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pandrns Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Highly recommend The Gardens - receptionist is > always chatty and friendly (which is a rarity) and > Dr Tran is very easy to talk to. Dr Tran is brilliant, love her sense of humour and chattiness - laughter is the best medicine! Seen her a few times and her personality always takes the edge off how rough i might be feeling :)

lol i keep getting the post for next door but one... not far to drop off but still. My bigger gripe is with people that move house and don't give out their new address! I get more post for someone that lived her two years ago than i get for myself. Junk mail fair enough just gets binned but there's hand-written things like cards and even phone bill looking things! and why do Boden send their customer a catalogue nearly every week (again this is the previous people) what a waste of paper!! I'm sick of binning the damn things and doing a return to sender session nearly every week with wodges of letters is doing my nut in. Soon it will all get binned!

ObsessedwithOlives Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As much as I have concern for the lady's safety, > I'd like to add she wasn't wearing a helmet which > I think is ridiculous nowadays. Noone seems to > wear them!! Is a concern for fashion more > important than one's safety?? while i personally wear a helmet i don't think a helmet would have prevented this accident taking place somehow. If the driver is at fault, the lady's safety precautions are irrelevant. The lady is unhurt (but bloody shaken up imagine) so what would a helmet have changed about this accident?

It's a disgrace in this day and age that people don't neuter their cats to prevent unwanted kittens, and unforgivable that they should just dump them on the streets. Thank goodness for charities like Celia Hammond. I also read a box of puppies were dumped somewhere in Peckham. It's horrible.

ah yes the old text and walk out.... had a number of near misses (though none as close as yours) in similar situations. Unfortunely no kind of brightly coloured signs and pavement/road markings can cure a complete lack of common sense in people tuned into nothing but their mobiles... they'd walk across a motorway if there wasn't bariers up! :( DuncanW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For the record, I was involved in a collision on > this stretch of 'cycle path' about a month ago. > A guy who was texting walked out in front of me. I > was able to apply my brakes and swerve to try and > avoid hitting him, but I did still make contact > and then wiped-out and ended up on the floor in > the road proper. > Luckily there was no bus on the road at the time. > Still I came away fairly bruised and battered, > nothing too serious, and needed ?80 of repairs to > my bike. I didn't relaise I was supposed to report > this...

haha, I registered with them last night - i have an appointment with Dr Tran next week - i have a weird sense of humour too so no doubt we'll get along like a house on fire... or not at all! peckhamwry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Gardens is great as a surgery and most of the > docs there are good too. Dr Cliffe is always > lovely. Dr Tran is fantastic, and she does indeed > have a very quirky sense of humour, as mentioned > above, which always takes me by surprise but is a > breath of fresh air in a GP.

DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I use the cycle path every day without too many > problems. It would be better if it were more > clearly marked as shared space because at the > moment, as many have commented, plenty of > pedestrians just don't realise that it is also > used by bikes. And obviously cyclists need to > ride differently compared to how they would either > on the road or a bikes only route; this also > applies to the Surrey Canal path where IMO too > many people ride far too fast. Agree about people going too fast along Surrey Canal - i like to take my time along there. If i'm in a rush i'll use the roads... but i can rarely be bothered to rush! It's nice to enjoy a bit of green space/no traffic to worry about and all cyclists should respect the other park users and not race down there. It's really annoying when i carefully look behind me before i overtake a pedestrian for some loony to overtake me at breakneck speed... what's the rush, it's not the Tour de France!

I only use it on my way to work in the mornings, it really needs to be signed better. I can't work out whether it's one way (ie from the libary crossing to Primark only) or both as coming from the opposite way (which is what i'm doing in the morning) there are signs on lamposts facing me - in my eyes is that to tell me there is a cycle path there or is it just to warn pedestrians? It shouldn't be confusing - confusing leads to accidents. I just stay on the bus lane - it's easier although people still like to look me in the eye and walk out in front of me on the road too - and why do so many try to push buggies into the road (ie when the parent is still on the pavement waiting to cross) - i've nearly been hit twice, i've grown accustomed to giving them a wide berth instead now - bit of commmon sense to not stick a buggy out into a busy road surely - not bothered about me, i tend to be pretty bullet proof but babies and toddlers are not (my own mum learned this lesson the hard way when i was a baby myself - although i do have her epically thick knitted bobble hat to thank for coming out of that accident alive - the driver drove off without a trace!) I do like the Surrey Canal route though, nice to cycle at a leisurely pace through the greenery :)

pripolla Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Forest Hill Road GP have an asthma clinic. My > daughter has been seen by Penny, the asthma nurse. > She is very good, I recommend. ooh thank you, but i'm not in their catchment either- should have said i'm up Bellenden Rd, but the part that's just out of The Garden's reach :(

Does anyone know of any local practices that have an asthma clinic? NHS website said the Gardens do but i think i'm only just out of there boundary :( plus it says nothing on their website about an asthma clinic. I had really good support at my old surgery as they had a specialist asthma nurse/clinic so could do with this again at a new practice - especially with winter coming!