Soya

I work in Dulwich Hospital, and there's a bit of confusion with the blood dept opening times - some GPs still give their patients the old forms to take to their blood tests, which have outdated information on. The blood test dept is open Mon-Fri, from 7.30 to 15.45. I'd highly recommend that if you're swinging by later in the day you try and get there at least 15 minutes before it closes, as they tend to be quite prompt about shutting up shop and don't make exceptions for people who have turned up a few minutes late.

One for the music lovers on here, East Dulwich local Archy Marshall aka King Krule made the BBC Sound of 2013 list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010q6bc/profiles/kingkrule. Well worth a listen - good luck to him!

...and now I fear you're misrepresenting me. I'm not seeking to defend the original poster's view on animal rights. In fact, I have mentioned nothing about my position on the subject. I wonder if you made an assumption based on my username? I tried to sign up for the site with my real name, but it was taken so I cast my eyes around my desk and put soya because I had soy milk sitting in front of me (I'm allergic to dairy. I know, it's an astoundingly original way to come up with a username). I have no thoughts on horses being used in circuses. I don't believe I have misrepresented the OP's first post. He didn't appear to be asking for a discussion on animal rights - he wanted to know whether it seemed that the police presence at the protest was a little heavy-handed. Whilst discussion might be hard to avoid (it is an emotive subject), that was not his primary purpose in starting this thread. What I called you out on was what I perceived to be rudeness on your part, telling a stranger on the Internet to get a life. For all you know, Tom might be a philanthropist, a charity worker who has made a difference to the lives of hundreds, the surgeon who saved a family member's life. He might have tap-danced the Macarena naked on top of the forth plinth in Trafalgar Square. He might not have done any of these things. Either way, I do not believe it's called for to tell him to get a life simply because this is the internet. I thought the EDF was supposed to be an online accompaniment to a real-life community that people have worked hard to build up. Not everybody uses it for that purpose, true, but that doesn't mean that you should use it to insult somebody you'd probably shake hands with if you were blindly introduced down the pub.

Oh dear. So, a gent with a passion for animal rights starts a thread that seems to be a discussion about the policing of a small protest. He gives further context, explaining his point of view reasonably enough, and even implies that his primary reason for having being at the protest was to talk to the organizers; and yet here you are on the East Dulwich Forum, telling somebody you've probably never met before to get a life. I generally try to adhere to the maxim that one should not say anything on the internet that they wouldn't be willing to say to somebody face-to-face. Would you?