Alexthecamel

The bottom of Lordship lane has part of the pavement by the roundabout cordoned off after a window fell. Police and fire engine in attendance.

Thanks both, I'll keep monitoring it

Any one else having problems with mobile reception this evening? Neither T mobile and vodafone are connecting here...

Enforce the 20 mile/hr zones. I usually get overtaken along Court Lane. And that's not hyperbole. I drive the length of it most days and more than 50% of the time I get overtaken, which is illegal and dangerous. If there are no penalties for exceeding the limit, it should be scrapped- there's such non compliance.

It's a fantastic service and works like a dream.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In order to prosecute someone you'd need to prove > that the owner was culpable, that the outcome was > predictable and that it resulted in suffering. In which case surely cats should be kept inside? Because every cat, without exception, will kill birds, and an owner couldn't say that it wasn't predictable or that it didn't result in suffering. I'm not being disingenuous, several counties in Australia have a ban on outside cats for that very reason.

So which law applies here Huguenot, dangerous dogs or protection of Wild Mammals?

(tu)woodrot! I love cats, but wouldn't have one because of the damage they cause birds- and the fact that they'd crap on my neighbours gardens. At least with a dog you can monitor their behaviour.

I'm not sure about which law you're applying, but surely if it were the case that an owner is liable for his pet's hunting of wild animals, then cat owners would have to keep their cats indoors?

Evidently. I am wondering what the benefit is and whether that benefit outweights the disadvantages.

Ok, I posted too carefully... Cars with a disabled badge are allowed to drive around the park, and there are several park up spaces for them. I wondered why, I cannot see the benefit and can see several disadvantages to having cars driven round an area full of dogs and children joggers.

Does anyone know why this facility is needed?

"Making our children brightly clothed is not the apporoach other countries have needed to drastically reduce child injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes" I can't think of any other country where Children wear a dark uniform. For several months there are hoards of children, dressed in black, around between the hours of 4-5, in the dark. The schools may finish 3- 3.45, but they are still travelling an hour later. It just seems unnecessary that schools insist on dark coats, gloves and scarves.

David A Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks James. > > It does pretty much on the first point. > > As for the schools, I was thinking more about > training for the kids. > > I know it would be a central Government issue, but > no 'Tufty Club' or 'Green Cross Man' visits > anymore then? I raised this on the thead about the RTA on East Dulwich Grove, but could anyone with a connection query local Schools' insistance on dark coats- madness particularly as they come out at dusk.

Might this be good time to suggest that anyone who has any connection to local schools lobbies them to change their uniforms- just to allow/ encourage the children to wear brighter clothes. I know that yesterday's accident happened in daylight, but until a few week's back driving at dusk was ridiculous- all the schools out between 3-4 and all the kids dressed in black or navy- at the schools' dictate. Best wishes of course to the poor lad and his family.

I took a five months old on a very long journey- 3 days! and reverted to exclusively breast feeding. I had been mixed feeding before, but couldn't face the hassle of making up bottles in unsanitary and cramped conditions. It worked really well!

I'm finding it hard to have an opinion on this. No...still not bothered.

Southwark Council are taking their ball home. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23992457-plan-to-rebrand-guy-fawkes-goes-up-in-smoke.do

rahrahrah I don't understand your point. Catholic Schools do not segregate on racial and cultural lines. In any community the Catholic Church (and School if there is one one) will be more diverse than the surrounding community. Compare the population of Dulwich Hamlets or Dog Kennel Hill with the nearest Catholic school and the Catholic one will be more diverse. As I said you may have valid reasons for objecting to State Funding of religious Schools but to say that Catholic schools segregate on cultural or racial lines is wrong.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I believe the segregation of young children along > religious (which often also means racial and > cultural) lines, to be deeply divisive. I > certainly think there is a problem where the state > is part of such a system. rahrahrah- you may have many objections to the Catholic Church, but to say that it divides or separates along racial and cultural lines is ridiculous. In fact any Christian Church in London will be more mixed than your average secular school or any other club that your children may attend.

We went last night at Brockwell Park and it was wonderful- highly recommended.