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You can also check out the users group which deals with them both: https://www.facebook.com/peckhampulseusers, https://www.instagram.com/pulsedulwichusers

The Get Well Clinic in Camberwell offers "Community Acupuncture" or "multi-bed" treatment for Camberwell, Herne Hill, Dulwich, and Peckham every Tuesday at Zen Yoga in Camberwell Grove from 3:30-5:30pm. Community acupuncture means numerous patients share the same space which lowers cost. Community acupuncture is becoming a popular form of care for many people. It is seen as a health movement by many. Multi-bed treatment dramatically reduces cost by pricing on a sliding scale, which makes it possible for patients to afford more regular or frequent courses of treatment. Local practitioners George Monkhouse and Marion offer full body treatment from ?20-40 (booking required) and ?5 for ear acupuncture on a drop-in basis. Acupuncture treatment is followed by Qi Gong from 6pm priced at ?10 (concessions ?8). ZenYoga, 2D Camberwell Grove (opposite no.43) Camberwell London SE5 8RE Get Well Clinic website: http://camberwellacupuncture.co.uk Get Well Clinic on Facebook: www.facebook.com/camberwellacupuncture For more information about Community Acupuncture in general see the film "Community Acupuncture: The Calmest Revolution Ever Staged" at

The HHMF is working with schools, and also amateur and pro musicians to put on its 2nd community opera The Peasant's Opera (based on the 1381 Peasant's Revolt) after a successful Noyes Fludde (Britten) last year. This opera is an original written locally for the occasion and will be performed at the Charter School in Red Post Hill on October 14th. Dulwich Community Council has provided partial funding and the Festival is down to a final 4 days with its crowdfunder to try and make up shortfall and is well off target. Some of the high cost is due to need for the few professionals to assist - but this will also help make for a wonderful performance while pupils get a lot of great experience working with them. Please help if you can, even if just to spread the word? Read more about opera's goals and the funder at: http://gogetfunding.com/the-peasant-s-opera/ More about the festival and the schedule at: http://www.hernehillfestival.org/

Same guy, same sum, same spiel last night in Grove Hill Road SE5. He followed and pressed a housemate down the road to the front door. Fairly late, around 10.30pm so no one about in cul-de-sac land. Same frantic pace and switched on the tears expertly as well. At this stage it felt risky as the church name didn't stack up but the front door was open, so gave him money basically to be rid of him on the odd chance it might be genuine, esp as eviction is a regular reality these days. Also had a recent experience of giving money to someone who actually returned it. Clearly he is not one of that ilk. But be warned that he is getting about and moving into residential. Wish I'd seen this post earlier. We'll get this reported in.

Southwark Libraries Community Web Resources says EDS is based at 105 Wood Vale SE23 3DT, Executive meets x5/yr + AGM and at different venues. 020 8693 1511. Email: [email protected] http://bit.ly/1JbxKUj. No website and no idea how current.

Fusion raking it in. One way that's accomplished is by delaying new works and maintenance. Another is by using cheap tenders on new build. It's not just ED, been to Peckham Pulse lately? Spa suite is in a shambles, doors rotting, therapy pool shut for years now (due to floor leaks we were told), sauna currently on the blink. Mass migration to Glass Mill, a new build in Lewisham, which not long after opening was shut so that the entire floor space could be dug out to repair structural faults. At Brockwell Lido the pool needed to be repaired twice recently as it wasn't done properly the first time round. In the spa suite the hydrotherapy pool seems to work as often as it doesn't - an operations manager said the actual fibreglass basin should never have been approved in the first place, designed for far lighter duty. Nonetheless users pay full whack. Inaccessible electrical boxes because water pipes were later laid in front of them so interminable delay on electronic shower repair. And, most of the time, musical chairs on facility management so that good managers are moved on to prized startups. Which makes customer delivery agreement responsibilties hard to force adherence to. What's more important for Fusion is expansion (anyone been to their Barbican centre yet?). New centres everywhere. If Peckham ever gets to resurrect their Lido, I think I know who will be running it. ED should get a strong user group going, if Brockwell Lido didn't have BLU, it would be in a real state. However it does take time and dedication to set up and follow through on user group physical meetings and for the most part people are passive: leisure centres not social centres. One of the reasons the Lido users have push is because a passionate group saved the place from being bulldozed several years ago and are not about to allow their legacy to go down the pan.

cactus' comment hits it on the head: FUSION. Now more interested in taking on cash-strapped council-run facilities for the one-time makeover (then moving on elsewhere) than good maintenance of what they already run. Staff morale isn't brilliant either. Apparently very heavy middle management.

