mockney piers

As a historian, I'm not convinced that The Shady Old Lady's Guide To London is necessarily the most trustworthy source, but under the circumstances, it'll do.

Actually I believe it really was a nun who had her head displayed on a spike for some transgression or other. I kid you not, i'll unearth the tale for you.

I'm not alone then Polly. Hurrah! Who are your top ten wishy-washy celebrities then ;-)

Well frankly I'm appalled. I went for yellow squiggle but really I'm a pink square. So I'm a boring big girls blouse alongside Richard Madeley, Philip Schofield and Victoria Beckham?!?! (so vacuous media-whore then). I might as well end it all now frankly. I notice their career options are even worse than mine, and still no I.T. lol!!!

Nope, salt free. It is indeed a refurb of caravan or karavan or whatever the old place was. We got some nice indian wood cupboardy, cd racky type stuff in there.

*opens bag of raspberry shag and proffers it to Dulwichmum, whilst applying lighter to own pipe and drawing on that cool fruity smoke*

Dust on the lens mate!!

After all the scandals I very very afraid of what greasing up a friar involves and what he'd have planned once he was done.

Another average night down the Seepy Tea then.

well, there are 5 forum members here in the CPT, hopefully all of whom will be there. Jeremy, any word yet, bueller...bueller? Barring that, ask the bar staff to point people out, they know us all pretty well. CPT's a pretty small place. We all meeting in the front bar I take it?

Yep, he's gone past our house a couple of times. It makes me laugh the apparent effort that machine makes to propel him along at 12 miles per hour

Well you have my heartfelt symapthies chuff you really do. I do rant on here about the me me me culture, but this is just absolutely typical behaviour, 'my space', 'consider me', yet never do these people consider anyone else. I may have to post a copy of the letter the residents committee jsut posted around our estate. Shocking self-absorbed nonsense!! If they keep up an attitude and are impervious to your approaches then give them a copy of the highway code and ignore them sadly. I really hope you don't have to move, that would be terrible, especially as it is a lovely part of ED, even if it does look like Letchworth ;)

Actually I was going to bring up this incident on a more serious note. If this is what things have come to in London, then perhaps you'd be better off inviting her to dinner and giving her a nice scotch rather than starting things of in a confrontational manner, tempting as that might be given her behaviour. I hate to sound like one of the Waltons, but being nice to someone can be incredibly disarming. Mrs Mockney has started using this technique in business and it can really pull the rug from under the carpet of some people who think tantrums and confrontation are the only way to get what they want.

* Shuffles in, feeling tired * * plonks self down in new leather sofa next to gomer bolstrood art deco lamp and starts reading Huguenot's new thriller * * waves to the delightful DM, glass of chablis miraculously appears in hand with ant transportation like pop and whiff of ozone , motions cheers to DM's cup'a'cha *

There should be a pretty good crowd there from what I can tell. Be great to see you there chuff.

Well I look forward to seeing everyone there, hurrah. Perhaps we should all bring a bag of sand aswell?

He he, I love this new functionality in google maps http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&z=15&ll=51.459622,-0.068192&spn=0.01615,0.034032&msid=116533662858830805344.00000111e12305c1d712b&msa=0&mid=1176304123

Perhaps we could plant Headphone trees on Lordship Lane, like those lovely spaghetti trees in Italy?

No no, I agree *Bob* it has become somewhat overwrought, and certainly overpriced. The one on Half Moon Lane is good food but once it's tallied up with a couple of bottles of wine you're talking a serious dent in the wallet. I was just clarifying a point that Keet quite rightly made.

I do like the atmosphere in don Felipe, but I've had better Tapas. Unsurprisingly as a Madrile?o it's mostly been in Madrid, but I'd be hard pressed to beat El Rincon Latino off Clapham High St for the genuineness of their product (even if they are Asuturian), the service, the real family concern the whole ideal has and for atmosphere. Terrific place, but be sure to book at weekends as everyone else clearly loves it too. Keet, you've put your finger on it. Real tapas originated as being little tiny plates of food plonked on top of your ca?a or glass of beer, with last night's restaurant food served up rewarmed. This then stretched to being slices of cold meat, sauted kidney etc and has since become a bit more specialized as dedicated small plates of hot and cold bar food. If you go to Madrid the original concept is still very much on offer (and free) if you avoid the tourist strip (it helps if you speaka da lingo). Therefore it should be simple and somewhat peasanty. The idea of 'good restaurant standard' (whatever that means) is essentially redundant as it shouldn't be trying to emulate a main meal from these outlets, it should fill a gap between drinks in an earthy and flavoursome manner.

Darn, found out :D. We could start at the Crystal Palace Road end of LL, just by that green door on the corner.

I was just thinking on the 68 bus last night how nice the pavement looks, and how much more of a congenial environment it makes Walworth Rd. Isn't it about time we did the same (cacti and all) to LL's shameful pavements, to make it Tenochtitlan to Walworth's Sunset Boulevard?

I know Peckham's not to everyone's taste. Mrs Mockers looks positively alarmed every time we visit, but I do like it's charm (and scotch bonnet peppers) but strictly during the day. And yeah, you have turn a blind eye to people starting on each other etc Admittedly this does seem something of a folly, but tracking down some minutes it seems to have been originally promoted by residents' groups back in about 2005, and anything that helps a troubled area buy into community can't be all bad can it? Besides, I want those cacti ;)

And because his house burned down yesterday (bad luck Barry Gibb) Johnny cash - Hurt

Is it true about the Palm Trees on Peckham High St. I was listening to a very surreal conversation on the tube this morning, and this chap with a booming voice was decrying Southwarks use of ?30k of taxpayers' money to line Peckham with Palm Trees. If so I demand Lordship Lane get a host of Saguaro cacti now!!