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Liquorish used to go on til the wii wii hours, you just had to be in there by half ten or something, but things may have changed now. Well, you could go to the vale, but don't. Camberwell has a few places I think, the funky munky and some place up the road where the George Canning barmaids said they had a good time til 5 on a wednesday!!, ask keef he's better at this than me. Then there's the Alma in Crystal Palace for one of the more surreal late bars that London has to offer frankly.

I do genuinely believe it's one of the best albums ever made, and I add no qualifiers here at all whatsoever.

I found this keef. It's a bit rough around the edges but hear you go (geddit?)

Yes captain, Ys is my top album of last year as it happens. genius. Other highlights would include [in no particular order]: the first Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (follow up very disappointing), Camera Obscura - Lets get out of this Country, Victorian English Gentlemen - Last Night becomes this morning Cat Power - The Greatest Architecture In Helsinki - In case we die Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will kick your ass Howling Bells - eponymous Midlake - the trials of van occupanther I'm From Barcelona - Let me introduce you... Seafood - Paper Crown King Whew, and that's with a vicious editor's pen And a moments silence for Grandaddy RIP.

Good call on Neutral Milk Hotel there Blinder. Just for you I'll add a Beirut - Gulag Orkestar recommendation, one of the better albums of last year.

Phew, title's changed, so a big congratulations Polly :))

Trying to ban myself from the forum for a few days as I clearly spend too much time with half an eye on it, but you make it so difficult. My purchases in the last week or so (i'm very bored at work and there's a fopp around the corner): (tu)Acrcade Fire (tu)Herman D?ne (superb a must have) (tu)Little Barrie (tu)Tinariwan (tu)Cold War Kids (tu)The Fiery Furnaces Findlay Brown (td)Malcolm Middleton Amy Winehouse irks me me I must say. She keeps swanning into my work local expecting the world to stop due to her presence. Out the way shortarse I'm trying to get to the bar is all she receives :) I can testify to the fact that huguenot is listens to Neil Young and Toto...err that's it.

Seeing as we always choke in the playoffs, I was rather hoping for automatic promotion, but then I want the moon on a stick. Big game on saturday, so lets hope for some good support.

I haven't seen it reviewed in the South London Press *ahem*, but I have got it and it's very good (though less creative than their spellbinding debut). Darn, this is in danger of turning into the "I love Kaiser Chiefs" thread I was whinging about the other day.

Chuffed as I am for Chris, this doesn't bode well for title challenge during the run in. Especially after a couple of well publicised hiccups like letting a 3-0 lead slip away in the last 14 minutes. I dunno, Dulwich Hamlets were supposed to be my west ham antidote this season :(

I will admit *forshame* at having nabbed the odd bottle of milk in my wayward youth, probably just kids. I'm sure the fad will pass, I haven't seen any empty VW badges for an aeon.

The cameras may be but will anybody else? I for one would rather clean up every one else's dog mess. Or sing happy songs for Mike, "Underhill is aliiiiive, with the sound of muuuuuuusic" *does twirl outside CPT*

Well I'm not coming there straight from the airport this time, so I should be ok with that.

I only read local papers when I go out into the colonies, I just love stories about cats up trees and rude shaped vegetables. Mike, my advice is avoid any thread written in CAPITALS, besides it's rude to shout. I think there's great stuff going on in East Dulwich and in the forum, and as Sean rightly points out, summer is just around the corner, hurrah. I've got to know some great people, virtually like our beloved DM, and in real life, your good self Mike, Mr Administrator (a big thanks by the way, I'm not sure I've taken a moment to say thank you for setting this up and keeping it going) who's also a jolly nice chap, and all those who've come along (and organised, Georgina) to the forum meets, and set up spanish nights and the like. None of this is about to make headlines in the South London Press, but I think it's all good stuff. Come on every one, group hug, lets share the love :))

I think that's decided now, woo

Ratty Many of us are regulars, come join the fun, there are a couple of threads with details, opinions and even match reports. Dulwich Hamlet v Leatherhead this saturday. If we're lucky we might get to see :

Your question is well timed baldy, as it seems our nanny state is considering introducing jaywalking as an offence in this country. Personally in terms of legislating the traffic you legislate against the most damaging affecting the most vulnerable. It makes sense to legislate against cars drinking and driving, or driving on pavements, as it's clearly dangerous. you need to introduce cycle lanes and ban cars from driving on them to protect the softer cyclist from the nasty car, you don't punish the cyclist for wandering off the lane on the the road itself. Likewise you stop the cyclist careening down the pedestrian pavement. It strikes me as a bit capricious (far be it to accuse this wonderful government of that, ever) to punish a pedestrian for the mere act of crossing a road. If you do it at the wrong moment the punishment is potentially injury, disability and death, so follow the green cross code. To enforce that with the law is overkill (pardon the pun).

Crystal, does that mean you get to keep the tumbleweed? Captain, ha ha ha, absolute class!!!

yeah, it does occasionally, just mark thread or forum as read and they'll go

Indeed, having witnessed a particularly nasty squish in the city once (very very fatal and deeply unpleasant), I can strongly advise cyclists not to go through red lights and under lorries. Keef, it's just boring because it's about exercise!! *yeah yeah, pots..kettles..*

I loved the episode of that Irish chappie who does the undercover investigations, it was about a couple of years ago (when the press was going through another of its bouts of crime scaremongering). The premise basically involved him wandering around coldharbour lane at one in the morning in a suit, with a laptop, talking loudly into a mobile phone trying to get mugged. The only thing that happened to him was the chaps hanging out in the late night cab offices/hairdressers and offies came out and suggested he might want to get a cab home as that wasn't very sensible behaviour. Marvellous.

I don't even want to know how you know that captain. Still, on the theory that there's a group for pretty much everything on flickr, there is, rather disturbingly a dogs pooing group. This world is one strange place. I wonder what the Mail would have to say about that?

Sounds good to me and sounds good to me and I will if I do, but don't count on it. CC lives very nearby (I just love volunteering the poor dear)

There are a couple of those big industrial litter bins on northcross road, shouldn't the council make some more of those available to the traders? They're big, get in the way and smell, but must be preferable to piles of rubbish. Mind you I don't really know what I'm talking about and could conceivably be talking out of my arse. Even I find the term 'arse' offensive, but only because I have to look good to get my Women's Institute application through ;)

Personally I moved away from the home counties to get away from the crushing boredom, bad food and casual violence (far worse than the panic on the streets of LL currently being touted by CRAZYNURSE, gotta love them caps). If I wanted good cycling policies from the council and plentiful cycle paths I'd have stayed in Letchworth. Id also have probably thrown myself off the multistorey carpark too. I'm failing to connect a desire to avoid being run over with a peculiarly WI outlook on the world.