@HerneHillFest Herne Hill Music Festival's community opera matchfunding appeal is down to less than a week - it expires on July 31st! It remains short of target, please see the campaign page at http://gogetfunding....t/noye-s-fludde and make a donation or spread the word if you can! The page also includes a more detailed cost breakdown. Based on a Mystery Play, Britten wrote this opera to be performed mostly by children and by amateur musicians. The Festival hopes to perform this amazing opera on the last day of its 2014 Festival, Sunday 19th October. It's an ambitious undertaking - the performance will involve pupils from local schools as well as a large number of local musicians, the Calton Quartet, and two professional singers. The Festival hopes to stage it at St Faith's Church in Red Post Hill. It's also topical given the recent flood in Herne Hill! HHMF has been granted ?1,000 by Dulwich Community Council towards the cost of the performance, but the Festival needs to match this through a crowd-source funding appeal. The remaining costs will be covered by ticket sales. http://www.hernehillfestival.org/

The Herne Hill Music Festival is holding an open house discussion on November 14th to welcome new people interested in the Festival, and to discuss how the 2012 Festival went - quality of the concerts, the venues, prices, publicity, and anything else you want to contribute. Wine and cakes as refreshments. If interested in attending, please send an email to [email protected]

If you go down the bottom of the aforementioned FB wall, you'll see developer plans for that parcel. As far back as June 12. You'll also read about attempts to develop 123 Grove Park and mention of the convent project at 18 GP which was approved with little consultation which everyone regrets as work and noise drag on. In that case the land was left by nuns in a covenant for the homeless and the result has been luxury flats. We understand nuns were buried around the chapel and no archaelogy was undertaken. If you walk across Avondale Rise you'll see the crane which has been a fixture for nearly a year as another greenbelt parcel next to the rail line gets developed. Residents in the area have been fighting off development of the back gardens of 20 and 21 off and on for about 12 years. Southwark News ran a story about the attempt 5 years ago, which is the closest it came to fruition for a developer. Some development plans get through and some don't - depends on level of fatigue or apathy on the part of the public, since the developers keep on returning with new attempts for planning permission. Even when unsuccessful the taxpayer foots the bill for consultations. It has gotten to the point where residents feel such frequently repeated attempts constitutes "vexatious behaviour". In every case it has been about developing in conservation areas for either new builds or expansion of existing buildings. In the case of 123 Grove Park, plans for which were rejected by Inspector Rodgers for the Sec of State for Communities and Local Government earlier this month (links for the docs can be found in a timeline item on Aug 12), one reason given was additional cutting down of trees. It was impressed upon the Inspector at developer appeal that while a common sycamore may not be anything special, a grove of them makes for woodland, including bat habitat. It appeared to be chiefly denied on grounds of being contrary to policies 3.16 and 7.21 of the Southwark Plan (2007). The first because the plan doesn't preserve the Conservation Area as it stands (reading between the lines this invites a new proposal in due course) and the second because it does not, in broad terms, protect trees within a conservation area. 20/21 is also in a conservation area, in a greenbelt which runs between the back gardens of Grove Hill Road and Grove Park, from Lettsom Gardens down to Warwick Gardens past the rail line. Perhaps the only reason the development was stopped 5 years ago is because developers got a junior tree officer to sign off on clearing the land of sycamore trees when his senior was on holiday. This was also during summer holiday when fewer residents were around to monitor events. By the time the press came in, all the trees were down. This caused an uproar as planning approval had actually not yet been given - the leader of the council stepped in and demanded the trees be replanted. Although developers jumped the gun the replacement was paltry and of course this was not like for like because you can't replace 40 year old mature trees. Since that time each proposal has weighed in for even larger development. The Ivanhoe Residents Assoc opposes this development in part due to violations in the past, the 123 GP decision, and the fallout at 18 GP. Access to proposed works would be from Ivanhoe Road as well, adding insult to injury by impacting residents in the mews - from congestion, noise and pollution, not to mention light and sightlines later. Families mainly live in the road, so this would also mean the end of kids playing in the road and so on ... and no one can really know for how long. You can see the current plans on the FB timeline for June 12th. If you click on the drawing and then click on arrow right, you can see the sketches. FB timeline mode is not the most easily navigable social media view. but it's all the association has for now ... and the data has been posted.

