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We are approaching mating time when the solitary creatures seek mates - you are blessed to hear their entreaties !

I think the discussion needs to have something about air miles travelled for plastic tat made by exploited Chinese workers. Plus given that the strictly Poundland boat has long since sailed should hereinafter be referred to a "Pound" Land. Here in Welling (yes I know but got a 125sqm Victorian terrace with a 90-foot garden and 4-minute walk to the station where's it's 24 minutes to London Bridge for about 30% of the ED price) and where smashed avocado is as rare as rocking horse shit our Poundland shut down and has been replaced with a gym.Go figure - miss Franklin's though - old skool brilliance.

10% off for the over 60s on Tuesday - socialist crap food heaven.

Roullier White should be renamed the £100 shop and play I saw you coming on a loop !

I've gotta ask What the funk is an "Irish Property" I think you find the gangsters used the mag or the rye Hotel Trust me I know Yeah, Dave! Courtney was a regular but I never bumped into him thankfully. Ah the good old days before middle class poshos were priced out of Zone 1 forever. http://transpont.blogspot.com/2008/09/dave-courtney-and-south-london-raving.html

Cashed up bought a 3 bed terrace near Lordship Lane for 75k in 1983 and sold for 900k in 2017 with no mortgage, so I saw the whole arc of gentrification and I have a lot to than ED for. Back in 83 it was a bit rough you had gangsters meeting in the Foresters Arms (now the Bishop) and a very mean vibe and an Irish estate agent selling Irish property on Uplands Road. I knew Reg the landlord of the Palmerston and the other pub up the lane towards the Plough that had live bands. I've gotta ask What the funk is an "Irish Property" ED had a big Irish community at the time - hence the annual festival on Peckham Rye - this shop which was on Uplands the end of Hindmans Road sold Irish foodstuff and in the window had Irish property such a bungalow in County Wicklow, that sort of stuff. Always seemed odd, but there was another Irish shop on Lordship Lane next door to the William Rose as it is now.

Cashed up bought a 3 bed terrace near Lordship Lane for 75k in 1983 and sold for 900k in 2017 with no mortgage, so I saw the whole arc of gentrification and I have a lot to than ED for. Back in 83 it was a bit rough you had gangsters meeting in the Foresters Arms (now the Bishop) and a very mean vibe and an Irish estate agent selling Irish property on Uplands Road. I knew Reg the landlord of the Palmerston and the other pub up the lane towards the Plough that had live bands.

Ex long time resident of many years standing here and was visiting a friend in ED the other and saw the Pound land. Good to see the Foxton's get cut down and move to a much smaller place and one that has a triumphant Winkworth's Sold sign on the flat above to boot. But Poundland when it should have been a Waitrose ! Is this a canary in the mine that peak gentrification has been reached ? I imagine properties of that size are virtually impossible to rent atm and the landlord getting the price of a long lease by a well known tenant beats being a charity shop. You do have the council blocks dotted all over the place as well so even if the Fairtrade organic chai latte mob don't go others will.

I now live in Welling where nearly every house with an estate agent board has sold on it and I do a different walk every day and we are talking close to maybe a hundred boards. Driving through my old manor of ED yesterday I saw the area festooned with to let on houses and for sale on inumerable flats with very few sold signs.

Well done to the killjoys that helped to squash out a harmless and modest contribution to making folk feel better during the pandemic. Maybe you can dob in parking offenders and check neighbours bins to make sure they are recycling responsibly.

but the road, the road is blocked and folk are outdoors socially distanched and enjoying themselves. HOW DARE THEY.

Some people's lives must be very miserable indded and they like to share that misery. Not biting - long live the square.

I'm with Lemming on this one - we have a big garden and a beautiful kitchen and are retired. It would be churlish of me to condemn others less fortunate a bit of what seems to be fairly innocent and relatively safe enjoyment in these troubled times.

My wife and I have developed mild sore throats so I got tested at the Dome today - a drive-through. All very efficient and painless and about 20 cars at the huge Dome carpark with any number of his-vis staff waving you through. You do the test yourself whilst being watched by staff with your windows closed. They only open an inch to give you the pack and an inch at the end to pop it in a box. Slight gag and mild irritation to the nose but nothing untoward. I did consider a nearer walk-in but as you said my instinct is that it would potentially be riskier (though probably isn't).

I regret mentioning Benfleet now thous Leigh-on-Sea also near Southend is pretty much East Dulwich on Sea with an older bent, high property prices, good schools and clean air.