jrpfinch

After experimenting on several routes, I think the best way into the city is Get onto Camberwell Grove. Benhill Road. Across Burgess Park. Portland Street. Carry on right to the end where there is a new u-bend cobbled cycle path. Cross at the zebra crossing and follow the new cycle path to new Kent road. Cross new Kent road at the lights opposite Falmouth Rd. take Falmouth Road. Left onto harper road. Right onto brockham street, round trinity church sq, left onto trinity street. Great Suffolk street. Right onto Southwark bridge road. Cross river. Follow cycle path to guildhall

This used to happen on McNeil Road in Camberwell. This resulted in the council removing the recycling bins and replacing them with large boulders.

Interesting times for buses. I've pretty much given up using buses because they take too long and are very crowded at the times I want to use them. I'm sure they're slower than they used to be, probably because of Uber, Amazon Prime and population/economic growth. I now have a belt-drive bike which is very little maintenance and I'm sure e-scooters are going take off in the next couple of years. This essentially leaves buses for the elderly, disabled, ill, parents with small children and drinkers.

I would be surprised if the density of offices around the Blackfriars end of the city is anywhere near as high as the density of offices around the London Bridge end, particularly with all the new towers going up. So it doesn?t make sense to me to substitute one for the other, particularly when Thameslink already serves Blackfriars from South East London.

You could just order an Uber for them. Or offer to go and buy them a bottle of washing up liquid or whatever they?re after. If their collecting for charity, ask them for details of the website and give online Etc

Nice one. Thanks v much.

I assume this is verboten. Other than politely asking the person doing it, what measures can I take to discourage this happening again and filling everybody?s gardens with acrid smoke?

Thanks James Barber. How will they know where to put additional bike parking if there is no facility for people to report full bike racks? How much do you think it would cost to create a website where you can upload a photo of a full bike rack with a time and some GPS coordinates?

I suspect it is just an outlier, unless all the other classes show a similar imbalance.

What types of academic researcher would be interested in this? Medics, health economists, anthropologists, geographers... Fascinating I think.

Good calcs by njc97! 1 in 971 chance of 60 boys or more if picked at random and the population is 50/50. But I think a "fairer" test is what are the odds of >=60 children of the same sex. So 1 in 486.

Is there an online facility for highlighting inadequate bike parking in a particular area? Have been to several bits of central London recently where every bike rack was full.

If temperature is a problem, just buy a wetsuit.

Significant Virgin cable problems for the last fortnight in Camberwell too. Has been working fine for the last 24 hours.

Correction: You cross Upper Thames Street using dedicated cyclists' traffic lights. Then there's a short cycle track to Cannon Street.

I find this the safest and most pleasant route into the City from Camberwell: use LCN23 and CS7. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0nK-Atnkav8Qm93WkhRcDVHOTQ/edit?usp=docslist_api Southwark Bridge has a walled off cycle path. The map segment on New Kent Road also has a dedicated cycle path shielded from the traffic by the pavement. You cross the A3 and Lower Thames Street using dedicated cyclists' traffic lights It would be quicker for me to go over London Bridge, but it's best to avoid Walworth Road and the A3.

I bought my four-legged horse for ?200,000 in 1998. Can you believe it? According to rightmare it's now worth ?2m!!!! Luckily, I think you can get still get a three-legged nag in Nunhead for about 500.

The amount I see people coffin' up for these things. They must be borrowing up to the hilt. I blame the Russians.

John Major lived at the Camberwell end of Coldharbour Lane (#144 I think) and in Burton Road by Myatts Field. Herne Hill hmmmm...

I'm in Camberwell and have also had issues over the past week. Coincidence perhaps, but perhaps not.

It generated hurricane force winds, but (in insurance at least) it would be classed as an extra tropical cyclone (ETC). A serious winter ETC generally appears every 2-3 years starting in the Bay Of Biscay. They usually pass over Central Europe rather than the UK. The last big one was Xynthia in 2010. They are sparsely reported in the UK media, as they are generally not interested in continental European news!

I suppose the logical conclusion is that rates will rise when: There is some instability which disrupts the global labour pool. and/or Foreigners decide UK debt is a bad investment (either because it can't meet repayments or because they worry about sterling devaluation)

> 1. High interest rates in the 70s and 80s were > linked to very high rates if inflation (13% on > average in the 70s hitting a peak of 25% one > year!). Interest rates were high in part in an > attempt to tackle this. Everything changed in > 1990s when the central bank (both in the UK and > many around the world) were explicitly give > inflation targets and then later granted > independence. This independence freed them from > political manipulations of the interest rate and > the money supply to try and influence the foreign > exchange rate. Since that independence was > granted and clear goal sets?managing price > inflation and stimulating economic growth-- the > interest rate landscape in this country has > shifted dramatically. Suggesting we look to the > 80s as a model of what interest rates might be in > future misses the very fundamental changes that > have occurred. This is the line peddled by politicians. My interpretation: The opening up of Eastern Europe and China post-1990 meant there was suddenly a seemingly-infinite pool of cheap labour. This meant central banks could keep interest rates low without stoking inflation. The downside is that instead of wage inflation, we ended up a credit boom and asset price inflation (not just properties, but commodities and equities too). Another less obvious downside to low inflation is that the real value of your debt erodes more slowly. Everyone moans about how high interest rates were in the 1970s-80s, but forgets that the value of mortgages in relation to wages fell very very quickly.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > John variety comes in all shapes and sizes. > Unfortunately, the demographic homework obviously > wasn't done on this occasion. A pub offering what > the Draft House offers would do amazingly well in > upmarket Richmond-upon-Thames or Chiswick for > example, but it doesn't appeal to the inner city > younger crowds with less disposable income. Stormbird in Camberwell is always full. I'd say Draft House didn't succeed because ED is too suburban; not the other way around.

I gather the Half Moon pub is closed for about a year. I believe it's listed so the clean-up/drying operation is not straightforward.