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We've just signed up with BT (rather than Virgin, but that's another story) and the same seems to happen after 6.00pm.

Thanks from us too.

Copied from another burglary thread but still very relevant to this one! "Sifting through all the burglary threads this morning makes for grim reading. We've been done over several years ago (a 4.00am break-in while we slept upstairs and we didn't hear a thing until the stairs creaked right outside out bedroom) and my wife didn't sleep properly for months, years afterwards, imagining noises of all sorts in the dark. But I would agree with others in that if you leave things in sight of a window or letter box then it will eventually lead to someone having a go and all the devices and locks won't make the slightest difference. As a result of our close escape from injury, we've gone to almost bonkers lengths to avoid a repeat but which I won't go into here and it's not until you've been through the same thing that you realise just how naive/stupid you were."

Sifting through all the burglary threads this morning makes for grim reading. We've been done over several years ago (a 4.00am break-in while we slept upstairs and we didn't hear a thing until the stairs creaked right outside out bedroom) and my wife didn't sleep properly for months, years afterwards, imagining noises of all sorts in the dark. But I would agree with others in that if you leave things in sight of a window or letter box then it will eventually lead to someone having a go and all the devices and locks won't make the slightest difference. As a result of our close escape from injury, we've gone to almost bonkers lengths to avoid a repeat but which I won't go into here and it's not until you've been through the same thing that you realise just how naive/stupid you were.

I swear I saw Simon Day in the yoghurt aisle the other day. He was last seen in the briliant Cradle to the Grave by Danny Baker. Tweeted him after the show but he hasn't replied. Can't think why. R

Yes, the Chinook did some circuits around Denmark Hill then landed in Ruskin Park at 2am and for perhaps 10 mins. Those rotors really clatter so triggered a broken night's sleep. The RAF often send in Puma, Merlin and Chinook helicopters for practicing evacuation and extraction in times of 'emergency' .. whatever that means.

If they're there to monitor bus lane misuse, then I say go get 'em. In fact, if they want more business, simply go to the Sainsburys left turn on Dog Kennel. Plenty of queuejumpers who can't wait to get in to the trolley track. *Puts on tiin hat and takes cover*

So THAT'S the reason for traffic backed-up at the lights on the hill. Been diverting left and going round the houses to Peckham Rye.

The link works fine for me on a Mac/Firefox. Anyway, this is the first I've heard of this closure so thanks for posting it. Havoc is one way of describing it.

Clearly a malfunction! Footage here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30315650

I saw the Dawson Heights scenes as well as those shot in Dulwich Park - and more incredibly, they actually said they were in Dulwich Park.

Those work clothes are worn in eastern Europe and Germany.

This is s great thread - thanks to those posting their routes. Here's our 4 parks 12k (7.4 mile although the app says 6.4. We don't believe it!) loop that 2 of us do every week and which takes us about 50-55 mins - little heavy traffic, green spaces, funny incidents to spot so lots to laugh about - even as we as we stagger up Greendale. http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/375980925

The offending (or offensive) poster is now down and the pavement cleaned - replaced, ironically, by an ad for Travelodge.

Voters and non-voters have been defacing posters or images of politicians for millennia (and remember the brilliant artistic merit of the turf on Churchill's statue in Parliament Sq?). I've no objection of them doing so in the name or art or democracy but Southwark, at some cost, will have to clean up the pavement.

I photographed it over the weekend: http://richardbaker.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/A-Main/G0000eCmPxfuw7AI/I0000d2dAQ52KBCo/C0000b8Wt9e454WA

I took a walk along the boardwalk with a friend yesterday, telling him about this thread as we walked. He told me where he usually sees them but tragically, I didn't see one - not one. Cheated.

If that's the case, I'd be interested to know its route from the A205. Turn right at DC into the Village or via the Norwood Road and under the existing HH bridge?

From TFL's Easter Roads section: "South London area ? On Sunday, from 08:00 until 12:00, an abnormal load will travel under police escort from the M23, via the A23 and the A205 South Circular Road to the Herne Hill area. During this time roads in the vicinity may be busy." Anyone know what this might be? Not a bridge, surely!

Oh, well - in ancient times they had plagues of locusts chewing the delphiniums so a little dust on your chariot isn't going to change civilisation.

I really can't be bothered reading 2 lines of text that isn't punctuated in any way. Whatever they're trying to say is not worth a minute of my time trying to fathom whatever they're talking about.

Here's a post of mine from a few days ago re the surgery appointment app: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1281301,1281301#msg-1281301

I know there are issues with booking appointments at some ED surgeries but my own on Kestral Ave in HH have signed up to an app called Patient Access (https://patient.emisaccess.co.uk/. Take photo ID to reception, they give you some printed login details and you input those into the app to register. Once done, you can book appointments and order prescriptions which in theory will bypass the auto-redial nightmare bang on 8 0'clock. I've not tried this method yet and of course, others with no access to the net or apps will lose out. Anyone actually tried the system?

Selfies. You can catch lice from them, I hear.

The road from The Charter School to the Village is like off-roading on Paris-Dakar rally, so bad is the road. With a bit of luck, his pole with fall off anyway.