Dogkennelhillbilly

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Well, he is OneDulwich. There are no members or officers, there is no legal entity or internal rules or funding transparency. It's weird that Southwark News gives such credence to the claims of someone raging about a minor road closure almost 5 years after it happened. 🥱🥱🥱

20 mph zone. 2 tonne car. Absolutely standard road violence - add it to the weekly railings being mangled on the South Circular. The only reason it is remarkable is because they managed to plant it on top of the wall. Oddly, there are some that remain preoccupied by kids on bikes on pavements and some cyclist that didn't stop at a red light as being what's really dangerous around here. I think they are probably motivated by factors other than road safety when banging that drum.

Google Translate seems to suggest that arapina is translateable to "negress" in English, which is a bit different in English to the N-word. But I don't speak Greek so don’t know if that's a good translation or what the cultural nuances are, and shouldn't stick my oar in beyond that. As an aside, the "choco kiss" (schokoküss) that's a bit like a Tunnock's tea cake used to be called a "negro's kiss" in lots of different European countries. It seems like it's been mostly renamed, which seems sensible... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treatsl I can't think offhand of any similar stuff in English but I might just be uninformed.

If it doesn't taste good, don't put it on the menu

That's a good point - if you're not getting tickets posted to the house (and you haven't changed the V5), then they must be stashing it somewhere there are no parking restrictions (because no-one is going to apply for a permit for a stolen car). So that's at least some of the search area narrowed...

The food at the Crown and Greyhound is good but the prices are eye-watering. Rocca next door is just as good and more reasonably priced. But none of that is about hotel rooms, I digress...

The Crown and Greyhound in Dulwich Village has rooms which are nice, but can be pricey.

Gusto Italiano (cosy cafe on Half Moon Lane, opp Judith Kerr Primary and next to Kens Fish Bar) has a nice new front deck in addition to its pretty little back garden now - will be great in the brighter weather ahead. West 16th next door has a stylist indoor area too. They're both worth a visit.

Half of Holland and Barrett is just fake-healthy fizzy drinks anyway.

Literally no-one said that. That's a thing you've just made up.

Dulwich College and the rest of the private schools are never going to get serious about reducing the number of kids commuting by private car. It goes against their business model - marketing to rich, picky parents across the whole of London (and the world). Community schools that draw from a local catchment area will find it much easier to have kids that walk, bike, scooter etc in. By the way, these private schools also employ hundreds of staff and provide onsite parking for many of them - an unusual perk in London. JAGS lost a lot of goodwill from neighbours and parents when they opposed the school street having effect when kids were arriving...because it would interfere with staff pulling into the car park right before the school day!

I haven't had a run of bad luck. I have had to deal with the systematically rubbish private courier market because I send and receive a lot of parcels. This country's approach of dumping this vital economic activity in the hands of the Barclay Brothers, Jeff Bezos and various other spivs has failed. It's a rubbish outcome for consumers (for all the reasons above), it's a rubbish outcome for workers (many of whom are placed under massive pressure to work stressfully and dangerously by shame subcontracting arrangements), and it's a rubbish outcome for businesses that rely on volume deliveries (as their stuff gets dumped all over the place and their clients get annoyed). Post Office branches are a vital front door for that sector.

Good for you. What happens when you get to sodding Tesco and the crappy instore Hermes terminal is broken, and the store workers aren't trained to fix it, and there's no way for the punter to contact Hermes IT (as if it were our job to fix it)? What happens when you get to the parcel locker to drop off a package and the machine can't scan the label that it itself printed several seconds beforehand? What happens when each shop requires a different bar code, QR code, reference code and ID to send and receive a simply package? These are all things that have happened to me in the last month alone, despite your implications that people who want to use the Post Office are thickies and troglodytes. It's all a stupid inefficient pain in the ring that is unnecessarily complicated. What is wrong with this country that it can't run a decent, simple post office?

Well said. I don't think much of that post office's business is Mrs Miggens withdrawing £7.34 in cash from her pension because she can't be doing with the new-fangled computers. That's a stereotype. I'm terminally online and digital but when you're dealing with physical objects (like bloody parcels or cash!) sometimes you need to drop them off and pick them up from somewhere. That's especially true for international items. I don't want to do that at Tesco or Ken's Korner Kabin where you have to piss around with some deadbeat courier's app which never works, and where you can't yet the courier on the phone and the poor guy in the shop doesn't know how to fix it and is only being paid 13p for the transaction. I don't want a million white vans being driven up and down the same street every day by insecure workers in the gig economy being paid peanuts. I want to drop my stuff off and pay the fee at my local post office, and I want my stuff to be delivered by my brilliant friendly postie who knows me and my neighbours and where to leave stuff safely. And judging by the huge queues out the door at Lordship Lane PO it seems there are plenty of people who end up coming to the same conclusion. Rant over...for now.