Nigello

Write to your MP (including address, phone, email info) with concrete examples and request his/her input.

This is very welcome but please do post information more than 20 hours ahead. Thanks

Flu/Covid jabs are being offered to certain groups right now and other groups from 3/10.

Dulwich Village is full of bad cyclists, pedalling furiously with kiddies on board, quite often, along the wider pavement on the park side that leads to the crossroads. Some considerate parents take their kids on the road in their Edwardian costermonger contraptions; some even corral their children on their own bikes (both of which are to be commended, showing that I’m not “anti-cyclist”). Why don’t they understand that cycling (even at moderate speed) and pedestrians (of all ages and abilities) just don’t mix?

Perhaps it’s a good time, then, for those that can (but choose not to) to walk or cycle to the schools near to these roadworks? Just a thought…

Did she have a shiny gold or silver helmet for self and child? They often do…

LL isn’t wide enough for a bus lane and besides, 24/7 is a hammer/nut proposition that gladdens the heart of zealots and unnecessarily irks Mr and Mrs Joe Q Public (writes a car/motorbike/cycle-less pedestrian).

If there are fewer letters then it ought to be easier and faster to deliver them…!

This is what I think happens with swimming. People book ahead as soon as the slots open, days ahead. Which other boroughs operate this system?

How about just opening like a normal, everyday, traditional swimming pool - turn up and swim? It’s this kind of rigidity and lack of accountability that makes the council (and other councils) seem distant and uncaring. Nobody ever requested bookable swimming slots - it was a “requirement” during the pandemic.

Ponding happens all over SE22. The dipped kerbs (for buggies, wheelchairs, etc.) are a case in point. All it needs is for Conway to simulate a downpour with a few gallons of water to see if their “craftsmanship” is up to snuff before they move on to perform their next miracles. Paving slabs often subside (maybe because the necessary “underlay” is missing or sub-par?) resulting in big puddles. Highways have poor camber which means big, long puddles hug kerbs all over our area yet, despite reporting them, nothing is done to put them right.

What is EAL?

It is condescending and patronising to like such “grittiness”. Maybe a small number of visiting trendies like it but I can’t see many others wanting the status quo to last.

One dead tree near the leisure centre has been removed. Perhaps more are ready for the chop?

Why is there a (very underemployed) guard, sitting looking at his phone in DL? I’d prefer more books and longer opening hours rather than this waste of money.

No, I agree - that’s a given. Ask the branch manager to get his/her finger out and make it as pleasant a branch and experience as is possible in the circumstances - a bank as big and as rich as that ought to do so much better.

https://report.southwark.gov.uk - easy and effective, mostly

I think it’s a sparrow hawk. I had one swoop on a pigeon which managed to flee. Is your hawk near to Dunstans/Goodrich, Ilona? Maybe it’s the same one as at Crawthew.

Sounds pretty typical of the RL shopping and banking experience! Southwark have cleaned up - literally - Walworth and New Kent Roads but leave RL to its own devices, which is perplexing. Best avoided unless you’re ok with litter, vandalism and the like.

I noted the absence of those large bins opposite M and S a while back and now think that maybe they’re no longer there because householders/businesses were leaving their rubbish there and/or using them as their own bins. I have to say, though, I’ve not seen an increase in litter and actually think that the council does a reasonably good job in this regard.

Car parking at D Hill will be reduced (yo accommodate cycles/scooters?), according to the A4 tied to a street light there.

Hello there, nice project, granted, but tying scores of plastic-laminated ads with plastic ties to street lights all over the area and then not making any effort to take them down after the closing date for participating, then repeating this with another set of ads for the results, is neither environment- or community-friendly. Do you not see the irony and lack of thought?

Two dragonflies chasing and eating (?) flying ants on Saturday early evening, not near any water, near Goodrich School.