Yes it always seems to hot up during summer school break when people are busy or away on hols ... Not much time left to sign this petition to get Southwark to refuse planning permission for application number 12/AP/2214, at the back of 20 and 21 Grove Park. Please sign the petition! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-garden-grabbing/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392

about the term Chair - at times it was such a bizarre meeting we wondered if there was a chair! re decisionmaking, this remains to be seen. Rodgers finally showed up at 123 Grove Park around 5 with a battalion of folk surrounding - including Southwark's questionable (moderately cast aspersion) tree officer and oddly enough, a member of the Camberwell Society who'd featured in the recently-aired BBC production The Secret History of Our Streets, Camberwell Grove. Who'd been relatively quiet at the hearing. Plus the architect minions. Inspector Lloyd Rodgers is a mixed bag who has been at this kind of adjudication for a long time. He has agreed with greenbelt developers, making no bones about "pragmatic" development requirements, but he's also opposed them. What we're?talking about at 123 is an ex-probation office and before that, a soldier's hospital. The Ivanhoe Residents Assoc holds that being an ex hospital, the building in question is already quite large and there should be no need for tree felling to accomodate expansion, let alone collateral damage (83 + 40 trees). Yet given the fairly recent Grove Park Sui Generis convent raffle off and its convent development (with insufficient archaelogy re buried nuns around the lower chapel and scant consideration of the covent's order bequeath to Southwark for the poor and destitute), all bets are WAY off. See recent web post: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Appeal-build-homes-greenbelt-rejected-inspector/story-16421200-detail/story.html

The Public Hearing for the appeal of previously denied planning permission for development at 123 Grove Park continues this afternoon at the Learning and Business Centre, Cator Street at Commercial Way, in Peckham, Room 26, with ecology on the agenda after the lunch break. The hearing is being "chaired" by Government Inspector Lloyd Rodgers, who has a mixed history in similar cases. He is due to go to the site after the hearing for a personal look at the physical environment. We expect he'll be there sometime after 4pm. To his chagrin, developers hadn't give all documentation to the Council and so local residents hadn't had a look at some revisions. No idea how this will impact the appeal. We also learned that the bat population will be affected and that besides 83 trees slated for felling within the development, 40 more would be expected to be removed due to hazards of construction. You can look at numerous case files at: http://planningonline.southwark.gov.uk/AcolNetCGI.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=9538576

On Wednesday there will be a Public Enquiry at the Learning Centre of Southwark Council, which is located at Cator Street, just off Southampton Way. Numerous issues will be raised from 10AM until 3:30PM, amongst these an objector has been told, will be the cutting down of 80 trees in Grove Park, which appears to be further eradication of the local conservation area. This seems to happening a lot lately in different places, to clear room for planning, development and architects. If you feel strongly about holding onto green spaces we've still got, regardless of where in the local area you live, please attend if you can. We try to keep abreast of these kinds of developments on the Ivanhoe Residents Association Facebook page, as well as other events of interest. The item above is online at: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=402671429774907&set=a.357273064314744.75397.316393255069392&type=1&theater

If you are, check out - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392 And give us a like then come on and join us and write something!

You can read some detail about the Hooper's Tooley Street music licence review session on the Ivanhoe Residents Assoc facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ivanhoe-Residents-Association/316393255069392. The verdict is in - some time curtailment and new restriction on allowing people out to smoke in Malfort Road.

Trevor Christie photo show early Carnegie cancellation Last week I posted up about Trevor Christie's long-awaited photo show at the Carnegie Library. It was a great Private View for opening night, nice turnout. But Trevor has has to pull the plug on the show early - it was meant to run through the 31st. He's sorry about that. He says: "due to work related issues the show will be made available at another venue". But he has updated his Flickr page to include the show photos, which were fewer but much larger than expected. You can see these at:

