. There is simply no right turn phasing at all. The traffic light turns green for all traffic, cars queue up to turn right but can only actually turn right towards Calton Avenue when the traffic light is red and the traffic coming from the direction of north Dulwich has stopped. At this point the pedestrian light has turned green resulting in a very dangerous situation. Just this afternoon an elderly gentleman was crossing at the pedestrian crossing when the green man was showing. A car coming from the crossing could stop just in time. It's a terrible situation, especially with so many young children walking to and from school every day.

Thanks so much for posting this link. I think it's really important to give feedback as the new road layout is very dangerous and an accident waiting to happen.

In theory that might be possible but in reality it doesn't work like that. Kids coming from Alleyn's for example would walk on the other side of the road as that's the natural way to follow. People going to Woodward Road or some of the other side roads of Court Lane would also cross at the Court Lane crossing in the village. Unfortunately there's no other 'safe' pedestrian crossing (zebra crossing, traffic lights) on either Court Lane or Calton AvenueThere's a lollypop lady assisting kids crossing Calton Avenue at the crossroads in the village but she can't be at Calton Avenue and Court Lane at the same time. Also, she starts quite late (I guess because Dulwich Infant School starts later).Many other schools start much earlier though. A zebra crossing would have been a good idea.

I'm also particularly concerned about pedestrians crossing Court Lane, especially the many school aged children who use this crossing. There used to be an island in the middle of the crossing. The island has disappeared. Now crossing from Dulwich Village towards Calton Avenue is really dangerous. When it's busy you can't see if there's traffic coming around the corner towards Court Lane until you've crossed the first part of the road. If there are cars coming around the corner, the pedestrians will have to wait in the middle of the road unless the drivers are kind enough to stop and let them cross. For drivers it will be difficult to spot children in the middle of the road as they also have to watch out for cyclists, cars and coaches coming from Calton Avenue towards the traffic lights. Maybe I'm not explaining it very clearly, but it has become very dangerous and looks like an accident waiting to happen.