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Folks, I can see plenty feel strongly about this, I've been a dog owner, and I also have two small grandchildren, so I can comprehend both sides. Many people would be averse to reminding an owner to leash their dog. We cannot count on any wardens being nearby when we need them, either. Experience in other locales suggests the best thing is to ask the council for a change in the bye-laws, to say, e.g. leads MUST be worn, not discretionary, or even to ask for NO DOGS at all to be allowed in that section by the lakeside. If the law isn't quite clear enough or enforced promptly there will be tensions. So can I suggest writing to the council, if enough of us ask, this topic will have to be discussed.

Cygnet resembles the swan in every regard, but s/he has grubby brown-looking plumage which lasts well into 1st year of adulthood before being moulted. If you saw a thing that looked like a white duck, it wouldn't have been the cygnet.

Good link - recommended, EDF readers... Thanks for posting, Only me!

Lovely and peaceful here this morning, thanks to fog. Heathrow News item today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/15/heathrow-issues-hub-airport-decision-warning

Thanks for posting links but I think the 'submit complaint' facility run by Heathrow Airport is designed so someone can only complain about one day at a time. It's been comforting to read how the low flying Big Growlers that come in every a.m. so early, are regarded as a nuisance by all the rest of you, but now I see this has been going on for days, weeks, and months! After living here a few months I've adapted by starting my night's rest earlier. I know I will never get used to that early plane noise and if I wake around midnight I've learnt to appreciate deliberately the beautiful absence of aircraft, as one way of returning to the sleep I know can't last much beyond 4.30 a.m. Is anyone planning to log in and complain every single day? If you are, and feel that the sheer quantity of daily complainers is a force with which Heathrow must reckon - please write about it here, so that other correspondents on this Forum can co-operate. One complainer who emails them every single day won't be as powerful as many voices, because it's easier for that individual to get labelled a 'nutter' in the recipient's office.

Complaints to Southwark Council ignored. Mentioned fly-tipping into the wild woodland adjacent to Underhill Road. Camberwell Old Cemetery gets ????? spent refurbishing its Wood Vale side. So we're nervous in case Underhill's beautiful trees get felled, what we want is attention to the disgusting, never-biodegradable litter. Afterwards perhaps a more adequate fence, and a gateway allowing the footpath to link this side, which would encourage vigilance from everyday walkers.

Yes, confidentiality is important to us too, wouldn't want to stop them gaining access to the relevant sites but we'll sometimes need to be away. How do householders predict & ensure security? & exactly when/where will sewage repairs be going on?

Yes, have enjoyed a few of the pears you mention, fine indeed once ripened properly(as the actress said to the bishop). How could the person who lives there be persuaded to let us help him/her pick the crop do you think? Wouldn't mind doing just that, and then they keep it. Could always raise money at the next charitable fete, etc

Thanks for responding, mynamehere, I am hoping people will extend this discussion re: looking after the trees better, getting them pruned and attending to the early-stage fruit, rather than one about cooking up all this [undersized] bounty

A decorative, unpruned pear tree and some mirabelle trees growing as a hedge almost at the foot of Donkey Alley, are covered in fruit this year. Alas the trees haven't been pruned, & their baby fruit was not thinned enough in the early summer, so this autumn fruit is plentiful yet tiny in size and growing on branches too high to reach. All the free food is going to waste. Conditions in spring, at the blossom/pollination season must have been favourable. Let's be thankful for successful bee colonies in the area, and consolidate by cherishing these wonderful fruit trees. Any suggestions?

Several teams of gardeners and foresters have been employed returfing and felling or lopping unsound trees, along some of the neglected borders of Camberwell Old Cemetery. Does anyone know whether the management has also ordered rubbish clearance from just over the western fence, along Underhill Road? None of the workers I spoke to appears to have been given this task, although I have reported to them the quantities of broken glass, rubble, tins, garden waste and sinister-looking black bags. If you see lorries stopping along this fence please take the registration number to help prevent more fly-tipping. Would anyone else welcome a new gate and entrance to a footpath through from the Underhill Road side of the cemetery, in particular without harming the adjacent, ancient graveyard which has become wild land freely covered in bushes and trees.