New Photography Exhibition from Trevor Christie at the Carnegie Library! Private view this Friday You may recall in summer I bigged up Trevor Christie's photography exhibition at the Diverse Gallery in Brixton. Great show. And then I wondered where his next show would happen. Turns out, it is happening in Herne Hill and at the Carnegie Library no less! Max Rush's colour wildlife, portrait, and landscape work makes way for TC's more stark and urban and chiefly black and white work ... such a great venue for it too - wonderful juxtaposition. This show runs from Private View on Friday 20 January (7pm to 9pm) until Tues 31 Jan. Phone the Carnegie for general opening times - 020 7926 6050. The library, for those of you who don't know where it is located (didn't you go visit it during Open House London??), can be found at 188 Herne Hill Road. SE24 0AG for you sat navers! It should be a similar body of work as at the Diverse show (with a few new interesting additions, see below if I can manage to attach anything to the EDF!). Which then amounted to approx 200 mainly B&W prints - all traditional "analogue" photography not digital. 35mm film stock and hand done prints. That exhibition was titled 'Steel and Glass' as these represent the main components of the traditional camera. This show is just called 'Photography'. There's bound to be a broad range of subject matter - most of it urban (aka 'street') portraiture portraying lean, stark and confused times but doing so with a sense of wonder. Timeless gritty begging beauty. Shadows, ghosting and blurring blending reportage with impression - some photos reminiscent of 40s and 50s urban realism but layered with an ethereal quality due to imperfection only tactile photography and its processing can bring. It is fantastic that Trevor is showing at the Carnegie, also a timeless place yet one which could do with a shot of cutting-edge and something more in tune with our confusing times. It is a beautiful, much-loved building but faces grave difficulties in future, faced as it is with closure in the not-too-distant future unless cash can be raised to keep it afloat. Lambeth have already put it on their death list. People read less, it is hard to heat and service, and without the many volunteers who put in time gratis, it may already have been shut. But this show is a wonderful opportunity for people who don't use libraries in a traditional fashion (or don't read anymore, except perhaps on their Kindle or Kogan) to come in for something different. There's a lot worse than the local library becoming a local art gallery (more ideas anyone?) and for all of you traditionalists out there, take heart! What with his 35mm approach, Trevor is a traditionalist too! So ... ome support local photography, use your local library, and show support for the Carnegie, all in one go! You can see many of Trevor's works on show on his Flickr web pages and these include print titles as well as notes: But you'd do so much better seeing these in person to fully appreciate them. Digital can never do them justice!

Elvis was spotted in East Dulwich today along Northcross Road and in Grove Vale by Shaun's DIY! Also in Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill outside Kindreds Bakery, and in Camberwell Church Street near Hermit's Cave and in Tadim's Cafe. The King left the building with his good friend Davey Jones who has been publicizing his free Elvis Tribute Night at Hooper's Bar (SE5 8DH) tonight. So Elvis will be back in the building very soon. The pair was spotted and photographed by street photographer Phil! See attached composite!

No, not the same T Christie! for any of you interested in the trevor christie show - just had an email from trevor to say that the diverse gallery show has been extended till the 10th, and he also says that he has a CONFIRMED later closing of 10pm. regarding a showing in CP which you mention sylvester, that sounds like a good thing and perhaps if you have any venue ideas you could contact trevor on [email protected] 'Steel and Glass' by Trevor Christie at Diverse EXTENDED TILL SEPT 10TH THIS EXHIBITION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL SEPT 10TH. FOR ANY OF YOU WHO MAY HAVE GONE DOWN LAST SAT. FOR A 10PM CLOSING ONLY TO GET SHUTTERS, APOLOGIES FOR AN EARLIER THAN EXPECTED GALLERY CLOSE THEN. WHILE I AM TOLD A LATER 10PM CLOSE IS CONFIRMED FOR THE FINAL DAY ON THE 10TH, YOU MIGHT STILL BE BEST ADVISED TO RING UP THE GALLERY FIRST ON 0207 733 1488.

Stumbled across a remarkable exhibition of street photography yesterday by Herne Hill resident and photographer, Trevor Christie. Sadly, there are just two days left for this show - it ends Saturday night, September 3rd, at 10pm. But the good news is that you still have time to catch it. Well worth doing so. Something like 300 B&W and colour prints covering 4 walls at Diverse Gallery which is located at 62 Atlantic Road. What's really nice is that this is traditional photography not digital. 35mm film stock and hand done prints. The exhibition is titled 'Steel and Glass' as these represent the main components of the traditional camera. There's a broad range of subject matter but most of it is urban portraiture which portrays lean, stark and confused times but does so with a sense of wonder. This magically transforms gritty into beauty and lends it a timelessness. Shadows, ghosting and blurring blend reportage with impression - some photos are reminiscent of 40s and 50s urban realism but are layered with an ethereal quality due to imperfection only tactile photography and its processing can bring. You can see many of the works on show on his Flickr web pages and these include print titles as well as notes ( ) but you'd do so much better seeing these in person to fully appreciate them. Digital doesn't do them justice. Was told the exhibition is open today from 11am-7pm and closes tomorrow at 10pm. This is news but I guess it is also a review. So I'd better rate it. OK then, 5 stars out of 5. See you down Atlantic Rd.

