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Went there for lunch with my little one in tow. Lovely place with good food and brilliant view across the Rye. The staff were also very welcoming and helpful. I noted that its also open on Sundays so perfect for a post Sunday walk snack.

I think there is a significant difference between those who choose to remember the sacrifice that the services have made for us in their own private way or those who for personal reasons chose not to commemorate the fallen, and those who can't be bothered/ aren't interested/ don't think it has anything to do with them. I suspect those playing rugby fell into the last category. If they did - shame on them.

Hi - when we bought our current property it also failed the lead test for the mains water supply. This was picked up on the survey as the lead piping in the kitchen was fairly obvious. The lead was replaced from the tap all the way back to the mains supply outside our house by Thames water under a scheme where they paid for most of the costs. The scheme finished shortly after and I think homeowners are now responsible for that section of pipe from the mains into your house. I don't think there is any problem with the general water supply but there may be residual lead piping into Victorian properties. Certainly when we replaced the lead piping our water supply passed the test.

Is 15mins a long walk Benmorg? I'd say that was fairly close. Se23 starts 3/4 way up Forest Hill Road so Ryedale is safely within SE22 - Don't worry Seanmlow - you will be in East Dulwich still.

I think fewer schools do play rugby but it is not a striaghtforward private vs state school split eg Alleyns doesn't play rugby. dc - excellent news for your daughter- lets hope she enjoys basketball. Do girls not play netball anymore?

I think it is fine - I haven't encountered any problems. Thinking back over the past few years there has been a sexual assault outside the 1930's building beside the disused school on Peckham Rye and a shooting near Barry Road. But despite this I feel quite comfortable in the area. One thing I have noticed is a group of teenagers playing on skateboards on a street close to Ryedale - Cornflower Terrace. Whether they confine their activities to just skateboarding I don't know. 2 Local pubs - The Herne Tavern and The Forest Hill Tavern. Both a couple of minutes walk away and with a reputation for good food.

I meant to say that I think Ryedale is a very nice little street although parking looks like a problem at times. Also some houses on the cemetary side have little gardens that open directly onto the green space at the back of the cemetary. No graves in that bit just a lovely open green space. Really nice.

63 is your nearest bus route into central london (blackfriars/Elephant & Castle or Kings Cross) - its fantastic and never more than a few minutes to wait. To walk to LL (middle of it rather than ED station) is 15 mins max. Honor Oak Park Station (trains to London bridge every 10 mins in rush hour) is 20 mins walk (although up and then down a steep hill) from Ryedale. Useful parade of shops close by with post office, barbers and Si Manga 2 mins away.

Yep - thats the one. I drove past it today and that view has scarcely changed.

Hmm "Struming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words killing me softy with his song killing me softly with his song telling my whole life with his words killing me softly with his song"

Ko Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some facts (which are always useful): > The girls school, Waverley, has > - an indoor 100m swimming pool > - a running track > - flood-lit all-weather sports pitches for tennis, > hockey, basketball, football etc > - fitness suite with a modern gym > - indoor full-sized sports hall for indoor > football, basketball, badminton etc > - a dance studio > > It would be good to know if there are any plans to > share these facilities. Sorry Ko - I think your facts are wrong - there is no swimming pool at Waverley school - certainly not an enormous 100m one. (Olympic size pools are 50m as is the Crystal Palace pool). Indeed I think the sports facilities at Waverley are very poor. Fitness facilities perhaps - sports facilities no. They compare badly to the facilities at some of the local private schools. So the idea of the boys' school benefitting from excellent facilities does not hold water. A bit like the non-existent swimming pool.

This is a great idea Fushia - I would add The Livesey Museum on the old Kent Road - fantastic hands on museum Crystal Palace one o'clock club - this has a morning and an afternoon session rather than just lunchtime. - this is really well organised with lovely activities for little ones.

There is a chap living in one of the lovely streets near the Forest Hill Tavern who was in the Bill. Stephen Hartley - also seen fairly recently in Doctors (daytime tv for all those slaving away at a hot computer terminal during the day). He is often to be found waiting at the bus stop at the top of Forest Hill Road.

Oh Sean - you have taken me back - I haven't heard that expression for years. The number of times I did my mammy's messages - quarter of ham, loaf of plain bread and a pint of milk. Of course growing up then in Northern Ireland there was always the chance that your kid could get caught up in something life threatening with bomb blasts/ shootings but I was still walking to school age 5 with my older sister. After all she was seven! Who says that times are more dangerous now?

Fantastic - just opposite the park.

DM is giving you very sound advice - find your list of preferred schools then work out which streets closest to those schools meet your requirements with regards to number of beds, need for a garden etc. If independent schools are your choice (10k per annum but rising fast) then consider your other needs first. Sorry but I don't know Henslowe Road very well but I am sure some of the other forum members have some info.

I have eaten there a number of times and always found the food to be fantastic and the staff very welcoming. I have to declare an interest though as I know the owner.

I hadn't heard about the canine goings on but I had heard that there was a very active swinging community in Dulwich. Can't say I'm tempted myself but at least they are doing it indoors.

Hi Domitianus Let me deal with the points you raised The inequality I pointed out was completely anticipated by Beveridge but his ideas for tackling the acute problem of poverty in older women were not implemented. The differing retirement ages were introduced in 1940 to address the fact that rates of employment for spinsters over the age of 45 were markedly lower than those of men of the same age. This did not discriminate against men as they, on the whole, had the opportunity to work until 65 but women did not. It merely attempted to address the clear inequalities that existed in the workplace. You will note that reduction in the retirement age was brought in primarily to tackle the problems of poverty for unmarried working women and therefore nothing to do with raising a family. I agree that individuals make the decision to raise a child but that decision is made within a society structure which loads the decision in favour of the mother taking on primary responsibility for caring for children. This therefore reduces her potential for making NI contributions. For example - availability of affordable childcare, women?s earnings being 77% of men?s. This means that a pension system based on individuals contributions is biased against anyone (man or woman) who enables her(/his) partner to work by staying at home to raise their family. In the real world this results in a distinct biase against women as supported by the fact that so few women are entitled to a full state pension. I think what our discussion highlights is that a pension system devised 70 years ago does not fulfill the needs of a modern society. Good job its being sorted! (By the way I don?t know anything about the new system ? I just hope its better than this one).

Do you want to swap Domitianus? - 30% of women currently receive a full state pension because family commitments make it so difficult to build up contibutions. There is your evidence of a paternalistically biased society.

Oh I do hope you are better at your job than you would be at bringing up kids with those ideas. ;-)

Yeah - because just think of all those men queuing up to do low paid low status part-time jobs just so that they can change more nappies.

BarryRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Defunkt chippie on the corner of Landcroft Road > and Whateley Road. Who owns it? I know a potential > buyer/manager type who's interested in the > property. Any ideas? There are a number of empty shops on Forest Hill Road just past the Forest Hill Tavern if your friend might be interested. There is a great little community going on here in the outer reaches of SE22.

MP - Sounds interesting reading. I was obviously in quite a morbid mood yesterday as I was in Nunhead Cemetery for the first time and spotted some beautiful graves for New Zealand and Australian soldiers who died in WWI. The grave stones look fairly recent and are obviously carefully maintained despite the surrounding wilderness of the cemetery. Imagine being laid to rest so far away from home. As you say - very sobering.

I must pass it every day on the school run but never noticed it. Next time I will stop and have a look. Thanks Amelie