1 DAY AGO - I am a personal travel consultant and run my own franchise of Not Just Travel, I love finding the ideal holiday for my customers and hearing all about their travels on their return. I am also BNI ambassador that supports members in growing their business. How long have you lived in the area? I have lived in Lewisham Borough all my life and I have lived in SE23 for 31 years. What has changed most during that time? Forest Hill has a handful of shops and I have seen them change ownership so many times. The biggest change is no longer having any banks in the area. What do you most value about the area/street you live in? My neighbours. We don’t live in each other’s pockets but whenever we need to come together to support each other we do. It’s a real sense of community. Kids can play safely on the green areas. What one thing would you change? To end online businesses that rip people off with cheap alternatives and make it harder … The post The Last Word: Hayley John-Charles, Collapse

06/06/2019 - Come to St John the Evangelist Church from 10-15 June for a series of wonderful concerts for strings and piano performed by enSEmble26. With the arrival of the beautiful new Steinway concert grand at St John’s, this is a perfect opportunity to enjoy some gems of the classical chamber music repertoire. Monday 10th June – 1pm Music from Russia – for 2 violins and piano, including Prokofiev and Shostakovich Tickets £10/£7 Wednesday 12th June – 4pm Children’s Concert – The Swan and the Enchanted Lake, a beautiful story about some fairies and men with diggers…with music by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Chopin Tickets Adults £10 children free Friday 14th June – 12.30pm Violin and Piano recital with Ellie Fagg & Eleanor Meynell. Beethoven Spring Sonata, Mozart A major KV305 and Schubert Moments Musicaux Tickets £10/£7 Saturday 15th June – 7.30pm Dvorak Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 81, Haydn ‘Gypsy’ Trio and Clara Schumann 3 Collapse

04/06/2019 - Doc Cotton, a sustainable fashion brand based in Peckham, have launched their new ​marketplace​. The marketplace is an innovative way of purchasing sustainably and ethically made clothes by independent designers. Garments are made to order, with no stock being held, adhering to Doc Cotton’s pledge towards sustainability. The marketplace allows designers to launch their own store in minutes as Doc Cotton provide the framework for designers to apply their own prints to a range of pre-designed garments. The entire production process is managed by ​Doc Cotton, including the sourcing of fabric, digital printing and construction of the items to ensure the strictest sustainable and ethical practices are applied. All garments are handmade from 100% organic cotton in Peckham by seamstresses being paid in excess of the London Living Wage. Doc Cotton have also launched their #LovedClothes policy where customers can return their used Doc Cotton garments in return for a 20% discount off their Collapse

03/06/2019 - As one season ends, so another begins. The warmer months mean only one thing in my sport-obsessed household – cricket! No sooner than my son’s muddy football boots were left outside for the very last time this season and the cricket whites were out! Training is every Friday and Monday evenings with matches on a Sunday morning, but football training will also continue on Saturday mornings throughout the summer months so there really is no escape for this reluctant spectator. My husband is also off on his annual cricket tour to Somerset with the Dulwich 7thXI for the 12thyear running. Let’s just say the standard of cider drinking is more impressive than the quality of the play… Sadly, despite the best efforts of Jamie, Rema and the local community, The Palmerston will definitely be changing hands on 3rd June. This is a devastating blow to everyone who has loved and supported this pub over the last 15 years or so. Jamie and Rema have always been the heart of The Palmerston and I will Collapse

31/05/2019 - From the delicate perfume of roses to the heady exoticism of jasmine, having a few sweet smelling flowers in your garden can really lift the spirits. It’s a good idea to put fragrant plants near seating areas or paths so you can appreciate them as you walk by or over a morning coffee or evening drink. Here are a few of my favourite scented plants from spring to summer: Shrubs For spring flowers, Osmanthus x burkwoodii is a fab rounded shrub with small dark evergreen leaves and a mass of tiny white sweet smelling flowers in April and May. Another gorgeous shrub I’d love in my garden is Viburnum x burkwoodii, which has clusters of white vanilla-scented flowers opening from pink buds, in April and May. A little later comes Lilac (Syringa) – beautiful right now, with its heavenly blousy blossom in a range of purples and white. Syringa vulgaris are the most perfumed varieties – I like S. ‘Mme Lemoine ‘ which has highly fragranced white flowers. For smaller gardens or containers, Collapse

29/05/2019 - Dogs that eat poo can be one of the most distressing and frustrating of behaviour issues.  However, although disgusting and anti-social for us humans, coprophagia is normal dog behaviour. The fact is, for many dogs poo is just another food source. It is thought the ability to eat poo might be a hardwired remnant of ancestral wolf behaviour, where faeces of the young, old or maimed would be eaten by other pack members to stop parasite infestation in the den. In addition, dogs probably evolved alongside mankind precisely because human food waste and faeces presented an easy source of nourishment. In some cultures puppies are still used as ‘baby wipes’, licking bottoms clean! Studies even show that dogs prefer ‘fresh’ faeces; poo more than two days old is less likely to be consumed, probably because it harbours a greater parasite load. There are various reasons where and why dogs learn to eat poo. Some pups learn in the nest by copying their mother. Whelping bitches are hardwired to eat Collapse

28/05/2019 - Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander, but is betrothed to Demetrius—much to her dismay. And no one loves Helena, though her heart belongs to Demetrius.   When Hermia and Lysander escape through the forest to elope, Demetrius chases them—and Helena chases him, only to find themselves in the midst of a Fairy King and Queen at war with each other.  And when they, in turn, are followed by  a group of amateur actors intent on rehearsing a play, the scene is set  for a night of mischief, misunderstandings and merriment. Performance dates: Sunday 16thJune : 2pm and 5pm Saturday 22ndJune : 2pm and 5pm Sunday 23rdJune: 2pm and 5pm Tickets: £12 and £8 (under 18 years of age) from Dulwich Players Box Office 07936 531356, email boxoffice@dulwichplayers.org, online at www.dulwichplayers.org  and in person from Art Stationers, Dulwich Village  Suitable for all ages.  Some seating will   be available to hire but audience are welcome to bring portable chairs and/or rugs.  Sorry  Collapse