UPDATE We've been told that the free taster classes at the Lido on Sunday are exactly the same as on Saturday. All are first come, first served. PT Cycle from 10-11am Hatha Yoga from 2:30-3:30pm Tai Chi from 3-4 pm Bridal Circuit from 3-4pm More info 0207 274 3088. Or check out the Gym & Spa Users Forum on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brockwell-Lido-Gym-Spa-User-Forum/189173027789769 And don't forget to give us a like!

As this is the Lounge and the weather this weekend is supposed to be nice, I figured I should get back on here and tell you that the Brockwell Lido is kicking off its swim season a month earlier than usual this weekend and to mark the occasion is also offering free swimming all weekend, from 9-4pm. If you're interested in getting your mug and slimline body (har!) in somebody's book, there'll be a photographer taking snaps of folks plunging into the undoubtedly "cool" waters at 10am. Also free of charge will be taster classes in the Lido studios. There are 4 we know of so far, and they are scheduled for Saturday: PT Cycle from 10-11am Hatha Yoga from 2:30-3:30pm Tai Chi from 3-4 pm Bridal Circuit from 3-4pm More are planned for Sunday. You can do the gym and spa for free as well within the aforementioned hours. So we've been told by Fusion. Perhaps best to ring the Lido to confirm times and places, also to find out about Sun. if we haven't manage to post further here: 0207 274 3088. Or check out the Gym & Spa Users Forum on Facebook. Hopefully Fusion will get on there and post something once they know - we've asked them to. Reminder of the FB pathway: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brockwell-Lido-Gym-Spa-User-Forum/189173027789769 And don't forget to give us a like!

It is a long lease which Lambeth created with Fusion. I liked Paul Maier too ... Jeremy as well. We had lots of pow wows. He helped start the Modern Movement too. And agreed his replacement was very hard work and did some outrageous stuff. But she was yanked after protest (nearly a sit-in in December) and am encouraged by her replacement so far. He has allowed us to display handbills for the facebook around the dryside of the place and put some up himself. This is one of the reasons for the facebook thing. if you want to be read, go on it and add your comments. both the manager and BLU seem to be reading the wall. I'm not sure they will come to the ED forum. I appreciate what you say about the bulletin board - we should be on there too. We are trying to get on it now. Meeting some resistance but one of the facebook administrators met with BLU heads this week and brought it up again.

I've posted something like this before (a few weeks ago) elsewhere on the ED Forum but it got shifted to biz and trades, but this isn't a trade or really a business, so I'm thinking maybe The Lounge is the right place. In case you didn't know, spring may have sprung, and the Brockwell Lido opens the pool this weekend. The Brockwell Lido is holding a free open weekend to mark the start of its 2011 swimming season on April 2 and 3rd. Swimming will be free to all comers, and there will also be a range of free poolside activities and taster classes in the studios. Personally, I'd bring a wetsuit as it hasn't been all that warm yet - but a "shorty" would do and Decathlon sell them for under 20 quid. That's the big news and maybe it sounds like business. But we represent a user forum and for us it isn't about selling tickets. We set up a forum to improve services. So it's about community. And the Lido is year round and is about more than the pool for 6 months. There is also a really nice gym and spa there, there are loads of interesting classes and there is also Whippersnappers who run activities for kids as well as martial arts classes. Whippersnappers have been around since 1994 and just had their Talent Show final on Friday! The winner was ... Abdoulie! Some of we 'dry side' users recently started our Facebook forum to better be able to get to know each other as well as feed back (both positives and negatives) to BLU (the Brockwell Lido Users Group which tends to the 'wet side' or pool or pool-related like the very nice cafe there) and to Fusion, who run the whole place on a long lease from Lambeth. So these are basically community campaign pages inasmuch as we felt changes were needed but we weren't being heard terribly well. The other good news is that Fusion has hired a new manager in to run the place and he reads our wall. He also comes from a sport background and isn't just a corporate vendor with a degree in business administration, which is like oasis in a desert! It's always hard launching something like this and getting attention, so check it out and give it a "like"! It helps us get taken more seriously by management. If you're on Facebook, that is. You don't need to be on Facebook to look at the stuff but if you are, you're welcome to add your comments! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brockwell-Lido-Gym-Spa-User-Forum/189173027789769 Or just search up Brockwell Lido Gym & Spa User Forum in Facebook ... or Google it! Thanks!